Show H. THE COUNTRY COLUMNIST By O. O W. W NIELSEN p. To survive or not to survive survive sur sur- vive that is the quest question on The other day we were asked asked asked ask ask- ed What about our girls You are always talking about how to raise our boys Now what about our girls Well you surely remember remember remember ber the old that goes something like this Sugar and spice and everything nice that's what girls are made of We think they are made of sterner stuff We think that if a disaster should happen to strike the land they would rise fise to the occasion Lets Let's put it this way If and it Is quite ii ble e that crazy country over overseas overseas overseas seas should start an atomic war and blow all of our land to smithereens what would h happen Just about every living thing would be destroy destroy- ed A few youngsters who might be on vacation in the mountains would perhaps survive When they reached the valley they would find that everything had been blown up They would soon find that there was no electricity no gas no way of transportation Now we dont don't think that these boys and girls would lay down and die The They y would set about to see what they could do about it It might be a lot of fun if our youngsters could or 01 would start a sort of folk lore club to learn something about survival if a thing like this should happen Here are afew a afew afew few of the things that would be good to know The mothers of these youngsters youngsters youngsters young young- of today would know something about this their grandmothers would know a alot alot lot more and their great- great grandmothers were experts in inthe inthe inthe the art of survival This knowledge would include how to cord wool how to spin it into yarn how to make a ameal ameal ameal meal out of some of the common common common com com- mon weeds how to make butter butter butter but but- ter and cheese how to make soap how to administer first aid without any of the modern medicines and a thousand and one other things that their pioneer ancestors had to todo todo todo do in order to survive Yes we think it would be bea a great experiment and also a lot of fun to revive some of this folk lore |