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---——~7-Optimist Speaker Stresses Need for Calmness in WarNot hate, but calmness — sterncalmness like that of Gen. Douglas MacArthur—should guide the millions of young men now fighting on land, sea and air for preservation of this nation. Rev. Robert Tipton, pastor of Good Shepherd church, told members of the Racine Optimist club Wednesday noon in Hotel Nelson.Rev. Tipton likened conditions today to those of Christ during Holy week now befng commemorated over the Christian world.Friends Sleep.“Like us,” said the speaker, “Christ had broken bread with his friends, two of whom accompanied him into the garden. He was facing a crisis, just as we are today, and knew of the ordeal which must be confronted on the morrow. But like us. his friends were tired and they slept—just as many of us are sleeping today.” Rev. Tipton said the present war is being fought to preserve all that the people of this nation hold4D THEIIDAY SERVICETHEChurches of RacineHELD ATMG. LUTHERAN CHURCHJD KINZIETO 3 P. M.Churches—dear, and that everyone must aid in any way they can.Keep Faith, Plea.Because of his heroic resistance to overwhelming odds in the Philippines. Douglas MacArthur has emerged today as a great national hero—an inspiration to all. Rev. Tipton said. He pleaded with his listeners not to forget this and not to desert General MacArthur and his brave men in the days to come when things might not go so well. “I see this as a long hard war,” he declared, “and we muts preserve our calm.”Commending the city for conducting a public farewell for the young men who left for service Monday, Rev. Tipton told of his own emotions as one of the vast crowd under the terminal roof when he saw the youths leave. He was not there to say “Goodbye” to anyone in particular, he said, but he was with all of them in spirit and will continue to remember them in his prayers.Pleased with Demonstration.'9$1*!IIfIJUEL HOLY COMMUNION—Leave When You Must ^It's Smart to Buy YourEasier FlowersThe speaker told of watching three women, evidently there to bid Godspeed to sons. “They were not old women, but they looked old,” the minister said. “They were not descendants of those on the Mayflower nor yet of the early Catholics of Maryland. They evidently had come from Poland and from Czechoslovakia. They knew war, and they knew for what their sons were being called to war. You could sec it in their faces, yet they were proud to let them go just as you fathers are proud to have sons in the service.”Alfred Nord was installed as president by Past President Arthur Johnson. Adolph Gillund explained need for continuing the club's work among boys now more than ever before. Attention was called to a dinner meeting to be held in Hotel Nelson next Monday evening when Eldon S. Dum-mit, Lexington. Ky.. president of Optimist International and Bert E. Miller of Madison, Wis„ governor of the ninth district, which includes Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Upper Michigan, Iowa and the province of Manitoba, Canada, will be honored guests.
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Racine Journal Times
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Apr 02, 1942
Page 4
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