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Show "Your Bonnet, Mademoise He" The Chopping dL By c. DIOCK Robertson By FRANK C ROBERTSON Desk Chat 'PROVO. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1944 Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By Draw Ttwm ci. KM S. ailea atj) Editorial For tb Lord thy God to a merciful God: lie will not fomko thee, aeither destroy thee, or forget the covenant of thy -fathers which he swear ante tnenv- ueuieronomy We do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach ua all to render the deeds of mercy. Shakes epare. For Whom the Bells Johnny had learned a lot of things during dur-ing his first year of school. But you can't expect a kid to remember everything all the time. It was during the last week of school last spring that Johnny forgot for a few seconds what his teacher and his parents had told him about not running into the street. He ran into the street. The delivery truck that hit him, ironically, ironi-cally, was driven by his own father! Johnny's dad was a skillful driver, and he knew the safety rules, all right. But he had forgotten, for a moment, that sometimes a kid forgets, too. So Johnny nuever got to the second grade. And Johnny's dad has refused to ever drive again. He has learned a late lesson, a mighty sad lesson from experience. School bells are ringing again for the youngsters. Wake up and hear them your self, Mister Driver. The bells are calling to you, too calling to tell you to take it easy on residential streets and especially near schools. To consider every child a danger signal, and to expect children to do the unexpected. To have your rate or speed, your brakes and your attention ready for whatever a child may do. Don't wait for a tragic experience to teach you this lesson: No load you may be speeding to deliver and no schedule you may be trying to catch up with is worth the life of one child. Write that on your slate for keeps. The Battle of Germany The battle of Germany has begun. For the first time in our history American fore es are engaging the Germans on their own "sacred soil." It is a new chapter in a history his-tory wh,ich has been repeating itself at an accelerated rate, with sons of the doughboys of the first AEF rolling almost unopposed over ground where their fathers fought and died to gain a few yards. Now that history has run past the point where it ended in World War I. It is well for the world and for Germany that this is happening. It is time that the German people saw and felt the scourge of war which their armies have loosed upon Europe twice in a generation. Perhaps if they had seen and felt it in 1918 this present war would not have come. But the German people did not see the breakup of their military machine on their very doorstep. Thus the Kaiser s armies were able to straggle home in a semblance of order, at least enough for Hitler to be able to put across his myth that the war had been lost at home, not in the field. World War I was lost in. the field, and three months before the armistice. It was then that the general staff lost heart, went on the defensive, and urged the government to seek peace. Many military historians be lieve there was considerable fight felt m the German army at the end. But its general gen-eral staff preferred to quit and save the homeland from devastation. Certainly the German military situation was desperate, and no one can blame the Allies for ending the struggle. The cost in lives had been frightful. Even those who MW.,wlai uxmiw icBWH.dent nd tte tate department mad a M-rjous COUld not deny a world that was weary and j mistake in bowing to the British bv withdrawing jongea ior peace. Today Germany's situation is again peril ous. In many ways it is worse than at this time in 1918, when the Germans were f ight- Thc Washington FDR, after Wilson resignation, blasted Dusmessmen to his, cabinet: Mrs. Luce es capes blunder, thanks to tin from Demo- a. 1 m . crauc colleague; aiate department is split . . TT O I , in... w . . over u. o. suonussion to Britain on India: Revealing report by official on Stillwell staff was buried in files. WASHINGTON The president really let loose some fireworks at last week's Cabinet meeting meet-ing shortly after Charles E. Wilson resigned as WPB executive vice chairman "after publicly blast ing WPB chief Donald Nelson. The cabinet members, mem-bers, who usually meet with a smiling, wise cracking president, pricked up their ears at his vigorous denunciation of businessmen. "Here we are at the most important phase of the war," said Roosevelt icily, "and these businessmen business-men act like a bunch of children. They pick up their baseball bats and go home." The president went on to say that those who are schooled in government may have their dif ferences, but know how to iron them out and get along together in the end. After delivering quite a lecture on name-calling and the inability of bus inessmen to get along together, he turned to Secretary Sec-retary of State Hull and said: It takes Democrats like you and me to run! this country, doesn't it, Cordell?' MRS. LUCE'S NARROW SQUEAK Democratic and Republican congressmen who hotly debated how much money FDR spent for warships on his trip to Pearl Harbor, and how much Mrs. Roosevelt spent going to New Zealand, did not know that one of their own number hnd a narrow squeak from being in the same category. cate-gory. She is beautiful Mrs. Clare Luce GOP eon-gresswoman eon-gresswoman from Connecticut, who contemplated an airolane trop to th South Pacific. Australia and China. It was fatherly Democrat Andrew Jackson May of Kentuckv who saved her. What happened was that, after Alabama's Joe Stames had ridden all over the TJ. S. A. in military planes as a members of the Appropriations military subcommittee, it was finally arranged that such junkets be approved first by a subcommittee. Congressman Con-gressman May, chairman of the military affairs committee, appointed this subcommittee, keeps a tight rein over it. If a congressman wants to get a special armv plane, he comes to May. So when Mrs. Luce broached the idea of getting get-ting a special army nlane to take her to the Smith Pacific. China and other war theatres, kindly Con gressman May replied: "I thought you Republicans were against all that. So much hell has been raised about Eleanor going to the South Pacific. I didn't think vou'd want to do anything like that. How are you going to crack down on Eleanor if you do?" Mrs. Luce grinned appreciatively and walked away. Then turned and waved at Andrew Jackson May. Maybe it dawned that he had done her a great favor. Note Actually. Mrs. Roosevelt travelled to New Zealand, not in a special plane, but occupying one seat In a regular transport plane, along with many other passengers. These planes operate to New Zealand every day or oftener. Various members mem-bers of the cabinet, the secretary of War. secretary of the navy, secretary of the treasury, and chairman chair-man of the maritime commission Land do have special planes, however, and for a while these Planes remained Idle most of the time. Admiral Ben Moreel recently took a trip to Chicago with his spclal plane partly empty. SPLIT OVER INDIA Nobody will admit it publicly but. inside the Roosevelt administration, somewhat the same split is taking place regarding India as occurred regarding regard-ing the question of headinjr off war with Japan before Pearl Harbor. Long before Pearl Harbor, a group of youn? men in the state department urged and implored Secretary of State Hull to cut off exports of oil and scrap iron to Japan. They were supported by Secretaries Sec-retaries Ickes. Morgenthau. Stimson and the late Secretary of the Navy Knox. Today there is a revolt among some of the same type of men regarding the fact that the Al lied campaign in Burma has bogged down, due to the do-nothing attitude of the British in India. Thev feel that Ambassador Phillips should have been sup ported in nis forright report on India to the presi JJtsgtf VI Iff. jA&ffjrfyan TMlsui First Diography of America's Great General Crrifct. IS44, Aaa WoSwar MllUrt Dtrif. HWA Sarrlee. tt. him from London. Also thev feel that Tndia mav I be a breeder of wars in years to come if its problems prob-lems are not ironed out. One of the young state department officials who led the revolt arainst U. S. enne&sement of Janan ing on only one front and their allies were before Pearl Harbor was John P. Davies. Jr.. an ex- still in the war. But Adolf Hitler is not a P" on rar Eastern affairs. He is now state de- Ludendorff or a Hindenburg He knows "h?",? ,5? SSTZi that he IS nated and doomed. And con- - fiffht reeardinr Britiah leth.rirv in Tnrti. science has made him more desperate than cowardly. Though the end may come quickly, it is certain that if Hitler remains in power he will try to drag Germany down with him in a bloody and lingering struggle. There will be a tragic cost of American and Allied soldiers' lives to be paid in the battle of Germany. But it is a scrifice that must be made to erase from German minds the poisonous thought that they are invincible invinci-ble and inviolate. 'Tain't Funny The stories of P. G. Wodehouse, the Eng lish humorist, were delightful within the limits of their set pattern. His Jeeves, the imperturbable gentleman's gentleman, was a gem of literary creation and justly famous. But, as we said, Mr. Wodehouse's humor was limited. He stepped out from behind his characters, charact-ers, after the Nazis caught him at his French villa in 1940. to broadcast to the home folks back in England. He used the German radio to tell them the lighter side of life in a concentration camp. Now, left high and dry in Paris, Mr. Wodehouse Wod-ehouse says it was all a "terrible mistake." He has asked official permission to come back to England and explain. We doubt that the English will be much interested in the explanation of a man Who says "we never suffered during the war and we had enough to eat." We venture to iruess that their attitude might be summed up in (Russia over India the words Of one Of our own radio comcdl-' (Copyright. 1944 by United Feature ans: " Taint funny. MtGee." syndicate, ino When the Allied campaign in Burma first be- jran to bog down, General Stilwell sent Davies from Burma to India to make a survev of n-hst was holding things up. Davies' report is one of the most revealing documents on file In the state department, depart-ment, and if a Senate committee probing the year's delay in Burma ever reads it. it will get an earful. Only trouble is that Davies' reports was merely filed nothing was done about it. BRITISH MOTIVES Davies hinted that the British did not want to take Burma until they could take it by themselves. them-selves. To have Burma retaken through the initiative in-itiative of the United States and China, he indicated, indi-cated, would not help British politics and prestige. He also reported that the British did not want conflicting elements in India to get together to form a united country. As long as the Mohammedans Mohamme-dans and Hindus are at swords' points, the British Brit-ish have an excuse to withold independence. Once the two groups get together, British excuses will evaporate. "It's the old divide and rule game," reported Davies. The group inside the U. S. government which feels keenly about this entire subject decided to say little until the war in Europe was about over. But now they feel the time has about come to con centrate our entire war energies on Asia. They want to get the Asiatic war over in a hurry, and they point to the fact that certain secret objectives which the British one year ago promised to take, are now months behind schedule. Mean while, U. S. operations in the Central Pacific are about six months ahead of schedule. Finally, this group believes that the all-import ant goal of winning the peace after the war can only be attained by curing the festering situation in India, which might later cause Russian or Chinese Chi-nese intervention. As a members of a future world council, they say yie U. S. A. doesn't want to be IKE'S INVASION TEAM XXX TLTEET Ike's "Invasion Team" as A it directs the invasion of Europe by air, sea, and land. General Sir Arthur Tedder, Deputy Commander in Chief under un-der General Eisenhower, is a Scot, 54 years old, described as "small and soft-spoken." Son of a nobleman, he is in direct contrast con-trast to Ike. He was graduated from Cambridge and for a time played professional Rugby. A veteran of World War I, a flyer in France and Egypt, he' setUed down for life with the RAF, where he .became Air Chief Marshal. His record in World War II has made him one of the greatest airmen air-men of all times. It was under him that the RAF gained command com-mand over the Mediterranean and in the Middle East. The keen-eyed, strong-featured man beside him is 61-year-old Admiral Sir Bertram H. Ramsey, commanding the combined naval forces under General Eisenhower. Son of a general, married to a colonel's daughter, his life has been devoted to the navy since he was 15 years old. The tremendous tre-mendous responsibility falls upon him to transport safely across the English Channel to the fortified coasts of Europe the huge armies engaged in the invasion. Known as "Dynamo" Ramsey, he brought about the miracle of Dunkirk. When Eisenhower made his landings in North Africa, it was Ramsey who helped plan the landings and shared in command of the great armada of warships. He also was with Eisenhower in the Mediterranean when Sicily and Italy were invaded. Salute the stern, strong face set with determination Lieut.-Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, known as 'Tooey" Spaatz, commanding the American Amer-ican Strategic Air Forces on the Western European invasion. Born in Pennsylvania 52 years ago, he was at West Point with Elsenhower, Elsen-hower, graduating in 1914, one year before Ike. "Tooey" commanded com-manded the Northwestern African Air Force under Eisenhower. His job is to cover the Allied Forces on the invasion. The genial, smiling countenance we now look upon is a "devil on wings" Ma J. -Gen. James H. Doo-little, Doo-little, age 48, born in California, in command of the United States 8th Air Force. The first to raid Tokyo, he gained world fame. He was widely known as a racing pilot and stunt flyer before we entered the war, also as an aeronautic aero-nautic engineer. With the outbreak of World War II, he entered the struggle as a major and in two years became be-came a brigadier general. Under Eisenhower in Africa, he organized organ-ized and led the 12th Air Force, whose exploits are almost legendary. legen-dary. They blasted the way for the ground forces with their raids on Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, and were the first to bomb Rome. MOW meet the man who says, "I'm from Missouri, show me!" Lfeut.-Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Brad-ley, 31 years old, leading the American ground forces under Eisenhower. This "Missouri mule" in determination is one of Ike's old friends and classmates t West Point. An accomplished master of ground warfare anri infantry tactics, he was Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's field aide in North Africa and then commander of the American Second Corps. We need no introduction to the wiry litUe man, wearing a beret jauntily on his head. He is "Monty," Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, loved by every man who ever fought under him. He commands the British Invasion Armies under Eisenhower. "Monty of El Alamein" is 56 years old, a minister's son. His mUtary fame was established when, in com mand of the British Eighth Army, he 'outfoxed Rommel and chased him with his Afrika Korps across the North African deserts, 1400 miles, from Egypt to Italy. The next man we meet looks like the executive of a great corporation, cor-poration, the banker-business man-lawyer type, Sir Tr afford L Leigh-Mallory, 55 years old, Commander Com-mander in Chief of the Allied Air Forces. He gave up the study of law to join and help build the British Air Force and won his way to Air Chief Marshal. The ceaseless air invasions over Europe, preceding the land invasions, in-vasions, were directed by Sir Trafford. The last man we meet on Eisenhower's Eisen-hower's "Invasion Team" is typical Englishman in appearance, Sir Arthur T. Harris, 32 years old, father of four children, and known as "Ginger" Harris. Ht commands the British Strategic Air Forces. While he serves under Air Chief Marshal Leigh-Mallory, as does General Spaatz, his job is the destruction of Hitler's war-production war-production centers. The bombinr raids under Harris testify to his tenacity. AS hours and days passed, with ceaseless bombing rising to s crescendo in its terrifying might, the "invasion jitters" seized Europe. Eu-rope. Huge Nazi armies were rushed to the fortified coast and stood behind their embattlements, waiting wait-ing for Eisenhower. The people of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Den-mark, Norway, with their underground under-ground leaders ready for uprisings, upris-ings, counted the hours, waiting for liberation. Zero hour was approaching. It Lyiow about five minutes to 12 o'clock," the announcement cam from Allied Headquarters. General Gen-eral Eisenhower inspected his stu pendous forces and issued the final warnings. He was ready, waiting only the psychological moment to strike. "I have complete confidence in the final result," he said. "It will be a hard and bloody struggle, but victory will eventually be ours. The power of the United Nations under the flag of freedon shall triumph." THE END y . Forum'n Agin'em TWO CULPRITS PICKED UP; ONE COMES BACK Once upon a time not so long ago two culprits know to the of ficials for a long time were picked up by our intelligence department. It was alleged that their past and present operations were shady from a lawful stand point and society so-ciety would be greatly benefited by their expulsion. The department of law enforcements was instructed instruc-ted to bring them In with sufficient suf-ficient evidence for a conviction This was done but not without casualty. In rounding up Mr. Game we suffered the loss of one policeman, but the operation was apparently successful. Mr. Game, (first name. Card) was turned over to the court were conviction was had and the death sentence was imposed. To the best of my knowledge the sentence was ex-j ecuiea ana jsir. jara uame is now pushing up daisies. In the second culprit Mr. Machine Ma-chine was handled by the city officials. of-ficials. As I understand the law being a little vague in respect to him, required some different pro cedure. After being given a fair and impartial im-partial trial he was found to be short of the social requirements s our officials interpreted the law. Once convicted he was sentenced sent-enced to dismemberment (the amputation am-putation of his pay-off arm). This operation was very simple as well as painless. The pay-off arm had shriveled to the point where then was no life left in it and amounted to about the same operation as trimming one's finger nail. But is is most remarkable as to the recuperative powers of Mr Machine (first name. Pin Ball). In only a matter of a few weeks the arm had grown back and is in operation agaJn on the same limited basis. Now the officials are desirous of performing the operation anew i Let them ao u in sucn a manner as will be effective and permanent. perman-ent. It is our opinion that should do Questions On Manpower Rules ( Editor's note : Gov ernmen t manpower rules and policies affecting af-fecting job changing, manpower priorities and employment ceilings have been set up to win the war faster. How do they affect You? Send your question to the editor. They'll be answered in this column.) col-umn.) ..MEN ASK: Q. I see in the papers that the most urgent need for workers in Utah is for husky men to fUl unskilled un-skilled jobs. I would be glad to transfer from my less essential job to a war job but my health is poor and I can not do heavy work. If I quit my present job wUI 1 have to take any job to which 1 am referred? A. No Suitability plays an Important Im-portant part in the priority referral refer-ral program. No man is expected to take a job that is not suitable for him. If no suitable priority Job is open a worker can be referred at his skill to a less essential Job. Q Will I have to take a Job in another city If referred to one by the United States Employment Employ-ment Service T ' A. One of the purposes of th? Priority Referral is to provide for a shift of workers from labor surplus sur-plus areas to labor shortage areas such as Utah. However, no worker work-er will be forced to leave his home to go to another area for a job. EMPLOYERS ASK: Q. I hire 150 persons almost all of whom are employed on a piece work basis. I believe that exempts me from the regulations concerning con-cerning employment ceiling. Is this right? A. No Every employer in Utah except agricultural, domestic and State. County and Municipal governments gov-ernments have an employment ceiling set showing the number of workers he may employ. (Send your questions to the ed itors). this they will find thst 99.44 percent per-cent of our population will back them up and say it is good work -L. E. WAID Q's and A's Q From what country do we get mica, used for electronic equipment, magnetos, compasses and boiler gages? A India. Q What is the Array's new Lifebuoy" weapon? A A flamethrower, used by paratroops and infantry, consisting consist-ing of a ring-shaped tube for carrying: car-rying: fuel and a gun which sprays a 150-ft. flame. Q What nickname have Allied flyers given German .Messer-schmitt .Messer-schmitt 109's? A Abbeville Kids. Q Avignon, France, taken by Allies, is famous for what? A It was once world seat of the Roman Catholic church. Q How is China faring as to food supply? A This year's crops should be nnu?h for two years' consump tion, according to Hsu Kan, min ister of food . Q of the total tonnage of all metals produced in this country, steel represents what per cent? A 95 per Cent. About 95,000,-000 95,000,-000 tons of steel can be made annually an-nually in the U. S. Q What is the flying time from New York to England, via the North Atlantic? A 18 hours. Q Are rockets new weapons of war ? A No. The British had experi ence with artillery rockets early in the 1th century, but aban- ! doned the idea in favor of the rifled cannon. NO WONDER THE JOB SMELLS LOS ANGELES. Sept. 8 A $350-a-month county job was going begging today. It smells. County Health Officer H. O. Swartout said he bad posted the position of "fume detective" but had no takers. The job is to hunt down and isolate obnoxious fumes. The word 'pajamas' comes from a Hindustani word meaning leg cloth." Whenever I hear people talk about kindly, benevolent nature. or smugly declare that thfe law of compensation always produces exact ex-act Justice. I think of a sight aw out on the ranee one morn. lag. Hearing the frenlied bawling of a cow X arrived tn time to see two coyotes making a msal off the nwpieaa, cnppiea anunaur xuna quarters. Whether the cow was to be miraculously compensated later ror rurnianing sustenance for nature's othtr children, or whether she was atoning for some past sin was a matter X was never able to figure out. There used to be an eagl e kept in capitiv-ity capitiv-ity down Spfingville way some years back to which live ehicke n s were fed. When I think of those ' panic - stricken aquawkin g chickens I nev er could quite figure out how the law of com penaation was work! n g for those chickens. Bebartaea Everybody knows how snakes in captivity are fed, and in their wild state practically all animals have to kill or be killed if they are to survive. The struggle of plants to survive is just as intense, in-tense, although fortunately less rue!. Man himself has little more control con-trol over his sufferings than has the plants or the wild animals. In the beginning man made slaves of his weaker fellow beings. As civil ization developed man discovered he could control more people by owning not the people themselves. but the complicated tools by which man lived. When, as wealth increased, yet people grew poorer and poorer when the production of food was artlfically restricted, or often de stroyed after being produced to keep prices high, and millions of people were denied employment and other millions lived on the Dor der line between malnutrition and no nutrition the optimists who prate about the law of compensation compensa-tion were often driven to fall back upon the promise of riches in the sky. The irreverent IWW's used to put ib this way "Work and pray: live on hay, Youl 11 get pie in the sky When you die (that's a lie.) When black men were enslaved by white men there were plenty of preachers to prove by the Bible that the institution was ordained by God. The slaveholders evidently were being compensated for certain cer-tain unknown ana seldom displayed display-ed virtues while the blacks were paying for the act of an ancestor who was said to have looked upon his father's nakedness when the old boy was In his cups. It always seemed to me that was carrying punishment to a somewhat drastic degree, but this law or compensa tion was always hard for me to comprehend. Likewise the system by wmcn a few men are able to own the tools and machinery which other men are obllsred to use if they want to live has its philosophical defenders. Phrases like "Exploita tion of labor." "Combinations tn restrain of trade." or "All the traffic will bear," are in exceedingly exceed-ingly poor taste. Interest sounds better than usury, and so the phrases we hear are such ones as. "The just rewards of tnnrt ana frusrallty," and "The noble in stitution of free enterprise." We often use words. I think, as symbols for things which are too vast for our comprehension. We say: Death: Life; Eternity, without with-out any real conception of the reality of the thing for which the word stands. We have little more conception of the tremendous dynamics dyn-amics contained in the words: Capitalism; Communism: Socialism: Social-ism: or the State Socialism of the Nazis. All the institutions such as slavery and feudalism which have flourished and gone did so because of inherent weakness within themselves, and were not confounded by words. Just so pres. ent institutions will pass away, and new ones arise to have their little hour of aiory before decay And the words of men will batter at their ramparts with no more effect than beebee shots against the sides of a battleship These days we hear much about "the Indispensable man." Some speak with adoration and rever ence: others with outer sarcasm. We have seen several Indispensable Indispen-sable men dispensed with lately, and before this reaches print we may see another bite the dust, who by his own testimony was the most indispensable of all. Herr Hitler, of course. We may wonder, then, if Mr. Roosevelt is as Indispensable as his supporters maintain. Looking at our Own history as impartially as is possible for me it seems quite clear then we have had no more than three presidents who might have been considered lnais-p lnais-p en sable and they not so much because of their own greatness as because they were peculiarly suit ed to solve the crises of their times. Lincoln was indispensable in the sense that we new know great tribulations would have been averted had he lived. Had Wilson retained his vigor of mind and body and been elected for a third time there is an outside chance the present war would never have been fought. The problems Lincoln and Wilson Wil-son faced were far smaller than the ones confronting the nation now. If history had been changed for the better had they lived and served longer than they did it is possible that history may take a dip for the worse if we retire Mr. Roosevelt now. At any rate I don't believe there has ever been an election in which the need for a A TRUE SIGN It would be tactless of us to say which member of our staff It . was, but yesterday when he called at the hospital to see how his wife was getting along after an operation, opera-tion, the nurse told him: Tour wife has been delirious all day . . . calling for you constantly and crying cry-ing for money." "Hooray! . . . she' not delirious, she's normal.' A Frenchman was relating; his experience of studying the English Eng-lish language . . . "When X first discovered that if X was quick, I was fast: that If I was tied, X was fsst; if X spent too freely, X was fast; and that not to eat was o fast, I was discouraged . . . but X gave up trying to learn the English language when X came across the sentence: "The first one iron one one dollar prize." Uv all the gerls Xv luwed and losst The best bi 'far wua Hellen; She luwed me til X rote hur She coodn't ft PUMt Answering Carious Cynle ... ...our only comment on the "survival "sur-vival -of-the-fittesf theory is that the ones who did not survive sur-vive must have been pretty dura awful. ...the finest tribute a girl can pay her father is to instinctively instinc-tively try to select a husband like him. .he is indeed vain who seeks the praise of fools. . the man whom we can respect is the one who is always willing will-ing to be helpful to others who can be of no possible service to him. NOSTALGIA Yes, X do gat uneasy When no word comes my way ' No letters from you Whom I like to remember As cheerful and gay. 'No news is good news' As you liked so much to say . But it's not very easy waiting-Waiting waiting-Waiting from day t day. Yes, sometimes To pass the time I like to think Of the old .road as 'our' road , Because of its meandering way-; It's woven, crooked pattern Of our glorious days of play. And, dear, I call the high hill 'our' hill Because it seeks the blue. And because vrjt used to climb it And up there 'neath the stars We pledged to each other We would ever remain true. Remember the tall tree We named .Ovr Tree' " ,i Because we found delight x In exchanging kisses In its shade because We thought the moon too bright? Yes, I do admit I'm lonesome most at night When I think of pale stars Above our hill . . . The old road.. . . And the tall tree . . . Because they each are A part of the- memory I have of you . . . And I wonder If they make you Think of me. PERT AND PERTINENT "Very few men are more than sixteen years 'old when it comes to a pinch." Rudyard Kipling. to pinch what? "Women refuse to abondon the Slender Silhouette . . . "headline. they flatly refuse, it seems. "Prominent scientist predicts that it is possible for man to again grow a tail as useful as a hand ... if the need arises...' news report. he must have been watching a trap orummer in a night club. "Man from West Texas who has been mute for ten years, regains his speech after being stung by a bee ... we'll hazard a guess (but won't print) as to what his first words were! Paraphrasing: Don't put all your baskets in one egg. Too little and too late" as usual ... the WPB restrictions on the use of lumber came after the national political conventions vhafl built their platforms. oOo Yes, education is necessary to success: some get it without go ing to college, others after they nnisn. FAITH is the foundation of hope. HOPE is the foundation of charity. That which you do not need is expensive even as a gift. It seems the Yanks caught the German 7th army with their bridges down. The Dewey campaign may or may not be based on the fact that politics sometimes makes queer ceu mates too. IGNORANCE is the parent of bigotry and intolerance. You can take my word for it that The philosophy of life seems toi boll down to this: we see evil only as we know evil. oOo So YOU don't care what people think? Well, if you are really sincere, why don't you let your beard! grow? You've always wanted to, you know! - Did- you ever, see a genius who was not unusually energetic 7 Neither did we. The coveted companion is the! man who can teach you some-j thing. sober, unprejudiced appraisal of the issues were more essentiaJl than right now. |