Show THIS and THAT grace A sweet boung thing was out on an afternoons shopping expedition she had shopped at every place in town including the lumber emporium and the maytag and had all of her purchases stored safely in a small handbag she wound up or rather run down at the postoffice post office approaching the stamp window with a soft tread but with a shy look which indicated a shopping experience commanding attention she said 1 I would like to look at some postage stamps please the good natured and obliging postmaster brought for her inspection a sheet of 2 cent stamps about two feet square sweetly smiling her appreciation and looking over the sheet carefully she put her finely manicured and dimpled index finger upon a lone stamp m the middle of the sheet end said sweetly ill take that one please the good postmaster drop dead but with accustomed cus tomed dignity and becoming prace he tore that particular stamp from the sheet handed it to har and after receiving two pennies which she fished from her handbag bowed very low and said 1 I thank you sunbursts Sun bursts talk about sunbursts sun bursts we poor mortals according to the scientists are going to get one now any day the star nova pistons Pic tons took a fool notion they say and swelled up and busted in 1925 and because this here bloomin nova pistons Pic tons got biggeln big gern its dimensions up with ande and busted we are now on the heels of the same sort of pomposity on the part of our chief luminary the sun yes sir not to be outdone by any two by four constellation stel lation the sun too is a going to swell up and bust so according to these venerable hawkers of facts we are in for a real isun bust but this aint all there is another thing according to these same benders venders of fact the scientists for which the world may begin to look and wait that thing is the worlds over lation and consequent starvation but while the world is a going to swell up and bust first due any day any hour and every inhabitant of the globe is to experience annihilation hi in exactly 38 hour after she has so swelled and so busted the earth mind you is not due to overpopulation and starvation till 2027 we should worry T alon in the world which better the es sentral spirit of armistice day than that which knows no race nor creed nor color T nothing but the need of suffering humanity so when the red cross in vites americans to join while it Is its eleventh annual roll call from armistice day through thanks ry giving november 11 to 24 we can all do so with the knowledge that there can be no more fitting observance of this solemn anniversary than by aid ing in the work of the red cross the greatest mother of the world 3 in the sense that armistice day f means the end of fighting thee the e Is no A i armistice day for the red cross for t in peace as in war it carries on ita fight against disease and hunger and devastation it peace bath its victories no less renowned than war then some of the peace time victories of aba american red cross won when tornado or hurricane or flood or alre Q swept over some fated community HR jare more to be remembered than are some of its victories won on the bat there ts still another service of the y red cross which Is perhaps but little known in comparison to its other t i services and it may yet prove to be of a future importance which cannot now be estimated that Is the tion of the junior red cross which T has for its three watchwords 1 ice friendship and health and n which will begin celebrating its tenth anniversary next year on its scroll Is written these words let youth shape the world while the f 11 vision splendid la still before its eyes it indeed youth begins to shan 1 the world while the vision splendid Is still before its eyes then there may i the atine when there will be no I 1 more wars for the junior red cross wo w the W 0 W sign on the wood men hall indicates doubtless to the casual passerby only a playhouse but that WOW stands for a tre big institution whose ben ef actions reach the length and breadth of our country if they do not belt the world that W OW is the insignia of a power that has hurled the wolf of poverty and an aviation from thousands upon thousands of widows homes and hearts every time you pay your dues you are protecting not only your own wife and little ones but thousands upon thousands of good women and dear little children all over your land and country this alone ought to make every goodmen woodmen proud of his glad and happy to promptly meet his dues but does belonging to the lodge mean no more to you than the payment of duese this lodge and its meetings ought to be to you a iveans and a place of devotion as well ES the reminder that you should give yourself to your lodge without stint you should regard the neual and everything pertaining to your lodge as spiritual and as things to be kept in mind and treasured tribute judge william mcadoo new yorks chief magistrate pays a high tribute to christianity and the churches in the october ladies home journal christian influence and teaching is as judge mcadoo sees it our only hope for our boys and girls with cases before him every year with years of experience in dealmo with all sorts of people in the greatest city in the world this judge knows his stuff read judge mcafoos McA doos article and see if after reading you can dub this hard boiled old judge a sissy fanatic fool because he favors ra ligion and goes to church was brecka unfound in these torn piteous fields which they in dying nave tor us all forever we cannot hallow more that holy A ground f all glory we would give them pales beside the eternal splendor ot these men y who thought abut ol 01 the sacred ca se tor which they coughl t and now the battles done they who gave all als they alone who won S in their great faith there was no dark misgiving athey saw no base self seekers don the mask of high ideals to batten on the alv ing their vision waa a world secure and just won by their victory their only lash to crush one hideous foe and in v that trust they sped with eager feet and paid the price unstinting of the last great f a mikii M i K i i Is literally a league of good will and better understanding today it numbers more than school children in the united baates italy has a million who are en members and the junior movement has taken hold strongly str only in ther european countries japan has nore than children enrolled in he league although the junior red cross no would be important for its or the children in the rudl bents ot home hygiene aid and he fundamentals of american citizen alp if for no kotlier reason it Is this aspect of Us work that alves added emphasis to the relation the spirit of the red cross ind the spirit of armistice day out f tho faith of the millions of ahll iran in every nation of the world en buen a their sleep 1 shall we yet mourn or wish i might awaken I 1 to and the golden peace so far based should we not rather pray t they may keep their shining vision spotless un faced until the world repentant and deemed to the measure ot ite they dreamed so let them rest they grave for ua their dearest their best they keep the hollest holiest ho liest tet or ll 11 giving our fittest tribute Is noi grief i tears but llvine the same ardent vision ll 11 As that which shone compell ng their ayea by death and all dreadful fears then when at last dreamers rise the world we keep or them ml almost seem the living substances of lo 10 dream charles bliton going K K K K rolled in the junior bed cross t service of humanity may betl the realization of the vision b the men wl ose memory Is hopoi armistice day as voiced by thi when he said their vision wag a world just won by their victory chely to crush one foe nd 1 trust they sped with eager eel and tha price unstinting of the last great aa so history may yet write dow fact that it was these children kept shining vision spotless faced until the world repentant an deemed 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