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"You are minus an incisor," Said the medical advisor, As he gazed. within the jaws of the recruit; "\f,far is frightful, war is ruthless, You're no good if you are toothless, I'm afraid that you can't wear that army suit." Said the lad 1'I want to fight 'em, Didn't know I had to bite 'enr, But I'll do it, and I'll gouge 'em some, to boot; I can shoot like Davy CrockettAnd I'm sound in wind and sprocket-" Said the Doc-"Okay, kid, here's your soldier suit."

Had a Christmas "rra lrol ir"r,t Wherritt that read: "Noel, Noel. May all our friends live long and well, and Japs and Germans go to Hell. Noel, Noel."

Another friend senos in trriJor.l, a.,tt or unknown: "Here's to Hitler, the great big stiff, May his nose swell up'til he can't even sniff, May he burn to a crisp in chloride of lime, . And go to Hell singing'I'll be gone a long, long, time."' ***

It might be worthy of remark that the theme song of the retreating German army in Russia is that famous strain and line from the Miserere: "Oh, I have sighed to rest me."

Not as well known ", in"1rrilo.e to old Glory paid by that great American orator, Daniel Webster, (reprinted in the January first issue of this magazine) but nevertheless a very thrilling declaration in its own right, are the words once uttered by the late Senator Hoar: "I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and of river and mountain. I have seen the moon rise over Mt. Blanc. I have seen the sunset on the Jungfrau. But the fairest vision on which these eyes ever rested was the flag of my country in a foreign port. Beautiful as a fower to those who love it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate, it is the symbol of power, and glory and honor of one hundred millions of Americans."

Comparing conditions ,fuJ" nlt*n ,no." in effect during the First World \llfar, demonstrates principally the fact that this is an entirely new world, and this is an entirely different sort of war. While it has been truly said that "the past is given us to build the future out of," it is nevertheless true that everything was so entirely different in 1917 from what it is today, that we gain very little useful knowledge by making comparisons.

Start right in with "";. i" lnt, *. folks at home got all of our war news from the daily papers. Today we have a much faster news service in our newspapers than we did then, but in addition we have the radio. Radio, you must remember, was in its earliest infancy in 1917. Today we sit in comfort and fsten thrillingly while some man thousands of miles away describes events hours-sometimes only minutes-old. To hear an American reporter describe in his own voice and words from far-off Singapore the exact events as he watches them, of the sinking of two mighty British battleships, was an indescribable, unforgettable, and sensational feeling even to the most blase radio enthusiast. That broadcast wrote the name of that reporter, Cecil Brown, inefraceably upon my memory lists. So, all in all, we are getting and will get the war news much faster and much more definitely in this new wprld war than we ever dreamed of getting them in the last one. A well known lumberman dropped dead with excitement on December 7th, while listening to the radio reports of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Economic conditions i"l.rtJt the average individual lumberman furnish more contrast as between 1917 and 1942 than even the news. We had a million men fighting in France in the First World War before there were any signs of building restrictions in this country. This time we had severe btrilding restrictions even before we entered the shooting war. And the first severe restrictions on building in 1918 came so close to the end of the war that there was not time to decide just how severe their effect on business would have been. This statement is not made in a spirit of criticism of what has been done this time. As stated at the beginning of this story, this is a new kind of world, and this is a new kind of war. In the First World War no such quantity or volume of metals were needed, as now. Today we need metals in unlimited volume for the building of types of death-dealing equipment never even dreamed of during the First World War, and therefore the use of these critical metals had necessarily to be restricted. There

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