Show r t K 1 11 oI I H The Boys i II Column I 44 i Z P LETTER FROM l m A t FRIEND FRIENDA m mA A LETTER from a II friend brings solace brings Brines wisdom as the th ancient sound of the wind In pine boughs warmth of sun un lingering In old as M the tM th rocks mysterious feet et of rain es as the th through rough a wood running A A letter from a n. distant friend Is a flower suddenly opening outside out de ones one's window a birds bird's wing lilting into the light Dol Dolores Dolores res Cairns v v v vF F- F TillS THIS YEAR NOT i f IN THE TilE usually cold New E England gl d states last January Januar flowers were bloom bloom- blooming bloomIng ing outside the house while folks Inside were Vere busily removing the Christmas t greens Not so this year For those who vho feel that New Year should be a date when hen the seasonal year ear is really new f such as spring they had their wish last F January This winter weather has been beena t a tough customer snow came early and stayed ice persisted But It Is not a dead world Snow and frost are fresh I and new they are the cover on the book that tells the tale of at spring The flowers r that bloomed In January of ot 1950 1050 were i out of ot order In the scheme of at things If and 1951 has seen to keeping them thesis in ff their place until the proper time Who i are we e to argue with nature 6 O O O- O Of f t HAVE IL ThEY TilEY FORGOTTEN f CHINA HAS seemed to stand In past history as a nation a n people either unable or unwilling to to- t defend themselves against countries who des des- despoiled polled her Fifty years ago Russia looted China while America protested In one century France and England warred with China for privileges Japan and Ger- Ger Germany Germany Germany many added their names to the roster of nations fighting China for lor spheres of influence Americas America's interest in China was establishing missions and f- f schools there pressing lor or an open door policy advocating the dealing with China as an equal Today when Russia Incites China to war with us China fights the only friend she had bad among nations The Chinese should take a refresher course In history to recall the past and remember the robber Rus Rus- Russians those t ose who now call themselves i saviors i io i ii o o O i AMERICA A SINGS I j WHEN BORDEN Invented Invented condensed milk in January 1874 little did he think the day would come when Elsie would talk a much later Invention of or radio and television Elsie will probably soon sing everybody e else is You Just cant can't get getaway getaway m away from Irom advertising songs They f sell U soap and cigarettes chewing g gum t and anti beauty lotions beer and scouring powder We wouldn't be surprised to find the butcher and baker greeting us In the shop chop with a a. singing commercial the plumber and milkman offering a a. earful of ot their brand the newsboy and haberdasher bursting Into a snappy number all based on the t e premise that thata a catchy air makes a snappy sale Im Im- Imagine Imagine Im- Im agine carrying a tune so o far that a motorman sings the station stops the I postman a as he de- de delivers delivers livers the mall mail the power company sends I de-I I tested tenors enors to read the meter Hasten i iJames James my throat gargle and spray that I I may raise my voice in song A SIGN SIG OP OF TilE THE TIMES IN TIBET an astrological calendar marked 1950 the Year of ot the Iron Tiger In October Tibet suffered In Invasion In- In Invasion by the Chinese Communists Korea French Indo China inner Asia with Nepal and Kashmir Pakistan Afghanistan East Germany in Europe the region In Africa In In Eritrea Erl trea I the Iron hon tiger prowled Military force torce conflict arms buffet states deposing of ot Kings new governments plebiscites boundary controversies broken peace J treaties live up to the characterization L' L i Pronounced by the Tibetans as Indeed the year of ot the iron tiger And 1951 finds the tiger still rampant more ag aggressive ag- ag aggressive more violent more blood blood- thirsty IN IX CHECKING BACK BACKS S THE TIlE STING Is 15 taken from January Januar j mercury readings when we learn that in ix t 1 1934 it hit 78 degrees below zero in Ix 1 Alaska Though cannibalism ended at a t tI In 1894 the Russian had hac 1 I their Bloody Sunday In 1905 This month 1 marks the death of ot in 1519 i the birth of Thomas Paine in 1737 the tb c e conversion nt of Paul and the anniversary I y I of or the Louisiana Purchase P in 1803 There B I Is stubbornness disruption dislocation in this calendar month but there Is Ise e persistent courage sweetness renewal of faith and ana hope in it as well r rO O O O I TilE HIE GREAT TEACHER I THERE ARE many here who recall recall the that was cry cr Business as usual heard here in 1917 as war was waged It was our first World War and we didn't know better Experience taught u Us that lifer life at such a a. time is 15 no even current but a disturbed wave that pounds us We Wo learned we couldn't bor bor- borrow borrow borrow row for war and pay at leisure without producing inflation We found that vol vol- volunteer volUnteer vol- vol volUnteer rationing vo loans vol vol- volunteer volUnteer vol- vol volUnteer soldiers wouldn't work Conscription tion tIo was necessary paying as 58 much as half of ot wars war's cost as the cost arose r allocating supplies fixing prices ra rationing ra- ra rationing by law This was as our procedure J during World War II II but still inflation i came We well know there Is no such thing as business as usual for our ourt t 1 living level isn't as usual since taxes arent aren't as usual We know the preparing for war scar var or of ot war Itself requires reducing reducing reducing ing saving s cutting To rescue ourselves we must not Ignore the truths truths' taught through experience experienc else what Is 18 history for tor O O C C- MY Sly ACHING BACK DACK WE ENJOYED the return in popularity of or the square dancing the gaiety of ot f swinging the abandon In the routines the calling and the fiddling But now flO comes the renaissance renaissance- of ot the horrible I dance of ot the Roaring Jt Twenties call called d the thc ther J i Charleston Time was when we could coui r 1 ln- ln tn make snake two feet work as four tour fling e c Continued on Page pae Four Pour l 1 he e Boys Column Continued from Page One numerable arms In all directions knock knees and nonny hey-nonny-nonny but we are way past the Charleston age Of course course purely as an experiment we might might hie h to tho basement in solitude and see what our feet teet and hands remember from yesteryear y ste year but chances are afe we will give the Charleston to the young folks and I television n and give our panting and puffing our arthritic Joints to good old square dancing I I |