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Show 7 R. J. Vaughan Delivers Address at Helper Vets Day Banquet Over sixty members and guests of Carbon Post 21, American Legion, Helper, met at the civic auditorium there the evening ol Veterans Day for a dinner meeting in observance of that special day. Guest speaker was R. J. Dick" Vaughan, retired railroad executive, whose topic was Armistice Day, Its Significance. Main order of business was the installation of new officers for the post and auxiliary unit Leonard Grundvig, Wellington, district Legion commander, officiated at the installation of the post officers and Mrs. Arco Poloni, Wellington, Auxiliary district president, was in charge of installing the women officers. Stanley V. Litizzette, past commander of the Helper post, was master of ceremonies. Mrs.' Mary Delpha, Price, deparmentale chapeau of Utah 8 and 40, was a guest of the auxiliary. Following is the text of the talk delivered by Mr. Vaughan: May we say in the beginning that Mrs. Vaughan and I feel honored this evening on being your guests on this observance of Veterans Day. We readily recall the first observance of Armistice Day in this audimtorium. Past Department Commander Booth of Spanish Fork was the speaker of the day and like many others of your comrades, to use soldier terminology, John Booth has gone west, May God rest his soul. Your district convention held in this city in 1933 conferred a great honor and distinction upon me by presenting me the first Community Service award medal. District Commander F. P. Fisher, (Joe to you and I), made the presentation. I wear it with a great deal of pride this evening. I once read that a speaker in order to secure the attention of his audience should commence by telling one or more stories; for me to attempt to tell a story and place myself in competition with some of you members who are masters of the art would be courting disaster, because believe me when a Legionaire tells a story he leaves nothing to be imagined. About this tim last Tuesday when listening to the returns of the election coming in over the radio, the phrase lets move inalong was heard at frequent tervals, it might be well that this and speaker heed that admonition move along at the moment. When ever I hear the words AMERICAN LEGION or see the AMERICAN LEGION UNIFORM, the first words of the preamble to your constitution flashed before me. FOR GOD AND COUNTRY." As I think of the American Legion as an organization or instrumentality, the words of the poet seems so applicable. There is a destiny that makes us brothers, None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own. Some few years ago listening to a public relations officer of a rather large corporation he said. Learn to get along with people, then learn to do, and then do it. Speaking now of the American inLegion on a national or even ternational level, it has been preaching that gospel since its inception. But the sad part of it all is, that through the 40 years is the apathy and the frigid indifference of the public in general. Take the American Legion as a whole, it is, might we say, a ponderous body, it decides nit in haste but with deliberation on any question or matter and, in invariably comes up .with the right answers. A Chinese proverb tells us To dig our well before we become thirsty, That, the American is and has been doing over the years. We are all agreed that the boy and girl of today are the men and women of tomorrow. Name me an organization that has placed greater emphasis on YOUTH' than the American Legion, what of the oratorical contest on Americanism that are a yearly program? Some great leaders have been developed as a result of that program. What of the athletic programs? Read the roster of the baseball notables in the major and the min-p- r leagues; and one would be surprised at the number that came from across the tracks and were ' taught and coached by such members as Past Department Commander Glen Ballinger and others like him throughout this broad land of ours. One could go on and enumerate instances, no ends of the accomplishments of the American v number on the coin box. It is ridiculous to suggest that anyone our age needs 'glasses. But the only other way we can find out whats going on is to have somebody read aloud to us and thats not too satisfactory because people speak in such a low voice these days that we cant hear them very, well. Everything is farther than it used to be. Its twice as far from our house to the station now, and they have addobviously ed to our ears something; what is it, we see and we hear all about us. It is THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY then as though from beneath one of the white crosses on the hillside; if we listen closely, we can hear the answer. I cannot define it I can only tell you my faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests along side her own without BIAS. spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded. The spirit of liberty is the spirit of HIM who, nearly two thousand years ago, taught mankind the lesson we have never quite learned and have never quite forgotten that there is a place where the least of us can be heard side by side with the greatest. That there is a house not made by hands eternal in the heaven. That, my friends is the gospel the American Legion has been attempting to teach the world with every ounce of its energy: let us all heed it before it is too late. Qomes your cheeks with tears. I come to this building weekly or nearly so and always look at that framed roster of the Last Squad." And year by year more stars appear on it, telling me that the ranks of you veterans are thin-in- g out, leaving memories only. But through it all the sobs of the Gold Star Mother, the grief of the soldiers widow and the long-.Ting of the child for rather, there he I k k the sun-advoca- V Page Seven te Thursday, November 27, 1958. STAUFFER HOME PLAN COUNSELLOR . , i Phone ME RELA SHERMAN 825 N. 6th Price, Utah iK and 013.8 liolp proto nopper safely a fair sized hill that we never noticed before. The trains leave sooner, too. Weve given up running for them because they start faster these days when we try to catch them. You cant depend on a time table anymore and its no use asking the conductor. We ask them a dozen times a trip if the next station is where we get off and they always say it isnt. How can you trust a conductor like that? A lot of other things are different lately. Barbers no longer hold up a mirror behind us when theyve finished, so we can see the back of our heads, and our wives have been taking care of the tickets lately when we go out to some concert or banquet. They dont put the same material into clothes anymore either. Weve noticed that our suits have a tendency to shrink, especially in certain places such as around the waist or in the seat of the pants, and the laces they put in shoes nowadays are much harder to reach. We got to thinking about our poor old friends while we were shaving this morning. We stopped for a moment and looked at our reflection in the mirror. You know they dont use the same kind of glass in mirrors anymore. Now to become serious for moment or two. This is Veterans Day. Some one has said that mem- At Kennecott, employees who. have avoided injuries by wearing hard hats are members of an international organization called The Turtle Club. Employees who have been saved from eye injuries by wearing protective eye devices are members of a national organization called The Wise Owl Club. T The Kennecott members of these clubs are typical of all employees who have cooperated wholeheartedly in rv & the development of a successful safety program. By wearing personal protective equipment they have helped make a Kennecott employee three times safer on the job than the average person is at home. wri .4 m In addition to hard hats and safety eyeglasses, a wide variety of protective equipment is available to Kennecott employees. This includes gloves, masks, safety shoes, special clothing, respirators and safety belts. All are an essential part of the comprehensive program that 7. in 1957 won for Kennecott employees the National Safety Councils highest award The Award of Honor, and 31 additional safety awards from the U.S. Bureau of Mines. ory is a priceless possession, that it is the warp and woof of wisdom. That, in my opinion, is somewhat of a debatable point. How many of you agree with me I do do not know. MEMORIES. Yes, as I speak to you now, some of you are living the experiences of World War I, some of World War II and some of you the Korean war. Some of you mothers can see that gallant youngster who left your fireside full of vim and vigor years ago. Today a white cross somewhere blots your mind and dims your eyes and moistens iM' Making every job the safest possible job is the continuing goal of Kennecotts safety program. Smokey Says: m& ' S', LOOK FOR ME WHEREVER YOU GO, AMD REMEMBER WHAT USMOk'EVSAYS! o iZb 55 only you rt prevent FOREST . 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