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Show Editor's Column Around the Corner . . Country Life 1 wish it were possible for every child to spend its first ten years close to the soil. If I had had children of my own I would, 3.1 any inconvenience to myself, have moved into the country, and not alone for considerations of their physical health. I would have had them brought up in the country so that for the rest of their lives they should have had a mental background of fields .and trees and wide skies and the smell of the earth. Upon this basic culture all that they might later acquire would, I know, have grown more readily and more richly than it grows in the town .child. The town child has no roots. He has quick brains, sharp movements, keen understanding of men; but he is an unfinished product. To have no country background to your memories is -equal to having no education. Lover of towns as I am, I realize that I owe a debt to my early country life. Again and again, in hours of disquiet, I have gone back in spirit to those country days of childhood, and have always found something in the recollected .smell of the earth and the picture of my old village, to rest upon. Thomas Burke, in "The Beauty of England." Hail to the Chief! Luck was with me Tuesday night when I decided at a rather rath-er late hour to go down to the Tabernacle and try to get a look at Mr. Truman. It isn't every clay that a westerner gets to see a president. In fact, up until Tuesday I hadn't seen one for over 15 years ... in person. I remember standing in a drizzle down at the Union Pacific station sta-tion back in the early '30s where I caught a glimpse of Herbert Clarke Hoover, then president, .and his wife. My cohort and I arrived at the north gate of the Temple grounds (with every intention of going in to hear Pres. Truman's Tru-man's speech), just in time to see the secret service people and segments of the local constabulary constab-ulary open the gates, search nearby bushes and trees and scrutinize the few of us who were hanging around, in preparation prepa-ration for the departure of tne president and other dignitaries from the Tabernacle to the Hotel Ho-tel Utah. In a matter of moments the new open convertibles were through the gates. Standing on the west side of the entrance 1" spotted Gov. Maw and LDS Pres. George Albert Smith in the first car through the gates. It wasn't until the car almost reached the street that I realized real-ized the little gray-thatched fellow on the other side of Pres. Smith was Harry S Truman. So and now the country weeklies are reporting it and commenting comment-ing on it editorially, indicating that the whole state is aroused. Harries has been accused of accepting ac-cepting a bribe. Most sensational sensation-al testimony has been that of Cvrus V. Lack, former manager of Salt Lake Brigham Street Pharmacy liquor packaging agency who has testified that he and Harries were partners in an "illegal sale-protection" racket. Harries' attorney, Arthur Wool-ley Wool-ley of Ogden, has stated: "Mr. Harries and I have one task, and that is to shovel away the pile of barnyard refuse which has been heaped upon him, and to find at the bottom of that pile a human soul which is the core of integrity . . . and who is not guilty of taking a bribe.'' He added, "And in taking that refuse off, we shall attempt to not let it fall on anyone except the one who piled it on us . . . Cy Lack." The whole state is awaiting the outcome with great interest. LIFE Maga7ine finds Utah and Utahns good copy these days. A couple of weeks ago (Aug. 30) Colleen Townscnd, 19l(i-'47 coed at BYU where she was known as "Coke," graced the cover and was featured in a five-page spread on the trials, tribulations and apparent triumph tri-umph of a Hollywod starlet. And last week's issue (Sept. 20) devoted four pages of picture and story to Shasta, photogenic liger at Ilogle Zoo. Shasta is the first animal of its kind ever horn in the U. S. Sugar House i well represented repre-sented in the LDS Seminary program again this year. Four young business and professional profession-al men teach half hour classes in devotional instruction at various var-ious schools in the city. Jack (John W.) Bond, local attor-nev, attor-nev, teaches at East High School; Ab (Albert A.) Madsen of Pehrson's and The Bulletin's Jim (D. James) Cannon are at Irving Jr. and Jack (John E.) Gillespie of Ray Nilson's Furniture Fur-niture Co. is at South High. That's quite a commendable record. all I can really say is that I saw the back of the president's head. ISomeone shouted "There's Harry!" and another said "Hello, Mr. President." Pres. Truman waved jauntily and was off into the night. We were too close to the gate to . see very well, the cars came streaming through the gate so fast, I did spot Mar-garet Mar-garet Truman's chic coiffure as she passed beyond me. I was sorry to have missed, Bess Tru-, man, the good first lady. She was probably in the same car with Margaret and Mrs. Maw but I couldn't tell. Bert Busath, talented coach of Bryan LDS ward's top-flight scout basketball team, took a couple of days off with his brother, Monroe, and went down to Los Angeles for the USO-Utah USO-Utah football game last Friday night. Bert was of the opinion that Utah was by no means shellacked . . . just bettered by a better team. Big thing Bert reported was the Utah band. Really big time he says. . FOR THE FILES . . . This past week Utahns were the toast I of the nation for a few hours. I Two major political speeches were broadcast from Salt Lake. On Thursday (a week ago) Republican Re-publican vice presidential candidate, can-didate, Gov. Earl Warren, key-noted key-noted his campaign in a speech at South High auditorium. On Tuesday, Sept 21, Pres. Truman traversed the state, speaking in Price, Salt Lake and Ogden and stopping at a few points in between. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republica presidential presiden-tial nominee, announced that Salt Lake would be on his itinerary itin-erary and that he woidd speak here Sept. 30th . . . We have all been following with baited breath the trial proceedings on bribery charges against Robert S. Harries, former chief enforcement enforce-ment inspector for the Utah Liquor Control Comission. The daily papers have been devcting columns on their front pages |