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Telephone SUtter l-6384Teletype SF 648 vation, intelligent people could find something to do with those potatoes and those mountains of wheat.

Speaking of food, an American journalist touring England, reported in his column that British housewives were being asked $g to $Z for a melon, $12 for a chicken, and $6 for a pound of grapes; two bits a grape. What a madhouse that Socialistic Bang* has made out of England !

No wonder the embittered and eloquent Churchill said in a recent speech concerning the Socialist Government: "They have squandered the reserves and resources which have been garnered in the past, and have darkened and narrowed the future of every man, woman, and child in this famous island." And he called on Britain to "return to a system which provides incentives for effort, self-denial, initiative, and good house*keeping."

Churchill pulled another remark that swept the world not long since concerning Sir Stafford Cripps, whose entire mode of living is at all times as filled with austerity as the British general progr:rm has become. Someone told Churchill that Cripps had stopped smoking, and he remarked: "There goes his last contact with the human race."

I read a Washington dispatch from the Wall Street Journal the other day that tickled me. It said that the Comptroller of the Currency had advised all bankers to use "prudence" in lending during this business dip. That would be new?

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Can't resist the temptation here to tell the old, old story about the man whose back was badly bent from bowling, who limped into the office of a bank president and said, apologetically, "I'm a little stiff from bowling." The tough banker said, "Sit down, little stiff, I don't care where the hell you're from-what "T t_U"_"r you?"

My risibilities (laughter, to you Junior) were keenly roused also when I read where Cardinal Spellman charged that certain of Mrs. Roosevelt's writings were based on "misinformation, ignorance, or prejudice." Would that be new?T**

Right now our Govegnment is wrestling with another problem vital to every Artrerican, namely, shall we give the atom bomb secret to England and Canada? They practically demand it. With the Canadian question I shall not wrestle except to say that to give it to England would be to give it to Canada. But with England now under a Socialist government drawing constantly closer and closer to Communism, giving her the bomb today might be simply giving it to Russia tomorrow. The crisis now admittedly facing Britain could easily wipe out every sign of Democratic sovernment in a t:X lTt.

A smart Hollywood journalist who is strongly antiComrnie and who testified against the ten writers who refused to tell Congress whether or not they were .Com. munists, decided to find out how the American public feels about the movies, and why there is such a terrific slump in movie revenues all over the country. For three months he traveled and talked to the man and woman in the street. For months he tried to tell his auditors that the great majority of movie folks are NOT tainted with Communism. And he says he was told a hundred times: "Maybe what you say is true. Maybe only a small minority of your movie people are Comrnies. But there is no way for us to separate them and say which is which. That's your. job, not mine. And, until you do something about it, I wiil stay away from moving pictures, and not permit my family to see them, either."

He found that the average American is highly critical of the movies. He pays high prices to help pay huge salaries to people who do not deserve them, many of whom embrace philosophies that endanger this nation. The present attitude of the public is thumbs down on the movie industry. **t

On August the 4th this nation, after three years of black ink bookkeeping, returned to deficit financing. It started with just a couple of hundred millions of dollars in new money. But it would be an optimist indeed who could doubt that it would soon run into billions. When Mr. Truman made the remark in a radio speech recently that he did not think much of people who were talking economy, he uttered the text of his entire administration. His customary "red herring" is now turning into "red ink," and it may be a long, long time before we see black ink on our national books again. Yet every member of Congress who will talk, testifies to the fact that the greatest interest of the American people today as proven by their mail from home, is economy. "Don't bankrupt our country" is what most men who write to their Congressmen are saying.

But we continue going deeper and deeper into the spend' ing morass. The laws of God, such as supply and demand and the various other old fundamentals, are up on the shelf with the cold pie. Men can run this country and this world better than Providence. Set aside all natural laws. Disdain all the old tried and proven methods of living. The government fixes everything, finances everyone'+**

I saw quoted the other day a Germanized bit of philosophy which they say is old in St. Louis, that says:

' "Ve get old too soon

Undt schmardt too late."

Fcrn Mcril

Enclosed please find my renewal subscription. To one isolated in the hills, away from all contacts of the past. the magazine is like mail from home. It is a great pleasure you give us "Hill-Billies."

You might tell our mutual friends that we are located on the Yosemite Highway No. 4I, half-way between F'resno and Yosemite Valley, and that old faces, and riew ones, are always lvelcome.

E. W. Hemmings, Manager Sierra Lumber Company, fnc. Oakhurst. Calif.