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If the great English thinker, Burke, were here today. certainly he would be able to declare without fear of conflict or contradiction that the impositions being thrust upon the American nation today have "no other bounds than the patience" of our American people. How long will that patience remain within bounds?

Orators have long been heard to declare of the mass of the people that they can be driven just so far, and then they will arise in their wrath and bulst the shackles. But is it still true? We hear and read on all sides individual protests against the vast tide of spending and taxing that grows bigger and higher with every breath we draw. But will we take the situation in hand and do something about it? Frankly, friends, it doesn't look as though there are any bounds or limits to our patience, in spite of the warnings of our v.torried thinkers.

"In politics," said wifi"J ailen wrrite, the wise sage of Emporia, "it is remarkable what you can do with a hundred dollars if you spend it yourself; and it is also sad to think of how little you can do vrith it if you let someone else spend it." It's still sadder to think of how little we do with a billion dollars, or ten, or twenty, or multiplied billions of dollars when the bureaucrats spend it. All we seem to get from the immeasurable, unbelievable expenditures of our national wealth Ir Tor. debt. and more taxes.

A Houston philanthropist, H. R. Cullen, made a speech on Texas Independence Day. This man has in the last few years given away about 160 millions of dollars of his own fortune out of his own pocket to charitable, benevolent and educational institutions; more than any other American in history ever gave au/ay at one time. His ancestors helped found the Republic of Texas. He spoke bitterly against things as they are today in this country. He said, in part:

"We Texans of 1949 uJrr'a*.nlo, as much independence under our Government at Washington as the Texas colon- ists of 1836 had under their dictator in Mexico City. Those early Texans fought for less than we are tolerating today. They were not taxed to the point of confiscation to wetnurse and spoon-feed all the drones, and to refinance a bankrupt world without even taking an I. O. U. for the money,"

Sometimes lately I g..t'tfrl fleling that the people are becoming really frightened and resentful of our mad campaign of taxing and spending. Recently I heard an address delivered to a big convention of business men on the subject of Government waste and spending. Every man in the room was a Southern Democrat. But when the speaker declared with oratorical fervor that the Government is spending and wasting one-fourth of our entire national income to run its affairs, and planning to spend more, and doing it in a manner aimed to increase its power over "you and me" more every day, the entire audience jumped to its feet, shouting, stomping, and wildly applauding.

Watching such a "p..a"lt. ,.J *", the notion that something is bound to be done. But will it? Recently the army asked for about 15 billion dollars for its budget. Immediately the Hoover Committee came in with a report that pointed out shocking cases of waste, extravagance and padding of the army budget. The facts were clear. Not a soul rose to deny the charges. There tvas a huge amount of money to be saved from that budget. Wouldn't you think Congress would take it up in detail, screen it carefully, and remove the deadwood? But did they? Silly boy ! The House did absolutely nothing about it; just voted the entire .-orr,, * * ,<

That is just a sample of how little we seem to care about cutting down expenses in government, eliminating waste, developing economy. Thinking people hope and pray for a return toward thrift and economy, but there is none in sight. It's like the old question-"\i\'/[4f's good for a cold besides whiskey?" The answer-"Who cares?" That seems to be the answer official Washington gives to all warnings; to all pleas for economy. *<

Al Smith used to say-"Let's look at the record." Let's look at the present situation. Our national debt is over 250 billions of dollars. Mr. Truman's budget for the year's exDenses is 42 billions. In the time of George Washington there was one federal employe for every four thousand citizens. Today there is one bureaucrat for every six citizens. Yes, each six people in this country have a bureaucrat to support, and carry on their backs. t< * >t<

But a much worse condition threatens us. Our growing

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78Vo BETTER VISIBILITY throush open I tower...qvoilqble only in RO55 Series 5. V paternal bureaucracy has before Congress new legislation which, if made into law, would multiply the number of bureaucrats. Even during the past year we have added an average of 285 people each day to the federal payrolls. But the new plans on foot by which the government would educate the people, pay their medical bills, house them, maintain prices to food producers, greatly increase social security aid and service, care for the lazy and shiftless as well as the aged and infirm; these things, if they happen, will greatly reduce the number of workers and increase the number of bureaucrats. Some of these days there may not be any workers left to support the bureaucrats. Then what ? we have agreed .o ""r,1 .: ;..n. this year nearly six billion more dollars to assist in its recovery. We will pledge ourselves for more than a billion to arrn Western Europe, and that is admitted to be only a starter. We have other special commitments to spend and send huge amounts ol money overseas. And here at home the President has asked Congress to pass a housing bill that will cost, according to varying estimates, between LZ and 15 billions of dollars. Yes, Junior-billions. NOT millions. Also he has asked Congress to adopt a National health measure (many call it socialized medicine) that would be paid for out of the poor, mangled .payrolls of the nation to the tune of somewhere between four and six billions of dollars annually. Yes, Junior, I DO mean billions. r<**

Don't go away,ynrrior,**.1r.1-ro, at.o.rgh yet. rn addition, Mr. Truman wants Congress to do some more payroll gouging along social security lines. He wants to extend the coverage of social security, and to increase the payroll tax in that direction from I to lfu% on July first, and then to 2/o on the following January first. Also, Mr. Truman wants four billions in new income taxes.

Besides, there is a small matter of many hundreds of millions of dollars that would be-and WILL be-used for supporting farm prices. You know, of course, that our government has been holding and keeping up the price of food produced by our farmers by guaranteeing them basic prices, and putting up the difference in cash v.rhich the taxpayers shell out. Under the present plan the government buys sufficient surpluses of food crops to keep the market prices, and putting up the di'fference in cash which the taxfixed. So the housewife pays a heavy price for her food, and then helps with her taxes to pay the hundreds of millions of dollars the government pays out to keep food prices high. Talk about a brace game ! Talk about playing both ends against the middle ! And look who's in the tniddle !

There isn't room in tni] ;J book to tell the story of price control, but let's have one example that will give you an idea of what goes on. Last year the government spent over 370 millions of dollars cash, to hold up the price of potatoes alone. Now listen to this, in case you doubt that you live in a mad v,'orld. To support the price of potatoes the government itself fixed the support prices, and then bought surplus potatoes at that rate. In one large potato raising area it fixed the price at $2.66 per hundred pounds, and bought from the potato growers at that price. Much of these purchases was then shipped out by rail at an average rate of 84 cents per hundrgd pounds, making the cost to the government $3.50 per hundred.

Then the government sold these potatoes, BUT NOT ONE WAS SOLD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. The price to the consumer had to be held up, don't you see? Great quantities of potatoes that cost the government the above prices were sold to manufacturers of alcohol, starch, and other commodities for prices as low as 5 cents per hundred pounds. And much was sold to faimers to be used as livestock feed for as low as ONE CENT A POUND. Yes, Junior, that's the price, as stated to Congress by Senator John J. Williams, of Delaware, and verified at the Department of Agriculture. You and I, Junior being component parts of the government, dug into our jeans and paid $3.50 a hundred for potatoes, and then sold them for a cent a pound. That was done to compel your mother to pay double prices for potatoes.

To make certain an"a irol. l, an.r. .surplus potatoes would get into the hands of worthy citizens, or find their way into the stomachs of hungry people anywhere in the world, a provision was placed in the contract of sale for such potatoes, that read: "Liquidating damages: If the purchaser disposes of or uses such potatoes other than as livestock feed, said purchaser agrees to pay the corporation (meaning the Commodity Credit Corporation which handles such government matters) as liquidated damages, $3.59 per hundred pounds for each such quantity for other than livestock feed." Get the point, Junior? If a cow eats it, the price is one penny per pound. If a hungry child gets it, the price is $s.sg. tell me, Junior, horv would you like to see a chart of the mental meanderings of the guy who thought that one up?

In some parts of the country the government did not even sell the surplus potatoes, but actually destroyed them. I saw pictures last year of huge piles of grand potatoes being ground into the earth by tractors, and their worth thus entirely lost to man. * * ,r

All of which proves conclusively to my mind how completely nutty people can get without being actually locked up in an asylum. When the hands of millions of hungry and impoverished women and children in many parts of the world reach out imploringly asking for food, we destroy it wantonly. Do you suppose that even a God of infinite mercy and understanding can forgive such things? 'Tis said, you know, that "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad." * tr< *

Well, Junior, that's the way we handled crop support last year. They are proposing a new method now, and asking Congress to indorse it by legislation. The new Secretary of Agriculture wants to quit our present method of giving the farmer a fortune for nothing, and adopt a plan of letting supply and demand fix the price of farm food to the consumer, and then have the government pay the farmer in cash the difference between the selling price and the value of the crop as fixed by the government. Nobody, including

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V. G. Redwood Siding, ecrch piece is ccrrelully inspected lor imperlections. By mecns oI qutomatic electronic devices cll questionable pieces cre shunted to trimmers where llcrws or blemishes crre removed' its author, even attempts to estimate what that would cost the taxpayers. Only one thing is fixed and certain; the farmer MUST get a high price for his products, and other people in one $ray or another must pay it. The farmer has become one of the chief dependents of this nation; and a very expensive one. * * *

And here is the climax. News from Washington, as this is written, states that the farmers object to the proposed plan for fattening the farmer with government cash. They prefer-says the story-to continue the present method of having the government buy their food products and then either destroy or give them away for non-human consumption, because-grab hold of your hat, Junior-the new proposal would look like a "handout." Get that? They don't want handouts ! Heaven keep this laughter from my lips!

Pacific Announces Retirements

(Continued from Page 4) owned by his father, was a subsidiary. Gordon was camp foreman, and upon the retirement of his father lvas made logging superintendent in charge of all operations.

He came to The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia in l9D as logging and railroad manager. In this position he rvas in charge of all logging and railroad operations, timber and lands, and the engineering department. And during this period he instituted selective logging practices.

In 1979 he u'as president of The Pacific Logging Congress.

We Will Publish Our ANNUAI PTYWOOD ISSUE on July l, 1949

It will conloin o review of the Plywood Industry with orticles, new developmenls, ond news, beoutifully illuslroted.

Advertising Rqtes On R.equest Closing Dqte for Advertising is June

1,1949

The Cqliforniq Lumber Merchonl

508 Centrol Building los Angeles 14, Colif. VAndike 4565

In 1946 he was appointed by Governor Warren as member of the California State Forest Practices Committee. This year he is president of the California Forest Protective Association.

From the above brief history it can be seen that Mr. Manary has been active in all logging and lumbering activities over a long period of years. He is a strong advocate of selective logging practices and forest conservation, in the interest of forest and industry perpetuation.