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Show I Feb. Whosinit In Our Opinion (Not necessarily Ariel Benson leading a dis- . . . Mureenc Garrett working cussion . . . Curley Doclutad-e- r around some more remodelsurveying his current con- ing . . . Jim and Addle Higgs struction project while Dec home for a spell before going is back at the store washing to Germany . . . Lowell Berg-- i the windows . . . Tom Powell find hauling out the old count-- 1 The Cub Scouts of the were era and hauling in new ones Grace Second ward recently being told that they ' para-Buproud of him for going to he got from Soda Springs . . . were asked to write a Amer-froand Colleen Martin home 'graph on "Why I Love meeting Sunday night . . Howard Almond hosting the Boise, Dick and Alice ica." afternoon television club . . . Morgan coming up from Salt The things the boys wrote Lynn Nelson taking part in a Lake for a get together . . . say pretty much the same panel discussion . . . Dean Eldon Tanner out after more thing, but the spirit of their Bischoff talking with a group cherry pies . . . Bill Hunting-to- n naive love for their country of women in church . . . Don philosophizing . . . Don was evident. The following he are a few of their paraBarger offering to be a deliv- Klwdl thinking ery boy between Salt Lake shouldn't have to ' push an graphs: I love America because I and Preston . . . Neil Nelson owner out of .the way to get can go to the church I like. I can go to the schools that setting up some equipment into a store. rt The following has been repeated many times throughout the country. As near as we can determine, it was first printed in the Topeka (Kans ) Bench Warrant. It was signed, a concerned mother. We print it again to refresh your memory about a very refreshing statement by a mother. One of the most common phrases heard in our society and city today is "police brutalitv. Perhaps I dont understand the meaning, but I would like to give you one mothers point on the subject. To begin, I should first tell you that I sons, and being a mohave two teen-ag- e ther, I cannot help but want the very best of everything for them. I am a typical mother in that I dont want to see thorn hurt by anyone. I am not a typical mother for I see things many mothers never hear of, much less become involved in, because my husband is a minister and we see the very best and the sordid worst. I wou'd like for you to be brutal with my sons. Is that a surbrise? If you find them speeding in a car, please be brutal. I have sat at a hospital holding a grieving mothers hand because of someones mistake. That was brutal. I have gone with my husband to tell a wife her husband was killed. That was brutal I have girl helped nurse a beautiful teen-ag- e crippled in a wreck. That was brutal. I have played organ music at funeral servand adults, ices for babies, because someone drove too fast That was brutal. sons If you should catch my under-ag- e with liquor in their possession, please be brutal. I have sat all night bv my husbands side trying to piece together two underage yoenff mens lives, both broken by drinking. That was brutal. I have listened to the horrors experienced by another man while he was drunk and heard him recall the many jails he has served time in for this. That wws brutal I have helped feed hungry children because a drunken father dfclnt come home. That was brutal I have tried to console a mother whose daughter was killed pfter bedriver. That was ing struck by a brutal. teen-ager- s, n If you should find my sons with drugs in their possession, please be brutal. I have tried to rehabilitate a woman just out of prison for shooting her husband while she was drugged. That was brutal I have seen a handsome young man tuni into an old uigly one because of drugs. That was brutal. I have seen a young mother who was addicted to a drug scream ani rave for lack of a fix. That was brutal'. Tf you find mv sons committing any kind of Immoral act or carrying any pornographic materials, please be brutal! I have listened to file sad cry of a young pirl who was nregnant but not married. That was brutal. Tf police ever see persons doing something that isnt thorouehv in the interest of society, please be brutal I have walked into a hushed, snored church that was sMnned of everything that could be sold. That was brutal T have seen a lovely, expensive home and vard completely torn u? by vandals. That was brutal. I have seen a school and its marvelous ecmlpment torn anart by young vandals. That was brutal I have wdned a little bevs teprs and hplnad him hunt for his stolen Hcvrip. That was brutal. Tf vnu should pwr eat, eh mv sons doing anything iTieunl nlaQ he brutal. I hatra enma to rwHjii that VOUT kind of c!nnnt in any wav comnare with the brutality that comes from break-in- " our laws. Mv husband and T hva tried to teach nun sons that thni riirtits iwii whore ornpons plaas hadn. We believe they have learned, this lesson, hut in case they forret. we look to vou and others who influence their lives teachers, coaches, ete.. to see Ihev remember. T do not want mv two sons to grow into two grown-uboss. I want them to become men. efele to assume their places in this world and make good contributions to it. I sineeroiy hone they wont need your help: but if they do, and if you must, then be brutal A Concerned Mother tht that I choose. I can have fun the way I want to as long as I do not hurt anyone else. I can choose the kind of job that I like to do." By Van Burton. "I love America because It's beautiful. Because you can go to church and learn. And you can listen to the radio and rend the paper. I can go to the school I want to and pick the job I want to do. You enn pick the house you want und drive the kind of car von want. By Kevin Fowler. "I Love America because it is beautiful and we have freedom and we can do things. And we all go to church and learn about Jesus and we have jobs and have peace. I go to school too. :We also vote for presidents. We listen to TV and to rad-- i ' By Mike Wood. I love America because of its freedom. I love America because of the freedom of voting. I love America because of the freedom of going to Church of Jesus Christ of ics. Latter-da- y I love Saints. America because of the free- dom of reading the newspaper and listen to the radio and TV. By Cash Best. 0 read in the daily newspathat J. C. Penney had week last per died, wc felt a personal loss. Wherever we have been there has been a J. C. Penney. And then when we moved to Preston we found that the Penney store here was number three in the great empire that was then in the making. Not on'y that, we were told that the attic of an apartment house in Preston converted from an old two story house was, at one time, the office headquarters of the J. C. Penney Company. Another reason why this man was more persons! to us was because he was a westerner he was one of us. Friends or relatives could that the weight was killing her so they attempted to take her to the hospital. In order to get her through the door onto the pick-uthey had to cut away the door frame, because her hody was too big to go through the door. By the time they got the carpentry work done, the woman was dead. I KNEW THERE was some reason why they were having a lough time motivating me. I am being crushed . . . see p, BRIM: TIIE RICE To Leo Geddes, who OF makes the boss day complete by coming and begging for copies of the paper. The only them for thing is, he wants ' insulating the house. But fiats all right, some people -A- use the paper for other purPutting poses and that hurts. By the away something for a rainy way, why dont all of you save day requires a longer stretch your papers and take them to of clear weather than it used Leos house. He needs them to. badly. NOTHER Little children grow up to be big children. What will they be like? How many will have to be handled brutally by law enforcement officers? How many will he ONE: What is society? Pan! Harvey NOTICE Soviets Marking Time TO ALL DOG OWNERS By PAUL HARVEY ' Even as we, the Soviet Union, has been trying to decide what if anything to do about Berlin, Indochina, Middle Dog Licenses Are Now Due China. Soviets have decided to do noth- East, The When we down. DOFF THOUGHT: Instead of getting rid of his prejudices the average person whitewashes them and tries to pass them off for principles, according to Olin Miller. -0 Evcrytime I see my middle sticking out and beyond the belt that holds my pants up, I know that it ia time to go back on a diet. Ugh. One of the things that makes the thought of it (not the doing) more palatable (thats not the right word) is the story I read recently in the newspaper of the woman who was crushed to death from her own bulk. Seems as though there was this woman who weighed something like 700 pounds. She always slept silting up because she couldnt stand the weight of her own body when she slept In a prone Well, one day position. she took ill and had to lay n A Personal Loss And thirdly, he was personaL He became the symbol of the stores he founded, just like Col. Sanders is the symbol of Kentucky Fried Chicken. His face ap- ALL DOGS IN TIIE CITY OF Characteris- tically, United States of FURTHER Am-M- r. Harvey leans are imW e patient. on customers even if he was in his 90s. want all our problems solved and completely by 10 It wasnt too long ago that he was in Salt neatly oclock tomorrow morning at Lake City "taking care of business at the latest! the store there. This impatience may have It could probably be said he related to motivated much of our dothe people even though his wealth and mestic progress, but it puts! Former state senator Clark comfortune removed him a long time ago us at a decided disadvantage Hamilton of Cascade with Orientals and plained in a letter to current in dealing from our circle of traveling. State Sen. Warren Brown of Asiatics. Russia may be altogether as McCall that the reports of concerned as we are about the legislative happenings in The Statesman were dead Arab oil and Israieli guns, about the spillover from the pan. Vietnamese war, about BeThis column has described rlins vulnerability and Po- the actions of the current legas lands restiveness and Red islature as "lack-lustrChinas numbers "slow, and as lethargic." But Russia has decided not A week ago I wrote there that to try to solve all or any of the 41st Legislature was in the doldrums. these problems right now. It has decided not to decide But even so, I would have any major policy matters for to report in hindsight that a while; to mark time in place the 41st Legislature is acfor a while. complishing far more than the legislatures for which Communist Maybe after the Hamilton was a member in in March; Congress Party the late 1940s and early 1950s. maybe. Hamilton complained that And maybe, by then, in some or all of these hot spots we get no human reactions, no reporting of motivating the fever will break. no oratory," talks on individuals, etc. We get no first hand are! strategic arms limitation of the love, joy, bliss, scheduled to resume next! picture blood and tears that sweat, month in Vienna. Probably into of Idaho the go making the Soviets will defer any ma--' Hamilton said. laws, jor decisions there, also. is differFrance, with deeper roots entWell, some these I have days. some learned than ours, has nostalgia for the old days of this diplomatic patience if only from generations of when senators and representatives bounced verbal brickunproductive or inflamma- bats off each others heads. tory impatience. But the truth of it is they just France concluded a summit ' conference with West Ger- dont have time for such shemany on Jan. 25 a confer- nanigans. I can remember sessions in ence dealing with bilateral and world problems. Noth- which individuals talked for ing was decided. Nothing hours primarily in an effort was agreed upon. Spokesmen to promote themselves. Most for both sides pronounced the of the oratory had no relaconversations "a great suc- tionship to any particular cess. piece of legislation but was They talked about the pos- dedicated to political philososibilities of European unifica- phy. These individuals realtion but neither put the other ly did not work at the job of under any immediate legislating. pressure. Todays legislators earn Part of U. S. impetuosity in their keep and then some. international diplomacy can Committee meetings begin at be blamed on our compara- 8 a.m. and continue long into tive youth, but thats really a the afternoon. Innumerable rather unbecoming and ina public hearings are held on innumerable subjects. dequate excuse. j e, Soviet-America- ' n law-maki- give-or-ta- ARE PRESTON REQUIRED TO HAVE A LICENSE. FEES ARE FOR MALES AND 7 FOR FEMALES. ing. peared annnually in the Founders Day advertising and he was constantly out among the J. C. Penney stores "waiting ke 7 0 INTERESTING a credit to society? - THE CITIZEN In Passing . . . news) m Open Letter To The Chief 18, 1971 NOTICE IS GIVEN RUNNING LOOSE IN VIOLATION DOGS OF CITY WILL BE SHOT BY CITY PATROLMEN ED BY LAW THAT 4 LAW AS PROVID- LAW PROVIDES THAT ALL DOGS MUST BE TIED UP FROM SUN DOWN TO SUN UP. meetings than on the floor,; at least through the first half of a regular session. As time goes on, there will be more; action on the floor of the! House and Senate in the consideration of major legislation, about which much was or will be written as it moved through committees. Only last week did a single session of the House and Senate last longer than one hour. The House has been meeting once a day, convening at 11 a.m. Usually it completes its floor work in less than a half hour. The! Senate meets briefly in morn- -' ing and afternoon sessions, And so, Mr. Hamilton, the old days are gone, and all for the best. There will be an occasional glimpse of the old times in what has become rare oratory on the legislative floors. But the legislators of the 1960s and now the 1970s are informed, dedicated individuals much more so than their colleagues of the past. They have less of the special interest and more of the public interest. And Bo it is a new style legislator who is being reported. lie is not a flamboyant person who likes primarily to hear his own voice. He is interested in more legislation and has to solve more problems than his predecessors. The Idaho Legislature Is not a town house meeting any more than Is the Congress of the United States. And so, Mr. Hamilton, the 1971 Legislature is being reported as it is. ' MINK CREEK BRIEFS Mr. and Mrs. Elias Jepsen are the grandparents of a new son born to Mr. and Mrs. Covey Anderson of Brigham. This is their third son. 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