Show fi t I I I H I I I I I T I 1 I I I I I I t I I I I t 01 t t 1 f j Dads Dad's s j J Jj j t j Column C I t 0 j f- f I 1 o FOR FOIL SWING SAYING GOOD fly THERE IS an inner richness of or the thc mind l Surprising ing to the tile thinker like a spot Found Foun hidden in the woods as though L designed And held for late discovery Like as not One had come by it often passing pas near Its green seclusion missing by one turn L LIts Its roof of trees its song birds that none hear Its rustic loveliness of oZ flower flowen and fern There when the usual palled the he familiar tami- tami familiar liar Har failed f Another world could open all alt unsought And ones one's sweet lopes hopes that faded fad half haIr impaled Impaled jm On finiteness could bloom as as a freshly wrought P So do not call this part artE n. n One thought more L Can bring us friend than before t Q p k H H. H H. H O oo 00 O O OTHE TUB TilE LiNt LAND 01 OF TilE THE FREE OR Ott ORTHE Till THE UND LAN OF OP TilE THE FEE THERE WERE 45 persons em em- employed employed employed in Utah in 1947 according to the Department of Employment Security Of this number 18 per cent centor or were public employees federal and state stafe and local Utah I leads the nation in the ratio of her population on public payrolls The cost of living index in the U. U S. S according to the Bureau of Labor L. Sta Sta- Statistics has Jumped from 1029 In May 1941 to 1317 in May 1946 1046 then up to 1556 6 in May l Ia 1947 Food made the high high- highest highest highest est gains in the period or from to 1876 6 It may be mentioned that gov gay government government in the nation costs more than food I Utah is Js blessed with a high ratio of children but this has hS its economic dis- dis I I antage ad California for Instance In 1940 3 57 workers population population population I tion between be t tJ ti 20 and 64 for each ench child chUd between ages of 5 and 17 This was nearly double the ratio in Utah which had but but such adults to support each child chUd of school age This is le but 70 per cent of the national average of The cost of government In our land landIs Is high To those who think seriously on the subject It Is 15 frighteningly sol so And everyone knows that something has to tobe tobe be done about It except those of that school which teaches that governments can continuously and eternally eter ally violate every rule of 01 thrift In the book and get getaway away with It I Unfortunately few of 01 those who I know that something must be done appear to realize Just what that some some- something something something thing is They all au say we must reduce I expenses That's all to the good but the question Is How Mere cutting of expenses won do it Weve We've got to get I I caused P PI I Weve We've got S Cutting out out out-a a aI I lot of it T. T T. T Coleman Andrews I O O O I i Ii PRESIDENTIAL ESCAPADE I THE OUTSIDE world may read with raised eyebrows e of a President of the United States slipping sUpping Into the Senate I to sit it in his old seat on a dare darc from some tome old Senate colleagues It takes an intimate acquaintance I with American folkways to reconcile the high dignity of the Presidents President's office with a piece of tomfoolery out of Mark I Twains Twain's Missouri Tom Sawyer in the I White House is not expected to go f wl with Wi h his old pals pais But the episode hap hap- happily pity pUy eased partisan tensions says tho the Christian Science Monitor The President Is sometimes homesick home homesick sick for tor his old seat he told the Sen Sen- Senate Senate Senate ate after Senator greeted him with cordial dignity and recalled the distinguished service Mr Truman gave while in that chamber And we wonder whether the incident does not symbolize the homesickness of the Uni Uni- United United ted States for those simpler days uni-I uni be before be- be belore I fore lore world responsibilities were thrust sd ad unrelentingly on her shoulders That nostalgic urge can stilt still play pranks with policy polley but Tom Sawyers Sawyer's America slowly matures to the challenge of a world 0 f LIQUOR FALLACY ALL WHEN THE idea that alcoholism Is a I II I disease and the alcoholic a sick man was protested by the recent National convention the women did some some- something something thing that was needed The sickness explanation e is Ls being energetically pro- pro promoted promoted promoted In an attempt to remove the stigma from inebriety But It is going I too far to credit acute or chronic ex ex- excessive ex- ex exCessive e drinking entirely to sickness and to put the alcoholic In the same class classa as a all aU who suffer from disease Obviously there Is a a. very Important distinction as Dr Haven Emerson one of the leading authorities points out Alcoholism Is an acquired a a. c qui q U I red r e d habit babit resulting from persistent repetition of tho willful act of choosing to drink alcoholic beverages beverage Acute and chronic alcoholism are both forms torms of intoxication tion knowingly acquired The sickness which develops from habitual drinking Continued on Page Four our R 1 a Dads Dad's Column Continued from Page One is originally self-imposed self and nn could have been b en avoided T Yet the th the enthusiastic sponsors of Or the I EVi sickness supposition tell the tine public that there are an estimated chronic excessive e drinkers or alcoholics al In tn the l country and that most 05 o 0 them dont don't r know what their trouble Is They dont don't f know that they are sick runs the argument and that they have n a disease r r 1 which can be arrested Also the Inebriate r ate does not pursue pleasure In his Iii drinking ng but actually feels f els pain I This argument Ignores something s at at atthe tho the very ery heart of the drink problem Craving Cravi g for liquor Is a a. depraved appe appe- I tite The Th drinkers drinker's desire to t bo be free Is Isan is' is isan isan an to cure by any an method sickness Tho-sickness The Tho ss theory incidentally j gives the thc self-deceived self alcoholic a too-handy too excuse for his Ills drinking The host of alcoholics nl h need help and some progress progresS is' is made m de But excessive ex excessive ex- ex excessive drinking d st be dealt with as asa asa asa a problem in morality as well vell as path Christian Christian Science S lence Monitor goo o o o WORLD WORL WAR WAIt II HAS liAS LEGALLY LLY ENDED ENDE I NO BANDS played no parades march march- marched ed but nevertheless Friday July 25 1947 marked the end nd of the war war war-aS far as laws concerning veterans' veterans benefits are concerned Along with ending the legal con con- continuation continuation of the war President Truman also proclaimed the thc limited emergency and the thc unlimited emergency out of or ex ex- ex Complete legal peace of ot course will not arrive until the various peace treat treat- treaties ies fes have been signed signed and and actual peace seemed far away this week weck O O O OJUST 1 JUST FOR FOIt FUN FELLOWS WHO drive with one hand 1 are usually headed for the church aisle some some ome will walk down it It some will be carried IM GOING to marry a widow I I wouldn't want to be the second secondI husband of ot a a. widow v. I Id rather be the he second than the first NEW YORKER Im from New York I dont don't suppose you know where that j I is Salt Laker Laker- Oh yes I do We have ja i a missionary there t I I EVEN A tombstone e will say Sa good things about a out a fellow when hes he's down I APPRENTICE seaman seam n A fellow who i started at the bottom and works I I WOMEN ARE attractive at 20 atten- atten tire l c at 30 and adhesive at 40 I JUNE IS the month of weddings and andI cooing The billing follows I I O OJ J RAIN ItAL I I PULL UP the curtain I Look out of doors i t tHear Hear how it thunders I See how h w it pours I I Lightning will show Like a a. claw in the sky I And therell there'll be a rainbow I I I think by and by I Reenee Arloff I Eighth Grade Peck School I |