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Sone of the stories brought back from the fighting fronts by Amerieans who have been entertaining boldiers, fairly break your heart. Guy Kibbee, a finc old Hollywood character actor, has helpcd entertain our men in several theatres of war, with his wit and humor. He tells about doing his stufr in one hospitat where a certain boy in bed seemed to get a tremendous reaction to the funster's efforts. At every joke told thie boy slapped his right thigh with his right hand, and roared loudly with laughter. When Kibbee looked, he saw that both the boy's left arm and leg were missing. frl*

Lots of things printed of late regarding use of the scriptures in war times. I remember a case where a quotation from scripture was used in war, first to save telegraph service and second to utter a warning. It happened this way. Two generations ago when Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson were exploiting for Britain in South Africa, Rhodes heard Jameson was contemplating what has since been called his ill-fated "raid" into the Transvaal, and he sent "Dr. Jim,, a telegram that read: 'Read Luke fourteen thirty one." So the intrepid Doctor got out his Bible and turned to the 31st verse of the l4th chapter of Luke, and read: "Or what king, going to make a war against another king, sitteth ngt down first and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty Orousand?" That was Rhodes'way of warning Jameson that he was going up against superior strength, and counseling against it. But Jameson made the raid, an5may, the complete failure of which is history. ***

One of our learned Americans in a printed interview the other day counseled against too-severe criticism of appointed public servants. He said that Jesus Christ, who possessed an fnfinite Mind, only appointed twelve men, and of that twelve one of them, Judas, proved a total loss, so how much can you expect of the choices made by finite minds. John Henry Kirby, once famous lumberman, used to utter that philosophy in much more convincing fashion. To prove the same point, f once heard him say: "Only one Man ever lived on this carth who possessed a mind that was Infinitc; and He selected only twelve men for His assistants; yct He sufrered a twenty-five per cent loss in His selections, for of the twelve Thomas doubted Him, Peter rcpudiated Him, and Judas betrayed Him to His death." That went into my scrapbook as one of the finest original stat€ments f had ever heard.

Judging from what we nead, the Amcrican war machinc is not nearly ao enthusiastic today on the subjcct of gliders for translrcrting fighting men and material as tley \nere a short tine ago. A grcat army of men is at present engaged in buildtng gliders in this countrSr. A tremendous amount of the firest aircraft wood is going into these gliders. Another large amount of the best boxing and crating lumber is being used to crate these gliders for shipment. The rumor is rife that we are going out of the glider business, or at least going to cut down our ambitions along that line. Nothing definite is to be learned on that subject When Germany subdued Crete largely with glider-borne troops, the glider idea came rapidly to the front. Since that time wonderful things have been done with gliders. But these things come and gA and if you can believe ,most of the things you read of late, we are not nearly so hot on gliders as nye were a short time ago. No details as to why.

"Expendable" has developed into one of the most forceful and meaningful words of the present war. It tells a lot of things in a few quick syllables. I think the present meaning of the word came into being with the publication of the booklet, "They Were Expendable," telling in such thrilling fashion the exploits of some of the first American P-T boats in the Philippine fighting, one of them transporting MacArthur to safety on his way to Australia It haa come to mean both men and materials ttrat are put in the line of expendable sacrifice to help win the war. Now we just refer to such things as "expendables- and the meaning is so well known to the public that no further elucidation is called for. Many expendable war things are made from wood. One of the most interesting of these items is expendable gasoline tanks for airplanes. They atso make them of metal, but wood has recently come into use on a very large scale for that purpoee. They make moisturcproof tanks out of some of our hardwoods, notably Birch, that will hold a lot of motor fuel. They are attached to planes that are not built for carrying heavy loads of fuel, but rather for fighting, but which must go long distances to fight. So they hook a couple of these expendable tanks filled with gasoline to the under part of the plane and fly the plane long distances, using the fuel from the expendable tanks first. Then, when this supply is exhausted, they just pull a lever and cut the expendable tanks loose, leaving the plane its own normd tanks filled with fucl to fight and return to base on. Thus planes of light fuel carrying capacity are enabled to go twice their normal fying distancc, with fuel for the return journey. With the extra tanks gone, thc ptanes are of coursc U;lYt maneuverablc.

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THERE'LL BE IIME TO PLAY \flHEN THE \7AR IS \flON.. BUT ITORK NO!(/

\flhen the war has been won there will be time to play-and recreational facilities will for surposs anything wc hove known in the past. But now there is wcrk to be done, a wdr to win. Before we cdn sit back and anticipote the wonders of the future we must make that future secure. Plan, yes. But work and plan.