Show t r H- H Hlo lo rHo-oH- rHo H S s. s i It t t tt ti t i l Dads Dad s si j f fI i t a. a Column f F it I I I t ww Io Ho ron JOB ALL NATIONS AS THE old year swings behind us And the new year shines before May the swelling chimes remind us To widen friendships friendship's door So that coming days day's may find us Trusting each other more Then with every heart forsaking The things of doubtful worth The Tho exquisite art of making Peace upon the earth Will be the Joyous taking Of love that springs to birth Hazel Harper Harris o o o oA A NEW NEIL YEAR lR l R THE BEGINNING of another year ear brings us to a n time for introspection before the old year dies None know us as well as we know ourselves As 1948 1 I makes ready to acknowledge Introductions Introductions introductions man should hold court with him him- self sell Ho He stands accused by himself Is his own defense his own prosecutor He acts as Judge and Jury jur and should make I bis his fine to fit his past years year's record About to live In a brand new year memory should serve us for a review of That bat we have accomplished In the old one We have a 11 personal responsibility Life seems to lead us In dealing more with the making of or name fame fortune than of a a. desire to lo Improve our moral I standards spiritual virtues Good will to follow men constructive advances to build a better community Improved and enlightened thinking to better under under- understand understand understand stand racial religious political problems problems lems l ms are points to be brought before the I trial of man by his conscience I f Long years ago our forebears had more moret I t time perhaps more religion to draw I away from the world and seek to Improve j 1 t themselves day daj by day We are arc not with with- without out the same conscience as our ances ances- ancestors ancestors tors though we are entering 1948 life flows lows more rapidly the call of society and business keeps us whirling at an acceleration that seems to allow little space for searching our Inner self Let Letus Letus us take the time turn upon our chara- chara characters characters l. l a searching eye define ourselves with a Puritans Puritan's rigid Judgement The Th New Year will later determine whether our resolutions for 1948 have been but I O O O I FOREIGN GRAVES MANY DO not realize the extent of the cemeteries overseas where rest American soldiers killed In war There I are re numerous large military cemeteries I I I many smaller ones that serve as the final resting place for our honored dead I I 1 Being so far away from them we cant can't t i I realize and appreciate the beauty and I 7 care tendered them by American foreign cemetery bureaus and by people who live Uve in the vicinity of them It Is good to know that those In foreign military graves have perpetual care that they are frequently bitter better kept and more morer r beautifully located than some of our k civilian cemeteries here In this country We recently read of a very large per per- permanent permanent permanent manent cemetery located outside of or Bamm Hamm a village of Luxembourg There u where here graves gra are located the peo- peo pie from Hamm constantly pay tribute y to to American boys with quantities of flowers Visitors stream to this hallowed spot located on a lovely rolling bill surrounded by beautiful woods Names of off f boys from every state of every faith are I Ir on the crosses that line Its paths On r foot by auto bicycle visitors come from I 4 many countries As more ships land on our shores bearing bodies of soldiers I. I who died overseas to be laid to rest In faintly burial plots here at home we need not feel those who remain over there are forgotten O 0 O O STUDENT FARMERS F OF IMPORTANCE to our future are the thousands of young men veterans of the recent war who wh are undergoing training for farmers Training In the classroom with farms acting as laboratories labora labora- laboratories laboratories tories over veterans are enrolled taking hours a a. year In school In Instruction In- In instruction and hours a year of in individual In- In Individual instruction half haU of which Is given on the farm Of this number en en- enrolled enrolled enrolled rolled 87 per cent own or control their own farms This may revolutionize farming here for these young men are learning many things the generations of farmers be before be- be before before fore them didn't know or could have visualized For Instance there Is the use of farm products In industries Ind that tha t mako textiles and plastics Farmers of or Summit county have been aided through the service of the Agriculture Depart Depart- Department ment brought modern methods of ad ad- advanced ad- ad advanced advantages o ol 01 f farming The scientific research to produce better farms have been offered them But Dut this Program for training under the Veterans Association is the first of modern and model scale of in In- in farming on a large Study of erosion prevention and 2 d causes extermination of insects of disease u it spraying praying culture treatment treatment- animals animal marketing anc a e ebU efficiency In business bU procedure are a few of th In what whal reasons we can be Interested lies s ahead for American agriculture 00 LIVE Un IN IS HOPE nOPE HOPEr fel which we THE TIlE UNITED Nations r 1 assured two years ago would be an on or ui th for to guarantee peace World orld i iB 18 criticised for Its Inability t i from irom it I get Ket agreement and cooperation tha thaI membership It has been stressed what decisions it has made the Unite I carr can Nations has no police force to J 1 these decisions out in case there j The Thc UN has no way to Its laws the critic says Two years ears ago there were high hop tor Nation the success of the United I Today many of us have lost some pf pi th I Continued on Page rage Five I I Dads Dad's Column I Continued from Page One I III i original faith due In a large largo part to the 1 voto power of Russia the aggressiveness II of at Russia her blocking of moves to maintain peace and work for peace pe e among the nations Russia's actions have struck fear In many a heart Already I they figure on another Pearl Harbor I only believing It will be Alaska this time tho the aggressor or being the Communists In Instead In- In Instead I stead of the Japanese The agreement upon the partition of I Palestine Into Jewish and Arabian states has proven it Is possible for tor the UN to function In harmony though there are I doubts about building a political t tate on a basis of religious faith There has risen such resistance movements within the newly partitioned countries that the decision and vote of the UN has had Its trouble away awny from the conference table rather than at the conference confere ce j It seems seem to be only the the prayers prayers for unity in in this troubled and jumbled world that i remain as Q our hope We must not give up faith In the United Nations ly I O O O OIN lIS IN TRIBUTE I JANUARY 5 a day In memory of or a Missouri born slave a negro who affect affect- affected I 1 ed cd the entire economy of the South who I died In 1943 honored by his own coun COUll country count I 1 try and many foreign one ones George Washington Carver had bad a severe struggle before before ho he reached his position as as head of ot Tuskegee Institutes Institute's Research Research and and n 1 Experiment Station His discoveries in In agricultural chemistry have havo brought In Into In- In Into Into to commercial use many products that have I have benefited the South Dr Carver I born bor during the Civil Var War led a note- note notes j s worthy life his genius was noticeable at atan atI atan an early age but the hardships placed In Inthe Inthe inthe I the way of Its fulfillment made the road rough and rugged passage One of the most Interesting accounts Is the story of his career the amazing number of things this man could do with hands born Into slavery Of most Importance to southern economy were the putting to commercial I use sweet potato and the peanut f The nation salutes Dr Geprge Washing Washing- Washington ton Carver O O O ALL YEAR YEt ROUND TAKING DOWN Christmas ChI 1st m a. a s greens storing tree lights and colored orna orna- ments menta Is an Indication of 01 another boll holi holiday hollday day passing into memory Christmas found the tho most Individuals open for the spirit Each year before the event front pages carry stories of children children who have not not l live to-live to Bye who may e ne er another C Localities I sponsor 0 Pa arties all sympathy turns to these pitiful cases and the community comm makes the day the happiest one ever for these little ones Humanity responds But such cases of 01 I sorrow exist throughout the year It would do well for tor us to keep the Christ Christ- Christmas Christmas mas mad spirit running nning r through every day f f. f of of the calendar i |