in wEsr coAsr w00Ds

MANUFACTURERS OF:

Mouldings

Furnilure Dimension

Glued-Up Stock

Industriql Shook

Veneliqn Blind Stock

Reody-to-Assemble

Furnilure Porls

-in foct, Anything in West Coqst Woods! Send us your inquiries for

PONDEROSA PINE, SUGAR PINE, INCENSE CEDAR.

DOUGLAS AND WHITE FIR

Sowmills: Conby, Colif ond Anderson, Colif.

Remq nuf o ctu ring

Plont: Klqm6th Folls, Oregon Box Foclory: Altur' os, Colif.

1635 Dierks Bldg. Konsos City 6, Mo. Vlctor 4143

Direct lnquiries lo Anderson, Cqlifornicr

Boy Areo Represenlolive

Mott R. Smith, 5 Yole Circle, Berkeley 8, Colif.

Los Angeles Areo Represenlqlive

Ed Fountoin, P.O. Box 4946, Los Angeles 14, Cqlif.

Hos delivered sotisfoctory service lo mony people in mony woys for mony yeors. -- lt's been our pleosure lo porticipote in this service for

88 YEARS

I got a stimulating kick out of the above. The highly conservative newspaper, The Daily Telegraph, of London, is celebrating its one hundredth birthday. And the above is a quotation from one of its editorials announcing that anniversarY

Those are words that find an echo in my heart-in all my thinking. If there is one thing in this world that I despise more than most other things it is the pitiful human who is always trying to be impartial. What a world of thrill, and joy, and living he misses. Nobody has any business being impartial except a judge on the bench. A newspaper or journal that is editorially impartial is as useless as a last year's bird nest. There is nothing more hopeless than a professional fence straddler.

Got a letter the ott.r laf frl* " subscriber enclosing order for subscriptions to this journal for the editors of several newspapers. He said he wanted his editor friends to read these Vags. Thought they might be stimulated editorially. That was a high compliment. You don't get letters of that sort by being impartial. You get them by being thoroughly prejudiced on all interesting subjects, and speaking out in the strongest words at your command. "There are two certain signs of a weak mind," says an old adage. "One is to speak when one should be silent, the other to be silent when one should speak."

The greatest joy that comes to an editor is having definite opinions on every important matter that comes along, and trying to translate those opinions into words and phrases that will impress the people who read his stuff. To stimulate the thinking of his readers in the directions that he considers right-that is the editorial writer's job and his joY' r< r< :{<

Heaven preserve us from the whispering monkey-doodles who are all things to all men, riding the top rail at all times, and fearing to speak the truth for fear of treading on toes. And right now more than ever before in the history of this nation, is the time for straight thinking, and fearless speaking. To realize a wrong and fail for any reason to lift your voice against it is to commit that most pitiful of all sinsthe sin of omission.

I beleve that the ,""a.rl rirni" column will agree to one thing about them; that they have never been "editorially impartial." And they will continue not to be.

I thought I might bump heads with some of my readers recently when I used this entire column for one issue showing up that prince of phonies of Old Testament days; a guy named Joseph. I held the copy over a couple of weeks before deciding to print it. And, do you know what? I have letters in response to that editorial that come from Catholics, Protestants, and Jews, and they unanimously agree with what I said. Looks like people nowadays take off their blinkers when they read, even though it is the Bible. You see the Old Testament insists that Joseph was a good man, and then goes ahead and proves him to be the prime rascal, rackateer, ":U crook of all time.

Webster's New International dictionary has a definition you may find interesting. It is the definition of "dema. gogu€." It says he is, "A leader or orator popular with or identified with the people. One skilled in arousing the prejudices and passions of the populace by rhetoric, sensational charges, specious arguments, catchwords, cajolery, etc., especially a political speaker or leadgr who seeks thus to make capital of social discontent and incite the populace, usually in the name of some popular cause, in order to gain political influence or office."

So now you know *rr"i" I.rrLro*.r" is. Know any?

Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, recently rendered what seems to be a splendid service to the average man who is trying to keep his thinking in pace with what goes on in this disturbed and confused country today. He defined Communism in words that the average person can clearly understand. How often of late have you read the question-why hasn't the Communist Party in this country the same rights as the Republican, the Democratic, or :rny other political party? And the questioner seems to feel he has handed out an unanswerable guer'' * >k >r<

In a concurring opinion handed down in a recent case before the Supreme Court, Justice Jackson replied to that question, setting the Communist Party separate and apart from other parties, in the following words, which you should file for reference and for use. The remainder of this column shall be devoted to quoting Justice Jackson's words. ***

"Congress," said Justice Jackson, "could rationally conclude that, behind its political party facade, the Communist Party is a conspiratorial and revolutionary junta, organ- ized to reach ends and to use methods which are incompatible with our constitutional system. A rough and compressed grouping of this data would permit Congress to draw these important conclusions as to its distinguishing gharacterists: the sit-down, the slow-down, sabotage, or other means of producing industrial paralysis. .

"l-The goal of the Communist Party is to seize powers of government by and for a minority, rather than to acquire power through the vote of a free electorate . . . The Communist program only begins with seizure of government. . . It purposes forcibly to recast our whole political and social structure after the Muscovite model . . . a belated counterrevolution to the American Revolution, designed to undo the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

"2-The Communist Party alone among American parties past or present is dominated and controlled by a foreign government. It is a satrap party, which, by a threat of civil disorder, adds the threat of betrayal into alien hands. The chain of command from the Kremlin to the American party is stoutly denied and usually invisible, but it was unmistakably disclosed by the American Communist Party somersaulting in synchronism with shifts in the Kremlin's foreign policy. . .

"3-Violent and undemocratic means are the calculated and indispensable methods to attain the Communist Party's goal. It would be incredible naivete to expect the American branch of this movement to forego the only methods by which a Communist Party has anywhere come into power. Unless the Communist Party can obtain some powerful leverage on the population, it is doomed to remain a negligible factor in the United States. Ilence, conspiracy, violence, intimidation and the coup d'etat are all that keep hope alive in the Communist breast.

"g-f,vs1y member of the Communist Party is an agent to execute the Communist program. Major political parties in the United States have never been closely knit or secret organizations. Anyone who usually votes the party ticket is reckoned a member. . . One may quarrel with the party and bolt its candidates and return again. Membership in the Communist Party is totally different. The party is a secret conclave. Members are admitted only after acceptance as reliable and after indoctrination in its policies, to which they are fully committed. . . . Each pledges unconditional obedience to party authority. . . . Individuals who assume such obligations are chargeable, on ordinary conspiracy principles, with responsibility for and participation in all that makes up the party'sprogram.

"There has recently entered the dialectic of politics a cliche used to condemn application of the conspiracy principle to Communists. 'Guilt by association' is an epithet frequently used and little explained except that it is generally accompanied by another slogan, 'guilt is personal.' Of course it is; but personal guilt may be incurred by joining a conspiracy. There is certainly sufficient evidence that all members owe allegiance to every detail of the Communist Party program and have assumed a duty actively to help execute it, so that Congress could, on fa' miliar conspiracy principles, charge each member with the goals and means of the nT.t; .;

"I cannot believe that Congress has less power to protect a labor union from Communist domination than it has from employer domination."

Fcrn Mcil

"4-The communist to gain this leverage and hold on the American population by acquiring control of the labor movement. . . . The Communist Party . is not primarily interested in labor's vote it strives for control of labor's coercive power-the strike,

For old times' sake, here is my check to keep your "all but perfect" lumber journal coming to my office. I enjoy every bit of it, not the least of which are Jack's stories and editorials, etc., etc.

George H. Bentley, Realtor, Glendale, Calif.

\$s$::\

I Logging Operotions

2 Lumber mills (Longview, Wosh.; Weed, Colif.; Voughn, Austo, Gordiner, Reedsport, Ore.; Sheridon, Ark.; Quitmon, Miss,l

3 Treoting Plonts (De Ridder, Lo.; Jop- lin, Mo.; Weed, Colif.; Longview, Wosh, )

4 Glozing Plont (Ft. Smith. Ark.)

5 Ook Flooring Plont (De Ridder, Lo.)

Hundreds of millions of feet of quality lumber and lumber products, produced annually ^t L4 large Long-Bell manufacturing plants, to meet the demand of all your needs' well loaded for easy handling and shipped from convenient Points.

Wbether yoar reqairernents are lor Douglas Fir-rilest Coast HernlockSouthern PinePond'erosa PineW hite Fir or Soutbern Hard.uood.s, look to Long-Bell to sapply them!