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I wiah I'd said this: "If you're too bqsy to laughYou'rc too busy." *

Mark Twain said he didn't think much of a man who could only spell a word *one w*ay. That's tolerance.

A waggiah father gave his Bon a onc dollar bill on his tenth birthday, with a note attached that read, "Hold onto this, son, and who knows? By the time you're twenty-one, it may be worth a dollar."

He also enclosed a little pocm that runs: rf*,F

"There, there little Dollar-don't cry !

You're not worth your name, I know, You pasis for your face, but you can't keep the pace, That is set by the H.C. of L.-Oh No!

There, there little Dollar, don't cry ! There, there little Dollar, don't cry !

You're doing your best, I know, They're raising my rent about thirty per cent, They've doubled my booze, and doubled -y shoes, The bigger my pay, the more slips away, The more of you come, the more of you go, The more I receive, the less I can show, But you're doing the best you can, I lmow, Don't cry, little Dollar-ion't cry !"

Dr. Edwin Nourse, who was chief economic adviser to President Truman until a few months back when he announced he could no longer go along with the spend and waste program of the Administration, and quit, is now going about the country making speeches on our economic situation. He describes our present financial condition as a "rat race," in which the big pay envelope and the big grocery bill are engaged in a red hot race to see which grows the faster and gets the bigger. He says it is a toss-up so far, one day the pay envelope getting ahead, and the next the fto:.T bill taking the lead.

One of the most publicized men in the United States today is Joseph Bracken Lee, the governor of the State of Utah. Many of the newspaper's and bigger magazines have given him keen attention and generous space. For here we seem to have a most unique character; one of the few remaining American officials who still believes in old style Am,ericanism, and is willing to fight for its survival. He believes in the thrifty, hard-working, independent, courageous, liberty-loving type of American who prevailed in this land of ours up to 1933, but has since that time almost disappeared from public life. He believes in the American who makes his own way, stands on his own feet, earns hie own living, and is beholden to neither govcrnment nor devil for his support; who takes largesse, and subsidy, and gifts, a1a specrlat privilege from nobody.

He still believelr, as most Americans used to believe before thc philosophy of tax, and spend, and waste, and elect, elect, elect came along, that man gets along in this world, not by an act of Congress, but by his own industry, character, ability, perseverance, ambitions, sticktoitiveness, and courageous love of liberty; and that all government is for i,s to provide a protective framework in which he can live, and work, and produce, and achieve the things he longs for. That, I gather from what I read, is approximately what Governor L*ee,*of*Utah, believes.

And, while he hasn't said so in anything I have read, I imagine he considers that a man who lives as a ward of government and on government bounties, is not far different from the man who leans on some woman for support. The Greeks have i "i-._ for such.

As Time magazine tells it briefly, the federal government discovered that the State of Utah hasn't been accepting and spending her share of government grants and government aids, and thus was out of step with the rest of the nation, so they sent a personal caller to Utah to find out why. In this strange age a man or community that won't accept governr.nent bounty is assumed to have a screw loqse. So the federal man called on Governor Lee, and told him that Washington was worried about his lack of cooperation with the federal money pump that has attained such almost universal popularity. Governor Lee listened, then asked how old the caller was. When he replied that he was 31, the Governor said to him, "Young man, it's too bad you never 1"._U * a free country."

The youthful ambassador got red-faced, and declared that he does live in a free country now. And the Governor said that he could recall when his paycheck was his own, and he could spend it as he liked, and asked the visitor, "Can you spend YO,UR paycheck as you like?" The bewildered budget man left. Ilere was a language that, at his age, he could not understand, for ever since he has been a grown man it has been like it is now, and he had never known what it is like to do as he pleased with his income, or make any honest contract he*desired with his fellow man.

Governor Lee believes in honest, thrifty, courageous, intelligent government for both Utah and the United States, is trying to give Utah such government, and is