ThQ Mountain Trail _____ f'an:e It*s Easy to Drift—But Look Outll STUDENTS Thars are tliroo t "pos of students in every school. The first typo is the go-piottor• Ho is alwr.ys busy doing somothing for himsolf or other s. Ho is tho one who v/orkd hard and n;ots tho honor. Ke is also inter' sted in all school activities. How wonderfu.l our school v/ould be if we were all of this type. The second groupis made up of those students v-^ho intend to do g^oat things some day, A member of this ^roup is the drca or. ’•’'O.ien ho sees o the r s w i nni ng ho nor s, it inspires him and he deter'ninee. to do something equally good, but somiho’''fh3 never seoms to got a- round to it. Once in a v;hile he does tv; somothing,but he gives so little real effort to it th;t ho can do nothing bi.it fail. If ho does win some honor, he is satis- fiedand does not try again. Too man^T" of us belong to this group. The third type is the laggard. Ho does not even care to do anything orvrin any honor. Ho does not boost his school but finds fault with every thing in his v/holo life. He never works because somebody else ^ September 29,195^- 'rrill do it if he doesn’t. Tho lag gard is seldom if ever missed when he is gone. The go-getter decides v/hat he v/ants and goes after it. He boosts all V'/orthy thinrs. The dreamer is not sure what he wants, or, if he is, he hasn’t ambition enough to go after it. The laggard’s only d:sire is to bo nobody and to bo lot alone, and he usually is. Are you a dreamer, A laggard, or a go-getter? o JOICES ’'Vife: John, der.r, will you lend mo tv/ontjr dollars and give me only ton of it? Hnsband; ’’7h/, doar? ^Vife; Because then you will owe mo ton and I will owe you ten, and wo will be even. Sally: I v/ouldh’^ marry tho best man on earth. Hopemoro; Then take mo end you won’t bo running any risk. Mablo: '"^hen you have a quarrel with your husband, do you threaten to home to your mother? Ruth: No, indeed, vh at good would that do? I threoten to have mother come here. Erma; I do not think that v/omen have alwa7/s been vain. You knov/ women were made before mirrors. George; Yes, and they havo been beforo' them most of the time since. Eugene: How can you keep a dog from going mad in August? James: Shoot hin in July. John: This soup tastes funny. Waiter: ^7ell, why don’t you laugh? o

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