High School Echo from Emporia, Kansas • 6

IDEALS What is life without an ideal? What would our existence here on earth be like if we did not have some definite idea, a mental picture if you please, to keep ever before Yet, how many there are who go through life with no mental picture, idealistic though It may be, for their guiding star; who wander through life like a ship at sea without a compass; who float with the winds and tides, going where they list. Life for them has no definite purpose; it has no goal; it ends nowhere, it begins nowhere. It is not life, if you please, for life is vital force. It is mere existence, a state of living between birth and death. Ideals! What a variety of them we have; good, bad, high low, noble, lofty, divine.

As many ideals, we might say, as we have environments. Indeed our environment has a great deal to do wnh the type of ideal which we milntaln. So in choosing an environment, an atmosphere in which to live, take care that you choose the one which will be consistent with the ideals you wish to keep before you. So, as High School students, let us choose ideals. Let us keep ever before us some lofty purpose, which though it may be impossible for us to attain to, yet by its ennobling influence produces a lasting benefit upon our lives, an antometer by which we can measure our progress, barometer by which we can ascertain the height to which we attain.

High School Echo Published Monthly by the Students of the KniMrla High School EMPORIA, KANSAS. Subscription 60c Per Year. GAZETTE PRINT Marguerite Payne Editor In Chief Ethel De Young Associate Editor Loris Parrish Business Manager Amos Curry Boys Athletics Bertha Lewis Girls' Athletics Miss Secrest Faculty Howard Patterson Exchange Leroy M. Henderson Stenographer Reporters Glee Iden Senior II Stella Bonwell Senior I Earl Anderson Junior II Marion Arnold Junior I Katherine Roderick Sophomore II Harold Edmunds Sophomore I Esther French Freshmen II Billy White Freshman I Laura Cloud Sub-Freshman Smile a while And while you smile Another smiles; And soon there's miles and miles of smiles And life's worth while, Because you smile. TRYING TO MAKE A USE FOR IT In a test in a Commercial subject the other day, this question was propounded: "Give one use of the comma." Student's answer (including his spelling): "A coma is used whenever the words are not seperated by a conjugation." CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Just yesterday a student of E.

H. S. approached the editor, with timid mien, and asked if the students not on the staff were allowed to contribute articles to the Echo. Can it be possible that the Echo has not made it plain to every student (be he sub-freshle or senior) that all contributions are welcomed with outstretched arms. Nothing would please the editors more (unless a salary) to walk into the office some fine morning and find the Echo Box FULL.

Every subscriber has as much Interest in the Echo as the staff. Get a hump on and say something about the conduct of the paper, express an interest Write Some Dope these are the things that should make our paper a huge success.4 WINNERS IN DRAWING CONTEST About forty students took part in a drawing contest recently held in Mr. Brown's Greek History classes. The five foremost contestants were: David Potter, first place; Victor Trusler, Emmett Bacon, Dorothy Hadley and Meryl French. Supt.

L. A. Lowther has returned from a week's trip to Cincinnati, where he attended the National Superintendents'.