Show I 1 I 1 WALT SAYS been a long ions long time since this little column of personal remarks and observations has appeared in the bee perhaps its just as well that tile the column was sent to limbo nevertheless because of circum 4 stances we feel impelled to revive it it at least tempo temporarily mrily ken has gone to that land ian across acro f the great divide from whence no mortal ere returns ills final 30 Is written into the annals of time but being a newspaper nimi man he left this world know in ing g full well that the paper must and would come out that the stiff staff would carry on we write not to sing sin his praises neither do we w write rite to extol his virtues nor belittle his vices rather we write to express our gratitude our appreciation we have seen such an abundance of kindliness and of thoughtfulness that our hearts are filled to over howing our words fall fail us what we are trying to say Is that this abundance speaks for the high esteem this little community hold held for ken and of the vast amount of human sympathy and understand ing hidden away in the hearts of its it citizens we have always suspected and now we know that these two close associated virtues may be listed among amon the greater assets of the average small american community |