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Scots wha ha wi Wallace bled, Scots wham Bruce has often led, lVelcome to your gory bed, Or to victory;

Wha would be a traitor knave, Wha would fill a cowards grave, Wha sae base as be a slave, Let him turn and fee.

Thus sang Robert Burns, the great Scotch bard, whose birthday is celebrated in February. He not only sang his beautiful and immortal folk songs and love ballads, but his patriotic poems, of which the above is a sample, thrilled his countrynaen with patriotic fervor. Few poems of patriotism ever written have been more freely quoted, or more highly praised. ***

George Washington's birthday comes in February also. In addition to being the Father of his Country and a character that grows constantly bigger in retrospect, Washington was our first dollar-a-year man. Onty he didn't even accept the dollar. For the long seven years he ted the American armies, he accepted no remuneration or compensation. Robert Burns wrote inspirationally about love of country. George Washington lived it to the fullest.

Abraham Lincoln was likewise born in February, making this month an American grand slam. The greatest modern historian, the Britisher H. G. Wells, placed Lincoln in his list of the six greatest men that ever lived, along with Jesus, Buddha, and others who changed the tides of history.

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History is often made in a hurry. On July 1, 1861, a great battle raged in our Civil War. Imboden's gr,rns were being overwhelmed by the Federal troops. Confederate General Bee spurred his horse back to where General Jackson sat, and reported that his brigade was being broken and repulsed. Jackson's thin lips set. "We must give them the bayonet, Sir," he said to Bee. Bee spurred. back to the head of his retreating command, and shouted: "See, there stands Jackson, like a STONE WALL!' And from that day forth that man who stood his ground became '.Stonewall" Jackson. And so he is in history.

And if Jackson was a stone wall, what shall history say of Douglas MacArthur, of the Philippines. Some well selected name should be immortally coupled with his. What he has done in the Philippines has already carved his name in letters of fadeless glory on the history of his country. With a modest contingent of U. S. Army regulars, and an aggregation of Filipino soldiers he trained himself, MacArthur taught the slant-eyed hordes of Japan an unforgettable lession in sheer grit and the art of warfare. MacArthur realizes, with John Hampden, that the essence of war is violence, and with Forrest that it pays to "git thar fustest with the mostest men." He hasn't had many men, but he has handled them in gigantic fashion***

When MacArthur's defense of Bataan is written, some grand tales will be told of the prowess of his Philippine soldiers, the native I'ilipinos. Filipinos are mighty mites when it comes to fights. They love to fight, and are natural fighters although small in stature. They are strong, fast, aggressive little men. Man to man the average Filipino can lick the average Jap with one hand tied behind him. Ask the thousands of boxing fans on the Pacific Coast who for years have seen an army of Filipino and Jap boys try for money and glory in the prize rings. No Jap has ever made a good ring fighter yet. They can't take it. They can't hit hard. The Filipino boys have produced hundreds of great fighters, and some champions and near champions. They are not only unusually fast, but they are natural hitters. ft was Filipino prize fighters in California who originated the "bolo" punch, a round house swing that carries a sleeping powder with it, that always delights the boxing fans. The defense of Bataan is the story of great fighting by MacArthur's Filipino soldiers.

The name Bataan is new to the average American reader. But to the lumber trade of this country it is an old story. Forty years ago a California lumberman discovered and purchased one of the finest stands of hardwood timber the world has ever produced, on Bataan Peninsula. He built sawmills in this timber, and manufactured it into lumber for fully a generation, and shipped the lumber to this country and sold it. The real name of his particular tract of timber was Tanguile, a beautiful, dark red, highly figured woo{ that nevertheless grew straight and tall like Ameri' can pines. He called his lumber "Bataan" in honor of the Province where it grew. And there are millions u,pon mil' lions of feet of this "Bataan" lumber in use today in at' tractive buildings all over the United States, particularly in doors, trim, and interior paneling. No doubt MacArthur's gallant army has been doing a lot of its fighting where these "Bataan" forests once stood. There is still a huge quantity of cabinet hardwoods in the Philippines, but Bataan Province is largely cut over.

Reports from the Philippines indicate that the conquering Japs took as part of their valuable booty in the Philippines large quantities of Philippine Mahogany lumber. All the milling districts of the Islands have been in Jap hands for some tirne. This wood is particularly well adapted for boat and ship material, and our imports for the past two years have been largely used for that purpose in this country. It is the only known cabinet hardwood that can be produced in very long, clear planking.

Fotks who live along the Houston Ship Channel which connects the city of Houston with the Gulf of Mexico, do rnuch reminiscing these days about things gone by. They recall the fact that for the past several years there have been continually passing their doors Japanese ships laden with scrap iron. Some of them carried sulphur and oil, but mostly they carried scrap iron- They were headed for the Land of the Rising Sun. These people used to watch this procession of Jap ships go by, and would idly wonder what on earth the Japs wanted with all that old metal. They know now. That scrap iron and things into which it was made is scattering death and destruction through a large part of the world. The Japs made it into planes, ships, tanks, guns, arnrnunition, and other instruments of death. It has been coming back to us at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, and other parts of the Pacific. Little did these people think, as they watched those Jap ships go by, how terrible a part in the affairs of men, those cargoes were destined to PlaY'

Billy Sunday, famous revivalist of other days, used to say in his sermons during the first World War that sometimes a left hook to the jaw was more effective than a prayer. This nation prayed for peace; but war came. Now we are preparing to swing that left hook to the jaw. That doesn't mean we should quit praying. But we might divert our prayers to ask for the ability to hit harder, oftener, and in the proper place.