Show y ynr fi ' if sf V r 4 Wt i THE OGDEN (UTAH) OO North American Hemlocks Grow to Great Heights -- ' death " While the great teacher was walking away from the place of trial toward the jail where he was to be held some of his followers clustered about him One of them Apollodorus kept lamenting the action of the court “Why do you complain?” asked t the master I “Because it is terrible that you should be condemned so unjustly!” “My dear Apollodorus!” replied Socrates “Would you rather that I should be condemned justly?’ Later Socrates was offered an opportunity to escape but he re- fused He declared that he would never care to be a hunted man Whn the time came he accepted the poison The poison hemlock I am happy to say is very different from the hemlock trees which grow in North America" A poison hemlock reaches a height of ' only about six feet but the several kinds of North American hemlocks grow to good heights Some get to be more than 75 feet high Ifl the high valleys of Tennessee are hemlocks which have mark passed the Even taller are certain trees known as Prince Albert’s firs also as western hemlocks These grow along the Pacific Coast in British Columbia and down to California Sometimes the height is 200 feet and the trunk may be 10 feet thick at the base For nature section of your iscrapbook 100-fo- ot - UNCLE RAY Tomorrow: Aspenf Prehistoric Animals is the name of a new leaflet by Uncle Ray which tells fascinating facts about Dinosaurs and contains 12 illustrations of these great aniTo get a copy send a mals envelope stamped to Uncle Ray Publishers Syndicate 30 North LaSalle Chicago self-address- 111 JL ' 1 ‘T FUNNY BUSINESS 5" XL A PAIL OF MUD IN THERE AND HE IS GOING TO HAVE HEADACHE PUT HIS FEET WORRIED MRTOTTLEn WELLIM H GUP MW STILL CAN'T SEE HOW YOU JCAME 0UTPH JUST ABOUT 70 TRY A COULD POSSIBLY HAVE CURED 1L-I- AM HEADACHE'S DISLIKE FOR MUD-J- UST S BY TALKIN' TO HIM1 ) RIGHT INTO IT —ONE AFTER ANOTHER! LITTLE TEST THAT SHOULD PROVE IT fa AM BEYOND QUESTION! V XS'‘Xs v “ r JK I By V HAM FISHER JOE PALOOKA £whew4 sorry z cant RUSH IT FOR YOU TO MAKE YOUR PLANE -- HE WON'T COOPERATE— GOSH- - HE'S AREAL &WHEW-TORNADO Groover HAS JOE PINNED ON THE ROPES — AND SMASHING WITH ‘ RIGHTS AND LEFTS— THERE'S THE - WEYEAH WE’LL HAFTA CHANGE TH w STRATEGY ' f M BELL' By DICK BROOKS THE JACKSON TWINS rr will dc - By HERSHBERGER ml IYE HAD SAM BRING ST? I'M STILL IMS APRIL R7 By LANK LEONARD PTa “He sees somebody whom he i threatens they hates and that probably means When danger are few that it is someone whom the rest ! Who seem to know just what of use ! fear” to do Again Sammy Jay screamed This is nearly always true It “Thief! Thief! Thief!” This time is also true that usually one or the bright eyes of Mrs Grouse two do know what to do and do saw Hooty the Owl alight in a it tree near the one in which SamMrs Grouse well hidden where my Jay was flitting about she could see without being seen “So that’s it! That fellow is was watching Thunderer and an- over her after a dinner” thought other Grouse fighting ' Mrs Grouse She knew why they were fightShe looked over at the two ing They were fighting for her fighters They were paying no Yes sir they were fighting for attention to anything but what her That in itself was exciting they were doing They appeared or not to have heard Sammy at all Would Thunderer win would it be the handsome Sammy had done his best to give stranger? Which did she want warning buthe might just as to win? She wasn’t sure Some- well have saved his breath for times she hoped Thunderer all the good his warning was would win doing Those two big birds kept Sometimes she hoped the hand- right on fighting just as if they some stranger would win At were the only two people in all least she thought she hoped this the Great World But excited though she was “I guess if Sammy had she never once forgot to be on screamed right in their ears they her guard for danger She had wouldn’t have heard it” thought long ago learned the lesson that Mrs Grouse “It looks as if I so many people never do learn will have to do something” that one can never afford to be She hastily looked on all sides So while she to see if there might be any careless once watched the fight she at' the other enemy There was She same time used her eyes and her caught a glimpse of something ears to catch any hint of danger red behind some bushes A there might be So it was she glimpse was all she needed heard Sammy Jay screaming “Reddy Fox!” she exclaimed ‘‘Thief! Thief! Thief!”- from a under her breath “With Hooty nearby tree the Owl up in that tree and Red- “When Sammy screams like dy Fox creeping up on them on thatt it is a warning to be the ground this is no place for heeded” thought Mrs Grouse those Grouse to be fighting What in the world is the matter with them that they cannot hear Sammy Jay?” Then as Hooty was about to lift his wings to swoop down on Mrs Grouse those fighters a of another caught glimpse feathered hunter coming in over the treetops: one she feared even more than Hooty the Owl It was Terror the Goshawk whose favorite dinner is Groused If there is any one hunter whom Thunderer and Mrs Grouse fear more than another -it is Terror the Goshawk The next story: “A Feathered Explosion Mrs Grouse Hears and Sees WEDNESDAY EVENING R MICKEY FINN Burgess Bedtime Stories Uncle Ray's Corner As I start to write about hemlock “trees my thoughts go to certain plants known as poison hemlocks They grow in Europe to this day but they are best known for an event which took place 2354 years ago At that time Socrates the famous thinker drank juice of the poison hemlock and died " The drinking of the juice was done by order of a public court Socrates had been condemned to STANDARD-EXAMINE- a MINUTE MOKE KEJTW EE MV CTTWEE DAUGW TER IS TRYING TO FIND ANOTHER PLATE TUAT SHOULD GO RACK TO YOUR MOTHER 1 uill did you SEE KEITH'S CAR ? 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