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(Contiuued from Page 6) to speak. As he left, the reporters asked what had transpired, and Knudson, who has a sense of humor (God help him who has not these days) replied: "The President told us about the automobile business." Thus do we learn from our successful men.

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Which brings to mind the recent cdled meeting of small business men in Washington. It is safe to say that they were hand picked. It would be folly to suspect that they were not, since the New Deal has the greatest card file in all history. Now everyone debates what happened. For the meeting was almost entirely critical. They threw rocks at the New Deal from start to finish. And finally they drew up a set of recommendations so rough that they had to be censored before they were published.

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Business men throughout this nation are watching with tense interest the Senate investigation of the National Labor Relations Board. When Senator Burhe, Democrat, who brought about the investigation, presented his charges, he said: "There are a great many people throughout this country today who believe that the'Wagner labor relations act needs immediate and drastic revision. They are equally convinced that the National Labor Relations Board has been guilty of the most serious sins of omission and commission, that its conduct has been a curse to honest labor and a constant threat to well-intentioned business. They believe that no small part of the blame for the present appalling economic depression may be properly laid at the door of this administrative agency."

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And that, Mr. Senator, is exactly what business men have been saying everywhere one goes. My own countryboy opinion is that the causes of the present business slump, given in the order of their importance, are: First, the continually belligerent attitude of the New Deal toward business, business men, and capital, which, even during the early part of 1937 when things were almost booming, prevented the investment of private capital in industrial expansion and new enterprise; Second, the labor situation, which causes most employers to want tb quit and go fishing for the rest of their lives; Third, taxes, direct, indirect, punitive, social, etc.; Fourth, fear of the financial situation, the public debt, etc.; Fifth, and last, fear engendered by the continual thrust of government into everyone's affairs, and the continual effort to centralize all power and authority on all subjects and for all purposes, in Washington.

Saw a chart the otrr", J.y "nl*trg a graph of business for more than one hundred years. There are many depressions shown on that line. But get this: this is the first time in history that a great depression was immediately followed by another depression. Always in the past a depression is followed by a high and long tide of unusual prosperity. Always until now. Pethaps those who so proudly "planned it that way" can explain.

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This nation needs an entire change of THINKING. It has got to have one. A great spiritual revival is essential in this country if we are to escape what is happening elsewhere in this world. What we need is a re-finding of the Christ spirit in this land, something of the humility of the Man of Galilee, rather than the arrogance of the Caesars. A lot of "THY will be done," and less "my will be done" wouldhelPalot' * * *

Not a very devout man, I believe that we must gain a sense of the humbleness of the Christ of old: an understanding that there is only ONE MIND that knows all the answers-that Mind concerning which a certain humble Carpenter spoke two thousand years ago on the green hills of Galilee. The humility of the Carpenter seems almost lost in these vexatious days. We need to get it back. And I'm not preaching, either. I'm talking sense. We need a lot less Jefferson and Jackson and a lot more Jesus.

With the Retailers

Henry Hess, Henry Hess Co., San Francisco, returned from the east by way of the Panama Canal on Janaary 8. Mrs. Hess accompanied him, and they reported a very enjoyable trip.

Hansen Lumber Co., Riverside, has bought a new site and erected. an office and sheds at 6222 Magnolia Avenue. The new yard is in the center of a good residential section, and being on Magnolia Avenue, has all the main travel going directly past its doors. Clarence W. Courter is manager.

Ed Swift, president of the Swift Lumber Company, 65 10th Street, San Francisco, announces that the company has installed a complete line of Palco building materials.

Morton lverson, of the Boyd Lumber & Mill Company, Santa Barbara, was recently on a business trip to Oregon. He stopped in San Francisco on his way north'

Correction

It was stated erroneously in the last issue of this paper that the efiective date of the order of the Railroad Commission of the State of California-Decision 30t40zl--putting into efiect rates for the transportation of lumber by truck, intrastate, in lots 20,000 lbs. and over, had been postponed. This tariff went into effect on January 27, t938. The effective date of the Railroad Commission's 61ds1Decision 30370-applying to general merchandise and lumber in lots under 20,000 lbs. has been postponed until March, 1938.

County Roofing Ordinance Repealed

The ordinance legislating against wood shingles in the incorporated foothill area north of Glendale which was passed last May was repealed on February 8 by a unanimous vote of the Los Angeles county board of supervisors on the recommendation of William J' Fox, chief engineer of the County Regional Planning Commission' J' E. Mackie, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, represented the lumber interests at the meeting'

Calls On Mills

H. M. (Mac) Luellwitz, Anglo California Lumber Co', Los Angeles, returned recently from a business trip to the San Francisco Bay district. while in Northern california he also called on some of the firm's california Pine mill connections.

Makes Good Recovery

Miss Helen G. Sheehan, stenographer in the office of the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, San Francisco' is receiving congratulations on being back at work again after an absence of l1 months due to serious injuries which she received in an automobile accident in March, 1937'