Vagabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

These favors I would humbly ask In days remaining, That I do my appointed task Without complaining. And in life's battles that I may Be more forgiving, And worthy of a small bouquet While I am living. -A. V/. Macy.

Hitler has now grabbed all the remaining big jobs in Germany. He can at last qualify as the sailor in the old poem did, who boasted:

"For I am the cook and the captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig, And the bos'n tight, and the midship mite, And the crew of the captain's gig."

In addition to which Mr. Hitler, regretting the too-low birth rate in Germany, is urging unmarried women to bear children. Nice fellow, this Nazi !

At last they announce the casting of the picturization of "Gone With the Wind." And the part of Scarlett is to be played by a girl who was born on New York s East Side to the name of Levy. Ah me ! ***

That best seller, however, has waited so long for the casting that its very name may be forgotten before the picture appears. There is just one great best seller that goes on forever; the Bible. Every year there are more Bibles sold than all other best sellers combined. Think of that !

No one knows how many Bibles have been printed and sold. One American firm has sold more than half a billion copies. More than eleven million copies were sold in this country last year. Bruce Barton called it in one of his books "The Book Nobody Knows." Everyone talks about it, numerous people quote from it, and almost nobody really knows it.

Why? Because they read it $'ith blinkers on. A Baptist reads it seeking signs to prove his belief the right one. So does the Presbyterian, the Methodist, the Catholic, the

Jew, and all the others. The agnostic reads it seeking signs of contradictions, illogical statements, etc. Only the occasional reader approaches the book with his mind wide open and with no theological axes to, grind, seeking what Truth he may find therein. But to such readers it is overloaded with nuggets more priceless than gold or precious stones. Barton is right. It IS the boo,k that almost nobody knows.

"The trouble with ani, ;"*r;" some sage recentty said, "is that there are too many people who live without working, and too many people who work without living."

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I read the other day about a man whose tax bill this year turned out to be an average of $33 a week more than the year before. So he fired a $35 a week clerk, and made the other help divide his duties. And don't get any idea in your head that such a case is very unusual. Men have to get their excess tax money somewhere.

By the way, this ,"rrr" Jrrrl" i"rto' previousty mentioned, is now one of our Congressmen from New York. He is a justly famous publicist, writer, author, and philosopher, and one of the country's most successful advertising men. He is probably better fitted than any other man in either house of Congress to intelligently discuss, diagnose, and administer business problems. Which is probably the chief reason he won't be asked to do so to any great extent. Successful men aren't considered good advisers in this strange age in which we find ourselves.

Barton is quoted as saying the other day: "If we are to have a capitalistic system you can't do without the men who have the knack of succeeding in business." That, of course, is present-day heresy.

For an example, I read the other day in The Houston Post abotrt the "conference" that Mr. Knudson, of General Motors, attended at the White House. Mr. Knudson was told that the President wanted from him a close-up view of the automobile industry situation. The Post says that Mr. Knudson went there to testify. But he never got a chance

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