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Americans don't think like that. Every man on K.P. has a job to do to win the war, even the guy who boils the water.

*,ir| ttRemember, [nen, you don't know where I ,am. No mention is to be made of me. The U.S.A. is supposed to be wondering what has happened to me. I'm not supposed to .be commanding this arnry. Let the fi6f - fe find out be the goddam Germans. I want them to look up and howl, 'Ach, it's the goddam Third Army and ttrat - -'- - of a Patton again.'f rt||rl

"'\il/e want to get this thing over and get the hell out of here, and get at those Japs. The shortest way home is through Bertin and Tokyo. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by showing tte enemy we have more guts than they have or ever will have. There's one great thing that you men can say when'it's ail over and you're home once more. You can thank God that twen$r years from now when you're sitting by tbc fireside with- your grandson on your knee and hc asks you what you did in the war, you won't have to shift him over to the other knee, cough, and say: 'I swung a shovel in Louisiana.'"

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Friends, don't you think that speech was worth this rruch space, and a place in your scrapbook? The literature of the world has few to compare with it. So if that guy who has done so much to save the soul of the world finds that he cannot quite express himself in orthodox words or terms, we can forgive him, don't you think? Personally, I think his invective most attractive; leave weak words to wcak souls.

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Now let's talk a bit about that proposed Cradle to Grave Social Security bill that the German born Senator Wagner is hoping to put through Congress and load on the backs of formerly free Americans. Wagner leans so far to the left that he has forgotten that there is any other side. The philosophies he brought with him from his native land are all mixed in with other philosophies that are definitely red in tint. He proposes to put a Social Security tax of 8 per cent on American incornqs, and use ttrat money to do everything for Americans that Americans have dways done for themselves, and in so doing remade this part of the world into something grand and glorious. There are so many ruranswerable arguments against the thing you would think it would die a-borning. But it won't. It will have to be killed.

First, the thing could never be administered. A rnan who runs one of our state unemploSrrnent units says you would have to use one half of our population to administer the thing and collect the taxes from the other half. It would put the Federal Government into our personal lives in a way never- dreamed of, even in these days of war regimentation. Under just one of the innumerable phases of the thing, the housewife would become a hdf-time bookkeeper and tax collector and reporter for the Goverrunent. When she pays her cook her week's wages, she deducts the tax, fills out a form, puts in a thousand items of infornration, and remits the report and tax to t'he Federal Govern*et t. When the man comes to cut the grass, she does the same. The form must be filled out, the deductions must be ,made, the money must be sent in. So with the window washer, and the part-time nurse who takes care of the baby. The Federal Government moves into the personal life of every man, woman, and child. It goes into every pressing place, every bootblack establishment, every hot dog stand, every spot however small where people work. Collecting, repirrting, and remitting would become a part of the everyday life of every American. Instead of getting the Government out of business as we h'ave been prornised, the Government practically takes over all affairs under this ghastly proposal. And this is just one of the many things it iroposes to do. ***

Now, watch your blood pressure! We have just read the official stat€,nrent that we are just now sending about FORTY-ONE MILLION POUNDS OF GOOD AMERI. CAN BUT?ER TO SOVIET RUSSIA. Here in this country there are millions upon millions of fine American children who have not tasted a real piece of bread and butter since God knows when. Margarine is thc only thing that looks like butter t'trey ever see. Now will someone please rise and state why in the name of heaven we will condnue to deprive our Americans of this much-needed food, while we send it over to people who never were used to butter at any time, and who are not fightirrg anybody, or helping us win any war? Why should we deprive outrselves of this food, and send it free by Lend Lease? tit/hy should we send it under any conditions? And, if we have for some reason impossible to understand committed ourselves to buttering the bread of the Russians indefinitely, why don't we send them forty-one million pounds of the margarine we are eating, and keep the butter ourselves? Is there any sane human in America who will say nay to that suggestion?