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Richfield Building, Los Angeles

Telephone MUtual 2f3l

Specializing in WEST COAST TIMBER PRODUCTS

Usual Personal Service and thp Highest Quality of Lumber

Iust as steel is alloyed to give it rust resisting abili$, so iE ordinary wood made into Wolmanized Lumber*, hiShly resistant to decay and termite attack. Wolman Salts* preservative is the "alloying" ingredient addedltis is the story we are telling to businessmen, Government and indusbial executives, architests aud builders, in advertisements like the one reproduced here. We are pronoting ihe use of wood-Iong'lived wood-in such trnpers as Business Week, Civil Engineering, Engineerinq News-Record American Builder and Architectural Forum.

Youwill prolit by the postwar market forWohnanized Lunb€r thusbeingbuilt up. American Lumber & Treating Compann 1648 McCormick Bldg., Chicagq IU.

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A lovely young lady of fashion, Loved a soldier so handsome and dashin', Said the haughty young miss As she gave him a kiss, Here's one thing the bureaus can't ration.

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Much talk of rationing. The subject runs a close second to the war ne$rs in all public discussions. Which is natural. To Americans the whole philosophy of rationing is shocking, even though it is approved as a necessity.

On the air the other night explaining the whys and wherefores of rationing, Elmer Davis and Claud Wickard both declared the method we have adopted to be the best yet devised. About the same time many members of Congress rushed into print-some of them the most ardent New Dealers-to caustically criticize our rationing effort. Someone coined the phrase "irrational rationing.', It caught the public fancy, and that phrase has been bobbing about of late like a toy balloon in a gale of wind. ***

I feel that a certain amount of rationing is inevitable and reasonable in the war effort. Whether we are approaching the subject intelligently and practically is something f will leave to folks in better position to know. When practical and intelligent men who are in position to know all the facts, say there shotrld be rationing of a commodity, that's good enough for me, and I gladly go along with their suggestion. That the handling of the effort be likewise done intelligently and practically and by the men best fitted for the job, is something most important also.

**{< f wonder what sort of meat they served at that forty.

I recall the rationing of the first World War very well. We had meatless days, and wheatless bread, and sugarless coffee, and a lot of other things of that sort. But the rationing was handled simply, without confusion, and with a minimum of expense and manpower. The chief difference f see between that war and this one is that everything we do now is done by huge and unwieldly armies of people, and everything is big and confused. No matter how small the job fo be done, we do it in big and ponderous fashion. The rationing efrort seems certain to follow that same course.

We have adopted the English system of rationing, I understand. I have read that it wifl take more than an additional million people to operate it. Whether it is a better plan than could have been devised here at home, is a debatable question. Critics find a thousand loose ends to point to. Gasoline rationing has been in effect just a month, but Washington announces publicly that already the whole country is bootlegging gasoline. I said when gasoline rationing was announced that we would enter upon the greatest era of bootlegging we ever heard of. That opinion seems to be already confirmed.

Take coffee. One cup per day per person, so the pronouncement came. Yet if you have enough nickles and enough appetite you can buy a thousand cups of coffee a day in any city in the land. A cup a day is what they allow you to buy from the dealer. But until they close the eating and drinking places, coffee rationing just doesn,t ration. Maybe we'Il get to the point where the waiter will reach for a Bible and say, "Do you solemnly swear that this is the first cup of coffee you've had today?" before serving you.

Anyway, we're going to try it, and perhaps the .,bugs', will be discovered and ironed out before too long. What complicates our food situation is the amount of food we are giving away to the starving and needy peoples of the world outside our own land. If all we had to do was feed our armed forces the best and then eat the rest ourselves, we would have no shortages of food and no rationing. But that other demand is tremendous in volume, and gro-wing constantly. No layman can possibly discuss the food situation intelligently on that account.

What a sight our meat market displays are now ! I,ve gotten into the habit lately of stopping and staring at what our butcher has to offer us. There are more unidentified cuts of meat than anyone ever dreamed of. Now and then a fat pork chop shows up, and outside of that you seldom see any of the cuts of meat you are in the habit of seeing, and buying. I guess I'll get used to veal neck instead of seasoned beef cuts; but I won't say f fke 'em.

,dollar a ptate dinner the gang gave Haffy Hopkins recently; the dinner that has caused so much caustic comment? Was it the sort we buy at our meat market nowadays? Harry' you lcrow is the gentleman who looks after the giving aw?! of our foods to the needy in foreign lands.

Congress is in session. Many predictions have been made .as to changes that will come about. I have many suggestions, but will keep them to myself, with one exceptioru I 'would like to see the smartest bunch of men we can find in this country-I mean practical men who have done things .and can do things-take over the distribution of food both at home and abroad AS ONE JOB. If one gang loolrs after "distribution at home, and another gang broadcasts our good :grub to foreign lands, it won't be so good. Those are two .jobs that should certainly be coordinated.

I ran onto another opinion regarding the intervention of Providence in war. It was that great Frenchman Voltaire who said: "ft is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battdions." But that faming patriot Patrick Henry had a different idea. He said: "The battle is not to the strong alone, but to the vigilant, the active, the brave." I .can hear the American Marine Corps speaking right up, .and saying-"That's' us."

Patrick Henry also said: *We are not weak if we make 'proper use of those means which the God of nature has 'placed in our power." Looks like the Russians of late have 'been living up to that philosophy, as they drive through the snow and ice toward the annihilation of the Nazi who infest 'their native soil.

One can fully appreciate the great pride that the citizen .of England takes in the freedom he enjoys under the protec'tion of his government. Never was the bill of rights of "the Englishman so well worded as by that great orator, Wm. 'Pitt, when he declared: "The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the snows may enter; the rain may enter; BUT THE KING OF ENGLAND CANNOT ENTER; all his forces cannot cross the threshold of the ruined tenement." That is the foundation of English liberty-the security of a man in his own home.

I never wish my friends pangs of even the mildest sort, not even those of conscience. And therefore I most heartily hope that on March fifteenth when so many of them will step up to the captain's office to pay their income tax for t942, tanging in many cases from 50 to 90 per cent, rernorse will not too severely punish them and cause them to say to themselves: "Why didn't I slip more of this folding money to those deserving lumber journals that needed it, when I could have done so at so little net cost?" Honest, I hope they don't worry too much about that sin of omission. I do, really.

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List this one under the heading of things that never could have happened-but did. A sawmill friend of mine showed me an order for lumber he had iust received, marked "Partially dry." Can you top that one? Just how dry is partially, anyway?

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' And then there was the lady who fired the cook that had been with her twenty years, was practically a member of the family. Yep, fired her without a day's notice. SHE SMELLED COFFEE ON HER BREATH.

Liked Christmas Number

Congratulations on your Christmas issue of The California Lumber Merchant. It was indeed a most colorful and interesting issue.

Rudie Henderson, Lone Pine Lumber & SuPply Co., Lone Pine, Calif.

Expedites Movement of West Coast Logs Douglas Fir Price Ruling Made bv OPA

Further plans of the Office of Price Administration to expedite the movement of West Coast logs, vitally needed for the war, were announced today.

Buyers of logs who are directed by the Federal Government to resell their logs to other users needing them in essential war production may add to their established ceiling prices beginning Jan.2, L943, any direct costs incurped by them in such sales, it was announced.

At the same time OPA streamlined the procedure for granting exceptions to log sellers in order to prevent them from losing overtime allowances if their operations are temporarily halted because of conditions, such as weather, beyond their control.

fn order to relieve manufacturers of aircraft and other war materials from shortages in certain species and grades of logs, the War Production Board has directed mills to sort, reassemble and route logs to other users. Under the regulation, the first buyer was unable to recover the various direct costs, such as transportation, cost of repairing the logs for resale, sorting, booming, rafting, scaling and reloading-all of which are unrelated to his original purchase.

Home Conversion

Privately financed conversion of houses to create additional accommodations for war workers will be granted same high priority assistance given publicly financed projects. These projects will get AA-4 rating.

Douglas fir lumber produced as a by-product by Douglas fir plywood plants today was placed by OPA under the ceiling of specific dollars and cents prices contained in the regulation controlling prices of Douglas fir lumber.

The action taken in amendment 10 to MPR 26-Douglas fir and other West Coast lumber-and effective lanuary 7, brings any plywood plant producing Douglas fir lumber under the regulation and makes two other changes, one permitting adjustable pricing and the other specifying the circumstances which must prevail before OPA will permit charges for truck-haul to a railroad to be added to ceiling prices.

The action also makes clear that no charge may be made for trucking from a mill located away from rail facilities to a railhead in figuring delivered prices except in three special cases, listed below:

1. A mill which previously specialized in water-borne shipment and now, because of the shortage of shipping, has had to convert to hand transportation. Such mills frequently have no rail connections at all.

2. A mill normally delivering its lumber by all-truck haul, but because of a desire to save tires and gasoline converts to a rail and truck haul.

3. A mill located on a rail line but whose rail facilities have been abandoned.

With the exceptions of mills described in the three special cases all others will continue the industry practice of regarding the f.o.b. price as being the f.o.b. rail loading point.

AMENDMENT 1 TO MPR 2s3-REDWOOD LUM. BER AND MILLWORK

Redwood lumber mills located outside California counties of Mendocino, Del Norte, Humboldt and Sonoma, may use Eureka, Cal., as a basing point to determine their delivered prices, announces the OPA (MPR 253, Amendment 1), effective December 29.

R. W. Dalton & Co., Los Angeles, has moved its office to 6O9 fnsurance Exchange Building, 318 West Ninth Street.

How Lumber Looks

(Continued from Page 4) cal war needs for lumber items that only the West Coast lumber industry can supply, through commonsense, localized administration of the WPB "freeze" order on Douglas fir lumber. One tough problem after another has been worked out by practical methods, with effective results for the national war effort. The whole picture represents government and business working out'application of war controls on a basis of real facts and actual needs, with results which highlight this cooperative effort as the country's most successful example of war administration.

The Western Pine Association for the week ending January 2, 86 mills reporting, gave orders as 53,025,000 feet, shipments 59,933,000 feet, and production 41,018,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 384,205,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended December 26 reported orders as 77,O22,N0 feet, shipments 91,519,000 feet, and production 73,103,000 feet.

For the week ended January 2 orders were reported as 80,248,000 feet, shipments 83,144,000 feet and production 58,509,000 feet.

Awarded Contract for Wooden Barges

Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, has been awarded a contract for 50 knockdown wooden barges at $11,800 per barge by the Maritime Commission. The vessels are to be 78 feet in length.

The company has purchased four lots of land adjacent to its plant which will be used in the construction of the unassembled barges. H. G. Larrick, manager of its branch yard at Solano Beach, will be in charge of the construction of the vessels. William E. Eckles, who has been with the company for many years, will superintend the production program.

Steamer Port Orford Sunk

The lumber steamer Port Orford, owned by the port Orford Lumber Company, was sunk recently in a snowstorm off Alaska, according to an announcement made in San Francisco, December 31.

_ The ship, carrying a $500,0@ cargo, ran aground in Chatham Strait off Point Gardner, then slipped back into deep water and broke up. No lives were lost. Captain Joseph Bretse of Seattle and his crew of 27 made their way in lifeboats to Petersburg.

In Northwest

Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is on a business trip to Seattle, Wash.

Convalescing

Art Twohy, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, is con_ valescing at his home following an operation at the Monte Sano hospital. He expects to be back on the iob in about two weeks.