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                    <text>TOMORROW
Peg Meece

He tucked the thin, tattered, blue blanket beneath his son’s chin be­
fore he left the apartment, which was typical of most Harlem apartments—
unheated, ill-lighted, and without hot water. The young girl who lived in
the next apartment would come in and check the boy if she heard him cry­
ing through the thin wall of the apartments.
He walked down 58th street towards the subway, his spirits beginning
to lift as the filthy smog and dank atmosphere fled before the morning sun.
Perhaps today would be different. Today he would go home with a job.
He had been unemployed for over a year now, and was about to give up.
He knew he had lost his pride, but he also knew that it would return if he
found a job.
Before, people had always been against him, but now he was in New
York City, the showplace of the United States, where all men were equal
as God had created them. Equal to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
“Pursuit of happiness,” he mused. “What chance would a guy like me have
for happiness? Millions are enslaved by communism, but I am free, free to
pursue happiness. True, I can’t find a job and bills are long over-due, but
Bess is working. I’ll find a job soon, and little Billy will be able to play in
no time. Pneumonia! What does the doctor know? Billy just has a little
cold.”
He now turned a side street and reached the subway. He paid from the
few coins that Bess had left him, and after a few moments was racing below
the streets of New York, showplace of Democracy. When he got off, he then
walked the rest of the way to the Unemployment Bureau. After leaving
his name at the desk, he was asked to sit down. There he waited. He recog­
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by their parents were chasing balloons of red, white and blue. Others, who
had grown weary, were rapidly falling into the sleep of children, peaceful
and innocent. Most of the people there were Negroes, like himself, or Puer­
to Rican. They waited.
About an hour later a young couple lounged up to the reception’s desk
after rudely bumping, and nearly knocking down an elderly woman.
“Why don’t ’ya watch what you’re doin’, Spic?” the young Lady sneer­
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Her companion was in the characteristic black leather jacket, tight
jeans, sunglasses, and long greasy hair. The girl wore a tight-fitting skirt and
sweater, with curlers in her hair which she occasionally replaced. Both
seemed to be under twenty. After a few moments, they were interviewed
and promised a job within the next few weeks.
Still he waited. Still most of the others waited. Three-fourths were
—21—

�non-white. They waited.
The weary, half-starved faces of those around him reflected the dis­
couragement and helplessness he was feeling. It was now almost 5:00 p.m.
He had waited through the noon hour, thinking that he might miss a good
chance if he left.
About 6:00 p.m. the office closed and with its workers left a young
Negro father whose wife works irregular hours, whose son dies as he waits.
But there is always tomorrow.

STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
Jacob.
See, Jacob?
Staircase, Jacob.
Long way up there, Jacob.
See the top way up there, Jacob?
Listen! I hear somethin’ cornin’, Jacob.
Soon there’s got to be a reward cornin’, Jacob.
But now you must admit, repent your old sins, Jacob.
There’s the only way you’ll ever get to heaven now, Jacob.
Jacob
Jacob
Jacob
Jacob.
—Tom Norman

VICTORY
Like a falcon in the sky.
Triumphantly passing others by.
The victorious chant and scream.
And yet, may not know what they mean.
Meanwhile, the conquered must bow down.
And lose possession of their noble crown.
But, who really won in the end?
Of course, those who had the most to spend.

THEIR GOALS
It’s true, the components of this marvelous age.
Want it all in black and white on this very page.
Not to think, contemplate, decide, and do.
But rather, to merely follow through
By Plan A, let the flower bloom.
That’s what they want — Security of the tomb.
—Ronnie Forgey

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                    <text>- ;Of L-Slleep iind

•••

THE cowboy has become a ro- And when the boys came in from and dancing so dear to the Irish Worst of all, the le&gt;ss of sheep
: mantic symbol recreated year the range, .six or eight months lat- heart.
wouid i ndicate that he had been a
after year in fiction, TV programs, er, that same suit hung on their
The young herders had frepar�d poor risk whe n his passage mon­
and on the mo vie screen. Occasion- young, tough bodies with a look Ior such occasions. Theu• ·. shirts ey had been paid from Scotland
ally he has. gotten i.nto musical and feel of strangeness.
had been washed and placed . U!I· to Wyoming.
der their 1:ieds for pressing. They
e om e d y. · A nostalgic air stirs . UNDER THE BIG SKY
While the Irish h&lt;?rder was susamong spectators at rodeos when
Accompanied by their war bags had cut their own hair and deal t lained in his loneliness by his re­
the men in chaps and. big hats ap-· and their religion, the boys with as best they could with the prob- Jigion, and the Scotchman by a
pear.- While the cowboy has been the remembered sound of Irish lems of personal cleanliness. And ·mixture .of stubbornness and Pres­
JIIOmanticized, and at the s a rn e singing in their ears and the blur- -h-Orrors '!-i f lice had gotten if!lO byterianjsm·,. the Basque herder
time stereotyped, the sheepherder ring pictures of Irish landsd1pes · their "sougans," _ they had · s�re�d · was different. Fonda.mentally, the
liu remained where he was when in their minds, moved out under a them over ant hills · t o be nd ·Of Basque's fortitude rested on · the
he first apJ)eared on �e Wyoming big, indifferent sky onto -a wide the pests.
· --� i-n-OOrn pride of his race. \Vhil e
ieene in the 1870's. It was no ma- land with the wind always moving BAGPIPES , TOO
Basques, like ,most of the Irish,
jor ingredient of fiction that sheep over it. And as they moved, perSometimes a Scotchman . ·came were Catholic, •there is a funda­
eame up the trails from Texas haps riding in a buckboar d or along with the bagptpes and. added ment al difference in their basic
aJld were moved across Wyoming freight wagon, toward the canvas- his strange, eerie music to 'that o f character, a. difference substanti­
to Oregon and sometimes back f.o roofed wagon that would be home, the concertina. The S�otch herders, ated by s c h o I a r s treating the
Wyomin g. The sheepherder did not they were instructed on the unwrit- you ng men too, had much in com- Basque background and personal­
fire the imagination.
ten laws or the range : A man mon with the Irish. ·They also had ity. The Irish and the Scotch were
But pe rhaps when the sheepherd- never left his sheep. The sheep .come i n search of a better way �r· not innately self-complete, while
er is explored by writers of fiction c ame before e,•erything - before 'Jile, some disdaining the ways of the Basques ,by th eir very nature
he will stand free of stereotyped health, dreams, or the pursuit of the land ed gent ry in Scotland, were remote, s elf-contained, and
illterpretation and m:iy indeed pre- happiness. A m an never tampered some because of economic neces• isolationists from all but their own
sent a character of such variety .as with another man's bedroll, and to sity. Like the Irish, many of them race. This was not, as many peo­
to .add new dimensions to western burn a bedroll w as a despicable were in their early teens, and in a pie think, ·due to a sp eech or Jan­
literatur e. Out of his background and violent act that could lead to short time their responsibilities had guage barrier, bul to the nature of
a,d b ehavior may arise basic rea- a more violent end. A man was at become thos e of men. As a whole, the Basque pride which is rooted
lil ies that provoke the writer to liberty, and indeed welcome, to they were not as uninhibited and in the idea that to be born a
feel deeply and. Jook ben eath the enter another man's sheep wagon out-going as the Irish. Thrift con- Basque
is to be born a complete
:i nd help himSl-Jf to food and she!- cerne-d them more and they were and
gurface.
superior man.
er
lock
e
d.
Sheepherders in Wyoming were ter. No wagon was ev
not as gregarious, being more in- . .P
E
ef three cmtstanding t.ypes-Trish, But on entering another m an's wa- clined to k eep their thoughts an d A ROUD PEOPL
B
sque
pr
ide
has
existed over
a
Scotch, a nd Basque _ Of the three, gon, responsibility must be_ as.- e m o t i o n s to the mselves. They
it is the Irish who (jrst int rigue, su med for washing the dishes and looked forwa rd, if possible, to get- centuries in the Basque Provinces
the curious. Out of a country torn leaving the wagon as clean as when ting into town and celebrating the in Spai ·n and, fo. southwest France.
Possibly desce n ded from Cro-Mag­
by war antl famine, they beg a n enier:'d.
birthday of Robert Burns. The Irish
man, they antedate ancient.
their drift across the ocean toward
In the winter the young men of her ders felt fortune smiled on them non
lberjan tribe$ nf Spain and their
America. Many came to Wyoming. lreland-nwst of the1il a_round �as- if, by some me.ans, they cou1d arThey, cam e young and poor and pet came ,Crom County Cork-lived rive in town on St. Patrick's Day. langu age is. related to n o other. It
sometimes with little or no formal with snow, cold, wind and isola- And hap-py was the Irish boy _who was the backbone of the Basque
education. for education--even in tion. And always the sheep came entered the town house of a fnend country tha.t fought of! Romafls, .
Visiaoths Moors and Franks. Jt
religion-was, at tim�s. a hazard- first. Their dogs, so nece� sary to
saw, flo ating in a little saucer ·-was "'the Basques �ho threw off the
4&gt;US pursuit. In most in8tances, the b usiness of carin g for sheep, andwater,
of
a few shamro cks from · overlordship-of Charlemagne. And
passage money was sent to the m beca me · substitutes for hunian com- the OId �ount ry,
it was al�\?· the Basques who valiby a hardy leader of ,the family panionship. The ITish herd ers lov ed
The Irish and Scotch herders · antly resisted Franco until he o
who had gotten together enough their dogs, fought with them,
v•
rH
d
to
th
aft
e
d te
saloons
er, Jong -r
�• threw t h:....;.
'-"' 1·n 1937.
cash to cros s the Atlantic. The tall,ed -to them, and sometimes
:° 0nth5 on the ran�e. Here, glass
young of Ireland, en couraged by taught them di�l i;,gu:shing tricks. m hand wh at st0r1es migh-t pass; Most of 'tlie Basques who came·
the few first pioneers in the she�p At lea st ,me of these early Irish
·
her bef�re the to Wyoming worked in the Big
business, turned toward a land of herders taught his favorite dog to from ? ne 10 t.he 0t
Horn Mountains a.nd Powder Riv•
sour
light
of
d
a ybreak! It 1s gen. • •ty. Basques f'irst
better opportunity.
ct• ew tobacco.
. v1cm1
er Bas.'n
conceded that the
. came m numbers to w ork for J.
. Irish were
Arriving in Wyoming , they were
In sum..1er, JJ13ny took the long er:::lly
.
taken in by relati,, es or frie nds trail to t.he Big Horn Mountains wilder .3nd mor e emotional, but m B. Okie of Lost Cabin. Unlike the
were lhose
who warmly opened th eir doors to w:1ere th e grass grew t 3 II , the ma
" n yh instaDces there
• h an d th e s co lc h, th ey d'd
1 oot
o· tc. men whO " could s1ay wi•th
· 1 r1s
c
�
r
.
and
l
c
t
,
i2
y
count
,"
he
b
t
the
e
re
m
e
o
oo
w
cuuntr-.r
n
s
h
o!d
t
com
e to ·make a new way of life in
O"S
' fr
'
~
.. h
They were in d ebt for passage was even more vast and lonely them."
a �cw country; they ca me to acmoney but the futur e · pro mised than that o! winter range. But . Irish a nd Scotch herdersf shared quire morey nd return to. an old
a
common,
r
�
omantic Jove' or their
much. They didn't ha,·e to re main someti mes this lonely existence
.
·., country.
A .few st11yed, per,�a,ps al·
.
hired men; they were usu;:illy per- was broken by the company of the ,na
' t1ve . count ne·s but se Idom d1-, lowing
business
acumen to tak e
mitted to allow their wages to ac- opposite sex. Often the owner's t ney �15h .� ._return. t0 st �Y: B 0th precedent over pride in old coun­
c
cumulate and buy sheep of ·th eir wife would move up for the su:m- fel_t k ee? allian e to the1r. coun- try soil and old country traditions
the ::�t �11.� wei;� ��o
m
mer, bringing her ow n wagon for t� ;r· m
C)wn.
but the majority went home. ,
Boys in tlieir tee n s, torn by living qu.1rters, and she might ,be rie n _Y tow ar _ · ou si ers. · e
It is interesting to know th;:it at
homesick. ness, went to one of the accompanied, for a brief visit, by a more ,m-agm a hve Scotch men cou�&lt;l the time whe n Mr. Okie. return.
,
. ·
· allc . g from a lnp
mercanli1e stores an d, on er ed'it !ew young wo men, d aughtcrs • of be counted on to be as dra
. m
to Spam, brou.,oht
m
offered by the man who had hired friends. While the young ladies .a nd sent·im�nt al· as ·the I-nsh ·
back
Basque
h
erders and a Basque
A-mong t e a_ccounts of young mii,id for his wife, th ere als came
them, bought what every herder were in camp, life became gay.
o
had to have-a tepee, slicker, bed- This gaiety rea c�ed its finest �x- Scolch her&lt;lers is 'the· st0t Y of Qne to his ranch a Spania rd who spoke
boy . of 13. who . knew the terror of· be autiful English as well as Span­
roll, and tobacco. They were in- pression in the "tarp dances.":
troduced M the herder's "war At nightfall, the sheep b edded, h�vm,g W!ld rang� horses trample. ish. This man was a graduate of
bag"-a large heavy sack of coars- the stars shining, the fires gl-0wiiJg, his sheep.· The ·Y:11d horses . c_rav_etl Oliford University an d later ma.r·
er material than a flour sack- someone would start playing th e salt, espe cially m those v1cm1t1 es
and in this was put their w ork concertina. A l arge tarpaulin was where I.here was no salt sage, an t.I
elothes. The suit of "good clothes" then spread on the rough ground, were a menace to the sheep when
they had worn &lt;luring tearful fare - corn ers anch ored with rocks, and the herder put out salt. The same
wells on the old country shore and the dancing began-jigs, hornpipes, young he rde-r knew t-he threat of
during the long crossing of th e sets and half sets. It was not like coyotes, patroli ng alone on Casper
ocean, was left in town, hung in the Irish greens but it brought Mountain, from small fire to fire,
the closet of :i friend or relative. hack an the laughing and singini:: in an atte-mpt to protect his sheep.

3

�!uoxttnuen from rage is)
ried the Basque girl who attended

Xrs. -Okie. He was perhaps one of
Wyoming's most formally educated sheepherders,
Another 'interesting and factual
story of the Basques is that eon- .
cerning the herder who saved his
money until the accumulation was
ssuch that upon his drawing it out,
the bank of Newcastle, Wyo., was
literally broke. Also out of Newcastle comes the picture of the
Basque herders in town for brief
respite from the lonely range life .
While the Irish and Scotch mingled freely at bars, stores, onstreet corners, the Basques remained aloof. They could stand all -day on a street and look at people. The few articles they bought
were purchased with utmost care,
;especially pipes which they
smoked only in the .evening in their
wagons, after the work was done .
.A Basque herder often took a day
to decide on the pureb.s e of a pipe .
looking the selection over with
complete absorption, considering
each item with . major interest . The
same pattern, With less time involved, accompanied the selection
of a comb or a straight-edge razor
which fascinated the l1asques .
-Photo by Jack Richard
STOOD ALOOF
The Basque herder was polite Sheep belonging to the Quick brothers of Cody start the onnuol trek to the high country.
but not social . lie did not, for the This picture won the Grand Sweepstakes Award of oil pictures of oil classes at the Wyomost part, frequent the saloon . If ming Press Association convention last month in Cheyenne . It con in the Cody Enterprise
necessary, he took a little beer .
lost summer,
he had no desire to mingle his
when visiting the parlor of the
"ladies of .the night." In this reblood with that of another race .
The B.a s q u e was not distin . Purity of blood strain was of great
spect only did he scent to find a work . Good enough was n e v e r
need to turn aside from his de- enough ; perfection was the ulti- gubsied by impulse or the grand importance to him. Toward his
open-hearted gestures of-the Irish. own people, he was more clannish
voted and solitary life as a herder . ntate aim .
Such a scene, pervaded by the
He was, if possible, gore thrifty than the most clannish Irish or
B a s q u e aloofness and dignity,
than the thriftiest of . the Scotch . Scotch . His life was in many rebackgrounded by the music of a
And unlike the Irish abd the Scotch spects as austere and dedicated as
that of a monk . And if he did not
phonograph, might present a cornhinati~n of social amenities never
seek to understand or feel close
before described in western ficto those of other races, his narrow way of life with its consumtion .
ing pride in self and accomplishThe Basque herder did not need
ment was one that commanded reto be indoctrinated in the theme
spect and provoked interest and inthat sheep were everything and
trigued the imagination .
came first . He already believed
this, believed it so deeply down
These then are the men or the
through his bones and his blood.
sheep-men who went on to 'beout of his old country heritage,
come land owners . politicians,
builders of our state. It is well 'to
that his work with sheep became
at times more an art than a liverecall that some of the Basges
lihood . Phenomenal stories are told
stayed and have added their old
of Basques who could neither read
and rich tradition to the life of
nor write but carried in their lades
Wyamln~" . The flocks of Basque
such a vast and detailed conglomsheepmen still [urn eastward With
eration o¬ facts and figures as
evening toward b^dgrounds in the
shadol's of the Biq Horn lifourl- would stagger experts on today's
TV quiz programs . Devotion that
tains. Any afternoon one might
may not have been shown in sowalk into the old hotel in Arminta
cial gestures was certainly evident
and hear the Irish brogue and the
in the Basque's attitudes toward
Irish imagination flou-ing freely
his sheep . it was a labor of love
over the glass. as bright and warm
although the goal was practicalas it was in the early range flays .
money to return to the Basque ProAny morning on (lie prairie one
vinces and live in the grandeur to
might come upon the Scotchman,
which he felt himself innately desheading his truck toward Ponder
tined.
River or Shoshoni .
Relationships between B a s q u e
Over these men of Wyoming, the
herders and their employers who
sky that once held only the shapes
were not Basque were marked by
of hawks and stars is now lighted
loyalty, service, and a dignity that
with beacons and etched by trails
has not been equalled . Even as
of jets . In such men and those
pride dominated the Basque herdwho preceded them are more storWESTU04
er's conception of self, so it also
ies of the vagaries of the human
ROOK
.
dominated his attitude toward his
heart than can possibly be written.
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Kevin Utter: We are now well into our Christmas season, and as we prepare for Christmas, put up the decorations, prepare the tree, clean the house, we must remember God’s purpose and the reason for celebrating Christmas. Please stay tuned. [Gospel Music]. &#13;
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Kevin Utter: [Music in background] A gift would be given in the Christmas season, which would last throughout eternity and would bring saving grace to all who would accept it. This is “Music with a Message,” the stories of Christ as told through music and word for your inspiration and joy. &#13;
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Kevin Utter: Good evening everyone, this is Kevin Utter. This evening, we would like to express the Christmas spirit in a little different manner. Last summer I had the privilege, as I do every summer, to hear Mrs. Peggy Simson Curry, one our favorite Wyoming writers and poets. One of the works she shared with us last summer was a Christmas poem, which I would like to bring you this evening. So at this time, I now present to you Mrs. Peggy Simson Curry. &#13;
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Peggy Simson Curry: Pleasure to be here, I’ve enjoyed it very much. I like to share my poetry. And this one I’m very fond of, it’s a Christmas poem that I wrote over a year ago and it was purchased by the Christian Science Monitor and they will use it in the future. And it is a religious poem because it’s just something I wanted to say relative to Christmas and God and so forth. And the title is “The Season of the Star.” [Music].&#13;
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Peggy Simson Curry: [Music in background] Father, thy name I praise. And all thy foes and names in hearts of men of every race. Thy name I praise and praise again. In grass that greens out of the snows and in the flute-like songs we sing, remembering love by little fires in the dark. I praise thy name in autumn-breasted birds and miracles of star-shaped moss upon the smallest rain-washed stone. I praise in all moons, in rainbows down on city streets and sun remembered earth. I praise the mystery from which I came, for if I am not this, then I am nothing. For if thy mark is not upon me as the light, I am the lost and empty shell that gives no ear the echo of the sea. Now in the sacred season of the star, lighted trees, love untethered as the winds, thy name I praise and kneel upon the earth, take communion with all living things. Lay soft thy blessing in my heart and in my mind renew thy purpose. &#13;
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Kevin Utter: You’ve just heard a poem written and read by Peggy Simson Curry of Casper, Wyoming. I would like to thank her very much for the permission to use this poem this evening on this series of Christmas programs. Lord, this evening we ask you to help us remember these wonderful things you have taught us and things you have given us to make possible our salvation and to make possible for us joy that would otherwise be unreachable and for bringing us hope that would otherwise be despair. We praise your name this evening for your wondrous love for us, and as we remember this through the Christmas season, help us to show this love for others as you have showed it to us. To bring love and aid to someone else in need and never to hesitate to reach out to someone when we plainly see their needs or if their needs are not as clear at first. Help us, still, to reach out. We thank you again and praise your holy, wonderful name. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen. [Gospel Music].&#13;
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Kevin Utter: At this time of the year, we have decorated trees, beautiful lights and many Christmas gifts under the tree. But also let us not forget the wonderful gift that was given to us by our Lord Jesus Christ, which is what we’re worshipping during this Christmas season. Thank you very much for listening, and please listen again next Monday evening at 6:25. So long. &#13;
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