Show 1 44 4 V 44 1 I The Boys I I. I Column iT a w r n 1 IN IS' MARCH MAnCil MARK OP OF the the season r season aso 1 the the wreck of a kite Caught In the high and winter-bare winter branches An hour ago I a boys boy's delight Swung in the March winds wind's boisterous dances Now but this tills crumple of paper and sticks Found by tracing the sagging string Across a yard beyond the tracks f To this gaunt tree tree and and the shattered thing A futile stone hurled once br twice Not In despair more In play Then quickly away from the fatal place With not tear a-tear to dim the day What boys boy's life has time for repining Wreckage makes a place for planning Soon a new kite Is 19 sailing the sky What's lost Is put forever by Roland English Hartley f O O OGOAL GOAL L SIMPLY SI TA STATED EDTHE ED EDTHE THE GOAL of or the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Pl Plan n may be simply stated as that of providing to everyone a method method me me- thod whereby they can receive the medical medical medi medi- cal and hospital services they need re regardless regardless regardless re- re of the cost It should Mould be a democratic right that everyone have an equal opportunity to good health This Thill requires however a departure from our past method of providing pro- pro viding only those health services that the individual could afford or merely giving to the sick alms amis in order to start them on the road to recovery Our new point of view requires that we ex exercise exercise exercise ex- ex our social conscience and provide to them the finest hospital and medical services based on their need for such service After one and one-half one centuries centuries' of practice the American physician Is today recognized as leader in his profession Yet few would acclaim that he has at attained attained attained at- at comparable progress in applying socially the arts of his service Whatever progress Is made in the field of medical science the full import is lost until this progress can be translated or ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed In terms that can be afforded by the general public Today Blue Cross and Blue Shield Is bridging this gap attempting to bring to some members the latest in hospital and medical care on a low- low cost pre-payment pre basis In Park City a community enrollment is being sponsored sponsored sponsored spon spon- by a few public spirited citizens Inan in inan inan an effort to allow everyone living in our community an opportunity to be become become become be- be come members Enrollments are now be being belag be be- ing lag held at the mines and an individual enrollment will wm be held March and from 2 to 9 0 pm p.m. in the Memorial building O O O NEVER r. KNOW SNOW S WHERE GALOSHES ear muffs mufflers flers frozen ground and hearth fires spell winter It seems impossible that the majority of the world doesn't know what snow Is That snow is almost a fantasy to most of the worlds world's population it never falls upon 70 per cent of the earth Is hard to believe We have probably I thought everyone knows of the beauty i I of a winters winter's snowfall Literature has given us this idea maybe for so Bo much has been written about It It Pictures try to do It Justice too Driven show snow on hills in valleys snow that swirls that gently cloaks forms patterns on a a. sleeve softly moistens the cheek Never to know snow would be to miss one of Gods God's loveliest p panoramas nc ramas O Q O TAKING T. AMERICA A FOR rOlt GRANTED THERE WAS a time In this country when even a whole day of life was not taken for granted much less water shelter a safe nights night's sleep Now by reason of a uniquely bountiful heritage wo we tako take for granted too granted too much We assume Expect Insist Insl Nowhere else In Inthe Inthe inthe the world is this possible Unthinking we accept not only the great urgencies of food shelter and clothes but the whole spate of little things that make up a way of life a pattern of security We take for granted the protection of our locked front door a roof to our living room heat lights We expect our children bursting with vitality and vitamin B B. B to knock our 1 hats askew with the vigor of their j j welcome As breathing we take for forI fort I t granted a hot bath soap penicillin sodas at the corner drugstore 11 We assume that young husbands will wm make a successful future for themselves J j I that older husbands will retire on what over the long years they have put away We expect our daughters to have an evening dress We cheerfully assume that some decent men will get voted Into public office We know that veterans can get a GI 01 loan and assume that with it one ono of them will start a future U U. S. S Steel Another will marry and produce an Edison Edl a Jefferson a Carver We take tako for granted that we will not be shot imprisoned or have our everything confiscated that our children will live to grow up What we forget every day every moment moment mo moment mo- mo ment is our own history That It was not entirely to give give us these luxuries luxuries- necessities become that men sta stayed ed on at Valley Forge for 22 cents a day that Lincoln did the fine unpopular thing unwaveringly that over men died In prison camps between 61 and 64 I I that later half a million men la lay in their blood on foreign soil It was not to guarantee us ice cream and radios that women bore children during Indian at attacks attacks at at- tacks were partners in the great pioneering pioneering pion pion- sweep to the West It Is good to remember what our simple right to vote cost other human beings Perhaps they had no thought of us they were concerned with making their America What they made is what we have To take this heritage unthinkIngly unthinkingly for granted is le a first step to losing It From ft-From From an editorial in Vogue O O O ANOTHER VOICE SPEAKS J. INVENTORS HAVE many times been shocked by the uses made of their brain brilin brainwork work What originated as a peaceful Instrument in instrument In- In strument may be turned t Into a tool of Continued on rage Page Four The Boys Column Continued from Page Pai One destruction A man who Invented a type tube used in radio makes a II protest protest protest pro pro- test to tho the National Association of ot Broadcasters Ho writes What have you done with my child lie He was conceived as 81 a potent instrument for culture fine tine music the uplifting of ot Americas America's mass Intelligence You have debased this child You have sent cent nt him out on the streets In rags of ot ragtime tatters of ot Jive You have made him a laughing stock of ot Intelligence you have cut time into tiny wherewith the occasional fine tine program Is periodically smeared with Impudent Impudent Im Im- Insistence to buy or try Many of ot us have expressed disapproval of ot the over over loaded loaded commercials the blaring jazz and noisy sound effects that pierce the ear drum of ot the listener It takes all kinds of ot people to make a radio i audience but that there are too many inferior radio programs we cant can't deny Some Same of ot the fare la III an affront to the Intelligence of ot an year eight rear eight old child y To the tho man who says If lf you dont don't like It then turn It off oft off we say that It Is our obligation to the m majority of listen listen- listeners VIII ers to complain loudly enough In the hope bope that we may profit from more cultural broadcasts I O O O 1 ENOUGH WEATHER SUCH as we have had this winter has really run the gauntlet Nature can be most moat contrary We think i she has shown us her whole bag of I I tricks and then next week we cant can't be I too sure February seems to be saved for sound and fury tury Boasting upon her herI her I i mild treatment in January and December December Decem Decem- I ber we were led to expect that such I 1 I might be ours oura this month The snow i I beat against the house the the rain and I I sleet spanked tho the windows and we hoped I they were but signs of ot the beginning ot of otI of the I the tho end We look to March when winds I lash hash lash with less leas force perhaps when plant I I and animal life ute take heart February l la le I probably Jealous of ot Natures Nature's spring plans I and consequently is most Irritable at this time ot of the Calendar O H O 0 O OAN AN AS IMPORTANT ST POINT SOME TIME ago leading Soviet Journalists Journ traveled this country to write their impressions of ot Americans at work and play They were shown every courtesy were wined and dined They wrote what i 1 they desired for tor the Russian papers One I of ot them Mr Ehrenburg was especially i I I caustic and said some pretty nasty 1 things about the U U. S. S He lIe has repeated this In a visit to France treating that I country In the same manner What he heto seems to forget but Park City has not Is that he ho was permitted to wander freely over these lands live as ae ho chose speak freely ay as he saw fit Contrast this with tho conditions of ot American and French writers In Russia We would say the Soviet Journalist has overlooked one very Important factor In his observation that is Is liberty liberty O O O I GOING WE HAVE felt teen age centers were a II way to combat Juvenile delinquency I giving them healthy surroundings We WeI I still do But we read of ot a 1 poll of ot the teen teen-agers themselves and In answer to toI tho Ithe I tho problem they state that they had to havo some place to go go The first I thing that pops Into the adult mind is what has happened to the home and family life Has lIas It so deteriorated that children must escape from It It that they cant can't find pleasure and entertainment I within It but must seek society away from home Home Homo would become Just a place to eat and sleep from whence comes payment of ot doctor bills new I clothes baths and spending money It may be bo true In many Instances but we trust that In our teen-age teen group have I more respect and appreciation of ot that foundation of ot American life the life the home |