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Show Do You Remember? . . . i By MAUDE H. BENEDICT In the last "Do You Remember" column we wrote of the swiftly changing times, and of their effect upon American life. Today we are involved in another World War, enemies on all sides, and grave danger confronts our fine sons in uniform. Few families these days are free of apprehension, and yet we would not shirk nor have our sons shirk this dire responsibility. The writers' two sons are in very vulnerable spots in case of invasion in-vasion on the west coast, yet they write they are proud to be able to be even small cogs in the nation's wheel of defense. New war songs are being heard over the air, which reminds us of the old World War songs how, we grouped about the piano in our various homes and sang, "It's a -. Long Way to Tipperary," "Over There," "Johnny, Get Your Gun," "Don't Eite the Hand That's Feeding Feed-ing You," "A Baby's Prayer at Twilight," "Boy of Mine," "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding," "The Worst Is Yet to Come," "A Soldier's Dream," and many others. We remember how the list of wounded and killed was scanned fearfully, as it was published by the newspapers. We regret that one fine soldier boy of Ogden, whose mother was Dottie Deal of Springville, gave up his life at Pearl Harbor last week. And so already the war is being brought to our very doors. Ensign Howard Deal Merrill, son of Dottie Deal and Dr. Leslie Merrill. Mer-rill. He came to Ogden as a child and attended Ogden schools, graduating gra-duating from Ogden high school and Weber college before attending to somehow sense the need of another an-other for an assurance of support and friendliness. Again, do you remember? the naval academy. At the academy he achieved excellence ex-cellence in operation of heavy naval guns, won his letter at boxing, and was a member of the Boat club. He was nicknamed "Ute." He was division officer of the ship at the time he became Ogden's first war casualty. He was reared from infancy in-fancy by an aunt, Miss Etta Merrill, Mer-rill, of Ogden. In the other World War we remember re-member how radio was in its infancy, in-fancy, and reports of the war came mostly by cable, telegraph, and telephone. Today the situation is entirely different news flashed over the air all day and all night by radio, that most marvelous of all achievements of communication. In these troublesome times we need more than ever to radiate cheer; to be kept busy, to be more prayerful and to put forth every effort to cheer those about us who may be less able to throw off the gloomy aspect. win. We are not minimizing its gravity, but we must face the truth of its touching every man, woman and child in one way or another. So up goes the chin, America, and thus put force and faith in our soldier boys. We cannot let them down! Many soldiers complain of lack of letters from home and wonder why they are so soon forgotten! We cannot imagine such a state, yet it must be true for some of the boys in camp. Let's write more encouraging letters to soldier boys, not only our own, but any others we hear about needing such support. sup-port. We are sure that our home town boys are not neglected. It has always been so, that people in the smaller towns seem to be closer united spiritually than those of larger cities, and in case of trouble trou-ble there is strength in such unity. Friends mean so much to us in times of stress, and remembering back to childhood days in Springville Spring-ville we recall how quick neighbors neigh-bors were to respond to a call or To keep our minds on the daily routine as much as possible; not to brood nor listen to predictions of failure. After all, we are now wide awake, on the alert every moment, mo-ment, and we are a powerful nation. na-tion. "War mad our enemies, Devastation all about Hold on firmer to a balance, Lest the whole world be snuffed out." M.H.B. Do you remember how at Christmas Christ-mas time in the other World War, the terrible scouBge of influenza raged, and the toll it took of lives in our midst? How we did our Christmas shopping wearing masks that were supposed to be efficacious effica-cious in preventing our contracting the awful disease? Of course many Springville people peo-ple succumbed to its ravages, some very dear ones in our memory, leaving families of small children. It may be a long war, but we will |