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BOYAL OAI( FLOOBS
TTith millions of feet going into wanime housing (two million feet for one project, alone) Royal Oak Flooring not only is contributing- in substantial volume to the natioo's war effons;'but also is preparing new sales gtound for dealers in the postwar period to follow'
For, today's building, with its many restrictions and exacting requirements, is a proving ground for th9 future' Iow<ost housing, occasioned by the war, promises not only to continue but to gain momentum with the lifting of priorities and other wartime resuictions. Building materials which prove up under today's rigid tests, will be the dealers' sales leaders tomorrow.
Today, Royal oak Flooring is meeting evely requirement of Government and private building including low-cost housing, remodeling and home reconditioning. By the same token this premier hardwood flooring will be in full suide with the dernands of tomorrow to provide lasting beauty and economy wherever hardwood floors can be speciEed'
Follow the building uend with Royal oak FloorinS manufacnred in all grades and sizes of standard suip and ptank in "v" or flush joints. Foifurther information, contact our nearest sales representative' or address: FoBDYCD-OnossDTT
To fire the gats that kill the rats, We need the man behind The gun; and likewise need the planes The Japs and Huns to find. To get with speed what armies need, Let's all start on the run, And get behind, and push behind The man behind the gun. ***
Sure ! And the best and surest and quickest way that we stay-at-homes can get behind the man behind the gun, is to dig down, and cough up, and buy War Bonds and Stamps. The plan is simple, straightforward, and certain. The holder of those certificates cannot lose, and is certain to gain. He is buying the safest security in the world in the most convenient form in which the securities of a great government has ever been offered to its people.
There is only one reason needed for buying War Bonds and Stamps, and that is, yOUR COUNTRY IS AT WAR; a desperate, all-out war that threatens our very existence, and don't you ever let anyone tell you differently. If we win we win our liberty, and if we lose we lose every_ thing that makes life worth while. It's as simple as that'
Your country is building up the greatest war machine ever devised by the mind of man, and to pay the piper it needs every penny that each man, woman, and child can save and lend, in order to feed, clothe, house, arm, equip, and sustain the armed forces of America, and to win this righteous war in defense of American honor and American safegr, and the cause of free men throughout the whole world'
If we are to win, we must win as a united people. The savings of all of us, yes and our capital as well, is necessary if we wish to hasten the victorious ending of this great world conflict. WAR BONDS ARE LIFE SAVERS. A single strand in the cables that uphold the great bridge between San Francisco and Oakland, is not very strong. But tens of thousands of these strands, bound together into one great steel thong, together upholds this mighty thorofare. And so it is with our individual doflars with which we buy war securities. Individually we cant do much about winning the war. Collectively we are indestructible. ***
When our brothers and sons were called by their country to take up arms in her defense, you did not hear a single soldier decline the issue because his service alone was too puny to win the war. Each man was ready to do his part. The great army thus formed is going forward to battle to risk everything that life holds dear for the safety and protection of our homes, our families, and our native land. These are the men for whom you are being asked to save and lend your dollars. A COUNTRY WORTII I,IVING
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IS A COUNTRY WORTH SAVING AND LENDING FOR! Buy War Bonds and Stamps, and strike a blow for Freedom.
We have been in the war now only a little less than eight months, yet every day the pages of our newspapers bring the names of boys who have paid the price of Liberty with their lives. And as the war widens and deepens, those lists will grow longer and more frequent. Words fail us as we strive to give even faint utterance to our feelings as we contemplate those lost young lives. One of the world's greatest orators, R. G. Ingersoll, was a Colonel in the Civit VVar, and fought throughout that great conflict. And after the war was over, in one of his golden addresses on the subject of patriotism, he uttered these inspired words with regard to the soldier dead: rl. * ,t
"These heroes are dead. They died for Liberty. They died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land that they made free; under the flag they rendered stainless; under the bolemn pines, $re sad hemlocks, the tearfql willows, the embracing trees. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless palace of Rest Earth may run red with other warsTHEY are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of confict, they find the serenity of death" I have one sentiment'for soldiers, living and dead: cheers for the living; tears for the dead:,,
I read the other day a recital by Lt. Col. Warren of the last days on Bataan. He tells of finding himself in a foxhole on Bataan when death fell on every side. With him in that hole was a Sergeant. He found himself praying aloud, and as he looked at the Sergeant, he found the soldier doing the same. And the soldier, unabashed and unashamed, said to Col. 
