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Coastwise, Atlantic Coast, Europe, South America, the Orient...Lumber for every part of the world is loaded out from C. D, Johnson's deepwater moorage at Yaquina Bay, Oregon. ..0rderly shipments .of

C. D. Johnson lumber reach their destinations in prime condition...are easier to check..... easier to unload...easier to dispatch on arrival,

"When you buy a lawn mover for $21, remember that you pay $14 for the machine, and $7 for taxes." If that sort of reminder should be tacked on everything the consumer buys from a loaf of bread to an ocean yacht, it would help reduce taxes. We've got a war to fight and win now, and we've got to pitch in and pay for it. But certainly the time has come to cut out every unnecessary expense not connected with the war effort. *rF

There is a part of.the Declaration of Independence that reads: "lfe has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance." I thought of that when I read the other day about the multitude of federal employes who cover this land like the locusts the Bible tells about. In Washington there are 213,000 federal payroll people; in New York City there are 121,100; San Francisco has 70,000; Chicago, 56,900; Philadelphia, 55,100; Los Angeles, 40,300; and other great armies of them in every other city in the land. The list of cities that have more than ten thousand federal employes is as long as your arm.

A report recently issued by the CED-Committee for Economic Development-stated that wages in the United States have increased three-fold in the last fifty years. That seems to me to be a very debatable statement, just glancing back over the days of my youth. We used to pay 50 cents a sack-one and one-half bushels-for potatoes. That was a going price for many years. Sirloin steak cost not over 12 cents a pound. Everything else was in proportion. That same sirloin steak costs at least $1.50 a pound today, and potatoes are proportionately high. I believe a man making two dollars a day fifty years ago could buy more of the necessities of life of all kinds, than a fifteen dollar a day man can buy today. Scores of comparisons come to my mind.

Think of the difference ,ri,nl cost of medicine. rt seems to ine that when I was a kid a druggist would sell you a doctor's bottled prescription for less money than you can buy that same empty bottle today, without the medicine. Liver was free at the butcher shop when you bought a ten cent round steak.

The CED report makes lrr.*norrr, I am happy to agree with. We used to buy our butter out of open tubs, our meat out of unprotected boxes, and most of our other eatables were at the mercy df dust, dirt, and insects. Today the quality of goods has improved, their variety has broad- "-r ened, and eatables reach the consumer wonderfully freshero ';$ cleaner, and more eatable than in the old days. Our stan&,..fl ards of living have improved tremendously. So, of course, .j:$ have the costs. But we now have pure foods, pure drugs,';,1fi and highly sanitary conditions prevailing in everythi:g lili we buy. Most of the increase in wages have come in the ',i:lJS Iast ten years; and it seems to me that the cost of living ",:ff has risen during that same time fully as much as the in- .;# crease in wages. . bj

"Ye chewers of the noxious weed, Which grows on earth's most cursed sod, Be pleased to clean your filthy mouths, Outside the sacred house of God."

Move Offices

West Oregon Lumber Company has moved its Los Angeles office to 366 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California. The new telephone numbdrs are BRadshaw 2-4353 and CRestview 5-6634.

Designs Expcnsion lor Tropiccl cnd

Western Lumber Co.

Tropical and Western Lumber Co. is expanding their quarters at 4344 Exchange Avenue, Los Angeles, to accommodate increased personnel. Additional office building was designed by Architect C. M. Deasy, A.I,A., who also made the drawings for the lumber company's rtew business site prior to construction two years ago.

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