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Show Food For TiioiigSiiL I Oi si? aa-rersirT of the birth of Abrr:n Uzeo".- we salute t:s irnxortal cesory. I? cu: --tt hsi civen no;b;5 e".se :o irs-k;-i :bsa thai no'.e cs., j i:s existence wou'.i hive b-eerj ;us:;:;ei. Mon? c: o ;r ts-j ts-j tio'sl wea";b certe.-s in csn like Ws-;b;r:on, Jef'rson, i LLcco'n and others tbsa in a"! the bonis and tanks and I the pi!ed up fortune of nsiliioc&iret cd billionaire?, for j all of these w2 perish and fall away to oblivion. But the j minds and hearts cf these rea as written into t.story I wi'.l live and inspire men as Ions as the world shall last. Their memory should shame the majority today in their insd worship of Mammon. Somewhat after the Master's way, Pres. Roosevelt has raised the lash over the tacks of seme of tte profiteering parasites in the temples of liberty in Washington. This j is we". In that city there is a class th3t is revelling and notin? in plesure and profits much like the cad revellers j were carrying on in the Royal Palace in the cays of Bels-I Bels-I hanar. Like those of the ancient time they cannot read J cor understand ihe warnings written on the walls of these awful times warnings which are really too fearful and too fall of evil portents to be dangled before the people What an awakening there will be when they shall see all that they have striven for and all the treasures that they have heaped up sliding out from under them to return no more to their possession. It shall be our business to try to make them under stand As with the people so with the leaders. Verily men's hear ts are failing then. Civiliiatian is falling. Money will shortly lose its value and many more nations i head into chaos I !:' k-e Vsi s s:n in the service - wc-u'd tike the govem-rurnt govem-rurnt id court ior letting so-called Am cans g3 anout uciermlBiaz KC-rale si deceivtnz pe-?le to systpathiie wi-h the enemy. They go free, helping to kill the boys There mu;t be something in reincarnation t-erause a set cf con;rresstnn could hari'y develop so much greed in cne lifetime as the present body hss exhibited in voting themselves them-selves pensions,and eitra secretaries as 54,5X1 a year. We hereby volunteer, and we could get a hundred others, to Uke 5;:ch a job, and do it as well, at one-fourth the pay. Shame cn such greed, raking everything to' "themselves wL:le half the world is starving. We never can win this war until we develop motives that are far higher than greed What sort of Christian American are you Mister, who beards fr m fit e to thirty sacks of sugar while your neighbor an i his wife and children have none and are unable to buy any. You even laugh at them for not having any. This is the last ditch of greed and selfishness and it is the duty of state or government officials take over excess stocks and ration them. Can it be, oh Lord, that you have created human beings who will hoard food while their neighbors starve? Officials mus act very sternly and that immediately. The Temn-erance and Prohibition Council has appealed to congress to ban the sale of liquor in every theatre of war and ia every community where defense work is going on. Fine, but not good enough. If liquor is not good for soldiers, sailors, marines and fliers, it is not good for civilians. civ-ilians. Bob Ingersol, with all the power of his matchless eloquence used to say: "Alcohol demoraliies those who make it, those who sell it and those who drink it." "America hascdered me to defend the Philippines. I must not fail America." General Douglas Mac Arthur. That's the patriotic spirit that should possess every Amer icaa. Let us all stand out under the flag with that great hero and say with an oath, 'T must not fail America!" One good sign is that people are turning more and more to the great body of prophesy contained in the Bible and are ann'ou? to have it all explained. Why shouldn't it be? Prophesy is the headlight of religion. Every major event from August 1914 to this day has been as plainly I loretold as the historian can write it afterwards, not by ' one prophet, but by scores of them, from Isaiah to Jesus and from Jesus to Joseph Smith all telling the same story. What shall men do in the f .ice of the crisis? Let us tell you. |