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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Delta, Utah. Thurs., March 4. 1954 ss Organized A meeting for all 4-H members in Leamington and Lynndyl was held at 7:30 p. m. the evening of Jan. 29, 1S54 in the Leamington school house. Miss Elizabeth Page, Millard County Home Demonstration agent and Mrs. Ralph Home, Assistant County Agent, were there to answer ans-wer any questions and also to award some prizes won last year to the winners. Miss Vona Lu Great-house Great-house of Lynndyl and Miss Inez Xielson of Leamington. After the meeting, the groups organized into their clubs. The youngest club, was organized with leaders Inez Nielson and Janice Nielson. The "Bug-Club" was organized or-ganized with leaders JoAnn Brad-field Brad-field and Margene Finlinson an1 Luella Dutson. The last girls club was organized with leaders Jean Bradfield and Annette Nielson. Refreshments were served follow ing a movie presented 'by Ralph Home. Janice Nielson-Reportcr ill mm AUIlJti I save tvay on 01E 1 1. you get f ' ""ii it . "- if-h I 0 Yv Sef more , ,n liberal trade.; ' mw v; Goodyear tires put into service during cool weather will give you a lot of extra mileage; and, coupled with the big trade-in allowance you'll get, you can realize a terrific ter-rific savings! Pay cs little as $1.25 a week for a pair SUNSET oii-vnoLinr COMPANY DELTA, UTAH 1k w Convair Found Shortly aflor he went on duty at 4:00 PM Sunday, radioman Ralph Kelson received word at Delta airport tat the Western Air-Lines Air-Lines Convair Liner which had been lost since Friday had been found. CAA teletype brought the message that the wreckage was sighted "15 to 20 miles east of Wright intersection on course. Indications In-dications are that wreckage sighted is only part of aircraft WAL DC-3 which spotted it looking for addition add-ition parts", No doubt readers will have learned further details from Monday's dailies by the time thi ,'pears. Fly-Ins Mr. and Mrs. Gene Dutson flew In from Provo the other day, for a little visit with Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Leo-nard Dutson, of Leamington. They returned to Provo by air the same day. Gene was piloting a C A P plane. Morgan to Africa Mrs. Frank Wood tells us that her nephew, Major Wayne Morgan is in charge of one of the three squadrons which make up the 301st Medium Bomber Wing with headquarters head-quarters at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. Louis-iana. The Wing flew some 45 B-47 B-47 stratojet bombers non-stop from Barksdale to Sidl Slimane. French Moroccco a distance of 4,775 miles during the 3rd week in February. The stratojets were refueled from tanker plane In mid-air, " probably somewhere near Bermuda", according acc-ording to a clipping from a Louisiana Louis-iana paper. The Salt Lake Tribune ran a picture Feb. 23 showing seven sev-en B-47's of the group which had reached Sidi Slimane. The 301st will be in Africa two or three months. mon-ths. The GOO mph stratojets are capable of waging atomic warfare war-fare at various points in Europe, Asia, and Africa, from the Moroccan Moro-ccan base. Add Sedentary Pastimes A stranger happening into certain cert-ain of the local 'billiard parlors these days might feel that he had gotten Into the wrong place. They have taken on the aspects of rest homes for elderly gentlemen. Decorum Dec-orum is the rule, and if any uncouth un-couth person were to create any unseemly disturbance he would he frowned on, or perhaps even asked to leave in a polite way, of course. The reason Is the checker craze that has hit Delta. When the boys speak of draughts these days, they don't mean draught beer. Draughts is the other name for checkers. If you ask me, it's one of the most encouraging develpoments here in a long time. Checkers, or draughts, is an ancient and respectable res-pectable game; the ideal past-time past-time for such of the local gentry as frequently find themselves In town burdened with more time than money. Whereas billiards is a game which doesn't require any particular skill, but good aim, checkers requires concentration. It improves the mind. It has become commonplace for observers to see Hebe Curtis, for Instance, force a three-two trade with Nob Peterson on the short end; Chet Corbett trying try-ing to get Evan Edward's last king In a double corner, or Frank Van mop up the board with Elmer Rob-ison. Rob-ison. not to mention what R. V. Taggart does to Roger Tucker, or tries to. There would seem to be only one step further, to make the local emporiums genuinely Intellectual, and that would be for them to take up chess. And I wont be surprised if they do. Chess is the most intellectual in-tellectual of all of the games of skill. It brings out such qualities as foresight, resourcefulness, imag ination, and ingenuity. Any a-mount a-mount of time can be spent at it and, in fact, if a game ends too quickly, it only proves that at least one of the players was dumb. For the benefit of those who are about to take up chess, I want to warn against the 'fool's mate", as it's called, in which a game can be won in four moves. There's no excuse for anyones' ever falling fall-ing victim of it, and once they are on guard against It, they can prevent pre-vent it. The moves are: White Black 1. P-K4 1.P-K4 2. B-B4 2.B-B4 3. Q-R5 3.Kt-KB3 4. QxBP mate. That, of course, leaves black feeling feel-ing silly. It is the shortest possible chess game. Just how to play the longest one has never been determined. deter-mined. Some people get onto chess rather'quickly. Others never make it. There's one old story of the two chess players and the observer in the swank men's club. Each afternoon after-noon the two would meet and play a game, while the third would sit and watch. This went on for three from frequent sippings of the wine, years. Then one day one of the will be prepared to feel the al-players al-players didn't show up, and the most sensuous pleasure to be de- which remark Eesse added that since a combination of evil and beauty prompts the immediate attention at-tention of college boys, he suppose that's why the profesor said it. Fitzgerald, of course, was the English poet-linguist and "dabbler "dabb-ler in the exotic" of a hundred-odd hundred-odd years ago who translated and published the work of Omar, and who put into it so much of himself him-self that Charles Elliot Norton caled the result not a translation but a "poetic transfusion"; and Louis Untermeyer said the combined com-bined effort of Fitzgerald and 0-mar 0-mar was one of the strangest and most remarkable collaborations ever achieved, because the "pair of minor poets" were separated by three thousand miles and more than seven hundred years. Untermeyer, Unter-meyer, in the introduction to a fine edition issued by Random House in 1947, and he referred to their work as an expression of idealized ide-alized paganism. Now, evil the Rubaiyat may be, or it may not, depending on how you look at life and God, but beautiful it certainly is, and well worth anyone's time to read it not just once, but over and over. Once the new reader discovers that the poem tells no story, has no plot, and does not urge upon him any moral of its own in fact, that it does quite the contrary, but only treats him to a series of observations ob-servations of life and olve, heaven and hell, and the here and hereafter, here-after, in a way so charming that its profundity is all but smothered as by the scent of roses in a garden, gar-den, and, perhaps, obscured a bit other asked the observer if he'd care to play In his place. "I'M sorry, but I Just don't understnd the game", said the man. About the only thing left is to advise against going overboard, even at chess. Moderation in all things is a good rule, whether the game be billiards checkers, ches, or other. Most Evil-Most Beautiful One day my friend Merritt Floyd let it be known that he wasn't overly familiar with the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In fact, I gleaned that he might never have heard of it before at all, so I felt it incumbent incum-bent upon me to provide him with a copy forthwith, and I trust that by now he has read it through not just once but at least five times, and I feel sure that each time he reads It he will find passages pass-ages whose charm eluded him before. be-fore. Snce it was he who first aroused ar-oused in me an interest in the joys of private flying, I felt I could do no loss in return than thus awaken in him an awareness of the beauties beau-ties of the Rubaiyat, and, in fact had I the copies at hand, I would do the same for anyone anywhere who showed a sign of interest in the work. I have long wanted to write for this column a litle critque of the Rubiayat-don't ask me why but each time I contemplated doing do-ing it, the project seemed too tough for one of my limited ability. ab-ility. So today, in undertaking it I hae decided to lean rather heavily hea-vily on a couple of other, more gifted, writers. Any number of them have essayed to write their essays on the Ruybaiyat, and some have succeeded very well. One is Ralph M. Besse, to whose item, A Venture In Verse, I am indebted indebt-ed for the title to this effort. It People can make a career of, was to "a kindly old English pro-biliards. pro-biliards. and some of them do, but 'lessor that he atributed the ap-that's ap-that's nothing to the way they ' pi aisal of Fitzegerald's Rubaiyat of pore over the 01 snuare boards. Omar Khavyam as 'the most in- hour after hour, plannig strategy j sidious poem ever written, not be-1 for their wooden men on the card-' cause it is the most evil, hut be- j board fields. 1 cause it is the most beautiful", to i rived from the reading. By "cajoling the reader and lighting twitting the Deity, Omar Fitzgerald bids us escape from introspection in-trospection into affirmation", wrote Louis Untermeyer. "Fill your life as you would fill a cup... Do not torture yourself with a forbiding future; ignore the rumble of. a distant drum... Tomorrow has not come: tornorrow may never come. There Is only today, and today is ours". That reveals the spirit of the Rubaiyat, and if it be evil, surely it is tempting evil. Certain pious people, having been attracted to the Rubaiyat as a moth to the flame, loving it yet unwilling to acknowledge the love for anything any-thing so 'evil", have tried to explain ex-plain away their unholy fascination fascinat-ion by asserting that Omar didn't really mean it: that he was, in truth, a most devout man: and that when he mentioned wine he really meant grape juice. Such rationalization is the sheerest balderdash. bal-derdash. Omar was a confirmed ag nostlc if there ever was one. and if anything ever was obvious, it is that when he said wine he meant wine, and when he said "the grape' he meant wine, too. There was neither neit-her devotion nor sobriety in his words about "The Grape that can with Logic Absolute The Two-and Seventy jarring sects confute " And when he spoke of wine as. "A blesslng-we should use it, should we not?" what could he have been asking but for the obvious rejoinder. re-joinder. "Why not?" "Indeed, indeed. Repentance oft before I swore, but was I sober when I swore?" he asked, and folowed that up with "I wonder often wiat the Vintners buy one half as precious as the stuff they sell." His attitude toward Deity was impudent rather than devout: "Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with a Paradise Devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith a little luxury is good for every man ...so enjoy if, V y ii h W If 91 It 1 t. 9 I- K. I t 1 'S f 1 . mm B. J stuughtBOURBONwiiiskey sow 6 years old AND PRICED TO TIXASE The Face of Man Is Llacken'd Man's Forgiveness Give and take!" Again: ' "What! from his helpless help-less creature be repaid Pure Gold for what he lent him dross allayed al-layed Sue for a debt he never did contact. And cannot answer Oh the sorry trade." Those who would postpone enjoyment en-joyment until the next world could do so, for all of Omar. He would take his pleasure here and now, and said so in his famous quatrain: quat-rain: "A Boook of Verses Underneath the Eough, A jug of Wine a loaf Of Eread and Thou Beside me singing In the wilderness, Oh, Wilderness Were Paradise enow!" There is a note of sadness run ning through the Rubaiyat, which ; derives from its fatalism. It is the sadness of one who loves life so very much, yet knows some day "We too into the Dust descend. Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and sans End." And there seems more than sadness sad-ness in the lines beginning with "Ah, Love! Could you and I with Him conspire ..." and ending, "Yon rising moon . . How oft hereafter rising look for us, Through this same garden and for One in vain." There are so many passages that aa Untermeyer put it, "caress the ear with a music the mind can not forget," that I am at a loss to find a representative few with which to close this piece. I'll select some at random, and then suggest that the reader who likes them may somewhere find himself a copy of the book. "We are no other than a moving mov-ing row of Magic Shadow- Shapes that come and go . . " "Oh threats of Hell and Hope of Paradise, One thing at least is certain, This Life Flies ..." "I sent my soul through the Invisible, Some Letter of that After Aft-er life to spell: And by and by my Soul returned to me, and answered, answer-ed, 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell." "Heav'n but the Vision of full-filled full-filled Desire, and Hell that Shadow Shad-ow of a Soul on fire . . ." "A Hair perhaps divides the False and True ..." "I came like Water, and like Wind I go ... " "And if the Wine you Drink, the Lips you press, Ends in what all begins and ends in ... " "Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of darkness through, Not one returns to tell us . . "' "I sometimes think that never blows so red the Rose as where I-II Club News At Leamington The Dizzy Daffy Cookeress was completely organized Feb. 24, 1954 at the home of Margene Finlinson. The officers, were chosen by drawing. They are as folows: Margene Finlinson, president; Annette An-nette Nielson, vice-president; Inez In-ez Nielson, secretary; Janice Nielson, Niel-son, reporter; JoAnn Erad'ield, organist; or-ganist; Luella Dutson, chorister. A very informative demonstratio on Swiss Steak was given by Margene Mar-gene Finlinson. Later we were all to sample this food and it was very good. Plans for future work were discussed dis-cussed and many interesting pamphlets pam-phlets were given us by Louise Lovell. The neext meeting will be held March 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Janice Nieslon. Janice Nielson Reporter Albert Nickle and the Nickle ambulance left Delta Sunday morn ing, to drive to Fresno, CaL. accompanied acc-ompanied by Mrs. C. M. Pace and Mrs. Biah Sjostrom. They went to bring home Mrs. Pace's father, C. O. Warnick. who was in the hospital at Fresno. He and Mrs. Warnick went there at Christmas to visit their son Gail and family, and Mr. Warnick has had two heart attacks since. The triphome by ambulance was easier for him than by train, and they all returned re-turned to Delta late Tuesday. Mr. Warnick is to have complete rest to recover from his illness. UTAH POUlf Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mangum, from Salt Lake- City, visited in Delta Thursday and Friday with their daughter, Mrs. Fera Little and family. some buried Caesar bled ..." All those, and so many more. Is it evil? Is it evil to think -of things like that? The thoughts of the Rubaiyet are beautiful, . and very sad. In an old edition, bound in purple velvet, wich has been lost, there was a tribute to Omar, by whom? Edward Fitzgerald, possibly, pos-sibly, or maybe not. Anyway, it was as fine as the work itself. It mentioned the last resting place of the astronomer, tent-maker, poet, and philosopher, "on a sunny slope in Persia, neath the snowdrift snow-drift of the petals of the rose." Wish I could find it. S3 O i 0 a o o u m our ; UTAH I poultryI Manager Saus: 5 m c MAVJt mi Clarence Gowers. Mgr. Many types of fertilizer al- g - ready are in short supply. 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