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S TODAY YOUR letter came Winged by the reading our fancy goes Far ar from our To warm Itself at the offered flame Of or your southern sun As you picked that rose roseVa rose We Va stood t d there there forgetting forgetting i that at our eaves The Icicles s hang long and that the sodden leaves lewes All fiJi thailour garden holds are lying deep On Ca hidden earth that Is 15 cold cold- coldin in Its wintry wl wi try try- sleep I Two different worlds worlds and and yet how I near Within the minds mind's encompassing f I And nd reading we remember another an ther land Neither of summer nor winter south or north Where all we four have often orten come to toj j S stand standI I Entranced by autumn Soon we can go goforth goforth forth Once nce more when the Imprisoning sea sea- seasons seasons I sons are done To o those remote high places that we know here you jou ou from your southern sun And md we ve from our northern snow Ma lay meet together in the aspen glow Roland English Hartley H V V VA K L A. A. A PIKE SENDS GREETINGS WELL ANOTHER year has passed SInce I wrote you and many things have ha inspired since then but some of us U are still alive aUve for which I suppose we should be thankful Personally I have had a pretty good reM however I have been a little dis- dis disappointed i appointed in not being able to make Knottier another record for myself by working another whole year without losing a n. shift I started on December 27 1946 at atthe athe gibe the he Sequoia hotel where I had worked tHore t foro and was getting along fine until Rh on n December 22 1947 I received an In- In Injury jury j ry to my shin and have been under the doctors care since then and will be for forlet ford forit let it d least two more weeks weekS' I We are arc enjoying nice weather here now hOW This afternoon I sat out on the front porch for about two hours and Ill I'll I bet you jou ou could not do that in Park City I Then it does get cold here it really Seems ems ms cold although the thermometer poes o io s not go so low It Is really a pene pene- penetrating Ung cold The lowest reading thus liar far lar has been 25 degrees That did some damage to garden truck but I dont don't think it hurt the citrus fruits but little Many Jany We Ve still have lots of flowers In bios bbs earn som several kinds of roses that bloom I Ithe the the year round and there are many other her flowers I do not know by name However we have had hardly any rain here ere only about inches which Is Ismy my away below normal and unless we get gete Eme no e In the near future Im I'm afraid the crop and livestock are going to suffer Ive I've been lit living ing with a a. man and his Tile Kilo by the name of Peak for over three pears sears rears now so Im I'm sometimes ikes Peak However Im I'm with my daughter and her family quite often Had turkey dinner with them at Madera about 20 miles north of here both Thanksgiving and Christmas and of course I enjoyed playing with my great grandson who was 9 months old on the of December Wishing you ou and yours a a. happy and prosperous J New Year t Sincerely yours I- I S A. A A. A PIKE J. J P. P S I forgot to mention Christmas I Tree Lane This lane Is a two-lane two high high- highway highWay highway way about two miles long with pine trees about 30 feet apart and every tree was TOS as beautifully decorated as well as all the residents in the background which are owned by the most wealthy people In Fresno They estimate that more than people saw this beautiful sight S this year Under separate cover I am sending you an issue of The Fresno Bee which will tell you more about It than I can i Fresno Presno California January 2 1948 O O O 00 t BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AS FAMILIAR as George Washington I as quoted oft-quoted as Lincoln Is Benjamin Franklin January 17 his hie birthday brings an Issuance of historical data i states- states statesman related to his accomplishments as nun man Inventor scientist writer Lincoln has hu been called the typical American but no more more- so than Franklin With two Jears sears of schooling this taught self-taught fig fig- figure figUre figure ure ure became beme at ease with the best minds of the French and London courts at J home with the leaders of America He Her r was Wa a diplomat who won advantages for his Country In lands One of the flOSt remarkable rem remarkable things about Benjamin franklin was his appreciation and know know- knowledge knowledge knowledge ledge of human nature This has has' been l left t us u through his philosophical writ writ- a. a Excerpts quotations q and thoughts torn Irom om his pen are familiar to most of us Who ho does not know Poor Richards RIchard's Skillful Industrious in- in Intelligent thrifty Franklin stood as proof that tat the tho eighteenth century was fash- fash fashioning leaders of or men whose counsel I fash-I V uld hold for centuries to come F We Ve close with the epitaph Benjamin Frankiin wrote for himself The Body of S. S B. B B FRANKLIN PRINTER Like the Cover of- of an Old Book Its Contents torn out And of its littering lettering l and Gilding Lies here Food for Worms But the Work Vork shall not be Lost F For r it will as he appear once more moreIn moreIn In a new and more Edition Revised and Corrected By the Author A C. C O n u nE DIFFERENT r THINGS INGS ARE different In Yugoslavia II T Three ee merchants are sentenced to b bEhot be r that for selling goods to government Stores for high personal profit pronto One man 1 maK- maK maKe makIng 1 If fitted a II one percent commission I lug Ing e about 1000 Another made I 1 the third acted as middleman In m selling eUing 20 carloads ads of apples In our country we dont don't exact the death penalty I Io 10 Or speculation at expense of 01 the gov gov- government govI I A local man mentions that the gamblers are arc rewarded I Is W Wa such business acumen Publicity a Popular weapon used by b us sometimes sometimes' of property a prison sen- sen enI I tenc a fine line The listing of or names namee by oy Continued on Page Five I II The Boys Column I Continued from Page One the Agriculture department of govern govern- government government government ment employees speculating in wheat through Inside Information Is the most recent kind of ot action to turn publicity upon those Who ho attempt to clean up at government expense That lat such a practice Is not a new one we dont don't doubt That the legal procedure will vim be e different in I it America than In Yugoslavia we are certain We are glad we are In America where publicity can cnn be turned upon shady practices In THe te e eH H government and we can do something I about It without using a gun o o o I RELIEF IN SIGHT A COUPLE of scientific researchers announce they have Isolated and watch watch- watched ed grow a common cold germ A fer fer- fertile fer- fer fertile j tile hens hen's egg as the laboratory they study the tho germ and hope to make a I vaccine to prevent It This germ they I havo have Isolated is not the runny nose l r runny runny-eyo sort of at cold but a thick sev sev- severe severo severa ere era form something form something like what we know I as sinusitis Now any step towards re re- re reducing reducing cold is appreciated but the fact Is that most of us seem to get the 1 runny-nose runny runny-eye runny variety It there there- therefore therefore fore seems that we will have to wait walt our turn for a n vaccine for this classification and in the meantime continue with our vapors drops and tissues Not being of a i Jealous nature we say good luck to you l i in the sinusitis class ti v vI b bI I I WE WONDER PONDER I IT IS suggested that by distributing I t our dally daily newspapers overseas we offer ofer I one of or the best b st possible means for telling g I Ithe the truth about America It doesn't matter mat mat- mattel ter tel whether It is New York Chicago II Los Angeles or Milwaukee the papers bear news of ot happenings here at home I Ii i and this Is of interest to foreigners Even If they did work out a way ay to distribute papers overseas which Is the problem we are wondering about bow hOw some soma of our o r front page news would ap ap- ap pear All is not so serene when you scan the headlines and columns Labor at a odds with capital government m Investigations of or government employees profit profit- profiteers profiteers i robberies murders minor earth quakes major hurricanes auto OK crack crack- crackups ups plane smash Perhaps It is tw the same s. every place at home or abroad but we believe beHave the homely simple kind kind- kindly ly sort of news found In the papers 0 of small communities like ours come closer to giving the truth about American p peo peo- people at plc-at at least le St the majority of them I o o o BIRD TRACKS IN SNOW SNOB j WHAT BIRD walked here K t Small mall crisscrossed imprints tell J Jno no special Imagery Imagery- only that some frail singer I searched I r where sheathed ice-sheathed grasses lean above a swirl of white No seeds remain O 0 feathered mite perhaps your our search may not have been In vain Gertrude May Lutz LU tz I 1 |