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Daniel Webster was present at a big meeting at which a cry of fire started a sudden panic. Men and women sprang to their feet and began a mad rush for the inadequate exits; a rush that threatened much tragedy. Mr. Webster realized the situation and, stepping to the front of the platform, cried in his great voice:

EVERY MAN STAND STILL!''

The crowd heard, .0.*U, .rU the tumult was stilled; the danger passed, and the terrible possible consequences of the th'reatened rush for the exits were avoided. Frequently have the many famous words of Daniel Webster been quoted, mostly from his great orations, but it is very unlikely that any other speech he ever made was as great as the short one quoted above, judged from a result standpoint.

There is a man in Washington now who has used much the same advice on various important occasions. In these days of tension and danger, the nation has come to understand that our President, like Webster, can be depended on to calmly lead this nation in time of stress, and to say to them: "Let every man stand still!" No panic, no rushing wildly about. Just stand still and think things out before we act. Then do what seems wisest and best. But first, stand still.

The greatest orations are not always the most successful. Many critics thoughi that Daniel Webster did his grandest job of oratory when he pleaded in court to break the will of Stephen Gerard, who endowed Gerard College but provided that no clergyman should ever set foot inside its doors. Webster pierced .the skies with his eloquence, but lost the case. ,r ,r. :r

It is said that Horace Greeley once w€nt to Gerard College for a visit. He dressed in old-fashioned style, and wore a peculiar-looking hat. He looked ecclesiastical to the guardian of the door, who barred -his way and said, "Sorry, but you cannot enter." Greeley said, "the Hell f can't." The guard stepped aside and bade him enter. ***

A wise man once said: "Your city might not be wise in planning to make itself the biggest in the country, but there is no good reason why it should not plan and work to become the BEST citv." ***

Plato wrote: "Life is happiest and most harmonious when those who rule are the last people in the world who would choose to be rulers."

The story goes that a ward-heeler type politician was making a political speech, when a heckler in the crowd shouted: "!Iow do you stand on infation?" The speaker ignored him, and kept right on with his regular speech, .but the fellow insisted, and again shouted the same question, "How do you stand on infation?" The speaker kept ignoring him, and then others in the crowd took up the question, and the speaker had to reply. He said: "Well, brothers, I did not come here to discuss inflation, but if you must know, I'm in favor of paying her off and letting her go.':,

It was a great humorist of long ago who uttered the philosophy that "A man should always live within his means, even if he has to borrow the money to do it."

The lumber and gold-mining industries were born at the same time in California. During the winter of 1847-,t8, James Wilson Marshall hired a man named John Augustus Sutter to build a sawmill at Coloma on the South Fork of the American River in Northern California. The waterpower mill was nearly finished when they found gold in the water running through the mill race. The gold rush was on. They finished the mill and it got busy cutting Pine timber close by to make lumber and tirnbers for the rush of miners. And, in the long run, the lumber industry then starting has proved a greater source of wealth and employment than has the gold.

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Calvin Coolidge was a philosopher of no small ability. While - he was President, Rupert Hughes published a book on George Washington that contained many things not entirely complimentary to the Father of His Country. A reader of the book called Coolidge's attention to these passages. Cal remarked: "I notice that the Washington monum€nt is still standing."

"What woul'd life be .,Jtan."a-*"ee?" asked Louis the Fifteenth, of France. Then he thought a minute, and added: "But, after all, what is life even WITH coffee?"

"Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest, as on what thou hast already," said Marcus Aurelius, a truly great man. "In other words, do not say 'my purse is nearly half empt/,'but say rather 'my purse is more than half full'."

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What an old smoothie that ancient warrior Odysseus must have been. Homer makes the Goddess Athene say to him: "Cunning must he be, and knavish, who would go beyond thee in all manner of guile, aye, though it were

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