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Show FodF0RTlhMsM TO MY DAUGHTER Christie Lund Coles on her birthday, August 19, 1942 By C. N. Lund Little mother, little wife, Frail, yet strong with spirit life; Blest with talents of the mind, Sweet and gentle, good and kind. Born to earth one August day, You have lived a queenly way, Smiling through the sun and rain, Singing through the aisles of pain ; Glorifying mortal clay, Inspiring all who come your way ; All your gifts, divinely given, Link your poet soul to heaven. I bless your fine and radiant soul And pray that all the years that roll May yield their sweetness unto you And be as kind as you've been true. We are not afraid to tell the truth in our humble way. Present events constitute the greateset drama of all time. In the cast are both the devils of earth and the Gods of heaven. Thn war, with perhaps a brief lull, is the great consumation that shall make a definite end of all national systems, all Bab-ylonic Bab-ylonic institutions, and clear the way lor the coming of Him who has so long been but a hope. And with His coming, now right at our doors, the new and everlasting Order of the Ages will be ushered in. Official reports show that 4.37 gallons of hard liquor was consumed per capita in the District of Columbia in 1941 while in the rest of the nation 1.07 gallons was consumed per capitas Could some one read abont Belshazar's feast in the nation's headquarters? There is so very little vision anywhere in the world that it is actually a matter of sorrow to us. Every prophet of the Old Testament and the New Testament, and some modern prophets are, figuratively, standing before our eyes holding up the master preview of it all every detail of it all, as plain as the program of a sehool. But having eyes the people see not, and having pars they hear not. So few know and so few care to know, but the whole story is told and has long been bagging bag-ging for readers. Those who wish may know the why of the war, its purposes, its course, where and when it will end. Those who should talk aud write the most about it, and feed the mighty prophetic truth to a hungering world are saying so very little mostly nothing, about the way truth is marching march-ing on through fire and death. The charter", signed by Prime Minister Winston Church- i 1 and President Roosevelt "somewhere at sea" Aug 14,1941, contained the following points: No territorial aggrandize-mentjno aggrandize-mentjno territorl changes without the freely expressed wish of the peoplos concerned ; respect for the choice of al 1 oples of j their own forms of government with restoration where depri- 1 ved; equality of access to raw materials and world trade, col- i laboration for improvement of labor, economic, and social conditions; freedom from fear and want; abandonment of the , use of force with disarmament of aggressors pending establish ment of a permanent security system; freedom of the sea. j These are the times that try men's souls. The sunshine - ! patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of this count ry, but he that stands it now deserves the thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, yet we ! have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the j more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we I esteem too'lightly: Tis dearness only that gives everything ite value. Heaven knows how to set a price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom free-dom should not be highly rated. From Thomas Paine's "Common Sense " Do you know that your good old Uncle Samuel is the greate t employer of all time. He's like Old Man River. He don't say nothing but just eps employing and paying right along According to an official statistical report for May, this year, furnished us by Senator Thomas, there are 2,066,873 edcral employes. The May payroll for them was $336,568,306 or a little over $4,000,000,000 a year. Some paroll is it not? How does the monthly 3 per cent of this look to politicians? This does not include the army and navy and air forces. Al 'hsee and their relatives and friends constitute a voting force that can swing elections an dhas the enemy beaten in advance The man that lives for money only, is apt to find that there are things which money cannot buy) after all. Money can open the doors to what is called society, but it. cannot make a person feel at home in it. During those long years of I money grubbing, the finer sensibilites have decayed, and for him there will be the vulgarity of wealth and not its culture, j There are, no doubt, many rich men who have kept in touch j, with the movements of moral and intellectual life, but for i many more the habit of money-hunting has dominated all other habits. They have gone to their own place, a golden prison. The weary drama has played itself out in the loss of yout.hfull enthusiasms, slow hardoning of the heart, gradual deterioration of thought, palpable disintegration of character, till at last the love of money has devoured nil other loves of impulses, and they have prostrated themselves in horrible' j obeisance to the foul money god, and demon-idol of Mammon They die worth so much money, It is all they are worth. j |
