-•■■V/KaT A 'i rOS r Ti AI 1 IE ALTS
TO A col: xjitity
It was spring. .Everyone in
the family was working-hard. Th n,
one horning the mpthcr, eft' r fin
ishing licr part of the outside work
home in end 'said' she h d h. stomach
ache. She lay down for r. while
thinking it wns nothing serious#By
floon she was tossing all over the
boa and my father had gone for the
doctor. After hearing the symptoms
the doctor said it would be all
right to being her to the hospital
since 'it. sounded as if she had ap
pciAicitis. For several days she
lay in mist.it while the doctors
were in doubt. Finally on the third
day in desperation, they operated
for appendix. It wasn't, the- appen
dix, but th y found the trouble mak
er and hone too soon because a few
hours more and.she would have been
dead.
VJhat doer r. hospit .1 mean to
aeon: '.unity? Well, as in tills ease
it may ruen the difference between
lilt and d tu, but even so it means
a gre at c.c .1 just to have a plc.cc
to pond someone with a minor in
jury or a c rious illness and know
they arc in the c- .ie hands of the
bt-ct trained doctors and nurses
with the best equipment “available,
and know tin s people ere doing all
in their po^vr to help then,
Without doctors, nurses, and
a hospital, it would be r. constant
worry to any one living in such a
community with no available help’
in c .sc they needed it. Yes, a hos
pital means a great deal to a com
munity l-.rgc or small.
Carolyn Johnson
Some tine ago the English II
: lc.es wrote essays on, 'THAT A HOS
PITAL HE AITS TO A COi 1 .UNITY.
Carolyn Johnson, a sophomore
xrret c the vanning essay.
BUY Alf EXTRA' BOND THIS MONTH 11
LAMENT OF Tiff. FORGOTTEN
WAR ST A IIP 300D
Gosh,but ltts lonely, hero 0 n the
shelf,
With nothin^ to do--til by rnys< If
Nobody ever thinks of ine
I'rn just a Sturp Book Absents' ,
I'd like to bo helping win this
fi^ht,
Pa?/lnc for bullets end dynenite
But nobody ever takes tikwtb lo k
For r. f or^otten,half-fill <-d War
Stamp book.
I've yelled for help but no one
will come,
I'n beginning to feol pretty glum—
VVhut's the matter, is everyone dca/?
A vmr going on—end me 4** F .'
flease, won’t someone- listen to e?
I'm not here £ or afternoon tea l
I’ve1 got &i war to figt>t ar.1 win—
But I can’t start ’til yon begin*
So listen., chum, If you went to win
Just fill'me up anti turn 1.1c in.
You just lick a few more Stamps,
And watch me lick those Axis "chomps
Elizabeth Parley
Beaver High Sc. ool
‘ •. Bluefield,VVest 7a.
FLOWERS FOR MEMORIAL DAY
Mrs. Thomas Snyder, who foi r
ly had Freda's Flower Shop In At •
chorale has moved to Palmer. SI
will make sprays and wrestles o
artificial flowers for Memorial 1 ay.
People who" came to the office
the other day probahlv won '•reo why
all the girls were wearing coats end
3werters. Well,'it wasn’t o spring
style show, Oscar just forgot to
burn on the steam.