Vagabond Editorials

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We ought to have a "Read Kipling" year, the world over. We should read again, and learn again, and live again in the companionship of his imrnortal characters and words. One of the sweetest things he ever wrote was the introduction to "The Seven Seas," in which he apologizes for stealing stories. "When 'Omer tuned his bloomin' lyre,', he said, "'eed 'eard men sing by land and sea, and what 'ee thought 'ee might require, 'ee went an' took, the same as me. They knowed 'ee stole. 'ee knew they knowed. They didn't cry or make a fuss. Just winked at 'Omer up the road. An"ee winked back, the same as us." (From memory.'Scuse errors.) ***

Kings will come and kings will go. The divine right to rule will continue to be one of the Old World's choice superstitions. Let us hope that so long as there must be kings there will be many as good as the late King George.

But there will be no more Rudyard Kipling's to brighten and enthuse and entertain and inspire faltering men. Let us be grateful, therefore, that his thoughts and his words and the men and women who flame across his pages, are left behind as OUR heritage, immortalized by his genius, utterly indestructible. *+*

A tribute to Kipling in a business journal should properly

And the wolf that shall keep And the wolf that shall will prosper, it will die. As the creeper encircles tree-trunk, and back, The law runneth That the strength of pack-is the wolf, And the stren the wolf-is the pack."

Addition Phone Number

Moore Mill & Lum r Co. recently installed an additional telephone line number is EXbrook their San Francisco office. The new 50.