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Take It." Looks like it's that way about the President's demand lor more income taxes. A month ago he was asked if a continued high level of economy wouldn't make the increased tax bill unnecessary, and he said no, that in such case it would be necessary to collect the higher taxes in order to drain off that much from the pockets of the nation to prevent greater inflation.

Now they are talking "n.t, "Jor,, " "business recession." Lots of folks agree that we are in one. It was calmly discussed with the President at a press conference, and he was asked if a business recession would not make higher income taxes unwise. He said no, that in case of a recession the income of the government would be reduced, and additional taxes would be all the more neLessary to pay government expenses, which, even in recession, would be high as ever.

So, it seems, it's hell either way you take it, and we must pay the increased income taxes no matter what happens. Which is a reminder of the dumb movie actress who heard someone say that the government was figuring on increasing taxes on all'incomes above six thousand dollars' She said "Well, that lets me out-I only get nine hundred a week'tt

Too bad all Americans cannot read the words that Superior Judge C. M. flanson, of Los Angeles, uttered the other day in a law suit concerning the ten high-salaried movie writers and directors who refused to answer the Congressional Committee on Un-Americanism when they were asked to state whether or not they were Communists. He said, in part, that "a person who is unwilling to state publicly, under any and all circumstances, whether he is or is not a Communist, is regarded in America as a Communist"'

Again he said: "It is difficult to see why a private employer may not discharge an employe on the sole ground that he is a Communist," and he continued by saying that in California the Communist Party is not allowed on the ballot, and that "to charge a person with being a Communist is as defamatory as to charge him with being a murdefer, a saboteur, or a thief."

And he made the further positive statement that in his opinion, when an employe of a California firm is a Communist, that indirectly defames the employer. That is an opinion worth mulling ot*.t.* *

Which serves to remind us that Vishinsky, the Soviet's most blood-hungry ax, is very ill, and apparently in bad mental condition. The only wonder is that a conscience with so much blood on it did not explode its owner long before'

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Vishinsky is the Soviet lawyer who expressed the public opinion that "the foes of Socialism have ho rights under Soviet law." With such a platform of injustice it is not difficult to understand the Russian processes of law, which offer only a travesty on justice, and then death to the defendant.

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I like the Army Air Force gag about the new rocket and jet planes, which says: "If you can see 'em-they're obsolete." ***

And a firm that exterminates roaches and ants and other insects, has a sign over the door that reads: "All our patients die."

WCLA Meeting

The members of the \\rest Coast Lumbermen's Association heard a report by D. W. Hagenstein, forest engineer, at their annual meeting held at the N{ultnomah Hotel irr Portland, January 27 and 28. The report covered the 19-18. forestry activities of the Douglas fir region, highlighting the record of accomplishment by private forestland owners. Hagenstein saicl 1948 rvas the best fire season on record in that region, ancl also showed the greatest increase in \\rest Coast tree farm acreagc.

Opens Office in Sqn Diego

Wm. C. Krafve Lumber Co., formerly of Portland, Ore., announces the opening of a rvholesale lumber business ir-r San Diego with office in the Spreckles Building. They rvill act as sales agents for mills in Washington, Oregon and California.