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With the dead the highroad, in her arms. O, the dawn i before us lane of skies, Through And the was at our heartstrings, And light was in our eyes, And made no boast of glory, we made no boast of birth. the road to Vagabondia t lies across the earth.

-Danna Burnett

Once, long ago, a man who had served a term in prison applied to Henry Ford for a job. When he started telling of his imprisonment and the why of it, Ford stopped him short. He said : "Never mind ! f don't care about your past! START WHERE*YOU*STAND!"

What sharp thlngs old Bernara Sha\ can say. For instance, spdaking of youth, he remarked: \Youth is such a wonderful thing; it's a shame to*waste it ofounS people.,'

Merchandising by advertising sometimes comes a cropper in the weird city of Hollywood, California. Witness a gift shop in that city with a window full of Indian rugs with price tags attached, and the sign: "Navajo rugs-just imported from Belgium."*

And, speaking of Hollywood, the All-Year Club of Southern California which gives all its time to such matters. reports officially that in 1946 the tourist crop and vacationer crop brought into Southern California the tidy sum of five hundred and nine million dollars. And of course, Hollywood attt'acted the bulk of it. Now there's a crop worth cultivating'

When you are tempted to say-"The Russians couldn't make an atom bomb in a thorqsand years-they haven't got sense enough"-look out ! Three Russian crop scientists who just visited the United States, reported some of the things the Russian scientists have already done that will m'ake you rub your eyes. And these efforts along the most constructive lines.

They said the Ministry of Technical Crops in Russia has developed an orange and other subtropical crops that grow successfully in areas where subfreezing temperatures are frequent; something never before dreamed of. Also, they have developed several varieties of perennial wheat which yield harvests during two or three years without replanting or re-sowing. And, most amazing, they reported crossing the yellow acacia-a tree-with peas-an herbaceous plant-which m'ay continue to yield for many yearrs. Peas, you see, growing on trees.

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Heretofore it has been the custom of crop scientists to graft one tree on another, or one plant on another. Grafting plants on trees is a new one; or so it seems. Said one of these Russians: "We want to force peas to grow on trees and not where nature had Eppointed them to grow. We are striving to create not only entirely new kinds of plants, but to reproduce what once existed in nature, and subsequently was lost in the process of evolution."

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When I read such things I quit doubting that the Russians can eventually solve the secret of atomic energ:f. Any folks that can make corn and peas and beans grow on trees-succotash, in other words-can do anything.

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And, speaking of atomic energy, I heard a famous college professor the other day quote one of the leading atomic energy scientists of America-a man at the top of our recent atomic investigations and discoveries-as saying that within two years we will be curing cancer with atomic energy. Think of that ! Why, if there is even a chance that that is.true, then all the dangers attendant upon the discovery and introduction of the atom to the world, are hardly deserving of fear or consideration in comp,arison to this promised blessing. For a cure for cancer is today the world's greatest physical need. And this great atomic authority says that in two years it will be a fact.

So let us quit fearing Lrr"t"-"""rgy for the dam,age it might create in war, and look forward to the priceless blessings that can come from it in time of peace. Anyone would rather die from an atom bomb than from cancer. So let the atomic energy research go forward with the blessing and assistance of every right thinking man.

Heard another philosopher the o1:her day predicting that scientific man will always find .r defense against any weapon that comes along. He said that in the beginning we had to protect ourselves again tt a club, so we devised

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