Show SALT LAKE LASE SKETCHES Happy in Wheel Chair ChairMan Man WitH BroKen Back for Six Years Yeats I Lightens Hours of Other Patients The most popular inmate of the L. L D. D S. S hospital is Thomas J J. J Shields Tommy Jo to every doctor n nurse and orderly Tommy to hundreds of ot patients patients patients pa pa- past and pres present nt His sunny smile and ready wit wil have hav lightened many a dull hour for fellow sufferers When toiling nurses have their sorrows sorrows sor sor- rows It is Tommy to whom they tell teU their troubles Tommy is a young oung man only onty 31 In 1928 he was driving a n railroad tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel in Nevada The roof caved In For six has been in the L L. D D. D S S. S hospital with a broken back The ordinary ordinary or or- r- r person would think that such sucha a calamity would sour any anyone one on living but not Tommy Tammy Its all aU in the game h he grins Happiness is inside a person any any- way Its It's not how you are arc but how you feel about it that counts Watches World Go By Tommy lies In his bed watching the world go by through a revealing window or he sits sil in a wheel chair on the hospital roof root on sunny days and joys in the thc miracle of living Now take that fellow over there he said indicating another chap in ina a l wheel chair Hes been through a alot alot alot lot Jim has He tells teUs some real stories about this and that I can listen by bythe bythe the thc hour to Jim and his his' experiences Why a book could be written about this place and nd every word of it would touch your heart hearl From County Down Ireland came Thomas J. J Shields 16 years ago Construction Construction Con Con- jobs in roaring camps lumber lumber lum lum- ber bel contracts in the great northwest the grind and clank dank of air drills in slimy tunnels the thc sw sweat al of pick and 4 muck stick slick and smell of ot powder smoke in many mines claimed him for their own His last job out there in ina a Nevada railroad tunnel was a battle bat tie tle with rock which broke his body but not his spirit Likes His Stories It wouldn't seem right for Tommy not to b be here to tell me stories said I Clarence Martin laid up with a broken leg Tommy is one of our mainstays according to H. H S. S Barnes superintendent superintendent L L. D D. D S S. S hospital It is is an Inspiration to see his smiling countenance countenance counte counte- nance knowing his condition He certainly certainly certainly brightens up the otherwise dull dun existence of ot man many of ot our patients Why he has become an institution Last summer Tommy decided to take a vacation from the hospital He rented a l summer cottage in Emigration Emigration tion canyon Glad to o Get Back Buk BackI I 1 had bad a swell time the first few I weeks he said It was great to be outdoors to smell the pine and hear the birds and shoot at a target which I had fixed up but it was good to get back home just the same Ive I've got lots lats of friends here you know Tommy whiles away the hours with books and visiting He has a sunny smile and ready wit for lor all who come cometo to him i f |