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(Continued from Page 8) wool suit, and three months work for an all wool suit. His American counter part can get that wool suit of fair quality for about three days work. The Russian works two weeks to pay for a pair of shoes that the American earns in less than a day. Everything else included in the necesities of life take about the same relative positions. Here a man can engage in any work he desires, he can initiate, he can invent, and can be as prosperous as his thinking and working justifies. In Russia he can do and have none of these things. What a pity it is we cannot forthwith send to Russia every Communist supporter in this country, to enjoy the fruits of *aoT*Int"at first hand.

Oh well, here's one step toward a better world-along the edge of the wrapper on each stick of Beeman's pepsin gum is printed, "Save this wrapper for disposal of gum after use." Mr. Wrigley puts it a little more bluntly"Keep wrapper to put *T f before throwing away,"

Speaking of inflation-as who these days does not?-a certain Dutch steamship line furnishes a startling example. Ten years ago they built a luxury liner at a cost of about $9,000,000. She was used only briefy before the war, and then laid up. Now she is back in trans-Atlantic service, running into New York. The ship that originally cost nine millions to build complete, recently cost twelve millions just to refurnish and redecorate.

A cheer for Sam Sherman, New York bow-tie king. He has been placing ads in newspapers throughout the country, not offering his goods for sale, but urging Americans not to throw away old clothes, but to assemble them for shipment to the ragged citizens of countries abroad. Swell advertising,eh?

The great Athenian orator, Pericles, used to pray the Gods to permit him to utter no unnecessary word in his public speaking, and he became one of the world's greatest orators. The Hindoo religion calls for spending a considerable portion of each day in silence, contemplation, and placid thought. How sadly we need some of these philosophies in the days we live in. The world is so filled with foolish, meaningless, useless talk, where silence and contemplation would be so delightful. "There are two signs of a weak mind," said the old Persian proverb, "to speak when one should be silent, and to be silent when one should speak." Rare, indeed, is the gift of knowing when to talk and when to be silent. *

Speaking of words, the bitterest official letter ever written in American history, was penned by General George B. McClellan to Secretary of, War E M. Stanton on June

28th,1862. After two days of desperate fighting with what McClellan considered inadequate forces, he sat down and wrote a letter to his chief that burned the paper, and that ended with these bitter words: "I have seen too many dead and wounded comrades to feel otherwise than that the government has not sustained this army. If you do not do so now, the game is lost. If I save this army now, I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington. YOU HAVE DONE YOUR BEST TO SACRIFICE THIS ARMY.'' ***

We frequently hear or read the phrase "going from the sublime to the ridiculous," and the assumption usually carries that these two are far apart. Yet Thomas Paine, famous patriot and thinker, did not agree. He said: "The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime." ***

When Ptolemy, the Grecian astronomer, was studying the heavens in ancient Athens, he had no telescope, no spectroscope, no stellar photography to assist him, yet he was able to count and identify lO22 stars in the skies. Wouldn't that wonderful old boy have fuh today in one of our modern observatories where he could fool around with some thirty billion solar systems right here in our own universe-our own back yard you might say-without even considering the countless other stellar universes they now know about? With only his naked eye, that old Greek star gazer did a wonderful job, and set the stage for the great astronomy sharps of today.

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Some wag has said that the greatest human invention is kissing. But another and more serious philosopher says that the world's most useful and important invention is the naught in mathematics. For without this circular symbol that means nothing, it would be impossible to carry on mathematics of any sort. And without mathematics, what would the world do? The inventors of this priceless symbol vvsls-nsf the Greeks or the Romans-butstrange to relate-the Arabs. And most of the names of the'constellations of stars in the heavens are Arabian. Well, what do you know?

New Yard in Sclinqs

Vince Moore has opened the l\foore Lumber Company in Salinas, Calif. He was formerly with Talcott Lumber Company, Salinas. The yard will have its formal opening March 1. Postal address is P.O. Box D7.

Jim Hennessy, formerly with Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co., Salinas, is assistant manager.