POPE & TALBOT, lNC. LUMBER DIVISION

DEPENDABLE RAIL SHIPPERS of Qr"lity

Lumber, Shingles, Piling and Ties

461 Market Street, San Frqncisco DOuglcs 2561 tOS ANGEI.ES

714 W. Olympic Blvd.

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Tyhen Peace Comes

Possibly sooner than we dare will ftnd us teady to do our share the great pent-up demand for

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exPect, you in supplying

"Everylhing in Hardwoods"

Our remanufacturing facilities have baen increased and improved, and our whole organization is now gearcd up to a high point ot elficlency.

Here lies till Gabriel's trumpet blows, The bones of a Nazi flyer; High, high he flewIn the azure blueBut a Yank flew a damsite higher.

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The heart of America has gone out to the mother of those five boys who died in a single sea battle in the Pacific. Numerous writers have endeavored to pay tribute to her Spartan courage, her uncomplaining acceptance of that immeasurable tragedy. But most vi'riters wisely resorted to quoting the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, when he wrote a Civil War mother who had likewise lost five sons in battle; accepted as the most beautiful sentiments ever expressed on such a subject: *** rGf*

"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine, which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."

Truly it may be said in these sad war times, that the greatest heroes are not those who bravely meet the foe, but rather those dear ones who are left behind, like the Iowa mother of five lost sons. If it is true that it is "the noble brow that makes the wreath of glory green," then a wreath of eternal glory goes to this great woman who simply said "that is the way they would have wanted it." They sailed on the same ship, and died in the same battle.

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This war is little more than a year old, yet no one can deny that innumerable deeds of glory, matching anything in our past glorious history, have already been written upon the records, challenging thc reverent admiration of all Americans; of all mankind. As was said long ago about another American soldier, let us say of these present-day hcroes who have written their rights to glory in thc skiee: 'Lot us crown their tombE with the oak, thc cmblem of their strength; and with the laurel, the emblem of their glory."

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The poet Macaulay wrote, and his words will live always: "Oh how can man die better, Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods?"

:F** rm afraid my theory J"": ,J,r", your enemy is something like that of the fierce old Spaniard who lay dying, and called in the Padre to give him the rites of the dying. The Padre said to him: "Before f can give you absolution, you must forgive your enemies." The old Spaniard said: "I haven't got an enemy in the world." The Padre, who knew the fierce character of the old brigand, was surprised. "What," he demanded, "you have no enemies?" t'Not a oner" said the old Spaniard. "I killed the last one yesterday." Something tells me that we'll start loving these enemies of God and man at about that same time, and in about that same fashion. I'd rather love my friends, because:

By the way, you haven't heard any sermons on the text, "Love thy enemy" lately, have you? It would certainly take a preacher quick on his feet to try and figure out a reason why we should love the gangsters who seek to wipe us from this earth. I'm inclined to agree wirh Ed Howe when he said we should quit worrying about loving our enemies, and start paying a little more attention to our friends.

"A friend is like an old song, grown sweeter with the years,

A friend is one who shares our joys, and wipes away our tears;

A friend will look for goodngss in everything we do,

A friend is one who knows our faults yet finds our virtues, too;

A friend will share a crust of bread or help to lift a load, rF** rsn't that a tremendo:" :; picture of a bunch of fighting men? They had learned the art of war in the only school in which war is actually taught-battles and still more battles. I thought of that description the other day when I read an article by Ed Angly, famous war correspondent just back from Australia, in which he said in part: "ft's just as true of the German today as it was when Mirabeau said over a hundred years ago that the national industry of Prussia is war. You learn to make cheese by making cheese; you learn to be a reporter by learning nouns and verbs, and using them; so an army learns to fight, by fighting, and most of OUR people are greenhorns at this ghastly business."

Happy are we who find a few good friends along the.road." (Anon.)

One of the finest traits of man is to,show afrection for his friends. Life is so brief at best that we should ration our time and plan to increase the moments of happiness we spend with those whose company we love. And anotrher thing; don't wait until you need friends, to start cultivating them. That is one crop in which preparation is vital.

Speaking of war, and of fighting men: Robert Quillen writes a syndicated column that I enjoy very much. Sometimes he puts a great '!kick" into his stuff. In one of his editorials he described the Confederatc Army that marched with Lee into Pennsylvania during the Civil War. The description belongs in every war scrapbook. Quillen says: "He (Lee) was followed by at army of veterans that was undoubtedly the worst-looking military force in history. Few of them wore regular uniforms; many were hatless and barefoot; many, because of the July heat, marched in their long, dirty under-drawers; they were unshorn, and those who were old enough were bewhiskered; all were gaunt to the point of emaciation, and all were lousy; they seemed slouchy, dust-covered, ragged tramps. But, oh, their guns were clean. They had been whittled on a hard rock till they had a razor edge of fitness. What little tneat covered their bones, was rawhide. They could march all day and fight all night. They could live on parched corn. They could find cover like the wolves.

They marched light and fast with the tireless gait of wolves, and like welves they were impervious to heat, and cold, and rain, and mud. The world has never seen fighting men better qualified for the job. Those lean and hungry veterans, stripped of all fat and softness and every unessential, could teach us the things we nee{ to know."

I thought that was illuminating. At the start of this war, we urere green at the business of scientifically and remorselessly blasting the lives out of human beings, while

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(Continued from Page 7 ) our adversaries were veterans, old and schooled in the business of war, of destruction, of killing. Step by step our Americans in every branch of this "ghastly business" as Angly calls it, are becoming veterans, also, becoming the sort of soldiers that Quillen describes in his article I have just quoted; and from all we can learn from the fighting in the Pacific islands, they have had to become just as bearded, and agile, and tough as was Lee's army in Pennsylvania. There are no other fighting men in the world like Americans when they get well broken in and their dander up. And they are approaching that stage now in all departments. And God help the Nazi or Jap who has to contend with that sort of men on equal terms. Theyhaven'taprayer. * * !8

David Starr Jordan wrote: "Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain Americans in spirit and in thought." ***

Somerset Maugham wrote: "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it wiU lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort and money that it values more, it wiil lose that, too. And when a nation has to fight for its freedom, it can only hope to win if it possesses certain qualifications: honesty, courage, vision, loyalty, and sacrifice."

Miss M. L. Haskins, British war nurse as well as poet and novelist, wrote a little prose poem called "God Knows," in which she says: "And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown!' And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness and put thine hand into the hand of God. That shall be to thee better than any light, and safer than a known way."'

There are various "rr*r"l tJo**-tri"t to view all matters, particularly food prices. A man says he read where fresh berries were selling for 7 shillings (about $1.40) a pound in London, and was inclined to shudder at such a price, until someone reminded him that those same berries would bring at least twice that much in a New York night club. **!r

And then there was the Australian who tried to get in the army, and was turned down because they said he had bad feet. He was most despondent at the verdict, and begged for a reconsideration. "It's no use," the doctor told him. Those feet of yours would never stand the army routine. But why are you so anxious to get in?" "Because," said the rookie from the back lands, "I walked a hundred and ninety miles to get here, and I sure do hate to walk back."

And last, but not lea"t, th"*"tJry i" going flying around, about the colored brother making big wages in a war plant, who absolutely refused to buy a war bond, and when pressed for his reason said that he didn't consider it a good investment because anyone foolish enough to pay him sixty dollars a week, was bound to go broke.

Red River Has Large Output in 1942

The largest output by sawmill and dry kilns in its quarter century of production at Westwood, California is reported by The Red River Lumber Company for the year 1942.

Sawmill cut 212,414,759 feet. The kilns died 221,255,755 feet. The excess of kiln output over sawmill cut is due to the fact that Incense Cedar squares for Venetian blind slats are returned to the kilns for reconditioning. Some lumber from Red River's mill at Susanville. California was also kiln-dried at Westwood.

Shipments included 5,980 cars lumber; one car ties; 120 cars moulding and siding; 88 cars shook and cut-stock; 159 cars Venetian blind slats; 523 cars plywood; 46 cars veneer cores and wood; 3 cars flitches and one car logs for a total ol 6.92I carc.

Visit Redwood Mill

A. L. (Gus) Hoover, Southern California representative, and Al Nolan, Western sales manager, of The Pacific Lumber Company, recently spent a few days at the company's mill at Scotia, Calif.

Effect oj 3% Freight Tax on Lumber Ceilings Ragulations on Buildingr for War

Henry H. Reuss, assistant general counsel, Office of Price Administration, has issued the following letter:

"This should be considered as a supplement to our previous letter explaining the effect of the 3 per cent tax on freight bills on the ceiling prices for lumber.

"The earlier letter was intended, among other things, to state generally the effect of the tax on the quotation of delivered prices and the proper manner of invoicing in those cases where the seller is allowed to pass along the tax to the purchaser. This letter expands on these matters.

"Where a seller who quotes a delivered price is permitted to pass along the increase in transportation charges (that is, the tax), the seller can legally do the following: He can charge the maximum price which would have applied if there were no freight tax and have the buyer pay and deduct (in remitting to the scller) the freight. This means that the buyer has to pay the tax when he pays freight to the carrier, but he does not deduct the tax in remitting to the seller.

"If this method of passing on the tax is used, the seller need not mention the tax on the invoice."

Don White In Navy

Don F. White of White Brothers, wholesale hardwood dealers, San Francisco, has been commissioned a Lieutenant, Junior Grade, in the U. S. Navy. He left San Francisco January 13 to report for duty.

Employees Relaxed

Relaxation of restrictions on design and use of materials in war-worker housing was announced on Janaary 23 in Washington by the War Production Board and the National Housing Agency.

The changes included:

An increase of 10 to 15 per cent in permitted floor area.

Removal of the ban on use of softwood lumber for finish and subflooring.

Expansion of areas in which wood frame construction may be used.

Association Opens Los Angeles Office

The Southern California Retail Lumber Association has opened offices in rooms 1018-19 Board of Trade Building, 111 West 7th Street, Los Angeles. The telephone number is TUcker 6108. Secretary-Manager Orrie W. Hamilton will spend a portion of his time during the latter part of each week at the Los Angeles ofifice.

The Association's workshop where its bulletins are produced will remain in San Diego at its present address.

Transfers Membership

Lou Adolphson, new manager of the Barr Lumber Company at Whittier, Calif., has transferred his membership from the Norwalk Kiwanis Club to the Whittier Kiwanis Club. He was rvelcomed into the Whittier Club last month.