Show i Dads Dad's i i t Column Oil TO BE DE E A PILOT WHEN I was just a little lad Id I'd watch up In the sky And look and long impatiently To see Ice a plane fly by I longed to be a filer flier A pilot brave and bold To soar way Up tip in heaven Where clouds are rimmed with gold Id I'd watch the graceful seagull Id I'd wish and long and crave drave To glide and soar like Uke he does Then land upon a wave And then the war had started I saw my dreams come true I now at last could get het my wings And fly ily up In ln the blue And so I Joined the Air Force A pilot now Id I'd be Id I'd fly against the Axis- Axis Help make my country free tree And so they sent lent me of oft off to school I though Id I'd learn to fly They taught me how to pilot But Dut not up In ln the sky I piloted piloted bicycle a A Jeep and then a truck I guess to fly a bomber Will never bb bt my luck When I took examinations The big shots always found That I would be much better off oU To pilot on the ground So they sent me here to ORD At driving trucks I 1 try I guess Ill I'll never get my wins wings Until the day I die Gordon M. M Watkins In Kearns Post Review O O O OIS IS IT U ANYBODY'S I BUSINESS THE BIGGEST tempest in a teapot of or 1944 in America has been the excitement over the mystery of ot Just what President Roosevelt said in the voting booth election election election elec elec- tion day says an exchange A news correspondent declared red that when the president went into the booth the mechanism on the voting machine Jailed failed to function properly in some way The correspondent said the president Was vias heard to say The thing wont won't work Mr Roosevelt taking cognizance finally fin tin finally ally cf the tempest declared that the machine was locked when he entered the booth He tried It twice and It wouldn't budge Then he said he called out to the election clerk th the thing wont won't work But Dut he denied using the double expletive Well all right Mr Roosevelt said or Or maybe he said oh pshaw 1 I We dont don't know what Mr Roosevelt actually said and honestly IsIt is isit isit it anybody's business Whatever the president did or saId mid happened In the privacy of at the he voting booth booth and and if there his Is any more sacred and privileged spot In ln these United States of America than the voting booth we dont don't know where it Is When an American enters the voting booth he be puts eft all official title and position He steps out of public life He Is Just another American citizen And what he does there Is nobody's business but his hiso o own n. n Only God and his own conscience are afe supposed to know or to have a right t to pass judgment Franklin D. D Roosevelt may be president president dent lent of ot the United States Stated But Dut he is also Just a plain ordinary American Citizen entitled to the privacy and sanctity sanctity sanctity sanc sanc- of or the voting booth as much as anyone else ele Lets Let's concede that and forget forget torget for tor- get this silly speculating and criticizing V r rAN V V VAN I AN APPRECIATIVE call on Dad was made Sunday last by Tom Andrew who with his wire wife are making a two weeks week's visit in the Park with Mrs Andrews Andrew's parent parents par par- ent Mr and Mrs Sam Mills Both Doth atthe of at the visitors are native and both are arc graduates of at the Park City High school chool Twenty-one Twenty years ago M Mt and Mrs Andrew left Park City to locate In ln Santa Ana California accompanied by Mr Andrews Andrew's widowed mother Mrs I Frank ank Andrew There the then newly married couple started a grocery store store which prospered from the beginning and recently they retired from business and andare andare are we now taking life easy They have ave a aSOn ason ason son and daughter the latter Is ls married and now residing In ln Texas with whom her parents Intend to visit before re- re wring turing to their California home Mr Frank ank Andrew the father tather of Tom was a Pioneer furniture man of this city andone and andone andone one of or its leading citizens before his death a a a aTHE r I THE OGDEN OLDEN V victory i 1 c t tor o r y News says While While V-day V in Europe will be one of at great joy and happiness it nevertheless does e not mean that the time for sacrifice sacrifice i fice i hard rd work devotion to duty or loyalty has passed Japan the most brutal heartless enemy or of all will remain to be defeated defeat defeat- Sni mUch ed and J before that task is le accomplished bloodshed and fighting will re- re main tUne It WOUld the therefore fore be most on day V-day for the slightest us to slacken In our out all efforts for comPlete complete com com- pete victory on the battlefronts In fact tact hen Rhen the stirring news new of a European armistice time tim l ls is announced d It should be a athe the he solemn lemn rededication of ot ourselves to American principles subscribed to by every everyn on n n that infamous day in ln Deber Dehen De De- cember ber k 1941 when hen the sneak Yap Jap at at- Was made on Pearl Peart Harbor Harbor- pre pre- the he M the most brutal costly war In history Of mankind I lN TEIm I syi Iy PAI M PARAGRAPHS BACK Arm Array Nurse FROM the fighting Bating front an Bre says that more n nurses Urgently needed now I NEXT lCT the s tax roe To t the wars war's end the new that hat is the h rate wo wont won't t be boosted next net year best w wa could have heard I IA A NURSE Other ether came Ume back fr from m Europe the day ds With a story to tell It U Ii a aSi told let m story Si and a part of tt It she modestly estly That was the part about I Dads Dad's Column I Continued from Page One her own experiences and achievements But Dut the other part that about how urgently more Army Nurses are needed she told with gre great t feeling and sin sin- rr WHEN WIlEN WE must feed our army and help the armies of our allies not a bushel of at grain should be permitted to tobe tobe tobe be made into Intoxicating liquor Neither Neith Neith- er the men In the army nor the men engaged In doing vital work for the army In connection with railroads factories mines and shipyards should be allowed to waste strength and health In drink Theodore Roosevelt In a aletter aletter aletter at this time Theodore tImed letter written December 12 12 1917 1017 WHEN A Coalville girl learned that It took the government two years to discover discover discover dis dis- dis- dis cover that a 29 B flies faster without paint she ehe decided to leave off oft the liPstick lipstick lipstick lip liP- stick when those air base wolves howl around her door THE SALT Lake Lake City chamber of at commerce arranged this week to put the touch on Salt Lake firms and Individuals individuals Indi indi- for a fund for publicity I I and Industrial development The period 1 of Of giving will open In February Sharp acrobatic Gus P P. P Backman ex executive secretary enumerated a number of proJects projects pro- pro je ts needing chamber financial assist assist- ance THE WAR Fund drive will miss a tidy sum because of President Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's change of the January 20 inaugural al from the Capitol to the White House I In the 1941 1041 Inauguration a profit of nearly was made by the General GeneralI I Arrangements Committee after liter expenses i of were paid The profit went to the War Fund Melvin D. D Hildreth a member of the committee for each of Mr I Roosevelt's previous Inaugurals said a ai i profit of about was made In 1933 1033 but a deficit of was incurred Incur I incur 1 red in 1937 due to a heavy rain the day of the ceremony I o OO o o OVER O BET nET ON ELECTION OUTCOME I REPORTS FROM reliable sources are that a petition has now been drafted dratted for presentation to district t court Judges I asking for a recount of the vote tabulation tion in Salt Lake Lak county for governor II I j Another new development is that considerable con con- 1 money was wagered on the I governorship race and that backers of at Mayor J J. J Bracken Lee Republican candidate candidate can can- I are loath to give up the money In fact It Is reliably reported they are I willing to sink more dollars to finance finance a recount In the hope of getting back the original investment I It Is a known fact that more than was bet In one place In Salt Lake I City and report has It that a goodly portion of this money came came from Reno and other outside state sources This This This' I money Is being held by the betting i i brokers until a determination is made as to whether or not there will be a are are- re re- re count Salt count Salt Lake Times I O 00 O O 0 I ABOUT TillS THIS time of year we usually I Ise se secretly envy great-grandfather great who had only to step Into the woods with a rifle to get himself a holiday turkey But the lady of the house houlle doesn't envy great-grandmother's great Job of plucking It and roasting It t In front of ot a fireplace fireplace- Christian Science Monitor I |