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Courtesy

a OURTESY is the only medium of exchange which is \z accepted at par by the best people of every country on the globe.

It is sentiment clothed in reasonable and business-like expression-the embellishment that adds tone and harmony to matter-of-fact routine-the oil that lubricates the machine of commercial good fellowship, and promotes the smooth running of the various units of an organization.

Courtesy radiates a spirit of good fellowship that we are not working entirely for what we get out of work in a material way, but for the pleasure of polite transaction and friendly association as well. Life is not too short and we are not too busy to be courteous, for courtesy is the outward expression of inward consideration for others.

Lives of editors remind us, Honest men don't have a chance, And in passing leave behind us, Bigger patches on our pants. On our pants once new and glossy, There are stripes of different hue, All because subscribers linger, And don't pay us what is our due. Let us then be up and doing, Send our mite however small, Or when the snow of winter strikes us. We will have no pants at all.

When I think of the towel, the old fashioned towel, That used to hang up by the yard office door, I think that nobody in these days of shoddy, Could hammer out iron to wear as it wore. It grew thicker and rougher and harder and tougher, And each day it took on an inkier hue, Until one windy morning without any warning, It fell to the floor and was broken into.

It is agreed by most thinking and reading men that most of the books being published in this day and age come under one category; they are just plain and lousy trash. Yes, lousy is the word.

Tlie same thing might be truthfully said concerning the great preponderance of the books of recent years; the covers are too far apart. They should, in many cases, be stucktogether.

Now and then something worth while in book form comes on the market. If you are thinking of getting a book that will be worth your time and money and then some. here is a suggestion.-The book came out about twelve yeari ago. It is the "Maxims and Reflections of Winston Churchill," published by Houghton, Mifflin Company of Boston.

The book mentioned is filled with quotations from the speeches and writings of the great Englishman, most of them brief, all of them filled with magnificent thoughts couched in such words as onlv Churchill knows how to use. Truly he is a master word rvringler and phrase shaper. You read this book slowly and thoughtfully, and the words seem to stick in your mind. That is the test.

BY JACK DIONNE

There is a foreward to the book, written by one of the authors, Colin Coote,,which alone is well woith the price of the_ !qo\, for he draws you a very unusual pictuie of Churchill. His prologue illuminates the book that follows. He concludes his esJay with these words: ',The prayer in t-rjstory^whi_ch_stits him best is surely the prayer bt La Hire: 'Sir God, I pray you to do to La Hiri ai La Hire would do to you if You were La Hire and La Hire were God."' rF*{.

Mr. Coote explains that at times Mr. Churchill, in his strongest phrases, comes close to taking for his own the famous words of men of earlier days, bu1 adds, and truth- fully, that all great thinkers, speikers, and writers may b_e so charged. For instance, Churchill's oft-quoted words that_he spoke in England's darkest hour when he promised the Fritish people "blood, toil, sweat, and tears," ring like the immortal words of Garibaldi when he said: "Softiers. what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle, and death."

And when he said at that same time that Britain would "fight on the beaches, in the hills, in the streets.', he could have been taking a page from the French Clemenceau during World _W"I 9"9, when he promised the invading Germans that "I shall fight in front of Paris, in paris, Sehind Paris." Mr. Coote believes that the resonant eloquence of Churchill is alike to that of Cicero; perhaps -ore like him than like any other speaker or writei.

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Early in the book Churchill explains his own ambitions, ye_ry tersely, and very plainly, saying: "I have always faith- fully served two public causes, which, I think siand supreme, the maintenance of the enduring greatness of Britain and her Empire, and the historical continuity of our island life."

And the reader will no doubt thrill with admiration for his dominant thought-British loyalty-when he says: "I would make all boys learn English; and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat. But the one thing I would whip them for is not knowing English; I would whip them hard for that." And he slyly adds that he never studied Latin or Greek.

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