■ It*s in giving and doing for'somebody else;
On that all splendor depends, ’ '
And the joys of this life, when you*ve summed it all up.
Are found in the maldJig of friends,"
These favored lines come to my mind as I salute the Hoover Rail on this, its
second anniversary. Ordinarily, the vvlsh for further birthdays is expressed upon such
an occasion, but I’m going to. say instead I hope this is the final war-time birthday
of^the Hoover Rail, that before another year rolls around all of you will be home with
skies brighter and clearer because of the sacrifices you have made and which those at
home have made for the cause in which we fight,
I*m going to express, however, the further hope — one in v/hich I*m thinking all'
of you will readily join — that somehow, after this war is won and the boys are home,
the Hoover Rail may continue as an institution of the Lawndale community and the Cleve
land Mill and.-Poy;er Company; I feel from rather close association and observation of
the Hocver Rail, the love that its editors pour into it and the regard it engenders for
the home community all over this world as‘it follows our fighting men and women, th^t
its usefulness should not cease with victory but should continue; I have noted, too,
that it is enjoyed quite as much by the -home folks and is looked forward to by them as
it is by f?Jiy of you scattered on the many fighting fronts where you are distinguishing
yourselves as you fight for‘Lawndale and the things the people, there hold dear.
Twenty four months is a long time if you sit and watch it a—coming, but when it
has gone and you think how it wont, it seems it passed just a-rhumming, ^You stuck to
your job through those years and the homefolks have ,kept faith, too — the Hoover Rail
is but one of the manifestations of that devotion to duty.
One'of these days, very scon all of us are hoping, you*ll be back around the
original, one and only Hoover Rail, starting a nevj life in a world we*re trusting
won't know again the horrors this generation is seeing. Back at home your friend's arc
looking fonvard to that glorious day, the men who direct the plants axe giving thought
to having you back to help meet the problems ahead because they know that men and
women are the one naterial with which to build soundly. There's a lot of work and a
lot of living ahead on that happiness trail which you'll go along hand-in-hand vdth
the Hoover fb.il which will have, all of us trust> many, many happy birthdays and more
years of jojrful usefulness in peacc as it has in war; for whatever strengthens our'
loca.1 attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home,
our birthplace^ our native land,
■I ask ytu to join me as we salute the Hoover Ra.il - long may it live and serve
as well as it has in these past two years.
Holt McPherson , . '
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Fourth"and,lr-st, wo have a short nessago from-Mr, John F, Schenck, Jr, Vice Pres
ident of Cleveland Mill and Power Company, Mr. Schenck, as we have-told you before,
is the person directly responsible for the Hoover Rail bulletin getting its start -
he is for ycu boys 100^ and v/ants everything to be done for your pleasure that is
possible.
Time is passing very quickly when one realizes the second anniversary of our
Hoover Rail'has been reached. The Hoover Rail has gro;vn to be an'important addition
to Lawndale, and I believe should'the Hoover Rail be discontinued, we, at home, would
loiss it as much as you boys would,
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