Northern California Association Bulletin On Bureaucracy

A recent bulletin issued by Jack F. Pomeroy, executive vice-president of the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California, includes the following very pertinenr paragraph concerning the size and character of our Washington bureaucracy that makes interesting reading:

"The Hoover Commission report clearly shows how tax dollars have endless avenues of escape. For instan'ce, the paper work involved in processing a Government purchase order costs more than $10 per order yet half of the government's 3,000,000 purchase orders which the civilian branches execute are for items costing less than $10. The government owns 850,000 typewriters, or 3.6 typewriters for every employee who uses one full time or part time and sorne Federal agencies were estimated to have sufficient office supplies to last 50 years. We have 38 different Government agencies lending money; 16 different agencies are engaged in wildlife preservation, 34 agencies are engaged in obtaining land, 10 in Government construction, 9 in credit and finance, 4 in bank examinations, 65 in gathering statistics, 14 in forestry matters, 28 in welfare, 12 in home and community planning, 25 agencies deal with our nation's mineral resources and for every 32 Indians under the jurisdiction and care of the Bureau of Indian Affairs there is one Federal employee, making a total of over 12,000 persons administering that program. It has been disclosed that it takes the Veterans' Administration, with its huge personnel, an average of 73 days to pay death claims on Government life insurance whereas private life insurance companies pay 80 per cent of their death claims within 15 days. This is our government in just a few of the fourteen hundred agencies and bureaus. Many were created as "emergen,cies," but they are now entrenched in the biggest business on earth to the tune of over 41 billion dollars per year. Whenever suggestions are made for increasing the size of this jungle of bureaucracy, their effect on the creaking machinery of government must be considered."

Sugar Pine is one of three species of White Pines manufactured in commercial quantities.

R. O. W. Window Units Now Availcrble In Western Sizes

T. M. Cobb Co. of Los Angeles and San Diego, distributors of the R. O. W. window units, announces that the units are now available in Western sizes. This will enable the dealers' customers to use the units on jobs that are already framed for Western sizes.

Their salesmen are available at all times to assist the dealers in the promotion and sales of the R. O. W. wood windorv units.

Tree farms are harvest of forest managed to produce the greatest possible products on a permanent basis.

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A Little Boosting

A little boosting now and then Is relished by the most of men. No matter what your job may be, If cutting hay or serving tea, Or drafting laws or making shotA little boost may mean a lot. A cheery word, a kindly smile, A friendly nod once in a while May be the sanding of the track For some poor guy who's slipping back. It isn't blarney, bunk, nor show To give a guy a glad hello, And let him know you mean it, too, For somehow it comes back to you, And makes for you a brighter day. The moral is-again I sayIt's relished by the most of menA little boosting now and then.

Ecsing the Blow

The hardened and oft-convicted prisoner was before the bar for sentencing. Said the judge: "I find you guilty on 26 counts and I sentence you to 6ve years on each count, making a total of 130 years."

The prisoner, already well along in years, burst into tears. The judge, taking this as a sign of remorse, said in a kindly voice: "Don't take it too hard. I didn't mean to be too harsh with you. I know you can't possibly serve out the whole 130 years, but I'll tell you what. JUST DO THE BEST YOU CAN."

Amended the Sign

There was a big sign in front of a modern shoe repair shop showing several styles of rubber heels, arid a picture of a beautiful girl who was saying:

"I'm in love with America's Number One heel."

Underneath, in a small feminine hand, someone had written:

"Sorry, Sister ! I'm already married to him."

Psychicrtry

A prominent man called on a psychiatrist for treatment. The mental physician gave him the usual examination, and finally said:

"You are worrying about your future. I'11 take your case. I'll undertake to cure you in a year' and the charge will be one hundred dollars a week."

The patient said: "That takes care of YOUR future, all right, Doctor-but how about mine?"

Didn't Heed Fqther

Will Rogers used to say:

"Don't speed ! Get up fifteen minutes earlier !"

Not long since his son was arrested for driving 55 miles an hour through a 25 mile zone, and, the judge fined him heavily, and then handed him a card to read. It bore the above words of his father.

All Mine

There is a sea-a quiet seaBeyond the farthest line, Where all my ships that went astraY Where all my dreams of yesterday And all the things that were to be Are mine.

Why, Mother!

Old Lady: "Young lady, I'll bet your mother would be angry if she saw you in that scanty bathing suit."

Young Lady: "You're not kidding ! It's her's."

Flying Ice

In Montana last February the temperature was fifty below zero, when the foreman of a rescue gang phoned in to headquarters to say that one of his men had been knocked unconscious by flying ice.

"What do you mean, flying ice?" asked the boss.

"He was chewing tobacco, and tried to spit against the wind."

The Golden Bell

There is a legend about an oriental king whose servant was also his personal friend and favorite. The king, one day, impatiently presented him with a golden bell, saying:

"I.f you ever find a greater fool than you are, give him this."

Years passed, and the king lay on his death bed. To his servant the king said:

':I am going on a long journey, and alas, I am ill prepared."

"Is it an unexpected journeY?"

"No," said the king, "on the contrary I have been forewarned these many years; but so engrossing have been the cares of government and the pleasures of the court .that I have given the matter little attention."

Whereupon the servant silently handed him the golden b,ell. For he had found a greater fool than himself, at last.

Women

"Women,'; said the modern sage, "run heavy to ads. They are ad-tractive at twenty, ad-tentive at thirty, and ad-hesive at forty."