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Show JiHE INDEPENDENT RECORD, Wildwood, N.J., devoted its lead, editorial to Easter last week. Editor Edi-tor Charles V. Mathis has put Into words the memories of millions. He wrote: "Can you remember your first Easter? The stuffed bunny at the foot of your bed . . . the cottony chicks and furry ducklings in their cozy nest of green shredded paper . . . the bright candies . . . the kaleidoscopic eggs you had to hunt so hard to find? "Can you recall the walk to church with your mother and dad? The dignity of your new spring clothes? And later, sitting in the pew, you watched the dust motes dancing in the unlight shafting through the high windows . . . you sat soo-o-o quiet while the surpliced choir lifted you to heaven on wings of song. You knew this was no ordinary Sunday. "As long as you live there'll be things you'll remember . . . like the pages of a book. The clear notes of birdsong and the deeper mellow peal of the steeple bells in the salt wind . . . the good, appetizing smell of dinner in the oven as you left for church and the lilies like white angels in the sanctuary." Spring and Things When weekly newspaper editors begin to comment on growing things it is a sure sign spring is nearly here. As an example: From the Canton Independent-Sentinel, Independent-Sentinel, Canton, Pa.: "This is the time of year when, no matter how hard or how easy a winter has been, it begins to seem as though it would never end. "The first crocus has not yet been seen; but first thoughts of It have shone, bright yellow or rich purple. In innumerable dream gardens. gar-dens. "Pussywillows are mlnimuscular on the rather stiff branches; but boys are mapping their campaigns, and searching parties will be out along the rivulets in woods on bill- 1 sides, before long. "Everyone guesses there's a long spell of cold weather; but everyone is privately convinced it can't last anytime at all now. "Anyway, we all know that just when we've become resigned to 'another month of this1, we shall find ourselves suddenly surrounded sur-rounded in the gentle, caressing, laughing, and altogether overwhelming over-whelming ambush of spring." Spring and Work From the Morning Sun News-Herald, News-Herald, Morning Sun, Iowa: "Perhaps we are being fooled by the gentle ferment that is called 'spring' but it seems that there is a budding optimism to be found in the manner and speech of people hereabout. Maybe it is only a matter mat-ter of people getting to work after a long winter of inactivity. We are of the opinion that there is nothing so calculated to produce an air of optimism as work. A man, working for himself or in association with others, will think on a much higher plane than when he Is one of a company com-pany of loafers." |