PauI Bunyan

Yesterday and Today

Pcrul won his lcrure with crn axe cmd qn ox. The lumber industry of todcy is more compliccrted but Pcrul Bunycrn still stcnds crs the syrrbol of achievenent

Red River's logging includes selective cutling, conserction qnd lorest protection Red Biver's production requires crccurcrte and unilorn milling, kiln-secrsoning cmd gncding to Association standcr&.

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Venetian Blind Slctg cnd Peacil Stocl

For Southern Calit'ornia, stocks including Sash and Doors are carried, in the Los Angeles Wholesale Warehouse. Truck Deliaerics.

(Continued from Page 6) were no tanks to speak of, no motorized armies, no panzer divisions, and only a corrlparative handful of airplanes in World War No. One, to consume metals in unbelielable quantities, as they are being consumed today.

Another tremendous dih;"; between l9L7 and 1942 that the younger generation no doubt can hardly conceive of, is the tax situation. Right now income taxes play a tremendous part in our individual, our corporate, and our national life. In 1917 the income tax had just come into existence, the schedules were so small as to be negligible, and no great importance was placed by the average man in the question of what income taxes meant to him. They meant very little. While we prepared several millions of men for battle in Europe, there was little financial fear among our people. We went into the war with a small national debt, the cost of the war was just nickles and dimes compared with present costs, and there was no sign of nervousness on that subject. The war was largely financed by the imposition of a myriad of war taxes-mostly of the sales tax type-which brought in the needed money. Whatever more wlas needed was secured easily by the sale of Liberty Bonds and Stamps.

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Motorized transportation of large numbers of men or quantities of material was impossible in 1917, because we had practically no through highways, or the tens of thousands of bridges, etc., needed for such highways. The gasoline tax, the golden goose that has in the last 23 years built all our highway improvements, had not yet been heard of when we started shooting in 1917. To give something of an idea of how opinions and conditions have changed, Woodrow Wilson suggested at the beginning of the war, that we might put a one cent per gallon tax on gasoline to help raise some money; but the idea was considered so impractical that it was never attempted. The billion and more dollars a year that the gasoline tax has been bringing in since then, has crisscrossed the country with permanent highways, and the transportation of men and munitions can be effected today in a manner that would have been utterly impossible 23 years ago.

We had no automobif" Inol "!", no tire problems in the First W6rld War. We did have rationing of certain foods before the war ended, but no American ever had to pull his belt tight during the war because of food shortages. Having no through highways, and the highways we did' have being inferior in strength and character of construction, transportation of materials for building and supplying the army carmps had to be handled entirely by the railroads in 1917 and 1918, so there was a great transportation shortage throughout the war period. We have very little of that trouble today, and only in isolated instances. At the present moment the rails and the highways are both loaded down with matters of war transportation.

Ships were exactry "" rlia.i irl trru First World War as they are today. But we are building almost entirely of steel today, whereas there was a tremendous wooden shipbuilding program during the First World War. Wood in great volume is being used in most of these ships, but not for frame or hull. We built comparatively few airplanes in 1917. Today this is one of the greatest war industries, and has caused an unheard-of demand for aluminum. Whereas this is a war of motors, the First World War was one of men, guns, bayonets, trenches, submarines, and ships. And it was a war of wood,. The United States army created during that war the biggest regiment in its history, the Twentieth Foresty Engineers, which started out to be 7,500 men' and finished up with 17,000. They were all experienced and skilled sawmill and logging men, and they went to France and took their mills and equipment along, and there they produced lumber and timbers from French forests for the use of the Allied armies. They saw great service abroad. *t<>r

This new war we have entered, promises to be fought upon the seas to a greater extent than any previous war of our history. And the seas and ships had much to do with getting us into this war, just as they did in previous wars. It was the sinking of the battleship Maine in Havana Harbor that caused us to lick the Spaniards in the closing years of the last century. ft was the diabolical sinking of the great steamship Lusitania that brou'ght the war fever to its height in 1917. It was the sinking of our ships in the Atlantic, followed by the vicious attack on Pearl Harbor, that whirled us into the titanic struggle now being waged. It was the freedom of the seas for which we fought in 1812. And wasn't it a shipload of over-taxed tea in Boston harbor that had much to do with starting our scrap with England back in the days of a certain George Washington? Yes, this will be our great sea war, no doubt. ***

Someone has said that when we get through remembering Pearl lfarbor, the Japs will never forget it. Let us pray !

RED AIICHOR DOGK & S. S. CO. II|G. fumber forwarders

War Puts End to Towing l-og Rafts

San Diego, Jan. 4-War in the Pacific threatens extinction to Southern California's only sawmill located in San Diego Harbor, it was disclosed today.

H. E. Whittemore, manager of the Benson Lumber Co., operator of the mill, said that for the first time in 35 years the coastwise towing of log rafts from the Columbia River to San Diego will not be attempted this year.

A total of. 120 rafts each containing 5,000,000 feet of lumber has been delivered to San Diego by tugs in 25 consecutive summers but war risks will put an end to that operation this year, Mr. Whittemore said. Delivery of square cut logs by rail is too expensive and space on coastwise ships is no longer available, he declared.

Enough logs from previous rafts remain to keep the mill operating about 34 days, after which approximately 75 men will be laid off unless other defense uses can be found for the plant's machinery.

fll fortune dogged the towing of log rafts to San Diego last year.

One broke in two ofr the Central California coast and another caught fire and virtually was destroyed north of San Francisco.

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Lewis Graham, a member Redwood Association for the Armv.