“The Pineapple Express.” It’s a funny little old engine, and the coaches aren’t much, but it performs the important job of transporting many workers to the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.
The Pineapple Express, 1944
Be Honest With Yourself: It’s Smart To Take Part
It’s Smart To Take Part
Belonging to the Church is important. It opens the way for us to work out our salvation, but it’s only the first step on the road to happiness on earth and eternal progress in heaven. The rest comes through obedience and performance every day of our lives.
This is one of the reasons the Church offers so many opportunities for daily participation. The degree to which we take part in these spiritual, intellectual, physical, social exercises will determine the degree to which we are eventually saved.
Let’s take some examples:
A boy or a girl takes part regularly in class instruction, and he learns, in the process, priceless truths. And “we are saved no faster than we gain knowledge.”
We join the Church-sponsored scout troop, a young people’s chorus, a singing quartet, or we “try out” for a part in a dramatic skit. That’s experience, progress.
We take our turn to speak on principles of the gospel in our young people’s improvement meetings or in Sunday worship services. Again, we’re taking part — going ahead.
We participate in Church league basketball, softball, volleyball — and in the process we build the physical body, practice teamwork, and learn the value of putting good sportsmanship into our play and work.
Going to “socials” in the attractive and wholesome atmosphere of our Church recreational halls helps us to develop our social graces and meet and associate with young men and young women of our own kind — the kind we’d like to have for our friends and, eventually, for our mates in marriage.
As we get older we become scout leaders, Sunday School teachers, and many of us go on preaching missions.
All this is “taking part.” It is the day-by-day way to happiness and eternal progression. It is part — an important life-long part — in living our religion for our own good and for the greater good of others.
So — young men, young women of the Church — don’t be satisfied with just belonging. Start today to take part because it’s smart. In other words —
BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF
I’ve got to say, of all the possible activities in which one can take part…
…square dancing looks like the most fun.
Looming High On Honolulu’s Skyline
HAWAIIAN LANDMARK — Looming high on Honolulu’s skyline is the “world’s largest pineapple,” which each year guides many thousands of visitors to the world’s largest fruit cannery, home of famed Dole products. The “pineapple” is actually a company-owned water reservoir–capacity 100,000 gallons.
62 — MARTINIQUE
62 — MARTINIQUE
Récolte d’ananas au Morne Rouge.
Pine apple [sic] gathering.
This postcard is from Le Morne-Rouge, a small town located in the northern part of the island of Martinique. Le Morne-Rouge is, apparently, a hotbed of pineapple activity.
“This village stretches to the foot of Mont Pelée. For those who want to climb the majestic mountain, it is best to hire a guide. Le Morne-Rouge also is known for its pineapple jam, anthurium plantations and well-known spring waters, which are bottled here.”
Just keep in mind that the “majestic mountain” also happens to be a volcano, whose massive 1902 eruption earned it the distinction of being the third most deadly volcanic eruption of all time.
Martinique’s love of the pineapple has also “erupted” in the form of rare and exotic culinary traditions.
“The tourist development in Martinique has not disturbed the charm of these quiet districts where the small sail boats are still called ‘gomyés’, where the grandmothers still know how to prepare soursop fritters, where the pineapple slices served with the ti’punch of Martinique are cut in a fancy way.”
Pineapple “cut in a fancy way!?!” If that doesn’t make you want to get off your duff and book a flight right now, then someone needs to check you for a pulse.
In 1997, Martinique played host to the Second International Pineapple Symposium, where B. Aubéry presented a paper entitled Pineapple Production in Northern Martinique which probably talks about Le Morne-Rouge in some detail, but I’m too cheap to pay the €10 to find out.
Besides, I think my money would be better spent on the gripping On Farm Approach Of Pineapple Fruitlet Core Rot Disease In Martinique (F. Marie, E. Malezieux, J. Marchal, X. Perrier), from the Third (and probably better) International Pineapple Symposium (Thailand, 2000).
Nurse at Guale Farms
by Georgia Craig (1964)
Nurse Lucie found the small country clinic at Guale Farms a paradise. But the two men she fell in love with complicated that paradise.
A Troubled Paradise
Nurse Lucie Hatcher walked head-long into another world when she arrived at the small Georgia clinic at Guale Farms, eager to work with the skilled Dr. Wesley Warren. Lucie didn’t plan to get involved with the handsome young doctor, nor with the rich owner of the experimental farms, Perry Latham. But she did…with both.
Then, suddenly, women from Wesley’s and Perry’s lives appeared and disrupted Lucie’s paradise. Could she give Wesley up to the mysterious woman from his past? Could she fight the powerful and jealous Latham family for Perry’s love? Lucie’s paradise soon turned into a nightmare…
That’s an unfortunate bit of paper loss on the front cover. Not because it obscures the handsome doctor’s face, but because I wish it were 1/4″ lower so he’d look like he had Rip Taylor’s mustache.
This is actually a Valentine reprint of Nurse Lucie, but I much prefer almost everything about the original: the title, the jacket blurb, the cover illustration, and (especially) the title font.