The Return
Rons Morris Workman
Rocking W Ranch
She has come home to the
ranch from the Big City. A few
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m nths ago she was tired of the
land. The city called, offering
new experiences, new people, a
different way of life, and so she
followed the siren voice. She
found congenial work in an of
fice, she found a pleasant apart
ment with another girl,
she
found friends. At first all was
exciting and interesting. Crowd
ed streets, new faces, her first
work away from
home,
the
forced intimacy of apartment
life, all were strangely fascinat
ing after three years of quiet
on the ranch.
Then the change began. Eight
hours a day for six days a week
in an office, the morning and
evening jam in over-loaded bus
es, the thin apartment walls
hiding no detail of. the neighbor’s
dome, tic quarrels in the evening,
the lonliness of a great imper
sonal city, the hardness of ce
ment replacing the soft clean
soil, these began to tkea the zest
from the new experience.
One week end she came home
for a visit. “Next week I’m go-
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ing to quit my job and coma
home to itay,” she announced
quietly.
Her mother smiled. "Has the
By Edna Engen
big city lost its glamour?” she
asked.
The girl laughed shortly. "Ev "UNITED THROUGH BOOKS"
This is- the slogan for Nation
ery bit of it. There’s no time, no
place for living there. People al Book Week. It is a timely one
herd and mill and trample each as all wan-weary peoples are
other worse than crazy cattle. looking hopefully into the future
Fou work all week for money to towa ds a peaceful world ard
live on and buy things with, and one in which war will have been
then find that the money can banished by knowledge and, un
not buy the things you want, derstanding.
nor is there time left over for
I thought the following lines
living.”
would bear reprinting as it
Now she is home gain. The seems to tie in with the above
earth was soft beneath her feet theme.
when she returned, and the fal While yet the Citadel of Know
len leaves were a carpet of gold
ledge stands,
under the big maples. The fields No despotic greed for power and
were green with the fall seed
gain
ing, and in the pasture the hors Can wrest this precious freedom
es greeted her with soft whin-
from our hands
nys and the touch of velvet nos And Tyranny will storm our
es. The river slid softly between
gates in vain.
banks that wore the green and
'
E. E.
gold and flaming red of late
Among the more recent books
autumn, and in the dark waters that have been added to the li
flashed the rose-red sides of brary shelves are an interesting
spawning salmon. Thé- air was pair: “A Bell for Adano” and
crisp and clean and the fall wind “Who Could Ask for Anything
sent more leaves scattering down More” by Kay Swift.
and swung the green boughs of
These are entirely different
the great firs on the hill slope. according to subject matter and
There was no constant tumult of treatment but they go together
restless people, no grind and roar well like a substantial meal and
of traffic, but only the sounds a light dessert.
of flowing water, the wind in the
The substantial meal is "A
trees and the pleasant homely
Bell for Adano” and is well
noises of comfortable animals.
written and thought provoking.
It was good to be home, good to
It is a story dealing with our
be alone again sometimes, to
troops in a little town in Italy.
work with the soil and’ to see
There are two outstanding char
things grow.
acterizations in the book. That
Change is vitally necessary for
of the “Major”, who is supposed
all of us. Often we wust leave
to have a counterpart in real
the good things of life in order
to find them again. We cannot life and who is representative of
all the fine qualities that we, as
value peace as we should unless
Americans, want to be represent
we have known war; we cannot
ed as having. The other portrait
understand the soothing quiet
of a still evening unless our ears is far from sympathetic, that of
have at sometime been tortured the “General”, and is supposed
by constant rasping noises, and to be a fictionized picture of one
we cannot really appreciate the
sweetness and strength of the
earth and the calm of the woods
unless we have
moved
with
crowds of weary humanity and
felt only the hard unyielding ce
ment of endless streets beneath
our feet.
She sat by the warm fire that
first night of her return and ca
ressed the soft ears of the dog
who lay sleeping at her feet. A
cricket chirped just outside the
window, the soft lights glowed
on books and dear familiar old
furniture. She looked slowly
about the quiet room. "It’s so
nice to be home”, she said softly.
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Thursday, November 16, 1944
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The light dessert is Kay
Swift’s amusing “Who Could Ask
for Anything More.” This is Miss
Swift’s own
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