OCR Text |
Show P. G. Lions Club Receives Token From France The Lions Club meeting Wednesday Wed-nesday night featured three specific spec-ific projects. Calvin Walker, chairman of the Boys and Girls committee, made a j resume of his findings on recreation recreat-ion following the report two weeks ago by Mr. Peterson of the Scera organization that the national committee com-mittee on delinquency recommends that the expenditure of a sum for recreationequal to that spent for law enforcement be made. Information Inform-ation that Pleasant Grove spends over $5,600 a year on the latter and only $1800 is spent in the city for recreation. It is known that other towns have made use of all facilities available such as gymnasiums gym-nasiums on Saturday for winter recreation and school busses used every Saturday to transport students stud-ents to ski areas. As is done in other counties in Utah the towns of Utah county should request a county tax of of a mill for this purpose. Otherwise the town is authorized to levy as high as two mills. American Fork spends $11,-000 $11,-000 for law enforcement and $15,-000 $15,-000 for recreation on a 12 months basis as compared to a moderate summer program and nothing for winter in Pleasant Grove. Lorin Millet of Orem, Zone Chairman, presented the club with a hand-painted vase, a pkg. of rice papers and a booklet written in English on the French idealism by the Franco-Allied Goodwill committee com-mittee in gratitude for the -wheat sent by the P. G. Lions Club to the needy in France. Charles A. White, community builder' of Monroe and District Governor of District 28A of Utah Lions addressed the club on the role being played by Lionism in the interest of international peace. The only way to win the cold war is for America to not only propagandize propa-gandize Democratic Americanism, but to live by these principles so that the nations of the earth, numbering num-bering a billion people who have not yet cast their lot with either of the two opposing idealogies, will choose to join the democratic nations. There is no difference in the blood of different nations nor in their right to freedom. Friendship is built upon understanding. It is the responsibility of Lionsm to foster understanding among the nations through our international organization. |