Show It H I H I f The Boys Boy s j f Column I j jr r It t t t t 1 1 ppl 1 1 BEFORE IronE STORM STon I ITHE THE FOUNTAINS l seem To crouch and the sky sk Intense with clouds Is not high Lightning's thunder Suddenly blurs I IThe The song of a birdIn bird birdIn In deep dark firs A calm that would Almost rescind re The be storm Then air moves And becomes wind Flaying a million Green leaf drums Its roar first Then the rain comes Wade Van Dore 4 O O O nY SOUNDS WRITING OF a stroll of 01 a starlight night in jn Russia the author mentions the hundreds whom he saw but heard no laughing no conversation Just the echo of tramping feet on pave pave- ments We imagine a starlight night and a walk down the streets here In Park City and the sounds that spell freedom and familiarity There Is the cheery whistle of a boy a greeting from froma a passing neighbor a Jest exchanged for fora a Joke m in front of the drug store the music from a Juke box In the night all-night diner folks chatting coming down the library steps the bang of a bowling ball Every ery town has its comforting noises shouts of youngsters celebrating an ath ath- athletic athletic athletic letic victory as they toot horns racing through the main maln street organ music coming from the church the plop of a thrown newspaper as it hits bits the porch the murmur of a political discussion before the city hall radios radios' from lighted homes a family laughing as they pile Into the auto on their way to the movie the cry of a a. baby the bark of a dog howls from the baseball park the muffled roar of a transport plane overhead over over- overhead overhead head the toot of a freight train It doesn't mean much at the time but we wouldn't want to lose these sounds sounds- ever everl I E WE WANT TIlE THE TRUTH AWARE OF the manifold dangers of unrestricted censorship we are against publicising information that should be kept top secret data of preparation and movements for war But there Is 18 a certain type of censorship we dont don't want A colonel serving under General MacArthur Mac- Mac MacArthur MacArthur Arthur ordered two press correspondents out of Korea because of dispatches they had written If these men had violated the security were Inaccurate In report report- reporting reportIng ing the order would be Justified per- per i haps But Bm here bere Is 15 how the AP man had started his story A bitter beaten little band of GIs sprawled In exhaustion on ona a sunny Korean hillside this afternoon y and according to the colonel It triode de- de dethe the Army look bad A beaten little band made the American Army Anny bad badi I No more of this kind of reporting even eren if 1 it Is s true Here well we'll take the i truth feel have if 1 we a right to Ito o know i ithe the going Is tough The Army Is s the i Peoples People's since they support It with sons song and ana tax taxiS taxes They want to know what Is 18 I lacking if men or factors are to blame blameS j S for retreats and losses We want to rectify the trouble We consider It wise of General Mac Mac- MacArthur MacArthur Arthur to rescind the orders of the Mac Mac-I col col- colonel colon colonel onel on l to let correspondents give the grim facts The top brass probably Isn't in a position where It can do so I IO O O O OAS i AS 5 SHE GOES MARCHING r. ON HUMANITY HUHM ITY ALWAYS needs a friend d I and It found one in EvangeUne Evangeline Booth the daughter of the founder of ot the Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth died recently at the age of 84 I Hers was a life Ufe dedicated to the service of the distressed the poor the forgot forgot- forgotten forgotten ten man She started in England at an early age under the guidance of or her I lather father Rev c William Booth Ito to help build the Salvation Army then Into I Canada and to the U. U S. S where the Army Is to recognized as DS one of our foremost social service agencies Her vision her good works will not die with her pass- pass passIng passIng Ing fag but carried on under the banner of humanitarianism which Is borne by the unselfish and Inspired to assist the halt and the lame O O O REMOVING nE IO TilE THE EXCISE TAX THE EXCISE tax on such as furs Jewelry leather goods cosmetics telephones tele tele- telephones telePhones phones railroad fares tares was used as a means Deans for discouraging people at war wa r lor spending for extravagances extravagance or crowd crowd- crowding crowdIng crowding ing transportation and communication lines It Had n d a purpose When wheels wheels' i moved to remove it it during peacetime the President said that such Kuch a cut would mean a new tax In some other form and signs pointed toward an increased cor cor- corporation corPOration corporation tax If It it costs more to do business then thep the hidden bidden tax Is 15 passed on to the consumer so we still would Weida W ula Pay the excise tax indirectly If It the Korean situation leads to an out all-out war M. M we will have iLave higher and more taxes That is inevitable But we wonder won won- wonder wonder der what makes valid a wartime e a tax during the Intervening ng years of or Peace We take the rigors of ot war In our tilde stride but we dont don't want toe the Of f a a. welfare state during peace O O O WONT WON'T WE UE EVER t LEARN PEW FEW WILL admit hoarding but Prefer calling it precautionary pur pur- purchasing purchasing purchasing chasing before the hoarders get under way ay When goods becomes scarce due to unnecessary buying it becomes hoard board hoarding ing g. g Costs have risen all along the line Already some stores store are rationing nylons sugar is ts scarce In some tome areas Folks have been ben buying tires to hoard for forme some me time Rubber manufacturers as M- assure assure sure us there Is 18 plenty of rubber avail avail- available available available able for tires the Department of Agri- Agri Continued on Page Four I The Lugs Coys Column I Continued from P. P Page Pace One On culture gays ays billions of tons of sugar are available But In spite of tho the as- as selfish unpatriotic people practice r hoarding Packing houses will h h back meat to get a price rise In Ina ina a n. competitive market Such Is the re re- result re- re result result sult of or war or rumors of war Maybe you cant can't change human nature but you can often be ashamed of It NOT SWEET AND LOVELY THERE WILL be about persons I who will fall tall victim to poison Ivy this year There are four poisonous weeds that grow In profusion throughout the I country poison polson sumac Eastern poison polson oak Western poison polson oak and poison pOlson Ivy You may think you arent aren't susceptible to poison polson Ivy but no one Is Immune and prolonged exposure will usually cause ause an Infection Some misguided souls have attempted to Immunize themselves by eating the poison Ivy leaf with results most unpleasant There are more than 1000 remedies for poison polson ivy Infection on the market but butI most householders have a pretty effective effective I tive remedy after contact with the weed wash thoroughly with a Do I strong alkaline soap And In extreme cases it is best to consult your doctor o 0 o o 0 DONT DON'T DO l LEAVE L E TilE THE KEY IEl I IN I I YOUR CAR R CARNINE CARNINE i NINE OUT of ten stolen cars have i 1 lad ad the key left lett In the lock reports T T. E E. Murphy In the August Readers Reader's r gr records show how that t at among I Ithe I the or more cars stolen dally daily In the States 90 per er cent were left on tho street with the key In In all set I to Law go enforcement authorities are almost unanimous In believing that auto thefts could be virtually ended If It the public were aware of this temptation to car r thieves and acted accordingly I IMurphy's I II I Murphys Murphy's article condensed from the I Hartford Courant Magazine says most stolen cars are taken by youngsters 0 X persons arrested last year for auto theft more than half halt were under I f I 21 21 about were under 18 and were less Jess than 15 years old All had the same story I wouldn't have thought of It If It I hadn't seen the key In the I car Six states and about 15 major cities Including New York have laws barring t Ignition keys In unattended cars But ButI I the laws are largely Ignored Illustrating how strict enforcement of such laws can reduce automobile thefts Is the case of ot Decatur Ill nl In 1945 alarmed by an I epidemic of car stealing Decatur's au- au authorities authorities decided to enforce a law that tied had been lying dormant on the books one Forty-one persons were arrested In the first two months for leaving keys key In I I their cars In the following six months I not a car cal ca r was stolen In the city Other municipalities notably Bridge port Conn and Milwaukee Wis have reduced car thefts not by enacting laws but by educating the public through warning signs and booklets In the dan dan- danger danger danger ger of ot leaving a n. parked car with a key In It 00 O O O OIT IT 11 COULD HAPPEN IlE HERE A DOCTOR in North Carolina has a unique method described by Don f Wharton in the August Readers Reader's Digest Of of of reminding patients what their th lr Visits would be like If England's system of socialized medicine were In force torce here When a patient pat ent enters this physicians phy phy- 61 lans lan's office and sits down for a a consultation the doctor unobtrusively reaches across his desk to a three min ute hour glass Without a word he h turns It over and starts the sand run run- ning The consultation proceeds as usual not a a. word about the hour glass I i until all the sand has run into the i lower half halt Then the doctor points to it I and says Three minutes If we had J I socialized medicine your time would be i I up In England today three minutes Is i I all the time a doctor can give to the the I average call Just three minutes 1 I O O O FROM FRO I TilE THE LIGHTER SIDE I II OF TilE THE READERS READER'S DIGEST A YOUNG mother having saved up upI ifor I for tor a dining room set she doted on i I saw It installed and went out to mar mar- ket het She returned to find her small son seated under the new table busily bu whittling the neat sharp corners off ott Its legs For a moment she stood aghast then rushed outdoors to her husband John come quickly I she cried If n I touch him Ill I'll kill him O O O FROM FRO I LIFE IN THESE UNITED STATES TES A FRIEND of ot mine sometimes feels that his wife and two children do not fully tUlly appreciate him While reading A Workable Cue to Happiness and Per Per- In a recent R Digest he ho underlined In red a sentence a se tence te he thought aptly summed up his position on The father upon his arrival home borne Is often otten greeted with greater affection by the dog than by his own children Having got this off of his mind lip by thought no more about It until he hap hap- happened happened to thumb through the magazine a week later Someone had underlined In green the sentence Immediately fol tol- following j lowing his red marked one It read For that matter he may greet the dog with more enthusiasm than he greets his family J I THE SUBWAY shuttle from New York pity's elty'S Times Square to Grand Central 1 Station was packed and nod since I had bad baggage baggage and and plenty of time I time I stepped back to wait walt for tor an empty train When does the next train get In I asked a guard J that i Why didn't you take the one Just pulled out he asked reproachfully There wont won't be another one for tor three minutes minutes' I WITH THE advent of the summer season concentrating on hook sod sad sinker becomes a little difficult for the theold theold theold old fishermen on the wharf har harf because of the bathing beauties who saunter up and down wearing clothes of negative e J cover value What the hell think they're doln dolts anyhow grumbled grit griz grizzled IZ old Jim Silas reeling In to studied the parade Id say they was trolling with live bait |