“and taking der foed? I teld yeu to pay, not take!"

With a worried leek on Hermann's face, he said, “Vell, chief, it bethered
me teoe I went in dat peasant heme and dere were twenty peeple sitting a
circular table, whispering and earnestly cenversinge I gave dem do Nazi
salute and said Heil, Hitler! The deg is dead?! And leek vat day gave mei"

Fer a moment let us centrast the German General bleed purge situation
te eur heme frent. Jehn R. Bricker had ambitiens te run fer President.
But when his celleagues theught Thomas E. Dewey was a strenger many he sub-
mitted to their will and agreed te run fer vice president, much against his
wishese

On the Demecratic ticket, Harry Truman repeatedly said that he did net
want to be a vice presidential candidate. But when his party felt that he
would perhaps strengthen their ticket he agreed.

Hew different eur American way ef life isi It is the team work that
the beys learn that transfers into the political, industrial and business life
ef America. Berten Braley ence wrete a peem that I very much like. I will
quete the first stanza, and the last. Of eourse he is talking abeut the
halfback, when he said - —

“When the stands are blaek with people, and they yell, yell, yell!
When the whistle shrills the signal fer the start,

Then the spirit sert ef grips me in a petent svell

And the bleed gees dancing swiftly threugh my heart!

And the reeters are fergetten with their flags and all,
And the joy ef battle pulses through my frame,

And there's nething werth the having but that vigskin ball
And there isn't any glery but the game.

Is ‘ie anything that fills yeu with a zest more keen
Than te spill the interference in a pile,

Or te slam the runner earthward with a tackle clean,

Or te gather in a punt in preper style?

It's the game of Angle-Saxens, it's the hard eld stuff,
It's the herrer of the timid and the tame,

And it calls fer men ef daring and of fiber teugh

Whe are werthy ef a chance te play the game.

Razzle ‘em, dazzle tem, feel ‘em with a trick!

Rumple ‘em, crumple ‘em, yet never twice the same.
Keep yeur eyes upon the ball, - and PLAY. THE GAME!"

You Yanks are en the ball and you are crumpling these Nazis and Japs in
a most emphatic way. Yeu all have get yeur eyes upen the ball and yeu are
certainly playing the game up toe the hilt.

June 6, 1944, will always remain indelibly in eur memory because en that
day many of eur Jayhawker beys, sureharged with deep emetiens, catapulted
themselves on the big triumphal surge ef "Fertress Europe". Lt. Jehnny Pfitsch,
ef Pflugerville, Texas, Ensign Ralph Sehaeke, ef Lawrence, Kansas, and Captain
Bill Wade, of Western Kansas, - and we are sure there are many others,- have
banged their way inte the paperhanger's ceuntry. And the best part ef it all
is that they came eut alive. Doubtless there are many of our beys that will

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