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A smiling gentleman dropped in on the Income Tax Department in Washington recently, just for a social call. He told them-"I felt like I ought to get acquainted with the folks I'm working for."

"Democracy ""yr, 'e.til.r.*t, l, not.' Co,mmunism says: 'Believe it or else'." (Dr. H. P. Rainey)

Lincoln said: "As . "larJ" J, ,r.. men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

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Long ago Emerson said: "THINGS are in the saddle, and ride mankind." It might be added that THINGS are riding much higher today than in Emerson's time. :k**

When. at the so-called Peace Conference in New York City recently, two men who attempted to speak kindly of the United States were hissed and booed, it brought to mind another prediction of a generation back, that "unless we stand watch and guard in this country the pigs would soon be eating the people."***

The smartest speech President Truman has made in his four ;'ears as President came the other day when he warned the "pigs" of the world that he would not hesitate to order the use of the atom bomb if civilization was threatened by an aggressor. * * *

If he had said the same thing a couple of years back we might not have had to institute the airlift into Berlin. The belief became general in EuropE that we good humanitarians rvould never use the bomb again.

Heard a chinese n.o.,.lo L"i ,r,..r4" high interest, and goes like this: "If you would be happy for three hoursget drunk; if you would be happy for three days-kill a pig and eat it; if you would be happy for three monthsget married; but if you would be happy for the rest of your life-become a gardener." *** famous his distinctive advice to chump, or give a sucker an even ***

Sir James Barrie wrote: "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."

"rn Texas in the *rrra"rlrrrL,"*r"r" a clipping that comes to me with no identification mark, "the girls sit around and hug the stove, and let the men smoke. But in Illinois in the winter time, the men sit around and hug the girls, and let the stove smoke." Something tells me the clipping is from "the Nawth."

On a radio program recently actress Lucille Ball, illustrating an embarrassing moment, said she was "as embarrassed as Vishinsky would be if Stalin caught him reading the Wall Street Journal."

Iv\/. C. Fields made "never smarten up a break."

H. G. Wells said the greatest men in human history were six in number; Jesus, Buddha, Asoka, Aristotle, Roger Bacon, and Abraham Lincoln. The first two were religionists, the third a great and wise emperor, the fourth and fifth 'were the world's greatest thinkers along scientific lines, and the sixth a great humanitarian.

Napoleon said: "Ttre J"; I beat the Austrians is that they did not know the value of five minutes."

An Alaskan priest r.",fn.a t.f.re a Senate banking committee in Washington on the subject of housing needs in Alaska, and warned the lawmakers against unwise efforts to modernize the ways of the natives of the far north. To illustrate his point he told of an Eskimo family who received a modern, prefabricated house, and when they moved into it they set up a tent made from skins in the living room.

For long and tiresome months the trial in New York of that group of leading American Cornmunists has been dragging on. Ever stop to think of what would have happened to them if they were being tried in Moscow for seeking the violent overthrow of the Soviet Government? Every man in the group would have been dead three days after the trial started. They would have been promptly tortured, all would have plead guilty, and Soviet justice would have been prompt and decisive. You'd think the defendants themselves would realize the difference.

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Don't get the idea that it's only the rich who can live in the North and spend their winters in the South. Far from it. According to Governor Frank J. Lausche, of Ohio, approximately 2500 Ohioans collected about $200,000 in unemployment compensation from Ohio while spending last winter in California or Florida. The "Cleveland Plain Dealer" says, however, that Ohio doesn't give the best of service to its citizens in that respect. All it does is mail the checks to jobless vacationers in the South. The State of New York, on the other hand, has an omce in Miami, for the convenience of its unemployed who are staying in F'lorida'

A few months back Fulton Lewis, Jr., devoted several of his programs to discussing the unemployment compensation racket. His figures indicated that only a very minor percentage of the money paid out by our government for unemployment compensation, is valid, the remainder being all sorts of graft. Unemployment compensation was created for the purpose of helping unemployed people who could not find employment. That seems to be a small part of the business now. as Governor Lausche's statement indicates'

Branch Rickey, of baseball fame, is a philosopher of no mean calibre, as his remarks on the subject of "Luck" should prove: "Luck is the residue of design," says Rickey, and continues; "It's uihat's left after you have invested yourself fully in the job in front of you, with what intelligence you had, what information you could get, with what energy, what industry you could put into it. You give it all you've got-and it comes out luck. And, if you haven't left very many loopholes for negligence or mistakes-it's probably good luck."

There used to be a well rnouthed adage along that line that said: "It isn't luck-it's pluck; it isn't inspirationit's perspiration; and genius is only a fancy name for hard work'" he still lacks liberty-freedom to go and come as he pleases." Which calls to mind the little satire in George Orwell's book, Animal Farm: "All animals are equal but some animals are more egual than* others."

There is a Tibetan manuscript that says: "To be satisfied with a little is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."

Henry D. Thoreau *""*. *r*", whose philosophy was to live the life best fitted to Henry D. Tho'reau, and in doing so he won the acclaim of thinking men. Ralph Waldo Emerson said of him that "his calling was the art of living well." And Thomas Dreier says of him: "What work he did, he did expertly, but he could see no sense in working merely for money when there were so many other fascinating ways in which he could be useful to his own satisfaction. He could see no wisdom in doing any work disagreeable to him when there were so many needs of people that he could fiIl agreeably. He needed few material things for his happiness, things for which other people paid a high price in time and energy, and thus was richer than they were in leisure."

Long before the words "Liberal" and "Liberalism" became so confused as to definition, a splendid thinker and historian, Prof. Ramsey Muir, of England, wrote a definition of true liberalism that should be framed on every American wall. It reads: "A belief in the value of the hrtman personality and a conviction that the source of ali progress lies in the free exercise of individual energy; it produces an eagerness to emancipate all individuals or groups so that they may freely exercise their powers, so far as this can be done without injury to others; and it therefore involves a readiness to use the powers of the state for the purpose of creating the conditions within which individual energy can thrive, of preventing all abuses of power, of affording to every citizen the means of acquiring mastery of his own capacities, and of establishing a real equalty of opportunitl*for all."

That line "affording to every citizen the means of acquiring mastery of his own capacities," seems to me to be the essence of that other so much abused word, Democracy. A paternalistic form of government is as far removed from true Democracy as is a dictatorship. I do now and always shall stick to the conviction that our government has nothing to do and should do nothing other than to enforce the laws, protect the lives and properties of its citizens, furnish intelligent assistance to the needy, the unfortunate, and the aged-and that's all. It is because we have strayed so far from the old time religion of Democratic government that our taxes and costs of government are mcuntain high. And they will never be lower until we find our way back.

I should have said "Fight our way back." Surely it will never happen otherwise.

Redwood Region Logging Conlerence

The Redwood Region Logging Conference will hold a two-day session in the Municipal Auditorium, Eureka, California, May 27,28, 7949. There will be an equipment show presenting the latest in logging machinery and supplies.

The program Tor Friday, May 27 will include discussions of the forest survey of the redwood and Douglas fir regions of California, the use of aerial photographs in logging and timber management, etc'

Talks on "What's New in Logging presented on Saturday.

Reservations should be made direct

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