Show I f If by Frank Francis Rev Itcy John Edward Carver Carler will preach his first sermon In lii four lour months In lii the Presbyterian church tomorrow He has fully recovered from his Illness and once more feels fees equal to the task ta k before him and so his friends rejoice He spent two tl months on the Pa Pa- Pacific chic coast much of ot the time In r r Southern California and though he saw sac much to praise pral e he says he would prefer to be bs b In He met with 1 many lonely men end women and nd the atmosphere of lone lone- loneliness liness was upon the land Men en and women omen having bayIng accumulated accumulated accumulated In other states stats had said to es The day will come when having made a fortune we can ean sell out and md co go to California there to enjoy ourselves In a mild climate The climate Is there for many months of ot the tho years but the seekers after afler Joy have Most ost of ot them never thought for forone forone forone one moment how much of ot life Is made up of old friends and ates So when they co go o to California and find themselves strangers In a strange land Jand what they crave cra more than any ny anything anything thing else Is the friendship which Is over the hills and far away I When people trow grow old they do not readily fit Into a new environment They cannot erase the memories of or orthe the years There comes a wistful longing and of all the pulls pulls' at the heartstrings that Is 15 one of the most distressful So California Is made up of ot native sons and daughters and one million lonely visitors who regret They regret that they did not more fully funy realize before they broe off o the old home ties tics what Drummond said that love Is the greatest thing In the world The love lovo of ot the old home the love of neighbors the love lo of old familiar I faces the love lore of friends You Yot Yo can find scenery wherever you RO go you can see buildings and streets and autos but you desire something more There is 18 a recess in your heart which needs filling There Is a spot In your our eye ee for the the smile you have ha often otten seen There Is a hand to be grasped and anda a word to be spoken All of ot which Is missed If you are among amon strangers And that Is why there are one mil mil- million million lion lonely men and women In Cal Cal- California The worst storms and the most chilling blasts arc those which beat down upon the There Is a man In Ogden who saw General Custer Ouster and the Seventh cay cay- cavalry cavalry alry airy leave for the Black Hills Hilis and he has placed In the hands of News and Views a book on Ousters CUsters Last Battle which he considers the most authentic story of that tragedy of the long ago ag agThe The author of the book is Col W. W A. A Graham who gave several years Jears to the study of the battle of the Little Big BI Horn which occurred June 25 25 1876 He opens by declaring It Is wrong to speak of the battle as the Cus- Cus Custer Custer ter ier massacre for It 11 was as a R fight to the death In which armed forces met armed forces and fought It out The Indians out-maneuvered out the soldiers and arid overwhelmed o them At the opening of the fight Col Graham says As As Renos Reno's battalion the village out of ot the swirling s clouds of dust stirred up up- by the Sioux to I conceal their movements came mount mount- mounted ed Indians In sudden attack Those Indians of the plains were wiley Note the cloud dust which antedated the smoke screen of the I world war forty fo ty years ears The Sioux also taught military leaders the value of open formation I and how to take advantage of the ground in protecting themselves from enemy fire A lesson In leadership is ia to be bs found In this book I Major r fleno and his men e were e hem hem- hemmed hemmed er A med in by the e Indians when e Captain I Benteen with the tIme pack train reached them I 1 Reno with sith his command had been driven across the river by the Sioux m I and was entrenched in the bluffs Continued on Tae race Two T |