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YOUNG PHILOSOPH

CING PRIN AN ANCIENT GREEK PALAESTRA 8x10 print $1.25. 6 8x10s $6. Order all Spartacus material from AMG. 1834

on a separate sheet from an AMG

This very interesting drawing is by Rick Stone, a new young artist who is just as rugged and masculine as the others to the artist sent c/o AMG will be forwarded

INJUSTICE IN OUR COURTS. Perhaps the courts in America are more efficient and just than those of many other countries, but they still leave much to be desired. Consider this unjust trial which occurred in a civil court in Los Angeles: In 1956 Athletic Model Guild contracted with the Bikini Pool & Landscaping Co to build a pool by its studio. Full confidence was had in this company because of the lavish advertisements carried in the Los Angeles Times and the advance payment Bikini demanded was made. However, even before the work was finished, the dishonest manager of Bikini absconded with all company funds, and it turned out that none of the subcontractors or workers had been paid. According to the Mechanic's Lien Law all of these could legally collect from the owner of the property, even though the owner had previously paid the general contractor in full. Realizing how badly we had been duped we worked out settlements with most of these subcontractors except one who refused a settlement of anything less than his outrageously inflated profit, and refused to furnish data on his wages and costs until the actual day of trial when it was impossible to check on their veracity, This last sub-contractor is now known as the DON BURGESS POOL COMPANY.

In as much as we had already paid the general contractor in full, we asked the Burgess company to accept a payment of their actual labor and material costs, but they refused this and took us to court demanding the full amount. As was our right under the 4th ammendment of the U.S. Constitution we demanded a jury trial to settle the matter (which included our complaint of shoddy workmanship performed by Burgess Pool Company), but the court refused to let us have the jury and decided against us. Appeals to several higher

18 courts were unsuccessful. The Burgess Pool company goes on boldly advertising in every week's issue of the Home Magazine of the Los

Angeles Times. We hope other residents of the Los Angeles area will not have the same misfortune we had.

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Artist Bill Mac Lane seems to have just that "touch" nfinite variety of handsome male

$1.50. Catalog of other drawings $1.10 print Send to Wm M MacLane Studios Queene Anne Station, Seattle

2, Washington,