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thankful for the courage that was always ours, and pray for the wisdom that we never had."

Emerson said: "Thin*r:rJ irr*th. saddle, and ride mankind." They still are, and riding higher than the Empire State Building. The slant-eyed slobs of Chinese Communism are among the highest riders. The "four horsemen" themselves, never rode higher, or more dangerously. rl. d. {.

Often there come to mind events and occasions that demonstrate how fearfully we in this country will strain at a very small gnat, and still swallow a particularly mangy camel. The newspapers tell us that the old warship, the Olympia, on which Admiral Dewey made great American history, is rotting away at her moorings, and has reached so sad a state that it can no longer be boarded by patriotic visitors. And they likewise tell us that the Navy has said it has no money for the restoration and preservation of this national relic, and suggests that funds be raised by private subscription. The cost would be about $650,000.

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It was on the deck of this famous fighting ship that Dewey gave his great command that will always live in American naval history: "Fire when you're ready, Gridley." It was thus that he spoke to Gridley when the Olympia led the way into the harbor of Manila in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, and thus ended Spanish domination of those Islands forever by the victory that he won there. And now the great old ship is rotting away for want of an amount that has become no more than tip money to our Government. So we strain at that small gnat, while various departments of our Government would give that much to some bunch of greasy "furriners" without even entering so infinitesimal an amount on their books.

Looks like our great Jasierrrlr,". General, one Harold E. Stassen, who heads what they call FOA (Foreign Operations Administration), might take that much money out of his small change drawer and save the Olympia. According to what we read about that bureau, it seems to be something in the near neighborhood of a total loss, the total being billions of dollars out of the pockets of American Taxpayers, which is scattered with wild abandon throughout the world, most of it going where it doesn't belong'

This is just to suggest that instead of calling on the public to donate the money to restore the Olympia, we scoop that amount from the coffers of FOA, and do this patriotic job. Not that FOA is the only place where we might pick up that comparatively modest amount from our various and sundry waste bureaus. Not at all. Not by quite a number, in fact. I have in mind several where we could pick up that much. There are various dark and devious drains that could well be done away with entirely, and save enough wasted money to do a lot of good jobs like the saving of the Olympia. I realize, of course, that there are plenty of human megaphones who will not agree with me, which proves only that I do not agree with them. And there are a lot of good people on my side, starting with

Hammer-ond-Sickle lumber

Reports reaching the United States recently say Moscow Radio is now criticizing the Soviet Union's timber industry for failing to meet the Red government fixed quotas. "This year," it said, "the workers of the timber industry have scored certain successes. Nevertheless, it must be admitted that as a whole the timber production industry is still in great debt to the State and is not fulfilling the plans for it."

This word to the wise is probably sufficient to Georgi M. Orlov, minister of Russia's timber industry.

Thomas Jefferson and Geo. Washington and coming down to the best folks I know of in the United States today. As Will Rogers would say: "I ain't lonesome."

Remember, it was wfi i";rs who said: "American foreign policy is always an open book-an open check book." But even in Will's days they would never have turned billions over to human small fry to scatter through the world as the north wind scatters autumn leaves. Various columnists describe FOA as a "bust." That's flatterv. I could describe it a lot better than that.

These scatteration u"tJ"J tnlt we have been financing so profusely, "not wisely but too well" for the past many years, remind me of a great prehistoric monster re-assembled in the Smithsonian Institute. The way I heard it, this thing was 100 feet long, ran on the ground, and had two brains, one in the head and one in the tail. The front brain was a little bit of a thing, and the rear brain was very large. The rear brain did the driving, and the front brain the steering. And, because the running brain was so much bigger than the steering brain, this monster could run ten times as fast as it could steer. So it naturally became extinct. And some of these days the scatteration folks in Washington are going to do the same. Won't that be a grand and glorious feeling? **i.

I don't read the Eastern newspapers, and only glean the facts about them from those who do. I am told that most of the New York City newspapers, for instance, are unbelievably leftish in their politics, and pinkish in their hue. But even that does not account for the remarks made by columnist Ed Sullivan, when he expresses "bewilderment at the extravagant eulogies now being tendered Andrei Vishinsky." Had I not read it in so reliable a column, I would have doubted the truth of such a statement. Vishinsky was head man in the United Nations assembly, for Soviet Russia.

fle was probably tt. "J.r.tl"t,*-o"t vicious, most bloodthirsty, and blood-hungry man in all modern history. He reveled in blood, in torture, in dark horrors that make the brain of the reader of his history reel with unbelief. Only in such a mad world as the present one could such as he exist. fn normal times every good man's hand would have been against him, every true man's weapon at his throat. Yet he was spoken well of, written well of, in the United States. Think that over if you doubt that things in this country are sadly in need of fixing.

QWnef : Consider H.Witlerl, Inc., monufoclurers of high grode mople qnd wildwood cherry furnifure. Plqnls in Louisville, Kenlucky, ond Naw Albony, Indiono.

Gerlinger lquipnent: lhree model PH-862-l3o Lift Trucks.

tOb DO|O: lhe Gerlinger lrucks ore used in both plonts to unlood lumber from trucks to roihood cors, They lronsporl ond. stock lumbcr in yord for oir drying period...lood kiln drying bunks...lronsporl kilndried lumber fo dry storqge building ond stock...ond houl from hcrc lo culting room.

Gerlinqef PeffOfnOntG3 Owner sloles lhot the odvonloges of using Ge-rlinger lrucks "ore so mony ond voried os to olmost defy descriplion." He soys: "We feel thot the use of o Gerlinger Lih fruck, in eliminoting up lo four individuol hondlings of eoch boord, should result in sovings so greol fhof the mochine will poy for itself in less lhan o yeqr-if lhe lruck is kept busy iust one shift per doy."

This owner uses his Gerlingers for multiple verticql ond horizonfol lnoteriol hondling, inside lhe plonf ond outside in the sloroge yords. On every iob they've hondled, the Gerlingers hove brought oboul moteriolhondling sovings. They con do os much on yout operofion, too. Why not drop us o cord lodoy for complete descripfion of the five heovy-duly models of Gerlinger lift Trucks. Owners in oll indusfries ore finding lhe onswer to cosl-cutting moleriol hondling with these "lqilored-to-lhe' iob" mochines.

Thof $6 Billion mqrkef flexes ils muscles

THE 1UMBER MERCHANIS ASSOCIATION of Northern Colifornio booth, with irs yord-helpful signs, left, wos monned by Don Wilson during the tl-doy show. He honded out lhousonds of brochures on homo plcnning, remodeling ond ftnishing of moteriols, besides literoture suPplied by the CRA ond WPA. Lower ponel of photos shows (left) Olympic Stoined Producls Co. boorh, ot which "Colifornio Rustic" slain wos fovorile; Western Pine Supply Compony booth (center), which boosted reloil yords cnd wqs visired by thousonds for merchondise drowingssigned cords lisred locot lumber deolers ond wsre loler lurned over to lhe deolers for followup; ond Genersl Lumber & Supply Co. boorh (right), long-rime Berkeley, Calif', retoil lumber' yord which furnished informolion ond honded out lilerolure on do-it-yourrelf home building proiects.