Show when I 1 stop to think of 0 the many people who are inconvenienced d by our taking a vacation I 1 swear never again dut but each year as M national editorial association convention time approaches and I 1 think of our friends who will III be gathering at some city in the united states I 1 simply the will power to stay home so with the help of lona my sister nephew mike alike and nieces pat kathy katby and ginny and shirley and enid J phillips billings and charles and waynie and the crew at the news and journal in brigham and walt arid and stephen and the good natured understanding of our customers we managed why it if it been for all of these good people we have fought the war between the states with guy na easterly sterly of tennessee as we rode greyhound buses tor for six days in maryland pennsylvania and virginia its a little hard even at this early date to remember all we saw and heard during our three week trip so to keep myself straight and to tell you a few of the things which interested me I 1 am going to go by states and it wont matter a bit whether we were coming or going 1 COLORADO als home state tresh fresh cherries at palisade camp hale reactivated this time with quonset huta buts its surely hard to understand the army sometimes this cicmil trained ski in world war 11 and stretched for six miles in the mountains north of lead atlle before the last of the buildings were completed wrecking crews had already begun to tear others down it was just justa a year ago january that we were through there on the lie train and the camp was nothing but a city of foundations anil and today it 11 Is bustling with activity KANSAS the wheat was ripe and ready tor for harvest and crews of men were busy putting up more grain storage bins tor for those already built were full beat a i subject we were to hear a lot about we stopped for hinch at mankato mancato Man kato the home of one of our favorite friends sirs airs frank boyd I 1 hazard a guess at her age ashes ageless spry as a cricket and about the size hie of mrs airs peter cook she attends all the conventions and usually is accompanied by a grandchild this year she took three at Alan mancato mankato kato we happened to strike vip up a conversation with a couple and before had passed half the boyd family was doyn down to the cafe and we told them ha how mrs doyd boyd hall had pinned us all with kansas sunflowers Sun flowers the night of the presidents dinner before many more minutes had passed lve e were having to defend the faim policy of our secretary 0 of agriculture ezra tat taft denson benson our new acquaintance wanted a rigid price support for wheat his bis reasons being that wheat farmers liked the security and prosperity brought about by the guaranteed price support the huge surplus and the expense to other groups apparently patently ap did not interest our friend MISSOURI the birthplace of my enother I 1 might have haie been a californian except tor for the fact that my grand lather aher naho sold his big farm in laclede and headed tor for the west coast stopped oft off in utah to a relative we ne brought brou glit a little of the town to home tor for mother to see tar from newly surfaced streets ILLINOIS one night I 1 wont forget tor fo r a willie while it was late we were trying yang to find the home of our cousins the will marions Mo Mor rions tolls we had i no idea ea in which direction we were going the streets were poorly marked barked and every time we stopped to 10 lead ead a sign we would be given the c horn born all the time this was gon hig oil oa the rear end of our car sounded bounded like it was going to fall part alart any minute it was like find 1119 6 an all oasis als in the desert when we found ourselves in front of the Mol tolls home it was in it illinois that we toured li nc olnE home and tomb the town ware square prid and where cousin predicted dietel dieted di eted dorothy that I 1 tir would be the edest woman in the cemetery INDIANA calet u t remember much about this thia III e except capt the newfangled new tangled drive her ir 6 b bp aside you drove your car ca up r a P post 8 01 on which a menu and w telephone the hung you were to read the menu and then telephone in 01 der brn broil abt er and soon boon a carhop car hop your food it worked too OHIO hn I 1 coul int see the big ticul and bigger barns and beau green ge bo oiling S hills ls tor for the dottery deenis s shop aps ops along alone the way state stat a a clay y found in that Is alon alo 11 heal for pottery and all agthe hat aliv highway way roadside road side stands e th these drivers viales for sale our era very cooperative and we stopped at a dozen or more just ilist to browse around and buy a few souvenirs WEST ST VIRGINIA WL wheeling ellue eeling in particular a coal willing mining nestled in twisting valleys between foliage topped mountains where we noticed for the first time ilow how the houses built right on the sidewalks with I 1 no lawn in front at all and only lvery very aman small patches at at the back guess it be otherwise olnie the valleys are so bairow one product of west virginia which vilich interested me was the n glass glaim which she produces i and wo we balour brought bt home hoine a small alolu for our Ys liand hand blowe gla ela a more next week |