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BY JACKDIONNE

man who stood his ground became "Stonewall" Jackson. And thus history knows him.

One can fully appreci.l" ,f" gJeat pria" that the citizen of England takes in the protection of his home by his government. William Pitt, great English orator, described it well thusly: one time a missionarJ -"1 ,rfirr* to convert an Indian to his religious beliefs. After listening patiently to the preacher's argument, the Indian squatted down and, with his finger, drew a circle in the sand. Then he drew another circle, a little larger, around the first circle. And he said to the missionary: "fnside that first circle is what I know; inside the larger circle is what you know; but outside them both is what neither of us know, and there my opinion is as good as yours." i. * :r.

"The poorest maii may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may blow through it, the snows may enter, the rain may enter-but the King of England CANNOT enter; all his forces cannot cross the threshold of the ruined tenement."

After the fall of Bataan, Lt.-Col. Warren told of a most interesting experience during the final days of that battle. He found himself crouching in a foxhole, with death raining all around him. With him in the hole was a sergeant. The colonel found himself praying out loud. And the sergeant was doing the same. The soldier, unbashed and unashamed, said to the colonel: "There are no atheists in foxholes."

Sophocles said: "War does not of choice destroy bad men, but the good ever." The thoughtful of this world have long bewailed the unfortunate fact that war destroyed, not the old and the worn and the less useful, but the young, the strong, the useful-with their fine lives and abilities still before them. But in war it has been ever thus: and ever will be' so it seems' ,. x. ,.

The late Ramsay MacDonald, premier of Great Britain, was once making a speech on the possibility of creating a lasting peace in the world. A critic interrupted the speech to say: "The desire for peace does not necessarily insure it." "Quite true," replied the qulck-witted Premier; "neither (Continued on Page 76)