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(Continued from Page 8) with the latest ones. What kind of a bird is Washington and Jefferson? I bet they are regular fellows when you meet 'em, ain't they? Most big men are. ***

"I would like to see the bunch that is gathered round you ttre first time you tell the one about putting the limberger cheese in the old nester's whiskers. Don't tell that, Charlie, until you get Lincoln around you. He would love that. I bet you and him kinder throw in together when you get well acquainted. Darn it, when I get to thinking about all them top hands up there, if I could just hold a horse wrangling job with 'em I wouldn't mind following that wagonmyself.

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"Of course we are all just hanging on here as long as we can. I don't lorow why we hate to go, we know it's better there. Maybe it's because we haven't done anything that will live after we're gone. From your old friend, Will."

If that doesn't belong in your scrapbook, friends, you must have a funny book. The words I quoted from Russell Lowell were from this verse: "Standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-eainest, brave, farseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame." ***

Lincoln believed that there is but one 12gs-hurnanity. He no doubt would h4ve gladly indorsed the words written by Herbert Agar, distinguished Southern editor and author, when he said: "Every civilization rests on a set of promises; moral promises about how to behave to each other, physical promises about how to use our economic system. If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich we may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith goes, everything goes."

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If any of us need a strengthening of backbone in behalf of our Republican form of Governrnent, consider the present plight of Great Britain. She is in straits well nigh as desperate as she was those days when Hitler's hordes were only twenty miles auray across the narrow waters of the North Sea, and her own armed forces practically without ammunition.or great guns. And all because the pink flag of socialism appealed to a majority of British voters immediately after the war. Someone told the tired British people that if they voted Socialism they would no longer have to work hard for private employers but would become their own bosses. And under such bosses they could take it easy. They did. And now look at them. From the day the Socialist goveniment took over, the wbrkers began to slow down. And now the wages of such industrial and economic sin has mounted to a tidal wave that threatens them with destruction. They have learned, too late and at horrid cost, that production and production alone can bring prosperity, and that you can't loaf yourself irrto economic paradise. Today, as in the days of old, the good things of life must be won "by the sweat of their brows." British workers quit sweating; and now they may quit eating.

Many matters of huge interest to every citizen now faces the Congress. One of them is the proposal to limit the continuous service of the President. Right now, when the passions and prejudices created by political races are on vacation and no personalities need creep into the discussions of the proposition, is the ideal time to limit the terms a President may serve. In my mind one thing is absolutely certain; a.President who has served two terms in office can be re-elected continuously if he so desires. No power can defeat the organization that is naturally built up through long political service. Samuel J. Tilden, who lost to Hayes although he polled the larger popular vote, remarked: "If the sacred tradition of two terms established by Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and Jacksgn can be broken, the President may be re-elected indefinitely. There will be no organized thing in the country of sufhcient power to resist him." History has amply demonstrated that any President can re-nominate himself. The national convention of thc party in power is always a sham. No power can stop his re-nomination if he wants it that way. The power of a President who has served two terms to re-elect himself comes straight and unbeatable from the possession of the property and authority of the government. To any ambitious man who has served two terms and is not legally restrained from seeking a third, self-perpetuation is a certainty. That's why the time is now, when there is nothing of the kind at issue, to take care of the future. George Washington thundered against a third term for any man; and George was a sound sort of thinker, wouldn't you say? ***

George Washington once said: "Put only Americans on guard." Right now a Congressional Committee announces that it is going to conduct an investigation that will carry out the advice of Washington. For many years past subversives have needled and injected themselves into every department of our Federal Government. For a number of years they were amply protected. Thrown out of one department, they showed up in another. Now they are going to try and weed them out entirely. Let us all say Amen to that effort.