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One newspaper I read says it knows a man who saved up all the government literature he received urging him to save paper, and that the total paper-saving bulletins weighed between five and six pounds. That's why the government runs and continues to run the world's biggest printing and publishing business. The Congressional Record quotes figures furnished by Senator Styles Bridges on the amount of printing done by the federal government, and guesses it runs into hundreds of millions of dollars. He says that the official cost of government printing and binding in 1948 amounted to 45 million'dollars, but that this does not include research, editing, typing, reviewing, checking, and distributing of the things printed, which dwarfs the printing bill itself. So the tax bill grows.

Senator Bridges read the nam€s of a lot of government publications issued by various bureaus, which included the following: "The Embriology of Behavior;" "The Code of Hammurabi;" "Habits, Food, and Economic Status of the Band-Tailed Pigeon;" "Mist Netting for Birds in Japan;" "Deer Mortdity from Gunshot Wounds," and many others just as silly. Looks like we could start almost anywhere in the federal set-up in our search for saving opportunities, and strike pay dirt.

Speaking of,social service costs and taxes, whatever happens here this year will be just beans compared with the situation in Manchester, England. On February 20th the City Council of that city approved a 75 per cent increase in local taxes to cover the cost of their expanding social security progr:rm. "There are no present indications that the end of this upward trend has been reached," said the Chairman of the City Finance Committee. The cost of Socialism is high. The various socialistic propositions now before Congress in this country will cost a lot more than their proponents publicly estimate. And the biggest cost of all is in the loss of personal independence and initiative on the part of the people. The man who is simply a ward of the state, will never help make the state better or stronger. Faceless men seldom show their faces.

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I now confess, with more regret than surprise, that I was wrong about Mr. Truman and his legislative intentions. I had thought, and printed in these columns, that he must sense the fact that to frighten and depress business, and industry, and capital, and investors, is the short road to depression. NOT to RECESSION-buI to DEPRESSION. ft seemed to me he could not fail to see the danger to our high level economy that must follow kicking business and employers around. But it seems from all his recent r.emarks and acts that he has accepted no such danger signals, and feels that he has a mandate of some sort to repress and depress that part of our population which has as much as eight dollars and washes its neck. So be it. There seems nothing we can do about it but hustle and hope.

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But it is hard to understand that among all his following there are none who can convince him that he travels a dangerous course. How can he help knowing that since the third day of last November innumerable Americans of power and consequence have been hauling in their horns, cutting down their business activities, changing their investments from business to liquid, .and getting ready to crawl into the cyclone cellar when the blast sweeps down. Nobody dislikes talking pessimism more than I do; but if f were to relate the things I have heard of late concerning the attitude of bright and powerful men toward our present situation, this column today would be blue as indigo. And if the present Truman legislation goes through Congress as is-look out for hurricanes to follow these present squalls. And Brother, we're having sgualls now. Don't doubt it.

It may be that there is enough concentrated conservative wisdom in this country to stave off the danger signals now flying in Washington. The press of the country, Democratic and Republican alike, is largely of the opinions here expressed. They view with alarm those socialistic movements that threaten us. With their powerful assistance the dangers may be met-and overcome. Let us pray. But up to this moment there is no sign of slackening in the drive for radical and dangerous legislation. A battle of tremendous import impends, and on the result of that battle the welfare of this country for a long time to comedepends. ***

They would cancel the right of the Government to use the courts to avoid paralyzing strikes. Yet only a couple of years ago we heard Harry Trumar5 in facing the threatened railroad strike, use these words. He must forget what he said then, for these were his remarks: "Farmers cannot move food to markets. All of you will see your food supplies dwindle, your health and safety endangered, your streets darkened, your transportation facilities broken down. Returning veterans will not be able to get home. Millions of workers will be thrown out of their jobs. This is no contest between labor and management. This is a contest between a small group of men and their government. As President of the United States, I am the representative of 140,000,000 people, and I cannot stand idly by while they are being caused to suffer." ***

Again in the threatened coal strike, he went to the courts to prevent terrible harm coming to this whole nation. Yet now he seems to have forgotten those two great threatened tragedies, and would kill the legislation that makes it possible to prevent others. Is it any wonder, this being only one of many present threats, that business and industry

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