Show I I 1 I j i The Boys Boy s f Column 1 r r. r HARVEST I. lIE HE MIGHT have owned some fertile fertil e bottom land landI I Walled In by crowding bluffs blurts Instead he made His cabin on a hill bill a home to stand standOn standOn On lofty loft rugged land that never paid Big Elg dividends In crops Yet he ho appears Content this strange old man with t what hat he chose A hilltop where tho the bounty bount of the year yean s Is Js beauty gleaned by one who wouldn't close Himself within stone walls a man who gains Full harvest from the view his eyes be behold be- be behold hold The panorama of the flung far plains Tho Th slopes where autumn aspens turn to gold The sight of deep and distant canyon can on scars And sky fields sown with seed of silver sUver stars Gwen Travis O O 4 p f. f COAL TAKES TIKES THE Tl E FRONT PAGE P. TIME WAS when coal was Just a commodity that came under the heading of heat It didn't get much news space unless of a coal mine disaster and sel sel- seldom seldom dom darn became a leading topic in conver conver- Today roday coal is a headline Item r a national problem often a national nuisance and ad a d regardless of o seasons a ai i menace The oft disputes be be- between beI between I tween miners and operators has ad ad- advanced ad- ad advanced coal co l to a a a. power that can freeze the country into submission to its Itse e demands It has become a monopoly that the nation to bow pay its price or U do without A A. A summer strike of miners isn't the dreaded thing that thata a n strike e Is 15 at this time Production for tor forthe forthe the coming winter is stalled while workers union and union non-union meet and walk out from union and union non-union l operators Whatever the settlement the public will pay as It eventually bears bearsE l the th brunt of financial negotiations Coal E Is 15 colossal when wh-en It can destroy a a. nations nation's r economy and bring an entire country hardship and suffering It is a a. monopoly ms and consequently gets into the the head bead headlines lines and the conversations conver j i O 0 O 00 O 0 SELF MADE DESTRUCTION WHEN THEY speak of the th commission commis commis- commission commissIon sion on conventional armaments of the U. U N N. it makes us think back through what history has shown us of the various vari vari- various various ous weapons weapons man has used to destroy ci stroy man Wars have been fought ought with the latest destructive methods known at that time whether it was the arrow sword or gunpowder Perhaps s those were conventional armaments for the time being But when tanks throwers flame-throwers poison polson gas were new they became ex exceptional ex- ex exi i weapons Then came the r. r atomic bomb The exceptional weapons became conventional armaments and anda atomic energy had Its own special com com- commission commission commission a mission In the assembly of o nations Recent findings the experts tell ten us point to the use of germs to eliminate In future wars Not the atom bomb but bacterial warfare will be the method They say that a substance exists that If it possible to distribute with Its high high- highest highest highest est efficiency would wipe out life on onearth onearth onearth earth in seven minutes Bacterial war war- warfare wari warfare i fare would would- destroy all crOps animals and mankind It might be that the atomic bomb would become a conven conven- conventional conventional conventional weapon and a committee be named to deal with the exceptional armament bacteria What a waste that humans should sit themselves down to devise ways to wipe man from the earth As a reader re remarked re- re remarked remarked marked Humanity should so live that no armament should ever be called con con- O O O DRI DRINKING AND DRIVING G CAN A line be drawn between how many drinks a man can take to cease to be a dependable driver Many drivers are Influenced by 05 per cent alcohol In the blood which follows two ounces of whiskey or two bottles of or beer Every driver Is under the influence from 15 per cent alcohol in his blood The 15 per centers have 55 times the accident rate of that of drivers who have taken no drinks It is a trite saying a stuffy old wheeze according to some people but it seems to have been proven that alcohol and gasoline dont don't mix O O O NOT ON O TilE THE SHELF YET THE SHE LIFE span has lengthened through Improved health standards and medical know-how know and the man that used to be through at 50 or 60 Is a person today with years of valuable service ahead of him But in many Institutions retirement is fixed without regard for the individuals individual's Individuals Individual's duals dual's experience and need of employ employ- ment This is detrimental to business as well as the person The National Association of Manufacturers and the theU U. 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S Chamber of or Commerce in conducting con con- conducting ducting a a. survey among business and Industrial concerns in principal cities found that as a whole the employers who accepted older men and physically I handicapped workers on the basis of I ability were getting more work better work less personnel person el turnover and less lebS absenteeism Who said old age agel O O 00 O OTHERE THERE ARE AltE TWO SIDES SOME SOME TEACHERS and educators feel i there is the loss of academic freedom In having to take a loyalty oath in order to Instruct in the schools Some leaders in the ranks of public schoolteachers school schoolteachers teachers feel teel it is Just even necessary in lu in certain areas Since the American schoolroom is the tho one place where truth and free Inquiry should be found those who vrho follow Communism rob the youth of this t is right Ask any Park P rk City parent if 1 he or she the want it to happen here Should one who has taken an oath of f allegiance to Communism who has hns sur sur- surrendered surI surrendered I rendered his freedom of thought ac action ac- ac actton action tion will and conscience to Communism Communised ism be the young minds In the public school system s stem |