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BY JACK DIONNE

that he might misuse no word, and use no unnecessary word. Certainly the draft call of the little Ethiopian Emperor followed that design.

Selassie.

..EVERY MAN ABLE TO CARRY A GUN WILL COME TO ADDIS ABABA TO FIGHT. THE BLIND, THE LAME, AND THOSE TOO YOUNG TO CARRY A GUN NEED NOT COME. MARRIED MEN BRING THEIR WIVES TO COOK FOR THEM. MEN WITHOUT WIVES BRING ANY AVAILABLE WOMAN. ANYONE FOUND AT HOME WILL BE HUNG." * *,tj*t.d) Haile

Back in 1937 when the Italian armies invaded the Kingdom of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Emperor sent out a draft call throughout all his kingdom. The above quotation was that call-in full. If it is not a classic, you'd be wasting your time trying to find something that is.

{<*{< f remember that an American official at Washington called attention to it at that time. He said that often, after he had wearied his brain trying to dig the meaning out of some printed government regulation, order, or directive, over-long and over-worded and redundant as most of them were, he turned to Haile Selassie's draft order that called an entire nation to arms, IU**XU it for relief.

The little five-foot-four Emperor of Ethiopia is in the United States today, and being shown a lot of attention and respect. He spoke to the Congress in Washington, and has since been traveling about, seeing our sights and meeting our people. His speech to the Congress was not as terse as his draft call ni.ald above, but it was short.

But his draft call has been at the top of my scrapbook ever since I first got it. It should be posted in large type wherever men write official messages, as an example of what can be done in the way of brevity, directness, and word saving. It is the champ of all champs. ***

During the days of OPA when we used to get foods of those long, tiresome, often unintelligible directives from Washington using literally hundreds of words where only one would have been needed, I used to wish that OPA headquarters could have had a great sign shown in front of the door, bearing Haile Selassie's call to arms, and urging official writers to read and learn. For the little Emperor has proven himself a master of the short order. Wasting words is not in his mak*e-up.

It may be that he was deliberately following the example of a great Athenian of the Golden Era of Greece, Pericles, who before every speaking or writing prayed to his gods r have an old friend ,rl-Ju lou witt, who, long ago, used to make speeches. Good ones. fle always began his talks by assuring his audience that he would not linger too long with his speaking, for, he ssid-"[lsyity is the soul of \Mitt." It certainly* is*of Haile Selassie.

This coming of the small Ethiopian to our shores is a fine excuse for waxing historical in this column. In his own land he is called at various times the King of Kings, King of Zion, Conguering Lion of Judah, Branch of the Tree of Solomon, and Implement of the Holy Trinity. He claims to be a direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen ofSheba'

Ethiopia, as you have probably read lately if not previously, is the oldest Christian nation on earth. ft became an independent nation 1200 years before Christ. A blending of history and mythology says that the then king of Ethiopia, Memnon, went to the aid of old King Priam, when the Greek hosts beseiged Troy, and there met his death. History says that long before Christ, Ethiopia supplied elephants to countries fighting against the Romans. The country has about 18 million population, and ten thousand automobiles. It has no seacoast. While in New York the Emperor took in a ball game, and attended religious services at the Harlem Abyssinian Baptist Church.

That's about all I know that seems of much interest concerning the old boy at the present time. So, while waxing historical and on the subject of Ethiopia, I yield to the temptation to tell something about another King of that land; one who always interested me, and has filled a few pages of my scrapbook for many years. Hope my readers find him colorful enough to justify this space. ***

Greek mythology and history tells us that there once lived a King of Ethiopia whose name was Memnon. He was black, yet beautiful in face and form, and a tremendous warrior, so the stories go. His history is partly legendary, and yet backed by many physical facts, so no one can say where history stops and legend begins.

At any rate, when .rr. Lrit lr-i." beseiged rroy and the mighty battles began that Homer made famous in his Iliad, Memnon went to help King Priam of Troy, having heard that Achilles had already slain the greatest Trojan