THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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Guard Your Sawmills ! ! !

Wctch your scrwmill plcrnt, lvlr. Mcrnulccturerl

Wcrtch crnd gucrd it crs you never drecnned ol doing beforel

This rrrecDs NOW cnd it meqns YOUI

This is cn eurergency situction the like ol which there hcrs never been belore. Every scrurmill is cr delense pltrnt, every industrisl institution c Goveranrent asset to help win the wcr.

Mcke your plans AT ONCE crnd put them into eflect, to mqke your mills as sde lrom possible scrbotcge crs is humcrnly possible. Don't spcre the expense

These cre times when myslerious fires <rppecrr, crnd valuqble sawmills discppecn. Dodt doubt lor s moment thct there cre plenty oI saboteurs who would consider it their business to put c mctch to your mill.

Rrt on extrcr lorces. Tcke every pos3ible preccrution- Don't let your mills burn Conserve your resources lor the iob crhecrd.

In cll probcrbility the Government itsell will request and qdvise you regcrding the ttrking oI preccrutioncgl' mecsures to protect your mills. Don't wcritl Stcrt NOW with your extrc Aucrrds cnd your cdditional preccutionsl Remember thct we cre ct wcr, thct Filth Qsl.nsisls cre the things we crt home hcnre to fecrr, crnd tqke wsr-like mecaures to prolect cnd preserve your millsl

A line slogcn right now would be: "4 strong, higb fence, cmd plenty of gucrds, Ior every sawmilll"

On this New Year's Day we Americans are deeply grateful for many blessings and privileges, even though the shooting war has finally engulfed us. Among these blessings and privileges "t.-* * *

-the privilege of serving and sacrificing that this nation may live, ***

-the privilege of seeing the fires of patriotism and love of country re-lighted throughout this Jand, *:l'*

-the privilege of standing up for Godliness, and righteousness, and humanity, *+d<

-the privilege of opposing with all the might that Gocl has given us the deluge of blood which the German Beast and the Yellow Beastlings seek to force upon the world, ++'t

-the privilege of upholding the honor of the nation and of democracy in order that the world may be made once again a safe place for fine and civilized people to live in,

-the privitege of dritJ.; ;r, as best we may in this time of world tragedy immeasurable, in order that Right may prevail and Wrong be overthrown. ***

No doubt every American will agree that the privileges named above are true ones that we may all say "Am€n" to, for a united nation agrees today that our first, primal, and all-absorbing obligation at the present time IS TO WIN THIS WAR. Whatever the Government needs from us-from any and all of us-it shall have. even to our lives and the full amount of our possessions and resources'

A flood of excoriation that reaches the very skies has gone up from American writers and speakers since pearl Ifarbor, against the Little Yellow Men. yet Carl C. Crow, of Portland, Oregon, writing in his ,'Crow's pacific Coast Lumber Digest" is of the opinion that only those are surprised at the treachery of the Japs, who are unacquainted with them as a race, and then he goes on to tell why.

"Ask any man who has had to do business with the Japanese regularly. He will tell you that they are dishonest at heart, tricky and undependable. It is a characteristic that has come down for generations, an inherent contempt for the occidental standards of honesty and decency," says Mr. Crow, and continues:

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"Mimics only, lacking entirely the faculty of origination, the Japanese have in their grasping drive to participate in the commerce of the world, never hesitated to steal anything they wanted. No work of art, mechanical device, or manufactured product has ever come from deserving hands that the Japs would not copy and resort to all sorts of subterfuges to market as an original. Intricate machines have been bought for the sole purpose of dismantling and using as patterns from which to make inferior imitations and undersell the legitimate designers.

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"tltterly lacking in morals, the record of their rape in China stands as one of the darkest pages in all history. No degenerative practice or instrument has been too low for them to commercialize. Modesty and respect for the sanctity of a virtuous woman is unknown to them. Their plunder in China has seen their soldiers given free rein to prey upon the $romen and young girls in bestial fashion. The treachery of the Japs was never better demonstrated than when they sent another of their toothy, smiling jackals bearing the deception of honeyed words of friendship, to throw us off guard while their assassins sneaked

' up to deliver a stab in the back.

"They are an inferior Jtd-rtl,., race and the civilized world must keep them restrained in the future because they are a menace to everything that goes into the making of international honesty and decency. As a constant reminder to Americans and the generations that are to follow, Japan should be compelled to mark in a prominent place on everything she attempts to sell in this countfr:

..MADE IN JAPAN BY THE PEOPLE WHO MUR. DERED 2897 AMERICAN CITIZENS AT PEARL HARBOR ON DECE*?ET 7TH, 1e41."

That final suggestion by Carl Crow should be written into the archives, and placed in effect when the time comes. And his summary of the Japanese national characteristics is doubted by no man'who knows them or ever had any dealings with them. They are sly, tricky, treacherous, dangerous people, without honor and without integrity, either individually or nationally. They have produced nothing to make the world better, created nothing, added nothing to the world's store of usefulness, wealth, knowledge, or happiness. They should be permanently disarmed of even so much as a pocket knife when this war ends, and catalogued for all time to come in their true light. They don't even make good servants, because of their leaning toward treachery and undependability.

Jap Subs Attack Lumber Sh;ps

The steamer sunk on the opening day of the Japanese war 700 miles off San Francisco has been identified as the 2,140-ton freighter, Cynthis Olson, owned by Oliver J. Olson & Co., San Francisco. She was under charter to the United States Transport Service and was carrying a cargo of lumber when she left port.

The NlcCormick Steamship Company's freighter Absaroka rvith a cargo of 5,000,000 feet of lumber was torpedoed off the California coast on Dece.rnber 24 and was towed into port by two Navy tugs.

Other lumber ships that were attacked but made their way to port were the Dorothy Philips, on December 24 and the Samoa. December 18.