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in the shape of dried milk. EIGHT BILLION POUNDS. Hush, little baby, don't you cry, there'll be more than that much, by and by. But, baby, you can't get it. And the accumulation gronrs. ***

Pencil pushers have estimated that if we divided up all the surpluses which this government has bought or is obligated to buy, among the people of the United States who are paying the bill, every family of five would be entitled to 8.3 pounds of butter; 9 pounds of cheese; 14.4 pounds of dried milk; 93.5 pounds of cotton; 16.5 bushels of wheat;20 bushels of corn;3 pounds of wool; and a pantry stocked to the ceiling with dozens of other price-supported farm products. In terms of cash, every man, woman, and child in this country has an investment of more than forty dollars in these accumulations.

A specialist on this subject says: "No one has yet found a satisfactory solution to the surplus problem. The rich yield coaxed from the earth by toil and skill, dram4tizes the poverty of ideas for getting this food-and fiber to those who need it."

Secretary of Agriculture Benson says: "The resentment of 140 million non-farm consumers is mounting against the expensive, wasteful, and ineffective program of rigid price supports. The surest way for any group in this country to commit suicide is to forget the ultimate consumer."

As the Mayor of New York once remarked to a visiting queen: "You've said a mouthful."

Well, Junior, there it is ! Reams are being printed and torrents of words uttered about our farm support situation, and it all ends up in a dead end street,,thus far. Twice before we have accumulated a lot of surplus food, and twice along came a war that turned the liability into an asset. Looks like nothing but war could solve this present surplus crop riddle, and that is a blood-price we will never again pay, please God. Hot war, that is. We've got the cold war, but it doesn't consume huge surpluses like shooting wars and marching armies.

This farm support program started as a temporary emergency measure. But let someone in authority suggest terminating it now, and see how long it will take for light- ning to strike him. It has been well said that "eternal vigilance is the price of peace," which was all right in the old days. But today the price of peace is this same thing plus billions of defense UoJt"tf, subsidy money, etc.

Listen, Junior ! I have a suggestion for solving this farm subsidy riddle. You will probably laugh, but don't forget, they laughed at the Wright Brothers when they said man could fy. Since all men are created equal and are supposed to be that way under the Constitution, I suggest that we make every producer pay every other producer price supports. Let the sawmill man pay subsidies to the farmer, and the farmer in return pay subsidies to the sawmill man. And let all other' producers get in the game. Why let a sawmill man go broke because he can't make a profit on his lumber, but force him to help pay to keep farm prices high? I'm "1}tt**t *

You will probably say that my plan isn't practical. Maybe not. f don't think much of it, myself. But is it, do you think, any worse than the program that got us into our present jam?

While I fail to understand why the farmer has been selected as the one citizen who must be subsidized by all other citizens, there are things to be said on his side in this price situation. When a farmer has to pay a dollar fifty for a haircut and a dollar for a shave, he's got to get high prices for his crops, else he'll quit raising wheat and go to raising whiskers, and that would raise Hades with our economy, * ,r< *

And tell me, pray you, what has become of that famous and well-advertised "Yankee ingenuity" we used to hear so much about? With this country piled high with surplus food, and half of the world hungry, we should recall that American characteristic, and put it to work. But will we? As Bill Shakespeare made Mark Antony say in paying his respects to Brutus et al; "I pause for a reply."

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Paine Lumber Companl,-, producers of doors for over 100 )-ears, manufactures the Rezo hollorv-core, flush door. Rezo is also available in solid core doors. The doors are available in any thickness from lr/s" throtgh 2%" thickness, in a selection of hardwoods for home, commercial and institutional construction.

Vic Roth, Triangle Lumber Company, Oakland, attended the Sierra Cascade Logging Conference at Redding, anC spent the week following calling on accounts in the Redding-Chico area.