FOOD FOR VICTORY 
A Personal Letter, — to You 
Dear Floral Friends: 
I am constantly receiving friendly and agreeable letters from you, our cus- 
tomers who love flowers and buy our bulbs. If for no other reason, a mutual love 
of flowers creates a basis for friendship. Therefore I need make no apology for 
addressing you as friends. 
_ The word “friendship” inevitably reminds us that today nearly all Human- 
ity is at war. The greater half, The United Nations, who would like to see 
friendship prevail which in the final analysis means the liberty and equality of 
all, are opposed to the Axis Powers, who 
would lift themselves into the position of su- 
permen, conquerors and enslavers of the rest. 
Thus instead of friendship prevailing thruout 
the world, there is the opposite, enmity. The 
Axis are our self declared enemies and we are 
forced to accept them as such and to act ac- 
cording ly. 
Our aims are declared in the Atlantic 
Charter and those aims we mean to accomp- 
lish. Tho weak at first, because, peace loving 
as we are, we were unprepared, we are now 
strong. Tho at first the outcome appeared to 
be in doubt, now our Victory is fully assured. 
Unrolling before our view at this very 
moment, current events present the picture of 
a developing Armageddon as outlined in pro- 
phetic literature. But we have made our right 
arms strong to wield the sword of the Lord 
and our hearts are strong in our faith in Him 
and our cause. There must be no wavering 
now, no weak sinews in our strength. The 
Brotherhood of Little Men must yield to the 
Brotherhood of All Men, 
It is my prayer that every one of us, our 
soldiers and sailors at the front or in train- 
ing, privates up to highest officers; our men 
in industry, laborers all the way up to the 
capitalists who have made the industrial war 
effort possible, may be inspired by the high 
aim of Victory for our righteous cause. May 
THE HERBERT MEDAL they forget minor grievances and perform 
our their own duties even at the expense of self 
sacrifices. Only as we are willing to sacrifice, can we conquer. 
I believe in the efficacity of this prayer and this inspiration. I do not believe 
in asking God to become a physical agent for accomplishing results that I per- 
sonally desire. In the literal since he is neither engineer nor fireman; He turns 
no gadgets, pulls no levers, sets no brakes. He is spiritual, not physical. He cre- 
ated us in his own image spiritually .Those of us who have created a god in our 
own physical image have not yet found the true God altho they usually assert 
themselves right most firmly and all others wrong. 
God’s law is perfect, unchangeable, eternal. He will inspire those who have 
open minds and faith alongi with just aims if they ask Him. Lacking such agents, 
the good has often lost to evil forces. We, the United Nations, are the physical 
agents. 
This, I think, should be our prayer, the prayer of every one of us from low 
to high, for the inspiration to accomplish this purpose. To the extent that we 
seek selfish aims we become weak. Our strength lies wholly in making self 
interests secondary to the good of all. Certain ones of us have failed in this. 
With this prayer in our minds, with our stronger bodies, our confident cour- 
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