Show f Report From uE j. j BURTON With all the problems we face as adults sometimes Its It's Just t. t plain nice to view everything from the eyes of a child chUd So this week Im I'm going to turn from Vietnam racial riots inflation etc and report to you on a a. speech I heard beard recently The speech was delivered by my year nine-year old son Laurence Shupe Burton This was his first talk In church and he was kind of concerned about It H. We sat down and talked about the things that little boys like I hope you'll find it H as rewarding as I did Laurence Shupe stood d before e the congregation and aaA r It said God sure made a nice world for boys That's what my dad told me and I believe him God created frogs and tadpoles tadpoles tadpoles tad tad- poles and crawdads that I catch I He created streams that I catch trout and perch from Every year I catch some turtles turtles turtles tur tur- and keep them and when I have to let them go In the fall fall so so they can hibernate during during during dur- dur dur dur- ing the winter winter I I feel sad But ButI I paint their names on their shells so If I find them next spring I will know who they are God made the world so there are dogs and I like our Buffy God made a world with cats and my cat Maine Mamp sleeps in my bedroom every night God made and I have one I call Chester He runs on his treadmill and It squeaks 91 J M Mand and keeps me awake God made the woods and forests that I like to take hikes in Once I made a mistake and almost started a forest fire fire- but I will never do that again The Lord also made squirrels squirrels squirrels I like to watch and He made rabbits I cant can't cat catch h even with traps I can cant can't t make work He made horses I ride when we wego wego wego go home in the summer He made Friday nights when I can stay up late and Saturdays Saturdays Saturdays Satur Satur- days when I can play and hike and fish or play ball all day long He made creek beds where I go my fossilized clams and sea shores where shores where I have got cockle cockleshells shells starfish and anda a lot lotof lotof lotof of shells I dont don't know anything about God made a world full of rocks very beautiful rocks My room Is full tull of rocks shells cockles starfish and clams They are very valuable to me He made petrified rocks I have some of those that I found In Utah They are millions of years old Some Somo are parts of trees These are in my room too Some people dont don't like this world I dont don't think they have really looked at this world and andall andall andall all the nice things that are in it It I q 1 hope that the world isn't only a good one for boys but my sisters s dont don't like frogs and crawdads and they dont don't pick pickup pickup pickup up rocks They dont don't even ven have one piece of petrified wood I fe feel l sorry for them This Is a good world for boys I wish it could be a good world for you too And with that my son sat down and you can probably imagine how proud I was wasl And really wouldn't It be nice If It our world could be a good world for all |