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f I'U.fMU 4JjiilHii.4fflppp9jqppppippjpjQPjgg are drilling daily and -waiting for their call. It takes a noble appear to meet success with our boys for they are the "best ever." Pretty girls and jaz bands are all right in their place. But this is a serious day and a heart-breaking one for the -women and men of all nations at war. 'I have a woman's pity for them all, but for my own I have every hope that we'll win, as our cause is a noble one. So let our watchword be "Onward," as you intimate in your editorial. Write another soon, Mr. Cochran. We need encouragement sometimes. Delia Cunningham. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING. Yes, a hundred times yes! Despite the war; despite sickness, deaths, accidents, calamities of all sorts; in spite of pes simists, capitalistic monarchs and despotic rulers; in spite of vice, crime, poverty and all their accom panying evils; in spite of all that is against us I clamor for life. Life is sweet, rich and full of happiness for those who loo,k in that direction. Troubles, sorrows and tears abound, but nature must have her way. and these calamities are things of the past. Live today. The people who live in the past or in the tuture are the unhappy and pessimists of the world. As a friend of mine use to say, "I should worry and get a scrubbing board on my forehead." I once heard the jolly little min ister, MacPherson, down in a Joliet church. With his energetic body, Ms frank face and open-hearted mann'er, he begged people wtih outstretched hands and serious mien to live to day; to live for what there is inlife today. "One step at a time," was his motto. He told of an experience when he was coming down from the moun tains one day. He and his compan ion met a burly-faced woman going up She stopped the gentlemen to ask them how much further she jnust go to the top of the mountain. "Just one step at a time," answer ed MacPherson. The woman was irritated and ask ed the question again, to which she received the same answer. Excitedly and angrily she turned to the other man and asked: "But how far is it to the top of the mountain?" ' "just one step at a time, madam, just one step at a time," he answered with a pleasant smile. The poor woman, poor in her lack of philosophy, went grumbling on not ' Lto enjoy one step of the way, but the men who appreciated "one step at a time" idea enjoyed every step. How much happief the people of the world would be if this philosophy were universal. Why do we all worry about the future and forget the joys of the present? Life furnishes as bountiful a supply of sources for hap piness as for pleasure, and, if you will think it over, a great many more. Did you ever read any of Dr. Wal ton's books, "Why Worry," "Keep Calm," etc. Try them. One of his phrases that always. has amused me good: "Don't fret thy gizzard under adverse , fates, For the fret gizzard incapacitates." Another is: "When you are down in the mouth" think of Jonah; he came up all right" Get a philosophy of 'life that will make you enjoy it, willy or nilly. Don't wait until the morrow, DO to day. As William James says in his famous work, "The Will to Believe," life is worth living if we have the faith to believe in it. Say to your self "Life IS worth living," and em phasize the IS. Then -you will get your share of benefits from k. Every one in interested in this subject Why not express your views in The Forum? If you are opposed to my argument, then show whv, despite all the disappointments of life, that, nev ertheless, people can and do enjoy life because of all there is in it. En thusiasm, j