1943 M.y Be A "Re" Year

BY JACK DIONNE

A prophet, scrys the Scriptures, is not withoul honor, save in his own country. A prophet who tries to guess the luture ol the lumber business at this iime, will probcbly end up without honor in this or cnY other country.

We know only thct the old yecr is gone. We know thct it wqs the most exciting yecrr the lumber industry ever knew. Things hcrppened thcrt mqde the most unusuql evenls of the first World War look stcle crnd llct by compcrison. The mqn who said at the beginning of 1942 thct "we hcrven't seen nuthin' yet," wcs crbout the most successlul prophet oI business we evet knew. We hcdn't. Eut we have now.

We look fonpcrd towcrrd 1943 with c whcrle ol cr lot of hopes, but very lew convictions. Thcrt it will be c yecr when every business mcn will need every ounce oI ingenuity, intelligence, ord downright courcge he can muster, goes witftout scying. We cll know there will be mcny problems to be solved. We know there will be no "business as usucl." We suspect that the law oI survivcl ol the littest is going to be c mecrsuring

stick that will come into genercl use'

Trying to guess whct is coming is like trying lo guess when the wcrr will end; beccruse one depends on the oiher. So while we lecn hecrvily cgcrinst the keeper oI our hcrrem oI hopes. let us prepare to meet whcrt comes, cmd stcry right side up, living crnd working iust one dcry cd cr time, crnd doing our eterncrl dcrndest on thcrt dcy. That is good philosophy ct crny time, but p<rrticulcrly good in times oI stress crnd peril.

First, we shcll try every dcry to do everyihing possible to help win the wcrr. There is only one foremost ambition qbroad in this lcnrd, crnd thct is iL Second, we shall by to lceep our business hecds qbove wqter, keep lurnishing the public cll the building senrice that wcr conditions will cllow, cnd preserve for our people scrtisfcrctory shelter for themselves cnd their possessions until this wqr is over.

Whcrt our pcrrticulcrr problems will be, we do not know, we c<rn only surmise. Whetber building restrictions will be tightened or soltened, depends entirely on eventB crs they develop. We ccn only prqy, 11s the eowboy did: "Oh Lord, don't let crnything come my wcry thcrt You cnd I together ccrn't handle." Thct wouldn't be cr bcd morning prqyer lor every mcur icck ol us throughout the yecr.

It mcry, probcrbly will, turn out to be c "re" yeqr,' c yecrr lor "re" griring, "re" modeling, "re" pcinting, "re" pcpering "re" roofing, "re" building, in order ihat this ncrlion mqy continue to be scrlely housed while the wcr goes on Thct there will be cny pcrticulcr "re" lqxqtion of the rules cgcinst new civiliqn building until Germcrny is broughl to her lorees, is very, very doubdul. But there mcry be such "re"lcxcrtioa ol the "re"strictions crgcrinst "re"modeling cmd "re"building cs will make millions ol housea more livcble and comlortcble until the blessed dcy comes. When the huge demcrnd lor common lumber lor trcrining cqmps tcrpers off, much oI thct matericrl could well be used to improve the shelter situatio..- crnd thct mcry be very soon.

Getting recrdy lor 1943 is like plcying cr bridge hcnd. You ccrn't play the ccrds until you get them. So cll ure c(m do is polish up our wits cnd our courct€te, to hcrndle each plcry cs ii develops.

Agk President Not to Approve Forest Western Burcau of Reclamation,Projccts Products Service Plan to be Continued With Limitations

San Francisco, Dec. 3O.-The Western Pine, California Redwood and West Coast Lumbermen's Associations have asked the President not to approve the Forest Products Service Plan. Many Western millS have wired the President, Senators, Congressmen and the War Production Board pointing out that present production can be increased substantially by providing additional manpower and operating equipment which could relieve present shortage of logs.

Duke Euphrat Back At Office

M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Company, San Francisco, was back at his desk December 28, after having made a good recovery from illness that kept him two weeks in a hospital.

Goes To Benton Harbor

M. R. Robd, San Diego lumberman, has returned to his old stamping ground at Benton lfarbor, Michigan, where he will purchase lumber for the Dachel-Carter Ship Building Corp. He says he will return to California with the canceling of priorities.

Forest Products

Dollars and cents maximum prices for mine timber, industrial blocking and railroad ties in 15 western states set by OPA in line with those establsihed for comparable lumber items (MPR ?f,.4\, eff.ective December 18.

Three Bureau of Reclamation irrigation projects in the Far 'West, centers for Japanese evacuees from the pacific Coast, and another for the development of guayule will continue to be constructed under certain limitations, according to advices received here today from Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes.

Permission was also granted .by the WPB Facility Review Committee, it was stated, for completion of a housing project of 140 family units at Boulder City, Nev. Work on an additional 71 units was ordered stopped,

Among the projects on which work may proceed within certain limits are: Klamath, California; Minidoka, Idaho; and Shoshone, 'Wyoming. These embrace irrigation facilities for War Relocation Centers. Additional irrigation facilities are needed for the support of the Japanese evacuees in these centers.

Three of the irrigation projects may continue, it was stated, only to the extent necessary to provide work and sustenance for Japanese evacuees under the supervision of the War Relocation Authority.

The project at Gila is approved only to the extent necessary for the development of guayule. Construction on the project is in progress which will tnake possible 30,000 acres of irrigated land for guayule rubber in 1943-44. More than 100,000 acres could be made available within a few years, it was declared.