Show h H- H oH I I I I H- H HH I Ii H t I f i Dads i Column I I t 1 I 11 o UL EYED ED E SI SANS S THE FIELDS look up into into the skies with wide brown wondering eyes marveling at the blue expanse from tram their v Iridescent manse Grasses wave roots grow deep winds brush low insects creep creeps cicadas call summers summer's song days draw out o t J I warm and long ms Flowers and herbage herb ge grow mature I I with their secure I the wilderness of or space can maie be b smiled at from humility A II Elizabeth ElIzabeth Y tes O 00 oo O 00 O 00 LETTER FROM l NEW ZEALAND Z L. D I Saltwater Creek ru N N. Z Z I June 11 1947 Dear Dad VERY PLEASED to hear from rom you and to hear that you are not so bad for an anold I old man Since I last wrote I have re- re received received two letters from you The first re-I re one arrived about two VO days after I had posted my letter to you the other one one I I arrived recently also a bundle of papers papers' papers of the Salt Lake Tribune Many thanks j for same they ate are very ery interesting Inter sting I am J I glad that some of or the papers papers that I j J posted have reached you at last i Also received the April Record with m mys letter in it It quite enjoyed reading it over o Sounds or looks better In print What say you you Lots of happenings in our family since I 1 last wrote to you r Another son and daughter have got gotI I themselves married It was one of or the j I nurse daughters and sho she and her hus hus- husband husI husband husband I band have have gone gone to the North Island to I live to so o I wont won't see her very often and if she gets homesick she wont won't be able I to run home It was a very pretty wed wed- wedding wedding wedding ding her sister one of oC them was brides brides- bridesmaid bridesmaid bridesmaid maid and the weather was perfect So SoC I C i. i j z nice time was had by all sf Y My sons son's wedding was very nice too Also a nice sunny day They live near me and are ac busy getting settled in Then another married son and his hi wile wife and two VO wee children are living with me meat meat I at present as they cant can't get into their own house The housing problem here I in New Zealand Is very ery acute a ute seems the same in most parts of ot the world today Wo VO have had a very nice winter so far mild mUd with a fair amount of sunshine j i 1 i have ha been able to get g t the gardens I done up I hope that we get a no nice Ice i spring so that I can get early vegetables vegetables' in L do love gardening I Have solved the mystery of the Even 1 Even Even- EvenIng EvenIng I ing Post Its It's like this I ordered The I American Ladles Ladies Home Journal from Crom my i bookseller and some how the order got I mixed and I get the Evening Post in instead in- in instead stead I 1 was going to cancel it but the j I family or most of ot them were were all aU for for- forThe The I Post so I still stUl receive it I Clarissa writes that one of oC the writers of ot short stories is a relation of or ours I Iam I I- Iam am very interested to learn of or it Dont Don't I Isay say that your writing days are over I think you write beautiful letters so do send me another one soon also your writing Itself is better than mine which was vIas never very good At times when I they have write to the family they say difficulty In reading same I say then I I they haven't much imagination or they'd j I Iguess iguess guess what It was I II II p I haven't heard from Kath for a awhile a I while but all other members of ot the clan are well I often otten hear from Cousin Laura London England Des Des- Descendants Descendants Descendants of ot the line Une are mostly long livers arent aren't they My brother writes from front London that things in gen- gen general general I eral erat over there are grim Many thanks again for the bundle of ot Interesting Tribunes The colored ones especially What scenery it made me wish that I could see It it I suppose that you have seen most of It Itin itin Itin in your young day Also thank you for forThe The rhe Park Records which arrive with regularity At present New Zealand Is suffering from a shortage of electricity and Its It's very inconvenient Many things are blamed for it but I think Its really sightedness short on the part of the government They seldom see far tar enough ahead in anything However our pioneer ancestors had no electricity and they got along alright so 50 I suppose we can Well dear Dad I must now close hoping k-hoping hoping that you are as well as a nice ol man can cart be Kind Eind regards to all your 1 family from my family And love From yours sincerely LILE S. S 8 IVEY O O O I FROM SOUl SOUP TO NUTS IT WAS VAS the general store In the old days that Indicated the hamlet Today tho the general store has moved mo to the city Is DP ap longer a landmark of the village about the What Jokes we have made variety of ot goods one can purchase these days in the drug store I The range from hardware food electric supplies doesn't hold true of or Just the drug store any more The grocery store is becoming the Continued on Page Four Dads Dad's Column i ir r Continued from Page One I f time old general store where the cus cus- customer cusi i 4 tomer tamer can do much of her shopping In Ina f. f a n stop one tour Supermarkets of at the I cities started In by offering drug sup sup- supplies supplies i plies kitchen hardware magazines Their business Increased by this method as ns did grandfathers grandfather's back In Putneys Putney's Cor Cor- ners hers The Independent grocers got the ri J fever and now you find folks driving from Irom five miles away to go to the grocery Y that carries a line Une of so many Items that It saves shopping In three or four different shops Garden seeds light z bulbs electric Irons and toasters house house- household household hold deodorants films paper towels and napkins canning supplies Insecticides drug sundries and toys are some of tho lines It wouldn't surprise our our house house- housewives houseWives I and wives If they added wear to I millinery for some of these groceries sell s ll hosiery right now We may not find the the- vanishing cracker barrel as equipment equip equIp- equipment equIpment ment In these food marts marts nor the tho soci soci- sociability sociability ability that accompanied acc It since folks talks are ore In too much of a n hurry these days But one thing Is true today as it was In the yesterdays that you cant can't tell what you'll find on the Inside from from the sign that hangs on the outside o 0 ono o 0 o 0 I VOICE FROM rno 1 TilE THE PAST THE LINCOLN papers that have been scaled sealed for 28 years are now open to the public for consumption There Is no re re- re I of Items that are are startling no uncovering of political Intrigue of that has not reached There era that history I were five double safes full of these I papers entrusted to the tho Library of Con Con- Congress Congress gress greM by the son of Abraham Lincoln In 1919 There are arc documents that show the Interference of petticoat politicians that those closest clo st to Lincoln failed to understand him or to appreciate his wis wis- dom Ho had much trouble keeping peace I between his Army my and Navy He was wise enough to see the hostility and the shortcomings of ot those politicians who I fought his every step He Be had a n special pigeon hole of ot his desk where he kept I his i I the many threats that were made on life We Wo never lose interest in the life Ufe of i this patient man from the backwoods l I Iwho who has been an nn example to democracy through the years These personal rec rec- records records records I benefit the nation give us an Insight to tho the vast v st problems that con con- confronted confronted confronted I fronted him History will add more mor pages of the greatness of Abraham Lincoln TIME FOR SONG THE MIDDLE of August finds the cotton and corn crops laid by and I folks In some parts of ot the Uie south take up ip their song books for the yearly singing sing singing ing time Plows are put by lunches packed families get all dressed into up-to go meet with friends and relatives at an day all-day singing fest Zest Mississippi is well known for these programs it is the earli earll- earliest earliest est form of music In this state These community affairs are held as county conventions then district and finally climaxed with a three day State Sacred I Harp Singing Convention There are singing masters who go to various dis dis- districts districts dis- dis districts to give instruction for tho the county I singing It Is a n custom carried down for many generations and arid one that ap appeals I ap-I aps peals s to those thOS of us who live in any part of a country that likes to hear tho the old old songs o ono o o CALLING O NAMES MOST OF OP us are arc and generally hope to be always members of one of the two major political parties of the coun coun- try There are some people who have been in favor of forming a third party Affiliating themselves with various pro progressive movements they wish to draw dra away from the old line political parties That many of or these are Communists s we dont don't deny but it Is not true of all We Wo err in branding anyone who with with- withdraws withdraws withdraws draws from tho the Democratic or Republican can parties as ns waving tho the banner bann r of ot Communism We Wo cant can't use the tar brush and paint every very such person as a Red Rc There Is la much being uncovered about such activity to keep all aU pretty well In Informed in- in informed informed formed about those th se who in this coun coun- country country country try follow tollow the faith ralth of Stalin O O O I I SYMPATHY IS CHEAP WARNED EARLY in the spring that duo due to such heavy rainfall the pollen count would rise high this summer those who suffer from hay fever have bove found the prediction n to be true The sneezing snuffling sniffling coughing and heavy distressed breathing is under un er way Those of us not allergic to pollens and such are busy buY sympathizing with the sufferers If only we vre could help them we sigh Well what did we do to elim dim eliminate elimInate mate the ragweed This Is one Important way of giving relief To sympathize Is being humanitarian but helping to re remove re- re remove remove of the move one of the chief causes suffering counts for more O O O PLANS INVESTIGATION CHAIRMAN LEMKE says his house public lands subcommittee on mines and mining plans an overall Investigation of of the nations nation's mineral resources The study probably will be launched when the next I session of congress convenes Lemke told tolda a reporter We should get a lot of ot other things out of tho the way by then so sowo sowa sowo wo wa will wUl have time to give the whole said picture our attention he Lemke said It would be the aim and purpose of his subcommittee to provide for two taro things The building up of or an adequate stockpile of critical minerals for national defense and orderly development devel devel- development development of mineral resources Orderly development and stockpiling of minerals is absolutely essential be- be causo while we had 11 per cent of the worlds world's natural resources before World War II now we have less than 9 per percent percent cent Lemke said Never again will we weI have sufficient lead zinc and copper copperI I and other materials essential to our national defense and welfare unless vast I unknown deposits are discovered or un- un unless un un- unless unless less new methods of use are developed develop d. d II I want to see the nation as self I lent clent and sustaining self as possible O O O OBOY BOY nOY FULL OF SUN THE barn was full with sky-hot sky hay hayr The boy had tossed his shirt r Into early day dayI I and over the meadow wall and now he pitched I I the last load up The horses stamped and switched till he them and led them down the dusy road The boy New Hampshire brown above worn dungarees might well have been mistaken for a a. blue- blue eyed Indian Frances Frost |