Show H Io Ho I I I I I I H- H Hi i I f. f Dads Dad's i H i t tt t Column t L t t I loH- loH H- H ii H o H LIFE LIFE LIFE- WEVE WE'VE been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather hard to part when friends are dear dear dear- Perhaps It will cast a a. sigh a a. tear Then steal away give little warning Choose thine own time Say Lay not Good Night Night but but in some bome brighter clime Bid id me good morning Anna Letitia Barbauld I O 00 O Q O OA 00 F A t NEW EW EV EKA nA A NEW era Is dawning on the world are beginning to t believe in the re- re f We Ve of usefulness The men who felled the forest cul cul- cultivated cult culE earth spanned the rivers E the t t with bridges of steel built the railways the invented In r end and canals the great ships locomotives and engines supplying the countless wants of civilization the men who invented tile telegraphs and cables with and freighted the electric spark park thought and love the men who Invented the looms and spindles that clothe the I world tho the Inventors of or printing and the great presses that fill the earth with poetry fiction and fact that save and keep all knowledge for the children yet yetto to be tho inventors of or all the wonderful machines that deftly mold from wood and steel the things we use the tho men the tho heavens and traced the bo ho explored orbits of or the stars who stars who have read the story of the world in mountain range I Ind find and nd billowed sea the men who have lengthened life me and Conquered pain the I treat great philosophers and naturalists who filled the world with light the have e charm charm- charmed great reat poets whose thoughts have ed the tho soul the great painters and sculptors who have made the canvas speak the marble live the tho great orators who ho have swayed the world the com com- their souls to posers who have given sound round the captains of Industry the pro pro- producers producers producers the soldiers who have battled for forthe forthe the right these right these are our Christs apostles and saints mints The books filled with the facts of or nature are our sacred scriptures and the force that Is In every storm and andIn andIn andin In every star star star-In in everything everything- that lives and grows grows IS is the only possible god R. 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G Ingersall o 00 o o ROBERT nO FREEBORN l I J iNow Now liOn IN IX TEXAS Texas March 28 28 1945 1045 Dear Bear Grandpa Gra 1 THIS LEITER LETTER Is 15 way overdue but Ive I've IveA A reason Uncle Sam sent me to Lincoln Nebraska where he assigned me to a combat crew and then to Pyote Texas where here were we're getting our final few hours cl of f flying Hying time and instruction This is the final step before combat Im I'm a pilot on a B 29 Bomber now My Airplane Commander Is a swell fellow The whole crew cf or 11 are tops We figure It'll be bethe bethe bethe the last of June before we go across That's not long away Pyote Prote Isn't Isn much of a a. place to brag about but the Officers Officers' Club is really These B are plenty large but buto so o was the Little Cub first time I flew and com corn commanders commanders one Theres There's a pilots airplane manders meeting in a few minutes so Ill I'll close Hope youre you're feeling alright Its It's plenty hot here Sincerely BOB 0 O 00 O O 00 VICTORY SAYS THE TIlE Christian Science Monitor While the response to the appeal of national state and city officials ta row rowa a s victory garden has been most gratify gratify- gratifying lag ing there are many with available ground for tor a garden who are inclined to 10 discount the appeal and take the view there will be a a. surplus It should be realized that even though the war warIn warin warin In Europe should end tomorrow there would wo ld be need for all the tho food stuff that could be grown The coming of or peace does docs not mean the tho army will be Immediately disbanded In fact fa t there Is every reason to believe that it will continue to be augmented Vast forces must be bG maintained in Eu Eu- Europe Europe Europe rope to keen keei the peace and If we Judge I Ithe the future by the past we have a long i hard fight ahead of us In the Pacific In I addition to providing for a large army In Europe there are millions who have cave suffered the ravages of or war looking to o tho the United States for sufficient food to meet their needs until they can their own country to point where they can again begin caring for themselves Every garden grown Is not only a a. saving of or expense to the grower but It relieves the burden on the Jarmer larmer who Is 15 already hard put to find sufficient manpower to properly harvest ils 1118 crops next fall So the thing to do dois 1 is get the garden In early Mildness or ol ortho orThe tho The past winter coupled with warm sunshine 6 of the past few days will dry the ground sufficiently to permit the Planting of gardens from two to three weeks early Many gardens are already Planted and are now beginning to show 7 above the ground O O O NOT OT GOOD GOOl NEWS FOR FOIt OUR YOUNG YOUNGIE MEN IE WE READ that the present draft law has been extended by congress from May of or this year to May 15 1940 1946 That military heads say that present draft drat estimates were for the tho calling up or Of men a month up to June After I July 1 It Is 18 contemplated that inductions Indu Will be at nt the rate of or approximate approximate- approximately ly y men a a. month with the need then merely one for replacements be be- because because because cause by then mobilization of the largest armed force in the nations nation's history will wll bo be all nil Indications the possible dc- dc tent eat of or Germany this spring or summer Will Mil not affect that draft call situation Although a considerable reduction in inthe the size iz of of our armed forces can b be I once Germany has been beaten benten f the assumption Is i that tho the drafting o or new men especially those young men menI Just reaching draft ave ale will wUl be con con- I 9 y I II I 00 t CLARA J. CLARA BARTON DARTON should be gratefully remembered during the Red Cross Cro drive t As 8 originally organized in irs Europe th the r Red lied cd cro Cross provided only for giving givin hel help Continued on Page Four I Dads Dad's Column Continued 1 from Page One In time of war When Clara Barton tried to have a Red Cross established In America the authorities said Wo We are are just out of one war and we mean never to have havo another so there will be no use for tor a Red Cross says a n correspond correspond- correspondent I ent In Christian Science S Monitor Miss Barton Darton went to Europe and per per- persuaded persuaded persuaded the Red d Cross to adopt an amendment to Its constitution broaden broaden- broadening broadenIng broadening ing Its scope to cover giving help In great natural disasters such as fire tire or flood nood It was called caned the American amendment o o o WORD WAS received this week that Tom Tong Harper Jr son of Mr and Mrs T. T Harper of ot Salt Lake City a relative of Mrs John Buck of ot this city and the had been killed In China No details were given |