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At '?aul Bunycn's" plcnt logs cre decked ct the mill during snow-free months to carry over when hecrvy snows tie up the logging. Iust to plcry scle logging is ccrried on well into the Winter as the picture shows. Dry kiln capacity equal to mill output delivers unilormly seasoned product.

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there were 300 churches in Moscow, and now there are only 20, very quiet and unostentatious ones, attended mostly by elderly people. Such figures make strong arguments.

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J. P. Morgan the second died the other day. He was a strong, conservative, honorable, useful man. He was about the last of a famous type of old-time financiers. His father belonged to an older school of American finance, and was in his time berated and be-damned like most other rich men of that era. When he died he left a peculiar will that was widely published. He said, in effect, that he returned his soul to the Savior who gave it, and all his worldly wealth to his son, John. Clarence Darrow, then in the zenith of his career as defender of the underdog and bitter critic of the rich and powerful, made a speech about that time, and mentioned the Morgan will. "That was one time," observed Darrow, "when the Savior got all the worst of a trade." ***

Peace, as well as war, takes a terrific human toll. Dependable figures regarding violent deaths show that between Pearl Harbor and the time we invaded France, accidents caused six times as many American deaths as the war effort. And many of those who died accidentally at home were men who had gone through months of foreign warfare, and returned unharmed, only to meet their fate under conditions of no apparent danger. ***

It is too early to tell the dramatic story of how this nation met the fifteenth of March emergency of income tax paying. But we know from the newspapers that all over the country long lines of people jammed redemption windows, selling their war stamps and bonds to get money to pay their first income tax installment. That there IS a dramatic story to follow that date, you can be very sure.

Because millions were not prepared for it, and when the time finally arrived they either dodged the issue, or went out to borrow money. Money lenders everywhere did a gigantic business. *** ft is normal that a man should wonder what the situation with many millions of people really is. In January the Victory Tax came along. There were no loud explosions to mark its starting. Yet I doubt if the average wage-earner has even yet fully discovered what a potent tax deduction FM PER CENT GROSS really is. Most people do not understand that the difference between NET and GROSS is the difference between daylight and darkness, and that that is particularly true with regard to income taxes. A married man with a couple of kids, making two thousand a year, thumbs his nose at the reguiar income tax. But he can't laugh off trhat one hundred bucks cash that is taken out of his pay envelope or check by the Victory Tax. What has that potent deduction done to bond buying by small income folks? Plenty, I have no doubt. Ah, Mr. Gross! You're going to be a very unpopular man when people generally find out how big you are. When Senator George quietly suggested a GROSS tax, he knew very well that what sounded like David was really Goliath.

And now the House Committee in Washington has okayed and sent to the House a proposal to deduct TWENTY PER CENT from the payrolls of the nation by way of a pay-as-you-go income tax. There's one that will knock your back teeth loose. To people of large income it will be no hardship or injustice. But to the wage and small salary earner it wiU be a shock. Already the newspaper editors are telling their readers what a tough row that would be to hoe. Twenty bucks deduction out of every hundred of wages will make you wonder what you did with your last year's income. The thing of it is that very, very few wage and small salary earners will have anthing like twenty per cent income tax to pay altet they take out all their legal deductions, and the Treasury will have to hire a lot of new bookkeepers and check writers to send refunds back to the small income fry, if they pass that deduction rule.

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And into the lap of Congress has gone the "cradle-tograve" social security program from Uncle Delano's future planning committee. Both houses of Congress have already responded by refusing any further appropriations for that committee. The proposal certainly shows that anyone who thinks there is anything that can't happen here, is plain nuts. This thing calls for huge social security distribution, for government partnership and government control of business, from worker participation in business management, and a lot of other things that made every employer and business man groan when he read them. The thing is a strange mixture of socialiscrr and various other foreign whimsies. Of course, it isn't honest. It isn't what it pretends to be. It is political in all its implications. And remember, our present social security program is strictly a misnomer. We have accumulated right now some SEVEN BILLION dollars all taken from employes and employers, very little of which has ever been used for the purposes for which it was extracted. Neither is the SEVEN BILLION there; just Treasury IOU'S. And now they propose another firnd many times that large. Get into your watch-towers, you Americans !

Governor Coke Stevenson, of Texas, went on the air on the March of Time program the other night to warn Americans of the peril of centralized bureaucratic government, and the fallacy of a government of men and man's caprice, rather than the government of laws that was founded by the fathers. Watch this man Stevenson, friends. He is as solid an American as lives, a splendid lawyer, a man who loves the Constitution of the United States better than his own life, and who looks with suspicion and condemnation upon any effort to twist, stretch, or otherwise change it to fit the private opinions or isms of any man or group. You may hear much of him in the next few ye:rrs. We will have great need of such LincolnJike citizens.

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Someone asked Chauncey Depew-who made it a rule never to make a move he didn't actuaUy have towhether or not he ever took any exercise. "Oh yes," said the elderly humorist. "I get plenty of exercise acting as pall bearer for friends who believe in taking lots of exercise."