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Show UNCLE SAM'S 10 COMMANDMENTS President Wilson has signed a bill j which takes its place In history as the j most liberal legislation in protection of a nation's fighters ever known. It is good enough, strong enough to be called the National Ten Commandments, Command-ments, and is. in effect, thus: Thou shalt not cut off a soldier's premiums. Thou shalt not foreclose a mortgage mort-gage on a soldier's property. Thou shalt not take away a soldier's home on which he has made part payment. Thou shalt not sell a soldier's property pro-perty because of his failure to pay the taxes, national, state or local. Thou shalt not settle a law suit against a soldier during his absence. If a soldier sue. the courts shall postpone action until be can attend to it. If a soldier have a mine, or timber or farm, claim, assessments on which are overdue, it shall be. held for him. Honor thy soldier and thy sailor, that thy days may.be long in the land of liberty. .' . No man hath greater love than he that offereth his life for the world's sake, and it is commanded ihut neither neith-er lawyers, nor the loa"h sharks, nor the gatherers of tithes shall fatten on him. . |