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county, or federal" govcrnments. But, as was stated in the announcement, it's the rich fa'rmers that get all the government gravy.

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We used to inquire: "WHAT is this country coming to?,' Now we say: "WHEN is this country coming TO?"

Sai<t Dr. Nourse: "f am.urea"y when L"" f"r*io-]i demanding stimulative prices whilst government accumu- ','i lates gigantic surplrrs holdings, pays subsidies out of def-,,.,,'I: icits, and imposeri production allotments and quotas. AE:r j": an econorhist I do not see standards of life being raised ,i.

The Shreveport ri*"" q,;a"l " Co*munistic soapbox orator as saying: "Comrades, in these damnable United States you've either got to draw pay from a cruel capitalistic boss or. go without new cars, tdlevision sets, wool clothing, and paid vacations. Ain't it awful?"

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Doesn't your heart bleed for these poor, mistreated American Commies? How they must yearn for the blessedness of their dear Ru-ssial i-ook at -the time wd waste over here! We spent nine months and a ton of money giving an American trial to a gang that plotted our destiuction. fn Russia a gang so charged would have been fried, convicted, and then hung, shot, tortured, or all three, within a few hours time. And if sonie defense lawyerassuming they were allowed.to make.a defense, which few have been-had ofiered an insult to the trial judge as our American Commies did countless times-he would have fared erien worse than the defendants. Yes, we certainly and self-discipline. We must recognize that we can,t get more out of the ecoirorric system than we put in.', *** union sees the current situation as the occasion for a reductioninthehoursofwork.IamnothappywhenIsee$ov, ernment slipping back into deficits as a way of life in a' overtake us. In sum, if we are to malntain the march of economic progress, we must, individually and in groups, in privite busincss and in iolitics, disptay industry, prudbnce, waste a justice.

"Owners exist only as a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people-the sanctity of private property in the capitalistic sense follows the divine right of kings'into the discard. Inevitable changes in the economic organizations of society are exposing'it as just anotJrer myth preached in the interest of a small class seeking to retain pornFer and privilege." (Reads lilce a page from Lenin or Stalin, doesn't it? But it was a written opinion of a man named Leland Olds, who was rec€ntly appointed Federal Power Commissioner by President Truman. He admitted to.a Congress committee that he wrote_ it. Yet Mr. Truman used every trick and power he possessed to force the acceptance of this man. Congress refused to confirm him. But Washington rumor has it that he will soon turrr up in some federal payroll job where he doesn't have to be confirmed, as is the way in Washington today.)

One of the fiercest. blows dcalt our present program of economics by any authoritative person in a decade, hit the front pages when Dr. Edwin Nourse, Chairman of the President's own Council of Economic Advisers and an economist of world-wide fame, literally "took down his hair" in addressing a conventiorq and said harsher things about our welfare program than even the bitterest critics frbm the other side of the. political fence, have uttered. The text of his remarks were these words: "Mone'tary and fiscal tricks have .no power of magic, but are a slippery road to misery." What he meant, Junior, was that the government cannot take over all the affairs of this nation and create abiding prosperity bysleight-of-hand tricks, and give-away programs.

However, Cy Fox, Philadelphira humorist and philoso, pher, sees signs of improvement. He says that just Sd) years ago Kings spread butter on their bread with their thumbs, whereas "nowadays any dummy know; you can do it better with the flat of your hand."

Office Opened

Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, wholesale lumber dealers, recently opened an office at 8650 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles 46. Teleph*ones are BRadshaw 2-4375, and CRestview 6-3164.

The office is in charge of Vic Harbaugh, who has been in the wholesale lumber business in Los Angeles for the past three and a half years. He started in the business with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. at their St. Helens mill.

The Los Angeles office will cover all of Southern Cal!. fornia, but will not work Bakersfield, which is handled from the company's Fresno office.

Exhibit of Rcre Veneers

More than a hundred rare veneers from the ,,Woods of the World" were exhibited at the Weldwood Building, 55 West 44th Street, New York, recently before an interested group of architects, decorators and editors. Many of these veneers were never before exhibited and are available todav for the'first time.

United States Plywood Corporation, in cooperation with the New York Chapter of the Producers, Council, assem-bled the exhibit to emphasize the importance of wall pan-' eling and fine interiors in modern architecture.

Lawrence Ottinger, president of the plywood company. pointed out that there is an increasing demand for madetc-order hardwood panets for special purposes where beauty of graining and texture are essential. "This exhibit,,, he said, "shows to architects and others interested ..the tremendous possibilities for unique designs and flexible uses that were hitherto thought impossible.'