Show g pp L I a 3 31 i i i Dads Dad's I II I I I 1 I I Column I H H JUST PRAISE FOrt FOR t f NURSES ARMY J THE FOLLOWING Is a short excerpt from a splendid account of a Hospital Ship b by Fred Methot In the last Issue of the tho Army Life In the prelude or of the article the writer says baYS U If a 0 Ship could talk there would be no need or of appeals for the army's needed much nurses But Dut Buta n a hospital ship cant can't talk and that's tho reason why thIs article was YOU STAND In the gray dawn or of a 0 South Carolina morning and look out at the harbor barbor Youre You're on a tender and In a few minutes youre you're going out to mc meet i a 0 hospital ship which Is landing this morning Its It's the Acadia one o of I the larger ships From the porthole you youcan youcan can see tho gray hulk of a ship at an- an anI anchor anchor I chor and the only other color visible I Is the red cross on her ber funnel outlined In neon lights Just then a a. silver er of 01 pink stabs across the sky and the gray Ship becomes a white whito shIp as you churn I toward it All you know Is that there are more than wounded American I soldiers aboard Thirty eight fine lne women called Army nurses are there to take care or of them The tender comes along along- alongside alongside I I side and you walk across a plank and Into the white hull of the ship The first step you OU take aboard the first I qUick glance at the few patients you see waiting there the first sounds I you OU hear give the ships ship's personality This Is a happy ship The air Is charged wIth It you read It m In faces hear It In voices sense It Sure iVa a happy ship why shouldn't I Ir r It b be or of Americas America's finest young men have been cramming voluble hap I hap hap- I Into her for sixteen days I Youre You're going to have havo forty five min min- utes to talk to these men and the nUrses who have cared for them during the I crossing It takes that long for the ShiP to reach the docks from where she lay layat at anchor I Tho ship Is divided Into several good good- sized wards Beds are comfortable and andset andset set up up In double decker style Along one side of each of these wards are the ships ship's portholes slid d In those wardS the tho portholes face the shore fOrtunate for for- fortunate ones every clad cast figure who fOr can walk ilk hobble or crAwl Is taking a turn at watching the shore of America move mo slowly past Soldiers who cannot I leave their beds ar given a foot by I j description n of t the e shore by those who aro at the portholes poi Some types or of oro o wounds have a dl distinct O It cant can't I be helped So they call this fellow with the tho cast that gives off at such an odors odor I IJo He do mInd hind In th the bed next to you has trouble hold I lug n a cigarette because his arms are encased In plaster and held away from his body by brac braces braces- s You dont don't say Poor guy f you laugh at his clumsiness i and he be laughs with you and you help him rig up a wand which he can Call I maneuver with his hili fingertips and whiCh will hold his cigarette to WE HAD n a very ery pleasing visit and most welcome guests at the I homo home y yesterday They were Provo guests comprisIng Mr and Mrs E E. D D. Firmage Mrs Airs Stanley Heal and her two laugh laugh- laughters Misses Sandra and Katherine Mrs Wm R R Firmage and Susan K and Russell and In addition Mr LaPage who took time of off for lor dinner the other members of the family present were Mrs Mary Lee hostess and Mrs Helen Hansen and young son I Frankie The tes cl especially came cuno cameto to see and have bave chat a with Dad I. I They found him In a rather rath r bad crippled condition but otherwise about the same as for nearly two years past Mrs Lee prepared an elegant dinner which was thoroughly enjoyed by the visitors as aswell aswell well as the homo home folks The visit was a thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated one Mr Wm R. R youngest son of Mr and Mrs Ed Firmage was drafted In the army some ten days ago and Is Isnow isnow now stationed at Camp Roberts Califor- Califor nia Re Recent nt word from the soldier boy was cheering was well and enjoying his new experience nce I It Is In- In Intended intended tended when suitable reservations can be secured Mr and Mrs the parents accompanied by Mrs Wm R. R wife of the young soldier will visit vult Camp Roberts to see the son and I husband and U if suitable housing can be secured Mrs will remain with her ber husband the two young oung children chil- chil children dren going down when Mr and Mrs E. E D. D Firmage return from their visit Tho rho very best of wishes are hereby ex- ex extended extended tended to all concerned ills ill's query In the House of Commons What Is democracy Among them Being able to preserve ones one's status as an Individual potato In- In Instead instead stead of being forced to lose ones one's Iden- Iden Identity identity by being mashed I iiI MILLION VOLUNTEERS k THE ORGANIZATION of the more than sIX million workers for tor the It i X War Loan Drive again followed the state and local lInes laid down In preceding prece drives Greater personal solicitation of Individuals and aad business organizations took placa pla than In any previous drive I School children turned In outstanding records as solicitors many communities assigning the entire task or of to house I house canvassing to them As In pre pre- Previous Ious drives many women's groups toot took responsibility for wide community can can- canvassing canvassing and national women's promo promo- promotions promotions such uch as Bonds for Babies were greatly Intensified during the War Loan 00 75 QUOTA PER PElt APPROXIMATELY companies ii VIo Continued on Page Pace r Dads Dad's Column Continued ed from Page One I having the payroll savings plan were I asked to take tako quotas which averaged 75 per employee for the November- November December period regular including regular pay pay- payroll payroll roll savings Under regular payroll sav sav- savings savings ings plans some 23 million persons ex excluding ex- ex excluding eluding members of tho rho armed forces had about millions deducted to towards to-I to to- to towards wards War Bond purchases during Nov Nov- November November Nov Nov- November ember and December Extra purchases In Inthe inthe Inthe the organizations covered by payroll savings In tho the War Loan are esti esti- estimated estimated estimated mated at about three quarters three of or h b. billion dollars on the basis of prelim prelim- preliminary preliminary inary reports reporter Minute Minute Man I ANOTHER R HITLER R MISTAKE 1 IT WAS Hitler's belief belle that democracy Is Incapable of self It was beyond his Credulity that a free born American citizen would submit to the regimentation necessary to win n n. great war and that's where he made his j I mistake The Th American citizen has sub submitted sUb sUb-I mUted matted so readily that with Inflationary pressure Incomparably greater than ever er before the American dollar has actually lost much less of its war pre-war value than It lost In any other International col col- Col- Col Minute Man n A A A AIR Alit EVACUATION FROM n 1 PARIS EVACUATION OF OP wounded American Americans soldiers s direct from France to tho the Uni- Uni j United ted States Is now being carried out In the first flight a tour four four C 51 C 54 was used to carry 16 10 patients a crew of six a flight nurse and a medal l tech tech- J direct from Paris to New YorK Yore tech tech-I. City HIll City Hill Flemer I too f 0 O 0 O 0 OA A FLASH headline In the last Issue I of the Denver Den Mining Record reads Gold Is Still Premier Western Mining Men See See Advance Advance In Future Price Gold I Has Been Money of World Since DarK Dare Ages Aged and Will Continue Gold to Con- Con Conj Continuo j i as Premier Metal In World Shake- Shake up Yellow Metal has Remained as ns Top Premier Thru Ages of Upheaval I O O O FUNNY TUNNY CLIPPINGS FROM IW I I INDUSTRIAL NEWS NEU'S REVIEW n DID YOU hear the one ono about the Couple blessed with their first child who didn't get to the hospital quickly enough and the baby was born on the hospital lawn An Itemized bill was finally received and the careful husband objected strenuously to the Item Delivery De Delivery Delivery livery Room 2500 He returned the bill for revision In due time It was returned with the Item revised to read Green Fees 2500 O O O GENERAL on telephone Do yoU yon know to whom you arc are talking Private on the other end No uNo and andI I dont don't care I General Im the generaU Private Well do you know who ho I Iam Iam Iam I am I t J General Nol uNo No I I Private Thank heaven for that I I PARDON ME rE Miss l saW said the sentry but its it's against regulations to swim In this lake Well Vell for tor heavens heaven's sake exclaimed the maiden malden why didn't you tell me before I t undressed It It aint against regulations to un un- dress O O O 0 OLEAF LEAP LEAF AFTER LEAF F inters DROPS PS OFF err 0 Fr LEAF LEAP AFTER AFIER leaf drops off ort flower flowe r after atter flower lower j I Some In the chill some In tn the warm warm- warmer warmer er hour Alive they flourish and alive they fall And earth who nourished them re- re receives re them all Should we her wiser sons be less Ic ss content To sink Into her lap when life Ilfe Is i spent |