Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-04-29 | Page 8 | Just Folks

Just Folks Folks' By Edgar A. A Guest The Four Freedoms It was for this our fathers fought F Freedom r e e d o m to utter honest thought Freedom of intellectual choice And right or wrong the mind to voice Freedom to walk this earth erect Maintaining always self This freedom tyrants all deny But to preserve it brave men die Freedom to worship Who shall say How others unto God must pray Or seek to make mans man's slavery whole By chaining his rus eternal soul Mothers alone must teach at night The prayers their children shall recite And who shall dare with sword or rod To close one avenue to God Freedom from fear of spur and goad Of being driven on lifes life's road From fear of law and edict made Which keep men constantly afraid From fear of lurking ears and eyes Of tattle-tales tattle and cunning spies Freedom from fear of every kind Which shatters faith and peace of mind Freedom from want of food and fire SAnd And And every natural desire From want of raiment doctors doctor's care From poverty's poverty s extreme despair From cruelties the unlucky know Not God but men mell- must this bestow Not God but free men ever evermore evermore more mor Must guard and grant these freedoms four Copyright 1943 Edgar A. A Guest More than a billion dollars' dollars worth of minerals have been mined from the mountains of Nevada to date