Show oH t I I I I I I I j i I I Dads Dad's J I Column 4 till 1 I 11 I t 1 I I I I I I I I 1 TO sow SNOW SNOWWHITE WHITE WORDS were made mado To speak of this remembered music OI or the winter spade f I Striking the stone of sidewalks When the snow Has Baa fallen In the Interval of night We who ake to hear that sound See with the tho sharpened Inner eye eyo The gentle ground Tho Ilio close the secret sky 1 The figure of or tho the man Who clears the snow away Standing alone At break of winters winter's day Sara Sara Van Alstyne Allen o 01 o o 00 PRESIDENT TRUMAN PLAIN AMERICAN N IN A number of ways the new hew ew President President President typical a product of or the dent Is an aS a American system of party government as has entered this high office In many manya II 5 a decade Americans like It when their top top public servant senant fits Into the tho folklore of 0 log cabin to White House but at the same time they tend to piCk pic men trained In the big and hard schools of practical politics Harry S. S Truman fits these specifics specifics- specifications to a a. nicety Ho He was born ot 01 pioneer American ancestry ance try on a Mis Mis- Missouri farm and grew up as Midwestern Jarm boys do working hard at the chores and In the fields while he be got his early carly tarl education His family could not afford to send him to college so he ho and went went to near-by near Kansas City earned his own own wn living while he studied law after hours Then came World War One Young Truman Joined the Army went over over- overseas seas J ea was commissioned an officer made a Po fine Combat record On his re return re- re return return turn ho he embarked on a modest but unsuccessful business venture and then began public life lite as a a. minor appointive official at the Jackson County Court- Court house hOUbe His home bome is still a big frame resi rest residence residence dence in a town of Independence ence Missouri a Missouri a setting so typical and so familiar to millions of his fellow citizens that they will need no further description When it is added that ho lie hois hoIs lieIs is a churchgoer Baptist an active Mason Past Grand Master of Missouri and that he be is quiet homespun un- un unpretentious unpretentious pretentious in his social life the average American can Complete the portrait for himself President Truman's career in public Ulce offers an exhibit in cross section ol of American party politics He got his then dom dominated in a n city government mated by one of ot the most powerful and cynically practical machines in Amen Ameri American can history His election to the tho United States tate Senate was due in large measure to the backing of this organization Yet Truman himself represented a phe- phe Just as characteristic of ma ma- machine machine machine chine politics as was the Boss Tom although sponsored and hence somewhat rom what under the cloud of the Boss his own Integrity was never in question Truman was one of the honest men needed Just as ashe he bo wanted others of easier conscience who would do as they were told In the Senate Harry Truman spent his first eight years quietly listening and learning His recent service i as is s chairman of the so-called so Truman I Committee of the Senate is too well welland and nad too favorably known to need re- re repenting eating penting His Independence fearless fearless- fearlessness fearlessness fearlessness ness and nonpartisan zeal in behalf of efficient of the war effort helped to carry him well beyond the tile limitations of his early career and into the Vice Truman's big opportunities all have seemed thrust upon him The commit commit- committee J tee post came largely through seniority I Ilie He lie did not seek the Vice Presidential nomination and is said to have e been at first overwhelmed with a sense of his own Inadequacy for the post And now ho ascends to the Nations Nation's highest office because of an event which ho he hoped as earnestly as anyone would not I come to pass p Other men of the people throughout history have havo risen mag mag- magnificently mag-I mag to the challenge of great re responsibilities re- re which have come upon them There is much good sound reason reain to 10 expect that President Truman plain American will likewise measure up B. B Edward Orr In Christian Science Monitor It di on WITH TIlE THE rest of the nation we mourn the death of Franklin Delano DelanoI I Roosevelt a devoted President a a. be beloved be- be beloved beloved loved citizen a genial gentleman a a. beloved and honored citizen I O O 0 DS AT WAR YAR ALL HONOR to the railroads of I America I They have done a magnificent Job under the greatest difficulties Im Ira- t A few weeks ago a railroader who s had bad reached the tho age of retirement de- de tided to stay on because the railroad I de-I needed him and because C as a a. patriotic I American he be wanted to do his best A Ak AI A k I few ew days after his decision when his r was tied up In a blinding blizzard a J. J sense cense of duty Caused him bim to trudge through the snow to a signal tower Where hero he ho collapsed and died of a heart attack He is representative of the spirit of the tho railroads officers and men whether In locomotive cabs or walking the tracks or r giving themselves faithfully to the tho important but monotonous round of office duty When you have an overnight trip on ona onno ona a no train do you ever think of the many me Den en whoso who faithfulness to duty has enabled you to make tho the trip In safety The roe writer confesses that he frequently entertains such thoughts and offers a aland Silent prayer for railroaders all over our land the So 60 heres here's to that great institution institution- on- on American railroads I They have meas- meas measured wr M I up In ln war warl let let us us see o they arc aro fairly treated In Reprinted from fromI MOOdy MoOdys I Monthly r 0 TRUE CEU I o WHEN VICTORY is 18 announced d we t Continued on Page P. P Four Tout Dads Dad's Column Continued from Pace One ODe should humbly and silently thank God Loud celebration In J different ways wars am confusion and dl dis dIS- causes caus s great places Peace Is what we wo have bue been wait walt waitIng order lest and fighting lighting for Therefore tog Ing forget let us demonstrate peace wo celebrate by giving thanks that Let us over evil We should has prevailed good nations remember that people of many been waiting long to hear bear the tho have bave On Oa Onearth Onearth church bells ring out once more men toward good will earth peace Robert M. M TrIpp poughkeepsie N. N Y In Christian Science Monitor o 0 o o PRESIDENT TRUMAN DESERVES ES UNITED UNITI n SUPPORT WE HAVE absolute faith falth and con con- confidence In President Truman He has bas hasa responsibility shouldered upon huge buge a him by the sad and unexpected death of President Roosevelt He made m de a splendid splendid splendid did race for the vice president and made many thousands of friends by his straight forward honest bonest race for the position and was honest In his effort to t be elected notwithstanding elected notwithstanding the slanderous and false accusations by his opponent He Is now our President and deserving of the support of all g Sc d Americans Irrespective Irre of at politics O O O 0 WALT PERRY Is back on his Job on the Coalville Summit County Bee and again In full swing after eleven weeks In the hospital He Is again as good as s new Every good luck for you Walt and may you make more money forwith for forwith forwith with the end of the war good times are Just around the corner comer and with this hope bope we wish ditto O O O MEANEST THIEF SHOWS UP HERE meanest SAYS AN exchange The thief this side of purgatory perpetuated perpetuates an act here bero last week which calls calla foi lor every effort tb run him or her ber down beautiful beau beau- beautiful A local citizen purchased some lilies placing th them m at the Cemetery on Easter Enster On visiting the lot later this hl person per n was was' surprised and chagrined to find rind every trace of the hi beautiful lilies gone What satisfaction any person could conic get from stolen flowers off the grave ot of o family's loved one Is 18 beyond com com- comI I I preben lon Surely there would be n no satisfaction In such stolen flowers and to give them to someone else as n B token of love or respect would bo be the most hollow boll ow thought of all Acts of this character are Just jUt beyond ordinary comprehension O 0 O O 0 METAL L MINING 1 WILL wuL CONTINUE TO PROSPER SAYS A mining exchange For a long period after the tb war there win will Be a stupendous demand for metals There may be bo a slightly lessened requirement for metals In the brief war after period when our manufacturing manura industries start fabricating metal products Into autos electrical equipment refrigerators paint household necessities and thousands of or items not now being manufactured and for which there Is a shortage In millions of at homes Great Grent tonnages of metals will willbe willbe be diverted into peacetime channels after mines mf are the war when many old s depleted and new mines in the prospect stage are called upon for production O O O WILD LIFE ACTIVITIES WITH THE TIIE federations In the outlying districts of the state an added Interest has bas ms been taken In the studying of range conditions and In the taking of the deer census that Is now being carried out upon up up- upon on n our deer ranges THE TIIE WASATCH County Wildlife Fed Fed- Federation Federation Is taking an active part in the census of the deer In that district and has bILS also mapped out programs for tor the up clean day and annual annu 1 celebration to t take place at atthe tho Midway oy Fish Hatchery THE TOOELE Wildlife Federation are continuing their study of the areas taken over by the Military I anticipating that in this Government controlled property there will be conditions created that will prove conducive to the welfare of some species spades les of game THE TIIE ROOSEVELT Wildlife Federation being rather proud of the new hatchery Improvements at Whiterocks are arc taking an added Interest In the fish planning program In the Uintah section ALMOST WITHOUT an n exception over tho the state every one of the tho wildlife fed fed- federations federations federations Is taking a very active part Inthe In the tho control of undesirable birds such as magpies ravens and crows In a a. num num- number number number ber of localities the taking of a good many thousand magpies has bILS been re re- re ported ported Exchange O 0 O 0 O 0 NOTES FINAL PLANS are rapidly being com com- completed completed completed and to accommodate the delegates Invited guests who will wUl attend the na- na nationwide wide wido ground safety confer confer- conference conference conference ence to be held at Hill Ifill Field March 27 the tho chair chair- chairman chairman and 28 28 It was announced by man Major Robert R R. chief ground safety section here bere DO YOU love lovo to sing sing loud and long evening with Erma ErmaIn Ermain If you do meet every old- old Southeast st hall for a good In the tho fest fast around nine p. p m. m fashioned song songs and the She will play your favorite the tho chorus Come gang will Join In on one come como all an AND THERE HERE more AS it may EC seem em the STRANGE Berlin the themore more more raids difficult our fliers filers It Is Ism make to find on the city Twinkle Lieutenant I POEM BY DY a were I 1 wish you little bar how twinkle a star Milwaukee Journal FIGURES FOR the the year past put out by show the annoyed total of Post 1259 Office OU nn ce Department letter show a News Detroit dogs carriers carders chewed by b dogs military vehicles vehicles vehicles' from SOME SO trucks have been Jeeps to ton 10 cargo the but built l in the United States St tes since start of the automobile Industry war I I program ACCORDING TO the tho be experts says saps I definitely bas has now Punch 1 Germany pun for a only enough petrol to last her matter of weeks This is where we came in I ceiling of I CEILING OR no Ing the price hotel botel accommodations is going up To in San Francisco now you I have bave get space to declare war on Germany The The New Yorker |