Show from ted johnson in his weekly letter to his home folks the past week theo johnson son of mr and mrs ancil johnson of this city a bright graduate of the 32 class ot of the park city high school now attending the university of southern california after expressing his appreciation for the daerl sacrifices made by his mother to aid him in acquiring an education ted interestingly theorizes on school work and life in general the young man says in part and if I 1 were to try to thank you I 1 should use every word I 1 know of and therefore I 1 believe that it shall have to go unsaid your wonderful devotion to those you love jove and your self sacrificing to make other people happy while you yourself go with just the bare necessities of f living with only few luxuries has always been a source of wonder pride and admiration tor for me it if anyone deserves a future reward it Is you meanwhile I 1 realize that I 1 cant do much toward paying you back tor for all you have done tor for me of course I 1 can do well in school but that is a pretty scanty pay back for all I 1 have received someday perhaps 1 I can make a more substantial sign of my feelings but now that ive mentioned school marks after all mean very little dont they ive been able to get quite an extensive view of the effect of learning in a fellows life down here there are a great number cumber of exceedingly brilliant people I 1 have found that many of them are perfect boors and area are persons rr so I 1 do not care to know particularly particulars ulily I 1 have hav v also found that many of the fellows who rc not getting along so excellently Y in their school work are arc the best fellows fellow cne c could hope to know A g grind ri d is often often not a human person com completely P I 1 A grind blind must of necessity be ve very busy to keep his school grades u up to exceedingly cee high levels this ma makes c I 1 it impossible for him to do many of t tho little ae things of life that make life really worth living for instance I 1 have several little habits that waste time that I 1 might put to use in studying lessons to get better grades first I 1 write a long letter home every week that takes a lot of time but if I 1 never got my lessons that letter would be a vital necessity se second ond I 1 go to choir practice and sunday night meeting and go to trojan mixed chorus and get no credit for it and really singing going to make your bread and butter tor for you but d ant a well rounded existence demand a ce little participation in something that Is beautiful and that reaches deeper than external commonplace third once or twice a week I 1 get a book of grimms fairy tales from the library and spend perhaps an hour reading it fairy stories will surely never do any good will they but they do almost every night I 1 tell the children at the home where I 1 live these fairy stories I 1 think this touch of fairy story Is necessary for them to remember their childhood with those memories peculiar to childhood also I 1 frequently inject into the stories some remark or admonition of my own that may tend to lead them along better lines their love tor for the stories Is reward enough for me for spending my time thus dont you think so fourth last saturday I 1 spent two solid hours hiking to the top of one of the hills to the west of here and looking at the landscape what foolishness what good can a landscape do you when you get older I 1 think though that god has put us in such a wonderful world that it if we dont spend a little time at least noticing its wonderful beauty that we miss part of that which we were sent down here tor for fifth over the radio radic every night there comes a program of the really good in music I 1 often after the folks have gone to bed or are not at home I 1 turn the lights out 0 ut and listen to these beautiful selections and sit elt and think a little this too of course Is foolishness because in the time that I 1 take for such things I 1 could write out quite a few german declensions clen or solve many a chemical equation but if we are to dash through life especially while we are young and can enjoy diversions not noticing those deeper and more satisfying elements of music literature and art what have we got stored up tor for our old age when we are old we must live almost entirely on memories and superficial experiences fall to fall deep enough within us to brighten our declining years with only physical memories left our old age can be quite miserable and bare whereas it really should be a mellow time of remembrance mem brance and perhaps of joyful living a and nd waiting for death which will be neither a blessing nor a curse I 1 know you think often mother because although you dont take time out to do so you think often times while you are arc almost automatically working I 1 know because I 1 have often heard you when n your thoughts have gotten so loud with within in you to become audible so I 1 think that a person who take time for a few of these things who Is so frightfully busy getting good grades or making an extra bit in living that he forgets to be quite human Is really going along in a hearse and I 1 dont think you want me to be in a hearse do you well that I 1 guess I 1 should have been a preacher rather than a chemist dont you maybe I 1 wont have room to say all that I 1 want to say after I 1 have used up so much time soliloquizing I 1 was quite thrilled last night tor for I 1 got my report card tor for last term and found that I 1 had gotten Bs in everything but one and that was an A remember that thess are colleges grades and not high school any more I 1 am so proud of it that I 1 am going to suggest that you tell mr haddon about it so he can put it in the record you dont need to tell him what the grades were in cl detail etall but you can tell him that my grade point average Is 2 one Is passing and three is perfect my score is rather commendable maybe even I 1 can raise it a little for 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