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At a recent meeting in Washington, D. C., representatives'of the lumber and building industries petiti,oned for 'more lumber for the building of housing. Whereupon Phil Boyd, head of the lumber division of WPB, spoke up in this fashion: "The question is just this, gentlemen, do you want to win the war, or do you want to build these houses?"

Needless to say, that settled the matter.

Then Mr. Boyd related some convencing facts and figures to give his hearers something of an idea of where all the Government-purchased lumber is going. Jus! as a single instance: when the Allies invaded Naples, which the Germans had destroyed just as thoroughly as possible, particularly the port facilities, it took more than FIFTY MILLION FEET OF LUMBER to reconstruct the- docks and port so that we might land our Inen and supplies. Fifty million feet at just one point. In all our fighting theatres, it is much the same. When the enemy retreats he destroys everything, particularly bridges, docks, and transportation facilities. We musf rebuild, and rebuilding takes lumber.