Show J HIS EAR WASN'T CUT OFF AT ALL Did you ever hear bear tho the story of ot the war war of ot Jenkins' Jenkins ear Its It's an Interesting bit of or history f buried burled In England's story and resurrected resurrected every overy once In awhile by moral by-moral moral moral- It Tho The story goes that the Spanish along about the beginning of or the eighteenth eight eight- century caught an English cap cap- tain thin named Jenkins engaged In Ule Illegal l trade Jenkins went back to England and nd told his fellow tellow countrymen that the terrible dons had cut off bar his ear Fearful crime He ne showed a severed severed- ear and En England Eng Eng- land went wild about it War was de de- Glared dared Men were killed and wounded and ships were wen captured an and their crews sold into slavery and towns were ere burned burnet and women and little lUde children were made homeless All because of ot an nn ear arl But after many years years the truth came caine camet t out Jenkins had the two ears with F which Mother Nature had bad provided fr f him His Ills ear had never been cut off ocr I at all nil Some money hungry doctor had sold him an ear to show or perhaps perhaps per- per 5 haps he had robbed a grave 0 But the men killed in the ar were Just as dead as us If it they had died In Ina a righteous cause I Now before men or nations get into a fight wouldn't it be bevell well vell to be sure that the J Jenkins In tn n the case caso had really f lost his ear Ii And wouldn't It be well to decide If It W he really lost an ear whether the ear t. t was waR worth fighting about Li When your neighbor tells teUs you he be has hast t had hod his ear cut off orr by another manof man manof man man- 10 of ot course you understand that only a as s figurative ear Is ts meant meant just Just part his J f hair and he be sure that the ear Is gone 0 Maybe hIg grievance Is Imaginary and lie tie hasn't really lost an ear at all I F. F And when you think you have been deprived of or something that belongs to j jyon r- r f yon you be sure first that you have bave lost I I 1 It and second that you did not deserve deserve de de- I de-I serve to lose it It It would be well for tor nations to net act in the same way There would ber be bei i r fewer wars to spread death and deso desolation Wl r s lation over the earth More Afore plowshares fit ar would be beaten from swords and the f r r supply of ot pruning hoo hooks books s would be Increased In In- F. F r f creased by those made from spears r i |