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What if the Eunset's drawing ncarer? What if the shadows gather in, Thick with ghosts o'f the mates who've headed Into space, where the comets spin?

Eyes to the front tho the mists are heavy, Life, at best, is a brief parade, Keep one dream in your hearts, my brothers, Nothing shatters the unafraid.

*tt* of course another tol"u* "itts writer has likewise stepped into the brightest glare of the national limelight in the past few years, John Kieran Lovers of Information Please, the astoundingly successfut radio program, have discovered that this football and baseball writer and critic is in fact the best posted man in America on all important subjects. And besides, he knows the works of Shakespeare almost by heart.

It was Grantland Rice who wrote that. Rice, as you know, is a veteran sports writer who has lived to become a legend. More than that, he has lived to find himself hailed as a true poet by the best of contemporary literary men. Those who so proclaim him generally quote the above stanza from one of his poems. Matty declare it to be the finest bit of genuine poetry that the present decade has produced, here or elsewhere.

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A friend sent me a short prayer that takes first prize in my book right now. He says that it is posted on a bulletin board in the Navy Supply Depot in Oakland, California prominently displayed, and here's what it says: "Oh Lord, give me the strength to keep my big mouth shut when I don't know what the Hell I'm talking about." Honestt fsn't that a pip? It would do well for display in a few million other places throughout this land at present.

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Thc moet successful speech I've listened to in many a day was made recently by a veteran federal judgc to a big gathering of business and professional men. The fact that it was probably the most successful speech he cver madc in his life was due as much to his subject as it was to his logic and delivery. For he was talking about the Constitution of th3 United Stateq the position in which that Cpnstitution at present finds isclf, and whcthcr or not that Constitution still lives. The deadly interest of every man in that audience showcd how reriously thinHng men arc worricd about t'he inroads that have been made of late into the hitherto impregneblc fortress of that Constitution. And you *rould have heard them roar when he referred to certain OPA practices as "purely dictatorid." He held that there is no legat right, even under wartime emergencies' to remove one fiber from the strength of our written Constitution, and urged that when this war ends all thinking men get together to see that a government of laws based on the Constitution be reinstated in this land. It was an unusual speech for a high court federal judge to make, but this man spoke as one who feels that it is time for patriots to speak out. His biggest applause came when he mentioned the present U. S. Supreme Court, and raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders.

Gus Dyer, of Nashville, Tennessee, for many years Professor of Econo'mics at Vanderbilt University, has been going around the country making eloquent speeches that point in the same direction. Gus says that the men who made our Constitution never intended that it should be set aside for any emergency, any more than God intended that the Ten Commandments be so treated. He says: "God did not say 'thou shalt not steal except in an emergency'; He said 'thou shalt not steal."'

And Eric A. Johnson, the liberal and much quoted President of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, pulled a good line in one of his recent speeches, when he said: "'We must preserve the American tradition of freedom to take a chanc+to lose your shirt if you wanrt to." Taking chances was what made America what America is.

Our lawmakers are again in session in Washington. Every man of them.who can distinguish right from wrong, muat ' rcalize that the equalization by fair legislation of labor's responsibilities to fit its gleatly enlarged privileges should be an early goal of every legislator who wants to do gomething for his countrn and who isn't frightened at the thought of next election. But it won't be done, as we too well know, because politics won't permit, regardless of the vital need. rf**

Had a long talk-a couple of them, in fact-with a most interesting gentleman, on the subject of postwar matters. Wish I could tell you who he is, because it would impress you as his personality and his opinions did me. But f can tell you some of the personal opinions he cxpressed, fceling that they will find a welcome in the mind of every thinker. Su6ce it to say that he is a foreign ofEcer who was at DunHrk, nras recently in Africa, and dso in Russia, on duty for his country. Few men anywhere are in better poaition to hold opinions on thc subjccts discueeed, than hc.

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