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I often pass a gracious tree, But still, I bow in ft waves a bough i "I do not know name, O tree; Are You a H or a Pine? But why that embarrass me? Quite pro y you don't know mine."

-The Vagabond. ,.< *

The best answer of the present War, from anyone to anyone, was the one Randolph Churchill gave to an Englishman who asked him: "What are we fighting for?" Churchill tersely replied: "If Hitler wins, you'll know.,, ***

And probably the most quoted and most devastating criticism of the British war effort was made by a speaker in the British Parliament recently when he remarked that if Field Marshall Romme-I, the Nazi scourge of Africa, had started in the British army instead of the German he would be a Sergeant todaY' * ::. {.

And the humblest and most amusing answer about the American army was given by an old colored man in a Southern city where the streets are filled with soldiers most of the time. In front of the hotel this old darkey tipped his hat to a uniformed man, and said, "Mawnin' Sarjent.', The officer glared, and said: "I'm not a Sergeant; I'm a Major." The old darkey said: "Scuse me, Majah. An I sho hopes you gits t'be a Sarjent some time." **{<

An RAF bomber pilot, just returned from a raid over Germany, was being interviewed by a reporter. The reported wanted to know what the hero's pre-war job had been. The fier said: "f used to sell canned goods to the British. Now f give them away to the Germans." *** to know. "\Mhat else could I say?" he answered. "I was under oath, wasn't f?" ***

The old fellows who seriously wonder whether the Am-. erican soldiers in our new army are as good as those that fought under Pershing, would do well to remember that war is like love. One old fellow said: "I don't believe the young men make love now like they did in the old days.', And a youngster answered: "Yes they do, Mister. The only difference is, there's a new qang doing it."

Ben Franklin once wrote: "n ltenare so wicked WITH religion, what would they be UffUOUt ttl,,

Patriotism sometirnes gets badly scrambled. The old moonshiner in the Arkansas hills had been making illegal whiskey all his life, and all his life the revenuers, as he called them, had been dogging his trail. Not long since the draft caught his son, and when he saw the boy in uniform the old whiskey-maker's heart swelled with pride and patriotism. Bidding his son goodbye, he said: ',Son, go out there and fight for your country. And when you meet any of them damn Germans or Japs, shoot'em down jest like you would a bunch of revenuers.', ***

The third Chapter of Ecclesiastes, Old Testament, says: "To everything there is a season, and a time to everJ purpose under the heaven. * r& * a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.,' We arl rnindful of the truih of the prophecy about the time of war; it's here. But when is that time of peace going to arrive?

General Douglas MacArthur warfare had no other textbooks tion of the warfare waged some that if a student of than a descriphundred years ago in Asia and Europe by the Tartar Ghengis Khan, he would have sufficient for all It is said that the

The unabashed buck private was a in court. German army are in possession numerous copies of the When asked what his rank was, he replied: m the best detailed wars and battles of use them to great advantage. great Khan warrior, and buck private in this rnan's army." When outside the Kahn conquered the courtroom his wife, who had been jurnped all over him for his boastful at the hearing, on the witness greatest territory ever more, he held it until he mortal man, and what is at an advanced age. And stand. "Aren't you ashamed of ?" she demanded most of the strategy that made the armored and motor- ized forces of the Germans gf terrific in Europe in the past two years, was practic "Uy'{ the Khan, although his men were all infantry and. {avalr.y. There's a swell story on the Khan in the Augu* issue of Readers Digest. fn what we are now pleased to look back upon, and affectionately call "the old days," it was a common occurrence to hear some tired person say: "I'm going away somewhere for a month or so, and get away from it all." Oh Yeah! Where would you go now? Only the keeper of the morgue could give him the right directions.

Only learned the other day by reading a)new book about England, that no man, not even the]lime Minister, is allowed to READ a speech in the,pftish Parliament. My respect for that great law-mg!6g body soared high at that news. For England j/thereby clinging to one of the greatest possessions of a free people-true oratory. They do not propose to allow a man to deliver a speech prepared by others. They want him to get up and speak his thoughts, without mechanics or affectation. And do you know that while Churchill is undoubtedly the greatest orator in all British history, there are several others over there right now who can push him hard for ability of expression, word pictures, phrase making, and all around eloquence that bubbles from the heart and mind to the lips?

I've read several recent samples of current British oratory that were simply thrilling. When a man rises to his feet with a message in his mind, inspiration in his heart, and thrill in his soul, the words that he utters then are oratory' spontaneous and unmechanical.

Will Operate Sawmill in Mexico

Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles importer of hardwoods and lumber, has organized a company in Mexico called the Mexican Hardwood Company S.A. The mill will be in production in about three weeks and will have a capacity of. 25,ffi0 board feet per day. It will produce hardwood timbers suitable for use in the war industries, including Letcha Maria, Sacasara, Prima Vera and Mojo Guanacastle. He is also importing Tabasco Mahogany and other Mexican woods.

Mr. Scrim, who has been importing Philippine Mahogany for many years and is United States representative for the Findlay Millar Timber Co., states that he has not heard anything from their mill in the Philippine fslands since the Japs took Cebu, and has no idea what the situation is over there.

HELLO, TIMOTHY

Mr. and Mrs. Willard La Franchi are receiving congratulations on the recent arrival of an eight-pound boy, Timothy.

Mr. LaFranchi is manager of the Fresno branch of Hill & Morton. Inc.