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CAJJ US TODAY NEGANDING YOT'R II'IVIBER nEQUIREMENIS

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There's a philosophy with strong appeal. Put as much as you can into every day of life. Take as much out of it as you can. Grab all the fun you can as you go along. Have no regrets. Once I asked a distinguished man who was far along the pathway of life, what things he regretted as he looked back. And he smiled and said: "I only regret the things I wanted much to do, and didn't."

February is a mighty little month, but boy, didn't she give the world some big men? Just Washington and Lincoln alone was enough to establish her fame as an outstanding producer. Yes sir, if I were February I'd sure brag about those two guys. Plenty has been printed and said about them these past few weeks, but nothing can do justice to them. Nothing. Shakespeare might have come close to doing the job, but unfortunately he preceded them. Bob Ingersoll, the famous agnostic, came closer than any other American in singing their praises.

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I read a lot of beautiful articles and editorials recently by our best American editors and journalists, and couldn't help chuckling at the way they cribbed the words and phrases of Ingersoll in their efforts at eloquent praise of Lincoln. Three of those I read used these lines: "His memory is as gentle as a summer breeze that blows when the reapers sing amid gathered sheaves." Beautiful words. Spoken two generations and more ago by Robert Ingersoll, discussing Lincoln. BUT THERE WERE NO QUOTATION MARKS SHOWING WHEN THESE WRITERS OF TODAY USED THEM. I have often said that no American speaker was ever robbed one-half as frequently and as brazenly as Ingersoll. These present-day boys each thinks he is the only man who reads Ingersoll, and therefore deliberately leaves off the quotation marks when cribbing his eloquent words. ***

If you wish to read the most beautiful words ever spoken concerning both Lincoln and Washington, read Ingersoll. They are as outstanding as his funeral oration over the grave of his brother; an oration that has been quoted without the use of quotation marks by a million clergymen, while seeking to say eloquent things about the dead.

Lincoln's greatest characteristic was his humility. No great statesman in the history of the world was ever so selfeffacing, so unassuming, so genuinely humble. In world hisiory he far outranks Washington. No scholar in two generations has compiled a list of the world's greatest men, that omitted the name of Lincoln. It was his unbelievable humility that stamped him immortal. That he 'ldreaded praise, not blame," as James Russell Lowell wrote of him, was undoubtedly true. And truly, "his memory is as gentle as a summer breeze that blows when the reapers sing amid gathered sheaves." You will notice that, unlike some of my editor contemporaries, I used the quote marlis. Nobody would be fool enough to think I originated such sublimity. ***

And Washington, while unlike Lincoln in a thousand important ways, also possessed a great degree of humility. Did you know, friends, that in the diary he kept through life, he never once mentioned the fact that he was President of the United States, or that he was Commander-in-Chief? Truly great men are like that. They are always like that. Vanity, egotism, self-praise can never be found in a Washington. Can you even imagine Lincoln referring to himself as Commander-in-Chief ?

Right here let me quotJtn" *"rU, of another great man -great because of his simplicity and humility-in which he refers to Lincoln and Washington in most novel fashion. I am indebted for these words of Will Rogers to a lumber friend, Glen Hutton. I had never seen them before. Charles M. Russell, the great cowboy artist, was a close friend of Will Rogers, and when he died several years before Rogers, he had just finished writing a book entitled "Trails Plowed l]nder." It was published after his death, and Will Rogers wrote the frontispiece in the form of a letter which he addressed to his cowboy tt"1d "over there." This is it:

"There ain't much news here to tell you. You know the Big Boss gent sent a hand over and got you too quick, Charlie. But I guess he needed a good man pretty bad. I hear they been working shorthanded over there pretty much all the time. I guess it's hard for Him to get hold of good men; they are getting scarce everywhere. ***

"I bet you hadn't been up there three days until you had out your old pencil and was a-drawing something funny about some of their old cowpunchers. I bet Mark Twain and Bill Nye and Whitcomb Riley and a whole bunch of those old joshers was just a-waiting for you to pop in

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