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EDITOR: , asORCJ-E EARNHART MGR: ■ DA.IL HOLDERMESS ARTIST: ALICE.EVANS . CONTRIBUTING REPORTERS Mrs, G-* W. Peebles ^ Mrs, John Varnell ,I^s, Edgar Clark Mrs. J, A. Viverette Mrs.. J. Tj Lav/rence, Mrs, G-, F, Tucker Miss Julia Lovelace Miss Mildred Worsley . Mrs. S. B. Kittr'ell Miss Josie Howell Miss Josephine Daniels Mrs, Dee Taylor jr. TYPISTS & WORKERS Mrs, Tom Col-lins, -jr, Miss Mary McDaniel Miss Mace Edmondson Miss Carrie, Lee Walters Mrs, Katherine' Miller MiSS‘ Phoebe J. ,Harris Miss Eloise:Owens Miss Louise Lane Mr-s, Lucy G-. Mills Mrs,'Beulah Hoard Miss Virginia Hagans Mrs. Lurline Harrell Miss Delores Cobb ' Miss Josephine Arnold , Mrs, Lewis Heilbroner Mi^ S'Dene-Crcoch Mi s s , Sarah Jennlng’s ' Miss Anne Lovelace Mrs, W, S.- Babcock Miss Myrtle Prescott.,, .; Miss Da-isy Smith Miss Margaret Savage Miss. Elizribeth Huffin’ Mrs, .G-eo, Earnhart. Dave :^VLigi;itningw Lee .*■' CHAPLAIN^Sj'T 'ER FOP , A-SHORT ■SERMON FOR SERVICE MEN • : . , , ; ^ ^y Rev, Ernest, C. Durham Tox^» -’’‘This^' is the victory, » I John 5:^ Dr, Leslie Weatherhead, of England, appre ciates this little bit.of scripture so much irhat he has written'a book on i' “This is-thevictoryn—doesnVt ^t ha the right sort of ring to it? Doesn^t H appeal to you? Every man in service, i much cojnqerned about victory. When-ii it coming?When will this conflict; be over? When will the boys be home again? No one ■knows the answer to these questions . But hero, is the Bible speaking, as if vic tory were here right now. And'here is a preacher' in England taking the'expression and writing a great book on it. And there are many ministers everywhere prea ching sermons on it. What does it all ra6'an?' VJhat are they-talking about? They are talking about the,supremely important fact that there is, a victory, which is greater than all victories won in wars* and a victory that every ' service man can have, and should have, fiij'st of all and all the / time,. Then, with this victory any service man can admnce with, a steadi er step, and can enter Into any battle or any dangerous experience with a, calmness and a courage that cannot be experienced by'.the person who has not, won this victo ry of, first importance—vfctory in the. In ner;life. It is the victory of faith,;It is "the victory of.' knowing that God goes with you. It is the victory of love^over hate. It is the victory of being a whole hearted Christian- gentleman. It is the victory that enables,. you to say: »Wha.tev c.r the. testings of war may be, whatevei* I may .be c,ailed upon to , suffer, or*-.to. give up , I sh^^ai go through this thing IXk^ a maa—and I shall not give up God.". Thats the fellow our country will be most proud of when the war is over, and that* s the person who will be most needed in the re building of a broken world, EDITOR‘S CORN^iE WHO IS HOMESICK FOR WHO? HFN thanks Geo. H, Fou ntain for: typewriter loaned HFN.- / .Fate has certainly been kind to your edi- ' .-tor In bringing me in contact.with you . . fellov/s that have turned your faces away , ,, ■ from home,' given up all that, is attrac-r . ■ , ' tivc\and entertaining, in order that our , . shores mi^ht be spared from the heel of the hounds that v;ould violate 11* Eight or, ten of your letters come in a day- and they ail ririg tru'd You are cheerful and hearty "but that same Paragraph, when^' this thing is over and I can come home”, creeps into it. Before I ever open that letter I know this, content is there - but we v/ant it there ~ we want-, you to'be lonesome and'homesick for us, - you would n*t be worHih a tinkers dam if it wasn^t there. But don't; you think for. a moment that we.aJ^e not lonesome and homesick for you, I know hundreds that don*t. hoBitate to say^ "If-I could swap places with Bill, and let him come -on in .and enjoy those things that are right fully ;hls.»» No, john, .Bill,’ ‘and Jo6 ’- things are ' forced' to be brig ht and cheerful bpck herei.without you. The sto res close every ev ening at six, the drug store,s at seven (the AfeC could almost remain closed for a»that) the picture show,is quiet, the gaudy painted'run-
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