THE LIGHTS are on agaln

Once the destructive lorces ol modern warlqre threctened to extinguish rhe light oI world progress. Blessedly todcy, even in nations since lreed lrom slcrvery but lelt in ruins, the lights qre on cgcrin. Wars must end . . progress, never.

Only once did the lights go out crt the Pope & Tcrlbot Port Gcrmble Mill on Puget Sound . . . crnd then specificcrlly to mcke wcry lor progness. For 70 yecrrs, begiruring in 1855, the scrwdust pile burned continuously but in 1925 it wcrs put out to mcke room lor modern methods. When the Pope d Tcrlbot lights went on crgcrin c new mill powered by electricity wcs born. With this event w<rs incrugurcted the cbility to produce c lcrr grecrter volume oI lumber thcm ever before ccrgoes thct were bound lor the Seven Secs.

Todcry qlmost the entire vcst output ol Pope & Tcrlbot, Inc. is ecrrmcrked for wcrr. Tomorrow when peace comes Pope & Talbot lumber will crgcin be ct your disposcl, recrdy to mcrke your postwcr building plcns cr reclity.

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Age not guarantecd---5ome I have told lor 20 years---Some Less

And There \(/ere Eisht of Them

When Lord Algy joined the army a few years back, he was so pronounced a snob that most of his acquaintances despised him heartily, and even his best friends deplored the manner in which he went on his way through life, spurning most of those he came in contact with as he would the dust under his well-shod feet.

And so one of his friends who was really fond of Algy and knew that he must change his attitude in the army or get himself into a peck of trouble, took the matter in hand and, getting Lord Algy in a corner, read him a firm but friendly lecture on the utter necessity for shedding his snobbishness before the army took the job of doing it for

Scn Frcrncisco Visitor

Leroy Pitcher, Associated Lumber Company, Los Angeles, spent the Christmas holiday season in the San Francisco Bay. area.

him. The advice apparently filled Lord Algy with astonishment. Why, you'd have thought he was the simplest of men. He replied:

"Why, old fellow, you astonish me. Really you do, you know! Me, a snob! Why, the idea! Nothing could be farther from the truth ! As a matter of fact, I consider myself very, very Democratic ! I do, indeed ! Why, think of this, old fellow ! Only last year, when I rowed in the crew at Oxford, there were eight in the crew, you know, and would you believe it, I knew every one of the crew personally ! I did, really ! That is, all but the two at the far end of the boat !"

Will Reopen Yard

John Krause who formerly operated the Krause Lumber Co. at Lodi, Calif., has announced that he will reopen the yard soon.

Sally O'Kane Enters Contest

Sally O'Kane, telephone operator at the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland, is a candidate in the Oakland "Queen of Purple llearts" blood donor contest. Miss O'Kane is 18 and is already a three-time blood donor. She represents the lumber and millwork industries.

The contest is sponsored by the Oakland Post-Enquirer, in cooperation with the Moore Dry Dock Co., and the Red Cross Blood Donor Center. The contest started January 1, and will close at midnight, February 14. Voters for the various candidates must actually donate blood before being qualified to vote.

The winning candidate will sponsor a C'2 cargo vessel to be launched at Moore Dry Dock Co. shipyards on Febrttary 22.

The telephone number of the Oakland Blood Donor Center, 521 Dth Street, Oakland, is TEmplebar 5924.

\fFA tVill Assign Prelerence Ratings To Farmers for Lumber

Washington, D. C., Dec. 29-Farmers who need lurnber for emergency maintenance and repair of farm dwellings may now apply to the War Food Administration for preference ratings instead of to War Production Board local field offices, WPB announced today.

The change in procedure is effected by an amendment

Union Lumber Co. \(/ins Army-N.vy "E"

San Francisco, Calif., January 9.-Announcement was made here today by Otis R. Johnson, president of Union Lumber Company, of the following message received by the company from James S. Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy.

"This is to inform you and all employees of the Fort Bragg Plant of the Union Lumber Company that the Army and Navy are conferring upon your plant the ArmyNavy "E" Award for outstanding achievement in the production of war materials.

"Your efiort, as shown by your remarkable production record, has helped our country along the road to victory. May I extend to yotl men and women of the Fort Bragg Plant of the Union Lumber Company my congratulations for accomplishing what more than once seemed reasonable or possible.

"In conferring this award, the Army and Navy will give you a flag to fly above your plant, and will present to every individual rvithin it a lapel pin symbolic of leadership on the production front."

The date for the Award Ceremony has lteen set {or Ftlbruary 4 at Fort Bragg.

to Directive 26, issued today. Under delegation of authority already provided by Directive 26, WFA assigns preference ratings to farmers for lumber for all other permitted uses.