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By Joel Edwards

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There Is a Right and a Wrong!

Editors note: This article was published in 1953 and so it should be read in that context. I couldnt help but be reminded that man left to himself is often his own worst enemy. Sixty years have passed since this article was published, and a look back at those years is affirmation that history repeats itself over and over. The Flaming youth and Al Capones emerge in every generation albeit with a unique personality and mind-set. So do the honest Abes, and the Thomas Edisons, along with the good Samaritans, and philanthropists. Joel Edwards is correct in his analysis when he states that man can never fool his conscience. There is a right and a wrong!
At a recent gathering I listened to a cynical acquaintance of mine expound his views. I dont make any bones about it, he said. Im out to get mine while the gettings good. Nobody follows the rules any more. Nobody makes out an honest tax return. If you know the right people, you can get away with anything. So why should I be a sucker? I knew he was wrongbut at the moment I hardly knew how to answer him. For often, in the debate over how we live our lives, it is easier to argue on the wrong side than on the right. It is so terribly easy to say what my acquaintance was saying. We read every day of corruption in high places, of five-percenters and crooked tax collectors. Crime investigations repeatedly introduce us to gamblers and racketeers who have bribed their way out of ever having to serve a day in jail. So in a way, I can hardly censure my acquaintance. In times like these, when easy money and easy morals forebears, who taught us the basic standards of honesty and decency, were not so old-fashioned as many cynical pseudo-sophisticated moderns profess to believe. As history proves, mankind is destined for better things than the slave labor that built the Pyramids, or the corruption that was Rome. Despite our setbacks, we somehow keep moving onward and upward. And the upward surge is all in the
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seem to be the order of the day, it does often appear that everybodys doing it. And thus, honest men are bound to wonder whether the old rules of life have become obsolete. Perhaps only a sucker puts in an honest day of toil? Perhaps only a sucker pays honest taxes and gives honest respect to the marriage vows he made? But the answer is clearly no. There is a right in this universe of oursand there is also a wrong. Our There Is a Right & a Wrong...... 1 Household Hints....................... 2 It All Depends on the Weather (Editorial).................................. 3 The Invisible Leash................... 4 Points to Ponder....................... 4 Katie's Kitchen.......................... 6 Lifetime Dividend...................... 6 Quit Supposin' (poem).............. 8 Business Wise.......................... 8 Sly as a Fox Maze.................. 10 Soil Conservation................... 12

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The landscaper is affected, too. Mowing grass and trimming shrubs with a rain coat gets cumbersome. And if it doesnt rain, the grass 'aint going to grow!' If the grass doesn't grow, it doesn't need to be mowed. The excavator, the builder, and the paving crew are all affected by the weather. Their work is more difficult and dangerous when everything is wet and muddy. The risk of a slip or fall is greatly increased when weather conditions are not favorable. There is almost always an increase in the amount of accidents when the roads are wet. There have been great strides in the way tires and vehicles are made to help improve their performance on wet roads. The materials used and the way in which roads are constructed has helped, too. However, lower visibility and water on the highway are factors that make driving in certain conditions more hazardous. The umbrella manufacturers best market is Seattle where it is
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From The Editor's Desk

It all depends on the weather!

Its summertime, so we plan ball games, picnics, hiking expeditions, backyard barbecues, reunions, and a host of other outdoor adventures. We plan, we invite, and we prepare, but it is all contingent upon the weather. If the weather doesnt cooperate as we hope, the plans must be scrapped or altered. We wish for the picture perfect day, a sunshiny seventy-five degrees, not a cloud in the sky and no humidity. Sometimes we hear people reflect on a beautiful day and say, "I wish every day were like this." So what is it that makes a beautiful day? I woke up the other day to what I would call 'picture perfect' conditions. It was already daylight, but the sun had not risen above the horizon. There was an early morning stillness

with a light mist in some of the low lying areas. Everything was lush and green and well watered from the rain showers the day before. To me, it was picture perfect. I couldnt have ordered it any better. To the farmer, a beautiful day means the crops are getting sufficient rainfall. His work is a constant challenge of listening to the weather forecast (hoping they know what they are doing), and planning accordingly. He must cut his alfalfa at the right time to secure the most nutrients. It must have a period of time to dry before putting it away and hopefully he can accomplish that before it gets rained on. But once he gets it away, there is nothing better than a shower of rain to jump start the next cutting. Rain affects the growth of his corn crop and the pollination as well. If there is no rain during the pollination time there wont be very many kernels on the cob. Probably, more than any other occupation, his work depends on the weather.

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The Invisible Leash

By Antle P. Clark as told to John Thiesen
Pancho came to us as a tiny, gray wisp of fur with an ugly wrinkled face, tight-closed eyes and a bushy stub dangling at the other end of him. His pink paws clawed the air weakly as the carpenters helper held him up by the scruff of the neck. I found this out by the woods, he announced. What is it? my wife Hazel wanted to know. The carpenters stopped the remodeling work they were doing on our house and came over. Its a coon, one said. No, a wildcat, another insisted. The thing squeaked. Well, whatever it is, it needs food, said Hazel maternally, and disappeared into the kitchen. Minutes later the little fellow was contentedly sucking formula of onepart sugared water and one-part warm milk from an eye-dropper Hazel dug out of the medicine cabinet. A week later, Pancho (wed named him even before we knew what he was) graduated to the bottle, and nursed four times a day and once at night, squealing for his food when it failed to come on time. For his bed, I rigged up a warm den in a box. He grew fast, and it soon became evident, as each day his tail took on a more distinct color of red, that he was a red fox. Foxes are common in our part of Missouri, but they are rarely domesticated. Ordinarily a sullen animal, this near relative of the dog is wild and sly, and craves his freedom above all else. But it soon became evident, too, that Pancho was no ordinary fox. In fact, somewhere along the line, Panchos wires had been crossed. because he obviously and unashame dly believed himself to be a dog. When he was two weeks old, he took up residence under the house and began exploring the neighbors yards and roaming the woods nearby. He was allowed to come and go as he pleased and alternated his environment between indoors and outside by scratching at the door persistently in his demands for entrance or egress. This open Sesame system was liable to occur at any hour of the day or night; and was, to say the least, unhandy. But by this time Hazel and I were so fond of Pancho that we were willing to take anything that he might hand outdespite the inconvenience. After the second week, Pancho was weaned to solid foods; and when this evolutionary process was over, his appetite had extended to include every possible edible substance, though his favorite food was pancakes. You could actually hear his stomach growl when
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Points To Ponder
A grown-up is someone who suffers from responsibility. They who are afraid to ask are ashamed of learning. If your parachute doesn't open up for you, you've obviously jumped to a conclusion. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research. If you can buy a person's friendship, it isn't worth it. Humility is such an elusive thing. Just when you think you've got it, you've lost it. Change is good as long as I don't have to do anything differently. People who are wrapped up in themselves are overdressed. Life is like a doughnut. You're either in the dough or in the hole.

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a very different breed. George Washington, who suffered through Valley Forge to create his nation. Honest Abe Lincoln, who died for it. The Henry Fords and Thomas Edisons, and the doctors and nurses and educators. And, all the great multitudes of good citizens who work to bring men closer together in common bonds of understanding and faith. The tragedy is that mankind goes through so many periods, such as the one in which we Americans are now living, when everybodys doing it. Such periods often follow the upheaval of war, and all too many basically decent people are caught up in the widening atmosphere of corruption. I think the man I heard at the gathering is basically a decent man and I feel sorry for him, because I know his views must lead eventually, to tragedy. Being a man, and having a soul, he will never really be able to
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direction of greater trust and honesty and good will among men. We have been through periods before when virtue seemed to have vanished from the earth. In this country, many of us can remember the wild days of the 1920swhen Flaming Youth was having its fling and racketeers like Al Capone thumbed their noses at the law. Where are the flaming youths today? In accordance with a destiny as ancient as history, they soon tired of their artificial gaiety and settled down to become the responsible citizens and the mothers and fathers of the 1930s. And where is Al Capone? In accordance with the ancient rule that the mills of justice grind fine, even though they sometimes grind slowly, he wound up in prisonand on the horrible deathbed of the paretic. Yes, once the tentacles of Capones underworld empire reached everywhere, extracting their tribute from intimidated citizens. The law feared him and policemen did his bidding. But now he is gone, and in the history books, he will be only a contemptible footnote. Nobody will remember him, except as a name to be scorned. But nobody will ever forget the brave and honest Lindbergh, who quietly flew the Atlantic while Capone was doing his evil. In short, the 1920s will be remembered not as Capones decades but as the years in which our inventors and businessmen and engineers spanned the oceans, devised our air lines, created the first talking movies, turned our mud roads into concrete highways, built our skyscrapers, and made radio a household word. Such is mans true destinyupward toward the stars. History has never been kind to men of the Al Capone stripe whether they function on the

level. For a while, under Hitler and Mussolini, it almost seemed natural that men should torture their political opponents, should persecute religious minorities, and war on their weaker neighbors. Today, the survivors of those regimes in Germany and Italy look back with horror on what they almost came to accept because everybody was doing it. It has always been this way, since the early days of civilization. Nero, the Roman emperor who tortured the Christians, survives in the history books only as a symbol of all that is loathsome in human nature. But Christ and the Apostles, though persecuted for their faith, will live on to mold human affairs forever. And who are the heroes of American history? Not the traitors, not the thieves, not the corrupt political bosses or the men who grew rich off sweatshops. The people whose influence lasts have been of

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Upon moving into a new neighborhood, I took my suit to a man who had just opened a dry cleaning establishment, and who was as much of a newcomer as I. He greeted me with a bright smile and a hearty hello, and promised my suit in a few days. I went back at the appointed time and met the same warm welcome. As I was about to pay the cleaner, I noticed that his hand was extended toward me, and in the palm was a shiny quarter. You left this in your coat pocket, he said with an amiable grin. Surprised, I accepted the coin, mumbled good-by and left. Returning a few days later, I found him busy with another customer to whom he was handing a freshly cleaned suit, and overheard him say, You left this in your trouser pocket. The customer took the shiny quarter, thanked him and walked out. The tailor turned to me with a broad smile and explained, My customer insurance costs me only 25. But I found that it pays a lifetime dividend." &

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a hot flapjack lay steaming on a plate anywhere within range of the radar-like perception of his sensitive nose. Chicken bones would make him whirl and dance like any dog begging for scraps, barking and whining. But strangely enough, despite his taste for chicken bones Pancho never attacked any of the neighbors fowland he frequently got into the chicken yards during his daily exploratory rounds. As the months passed and Pancho took on the shape and size of a mature fox, he simultaneously adopted more of the habits of a dog. In a sense, Pancho was really more of a dog than most dogs are. Frustrated as he was, he proceeded to demonstrate his 'dogginess' by winning the good grace of all the neighbors and becoming the canine leader of the community. If Hazel or I laid down a magazine, a shoe or any other portable item he could get his mouth around, Pancho would snatch it up and make off with his loot like any playful, mischievous dog, an unmistakably sly grin curling his pointed, intelligent face from ear to ear. But Pancho was unpredictable. One morning we woke up to discover him sitting on top of our car, like an emperor on his throne looking down on the masses from his exalted position. From that day forth the first thing we saw each morning was Pancho on top of the car commanding a sovereigns-eye view of the surrounding area. In a way, Pancho had every right to do this. Didnt magnificent collies and aristocratic terriers seek him out for his company? And didnt he have at least a nose-touching acquaintance with every dog in the community? His favorite cronies were a Collie and a Mexican Chihuahua. He would spend many hours of rough-and-tumble play with the Collie; and he would tease the explosive, pint-sized Chihuahua until it was provoked into fighting. But during the ensuing battles Pancho was careful not to hurt his quicktempered little friend. One day I got out my shotgun and started off to do some rabbit hunting. Pancho tagged along. When we arrived in the area of the game, a sudden change came over Pancho; he grew tense, his ears pricked up, and his long-pointed nose began to quiver. In the next minute he was transformed into the most efficient and eager hunting animal Ive ever watched perform.

persuade himself that his cynicism is justified. The person who trims the cornersin business deals, in marriage or in his tax returnsis not really smart at all, no matter how he may brag of not being a sucker. He is out of tune with mans destiny, and deep inside he knows it. He may fool his friends and at times he may even seem to fool himself, but he can never fool his conscience. He will live without knowing true happiness, and he will die without the respect of his fellows. Of course, the honest man may have his struggles. Sometimes, in a period when everybodys doing it, he may have moments of temptation. But he can always live with himselfand with history. Even though his manner be quiet, even though his contribution be small and his name unknown, he is the man who knows and shapes our destiny the real hero of tomorrows history books. &

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Quit Supposin'
Don't start your day by supposin' That trouble is just ahead. It's better to stop supposin' And start with a prayer instead.

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The first task of wisdom is to determine what is true. A clear conscience is a shining light within. A guilty conscience is a shady darkness of the soul.
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Whats more, within a minute after he had plunged into a thicket and disappeared, rabbits began to scatter out of it in all directions. Then Pancho himself burst from the brush on the heels of a big jackrabbit. In the next few seconds it became apparent that he was deliberately maneuvering the rabbit toward me! I recovered from my surprise just in time to get a bead on the jack. The gun boomed, the rabbit fell kickingand

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A Toronto man went to call on an apartment-dwelling friend and in the lobby he pushed his friends bell to be let in. The host rather playfully replied, via the speaker system, with an imitation of a barking dog. His visitor playfully barked back, and then turned in embarrassment to discover a couple had entered the building behind him and were standing there, eyes bulging. Beg your pardon, he stammered, thinking fast. You see, I forgot my key and Ive trained my dog to let me in. At which instant the upstairs barker finally pushed the buzzer, the downstairs barker fled inside and the dumbfounded couple in the lobby was left to their own wild imagining.

in the same instant Pancho yipped, tucked in his tail and let out for the hills in terror. He didnt show up for the rest of the day, and it wasnt until 3:00 A.M. the next morning that I heard his nervous scratching at the door. I opened it and admitted one very disturbed, hungry red fox. I was so glad to see him back that I went straightway to the kitchen and prepared a batch of pancakes for him. After stowing a few of these under his belt, Pancho wagged his tail dog-fashion to indicate all was well and that he was home again. Then, yawning expansively, he curled up on the floor for some shut-eye. Pancho soon overc ame his gun shyness and seemed anxious to accompany me every time I stepped outside to get a rabbit for supper. He became so adept that he could rustle up more game than any two dogs, and he delighted in manipulating them into range of my shotgun. In the fall, when Pancho was about nine months old, we took a vacation. Neighbors who were on good terms with Pancho agreed to feed him while we were away. As we drove off and left him, they told us, he appeared to look like he was being deserted. He sat in the lane for a long while looking after us. Then he slipped off quietly into the timber. When we returned ten days later, a change had come over Pancho. It was almost imperceptible, but Hazel and I could sense it. He was restless and aloof, and seemed to be listening for something calling him from far off. He took to disappearing for several days at a time, returning at odd hours to scratch on the door and whine for food. I never failed to get up, no matter what the hour, and feed him. Fearing that someone might shoot
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him for a wild fox during these periods of wandering, I got a collar for him to which were attached little bells. The bells, I hoped, would also make it difficult for him to hunt his food and force him to stay closer to home. One cold winter night, Hazel and I were startled out of our sleep by the worst din of howling, barking and all-around clamor wed ever heard. Rushing outside, we were greeted by an excited pack of stray hounds that had something cornered under the house and were frenziedly trying to get at it. In the midst of the commotion we made out the tinkle of a bell. It came from the cornered creatures hiding place. A quick look in the beam of a flashlight confirmed the identification. And a few minutes later, after wed chased off the protesting hounds, we managed to coax a terrified Pancho

from his sanctuary and get him into the house. He was upset and confused. The stack of pancakes we set before him only vaguely elicited his interest. He seemed preoccupied as he ate, and frequently his head would raise, his ears prick up, and he would listen intently. After a while, Pancho went to the door, scratched on it urgently with one long exquisite paw, and looked back at me expectantly. When I opened it for him he hesitated for a moment in the doorway as if torn between two alternatives of which he was forced to choose one. He looked first inside at us and then outside toward the woods and the hills beyond. Then, with a sad, friendly wag of his bushy tail, he turned from us and trotted off down the path to disappear in the darkness.

We never saw Pancho again. I do not know whether his betrayal by the hound dogs shocked him into realization of the difference between himself and real dogs. Or whether he had been held to his strange existence by an invisible leash of lovea leash from which he was by nature, destined one day to slip free. There had always existed an intangible, elusive quality in Pancho. Later, we heard that Pancho had been shot by a man who believed he was a wild fox. But Hazel and I prefer to think hes still out there trotting the forest trails and snooping in the yards and gardens of some possibly not-toofar-away community. And we wouldnt be the least bit surprised to be aroused some morning by the old familiar yapping coming from the top of our carPancho home again and announcing his return . &

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