PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION! 
Dear Floral Friends: 
This letter is a personal message to you, individually. 
The catalog was written with the purpose that every copy would go to a friend; 
a friend, because a flower lover. 
When friend meet, the uppermost topic is the war. Hating war and loving peace as 
Americans do, we are, nevertheless, now absorbed by the necessity to fight for our 
national and even personal existence and for the 
peace and the liberty of all nations and races. 
When I wrote last, five months ago we were still 
losing territory but gaining momentum in the 
home front of production. 
Now we can be sure that the tides of the battles 
on all foreign fronts have turned in our favor. But 
we must also realize that we shall probably suffer 
some defeats and temporary setbacks for our armies. 
We must not be too sanguine and relax our efforts. 
The battle fronts surge back and forth with the 
summer favorable to the Axis and the winter to 
the United Nations. Germany fights like an old- 
time football team. We can expect another “flying 
wedge” in late spring. They are producing for that 
effort now. 
There are also battles and sometimes losses on 
the home front of production. There are those who 
are unwilling to forget personal gain and seize the 
opportunity to make contracts with the govern- 
ment at high profits. Likewise there are other 
groups who strike for higher wages instead of using 
the fair means offered by law to adjust inequalities 
of wages. Every strike means the loss of American 
lives on the battle front. We are not yet, all of us, 
“all out for victory.” 
Many have been the inspiring words and deeds 
by those who fight for our freedom on battle fronts. THE HERBERT MEDAL 
Words and deeds like “Sighted sub, sank same,” or the words, accompanied by action, 
of Chaplain Forgy at Pearl Harbor. Divine services being interrupted by the attack, he 
sprang to an anti-aircraft gun and began firing. To a question he replied, “Praise the 
Lord, and pass the ammunition. I just got one of the so-and-so’s.’ Chaplain Forgy 
thereby enrolled his name among America’s Immortals. 
Compare with such deeds, the acts of capitalists who build fortunes at the expense 
of Liberty’s dire need. Or with the acts of a war worker who is slack in his efforts, 
takes frequent vacations or goes on strike. 
Compare the many acts of heroism with those of us at home who are unwilling to 
conserve rubber by traveling less; or to have less coffee, less meat, less butter in order 
that those who fight may be strong and perfectly nourished. 
My words can have little effect on our great struggle. But I will be happy if I can 
give even a little encouragement to those of you who feel as I do, that we are each of 
us a soldier for Democracy and Freedom; yes, even a soldier of the Lord because if the 
Anti-Christ does not exist in the persons of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito it never 
could exist. 
Mussolini! Inventor of Fascism and initiator of the Program of Conquest followed 
by Germany and Japan! Conqueror of Ethiopia! His words, “we have buried the putrid 

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