The ACORN Published by the STUDENTS of the WEBER STAKE ACADEMY Subscription Price 50 cents per year Single Copies 10 cents EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Sarah M. Williams, '06 Literary Editors Jennie Groberg, '06; Glenna Wotherspoon, '07 Miscellaneous Effie Reast, '06 Cartoonist Wilford H. Shurtliff, '06 Locals Henry Jenson, '06 Exchange Editors George Ensign, '07; Florence Woolley, '07 Music Edith Ensign, '06 Alumni Edna M. Cardon, '99 Athletics Frank W. Becraft, '06; Pearl Cragun, '08 BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager William S. Wright, '08 First Assistant Business Manager Edwin Peterson, '06 Second Assistant Business Manager Bryant S. Jacobs, '07 Subscription H. Raymond Bingham, '06 Circulator Charles T. Jones, '07 Editorial We are now starting- out in a new year. Many of us have, doubtless, made a great many resolutions which we hope to carry out during the year. We have tried to improve upon our old worn out resolutions of last year. How many of us have succeeded? How many of us have lived up to those made a year ago? It takes determination to be successful. Here is a little item on success, which breathes, I think, the true spirit. "Never talk or think of failure or adversity. Be determined to succeed, and permit no thought nor word to suggest anything else. No matter if things today go wrong. This shall also pass away. The world is your friend, though it may seem, at times, to be against you, because you have not met the world in the right way. Change yourself. Be a friend to everybody the whole world. Expect everybody to be good to you, and desire constantly to be of real service to man, and ere long fate will change. Believe that everybody is against you, and you rub them all the wrong way. Know that the true side of mankind is a true friend to every aspiring soul; and then place yourself in touch with the ideal in man; meet only his better side, and your life, as well as the life of the world, is made richer thereby. THE ACORN 15 Never think nor speak of failure or adversity. Think success, speak success, breathe success, attract success, live success, and be saturated through and through with absolute faith in your own success. Believe that the whole world is for you, that nothing is against you; and as your faith is so shall it be unto you. Students, the first semester has gone, and we are planning and working on our Souvenir number of the "Acorn." We need, and must have, your support. Now is the time to begin planning what you intend to write for that number. There are other numbers which must be looked after before the Souvenir. We cannot do it all. This is your paper. It does not belong to the staff. It represents you. Don't say you can't contribute anything. That will mean, to us, that you are capable, but do not care to help make the paper better. What if you do make a few mistakes? President Theodore Roosevelt says: "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." Now you know you wouldn't like it said of you that you never do anything. Get discouraged? Well what of that? "Don't worry about your work. Do what you can, let the rest go, and smile all the time." Show that you are willing to do what you can, and your effort, no matter how small or how great, will be appreciated, just the same. It is the syirit in which you help that counts, whether your articles be a line or a page. Wake up classes! Now that you are partly awake, keep busy. Don't turn over and go to sleep. Let everybody know that we have a school of which we, and everybody else, should be proud. Appoint a member of your class to see to it that the class is represented in the "Acorn" each month. Begin your preparations for the Souvenir Number now. Don't wait until the last week or even the last month of school for you'll be so busy then that the material sent in will show the amount of hurry and lack of effort or thought put on it. Start now, take your time; and think. When you have thought out what you want to do, write, and the Souvenir Number will be as good, if not better than it was last year. Locals. W. S. A. 26-B. Y. 6. 23 Were we in it? Well I should smile. Our boys were in it, all the while. Victory! Bravo! Yes, won by fast clean playing. We were not so large as they, But we won; yes we won. The only perpetual thing about perpetual motion is the perpetual failure.