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Show i IMWM -i -iiriirii'i-am-fi . Mrs. Kimball and Mrs. Worthington, Worthing-ton, dressed soberly and wearing their best black gloves, . walked along the stony country road back toward Sophia Hardy's farm, to pay their visit of condolence. "How do you reckon she'll be bearing up?" Mrs. Kimball asked Mrs. Worthington. Both ladies wore their most solemn, funereal expressions. expres-sions. : "A mighty, severe blow," Mrs. Worthington said. "Mighty severe. To lose your only son, the. mainstay ' of your declining years. And such a dreadful death, too to go down with a ship. Mercy!" . "The first of our boys from Hand County to go, too," Mrs. Kimball said, mournfully, -r iVkQ, "I wouldn't blame fli kAVj Sophia Hardy for SM 'VLvC leering right bit- They stood on A if S t'le s'mPe stone VsNr-,, doorstep, with SS-r downcast eyes, ' fJKmj" getting themselves them-selves into the proper commiserative mood. "Come in!" The voice was brisk and cordial. . They looked up in surprise. Sophia herself had come to the door. As they followed her into the parlor they exchanged glances, with eye-brqws eye-brqws lifted. Sophia was not even in mourning. The parlor shades were not even drawn. , "It's nice of you to come," Sophia said. "Do sit down." , "We came," Mrs. Kimball said almost reprovingly, "to tell you that our hearts are bleeding for you in your great loss." "We know how lonely you must be out here," Mrs. Worthington said. "With nothing to take your mind off . . . off . . ." She sniffed and reached in her purse for a handkerchief. hand-kerchief. "Oh, I keep busy," Sophia said. "I've just finished applying for the Government insurance on Tom's life." The visiting ladies could not resist re-sist a shocked glance at one another. an-other. '. . , . "I want to get' it right away," Sophia So-phia said. "So I can put it into War Bonds. My boy hasn't finished fighting fight-ing yet, not by a long shot." The ladies Were so occupied with feeling horrified, so titillated by this callous behaviour in a bereaved mother that neither of them noticed no-ticed Sophia's hands. Under the folds of-' her clean print dress, against the seat of her chair, they were tightly clenched. (Story from an actual report in ths files of the Treasury Department.) Depart-ment.) Carry on for mothers like Sophia. Buy War Bonds till it hurts. U. S. Treasury Departmtnl Announcement Eugene Mldilleton. K.-lMiillule the nnsty Ilea that man I. "sclns!,, dishonest, la "y, treacherous" (even though he eon be), for iiiiiii, REALLY, Is icreat good, divine! OU rich, eeuse to foe uvnriousi oh poor, cease jour often e.ven, ?" greediness, und your stupidity and luzineus, also! And t'i'?., "" u"" with tremendous AV effort, be diligent, intelligent, intelli-gent, upright, serving Ciod with nil our minds nud hearts, loving our neighbors us ourselves! Oh humanity! hu-manity! Oh Americnns! If you have more thnn one house or lot, sell or gLve uil above this to the comniun. It- or some worthy family! (.Yllcnh 4 14 1 Luke 3:H); cease taking or receiving "Interest") (Leviticus 251 Mt i.ek. lSii:i, forgive your debtors deb-tors if they cannot pay you (Mutt. 6:12)! Also, taxes should be tuken only from peoples' "surplus" (Numbers (Num-bers I818O) and the great natural resources, utilities und lurge Industries In-dustries should be operated communally com-munally (1'snlms IMil). This Is UOD'S PLAN FOR MAX (for want of which the whole world lieth In trouble and sin!) I am to set my own life in hnr-mony hnr-mony with It, literally, as possible. So must you, both in your own affairs af-fairs and laboring earnestly, also, to bring such organization to society so-ciety Itself. Not "after the war!" as is everywhere said, but NOW, fellow Americans, and if we llrst crente Justice and Truth In Britain, Brit-ain, America nnd China, let us SEE If God will not greatly bless us and give us, too, Victory! (And yet, if w-e do not, the terrible scarcities, scarci-ties, dlll'iculties, afflictions nnd horrors of war only mount Increasingly Increas-ingly upon us.) . We are often variously failing, now, let's Intelligently admit we must make many changes to change failure Into success, therefore, there-fore, discarding unbeliefs, BETTING BET-TING ON GOD, we fnre forth, on great hew adventures! We owe It to ourselves, also our denr boys In "the fox-holes of Butaan," to get them out sooner, and In greater numbers! Small building lot available to worthy poor family. Eugene Mid-dleton, Mid-dleton, 7-41279. A simple, feasible activity whereby where-by .the people In any church can begin to achieve the glorious promise prom-ise left us by Jesus In John 14il2! (All forming a "Soul Cllnie" that the problems, wants, hobbles, and , special interests of any who turn In statements of same are read, with addresses or phone numbers, I before the group.) Literature, printed forms, avullable, 4-54851 7-0279, evenings. To STEP-CP man's Intelligence, courage, and progress, a SCIENTIFIC, SCIEN-TIFIC, IIN CONDON I NO, "OPEN" ' ATTITUDE TOWARD "HUMAN NATURE" AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR BEHAV-IOR PROPOSED. This means gladly glad-ly and heartily allowing and E.V-PECTING E.V-PECTING all of us to "be ourselves," our-selves," our BEST selves. It also means, something, often, quite new! a REALISTIC, OBJECTIVE, SOCIAL ATTITUDE toward what we call "human nature," taking the form IF need be of nobly scorning and Ignoring, silently, and silently overcoming but, at times, ridiculing and simply NOT ALLOWING AL-LOWING and OVERCOMING anything any-thing which has manifested which is false, base, weak, sick or mean. Let's keep TUNED to our best, tune OUT of anything causing discord dis-cord or misery! introduce this new concept nnd "game" of mental "TUNING" as u social attitude, pastime and practice among your friends! THREE PHILOSOPHERS. Andy Gump says "Off, MIN! We're going to buy more War Bonds. Like everyone else we're going to 'top that 10 by New Year s'." Bathless Groggins says Yep! I'm back at work agm. I 6g-ger 6g-ger on buyin' lots of War Bonds to help our boys. Don't forget we're all supposed to be signed up for 10 by New Year's! p. IF YOU WANT O.K. SHOE REPAIRING 1 I You must go to the 1 fP? O.K. SHOE SHOP 14 So- state street I Alfred Soreneii, Progressive JEWELER 7 5 East 2nd. 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