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It has been frequently predicted that the new Congress would "open every session with a prayer and close it with a probe." I'm for that, brother. Not a vindictive or vengeful man as a rule, still it goes against my every fiber to think that all the infamies of the last twelve years should be glossed over and forgotten. If, as I believe, countless unforgettable and unforgivable governmental things were done in those twelve years, then justice demands that the great white light of pitiless publicity be thrown upon them. We may not be able to physically punish, but certainly we can fearlessly publicize. *{.*

"Let sleeping dogs lie," say thosq who would prevent the probes. That's a mighty poor way to train dogs. I shall not attempt to enumerate here all the things I would like to see investigated; it would require too much space. But I shall stand on the sidelines applauding if the work is well done. Start with the destruction of food in a hungry world, and come right on up through all the waste, the profligacy, the intrigue, the commercializing of everything from the White House down, the infiltration of subversives through all parts of the government, the weakening of the coLlrts, the wholesale dumping of our money, the weird doings of every sort by unfit men in high positions, etc., etc., etc. The list is like the little boy's hoop; there's no end to it. Let's have the facts. It is no longer dangerous, thank God, to tell the truth. Let those who danced so madly, step up and talk to the fiddler.

Just as an example, take sugar. The case of sugar is one of the lesser horrors that have been perpetrated upon us with probably no criminality involved; just a demonstration of stupidity and know-nothing-ism that baffles belief.

Plcnt Moved To New Location

Mangrum, Holbrook & Elkus, manufacturers of department store and drug store fixtures, recently moved their woodworking assembly plant and planing mill from the former locations to 2OO Paul Avenue, San Francisco, where they have 43,000 square feet of space.

Arnold Smith is manager of this company's woodworking division.

Here are the facts concerning the sugar shortage as I understand them, and I have seen and heard no contradiction of any of them. When we were killing six million pigs and a lot of cattle and plowing under cotton, we also plowed under most of a half-grown sugar crop in Louisiana. The planters had to plow under millions of dollars worth of sugar to get the government benefits. Also, the government imposed quotas on production of American sugar beets, and these were rigidly maintained, cutting sugar beet production to the marrow. When we got into the war in 1941 the official quotas were suspended, but we nullified this by manipulating subsidy payments and regulations so that farmers would lose money by increasing their sugar beet acreages'

When war broke the Philippine sugar production was cut off to the tune of about a million tons a year. This was a blow, following years of aborting and suborning sugar production here at home. So, to help things along, we made a deal with Cuba by which the sugar crop in that country was deliberately curtailed to an amount considerably greater than the Philippine sugar loss. Folly was heaped upon folly. Last year, 1946, with Americans clamoring for sugar, we shipped abroad 659,000,000 pounds of our scarce sugar. We let Yugoslavia, deliberate murderer of unarmed American airmen, have over 58 million pounds. Day after day, while American housewives lacked sugar for canning and preserving for home consumption, ships left United States ports carrying sugar to foreign shores. ***

Sugar is only a simple sample of the damnable things that have been done in late years, every one of which should be investigated and publicized. Some day we might even get an unbiased investigation of the Pearl Harbor horror,

New Ycrd In Atcscadero

A new yard is under construction at Atascadero, Calif. The owners are Gordon W. Fox. former owner of the Atascadero Hotel, and E. C. Pitts, Atascadero and Paso Robles resta.urant owner. The new yard will handle a complete line of lumber, building materials and builders' hardware. It is located on San Lucia Street. iust back of the Atascadero Hotel.