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Show . . i Ruminatin Roundabout In which Ruminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy them, and fire a hot-shot now and then while said Ruminat or can enjoy seeing the sparks fly. 7 Once a printer pretty much always al-ways a. printer, and once the smell o' printers ink gets you, you're got! But it's rather a far jump from the practical end of a printshop to the spiffy uniform of a "looie" swanky Sam Brown belt and all. That, however, will serve as good as any other as an introduction to Lieutenant W. H. Morris, recently recent-ly transferred to the local C C C camp from Panaca, Nevada. This jaunty young officer put a lot of time in the printshop.s of his high school and college and later "did a stretch" in the private printing plant of a tire company. Ex-Printer Morris didn't get past our office partition t'other day, but next time he comes in we are going to tempt him with a "stick" and a "string" of copy He'll fall .sure, and after that, when Mrs. Morris and their son, cozily domiciled in the Forgie apartments, apart-ments, don't know where the head of the house is, they can call 28. Even if he isn't here but has led them to think he would be, as one good tradesman trades-man for another, we shall lie most beautifully and swear to it! Those Milford people who have enjoyed close contact with Walter F. Hobbs during the past week have found a wealth of personality personal-ity and innumerable other splendid splen-did qualities behind the pleasingly pleasing-ly bewhiskered face of this good fellow who has been conducting the miners' and prospectors' class at the high school this week. It is just too bad that there have riot been more who have taken advantage advan-tage of the work, though Mr. Hobbs is- partial to the smaller and intensely interested group as compared with the reverse. But, any way you look at it, the loss is that of Milford and Milford's people when they won't take advantage of such opportunities, brought right to their door! Incidentally, as one of the charter char-ter members of The Great American Ameri-can Prospectors association, Mr. Hobbs carries an interesting membership mem-bership card as "Fellow Brave No. 1099," to be exact. Tribe headquarters are listed as being - at 22 Va. East First South, on the "No. 2 Level," Salt Lake City, and the inimitable Harry S. Joseph Jos-eph signs the card as "Big Chief" with George H. Watson as scribe. On the reverse side is the inscription, in-scription, "This card is a pearl without price guard it as you would your flask," and below that is the following tribute to The Prospector: The Prospector's vision lies within his soul. He peers beyond the veils and midst of doubt and pierces the walls of unborn time. His brain has wrought all human miracles. Through all the ages he has heard the voice of destiny call to him from the unknown vasts. He dares the uncharted, for he is the maker of charts. Your homes are set upon the land a prospector found. A flash out in the night leaps leagues of snarling seas and cries to shore for aid, which, but for a prospector, prospec-tor, would never come. A God-hewn God-hewn voice swells from a disc of wax and wells out through a throat of brass, caught sweet and will last beyond the maker of the song, because of a Prospector. He is the Blazer of the way. Walls crumble and empires fall. The tidal wave sweeps from the sea and tears a fortress from its rocks. The rotting nations drop from off time's bough and only things the prospector makes live on. He is the eternal conqueror. We don't know how long it has been his nickname nor who started start-ed it, but it came to us the other day that D. E. Kirk Milford's own "Gene" also answers to the name of "Scotty", supposedly after af-ter the famous Death Valley Scotty." Scot-ty." Also, we learn that "Milford Valley Scotty" left a few days ago for Chicago. However, nothing no-thing was said of our Scotty going in a special train or anything like that, and it is mot probable that he will come back that way. But .Milford could do a lot more foolish things than to . (Continued on last page) o Ruminatin i (Continued from first page) meet Gene Kirk with a brass j band and all of the trim- j mings on his return! j Many people in several states j know of Gene , as a real estate j man and a darned good one at j that. Many others know of him i as generous to a fault: A man j who would share his last dime with you or give it all to you, as likely as not. Others know of him as the fine head of a fine family. All too few have stopped to think of him as the man who has had about at much as anyone to do with the modern history of Milford. He has been the means of bringing hundreds of thousands of dollars into this community with others benefiting dollars to cents more than he. He has his failings but any man who is as honest at heart and as generous as is Gene Kirk, is entitled to a ; helping hand not from one or two but from the whole community. communi-ty. Gene Kirk's faith in Mil: ford and the immense resources re-sources of western Beaver county are unextinguishable and the man himself uncrush-able uncrush-able we hope! |
