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The above is the inscrr$.J"J. bronze tablet at Austin, Texas, immortalizing the University of Texas boys who fell in World War One. As the casualty lists of World War Two keep growing and spreading their sadness over the land, our loyal pcople will turn with some degree of comfort to such sentiments as those above, which appty so exactly to our boys of today.

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Speaking of the work the home army is doing to help win the war, Mr. \l[|. C. Mullendore, a California business man, recently uttered these fine thoughts: .'Our industrial production could far outstrip that of the Axis because free men in America, over a century and a half, had developed not only mechanical and electrical power and surpassing skill in its use, but greater self-reliance, courage, and enterprise, more boldness and more resourcefulness than the world evcr bcfore has seen within one nation."

Senator George, of Georgia, recently made a speech to the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, in which he brilliantly described free enterprise, as follows: ..The circle is simple: The system lives upon the savings of the people; those savings are available only if industry can offer an attractive inducement; and hope of profit after taxes is the sound incentive. But the circle is also fragile; it is broken perhaps beyond repair, if taxes destroy all hope of profit. When the circle is broken, then free enterprise cannot function, and the government steps in."

It is, therefore, not only the so-called capitalist who is interested in free enterprise. The worker is just as much interested. FIe saves something for a "rainy day,,' then wants to use it to produce some revenue. So he invests it in safe securities. But securities that pay no return are as useless as a savings bank account, where they no longer pay interest. He could invest his savings in government securities, of course, but if the time ever comes in this land when only government securities are safe investments and pay returns, then free enterprise will be dead, and the American people will live in a socialistic state, instead of the free democracy that Washington et al founded. rF**

Every time I look at a picture of Douglas MacArthur, I think of what Shakespeare said about one of his heroes: "He is a soldier fit to stand with Caesar, and give directions." Surely he is one of the most inspiring military figures, in the purely physical sense, that has ever fought beneath the Stars and Stripes. It requires no psychic sense to realize how easily an army would follow such a man to the cannon's mouth, though armed only with peashooters.

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I particularly resent the frequently printed declaration that our American detcrmination to win the war might sag if there were indications of early enemy collapse. I wonder if men who make that suggestion stop to think what a poor compliment that is to our American people? It makes you wonder if a lot of the folks who are doing such talking and writing, have ever rcad American history. Americans fight best when they fight with enthusiasm, ahd they don't quit, whether it be an uphill or downhill battle. The greatest spur to American fighting spirit would be to say-"They're cracking men !"

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It is not alone the high incomc group that get caught by the income taxes. I saw a listing the other day made by a tax expert, which showed that there are 148 separate taxes on a pair of overalls, and 52 on a loaf of bread. Even in these days of high direct taxes, the indirect or hidden taxes still take a whale of a bite out of every dollar spent by John Citizen. *t*

If you don't believe the old saytng that "nothing succeeds like success," consider the case of one Adotph Hitler. Just one short year ago the military commentators and authorities the world over hailed him as an outstanding military genius. "Mein Kampf" was the most discussed piece of literature, its every page being digested and commented upon by the commentators. Today they say Hitler is a bum, a military punk, a literary jerk, who is on his way out and will never be heard from again. The case of Mussolini is difrerent. Few authorities ever gave him credit for out- standing ability of any sort. But while it regarded his works with horror, the world spoke of Hitler's genius with conviction. Today it throws rocks at him. Another step down the ladder and there will be "none so poor as to do him honor." From the top to oblivion will probably be a much shorter trip for the little man with the mustache, than from the painter's ladder to the top.

I have torn up half a d:r; sleets of paper on which I had tried to express my opinion of the oil and gasoline Czar, Mr. fckes, and his rgcent lordly ordering of the driving affairs of this great nation. ft's no use. You can't do justice to that subject, and send it through the mails. But I thought I would remind you that up in Canada the gasoline ration allowance is much higher than in this country, there is no ban on pleasure driving, AND THEY GET THEIR GASOLINE FROM US. Does that make you any happier?

"Editor & Publisher,"*irr*diJ"ussing home economics, tells about the town where butter was particularly scarce, and the young man that decided he'd make his own. So he bought a pint of heavy cream, put it in 4 jar, and went to shaking it. Finally a little butter rose to the top. He gathered it up, washed it in ice water, salted it, and finding it was very pale in color, he added some food coloring. He got some of the stuff on his suit and shirt. When he weighed the little roll of butter he found it weighed less than oneeighth of a pound, and counting all the costs and cleaning, the stuff cost $16.50 a pound. So he went out and bought a pound of oleo. Guess lots of Victory gardeners and chicken raisers have had something like that experience.

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During the Civil War newspapers were so expensive and so scarce that people of modest means could not afford them, and people used to read them in groups in the post office, courthouse, and other public places. Some difference between the war news service then and now ! What with the daily papers, the radio, camera, lightning news reporting, and special columns and wires hot off the battle field, the war is brought right to our doors, not once but many times daily. Especially that radio ! What a world this is !

The head of one of the big synthetic rubber plants that is already turning out tires in the South is quoted as saying that there is no doubt but that the synthetic rubber industry will continue in full blast after the war. He is certain it will be a permanent industry. He says that they will be able to make tires out of synthetic rubber that will be entirely puncture-proof, and will last as long as the life of a car, and do other things with the synthetic product that they have never succeeded in doing with natural rub-

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