S,BRVICE BUTTON

You will be seeing this official emblem more and more often as the war enters its victorious cresoendo-those who wear it are men a,nd, tt)orrlen rpho lwnte recehted an honorable d'ischnrg,e lrom the Il. S. Armeil forces. Men and women who have given an abundant utmost to the war effort.

Here at home the George E. Ream Company is doing its utmost to aid in the war efiort by distributing vital victory materials to war construction projects throughout the Southwest. Not until the war is over and won will our job end.

Then, when we, too, have our "honorable dischargert' we will work as hard supplying the vital materials needed-and pro' viding jobs-which will build the Peace.

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Dr. Johnson, one of England's greatest characters and literary figures, once remarked to his biographer, Boswell: "Every man thinls meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or been at sea.', Boswell replied: ..Lord Mansfield would not be ashamed of it.,' And Dr. Johnson said: "Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in the company of admirals and generals who had seen service, he would feel like crawl. ing under a table."

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Joyce Kilmer, author of "Trees,', who was killed in France, July 30, 1918, enlisted in the army when he was thirty years old and was the father of four children.

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No President of the United States was ever born in the far West. Neither was any president's wife. politics, it has been truly said, depends as much on geography as on mathematics.

Wm. Cowper Brann once wrote: ,1I can no more imagine a man loving only the North or South half of his country than I can imagine him loving only the left or right side of his wife. If I had to, love my country on the iristall_ nrent plan, I'd move out of it. The man who is truly a patriot, loves his country all in a lump. There's room in his heart for every hill on which the morning breaks, for every acre of its sunny soil, its every vale that cradles the evening shadows, its every stream that laughs back the image of the sun."

Cicero said that fools might try to improve on the Comrnientaries of Caesar but no wise man ever would. I used to think that way about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I used to take it for granted that everyone else in this country felt that same way. f was instinctively certain that anyone who had the unmitigated gall to try in any way or by any means to tamper with that """r"d document would think he'd blundered into the hind part of a lopeared mule or backed into the business end of ibur"_ saw. f used to think that. It never occurred to me that th6 time could ever conr,e when Americans would see the Constitution attacked either directly or indirectly, without rising up in righteous wrath and smashing the attackers. I never doubted that for a moment. And now I've lived to see that Constitution and that Bill of Rights kicked around Iike a football without any public uprising in its defense, or lightning striking the perpetrators, and my alarm is only exceeded by my perplexity. FIow can such things be? Is it possible that our citizenship has forgotten how precious to every American is every grain and fiber of that Constitution? Or don't they care?* *

Chester Bowles, bright and well-intentioned head of OPA, writes in Colliers about rationing. He says it will not end with the war, and tells why, and guesses when. But he overlooks the most important thing that bears on rationing and its duration, and that is the election next November. The fate of rationing is going to be settled at the polls, Chester; you can be sure of that. If the same philosophy continues in Washington that prevails there todan then rationing and regimentation will probably go on forever like the river flowing to the s6a-"tilt the walls shall crumble to ruins, and moulder in dust away.,' I heard a famous Southern orator say the other day that his travels had convinced him that the thinking people of this country are more concerned about the permanency of regi- mentation than they are about the war; they know we;re going to win that. But if there comes a clrange in management following the elections, rationing will change rap_ idly. All needless rationing will stop-pronto. Ana tneir, when we quit trying to see how much of our worldly goods we can give away all over the world, we will piomptty accumulate so mugh here at home that rationing- will fail of its own weight.

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Meat is not rationed in Canada. That,s because they eat their own. If each Canadian had to supply his own meat and enough on the side for several foreigners in un_ heard-of parts of the world, meat would be rationed there, too. Canadians believe that the people of Canada come first. They're funny that way. ***

Tennyson set the world on fire with his immortal poem, "The Charge of the Light Brigade," which took place on 'the field of Balaklava in the Russian Crimea. Ctuntless millions of school kids the world over have thrilled as they read or heard of that dauntless band that rode, .,Into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell," and it was all be_ cause "someone had blundered." And there were just 602 Englishmen who made that charge, and about " ihird of them paid for the blunder with ttreir lives.

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In the past year a guy named Hitler made a blunder in that same Crimea, and up to this moment it has cost the German army almost exactly half a pillion men. If Tennyson could rouse the soul of the world concerning the six hundred in that Balaklava blunder, think what he could do with a blunder that cost half a million; and the end not Yetinsight!

___A recent article published in various newslxrpers about Winston Churchill states that he is in the fraUit of bathing in a tub of warm water and then sitting around in the nude until dry. Shucks, our own Ben Franklin would have thought Winston a cissy in this respect. Believe it or not, Franklin-who was the most enthusiastic advocate oi fresh air that America has ever produced-always bathed in a tub of cold water regardless of how cold the weather might be, and in a room in which the windows were kept open. And after bathing he scorned the use of a towil, but walked or sat about in the olrcn room until he was dry. He claimed that this was the reason he never suffered from colds. It is related of him that he would spend hours talking about the virtues;t cold air.

My chief objection to an orthodox heaven is that I can conceive,of no place being in, the least heavenly without my friends of earth. As I grow older, f keep wishing the more frequently that it were possible to congregate in one place the people I lbve to be with, so that we could visit frequently. That can't be done here. My idea of heaven is sorne place where it CAN.