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In Westwood Village an old man sells papers on a corner. With every sale he hands out a gift, a stick of gum or a package of rnatches. On special days he gives away even more. Someone asked him how he could afiord it. He grinned, and said he made up for his losses on week days by not working Sundays. Like another man f knew long ago who did things like that, he always replied, when asked what the idea was, that he *ir w;rOrl* for a big funiral.

No change in two weeks in the lumber situation. It is just as scarce as it was then, and more scarce than ever before. The entire Redwood manufacturing industry in Northern California has been closed for weeks by a strike, and there is no settlement in sight. Thig includes some of the biggest mills in the country. So the ,,no lumber" sign continues everywhere.

The Redwood strike is over several matters of dispute, but the fundamental one is the d*emand for a closed shop.

According to the newspaper reports out of Washington, a general drive is now started for a 30-hour week. At 40hour pay, of course. That would mssn-unlsss all laws including that of gravity have been repealed-reduced production, increased costs. And both on a very large scale. The wise talk that we must all go back to work to save ourselves from our grave domestic situation, gets nowhere. And the drift toward the rapids increases its speed.

Never in civilized history has weird and unprovable economics been so popular with so many people. The average ten-year-old boy can easily understand, when told the facts, that only one thing can save this country with its tons of money and its empty shelves, and that is the greatest possible production. Yet millions of emphatic grown-ups seem to pass up that grand truth completely. They want everything regulated, everything regimented, production down, wages and costs up-yet they want prosperity. And if it can't be had that way, then the Government must take over and arrange it'

Readers Digest reprints from the New York Sun an editorial by H. I. Phillips entitled-"No Opportunity." It so well emphasizes what I have tried so often to say in this column in a general way, that I shall here reprint it, and am sure our readers will understand and appreciate the splendid American logic offered. Here it is:

"The broadcast about the exploitations of the workers in America and the horrors of life without Government help, are thrown for a loss by the story of Bill O,Dwyer, elected last November the head of the biggest city in the world" (Mayor of New York City).

"A little over thirty years ago the young man who was to become the Mayor of New York got off a boat from Ireland with $23 in his pocket, no friends, no influence, and no blueprints from the cradle to the grave. The $23 would have financed some letters to Congress and some denunciations of the American economic system, and left something for investment in a campstool for listening in comfort to park agitators, BUT HE WENT TO WORK rNsrEAD'

"He took a job in a grocery store at $9 a week without denouncing the proprietor, grabbing a 'This Store Unfair' banner, or shouting 'This is exploitation !' The work was tough and the hours no bargain, but he took no time out to argue about his future security while uncrating the cabbages. Bill later took a job as a deckhand on a freighter, which will ever stand as proof that he was not mainly determined to get a softer life with more time for outdoor siorts.

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"Then he became a stoker on a Hudson River boat, when he could have had more fun writing letters to the newspapers beginning: 'It seems to me that under our complex social and economic system ' Next he became a plasterer, which was like giving up weight lifting for something with better backaches. But his legs and feet were not breaking down fast enough, so he joined the police force. If Bill had been the type who stays in a rut and concentrates on demands that somebody make his future secure, he would still be pitying himself. But instead he studied law at Fordham nights and became a lawyer. :f:f*

"Ffe was the master of his soul and the desk sergeant of his destiny. At no time were there any squawks from him about there not being any more frontiers. The question is not whether he will make a good mayor but what will he study for next, regardless of the hours, work, or shortage of recreation opportunities."

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Again proving what all wise men know, that from the homes of the humble and the lowly in this land have come almost the total supply of genius and ability that have made this great land great. And if there had been any restriction on their efforts with regard to hours, pay, or anything else -they would never have been heard of. If O'Dwyer had been hedged in by any such restrictions, HE would never.

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have been heard of. The saddest realities about our present social system are the sound fears that the "mute, inglorious Miltons" of the future will remain mute and inglorious, and the O'Dwyers, the Fords, the Carnegies, the Edisons, the Franklins, and the Lincolns, will never lift their gifted heads above the common herd.

Kenneth Smith, president of the California Redwood Association, recently made a talk to the Rotary Club of San Francisco on the subject: "Is our free competitive enterprise system in danger?" He replied in general that it unquestionably IS. He said two fundamental troubles are, first, that economic power (the control of money and credit) has passed to the government; second, the federal debt will soon be 30O billion dollars, constituting a 77o/o first mortgage upon all the accumulated savings of all our people in the 450 years since the white man came to America'

He said that this nation suffers from fifteen separate and distinct economic and social diseases that together threaten our very governmental life, and they are: First, 7 out of 10 citizens do not know what you mean when you say "free enterprise." .Second, a majority of our citizens have been "broken to the bit" (can't remember back to when we had actual free enterprise), and 56 per cent now look to the government to provide them with jobs. Third, we have taken such a heavy dose of the anaesthetic of regulation that we are too weak and too addicted to the drug habit to resist it. The level road of regulation-in spite of the fact that it can lead us only to an equality of destitutionhas more appeal than the uphill and rocky road of self-reliance'

Fourth, the astognding indifference of the public to government waste. Fifth, the astounding number of business men who do NOT warit unrestricted competition in THEIR business, and the equally astounding number who DO want government help in the shape of loans, protection, or subsidies for their business. Sixth, the courts have been packed. Seventh, servility of Congress to minority pressure groups. Eighth, growth of group consciousness and class hatred. Ninth, astounding high percentage of citizens who regard government only as a "cow to be milked." Tenth, business is not only shackled by controls but government has become an unfair partner and an increasingly oppressive competitor.

Eleventfi, control of production has passed from tJre hands of the manufacturers to the union leaders. Twelfth, the great middle class of Arnericans, the balance wheel of our economy in all these years, is being washed out. Thirteenth, taxes have become the controlling device of economic !lanning, and are obviously being used to implement the theory of compensatory spending. Fourteenth, big business has grown larger and is the only business that can. Under the present tax structure, small business is stymied. Fifteenth, (last and most important) necessity for' "managing the debt" in such a manner that the millions of citizens who have been spld the beautiful dream that they do not have to make any sacrifices to pay this debt ($2,143 per person) will not find out while "we" are in office that a bond of the United States government given for debt is IN REALITY a promise that its citizens will pay the debt with WORK YET TO BE DONE by said citizens.

And Mr. Smith makes ttris conclusion: "The pattern is fixed. Crisis will continue to be manufactured upon crisis as the housing crisis is now, as the prelude to more and more economic control. Freedom of enterprise is based upon freedom of the individual. Freedom of the individual is based upon his willingness to act as a free man. America has now more individuals willing to be wards of the government for a fancied security, than it has citizens willing to stand up and slug'it out for themselves. As a consequence, business will not be free again in our time. The hopes of wishful thinkers are destined to be shattered on the reefs of political expediency."

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That ended Mr. Smith's courageous remarks. Personally, I don't think he has exaggerated any part of it. But the late George M. Cohan said that you must "Always leave them laughing when you say goodby," so here's one to tell around. A man sitting in a movie watching a picture was amazed when a man came in leading a black bear and took the two seats next to him. He said to the man"\ilhat's the idea of bringing a bear into a theatre?" And the. man with the bear replied: "I thought he ought to see this movie-he enjoyed the book so much."

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