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ANOTHER " HOME SWEET HOME'' ., D & c ,, tQ;fii ,t'Redwood

The own er o( this home made doubly sure of protection. The investment in building is protected by a durable Redwood Exterior,' the grounds are protected by . Redwood Picket Pack (ence. Both of these Redwood itemg are soulces o[ profitable retail sales, This lence is made of 1x8" Modern Pattern Pickets, painted white and 1x3" Garden Pattern Pickets painted green.

Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?

With silver bells, and cockle shells, And not a damn petunia.

(Dedicated to the Garden Clubs)

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The other day I talked to a lumber convention. Before I started a lady in the crowd recalled that she heard me talk in that same city in the year 1912, and that I recited a short verse called "Sam's Girl." She wanted to know if I could still recall the words. I could. It goes like this:

Sam's girl is tall and slender, My girl is short and low, Sam's girl wears silks and satins, My girl wears calico, Sam's girl is fast and sporty, My girl is pure and good, Think I'd trade my girl for Sam's girl? Why you know darn well I would!

The most important ";.": .i", ,"""" the people of the United States today, is the Logan-Walter bill, that recently passed the lower House of Congress by a great majority. It is vital to the well-being of every man and woman in this country that this bill pass. It will be bitterly fought in the Senate. And all on earth that this bill proposes to do is give back to American citizens the privileges granted them in the Bill of Rights. It would allow a citizen who felt himself to be aggrieved, to turn to the courts for help, by asking the reviewing of the acts and rules and regulations of the Governmental bureaus, more ttran a hundred in number.

These bureaus are appointed. They make rules and regulations of their own, and these rules and regulations become the law. That some of these bureaus and commissions consider themselves above the law, is plainly manifested in their activities. It is simply to give the citizen protection against arbitrary and unfair rulings of the bureaus, that is the aim and sole purpose of the LoganWalter bill.

Every bit of possible help should be mustered in the next few weeks to get the bill passed. It is being freely predicted that the President will veto it, even if its opponents fail to kill it in the Senate. Be that as it may, the bill should be passed, and let the record be clear. The old line Democratic Beaumont Enterprise, published in Beaumont, Texas, recaps its demand for the passage of the bill in this fashion:

"The courts remain the bulwark of American liberties. The Logan-Walter bill is intended to curb bureaucratic autocracy, chiefy by making all of the official acts of bureaucratic agencies subject to judicial review. The mere fact that bureaucrats oppose this measure, proves that they do not want abuses growing out of bureaucracy to be corrected or their acts to be subject to court review. If the bureaucrats were disinterested, if their conduct were legal, if they were genuinely patriotic and had the welfare of the American people at heart, instead of lusting for' power and still more power, what reason would they have to fear the courts?" {.{.*

A friend of mine says he discovered just the other day why Germany invaded Scandinavia. A few days after the world had gasped at this latest manifestation of ghoulishness, American newspapers printed some facts about present-day rations in Germany, and what they cost. And when he found that coffee costs $32 a pound in Germany today, and even then isn't fit to drink, he made up his mindbeing a coffee hound-that that is u/hat is driving Germany to such desperate measures; the desire to get coffee to drink. A coffee-drinking nation that cannot get coffee, says my friend, gets in the fix of the dope-user who can't get dope. Anyway, that's his idea. ***

Ben Franklin said: "Time is money." But he meant when time is employed at some $'orth-while work. Ben was the most useful nation has ever produced. ffe was a great sci great linguist, a great diplomat, a famous t philosopher, a great economist, a great a great citizen. He went to France and borrowed money that Washington needed to win the War. He built the first cook stove, invented the first spectacles, founded the University of Pennsylvania,

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