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"I feel quite sure that there will be no permanent peace in this world by any other method than by shifting in the arena of the human heart from the desire to fight, to the desire for neighborliness. The world has not the will for peace at tJre present hour, and until the world is ready for peace, America had better keep her 6"1"nsss."-Dr. Charles Darden.

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The statement that "the world has not the will for peace," as quoted above, needs no evidence or further testimony or proof than what we hear and read every day. It's a tough break the old world is getting. Because the world HAS the will for peace; that is, all the world except Soviet Russia. Yet, because of this one power, this one nation, war and the threat of more war continues to cover the earth as with a blanket of fear. As the slang saying has it-"It just ain't right." Looks like there should be a majority rule governing and binding the acts of nations. If there were, there would be one overwhelming vote in favor of peace, and Russia would retire to the far rear in the school of nations.

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The best economic and financial minds in the United States have furrowed brows trying to figure how we, in the natural course of events, will be able to ride safely back from the inflation of war and defense efforts, to that lower level of things that must inevitably come some day. We can't keep on building for defense forever, and when we stop, there will be large readjustments in order. More than a year ago when that Russian big-shot, Gromyko, rose in the United Nations to suggest that an armistice could easily be arrived at in Korea and the war there terminated, many economic thinkers jumped to the conclusion that the Kremlin was getting ready to shock our economy by bringing about actual peace, and terminating much of our defense effort' ft seemed like a fair guess at the time, but proved to be an abortive one. The boys in the Kremlin had other ideas, al1 of them of a character aimed to hurt the United States, when the wily Ruskie made that speech suggesting an armistice. We are able to guess today some of the things they had in mind. We know that there was one thing they did NOT have in mind, and that was any possibility of peace in Korea. For peace over there seems as remote as when Gromyko made his armistice speech. At that time he roused a tidal wave of hope and enthusiasm in this nation which could see the war ending and our boys in prison camps coming back to their loved ones. Deliberate torture is what the Russians were handing us in that peace suggestion. Probably never in the history of warfare had a more cruel deed been done, or a more two-faced speech made. There were many things in Russia's mind right then, but peace ryas not one of them.

You can't help wondering now how we credited Gromyko with good intentions when he made that armistice speech. 'We knew then as we know now that we had never caught a Russian statesman telling the truth about anything. But so anxious were we to get the war and the bloodshed over, and get our boys home, that we accepted his suggestion at complete face value. We could almost see the flags of peace waving, and the marching feet of our returning soldiers, and war prisoners. What a let doivn the aftermath has been'

FIow war has changed. During the Peninsular War Sir Charles Napier, a British soldier and military expert of international fame, declared that he knew but one man capable of commanding an army of one hundred thousand men, and that man, he thought, was Lord Wellington. During the two World Wars through which we have pissed, one hundred thousand men would be little more than a stop-gap in the line, and generais in plenty have commanded many times the number of soldiers that Napier thought possible.

Thomas Dreier hands ;" ;; for thought in a recent issue of his maga"ine "The Vagabond," when he says: "Before there can be world peace, the command to 'Feed the Flungry'must be obeyed. Today, two-thirds of the world's population live in a permanent state of hunger. We must face the terrible fact that one billion five hundred millton men, women, and children will go to bed tonight with hunger gnawing at their stomachs. We must also accept another fact: That tomorrow there will be 62,000 additional mouths to feed. (dt that rate the world's populatron grows.) Hungry people are never at peace. They cannot know happiness. They have no inclination to think as develbpers. They are concerned only with survival. Their thoughts seldom range beyond themselves and their immediate families. Probably the leaders of the world face nc more important task than that of producing and distritruting food that w'll end hunger."

Seems like the name of Will Rogers has been in the papers an unusual lot of late. Quoting him will probably continue as long as this na-tion endures. Newspapers and magazines seem never to tire in singing the praises of that simple man rl

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Cobb wrote igh regard to the { it might be that who won immortality by his kindly wisdom. Probably nothing written about him was more ing of repetition and quotation than what his friend shortly after Will's death. Cobb said, question of immortality of man, that other people ended with the grave, it impossible to even imagine such a thing about Will . Said Cobb: "It wouldn't be right to give Will to just one world that kindliness and and cheat some other world out of fun, all that sweetness and humil and precious wit." and ripe philosophy t<>F*

It was said by someone discussing the wonderful per_ sonality of Will Rogers: ,,If you hope to be exceptionally impressive and worth while, you must strive to be excessively natural. No one ever acquired fame by affectation. All true greatness is earmarked by simplicity. you must sit by the fireside of the heart. Above the clouds it is too cold. Be simple in action and in speech. Too much polish suggests insincerity.', Nobody ever doubted the sincerity of Will Rogers. * ,< {(

Will Rogers was a humorist in the truest sense of the word. He took men, and their words, and their works, and he distorted them in fun-loving fashion until they made men laugh. He had the amazing ability to make men laugh at themselves. Wit never accomplishes that; only kindly humor. Only humor can make a man really enjoy a joke on himself. Simple things were his joy and delight. His fun and humor had simplicity and terseness as their chief appeal. Ffe murdered the king's English, and people who would have turned up their noses at anyone else on this earth who "ain'ted" them as he did, laughed with him and at him until their sides a*ched with merriment.

It is said that in the plant where that fying genius Igor Sikorsky builds helicopters, there is a sign that reads:

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Paul Aughtman, who has been a salesman for Tarter. Webster & Johnson, fnc., Los Angeles, for the past three years, has taken over the management of the company's Redding ofEce and concentration yard. replacing Robert Marsden.

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Napoleon once said to a friend: "Fontanee, do you know what I wonder at most in the world? The impotence of force to organize anything. There are only two powers in the world, -the sabre and the mind, and in the end the sabre is always beaten by the mind."

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Many years ago a legislator in Georgia made a most remarkable speech on the subject of books. A measure was before the house to allow counties, school districts, or municipalities to establish and maintain public libraries. The measure was defeated, largely because a legislator made a powerful speech against it. He said that there are only three books in the world-the Bible, the hymn book, and the almanac. "Those three are enough for anyone," said the speaker. "Read the Bible. It teaches you how to act. Read the hymn book. It contains the finest poetry ever written. Read the almanac. It shows you how to figure what the weather will be. There isn't another book that is necessary for anyone to read, and therefore I am opposed to all libraries." The recorded vote was 57 lor and 63 against the measure,

Line Harger, who *rn"".u.ir*itru trrings for .,The vagabond," doesn't agree with the old Georgia legislator by a, considerable margin. fnstead he credits much of what he knows to certain books. He says he learned about the Mississippi River from Mark Twain. He learned about the West from Bret Harte. He learned about Russia from Tolstoy. He learned about Malaya from Joseph Conrad; about Patagonia from W. H. Hudson; about India from Kipling; and these things, because of this way of learning, he says he does not forget.

Grcrce Amyes Promoted

Miss Grace Amyes, who has been secretary to Eric Hexberg, manager of Tarter, Wcbster & Johnson, Inc., Los Angeles, for the past several years, has been appointed editor of the company's house publication, the American Eagle, and has moved to the San Francisco office to take up her new duties.