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diameter. Jidolf jumped up from his protected location and exposed his chest to
the German public, shouting, "Vat do you mean by going into dat poor peasant
home and taking der food? I told you to vay, not takei"

With a worried look om dHernaran’s face, !.e saia, "Vell, chief, 1%
bothered mo too, Z went in dat peascns home und deve were twensy people sitting .
around a cirewlar table, wiispering ard eurrestiy torversing. 1 gave aga de

Nazi salute and said Heil, Hitier! The dog is dead} and look rat cay gave mej"

For a moment let us contrast the German General blood purge situa-
tion to cur home front. Jchn Kk. Briclcr had ambitions to run for President.
But when his colloszuss thought Thomas E. Dewey was a stronger men, he submitted

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to their will and agreed to rum for vice president, much tgainss his wisnes.

On the Democratic ticket, Harry Truman repeatedly said tint he did
not want to be & ‘rice presidential candidate. But when his party felt that he
would perhaps strengthen thei: tickew he agrsec.

How differont our american way of life is! It is the team work
that the boys ieain that transtors into the political, — and business
life of amorica. Borton Braiey once wrote a poen that 1 very mich like. I
will quote the first stanza and the last. Of course he is talking about the
halfback, when ko said -

"When tho stands are black with esate and they yell, yell, es
When the whistle shriils ths signal for the start,

Then the spirit sort of grips me in a potent spell

And the blood goes dane ing ewiftly through my. heart!

and the rooters are forgotton vito choir flays and all,
And the joy ef sattle puli:es through ay row,

imd there's nothing worth tho having but that pigskin ball
And there isn't any glory but tho gams.:

Is there anything that fills you wich a zest more keen
Than to spill the interferense in a pilo,

Or to slam the runner earthward with a tackle clean,

Or to gather in a punt in proper styie?

It's tho game of Anglosiaxons, it's tho hard old stuff,
It's the horror of the timid and the tone,

find it calls for mon of daring and of fiber tough

Who are worthy of a chance to play the gane.

Razzle 'em, dazzle 'em, fool ‘em with a trick!

Rumple ‘em, crumple ‘em, yet never twice the same.

Keep your eyes upon the ball, - and PLAY THE GAME!"

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You Yanks are on the ball and you are crumpling those Nazis and Japs
in a most auphatic way, Yov all have got your eyes upon the ball and you are
certainly playin; the game up to the hilt.