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(Continued from Page 8) costs 29 cents; twine that sold for 18 cents a pound now brings 66 cents; wrapping paper jumped from 4 to 18 cents a pound; and labor that cost 33 cents an hour now gets twice that much. Yet he gets only 2 cents more for laundering a sheet than he used to; laundering table cloths brings only one cent more than it did; he gets only one or two cents more for shirt washing. Lo, the poor laundryman.

The canadian GovernrrL"l,"-o..ping canadian money -and Canadians-at home. It is being done by means of the austerity law that started last November which provides that a Canadian is permitted to take no more than one hundred and fifty American dollars out of Canada in any one year for pleasure purposes. Since in these times, that amount of money will barely permit a Canadian to go across the border for the fewest days, and will permit him to make almost no purchases, Canadians are staying home and seeking places and ways of spending their pleasure money in Canada. Reports say that towns along the Northern border of the United States that have long profited by Canadian trade, are now going without that nice extra business. British Columbia, with its beautiful scenery and mild winter climate, has profited tremendously by the new rules. And the New York and Florida goldcoast and gold-cost clip-joints for catching loose Canadian dollars, are now going without. If ERP doesn't work successfully, the United States might have to pass such a law covering the citizens of THIS country-3nd our Government as well'

The gold-mining industry and the lumber manufacturing industry of the State of California, were born at the same time, and the same place, and through the same operation. During the winter of 1847-48 James Wilson Marshall was hired by another named John Augustus Sutter to build and operate a sawmill at a point named Coloma on the South Fork of the American River in Northern California. The mill, a water-power unit operating a drag saw, was about half finished on January 24th, 1848, when Marshall picked a piece of. gold about the size of a melon seed out of the water running through the mill race. And the gold rush was soon on. They completed the mill and began the manufacture of Sugar Pine from the forests close by. So two great industries were born. While the gold rush proved by far the more dramatic of the two, the lumber industry became far more important to California than gold ever did, and in the past, the present, and the future, it will continue to be a source of great good, great wealth, and great employment to the state and its people. A whole lot more gold has come and will come through the founding of the lumber industry, than all the mines and rivers cf the state could ever produce. A stone monument now marks the site of Sutter's sawmill.

There is a vast "*o,rri ott dabbing and guessing and conjecturing about the foremost world subject, the atomic bomb, mostly by writers and politicians who know less about the subject than a pig does about the power of prayer. Therefore, when a man speaks who DOES know, it should mean something. Know who the foremost authority on the atomic bomb is? Most people don't. His name ,is Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves (retired). He is the man who headed and directed the entire atomic bomb development effort, that vast scientific and military team that produced the bomb. When you come to General Groves for bomb information, you not only come to AN authority-you come to THE authority. So, when he speaks on that subject, forget all the other stuff you've heard and read, and listen. * *

He made a speech on that very subject recently, made it to a convention of manufacturers at Atlantic City. And there was no hush-hush about his opihions, although that was the first time he had discussed the matter publicly. He answered the question everyone asks-have the Russians got the atomic bomb? In his speech he simply said that he considered the manufacture of atomic bombs, "still too difficult for Russia and her satellites." But in private talks he guessed it would take Russia at least twenty years to produce a single bomb. Then he is not so sure they could do much with i!. YSF can't ship those things around like a sack of satti'ttri"r'sign "handle with care" is all over them.

He expressed the opinion that even if an enemy nation learned to make a bomb, we could very well protect ourselves, and would not be at the mercy of that nation. He urged that we prepare for an atoiirjg war of the future, and be prepared to retaliate most 'dffectively if we are ever attacked. He said: "We must have in being a force whose primary mission is one of retaliation in the event of such an attack. ft must be so located that its effectiveness cannot be destroyed by enemy actiorl, either by direct attack or by sabotage. It must not be diverted to other purposes in the event of an emergency, and it must be able to do the job. . To insure peace, we must not only be prepared to win a urar if it comes, we must be prepared to the extent that will convince trouble-seeking nations that war with us will mean certain defeat for them." ***

Some wag says he thinks it eminently fitting that the two national political conventions be held in Philadelphia, because that is the home of the Liberty Bell, and the Liberty Bell reminds him of most politicians-tongue hanging out, and cracked as hell.