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 Well, just ask the public where those "mad" bushwalkers should be!
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+=====Bushwalkers' War Memorial.=====
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-BUSHWALKERSt- WAR MEMORIAL
 From Jeane Mannell, Griffith.
-I.don't know whether it is quite my plaoe to submit this article, but I am writing as I feel.
-After reading."Mumbedahrs" article, "Bushwalker's War Memorial" in April issue of "The Sydney Bushwalker", I would rather like to "second his motion", whatever the Federation may decide to do about a memorial.
+I don't know whether it is quite my place to submit this article, but I am writing as I feel.
-As Gordon Marmon's Widow and as one who loves to roam the Cox and many of our other lovely bushwalker haunts, I think a brass tablet on Splendour Rock would indeed be a fitting remembrance. I know how much both of the Gordon la loved the Cox country in particular. My Gordon and I did many a lovely walk with Gordon Smith, and our first four day walk with him was at Christmas 1933. Although Gordon Smith had "done" the Cox many times before, tnd we had not at the time had this pleasure, he chose this walk as it was always so attractive to him if he did not want' to do a particularly tough walk, and h6 was very keen for us to see it.
+After reading "Mumbedah's" article, "Bushwalker's War Memorial" in April issue of "The Sydney Bushwalker", I would rather like to "second his motion", whatever the Federation may decide to do about a memorial.
+As Gordon Mannell's Widow, and as one who loves to roam the Cox and many of our other lovely bushwalker haunts, I think a brass tablet on Splendour Rock would indeed be a fitting remembrance. I know how much both of the Gordons loved the Cox country in particular. My Gordon and I did many a lovely walk with Gordon Smith, and our first four day walk with him was at Christmas 1933. Although Gordon Smith had "done" the Cox many times before, and we had not at the time had this pleasure, he chose this walk as it was always so attractive to him if he did not want to do a particularly tough walk, and he was very keen for us to see it.
 Usually I am against War Memorials of the Monument type, as I feel that they are rather useless, but as the cost of a brass plaque on Splendour Rock would not be very great, I feel that the idea appeals to me very much.
-Although I have not been able to do much bushwalking since my marriage, being stationed at Griffith which is in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and 400 miles from Sydney, andi incidently, very flat except for one hill, my heart is still with bushwalking. I think both of our children, Graham and Diana, have inherited Gordon's and my love of the bush. I have mentioned to the kiddies that probably on our next trip to Sydney i' about January, I will take them for a week end down to Blue Gum Forest to camp. I think they will perhaps be capable of doing this walk (they will then be seven and six years respectively). Their little eyes light up at the thought of "Bluegum" and the pictures I have"painted" of it. I sometimes pack my rucksac and take them up "Scenic Hill" at Griffith, where we make a fire and cook our dinner. They just revel in this.
-. Maybe I have got a bit away from my original subject, but I have often been going to write to the Magazine with a bit of an article as to our doings, so I have combined the two subjects.
+Although I have not been able to do much bushwalking since my marriage, being stationed at Griffith which is in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area and 400 miles from Sydney, and, incidently, very flat except for one hill, my heart is still with bushwalking. I think both of our children, Graham and Diana, have inherited Gordon's and my love of the bush. I have mentioned to the kiddies that probably on our next trip to Sydney, about January, I will take them for a week end down to Blue Gum Forest to camp. I think they will perhaps be capable of doing this walk (they will then be seven and six years respectively). Their little eyes light up at the thought of "Bluegum" and the pictures I have "painted" of it. I sometimes pack my rucksac and take them up "Scenic Hill" at Griffith, where we make a fire and cook our dinner. They just revel in this.
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-At the last Field Weekend, not one Prospective arose early to provide breakfast in bed for Members. Even the leader had to rely upon a visiting- male's female for this meagre comfort. Is this constitutional?
+Maybe I have got a bit away from my original subject, but I have often been going to write to the Magazine with a bit of an article as to our doings, so I have combined the two subjects.
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-SAVING LIVES OR SAVING FLOWERS
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+At the last Field Weekend, not one Prospective arose early to provide breakfast in bed for Members. Even the leader had to rely upon a visiting male's female for this meagre comfort. Is this constitutional?
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+=====Saving Lives For Flowers.=====
 By Bona Dea
-When you read in the daily papers of the millions of people in the world who are slowly dying througli 1pck of food, have you c,ver wondered whwbher we ought to turn from our work of preserving the bush to the work of preserving men?
-Probably many humantitaxians get impatient when they hear of our deputations to save our wild flowers, and think we would be much better employed assisting to send food and clothing to destitute and starving people,
-And yet, is any life, even that of trees and flowers, to be despised? Albert Schweitzer, one of the greatest living humanitarians, would say "No", fot it was he who conceived the idea of reverence for all life. He himself gave up a worldfamous musical career aS the interpreter of Bach, and also an honoured place in the theological and academic world to bury himself in Africa as a humb1.6 doctor trying to make amends to tho coloured people for the wrongs the whites had done them. But though his own work was the saving of men, ho insists that all life is sacred. It is true there cannot be existence without sOnestruction, but that destruction, must be reduced to the minimum. You may cut the poppies in the field to save the wheat, but you musb,e doubly careful going home that you do not knock off a single poppy head by the road side, That is his idea and he would certainly api?rOve of rlur-efforts to preserve the bushlands, even though there is terribly urgent need to preserve the starving peoples of Europe, China and India.,
-There is a rather lovely myth current in eastern Asia which illustrates the same idea that even the life of the vegetable kingdom is to beheld sacred. It turns around the Bodhisattvas, as they are Called, beings who have been reincarnated over and over again, gradually rising in the scale of existence till at last they have won the right to Buddahood,
-that is, the right to rest from their labours and return no more to this
-world of pain and suffering. But they renounce that right, and, return to the:sorrows of earth again and again in order that they may help every
-being upwards, until "the last blade of grass is raisd to Buddhahood." A myth, it is true,- but again 'embodying the trilth that all life is worthy of preservation.
-Our work:of'.conserving.:thebush-tay be aaosser work than
- of.Ahose:who are working tbsep:ve 'people-froill'aattath:bTttar vatioll. But
-it. i's not-tork,to. be deSpise4and if we -do:th:e work that. lies neareSt. Us,
-we. have 'done what te rebuileLtheHworld'after the. most terribly
-de strUetive of all tars,
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-STOP PRESS on EASTER from the reporter whor-wEisc'stopp cedb _ - d i : j' L : ,
-SCENE ON CENTRAL: . ', ' ' - -r, "_,:, 8---c)-1
-Mavis tisanes, fresh from bride'S.1-m-dinkt6 her siS,tei-L, 13:(0'EtY'..; Urit gd the ticket windows in the late hours, with prospective Gebff 'Bradiey riP40 (or ',towing, we' re not quite sure) Witn -Intentions,- Oft4naiiieihiii,K6ntai bo R., they had prayed for rain. An ,how ,t4a-eir, pra*,9 we a n-sireat -So much
+When you read in the daily papers of the millions of people in the world who are slowly dying through lack of food, have you ever wondered whether we ought to turn from our work of preserving the bush to the work of preserving men?
-so that they TbAdied Tight out of .1-..]t :a:114 , 1111-841e,(V:171P-(..4-VT:', ' '''''':5
+Probably many humantitarians get impatient when they hear of our deputations to save our wild flowers, and think we would be much better employed assisting to send food and clothing to destitute and starving people.
+And yet, is any life, even that of trees and flowers, to be despised? Albert Schweitzer, one of the greatest living humanitarians, would say "No", for it was he who conceived the idea of reverence for all life. He himself gave up a world famous musical career as the interpreter of Bach, and also an honoured place in the theological and academic world to bury himself in Africa as a humble doctor trying to make amends to the coloured people for the wrongs the whites had done them. But though his own work was the saving of men, he insists that all life is sacred. It is true there cannot be existence without some destruction, but that destruction, must be reduced to the minimum. You may cut the poppies in the field to save the wheat, but you musst be doubly careful going home that you do not knock off a single poppy head by the road side. That is his idea and he would certainly approve of our efforts to preserve the bushlands, even though there is terribly urgent need to preserve the starving peoples of Europe, China and India.
+There is a rather lovely myth current in eastern Asia which illustrates the same idea that even the life of the vegetable kingdom is to be held sacred. It turns around the Bodhisattvas, as they are called, beings who have been re-incarnated over and over again, gradually rising in the scale of existence till at last they have won the right to Buddahood, that is, the right to rest from their labours and return no more to this world of pain and suffering. But they renounce that right, and return to the sorrows of earth again and again in order that they may help every being upwards, until "the last blade of grass is raisd to Buddhahood." A myth, it is true, but again embodying the truth that all life is worthy of preservation.
+Our work of conserving the bush may be a lesser work than of those who are working to save people death by starvation. But it is not work to be despised, and, if we do the work that lies nearest us, we have done what we can to help rebuild the world after the most terribly destructive of all wars.
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+=====Hot News!!=====
+by Thistle Rockyer.
+====Stop Press on Easter====
+From the report who was stopped.
+====Scene on Central:====
+Mavis Jeanes, fresh from brides-maiding her sister, Betty, haunted the ticket windows in the late hours, with prospective, Geoff Bradley in tow (or towing, we're not quite sure). With intentions of conoeing the Kangaroo R., they had prayed for rain. And how their prayers were answered! So much so that they paddled right out of it and finished up - walking!
+====Barrington News:====
+N.S.W.G.R. resources were severely strained to provide transport for Roley Cotter and his party. He and his multitudinous entourage sloshed and slithered through slippery slush (whew!) to a perfect Youth-Hostel type weekend, with some 32 sleeping bags littering floor and furniture of Crosby's disused home. We hear more of billiards and bathing at Barrington House than care-free cavorting on Carey's Peak.
+====From Our N.R.M.A. Scout:====
+By the Nepean was a spacious auto tent (cries of "shame!") from which a timid head peeped out at walkers passing by. On looking closer, we saw that the figure in the canvas chair (!!), absorbed in tending bubba, was none other than - the President!
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+No, the current dents on Bert Whillier's thumbs are not due to mishits with a hammer, but are the remains of blisters earned in "thumbing" his way to Adelaide and back.
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+====Gangerangs Service:====
+From pucka sahibs to travelling tramps; forcibly ejected from sleepers on the Kempsey Mail. Gladys Roberts, Bill Carter and the Ed. etc. swing the helm towards Kanangra Walls. Spent most of Easter on Railway platforms, but did find time to get bushed between Koorie-Kirra and the Cox!
+====Yarrangobilly-Brindabella Trip:====
+Both porters and drivers on Central co-operated in delaying departure for 1 1/2 hrs. to ensure that all of Ray Kirkby's crowd were on board. In the midst of the waiting, Allan Hardie took it upon himself to use his pack in sweeping a man from the platform onto the ralls. Whilst lumbering engines shunted round him, he leisurely and unconcernedly picked himself up, dusted himself off, and climbed back to the platform. Apparently said man was so relieved at surviving a blow from Dorman's pack that oncoming locomotives held no fears at all!
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+====Era Express:====
+Fauna and Flora reported a quiet Eastertide, with scarcely a single walker to practice conservation upon them!
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-reSOLli'e9S 'were ,severely strained to provi'de transport, f or Roley_cottpr and his party. He i nd hii-- m4titudinous entourage sloshed and s1ithere&through,sliPPerySlu0- (whew) i0 a perfect 'Youth-.Hostel type weekends with some 32 sleeping bagS littering floor end furniture of Crosby's disused borne.: We hear morb of 'billiards and bathing- at Barrington House than
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-care.-free cavoTng-Tpil- c,a,reYI s , Peak, '
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-FROM OUR N.R.M.A. SCOUT:.
--hanWast, a- sp'acious auto : tent! (cries of ,"shame) from which a timid head peeped out at walke_r_o_ passing by*, On looking closer, we saw that the figure in the canvas chair ,(1.1), absorbed in tending but;ba, was none other than- - the President:
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-No, the curr,ent dents on Bert Whillier s -thuinbs are. _due -to mishits with a hammer, but are the remains of blisters -earned in "thumbingu.,his_ way to Adela i.de 8,nd back.
-GANGERANGS SERVICE:
-From - pucka sahibs to travelling tramps, forcibly ejected from sleepers on the Kempsey. Mail, Gladys Roberts.. Bill Carter and the Ed. etc. ,owittg, the heLpa:., toward s Kanangra Walls. Spent most of Easter on Railway -caatf ormesi,:bt did find time to get bushed between -koorie.L.Kirra an-ft.-the Cox- -
-YARRANGOBILLY-BRINDABEL1A TRIP:
-Both porters and driVers on Central. co-operated in dt la ying departure for 1+ -hrs. to ensure that all of Ray- larkbyt-s crowd were on. board. In the midst of the waiting, Allan Hardie took it upon himSell to use his pack in sweeping a -man, from the platform onto the ralls. Whilst lumbering engines shunted round him, he leisurely and unconcernedly Pick6d himself up, dusted himself off, and climbed back to the platform. Ap;Jarently said man was so relieved at surviving a _blow fiOrl-Dorman's 'Pack that oncoming locomotives 'held no fears at
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-ERA EXPRESS:
-Fauna and Flora reported a quiet Eastertide, with scarcely a single walker to practice cons_erve tion, upon theml
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