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In this, as in innumerable'other directions, only *ood canili do a satisfactory rebuilding.and replacement job. ft all callb,il for the immediate availability of huge quantities of lumbqrui. wherever our armies go. o,\

We know that there are great concentqations of lumbei.f;i set up by our armed services in:various parts of the world.J, No doubt they are stupendous irl England, and wherev#:i else any great jumping off operations are preparing. W,e know that there are huge ltimber stockpiles in niany parfs''.i of this country, where inventories rtrn into staggering:,i amounts. All of it is needed. As our men fight abroad martll facilities must- be constructed behind them; facilities tciO:{ nurnerous to mention. Practically all must be done wi wood. We hear of great .warehouses and storehousqs, many parts of the world, all built with lumber. Add t terrific lumber needs to the volume used every hour. f& crating, boxing, and other shipping facilities, and you beg!1,i to get the picture of a lumber demand that dwarfs anythii else in history.

Photographs oj California Pine Lumber Malces Extengive Plant lmprovements

Operations Shown at A* Exhibit L. H. Eubank & Son, Inglewood, now engaged 100 pqr.; cent in war work, has installed some heavy planing mill,r machinery and erected a building to house .it. Includedi in the new equipment is a lZ-inch Mattison full electri!",i moulder, No. 726, with capacity up to ll5 feet a minuti-*i This machine will mould lumber up to 12 inches wide andi 6 inches thick. It is used at present for surfacing 4-sidi. stock for boxes being manufactured for the Governmenij:

Photographs on lumbering and logging in the Pine forests of California by Berenice Abbott will be on exhibition at the M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, from February 22 to March 21, 1944.

Miss Abbott, one of America's ace photographers, was engaged by The Red River Lumber Company last summer and came from. her New York studio to W'estwood, Calif., to make these photographs. The San Francisco exhibit is one of several already scheduled for leading art museums throughout the country. These exhibitions are on the plane of art events, and the company's first interest in undertaking this job was public relations for the benefit of the industry. The pictures are really worth while art, and give the public a new idea on the industry and its workers.

Lumbermen should avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing these prints. A booklet describing the photographs is distributed at the exhibit.

Recently installed is a grinding equipment for machines.

54-inch McDonough resaw, alst-,:l grinding knives of the variou!

Purchased recently but not yet delivered is a Greenlbr* electric double surfacer, which will plane a board up to,i 30 inches wide. , -\

Another installation is'a dipping vat for dipping material+l for export boxes. t;ra

The Eubank plant now has a frontage of. 86 feet on: j West Redondo Boulevard, and floor space of over Z4,}NIti square feet.

The bodies of men die swiftly, But the deeds of the brave, live long, Their glory.shall ring forever, In epitaph, story, and song. So, wherever the grave lie sleeping, No matter how far the sod, Each grave is a temple of courage, Which shelters a son of God.

"Faith," says Sherwood Eddy, ',is not trytng to believe something, regardless o,f the evidence; faith is daring to do something, rbgardless of the consequences.', Faith is what every American soldier nT. * ,k

Marcus Aurelius, famous and just Emperor of Rome in the palmiest days of that "Eternal City,,' once said: ..f ivould rather. keep a'single Roman citizen alive, than slay a thousand enemies." Things have changed in the Rome district, since Marcus Aurelius' time. ***

' And Cicero, another famous Roman of other times, said: "They who say we should love our fellow citizens and not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, and without it benevolence and justice would perish forever." Too bad he couldn't have had Mussolini's job the past five years. How difrerent things would be in Rome todaY'

No doubt the star-spangled prize for excuse-making during this war goes to that supreme logic-twister, Herr paul Joseph Gbebbels, who explained the retreat of the German forces before the Russians in this fashion: ..Our disengagements originate from audacious and rational reflections." See how simple that is? So if anyone asks you to explain what's happening to the Eastern German war front, just quote Goebbels. t!"1.l*n:to clear it all up nicety.

Strange that it never.occurs to Hitler, bellowing to his people about the "revenge bombing" of Berlin, to turn to a certain book named "Mein Kampf" that he should be .thoroughly familiar witfu and read these words: .!It will be my duty to fight the next war in such a terrible manner that my enemies cannot endure it." That ought to explain the situation to the author of the book. First, he followed his own advice. That was swell. You could hear him screaming his triumph over the air waveS. Now the tide has turned, and what was German justice becomes ..revenge bombing." And of course, "he ain't seerr nothin' yet.r' *** ft is surprisirrg what a small gnat will gag some people who have just gulped down a large and mang]r camel. l Bible said that. And,'as usual, it was right. ,.t :t+*

Reading. about George Washington on, his birthday centln I was reminded of the fact that his father, who ni married twice, had four children by his first marriage, ag six by the second wife. And George was the first born ! the second family. The great Daniel Webster was t! second child of his father'i sccond marriage. While Benji min Franklin was the 15th 6hild born in a family o[ History teaches that you,never.can tell when o|wh'd genius will appear, the other 16 brothers and sisters i Franklin all being ordinary mortals, while he, the 1.S child of his good mother, had in large quantity that intai gible tiing called *".t*, ** *

If you are studying the matter of car shortage, remem! that in the year 1900 there wer€ only 8,0(X) automobiles,r America. And if your women are concerned about the of silk stockings, tell them that in ttrat same year of 1$ only 12p00.pairs of silk stocHngs weie sold in the entit United States. And, since undoubtedly sofire of the sffi stocking buyers purchased more than one pair, it cuts dd number of women ldlro owned and wore silk stockings th year to a very low figure. !F** ,1 fi fi

Theodore Roosevelt was an American wlio at the shrine of work. as the only fountain-head of Ami can prosperity, or American fibre-building. He once 'I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and efforg labor antl strife; to preach that highest form of success comes, not to the man who desires more easy peace, bril to the man who does not shrink from dangeq, from.hai, ship, or from bitter toil, and who, out of those,. wins ultimate triumph." You don't have to guess what would have thought about a proposal to hand-feed, hand raise, and coddle men and women from cradle to protecti4g thern from all those fundamental things from the beginning of time, have built quality fiber iirtri the bodies and souls of men.

Heard a man take an hour explaini4g free and privadr enterprise the other dan He could have done it tnore thof: oughly and understandably in a minute. It simply rnean the MERIT SYSTEM. That's the system that built country, and all the greatness ttrat it has produced. Tli merit system simply means that the individual or busin* that does a better job than the other, will profit ingly. It puts a prernium on better working, better and greater efficiency. It furnishes every American

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(Continued from Page 8) opportunity to carve a place for himself in the world and iri history in direct keeping with his ability. That's free enterprise. fn tirnes of great national stress and emergency, the obligation to do independent thinking and courageous speaking rests-not on the shoulders of the masses-b,ut of the individual. Remember that as you face these present-day problems. Never forget that the Ten Commandments arb each in the singular number and addressed to the INDtrVIDUALS of the human race, and NOT to mankind in the aggregate. And, as this nation is made up of individuals-not groups-the iletermination as to whether this nation shall live or die-this government remain the government of the Fathers or change to some nsqT is111-6ssf depend on our INDMDUAL thinking and acting. Ilot on mass movemenf,. When 'great national decisions are made, they must be YOUR decisions; the decisions of ,individual Americans. The fate of this nation depends on the individual thinking-and 3cting--of every man and woman. So, don't pass the buck when vital matters are at stake. Letting the other fellow do it, is the height of disloyalty. Keeping mum when you see things being done that shock your American soul-is likewise disloyalty. While our boys over there fight and die for a cause dearer to them than the ruddy drops that visit their loyal hearts, it is the sacred duty of every man and woman i,rrho remains at home to see that our Constitutional and American way of lifd-the finest way of life mankind has ybt discoveredremains intact. And the'American way of tife simply means the right of every citizen to think, to speak, to worship, to work as his conscience tells him to, without dictation or interference frorn anyone. In the heat of **i-"rryil,ioi Constitutional rights and privileges have been cut !i.. sharply. The right to work has been almost lost. It is job to see that all those rights are restored, unimpaired, -'! .:irlt

Only men who drool when they talk believe that the government can of itself create wealth, or create prosperity by taking from one man and giving to another. Working, earning, producing, and saving are the only l<nown ways of bettering the financial and economic condition of an individual or a nation. Taking from the thrifty and giving to the shiftless is socialism; but socialism of the more stupid sort. The postwar period that all thinking people look forward to is one in which the old fundamentals of work, sweat, thrift, economy, the honest payment of debts, honest money, honest bookkeeping-things our fathers esteemed more precious than gold, will returh again.

The choice is not a hard one. Not as hard as the choico;i the heroes with Col. Travis in the Alamo had to when Travis drew a line across the foor and said for those willing to die for their rights to step across the linei with him. They all stepped across. ***

Not even as hard as the 'choice Catvin Cootidge mentioned. When he was Prqsident he was sitting with group of legislators, and they got, to talking about the very,:1 forceful and blunt type of oratory used by Senator Jirt*i Watson, of Indiana. One of those present said he had Watson talking to a group of his constituents, and him say: "Norry I've given you the facts, and you can vote for me or go to hell." Coolidge tholrght the matter for a few mombnts, and remarked dryly: "That was a cult alternative."

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Which reminds me of a Lincoln story I read the day, that was new to me. Lincoln always condemned fanity. One of his favorite stories was about a certain Fisk, of Missouri, who raised a regiment to fight in Civil War, and made every voluntder agree that he worgdii leave all the cussing and swearing in the regiment'to thc,]i Colonel. A teamster named John Ford lost his patienc{ one day at a pair of balky mules, and burst forth with g' terrific line of profanity that filled the air witft sutptrur. itl. was reported to the Colonel; and Ford was brought beforeli him. The Colonel ""i6 'fJohn, didn't you'agree to let rpdrl do all the swearing for this regiment?" Ford said .,Yes;'l: Colonel, I did, but the fqct is that this swearing had to d:;d done THEN or not at all. and you were not there. so trd sorta tended to it, myself."

Named Merchcndising Mcncrgrer

E. L. Fellman has been appointed merchandising man-.'. ager of E. L. Bruce Cq., Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Fellmani.! has been manager of the Terminix Division of E. L. 3ro6s:r,i Co. for several years, and has broad experience in chandising ahd sales promotion. mer-ii

Prelerence Ratings

F'ederal Housing Administration has been authorized tcr issue preference ratings of AA-1 to permit the building of 10,500 nerv, privately-constructecl drvelling units in the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, announced John E. 1\ cGovern, director, Southern f.alifornia, FHA.

This determination became effective as of February 18, 1944, and applies on quotirs for dn'eliing units scheduled for private construction, ancl not previously assigned AA-1 ratings, he said.

Continuing, Mr. N'IcGovcrn said, applications for Title VI insurcd loans on approximatell- 9,00O ttnits out of the quota reccntlv assigne<l the locality hacl lteen previonsll' receivecl by the FHA and tl-re major portion of these applications had been processed ancl found eligible for loan insurance. Horvever, the constrttction of these units had been clelayed throrigh the inabilitl' of builders to obtain critical materials on the 1or.r'er AA-3 priority rating.

\\rith this raised priority rating, the builder's abilitl' to obtain critical materials is norv simplified. This rvill result in an impetus to the entire l)rosram of construction for the 10.500 nerv residcntial units in various defcnse localities arouncl Los Angeles, N'Ir. \'IcGor-ern concluded.

Recent Improvements crt E. K. Wood's Los Angeles Ycrd

Changes that the u'ar has brought in their milling department forced the Ii. T{. \\roocl Lttn.rlter Companv to 'build a second steel jackct refttse bttrner at their Los Angeles yarcl. It has just becn placed in rtse, ancl is 2ll f eet in diameter and 60 fcet high, being a duplicate of their other bttrner. The tu.o stand side by side.

Another form of impro'n'ement just made at this 1'ard that N{anager A1 Privctt is very prottcl of, is three attractive neu, offices for thcir department heads out on the plant. The mill superintendent has one right Across the driver'r'ay from tl.rc broadsicle of the mi1l. Fror-n the large u'inclou's of this office 'tl're man in chargc can see the entire mill operation. The office is attractivc in architecture, and the interior is as fine as the interior of the general office. A new office of like attractiveness has just been built for the head of their shecl clepartment, and a third for their warehouse force. Now the three otrtsicle offices in the yard are as attractive arrrl as comfortable as the general office.