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cital of your troubles. He has a few
of his own.
Take three long, deep breaths be
fore you explode that will let off the
. steam.
Suppose you attend more to duty
and think less of how your shining
merits are unappreciated.
A smile, a look, a kindness are
God's ammunition.
Yes, you are always right and the
other fellow wrong, for ain't you con
vinced it's always that way.
Give your pride, your vanity, your
self esteem some hard "smashes" and
see happiness enfold you.
Talking without doing it is dandy
punk.
When a rascal tells you what a ras
cal you are, thank him for his rare
judgment
If people professed religion less
and practiced it more, wonder if this
war would be? Sent in by a Day
Book Reader.
THE OWNING CLASSES. While
I condemn church activity in politics
I know that the church as an institu
tion is the servant of the master
class and not a servant of the peo
ple, and I think that a discussion
based on the below statements will
bring more light than religious dis
cussion. Since the existence of small,
wrangling owning classes is the cause
of both war and poverty, why not end
both war and poverty by ending the
owning classes? In the meantime,
why not wrench the daggers from the
hand of greed by depriving the own
ing classes, the world over, of the
power to declare war?
Who except the owning classes
would thereby be weakened? Own
ing classes have no power except that
which they derive from laws backed
by the force of their victims' bodies.
Why not take from the owning class
of the United States the law with
which they declare war? What might
we reasonably expect would be the
effect upon warworn people, the
world around, if they should discover
that the people of the United States
were firmly resolved to begin no war
upon another nation?
How long would it be before the
people of other nations, already tired
of war, would say: "We, too, are
weary of being driven away to wars
we do not want We, too, demand
that our rulers shall surrender to us
the power to declare war."
No necessity can be cited for the
situation that exists. The people do
not need an owning class to own the
earth and rule them. The fact that
such an owning class exists is a co
lossal calamity. That class breeds
poverty in peace and death in war.
The people of the United States run
all of the trains and factories in the
United States. It is no advantage
whatever to the people that these in
dustries are owned by a few idlers.
The people are as well able to own
the industries as they are to own the
capital at Washington. Nobody has
ever questioned the ability of the
people to own, collectively, great ma
chines for the killing of men. Why
cannot the people as well own great
machines to feed and clothe men and
women? If it be' proper for the peo
ple to own the means of taking life,
why is it not proper for the people to
own the means with which to make
life worth while? E. L.
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There is said to be in Kentucky 4
tree bearing each year a crop of wal
nuts and a crop of mulberries; and
the curious phenomenon is accounted
for by the supposition that a mul
berry seed fell where a walnut lay in
the ground, and the young shoots
came up side by side and united their
forces into one solid trunk,
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Colonel Alexandra Koudasheva,
commanding the Sixth Ural Cossack
regiment, is the only woman who
actually commands such a body of
men at the front She has seen ex
ceptional service since the war be
gan and has twice been wounded in
encounters in East Prussia,
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