Show orI- orI t ot te 1 The Boys f I If f Column I BENEL nE L CW THE BOY DOY has cut his willow whistle Peeling back ba k the bark Warmth has colored grass and thistle Brought again the lark I This is the month of green revival Month of the mist and light Time of a strong and proved survival sun Time of returning sight Mary Mary Atwater Taylor o o o OLITE tUITi AN A INDUCEMENT J LOTS OF OP countries are bidding for forthe forthe forthe the American tourist trade The sight of good old American dollars brightens the tho foreign loreign eye Competition Is keen and Advertising the glories of the Old World wl with brochures reaches Into our hinter hinter- hinter I lands Great Britain has the edge on the other nations though Through her her socialized medicine setup sho she Informs us that visitors are Just as eligible for free medical treatment as ns the natives Such is the system In Britain that this medical service Includes false teeth wigs and glasses The French may try to entice with low rentals on chateaus but what citizen wouldn't rather have an I English thatched cottage by the sea ea and get a tepee and Geraldine's teeth straightened on the socialized medicine scale II O O O l FARM FARl FARlOW OWNERSHIP OW A STATISTIC from 1948 Is encouraging encouragIng ing lug to those Interested In farm fann owner owner- ship About 72 per cent or more than seven out of ot ten farms of this country were vere operated by full or part owners last lat year Those who operate land that they rent In addition to their own are classed as part owners This percentage Is the highest since such statistics were first compiled d In 1900 Back in 1935 42 per cent of all farms were tenant op This was the peak For those who farm their own ground the more farms so owned the better After all It lt is natural that when a man is work- work workIng lug lag for his own Interest the better off ho Is also abu the country As a farmer of farm outside puts It Increase ownership Is a a. healthy sign in rural I America O O O TIlE SPINGARN MEDAL L I THE NATIONAL Association for the 1 Advancement of Colored People award each year the Spingarn Medal to the American Negro Judged to have made the highest achievement In any field Held of ot endeavor When the mediator of ot the United Nations to Palestine was assassinated tasted last year in Jerusalem Dr Ralph Bunche became acting g mediator Thru Thru hIs its fair dealing and firmness of purpose Dv Dr Bunche has brought about a a. more hopeful outlook between the Arab and Israel I Dr Bunche was born in Detroit and was was taken as a child to Los Angeles later an honor student and star ath 1 ath- ath athlete I leto lete at the University of California he I brought further distinction to his race by becoming a a. member of ot the State de department de- de department department I and was associated with the United Nations when it was first form form- ed form Dr Bunche is an outstanding Ameri Amen American American can Negro The honor of the is great but the Important point is the reason for which It was given him Working for peace a position of or im im- importance importance in the International picture Is an example that should bring hope I and encouragement to his people O 0 O 0 O 0 nut U COULD HAVE HAE HA E lONE DONE E IT THE IRON Curtain delegates to the York recent peace conference in New have been told to go home We are sorry they are leaving without a chance to see more of the overflowing energies tho the playing free-playing forces the self ent glow of American life Ufe The State Department has merely followed the letter of the law Visas Visas' were withheld from pro-Communist pro delegates from western Europe because the department did not find It in the I national Interest to set aside the gen gen- general cral eral ban on admission of ot persons ad ad- advocating adI advocating I a violent overthrow of the gov gov- Visas Issued to official dele dele- delegates delegates delegates gates from C countries were lor for the purpose of attending the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York conference so 50 now It is over the delegates are packed off ort hurriedly It is difficulty difficult for such narrow and rigid interpretations of the law not to create a widespread impression that America has an iron curtain of Its own Can anyone imagine that a a. repetition of the sad farce at the Waldorf-Astoria Waldorf In a few other American cities would win new converts or laurels for the Communist cause cauze Can anyone Imagine that a brief continental whirl would not Impress the delegates with American I democracy far more than It would Im flu- Impress press ress Americans with the delegates' delegates out worn cliches cUches Perhaps what is needed today Is a a. little of at the spirit of Barnum rolling out the carpet to the Biggest Ingest Friendliest Show on Earth the Earth the United States of America A V V V THE GROWING G SOUL j THE SOUL SOUL SOUL-Is Is the one possession we vie have hae ha o that Is 15 fortified against decay deca whose development de can be carried on to lifes life's latest moment The years yean take from us everything else our bodily vigor our mental force our friends our place and position in the active world But Bu Buin ButIn ButIn in this Inmost center of life Ufe we can go goon goon goon on still growing making our losses our very weakness an occasion of its fur fur- further further further I ther discipline the tho Incentive of ot Its deeper energies of its Immortal hopes I Brierley O 00 O O OTHERE l THERE IS more real religion in the theman theman man or woman who pats a a. friendless dog or a tired horse or feeds hungry a a. cat eat than In the miser who builds a achurch r. r church hurc and prays in It Lew Lew Abbott O O O SLIGHT DIFFERENCE A LARGE dog started out to catch a small hare the hare halo finally escaped The Ther i r dog wee was Joshed by the other dogs on his inability to catch the hare He re replied re- re replied plied You do not understand the con con- conditions conditions of the chase I 1 was running for formy formy formy my dinner the tho hare bare was running for his life 1 |