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(Continued from Page 6) his ability we have no desire to debatc. But the question of his temperamental fitness for the job, can have only one answer. He was rurfit for that really terrific job as a hot oven is fit for ammunition storage. He had a job that demands more diplomacy than Secretary Hull owns. And Henderaon lvas made without one 6ber of diplomacy. He had failed in his youth to learn one little rhyme, which is as fillcd with truth as any quotation from scripture, namely that:

"It isn't so much what you do or say, As the way in which you do or say it; For what would the cgg amount to, pray, If the hen got up on the roost to lay it?"

The lumbcr industry ;i', -rro" *t. Henderson. But it was not nearly so much the things he did and said as the way in which he did and said them, that hurt. Admittedly the most unpopular man in Washington, a skillful diplomat could have accomplished the same things without creating one-tenth as much ill will. Certainly we must have restrictions and deprivations to'help win this war. Nobody doubts it. Nobody objects, so far as we've heard. But the attitude of "You'll take it and like it, and what are you going to do about it?" doesn't belong in this country, even in war time. There are many men in this country who could do that job successfully and earn the ill will of no man, because of their character, their fairness, and the spirit of confidence they create. Let us hope we appoint one.

At New Year's o-" ;"* ir" "r.o.r" a lot of good resolutions made, worthy mottoes hung on the wall to be followed. We hear a lot about doing the things that couldn't be done, and all that sort of stuff. I heard of one the other day that amused me greatly. A well known philosopher has a sign over his desk that reads: "Somebody said that it couldn't be done; so f didn't even try." **

I still think the smartest Christmas card I ever received was from the late humorous writer, Montague Glass. He was an orthodox Jew, and his wife was a Gentile and a Presbyterian. On Christmas he sent out a personal card that read: "Commemorating the birthdCy of my wife's Savior."

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I{ave you heard the story about the soldier who had been six months under fire in the Western Paci6c, and was given a three weeks' furlough to spend the holidays at home. Whcn hc got home he discovcred that he could get only one cup of cofree a day, with only one spoon of sugar in it; that they had no gasoline for the family car; that they could get no deccnt cuts of meat for dinner; that the family had had no butter for weeks and could get none; and when they began telling him about other shortagcs, prlncipally for heating the old home comfortably, hc grabbcd hia hat, rushed out into the street shouting-"'Which way is Guadalcanal?"

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Personally I was gctting along all right with the coffee shortage, until I rcad in the paper that they were burning it in locomotives in Brazil. That shot got me. They say Philadelphia is the only place in the country where they like the coffee shortage; they don't drink it for breakfast for fear it will keep them awake all day. Wonder how old Talleyrand would have cnjoyed the coffee situation. He was thc man who said hc wanted his coffee "Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, and sweet as love."

When I read *" ,rrrJ"rr*"0r. story of the ravages wrought by the Japs in so short a time at Pearl flarbor, and saw the pictures showing what lack of preparedness and aleftness cost us, I got down my volumes of Sir Walter Scott's works, and turned to that part of "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," where Scott describes how the knights of Branksome Hall kept watch and ward in time of danger. It is worth rc-reading, just as a lesson. Scott said of these fighting men that:

"Ten of them were sheethed in steel, With belted sword and spur on heel; They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day nor yet by night:

They lay down to rest

With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard;

They carved at the meal

With gloves of steel,

War Congrers of American Industry Arsails Forert Service Subsidy Plan

Washington, Dec. l0-Four thousand industrialists attending the War Congress of American Industry in Nerv York last week adopted a resolution vigorously condemning the pending proposal by the U. S. Forest Service to employ $100,000,000 of Cornmodity Credit Corporation funds to subsidize hundreds of small lumber mills in the South and East u'ith the avowed aim of supplementing lumber production for war needs.

The proposal, known as the Forest l)roducts Service Plan, would endow the Forest Service with broad powers to "procure. produce, store, and sell forest products." It is reported to be awaiting final approval by President Roosevelt.

The resolution, as approved by the representatives of every field of American industry, follows:

"The Government should not compete directly r,vith private industry and private labor, nor should it subsidize anv private producers in competition u'ith other private industry.

"The IJ. S. Forest Service, before a committee of the U. S. Senate on November 25th, stated in a public hearing that it proposed to the War Production Board, and that the Board has assented to, a program to subsidize production of luml>er, pulpwood and other forest products and to subsidize competitors r,r'ith the forest industries, in order to aid the war effort. This proposal will not only fail to relieve the present shortage of certain forest products, but would reduce the output. The current shortage is caused not by lack of production facilities but principally by lack of manpo\ver.

"ft has also proposed a program of Federal regulation of timber cutting and utilization as a war production measure. This plan in our opinion is an attempt to foist upon the country, under authority granted for other purposes, an unsound plan for extending governmental control over private enterprise and private industry.

"We are unalterably opposed to the policy of putting the Government in competition vvith prit'ate inclustry; 1\,'e are opposed to allowing instrumentalities, subdivisions or departments of the Government to compete with private industry whether the competition be direct or subsidized."

Cannot Get Along Without The Merchant

While war conditions have made it seem necessary to close my yard for the duration, I still consider my- self a lumberman-"f,ms1i1ns"-if you please, and could not get along without The California Lumber Merchant. Jack's editorials and stories are absolutely necessary for our peace of mind. May he live long and prosper.

W. B. Jefferson, 177 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Calif.