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l-^?^ '- : /L Au "W: I So'ted ohr.t Hi-Y?. Fellers: * ’ ' Just about one'‘year $igo, Fohn Schenck, Jr" called 'me into his office and handed me jpl copy of a little bulletin/ put out by Lilj’" Hills Comp any, fcr theii* boy^ in scrvice, -and in~ fomed me, that \ie were to'£,'et out a similar bulletin for our boys, and as'-- this ■'.vas smethinr; entirely new to me, I be{;-’;r'.n protesting. One can usually vdn an ar^^xient with Jolm'- until he be£,lns to squint his eyes','axid tells you-in no uncertain terms, ’’That this . your little Red ?/agcn”, cxid then so help you, you’re sunkl v/ould take lots of help ejid cooperation, and his answer was,"You* 11 find all "the help you need,.-! think," and thus your "Hot Off The Hoover Rail" cpjae into be- in^;, rnd so far, he^ has been absolutely virht, as Y;e»ve had 100^ cooperation from the office force, and also from the entire villa£;e-at-lar£e, I "stuck-my-neck~out" last month, by telling you that 1 would give you a history rf the "Hoover Rail" in this issue', but after further consideration,^ decided that it 'vvould be too dry to be interesting, a!s you boys, by receiving the little paper each i Tnth'are able to'trace its history as well as I could. ‘ • '■ Nov/, fellers, I have a little favor to ask of you - as you'knov/ there are quite .a. number of us on the editorial staff, Djnd I thinlc it only fair, that in the future you a,ddress yoiir letters .to "THE HOOVER R/JL STAFF", and not to me personally, as the most of you have done in the past. Frankly, I’m about the laziest man in the Gang, and if’ I get any worse. I’m afraid'I’11 have to write my next letter to you,'on the subject: "Vfct I know about V/omen", starting off, by saying, "Hi-Ya Fellers", leaving the body of the letter BLtMIK and signing off as usual; My position on the paper is somewhat like something Columbus Cook'told me one day, when I asked him hov/ he v;as getting along, "Just fine, just fine", said Columbus, "I haven’t a darn thing to v/orry about, my neighbors lock after my business, and my mfe looks after my money," On the few warm days we’ve had re cent ly, we gather on the Hoover Rail, and for the most part, our talk is purely Prop-^/ash - a few days ago, someone asked this question: "Just \/hy is this V/ar Being Fought" —'and of course we all had our ideas, but the rea sons were so numerous that an ordinary guy like myself can hardly' take in the many things w'e are fighting to preserve, Mien this question v/as asked, it reminded me of an old gag and it goes like this - A school-teacher asked a little boy the follov^ing question, "How much is a Million Dollars?" The little fellow'turned it over in his niind for several minutes and the only way ho could answer was, "Teacher, its a helluva’ lot of money," Now, lets take one thing we’re all fighting for, ’’’Freedom to find Hap- pine ss in the v/ay, wo think best" or "Tlie Pursuit of Happiness", - we all have differ ent ideas abcoit this ajid different methods of satisfying it. One Man^s happiness, may be the accumulation rnd security of wefeilth'- while another man may be happy v/ith just the bare necessities of life - for exrjnple, I once knew two men, who started on an equal footing - the one mr.n that acquired wealth, got .his stajrt by v/ashing dishes in a little hotel in a small tourist town— he saved enough money to buy a horse and wa gon, and with it, could do odd jobs'on the'side, ■ In the course of time there was a valuable piece of property for sale, and this man,, v^hom v;e shall call Bob, borrowed enough money by mortgaging his horse and v;agon to.make the down payment on this prop- crty — later he sold it'for a. ha.ndsome profit,' From then on he seemed to have the "Lidas" touch - in that, everything he touched, turned to gold. Now lets take the o • other man, whom we’ll call Matt, he was a Happy-go-lucky, ne’er-do-well sbrta’ fellow, v.’ho lived in the s.'^xie village Ifett’s idea of the pursuit of happiness and manner of earning a living was nothing more than acting as a.guide on fishing trips for the (Continued on next pagtj)
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