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best cared for fighters on land sea and air. they want to finish the fighting at the earliest possible mornent. They want to get home to the jobs that you will have helped to provide throuqh built-up post-war purchasing power-6y selling more War Bonds thqn before!

War Bond selling is your part of the job of bringing about the Axis' unconditional surrender. Keep working at it. Drive you.r War Bond sales to an all-time high. Then drive them higher! hiqher!! bngher!!!

New times demand new measures and new men; The world advances, and in time outgrows one of the most air.lt inorl-""u-after stories in the Bible takes a hard poke at the good doctors of that day. In Second Chronicles we find these terse words concerning King Asa: "And Asa, in the 39th year of his reign, was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: Yet in his disease he sought not the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers." Flowever, the Bible says much worse things about the lawyers of that time. Maybe those two great professions were not so hot in those days.

The laws that in our fathers' day were best; And, doubtless, after us some purer scheme, Will be shaped out by wiser men than we, Made wiser by the steady growth of truth.

Russell Lowell.

The world is well populated with men just honest enough to keep out of jail, just generous enough to make all their contributions in public, and just patriotic enough to buy War Bonds with blare of trumpets one day, and then sell them the next day by stealth.

The philosophy of the Brotherhood of Man will live on to paint the folly of such mad violence as we see about us in the world today. Pray let it be soon !

The same little cafe an; *" rr"J. t".., telling about occasionally in this column, the one that always has some attractive sign in the window to make people stop, read, and grin, had a couple of good ones recently. One said: "Wanted, waitress, dead or alive." The other said: "Our steaks are from tender-h*earted cows. No bull."

More than two thousand years ago Diogenes, the wise man from Corinth, said that when children went wrong, the parents were entirely to blame. It was written of him: "When a child swore, Diogenes slapped the father." The philosophy is still good; but who is going to do the slapping?

G. I. Joe says that .h";"J i, Jooa in the army, the only thing is that he doesn't always know for sure what he is eating. He says sometimes he has to take a few moments ' for ration identification.

We are now going to take the Philippine Islands back from the Japs. Do you know how many islands there are in the Philippine group? Just 7083 separate and distinct islands, is all. Quite a job if we had to take an island at a time, eh? But, of cou,rse, we won't have to do it that laboriously.

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The French philosopher, Montaigne, threw a nasty wise crack Not quite as hot as that other genius of the same nation, Voltaire, but still very, very hot. For instance, in speaking about wealth, he once said: "If you want to know what God thinks about money, take a look at most of the people He gives it to."

Some years back someone wrote a very impressive article for one of the porpular magazines on "The thunders of silence." His philosophy was that silence, properly handled, is a most powerful and useful weapon. John Selden, a famous English jurist of three centuries back had the same idea when he said that "wise men say nothing in dangerous times." Another French philosopher, La Rochefoucauld, said that "there is an eloquent silence which serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn." And in Hamlet, Shakespeare says: "The*rest is silence."

Heard a line the other day that belongs in all good scrapbooks. Describing a certain iudge, it said that he is "as impartial and impersonal as a traffic light." Good, eh?

Henry Ward Beecher, the famous divine of a cquple of generations back, was a very warm friend of the likewise famous agnostic and orator, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll. They were both so broad-minded that they could discuss even religion without ill will or rancor, and both had a fine sense of humor that made the game of give and take that often went on between them very amusing. They loved to "needle" one another. One day. after hearing Ingersoll speak eloquently against Biblical philosophies, Beecher said to him: "Bob, if you had the job of making the world all over again, how would you improve on what the Lord has done?" And Ingersoll said: "That's easy; I'd make health contagious, instead of disease." *'F*

The other day I heard a political speaker make glowing reference to "those three peerless Americans, Washington, Jefferson, and Jackson." We have all heard that line innum'erable times. I often wonder if the speaker knows what those three men thought about one ano.ther. I doubt if many men recall that Jackson, a newcomer in Congress, voted against a simple resolution recori,mending "the wise, firm, and patriotic" administration of Washington, at the'

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(Continued from Page 8) time the Father of our country was stepping down from the Presidency. f wonder how many men remernber that while Jefferson was the idol of Jackson, that adnr,iration was far from being returned by the Father of Democracy. Daniel Webster is quoted as saying that Jefferson had no admiration whatever for Jackson, and that the Sage of Monticello said to him: "I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know forsuch a place." Our great men did not always love one another.

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The British do not like the,movie based on Alice Duer Miller's "The White Cliffs of Dover." One of the most important London papers said: "\ /ith a crude spreadeagleism the film makes it appear the Yanks saved England in 1917, and are now repeating the performance." Guess I must be guilty of "pure spread-eagleism" too, cause that's exactly what I think. As a matter of fact it wouldn't be hard to Prove'

Winston Churchill once said: "We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official; a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges." Righto, Winston old Top ! And in this here now country of ours you will be able easily to judge when we are back on a safe keel again. It will be when thrift once again becomes a respected national philosophy.

The London Times 1"u". "0J". a British clergyman named Mr. Charles Roach, Church of England Chaplain in Baghdad, who early this year established an all time record for long distance bicycle riding. He rode a bike from Durban to Cairo, a distance of over four thousand miles. No cissy, that preacher.

We have just passed through another Presidential election, and to hear and read the things that were said and written, you would never have thought that we are just about five per cent of the people on one of the smallest and most insignificant stars in all God's universe. Yes sir, Prof. Harlow Shapley, of Harvard College Observatory, says that there are about one thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone, most of them enormously larger than our earth; while within range of our largest telescopes today there are ten quadrillions (10,000,000,000,(X)0,00O) of .stars. Wonder what all those big stars think about the fuss we've been raising? + * *

Bob Burns used to tell about the fellow who woke one night and saw two huge mosquitoes sitting on the foot of his bed, looking at him and talking him over. One of them said: "Shall tye eat him here, or carry him down to the swamp and eat him?" The other said: "Let's eat him here; if we carry him down to the swamp those BIG mosquitoes might take him away from us." This earth that we live on is mighty small by proper comparison.

Speaking of prayers ,"10"* *1", urt what of it?) maybe you, gentle reader, can use the following Dog's Prayer in your scrapbook. It has been in mine a long time: "O Lord of humans, make my master faithful to his fellow men as I am to him. Grant that he may be devoted to his friends and family as I am to him. May he be open-faced and undeceptive as I am; may. he be true to trust reposed in him. as I am to him. Give him a face cheerful like unto my wagging tail. Give him a spirit of gratitude like unto my licking tongue. Fill him with patience like unto mine that awaits his footsteps uncomplainingly for hours; fill him with my watchfulness, my courage, and my readiness to sacrifice comfort and life. Keep him always young in heart and crowded with the spirit of play, even as I am. Make him as good a man, as I am a dog. Make him worthy of me, his dog."

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting Nov. 17

Captain Eugene D. Wallace will be the speakqr at the luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo lclub to be held at the University Club, 614 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Friday noon, November 17.

Captain Wallace was a co-pilot of a Martin Marauder Bomber which was downed on New Britain Island in the early days of the Pacific war. He was there for ten months, surrounded by the enemy, and four months of that time he was all alone. I{e was rescued by a PBY plane. He is a fine speaker and has an interesting story to tell.

President Roy Stanton will preside.