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Shine. softly, Alabama stars, tonight. May Southern skies be clear, your tender light Soft through magnolia, and the stately Pines, Shine on a tall young lad with sunny hair, His weary limbs outstretched in slumber there. Touch tenderly his brown young cheek and bring Him dreams of home. Tell him the night birds sing. Their plaintive notes along the blue lake's shore, Above the waves soft whispering o'er and o'er; Tell him that oncb again the roses bloom, Spreading their sweetness through his empty room; Short days ago he laid his books away, For.sterner lessons of a martial day, A strangq new world for him. With kindly light Shine softly, Alabama stars, tonight.

' (To a Chicago Soldier at Camp McClellan by Margaret D. in the Chicago Tribune') '

I offer the above as one of the sweetest poems to a soldier boy this war has produced. The war develops plenty of terrific doggerel, written by amateurs who mean well but lack the knack. But it'also inspires people occasionally to write such things as the little poenrr above, which is as clear and fine and inspiring as the "pure crystal fountain" that the old Irish song, "The Rose of Tra Lee" mentions.

Henry Clay said: "Government is a trust and the officers of the Government are trirstees; and both the trust and trustees are created for the benefit of the people." This is worth mulling over, because we live in times when it frequently seems from their words and deeds that many of our public servants have got the thing all wrong in their minds; have forgotten who is the servant, and who the master'*r<o"

Henry Clay said something else that should be in every American scrapbook: "I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. Sir, I would rather be right than President !" flenry Clay was right a great deal of the time in his public acts and utterances, but he was never President, although one of the big men of our whole. history. It may be that his unrestrained hatred of Britain was one of his restrictions. No man ever hated the British more, or said it plainer.

A little town named Galloway Flat, in New Zealand, can probably lay splendid claim to one hundred per cent war devotion. This liftle hamlet sent twenty young men into their armed forces. At last report, nineteen of them were either killed, wounded, or captured, and the twentieth was in the front lines fighting. Some place, ihat Galloway Flat ! .*,F*

Maybe you've heard of the harassed rookie who said that all he asked was a chance to drowq his troubles; only he couldn't coax the top sergeant in*swimming. :

And what, you may ask, is Leap Year? And why? Well' the Gregorian calendar which we use in computing time, consists not of 365 days in the year, but rather of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds in a year So every four years we have an extra day in February to take care of that extra quarter day left over in our computation of solar time. Get it?.

'An English girl gave birth to quadruplets, the father being an American soldier stationed in England. That's what I've been saying all the time about this Lend Lease; dl one' sided' * :f *

(From "The Oklahoman"): Farmer Grimes of Vinegar Bend should not gro\il too angryt when the government freezes the price of his spinach and potatoes with a ceiling and a subsidy, and then taxes Farmer Grimes to help pay the subsidy. That is just the govenrment's pet way of showing Farmer Grimes the workings of the more abundant life' {. * *

In the Old World where millions of men are locked in a death battle, famous historic names come into the picture and attract little or no attention in contrast to the great blood bath. For instance, when the Russians burst through their bondage at L€ningrad, qne of the first places thei recaptured was the town of Tsarskoye Selo. It meant little to most of us, and was forgotteir. Yet this, the former home of the Czars of Russia, was the first town in all Europe to be lighted by electricity (1887); and the first railroad ever builiin nussia was the one connectin! this town with St. Petersburg, now Leningrad. That was in 1836-37.

Speaking of Russia-al ;t lo"" t otl-Robert Quillen, who is the highpriest of all our newspaper columnists when it comes to real writing ability, expresses my thought about "Llncle" Joe and his folks better than anyone else. He says that the fact that Russia is killing more Germans by far than anyone else, doesn't settle the question of whether they are right or wrong in their acts, their philosophies. "Murder," said Theodore Roosevelt, "is not debatable." Neither is theft, says Quillen, and no sophistry can justify or excuse Russia's treatment of little, helpless countries. The Russians are ou,r allies. We admire their coirrage, their (Continued on Page 10) is a slogan of which we have, been very proud for a period of many years.

And wh.en the war clouds clear eway you will find us featuring this slogan in our advertising as prominently as ever before.

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That's what your lumber is accomplishing today . . its use in our War Effort is extrernely essential . . and all of us are proud to be able to contribute our share of the enormous volume of stock being utilized in boxitg, crating, housing, ship construction and other vital reguirements. That's why your producers and distributons are AIrIr

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(Continued from Page 8) strength, their loyalty to Russia, their efficiency, their fighting ability, the job they are doing against the devilish Germans. But to every American who believes in freedom and ihe right of peoples to govern themselves and be free from harm, Stalin's policies are unspeakably evil. I don't believe Quillen will get any arguments about that. Stalin is going to do what he wants to, regardless, ,and the right of other peoples to be free and govern themselves, doesn't enter into hispolicies * * *

A commissioned army officer ran loose with a pistol and killed several innocent people recently, because of jealousy. Newspaper reports from his home town state that before he went into the army he had been convicted of larceny, arrested various times for drunkenness, and at the time he was inducted into the service he was in jail serving a sentence for vagrancy. Yet a man of this alleged background Was a lieutenant T "lt armed forces.

The annual report of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company gives some tax figures that you probably wouldn't believe if you hadn't just got through a seance gf that sort yotiiself. Here are the figures for this corporation: for every telephone in service they paid $19.07 taxes in 1943; for each outstanding share of their common stock the tax bill wa's $19.07 for the year, as compared to the $6.25 per share the stockholders got; their total tax bill in 1943 was 38 per cent higher than in the previous year; the tax bill amounted to more than one-half the total payroll for the year, and the payroll was up 16 per cent over the previous year. "Deep in the heart of taxes" should be their theme song.

Now we start payin* In.*.ulr"nced postal rates. .The increased rates on regrilar mail is needed to pay for the ever-increasing "penalty mail." P,enalty mail is what they call that mail sent free by the various branches of our bureaucracy, and not to be confused with "franked mail,'l which is sent free by Congress. In the fiscal year, 1943, the postoffice handled free 1,956,000,000 pieces of this "penalty mail;" and it keeps growing steadily in spite of all the talk of paper shortage. In the same year there were 29,248,000 pieces .of "franked mail." Much has been said about ways and means for reducing the huge cost of handling.this "penalty mail." No one wants to interfere with the army and navy use of the mails, but it is well known that much saving could be affected by some restriction on the bureaus.

Every boy who wears the uniform of his country has, by that very act, enriched the traditions of the nation, added to the height of every American, and increased our pride so that every one of us utters the word "American" more emotionally than ever before; has made the fag float brighter, better, and with*ad*ded Blory.

Nothing can be grander than a life filled with great and noble thoughts; with brave and honest deeds. Such a life sheds light, 3nd the seeds of truth sown by such great and loyal rnen, bear fruit through all the years to be. To have lived, and labored, and died for the right-nothing can be more sublime.

In the battle of Bull Run'iir'1861, General Be*artl p. Ber a Texan, lay wounded and dying on the slopes 6elow while an officer named Thomas Jackson held.the ridgc abw" i".il the face of charge after charge of the Union forces. T!re1;i dyrng man could see much of this happen, and he criett aloud to the men around him: "There stands Jackson lik+,.: a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!" And so was: born the most appropriate nickname ever given a humanl;, belng-"Stonerrall Jackson."

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We speak and write much.about our great mbn of Atnlrj:l erica, but not enough about our great women. And wqi:i have been bountifully blessed throughout our history witti sublime characters of the so-called "w€aker sex." In our,to very early days, as an example, we had a President named-::r lJi John Quincy Adams. Students of history all recall thisir fact without an e'ffort. Many could relate his splendid.,i worth. Yet perhaps few of those historians would r"*"-t'it, ber that his wife was a far smarter, brightqr character than, John Quincy. Her name was Abigail. To a great extent'i she hid her light under a bushel. She did not advertisd.H Yet she uras very brilliant ,very wise, very devoted- When,:r her husband was inaugurated President she did not attend':: the ceremony, but remained at home td'shower him with:l her good thoughts. She sent him a letter that very da14iJ And if inspiration is what you seek, read, friend, the word*,il of Abigail Adams to her husband, John Quincy Adam*ti: the day he became President of this nation. If you put it':1 in your scrapbook, you'll find very little there to compare,.,l with it, no matter what else may be there. This is the letter: ***

"My thoughts and my meditations are with you, though personally absent; and my petitions to heaven are that the things that make for peace may not be hidden from your eyes. My feelings are not those.of pride or ostentation upon .i? the occasion. They are solemnized by a sense of the obli. ',.9 gations, the important trusts, the numerous duties connected with it. That you may be enabled to disclarge them. i, with honour to yourself, with justice and impartiality to ,;, your country, and with satisfaction to this great people,:;.i shall be the daily prayer of your, Abigail Adams.,' * *'*

Our history contains no words more inspiring than "myl:q petitions to heaven are that the things that make for peace,,-i may not be hidden from your eyes." '* * *

How sad it is to reflect that women whose thoughts,., and words denote only appalling mediocrity write so copi- ;; ously and insistently; while a vroman like Abigail Adamq i whose thoughts were gems of deli'ght and whose words j were pearls of great price, wrote so little.