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HIGH DARI.Y STRDTIGTH

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E. J. Stanton & Son will be back ag a prime supplier o[ raw materials and lumber products lor private construction. But right now there ir only one job this war must be won! lt's up to all of us to contribute our best

(Continued from Page 8) trying to show your contempt for this court?" And the witness answered: "No, your Honor, I'm trying my best to conceal it." Lewis' contempt was like the lash of a blacksnake whip.

:N< :B :F someone said that n" .i"n]u iot" L. Sullivan were here to handle John L. Lewis. Shucks ! Little old Calvin Coolidge would have done it, like he handled the police strike in Boston, and never raised a sweat. It doesn't take big fists to handle that job. There is enough emergency war power in the government at Washington today to utterly destroy anyone or any group that interfi:res with the war effort.

Bob Fitzsimmons used to say that "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." But nobody in Washington seems to have what it takes-regardless of all the power and authority against him-to throw a Sunday punch at this big fellow Lewis. Wonder why.

The war has certainr" ""n*"U in numerous merchandising changes, found everywhere. Some merchants change because they find it impossible to get the lines they used to sell, and are obliged to find or create substitutes. Others change because it is profitable to do so. One of the biggest news stands I know has been in business for many years; sold newspapers and mags in a big way. Several months ago they quit selling pap€rs. Shortly afterward they cut out the magazines. Now they sell nothing but military jewelry and souvenirs, from dollar pins to fifty dollar watches. Service men buy 75 per cent of their stuff, and people buying things to give service men buy the rest. They're cleaning up. Beats selling papers and magazines at penny profits.

Sornetimes it looks ltk. "n;";nity up-ends and smacks you in the kisser. (Pardon my slang.) A little storekeeper I know who prides himself on being right on the beam as a merchandiser was right proud of the fact that when the government stopped the bakers from slicing bread he rushed out and got a gross of bread knives. By the time the order was rescinded he had sold a dozen of them, leaving him about 130. He says he'll probably sell one a year, so if he stays in business 130 more years he'll be rid of his stock of bread knives.

A retail lumber dealer got caught in that same trap, but in a bigger way. Home bread slicers was his big idea. When the stoppage of bread slicing came along he rushed out and bought both machinery and materials to manufacture a home bread slicing box. You put the unsliced loaf in the box, and run your knife down the slots, slicing the bread smooth- ly and evenly. He put several thousand good, shiny dollars into the enterprise, and got ready to get rich quick. Then they revoked the order against baker slicing, and his bread box became a lost cause. "Anyway," he said, "it took an act of Congress to put me out of business." \Mhich, of course was a gross exaggeration. It took just a few of our "economic experts" in Washington to do it. And Senator "Cotton" Ed Smith, of South Carolina, told a Senate Committee recently that a Washington economic expert "is just a damn fool away from home." Many a trusting citizen has been caught out on limbs because of these economists of ours.

Dick Welton, Chula Vista, California, lumber dealer, writes me a swell letter. "It should be so inspiring that every man should walk a little more proudly for being able to back America. When I help a fellow who has a family to get a coop for a few chickens in the back yard, or a rabbit hutch, even though it hardly rises to the dignity of 'lumber business' as it has been known, I am glad to do that little bit to make our people strong. I am one of the 'old ones'but the fire still burns. I have said that our government should get some firebrands that could go up and down the country preaching PATRIOTISM. If they did WE MIGHT NOT HAVE SO MUCH BLACK MARKET."

That last thought ", ;r:oJ"r,on'" is a "pip." rt's a thought that stays in front of my mind much of the time lately, as f read and hear all the puerile oratory of our potii-ical speakers. When I was a youngster there was a man in the U. S. Senate from the State of Iowa named John P. Dolliver. He was the champion Fourth of July orator of his day and generation. While he lived and orated only in peace times, yet he could make every audience surge to its feet, arms waving, shouting like Comanche Indians on the warpath, whenever he tackled his favorite subject-America. He never failed when he paid tribute to his country, its flag, and its priceless heritage. Can you imagine what a man like that could do in times like we are now going through with all the heroic facts and feats of this terrible War to furnish fuel for his fire? Can you imagine him rising in the United States Senate and launching some of his patriotic eloquence? Never in our history was there a Senate so free from gifted emotional speakers as the present one. What an opportunity!

Mr. Welton is right. Patriotic firebrands would sure cut down our rising Black Market. But they seem to be as scarce as thick steaks.