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"If one pursues the knowledge that he loves, he makes love of knowledge his real end. One with such an end in view never intentionally misuses the power of his knowledge. It is the prudent use of knowledge that constitutes Wisdom."

-Validivar

This column this time will probably turn out to be a jumble of disconnected thoughts that may in some form or fashion seem to fit the present moment, either looking back over 1948 or forward into 1949.

The Giligilloo Bird, ,J" :.;-ber, was the one who always flew backwards; he didn't give a cuss where he was going, but loved to look back at where he'd been. This is no season for such birds. Yet, since it has been well said and seldom denied that the past is the stu'ff we build the future out of, why not look both ways?

The paragraph that "n."" ,nt, column seems filled with ripe wisdom. When I stuck it there, I really had President Truman in mind. It would be good advice for him. So would that of old Confucius when he said: "To win proves your strength-not the righteousness of your cause. THAT is only proven by the heaven in your heart."

Mr. Truman is from *rl""Lrt, ane state where they have to be shown. So are millions of thinking Americans, including most of the employing people. They admit he got elected, they admit he is a stubborn and courageous fighter, and they are certain he is a good American who loves his country above all things. All of which leaves the matter of his ability to manage successfully the biggest business enterprise in the world, still in the air. Like Missourians, we wait to be shown.

Now for some intere"atr- n,ioa.. of remarks made or written during the past year, that are either stimulating, or amusing, or something else that makes them deserve reprinting. During the World Series baseball battles last fall Oscar Levant sat with a group listening to the returns over the radio. The game started slowly. Someone in the group remarked: "It isn't much of a World Series." "What do you expect," countered Levant, "It isn't much of a world"t

It would take a volume to reprint the jokes about the pollsters and the election. Best of all to me, is this one:

Doctor Gallup, worried over the shocking failure of his pre-election guesses, put on a special poll after the election to see where his first one went wrong. And what do you know? It came up Dewey, again.

Senator McGrath, ., ;.; i.t"rra, got a big kickback when he said: "A third party has as much place in American politics as a third party on a honeymoon."

Winston Churchill ".tu, :;o can ever believe that there will be permanent peace in Europe or in the world while the frontiers of Asia rest on the Elbe?"

James V. Forrestal said: "If you left it to the military they would fortify the moon." *

Martin Dies said in many speeches: "Everything we fought for in World War Two; everything that our boys bled and died for; everything for which we poured out our treasure; everything we hoped and dreamed for, we gave away at Yalta, at Teheran, and at Potsdam, and we got nothing in return. It was the most terrific cleaning any great nation ever got in history." *r<* concerning New Year ;";tJ..r, George Ade once remarked that a man who had one "felt as if he had swallow. ed a steam radiator and someone had gone down to repair it." And some other wag said that a New Year hangover is "the moaning after the*ni3ht*before."

Mrs. Robert A. Taft uttered this thought: "The torch of liberty is like your husband or your furnace. If you don't do something about them, they will go out."

Chief Lothuli, of "" irri""" Zulu tribe, visiting the United States, remarked: "It came as quite a surprise to me to discover that America is quite a jungle."

I don't know who said this but it sure chimes in with my opinion: "The movies have ruined more evenings than they have morals." The movie industry screams like a pained panther about how bad business is. If you want to know why, drop into a few. If you find one out of ten worth your time or money, you've been walking with Lady Luck. And when you go to one seeking entertainment, you are simply leaning on the Keeper of your Harem of HoPes' * * 't

The loudest groan I uttered on New Year, was when I