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Show Tage THE JOURNAL 12 Mrs. Fitzgerald's Boy, Patrick By BING CROSBY A few months ago, a missionary wrote me a letter from South Afri- - he was a Maryknoller and he said I had the mission people all said I have been staying with them for wrong. Were not heroes, fun! You a year. One had a girl who needed this padre, were having home, who say your another year in college; another people back hand out the money had to buy a car for business reas- prayers and we for tfye things do, are the REAL ons; the third had a new baby, stars. with extra hospital bills, the fourth as far I didnt quite get ut, was building a house and the fifth I am let it pass. had a chance to buy out a business as Most ofconcerned, called upon to not us are cheap. So I doubt if they could fight out there on the front lines. pay me if I asked them. is BEHIND the lines, but Our What would you do in such a it's ajob job, and it has to be done situation? ' well. Grandpa A spirit of courage is needed when the call comes for personal Answer: You were certainly foolish to service. Maybe its not for you; but on that maybe it IS. part with your nest egg. If you think twicemore ways than one to wished to sell your home, you There are should have invested your money be of service in the missions, you or put it in bonds that draw in- know. The big cause can be helped any terest. If old people would al- by big businessmen in most wilare of the if world, they part welways realize how much more come they are with a little change ling to be GOOD big businessmen. And that goes for diplomats, teachjingling in their pockets they would never make the mistake of ers, members of the armed forces men and women. giving away their all before they ca t Dear Louisa. I am a man of seventy and. am in bad health. My wife and I had a comfortable home which we had lived in ever since the first year we were married and were very happy. We had five children, all of whom are married. We enjoyed having the children and the grandchildren for visits and we tried to get around to seeing them once a year and they made a lot over us, About a year ago, my wife died suddenly and the children insisted that I sell the home and come and live with them. They all wanted me and I had to agree to divide my time with them. Well, it hasnt worked out well at all. To begin with, I get tired of staying two months one place and having to move on. And when I was visiting, everyone went out of their way to do things for me and make me comfortable. Now, when the children are making a din they say Ill just have to get used to it and if company comes I sleep on a couch in the living room. I feel that I am in their way and what I want is a quite place to stay and someone to take care of me. I could get a small apartment but I havent the money to get a good practical nurse. Each one of the children has borrowed from me so that all I have left is a small pension that I get each month. I hate to ask them to repay me as it--b- ' . . But maybe the call is not for you maybe it's for cousin Mary or Mrs. Fitzgerald's boy, Patrick. All right, then you can say a word to encourage the young ones in their answer to the call and help the older folk to see that the lives of Mary and Patrick are not going to be wasted and thrown away. Tell them about St. Francis Xavier and how he and his fellow Jesuits converted almost a million pagan Japanese four hundred years ago. What a pity it was that more young men did not get into Japan before the gates were closed to the West by the emperors in those days. There might never have been a second world war or even a and no occasion for the FIRST horrors of the atom bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Of course, were not going to be very good at talking up the big cause unless we KNOW something about it. And what we know has to be the RIGHT thing. We cant be thinking of ourselves, for instance, as the super race. Some other people tried that, and the end was not happy. ; Weve got to be thinking of all the people in the world as if they and we were members of one big family. fclVEfe Go OH a ylr RAMPAGE? Tlf fcOBTSHU VILLAG HEAP SMITHY'V MAN AT VALLr FOeGE? MRS OTTO SMITH PLAINFIELD. Al.y BtaWWiUI kjr die. I think your best bet now is to find a good old peopled home. There are a number of these run by different churches and societies; Your pension may be sufficient to pay your way in a place of this sort and you will have a quiet place with medical care and other old people for companionship. You can then visit your children for a week or so when you feel like it and come back to your own little place when you get tired. luy ntum Ml -- coping ivilian: ,in re The Louisa Shei Davis Staho M. I. A. NEWS CALENDAR V JUNE 4TII TO JUNE 1TH June f Stake Election Party for Jr. Gleaners. June 6 Kaysville 1st Ward Social to open Summer Season. June 0 Kaysville 2nd Ward Social to open Summer Season. June C Centerville 2nd Ward program Planning a wonderful with dancing later. June (1 Centerville 1st Ward Explorers Party for Building Fund. They have obtained some excellent outside talent from Salt Lake and Ogden and it is guaranteed to be good. , June 9 Eagle Board of Review at Scout Headquarters 8:00 p. m. June 10 M. I. A. Ward and Stake Officers and Teachers Party, to be held at Kaysville 2nd Ward. NEWS ITEMS Wilson Stevens is holding a dancing class in the Farmington Central Ward Hall. He is training 50 young people who will dance on June the 4th at Bountiful, again June 10th for the Stake Offi- cers and Teachers Party and their Big Night the Dance Festival at June Conference. They practice every Monday and Wednesday . night. On May the 27th the Centerville 1st ward held a spring dance to begin their Summer Work. The were spring flowers decorations in and grass pictures. They had a good floor show, square dancing, a wonderful orchestra and refreshments. Everyone enjoyed every minute of it. Two Hobos came into the Cen- terville 2nd ward MIA and invited all the ward to attend a Hobo par- Hendt Jackson Holers Seek Best Square Dancers .0. JACKSON HOLE, WYO. If d Western Square Dancers in Utah, Jackson Hole wants em and has a chal-eng- e. Theyve been' invited to the second annual Jackson Hole Folk Dance Festival. Without the fancy words, thats an Western hoedown. Theres no competition in the Square Dance Festival just exhibitions, and the squares can exhibit to their hearts content. Clubs outside the Hole are invited to participate as clubs, with a limit of six squares to the club. They may bring along their favorite fiddler as there is a $50.00 prize for the top fiddler and $25.00 for second best, as judged by . the audi;here are any top-han- old-fashion- ed ence. Nostalgic memories will be shar-ene- d box by an unch auction which will precede the square dance festival at the Jackson-Wilso- n high school gymnasium. All who attend will be Richard A. Robertson, Teton Mountain Square Dancers, according to Richard A. Robertson, Teon Mountain square dance director who heads the program. All clubs wanting to enter exhibition dancers can write Mr. Robertson at P. 0. Box 274, Jackson, Wyoming. There will be live music but for difficult numbers invaders should bring their own records. There will be scores of special callers. And after the dance, according to J. Edward Amschel, Chamber of old-fashion- ed ty on May 34rd. Horton Hess cook- Commerce Secretary, there is plened up some Hobo stew; they had ty of fishing. Housing reservations soft drinks and cookies, 2 big bon- may be made through the Chamber fires and lots of fun playing base- of Commerce. ball and other games. Janice Parrish, president, says she isnt worHe has not learned the lesson ried about their summer program of life who does not every day surafter this party, it was such mount a fear. R. W. Emerson. A marriage in the family? Then it's time to choose announcements for that special event. You'll find the finest in our stock of distinctive social stationery . . . they're inexpensive too. , success. The MIA Maids in Centerville 2nd ward meet every Wednesday at the home of Janice Parrish to learn how to knit. They are doing this in addition to their regular MIA work. The Gleaner and M Men in the Centerville 2nd ward both the Jr. and Sr. groups, meet every week to study the Book of Mormon. ary, is teaching the class. Chandler is their leader. MIA Maids, watch for an announcement in the next edition of MIA News. Wards: This will be a regular column in your News Paper. Let toher Wards know what vour ward is doing. ALZINA BARTON, mission- returned a Reid, Publicity. 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