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"Uncle'Neas" Calendar

Moore Dry Kiln Company has mailed to the lumber and woodworking manufacturers copies of its 1944 "Uncle 'Neas" calendar. So many of their friends greeted with approval the return of the old Darkey lumberman last year, that they are again presenting another incident in his long career. On the back is the story, "The Prudent Optimist," that explains the picture on the front of the calendar.

If you did not receive a calendar, you can get one by writing the Moore Dry Kiln Company, North Portland, Ore.

Ios Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting Icnucry 18

The Los Angeles IIoo-Hoo Club will hold a meeting at the lJniversity Club, 614 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Tuesday noon, January 18, 1944. Luncheon will be served at 12:19 p. m. There will be a guest speaker.

Killed in Mediterqneqn Arecr

Corp. Milton M. Nelson, If. S. Army, was reported December 28 as having been killed in the Mediterranean area. Before enlisting for service he was as:sociated with his father, Irving Nelson, in the San Ramon Valley Lumber Co., Danville, Calif.

Fred Lcnron Bcrck on Job

Fred Lamon of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk January 3 after an absence of nearly five weeks as the result of an operation.

War Industry Conference Feb. 10-11

The Southern California Retail,Lumber Association will hold a War Industry Conference at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, on February loll, 1944.

The committee is arranging an excellent program and among the subjects to be discussed will be war regulations, selling the present market, market outlook, and postwar planning.

The committee in charge includes H. Park Arnold, FoxWoodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, chairman; Gerald Curran, Curran Bros., Pomona; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; Lathrop K. Leishman, Crown City Lumber & Mill Co., Pasadena; George Lounsberry, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, and E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

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PREFERRED BY PLASTERERS, the rnen who do the work, because the plaster is easy to annlv r--omer--tlv to the continuous, dty, perforated sheet-because UNIFCRM SUCTION (a factory controlled feature) creates a stronger bond. Tests by accrediteC laboratories prove that no other plaster base has nearly the adhesive qualiiles of gypsum lath. PLAN NCW to use Grip Lath in your pcst-i,var home. f've read and heard a lot about the American soldier's idea of what he's fighting for. But I think what an American fyer told Bill Henry, the commentator, is the best answer yet. He said: "![fe had a bunch of fighter pilots from North Africa coming horne. Atl the way across they talked about what they were going to do. One of them said he was going out to the Yankee stadium and hole up there for a week. He was going to get sick eating hot dogs and drinking pop and he was going to cuss the umpire, and holler every time anyone got a hit. That was what he'd been fighting for. That's part of the America he loves now as he never loved his country befo,re. They were afl'pretty much like that." **r*

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He used to dream of things he'd do,. When glown to be a man, Beguiling boyhood years away, With many an idle plan. But now, a husky soldier man, He knows no greater toy, Than dreaming of the things he'd do If he were still a boy.

Three great objectives face the American nation in 1944. First, to win ttre war. Second, to take care of our service men. Third, to restore private enterprise and constitutional government in place of wartime bureaucracy, and see to it that the titanic transfer from war to peacetime pursuits is made by wise, practical, able, and experienced men, and not Ieft to dreamers and their artificial absurdities.

A tip on the end of the war. Watch the pictures of Hitler and Goering. When those two porkers bcgin to show signs of being underfed-the end will be near.

One of the very important events in 1943 i nignt at the end of the year the most precocious, the most talked-about, the most praised and the most condemned youngster of all timeten-year-old New Dealwas abandoned by his father. f fear this little fellow will be like a cat I had once. No matter how far I took him, or where f left him, he usually beat the car home. Little New Deal won't even have to walk back. There will be plenty of interested folks bringing him back, and making sure it's the right house where they leave him. ***

Remember in World War One when the slogan of our boys over there was "Berlin or Bust',? The busting was delayed 25 years. But it's sure going on nolrr. Ask Adolph.

If you wanted to pay high tribute to American industrial genius for its great work during 1943, you could scffcgly do better than quote a statement made right after World War One by the German leader, Field Marshal von Hindenburg. He was strrcaking of what American industry had done to win that war, and he said: "Her (American) brilliant if pitiless war industry had entered the service of patriotism, and had not failed it." That old boy knew. He'd watched it work.

Shakespeare had it dl over other writers like a circus tent over a sardine can, but when it came to prophecy hc wasn't so hot. Witness the fact that in "Antony and Cleopatra" he wrote: "The time of universal peace is near." Perhaps it depends on what he meant by "near."

1943. Popular songs roared in, roared higtr, and roared out again in record time. The turnover was so great thcy wore out faster. Paper doll, a wing and a prayer, too young and too old, pistol packin'mama, and others, swept acrods the country like the fu epidemic. But disappeared faster. But no Long, Long Trail A-winding has comc along to warm the heart and stay through the years. The only recent popular song that bids fair to become a permanent part of the nation's music came in'422 "A White Christmas." ri**

Speaking of song, one of the strangcst things in our history happened in f943. Or shall we call it psychological instead of musical? I mean the case of the slender, hungrylooking, fairly modest young man singer who became such a national sensation that millions try in vain to seek the answer to the puzzle. He rises to sing; and at the first note millions of adolescent young females squeal" screar1 and almost knock themselves out trying to demonstrate detight in its most extravagant form. They sound for dl the world like a string of young porkers on the pig-sticking line in a packing house. There is nothing that the average person can discover to explain the results obtained. I{e isn't much to look at. And he isn't much of a singer. No gorgeous notes. No thrilling vocal productions. He sings the current love songs and gives ttrem a lot of the grunt and groan technique made popular by our heavyweight wrestlers. The country is loaded with better singers who are better looking men. But they get slight attention from those who swoon when this boy moans to music. Why? Figure it out and get first prize for 1943. Has this boy got something that calm minded people do not see or hear; or is it a refection on our youth? Remember, in a short time these unrestrained squealers and swooners will be voting. And then what?

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Lumber vital to Canada's wrr effort is produced bi Great Lakeg Lumber and Shipping Limited at Fort Ifliffiam, Onhrio. Thournds o1jeet of lumber drily are handled by those famous *"mechanizcd unib" Rorr Model 90 Canierc and Rosg Lift Truckr. Thece t'prime movers" save pricelesg time and cut costg in speeding lumber on its wry . . . . lf bottlcneckg in your handling system are hampcring deliveriec our engineers will be glad to suggest r golution. If*te today for Bulletin LM-14.

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There are those who say that if the globaloney planners have their way we will soon be paying taxes to the U. S. Collector of International instead of Internal Revenue. We are now, as a rnatter of fact. we just haven't changed the name. Since the tax money we pay is being scattered free to all the asking world, why be coy?

Minnie the Moron wants to know what they mean by urging us to save paper and help win the war? "They aren't shooting spitballs at them, are they," asks Minnie.

For the past year bureaucrats and bureaucracy have been taking an incessant and violent beating all over this nation, in both the written and spoken word. But the fact that there are more of them'today than there were when the tide started rising against them, and they seem to be more firmly entrenched than ever, evidently proves the old saying that: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." We are never going to get rid of them by jnst cussing them.

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There's a nightmare on the way for taxpayers. I mean another one. At least so says S. F. Porter, Financial Editor of the New York Post, writing in Liberty and Reader's Digest. The Treasury Department, says this authority, has printed the blanks on which fifty million Americans must report their 1943 incomes before March 15th. They are, he sa5rs, "the most brutally complicated and unintelligiible forms ever issued by a government to its citizens." EIe says that even a Treasury tax expert can't figure one out. Yet of the fifty million people who must fill them out, ten million never paid an income tax before, or filled in an income tax blank. Porter predicts a national headache. ***

To give you an idea of how "brutally complicated" this 1943 tax form will be, he gives this example. They wanted to say that "an employer may deduct from his income tax reasonable payments under a pension plan," made to his employees. And here is how the form explains that simple thing: "If contributions are paid by an employer to or under a stock bonus, pension, profit-sharing or annuity plan, or if compensation is paid or accrued on account of any employee under a plan deferring the receipt of such compensation, such contributions or compensation shall not be deductible under subsection (a) but shall be deductible, if deductible under subsection (a) without regard to this subsection, under the subsectio,n but only to the following extent, etc." Maybe that will give you an idea. And besides that, he says that every taxpayer must also fill in another blank for 1944 income, estimating what his income for this year is going to be. Let us join together in prayer ! ***

While all authorities agree that the habit of making New Year's Eve the official Big Drunk of the year is of very recent date, no one seems to know who started it, or just when. That it belongs only to the last two or possibly three generations, is the concensus of opinion. Unfortunately the author of this inspirational and morale-building habit has been lost in the fog of time. New Year's day falls on January first because Julius Caesar arr:urged it that way. But the Gregorian calendar was established in 1582, and it changed Caesar's affangement somewhat, and the January first that wre now observe falls on the January 13th of Caesar's calendar. The civillzed wodd uses tle Gregorian calendar. New Year has long been observed. The ancient Eglptians, Persians, and Phoenicians began their new year with the autumn equinox on September 2lst. Until the 5th century B. C. the Greeks started their year at the winter solstice, December 21st. Before Caesar the Romans did likwise. In early medieval times most Christians in Europe considered March 25th to be New Year's day. fn Anglo Saxon England the year started on December 25th. Then William the Conqueror changed it to January first. But it was not until the 18th century that the entire civilized world started fixing January first as New Year's day. These things are historical'. But who first made it the Great Carousal, and when? That's the question.

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During the holidays a long and heavily croulrled train was entertained in a most unusual way. Two buck privates did the entertaining. They were somewhat under the influence, but were nevertheless sharp as tacks, and everything they did and said was entirely respectful to their audiences. From car to car they went, and. called the folks to order in each car. Naturally they got attentive audiences. And they then took turns discussing the subject of John L. Lewis. They were, it appears, heartily opposed to Mr. Lewis. They made that very plain. They called for opinions from their audiences. They put on very neat little programs in every car. And, for fear folks might forget, they visited each car in that manner several times. F'inally the MP's convinced them that they had done enough public speaking for the day. But not before they had had their say to everyone on the train from the engineer to tfie rear brakeman.

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May I take this early year opportunity to state that one of my pet 1rceves is polls? Polls of public opinion, and stuff like that. I just don't believe in them. It is my opinion that a blindfolded moron at the bottom of a deep well could come just as near discovering public opinion on any subject, as one of these so-called polls. If I needed anything to rock-rib my opinion of the value of polls (I needed nothing, as a matter of fact), when I read that the people of the Southern states were in favor of abolishing the poll tax, I got it. You can easily guess how and where such opinion must have been gathered. f have never been interviewed for a public opinion poll. I know a lot of people around the country, and so far as I can discover from careful inquiry, none of them was ever asked, either. So none of these polls take in anybody that I lnow. Just who do they cover? With a serious election year coming on, f regret the naischief these things may do.

1943 will long be remembered as the year in which lumber, for generations a somewhat low-rated material, came to be universally acclaimed the most indispensable and irreplaceable of all vital war materials. Shall we therefore be blamed-we, who through two generations have contin-

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And there was driven home to us in even more forceful fashion during the past year the peerless leadership of framing items in the world of lumber. Ingenious producers of building and boxing and crating materials have succeeded in producing and manufacturing substitutes for most standard lumber items. But not dimension. Not framing. Th'e mind that can think up a substitute for two inch thick framing lumber has apparently not yet appeared on the scene. f wrote in this column more than a year ago: "Lumber is the only vital war material for which no successful substitute has yet been discovered." And now I can add without fear of successful contradiction: "And dimension is the most irreplaceable of all lumber items."

Somewhere else in this issue will be found the text of an article by the president of Celotex, Bror Dahlberg, that deserves the reading of every lumberman. He says that one of ttre things that is going to save this nation when the war ends is tremendous production of all worthwhile things, particularly homes. He says that satisfactory homes that come within the buying range of the average man must be produced by the home building industry, and that it will do much to save the country and help it back along the road to postwar normalcy, thus helping furnish a tremendous amount of needed emploSrment, and also an unheardof number of postwar homes. I'm for those sentiments, strong'

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An Australian newspaper, writing praises of our boys in the Marines who were stationed in that land and in many cases billeted in their homes, refers to them as "homely." But it uses the word in its finest meaning, and not to criticize the looks of our boys. But even though they had meant it otherwise, men of unbeautiful features will take pardonable pride in recalling the historic fact that the greatest men in American history have often been plainest of the plain. Lincoln was one of the homeliest men in history. Washington (don't let those pictures on the schoolroom walls fool you) was a rugged, plain featured man. Jefferson was a very homely cuy. So was Dr. Franklin. And Patrick Henry. And Henry Clay. The list can go on and on. The handsomest great man in American history was Robert E. Lee. Yet his was that manly and impressive type well exemplified today by General Douglas MacArthur. Lec had and MacArthur has that type of manly looks that they refer to in thoroughbred horses as-"the look of the eagle." I don't wonder they "hobbled" Mac. I wouldn't want that kind of competition, .trh"f.

Every time I see a picture of MacArthur I am reminded of Ingersoll's incomparable phrase: "Like an armed warrior -like a plum'ed knight." That's the way MacArthur looks. He has been called "the most decorated American soldier." He is likewise the most DECORATM American soldier. What a leader! I get a touch of goose pimples every time I see that eagle countenance. Mind you, I am not unmindful of the other great leaders in our armed forces. I yield to no American in my admiration for that magnificent soldier, that simple, modest gentleman, General George Marshall. I love Ike Isenhower. f am thoroughly convinced that never before in this world's history has the God of Hosts called to leadership in a great cause and to fill a great need, so grand and capable a group of men as dozens who head our Arnerican army and navy today. Crod bless and guide them, every one. But oh! That MacArthurl

Bob Grant Now With Wholesale Lumber Distributors

Robert M. Grant, for the past five years with Smith Lumber Co., Oakland, recently resigned his position to become associated with Wholesale Lumber Distributors, Inc., 9th Avenue Pier, Oakland, as salesman.

Club No. 39 Meets lqin 24

The next meeting of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will be held at the Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, Janaary 24.

John Standish, district traffic manager, United Air Lines, San Francisco, will give a talk entitled "Present and Future of Air Transportation." A 3Gminute motion picture will be shown which will include battle scenes and action in the South Pacific.