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Show m DON'T TELL THE BOYS, Please Don't. Don't tell the boys over there that U. S. women spent $500,000,000 for furs last year and will spend more this year. Don't tell them that the home folks spent $1,000,000,000 for jewelry in 1943. Don't mention that rich idlers crowd the race tracks which pay $65,000 for one winning horse. Keep quiet about the crowds at the prize fights where a pug is paid as much as $35,000 for ten minutes work in the ring. And keep a still tongue in your head about the war profiteering! profiteer-ing! Today's senseless buying and profiteering may mean breaklines next. Too much talking about these things might make the G. I.'s weep when they look at their $50. But, in spite of this let everyone of them thank God and their good country for all the good things in the recently enacted G. I. law. That law, like all the social welfare laws is Christianity in action. The world has surely moved ahead some since the time of Napoleon when French reactitonaries voted to pay the soldiers $1.20, actually one dollar and .twenty cents per month! And left the wounded, the aged, the helpless to shift for themselves or die, as some few would have it now.- |