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SUPER-Harborite is the trade name oI a phenol product composed oI a lir plywood core and phenol type resin-impregnated libre laces. The composite panel is weatherprool and boilprool. The libre surlacing is hard and smooth. The brown color is pleasing, and there is no appearance oI wood grain. The high strength-weight ratio oI SUPER-Harborite is an important value, as is its workability. Panels may be worked with hand or power tools and may be Iastened with nails, screws, bolts or glue. For decorative or other Iinishes the surlace has an allinity lor a wide variety oI paints, varnishes, lacquers, and other coat- .; ings. For practical design purposes the same strength values may be used as lor Douglas lir plywood ol like thickness and construction. Construction details as used with plywood are likewise practical in the use oI SUPER-Harborite.

Standard Iibre facing is 65/65. Panels with additional libre lacing may be ordered special. For example, I30/130: an increase ol 65 pounds of surfacing per M ieet to each lace.

In the manulacture oI SUPER-Harborite, normal plywood manulacturing pressures are used lor bonding,' hence there is no appreciable compression ol the component veneers, thus avoiding the hazard oI a tendency oI thickness regain lrom weathering or moisture conditions.

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(Continued from Page 8) readers of today, than others: "He who fights and runs away, will live to fight another day; but he who is in battle slain, can never rise to fight again." Another was: "That army is the bravest that can be whipped the greatest number of times, and fight again." And this one: "The greatest test of courage on earth is to fear defeat without losing heart." And this powerful line described a warrior of old: "fle steered his exact course to the.point of danger." And it was Lord Nelson who said: "When I don't know whether to fight or not, I always Tnl" *

Which takes me back to one of my favorite war stories. It is an infantry charge, with fixed bayonets. A powerful brute of a tnan looks sidewise with something of contempt at the white face of the soldier at his side, and says to him of the pale face: "I believe you're scared." And the pale man said: "Scared? If you were half as scared as f am, you'd have run half an hour ago !"

Carlyle once .r rrote: "This London City, with all its houses, palaces, steam engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic and tumult, what is it but a Thoughtbut millions of Thoughts made into One? Not a brick was made but some man had to THINK the making of that brick." f pondered that interesting philosophy the other night as I sat in a movie theater and watched a remarkable film issued officially by the British Government, showing the horrors wrought upon that brave City of London by the robot bombs. Following that same line of thinking, those bombs, that awful destruction of life and property, were likewise the result of thought. But this thought was EVIL, as opposed to the millions of good thoughts that created the City of London. The human mouthpiece of the evil thoughts that created the robot bombs and sent them on their blind and murderous way, announced to the world that these EVIL things would utterly destroy the City of London; that city that was built, according to Carlyle, from good Thoughts. London suffered; London reeled under the eighty-day nightmare of bombs; but London LIVES. It looks as though GOOD Thoughts triumphed over EVIL Thoughts. And thus. let us believe, it must always be. rl. t ,t

The "lame duck" Congress recently voted overwhelm_ ingly to continue the freeze of the Social Security rate on the same one cent basis it has been on from the beginning. This, in spite of caustic words from the President and his leaders in the House and Senate about the needs of the Social Security "fund." When the history of these strange times is written, it will say that this Social Security "fund" business was the strangest piece of financial bookkeeping on record. The men who made the remarks knew, just as everyone knows and nobody denies, that there is no such thing as a Social Security "fund." There never has been since the thing started. There never will be, unless the law and its mechanization is completely changed. There isn't a thin dime in the Social Security bank, and wouldn't be if they doubled or tripled the rate. All there is in that "fund" is a lot of IOU's from the United States Treasury, showing that the Government took the money out as fast as it was collected, and put interest-drawing securities in place of the cash. That's the way the law reads.

The books show that lnJ ,1"*, Security bureau has about six billion dollars on hand. The cash book shows it has no cash. If that six billion dollars were suddenly needed, where would the beneficiaries get their money? From the United States Treasury, which would be called upon to reclaim its notes. And where would the Treasury get the money to make such redemption? From the taxpayers, of course, the only source of income the Government has. Yes, dear friend, the same guys who were taxed to make up the Social Security pot, will have to be taxed again whenever the money is needed. And in the meantime, the IOU's that the Government gave the Social Security pot in lieu of its cash, pays interest on those notes WITH MORE MONEY DERIVED FROM MORE TAXES. But the payment of the interest is likewise just an entry on the books.

The Social Security "i.rrrl" l.*ina" me of the goofy rhyme that was once so popular, that ran: Yesterday upon the stair, f saw a man who wasn't there: He wasn't there again todayWhy in hell don't he go way? {<*:k

The public learned recently with a whole lot of surprise about another "Little man who wasn't there:', the Atlantic

The New Year was ushered in amid discourcrging news from the Western lront. How well the -bai Jr-gursls accepted can be mecsured in terms otr your Wcr Bond_ purchcses, cnd willingmess to pro;ide more to qdvqnce V-E Dcry.

Charter. Following some debate in the British Parliament the statement was published-for the first time, I believethat there really is no actual document; that there are no actual signatures. The so-called Charter was pieced together on the Atlantic that time when Churchill and Roosevelt met on shipboard, and was handed to the press. But there was nothing formal about it, and no actual document was prepared and signed. And when Churchill announced that he did not accept his present job in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire, he sunk the Charter in the Atlantic. And later when he agreed to the dismemberment of Poland, and other small matters about Greece and Italy, he tied a heavier weight on the Charter. For the entire basis of the Atlantic Charter was that all peoples should be free to choose their own government, and their own leaders. A splendid ideal! But how many students of history entertained the slightest thought that such a thing could ever be?

I made a prediction .*: ,:"r: ago that r sure regret to see come true; even though it looked so like a cinch at the time. Discussing the enslaved nations that had fallen under the Nazi yoke, I said: "We'll have to free them, feed them, and fight them." Greece is only a sample.

The other day I sat with all my senses on fire, listening to a speech by a badly wounded officer just back from the hell of Europe. ffe was telling the story of the fighting over there. ffe was drawing the best, the most thrilling picture I have heard of the things being done by our glori- ous American boys. Inspired by his wonderful subject, this soldier, Col. Clarence Cochran, was one of the most eloquent men I ever heard talk. He followed the advice of the great orator Pericles; he used no unnecessary word, and he misused no word. But he fairly set his audience on fire with his priceless eulogy of our fighting men. "The best trained, best equipped, best fed, and best led army in the world," as he put it. Before he was half through I was thoroughly convinced that thousands of incidents of heroism have taken place already in this war that make the memories of the great battles of the past sink into insignificance in contrast. Thermopylae? Shucks! We've had them by the score in this war. And Valley Forge, and Gettysburg, and the Alamo, and Waterloo, and Bull Run, and all the others; over and over again. What a war ! What an army! What an orator!

Douglcrs Fir Plywood, CS45-45

Under date of July 31, 1944, a Recommended Revision of Douglas Fir Plywood,. Commercial Standard CS45-42, was circulated for written acceptan'ce in accordance with the action of the Standing Committee. The Recommended Revision was later modified by TS-3830 as approved by the Standing Committee, and those concerned were notified.

Since that time, signed acceptances were.received from a number of manufacturers, distributors, and users estimated to represent a satisfactory majority.

The Commercial Standard, which is identified as CS45-45, may be considered efiective for new production from Januarv 27.1945.