Show w Dads Dad's r Column SQUIRREL STOREHOUSE I WATCHED a squirrel l go In and out Of ot a hole in a hollow tree Carrying things for hl ht his r store Busy as ho he could t t- IBe tHe He Be gathered nuts and I. I bread Be He gathered ripened seeds And then ho he stored them all al away 1 Against A his winter needs needa When winter comes and It Is cold And snow falls fails down all day This little squirrel can live On what ho stored away awny Helen nelen Howland Prommel I K I o 0 o 0 o 0 1 GREETINGS FROM tRO OUR ESTEEMED ESTEt JOE I Dear Dad Mira Joins me to you and all the folks In sincere best wishes for tor a most happy holiday season And may the year coming In be exactly right all the way through Aside from talking about you Christ Christ- Christmas Christmas Christmas mas well we'll also be thinking of ot you While I still till having ha real fondness for the Park will see the good old camp aU all allI j i I dressed up with snow I may be heaving some of ot that same beautiful too being Im I'm the official At present however Im I'm not at atall ataU atall all aU worried For our lawn Is green and andI I there Is only about an Inch of ot frost in inh inthe Int t h the ground So I can ln go out and prance around with disregard to conse conse- consequences unless unless my step gets too fan fan- tactic Then Im I'm likely to get a 0 hall hail from fromI I Urn who who perhaps perhaps may not think It is isK iss K seemly s for tor a guy of ot my years to act t quite so coltish r F Fortunately for us us as os well as every- every everybody everybody everybody body else hereabouts we had an on exceptionally exceptionally exceptionally open fall tall with no killing frost trost until early In December Record breaking weather eather according to the papers Consequently Conse Conse- Consequently Consequently our hardy garden stuff stutt kept coming right along We still Have several heads of ot lettuce quite a 0 patch of chard I Isome I I I some soon cabbage and a 0 whole batch of or Brussel sprouts In place ploce sort of waiting until the radio gives the word a 0 hard freeze Is on the way It seems to me I wrote you our garden was a Do success suc ess even with the tomato plants Last season as you probably i I I know the tomato crop all nil over the east was pretty much a failure because of ot blight Luckily for tor us we sprayed the young plants to discourage the pesky I bugs that bugs that kept eating the leaves Later j i jon ion on much to our satisfaction we learned oW we had used the spray recommended to toI I iF control blight I I- I 1 I i Next year weve we've been told Im I'm to be presented with w h a 0 full set s t or of garden e t tools l i ifor Ifor for the blind How Ill I'll make out with them Is somewhat of ot a question But I somehow think they will eliminate a 0 lot lotof lotof of or unnecessary work Ive I've been doing Though I hardly think the change will willbe willbe willbe be so great that Ill I'll find myself wearing I out the seat of ot my overalls Instead of the knees I I iI Between our dally daily paper paper Herald Herald Trib une and une-and and the radio we keep fairly well posted on world happenings Just now I I we are wondering what the next session SC Slon of ot the congress will do toward progressive sive alve legislation There Thero Is plenty to be done Or maybe Its It's plenty to do But But But- I Regarding ourselves we are first rate rote considering the years chalked up against us Our coal bin looks fairly healthy And I the kerosene burner in the kitchen range ronge Is okay until the oil oU man comes around next week Also the snow shovel Is al already al- al already already i I ready soaped Once j On o more best wishes to everybody for tor the best bet of everything including all the old timers who may still stilt be around the Park As always JOE J JOE E- E R. R R R R. 2 Monroe onroe New York December 16 1946 1046 o 0 o 0 o 0 oTHE TilE THE WEAKER SEX WOMEN ARE often referred to as the weaker sex but whoever coined this phrase failed to take Into consideration the large part that women play pIny In the financial affairs of ot this country Women control 70 per cent of ot the private wealth of ot f the United the States they they represent 43 per perthe cent of ot the stock stock- stockholders stockholders stockholders holders of ot corporations Pity the poor male who In theory at least Is suppose to earn the living but whom statistics 19 cent of the show controls only per spending Women control the other 81 BI per cent I When It comes to foresight Imagine overcoat If it you can a man buying an before the thermometer hits zero On the tho theother theother will swarm Into de department de- de department other hand women stores on a sweltering ring August sale day to take advantage of ot a 0 fur tur coat sale saie That Is why so many more women than insurance today are buying life lire ever before They realize the Importance of providing for the future The number varies of women buyers of life Insurance total tot from 25 to 45 per cent of ot the Clean Cleanup Cleanup Clean Cleanup Every woman needs at least a 0 up fund up clean-up fund Is a phrase con con- contract contract contract life llIe Insurance used to refer to a to pay ex expenses ex- ex expenses expenses tract purchased primarily wo wo- women women women which occur at death Many men also need I i M retirement 2 Pro 2 Protection lon for dependents 3 A A safe sate savings plan Society's life lite Insurance Many of the plans can accomplish all three purposes purpose to Investigate them It will pay you The Modem Modern Woodman o o o AMBITIOUS WORKER Sir Ive I've long admIred your dAughter May I have her herfor herfor for my wife wite Interest Interest- InterestIng well that's Executive Well me inc Ing and your proposition sometime i i and well we'll wellsee wellsee Bring your wife wite In deal see If 11 we can make a 0 O O O TilE TIIE BOY THAT REMEMBERED I ERED clergyman Dr THE LATE well-known well Sunday talking to a 0 James Janies Buckley was sub sub- subJect subJect subject small boys on the of ot school class of ol ofa plight the He related of ot charity without a 0 poor man without money and food tood who solicited his aid for his needY and the man five dollars family He gave i then watched to see what he would bUY I with it do dol what Boys said aid Dr Buckley Buler i Continued on Page Eight l l l. Dads Dad's Column Continued from Pa One you suppose was the first thing that man bought said little lie He bought a basket one boy right I marveled the good clergyman But how did you know Oh It was easy sir the youngster replied But Dut he seemed reluctant to ex ex- ex plain Dr Buckley Duckley greatly Intrigued pressed for an explanation Well sir the boy finally replied I Iwas Iwas 1 was over In Hoboken last Sunday and heard you tell the story there O O f t SAYINGS OF TilE TUB WISE VISE Object-Lesson Object In Democracy NISEI SOLDIERS give the Japanese perhaps the finest available object-lesson object in n democracy Some Nisei Nisel have located parents or grandparents In Jap Jap- Japanese Japanese anese villages and are overwhelming the tho theold old people with presents pres nta and tours of I the tho Tokyo sights These Nisei seem to many Japanese a sufficient proof that America means what she sho says about I democracy and that the tho newspaper stor stor- stories Ics ies about discrimination In n the United States must have havo been part of or the same old lying propaganda Henry Henry F. F May Jr A Purpose of Good GoodLET GoodLET GoodLET LET US come to see that life ute Is some some- something something something thing more mora than cakes and kisses and something other than a mean and petty scramble for tor Individual gain and ad ad- ad vantage Let us believe that there Is a divine divino purpose In history which a man manis manIs manla is la called to serve a serve a purpose of good for i all aU mankind Dr Ernest Fremont Tittle Every Enry Mans Man's Responsibility ne j I I THE TIlE PEOPLES PEOPLE'S peace depends not only j i on the International and national ac acceptance ac- ac acceptance acceptance of responsibility but above all nil on a personal anchorage in every citizen of the world world world-Sigmund Neumann 1 Cannot Have Hare lIa e Both loth BothWE BothWE WE MUST choose between capitalism and socialism We cannot have bave both And If It we want a system of private ownership under which alono it Is possible for tor men mento mento mento to have freedom we must do the things that will make that system work John John JohnT T T. Flynn Price Not Too High WE CAN always afford to pay the price for tor doing things In an orderly established 1 way We Can an n only hope for rA peace on earth If 1 we wo sacrifice speed for a orderly process based on the conviction u that the great majority of ot the people E wish to do the right thing when they understand Senator Senator Albert W. W Hawked Hawke New Jersey A WOMANS WOMAN'S promise to be on time carries a n lot of ot wait |