Show Jr CREED FOR AN AMERICAN IN AN ALL-OUT WAR I am through with halfway crystal gazing and the Idea that It's all done by I am finished with talk for talk's sake and the under and due time the matter will be attended I have canceled my subscription to the theory that all comes out in the even if you haven't thought to provide I believe in my country's capacity to despite its tendency to procrastinate and I believe the say spirit of America will completely super- sede the in it for and that it's about I believe the Spirit of will submerge the Spirit of Every Man for Every Politician for the Main Chance and Every American for Softer I believe in the American Way and I now believe it Is the way upward and forward and not just a circular path around the artificial I believe the country is beginning to understand that sacrifice is not merely something done with a I I believe that patriotism is something beginning to show in the deeds of Americans and no longer something that was the main concern of orators during a five-minute interval at national I believe that Star-Spangled i is now a song to stir every American to the and no longer a number reserved in the main for special school army and navy activities and for musical comedy I believe that this is a war in which Americans see the Issue more clearly than they have seen the issue In any war since I believe that the hopes of Washington and Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln must triumph over the hopes of Hitler and Tojo and I believe that the Bible must and shall triumph over Mein and that the kindly figure of the Man of Galilee shall endure to guide the way of mankind long after the microphone addicts and bullies have dwindled to the size of long-forgotten I believe there is more in the Constitution of the United the Declaration of Independence and the American Bill of Rights worth fighting for than in any goal or set of goals ever proclaimed by all the war lords of I believe Uncle Sam is all the more Inspiring and all the more indestructible through his sudden awakening to the valor of the the incredible toughness of the the fortitude of the British and the fine qualities of all those nations with which he is now linked in one I believe Americans can it as well as dish it I believe they are going to prove it In a way that will win a new respect all over the face of this I believe there arc hard blows and great sufferings for Uncle Sam I believe he will toughen up and show that he is the Uncle Sam of Breeds rude bridge that arched the Valley San Juan Manila Wood and I believe In JOE LOUIS AND THE ARMY EXAM Have you done much A. but what I've done has been I Have you done any A. Not since the first Any experience In tank A. that was two other There is a difference ol opinion in the dress industry over the reported plan to shorten skirts by way of saving Maurice of the Fashion Originators guild says they can't be made shorter without becoming police court But we think he is Skirts got so short around the time of the last war now and then a husband got mixed up and put one on as a The splendid work of the Dutch in the war brings back to mind an old song Fred Beck used to sing at the Grays' outings back they they got no style They got style all the all the A robber entered an office at Broadway and Forty-second street at high noon the other day and stole He was the only person In that area working at such an early |