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"f feel like the stranger who was beaten, robbed, and left bleeding by the wayside on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho, Our Government represents the High Priest who went by on one side, and the Black Market represents the Levite who passed by on the other side. I am lying here starving and bleeding and waiting for some good Samaritan to sell me some building material."

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That is the best letter on the present situation I've received from a lumber dealer. It was written by an old friend of mine who runs a small country y4rd, in a small country town. And if you don't think he means all he says, you're ctaz,'

Using a Biblical story for emphasis is often done impressively. Col. Greeley, who recently resigned the management of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, used a Bible story with telling effect at a dinner they gave him in Seattle at the time of n* t;""j"t;

He told about how in the days of his youth when he was in charge of a Federal forest, he sometimes referred to that forest as "my forest." One day an old-timer said to him: "Youtr calling that forest yours, reminds me of a Bible story; the one where Satan took the Master to the top of a high mountain and showed Him all the world and told Him he would give it all to ifim if He would bow down and adore him. And all the time the lying old soandso never owned an acre "t_*; ft has been philosophically said, that it's all in the way we look at it. One man is happy as he goes through life because he makes it a rule to seek out beauty and truth; while another man is unhappy because he hates the ugliness he sees all about him. My idea is that we should see both, we vagabonds. It's grand to admire truth and beauty; but if we did only that and closed our eyes to the false and the ugly and did nothing about it, we would all of us soon be in one Hades of a fix. You can't cure evil by refusing to consider it; like a bureaucratic government, for instance.

Thomas Dreier, of Boston, who publishes a delightful little monthly magazine of thought called "The Vagabond," defines a vagabond as "one who wanders around the world looking for truth and beauty, and who tells about what he finds so that others may share his fun." That covers the ground with these Vagabond Editorials except that in our wanderings we encounter so much that is neither truth nor beauty.

During the past couple of months this nation learnedand was shocked at learning-how dependent our whole economy has become on things that never seemed vitally or tragically serious before. Such as the railroad strike. We went into that strike more or less calmly and with little thought of danger. And before it had been in progress an hour we had discovered that it could utterly destroy us; and that in a very short space of time. And when I say destroy, I mean destroy. We discovered that it could shatter health, and our very lives, as well as our economic well-being.

I hold no brief for President Truman. But he displayed great courage when he went before Congress and demanded legislation that would. permit him to keep the railroads going even though it required forceful conscription of labor. At that moment almost every man in both houses of Congress was frightened witless by the suddenly impending tragedy which the strike ushered in. At that moment practically every men jack of them would have voted for anything that would prevent wholesale national tragedy. Any of them except perhaps a few reds. The threat passed. And right away a lot of those small-souled politicians forgot the danger just passed, and the fear that had so recently possessed them, and began throwing partisan political rocks at Truman. Such is -*oditr statesmanship!

We know now that we have got to arouse enough courage in this land of ours to make it irnpossible for such things to happen again. There must be no more atomic bombs hung suddenly over this nation from within our own ranks. It is fundamental in our law that the liberty of one citizen ends where the liberty of another citizen begins. We have arrived at a time when we must decide whether any group of men in this fair land shall have the legal right to interfere with the rights of all the rest of the nation; to put them, their properties and their lives, in jeopardy as was recently done on two*occasions.

The fix in which we find ourselves is, as everyone knows and every honest man admits, the fruits of legislation enacted within the last thirteen years. The condition can only be corrected by Congress. The nation has a right to look to Congress for such legislation as will outlaw any such dangers as those through which we recently passed.

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If we haven't the strength, the courage, and the intelligence to create for ourselves that sort of protection, then we don't deserve liberty and the other precious heritages that the fathers gave us. It isn't temporary remedies we need. It is to write and enact and enforce such laws as will deprive any man or group of men of a power greater than the powers of our government; the power to devastate this nation under any plea or for any purpose. Talk about extending our social security benefits! It's the nation that cries aloud for security today! ***

If we could just find some way to trade a mess of votefrightened politicians for a few courageous statesmen, the cup of fear and danger that so recently pissed close to our lips could come this way no more. We need a Patrick Henry today just as badly as ever in our history. The famous poem "God Give Us Men" has become an American Pra'er' * * -*

That this beloved country of ours is at this moment at one of the most dangerous cross-roads in its history, is a fact echoed in the editorid columns of all but the left-wing neryspapers from ocean to ocean. And in none was the situation more forcefully and strikingly pictured than in an editorial in the Dallas News, signed by an editor, Lynn W.

FIIA Policy Under Tirle VI

"fn the present situation we know there are actual elements of home construction cost which we must-consider temporary," Commissioner Raymond M. Foley of the Federal Housing Administration iecently told members of the Metropolitan Home Builders Association. in Chicago.

"\Mhen the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program succeeds in making materials and labor readily available, these conditions should be eliminated and the need for Title VI loans from the standpoint of cost will have vanished. We intend to administer the law in such a fashion as will, we hope, hasten that day." Title VI of the National Housing Act provides that loans may be insured up to 90 per cent of the FHA's estimate of current cost of the land and structure, approved for insured financing before construction is started.

Landruar, which is quoted in the following p"r"gr"pii. Read them thoughtfully:

"America faces today the same sort of industrial anarchy which drove Italy to the dictatorship of Mussolini, Germany to the dictatorship of Hitler, and Russia to the dictatorship of Stalin. Freedom cannot survive cbaos; nothing can. When trains won't run, power ceases, food rots on sidetracks and in the fields and millions are thrown out of work against their will, the people grow desperate and violence begins. Then in clanks the dictator with tank and .machine gun to restore order and assume siipreme power. Thaf must not happer here. The fact that our law had no solution of the rail strike except the exercise of war emergency powers of the President, is ominously significant. Do not forget it. *** l'America should have one rule; one justice for all. America should have one aim in the present crisis: stop all preying upon production 4nd producc, produce, produce! America should have one government, and. only one: the Constitution of the United States and the public aervants duly constituted by and under its authority. Every selflsh interest opposed to these principles should be swept aside ---<rot with violence, not with anger, but in singleness of purpose and steadfastness of loyalty. America wants no dictator, and submits to none."

Mcrncges Bcy Mecdows Rcce Meeting :

Walter S. Found, general manager of the Merced Lumber Company, .Merced, and well known owner of trotting horses, is president and manager of the Pacific Coast Trotters Association.

The associatiori is now conducting a 25-day race meeting at Bay Meadows, which started May 30 and will end July 4.

Purchcse Mitls

The Madonna Arnold Lumber Company of Southern California has purchased the mill of Dilly and Gullman Lumber Company, near Cottage Grove, Ore.

Twin "Harbor Lumber Company of Washington has bought the Saginaw Lumber Company mill and holdings at Saginaw. Timber includes more than nine million feet.