14 The Acorn As another means of making interest more common and bringing the paper closer to the student body the staff set apart one day especially for suggestions and criticisms. The result of our "want add" for criticisms was most beneficial. Some items in last edition, which, in the eyes of our friends, needed revision, you will find correspondingly remodelled in this issue; others we did not heed for reasons we hold to be good. "Why not have paper like that used last year?" In the first place, the style of paper used last year was the same as "Variety is has been in use for five successive years at least, the Spice of We thought a change to glazed paper would not be Life" objectionable, but quite to the contrary. Furthermore, it is often desirable to reproduce photographs in half-tone in school publications. This we could not do on the old style of paper. This latler was the main reason for the substitution. Petitions for more material and a larger paper was most common, This request we are willing and anxious to grant as long as we can get the "wherewith to do with." On this matter students can do more than the staff. The Other One The above and similar criticisms we think were made in the proper spirit that of benefiting the Acorn. We are in receipt of an entirely different kind, however. "You discourage the students in their writings by throwing out what stuff which is handed in. There is a kind that will not hand anything in because they feel insulted by you and the 400 bunch in the way you treat them. YOU ARE HAUGHTY" (give due attention to quotation marks; the Editor does not desire the credit of grammar, etc.) After the staff was chosen and presented to the student body and was sustained, not a single objection being made, we can not consider such statements as true criticisms they rather belong to the "knocking" type. The time to have objected to the staff was before the motion to accept was made and carried. If backbone was lacking then, let's be men enough now to abide by the proposition we did not oppose. "You and the 400 bunch." We fear the author has overestimated the number of our supporters, for we think there are no more than four hundred and one in school. Evidently the author considers himself in a class by himself. This we hope is true, but it must seem lonely there. But now in earnestness. Students! we appeal to you for the good of the Acorn and the Weber Academy to get rid of that offish spirit. Christmas, 1909. 15 We put into the paper the best of what material is handed in. What contributions are "thrown out" are not considered of proper standard for publishing, and it is done for the benefit of the paper, as clearly as we can see it. These things we have not said for the sake of being sarcastic or revengeful, but have been in earnest, and mean every word of it. Now, if the staff has given reason for any one to "feel discouraged" or "insulted" we beg your most humble pardon, and in the future will pay particular attention to the "square deal." "As we grow better we meet better people." "Awake, arise or be forever fallen," ye sons of Weber (and daughters too). The time to get started was when we What We Have registered at the beginning of the year. There Heard All Year are a score or so students trying to carry this school class, debating, athletic, dramatics Acorn, etc. These students will be delighted to share some of their responsibility with you. Try it. "Do unto others as tho you were the others." There are some good locals, some new exchange jokes, and some-thing else over a few pages, but don't turn over page 15 until you have written something for the February Acorn. No. Don't look over your shoulders to see who's looking. This means YOU. Take out your pencil now while you feel like it and give us something lively, something with lots of snap you know the kind. Here's hoping that our aspirations for debating honors will not be so rudely "squelched" as they were last year. We feel very much as the Salt Lake High team has expressed it: "Had it not been for the memorized speeches of doubtful origin of our opponents," but that's all over now and we must rivet our eyes on the trophy from now until we win it, and those of us who may not be fortunate enough to gain a place on the school team or who are