Highlights of \(/estern Pine Director's Meeting

Election of new ofifrcers and reports by committee chairmen and t944 offrcers were the principal items considered at Western Pine Association meeting of its board of directors on February 9. The directors met in lieu of the Association's regular annual meeting whi,ch was cancelled at government request.

A,tg, J. Stange, president of Mt. Emily Lbr. Co., La Grande, Oregon, was elected Association president. He succeeds A. J. Voye of Big Lakes Box Co., Klamath Falls, Oregon, who served in this capacity for the past two years. Other new officers elected were: R. A. Colgan, Jr., Diamond Match Co., Chico, California and H. B. Jamison, Byles-Jamison Lbr. Co., Fresno, California, vice-presidents and A. Cl Lighthall, Oregon Lumber Co,. Baker, Oregon, treasurer.

S. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretary-manager of the Association with headquarters in Portland, mentioned in his report that the present Association membership represents 79.I/o of. the Western Pine region's lum,ber production and 82.2/o of its shipments. lfe also stated that the Association members are located in 10 western states and the province of British Columbia, but the largest number of members and the greatest volume of Association production are in Oregon. California is second and Idaho third.

Promotion and research plans were approved. Their importance in the peacetime economy ahead was stressed. The Association's annual outlay for research now exceeds $50,000. One of its most promising projects-an entirely new process of seasoning by means of solvents-is being tested on a semicommercial scale in the Association's $80,000 pilot plant at Bend, Oregon.

fn a resolution, the Western Pine Association went on record as approving ten specific suggestions offered by National Retail Lumber Dealers Association as desirable in postwar merchandising of lumber. The resolution endorsed "these suggestions in principle and in fact as exemplified by Western Pine Association's past efiorts and future plans with respect to promotion, research, coverage of retail conventions, dealer helps, consistent manufacture of good lumber-rigidly graded, well manufactured and thoroughly seasoned-and by its long-termed and sizeable finan,cial support of National Lumber Manufacturers Association in building code and other activities."

Analyzing the current situation in the Western Pine lumber industry, W. E. Griffee of the Association staff, predicted that the war would continue to require the bulk of Western Pine production. He stated that Philip Boyd of WPB when in Portland on January 3oth held out no hope that military needs would taper off soon. Moreover, Boyd had said that urgent requirements for lumber are well over current supply and he had asked for more production, though realizing that little could be ixpected during the months just -ahead to provide relief from situations caused by the industry having less men, older equipment and fewer truck tires to work with than last year, Grifiee reported. He added that Barometer reports for the first four weekq of January (1945) indicated that lumber production in the Western Pine region during January equalled or slightly exceeded the all-time record made in January of 1944.

Wholescle Distributing Ycrrd Reopens

Announcement is made by O'Neill Lumber Company that they have opened their wholesale distributing yard in San Francisco, handling mainly Douglas fir and hemlock lumber.

The office is at 16 California Street, San Francisco. Telephone number is GArfield 9110.

Purchcrse Timber in Oregon

Roseburg, Ore., Feb. 9-The Oregon Timber Products Company has purchased 11,600 acres of Douglas County's timberland from Ralph Smith, Kansas City; Fred fngham, Seattle, and George Ulett, Coquille, Ore.

The purchasers of the tract are H. B. Grandin, Los Angeles; R. B. White, Kansas City, and H. W. Putnam, Carthage, Mo. They have had numerous tim,ber and sawmill projects in the West and South.

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While most oI our lumber is going into Govemment wcrr uses, we have been tclcing ccrre of our dealer custoners' requirements to the best ol our cbility, curd we thank them for their pctience cmd coopercrtion

What did you do today, my friend, From morning until night?

How many times did you complain, The rationing is too tight?

When are you going to start to do All of the things you say?

A soldier would like to know, my friendWhat did you do TODAY?

What did you do today, my friend, To help us with the task?

Did you work harder and longer for less? Or is that too much to ask?

What right have I to ask you this? You probably will say; Maybe now you will understandYou see-I DIED*TODAY.

The above tragic satire was written by one of our great war heroes, Lieut. Dean F. Chatlain, while recovering from terrible wounds in an army hospital in Algeria. This man was hit 74 tirnes by shell fragments. One of them almost severed a leg. He completed the amputation with his own knife, and then waited eight hours before medical help reached himu Truly he had a right to ask-

' "Did you work harder and longer for less?

What did you do,*today?"

Don't let the problem of the returning soldier get too far from your mind, Mr. Good Citizen who stayed at home. To do so would be fatal. His problem is OUR problem. It is up to us to do a lot of his thinking, his p,lanning for him. The idea is beautifully expressed in a bulletin on the subject issued by the Rotary Club of Auckland, New Zealand, which says in part: "Now it is our turn to pay in service for the veterans. They have paid their whack. A satisfied soldier is the finest asset we can have in postwar years. A disillusioned soldier is a reflection upon ourselves, and a potential danger to the plans of our reconstruction." The proper handling of the returning soldier problem in this country, ranks ahead of everything except only the actual winning of the war. ft can be done successfully, and it can be done beautifully, if we make it our first line of postwar business. If it is done in haphazard fashion, or left to the politicians who just don't know how, it will be a sad mistake. The returning soldier, dear friend, is a matter that should come ahead of your daily mail, your daily business, every morning. Like all the good things of earth, it won't just happen. 'We've Cot ? i"O: n happen-right.

You may look upon the short month of February as a little runt, too stunted in size to compare favorably with our other months, but you'll have to admit one thing-it produced two of the greatest men in all the world's history, and did it right here in the United States. I need hardly tell you that I refer to Washington and Lincoln. Until I chanced upon the tragic little poem by the wounded soldier which heads this column, I had intended heading it with Abraham Lincoln's favorite poem. So I'll just stick it here, or part of it. The title is-"Oh, Why Should the Sp rit of Mortal Be Proud?" It belongs in every thinking person's scrapbook.

Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?

Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave. For we are the same that our fathers have been, We see the same sights that our fathers have seen, We drink the same stream, we view the same sun, We run the same course that our fathers have run. The thoughts we are thinking, our fathers would think; From the death we are shrinking, our fathers would shrink;

To the life we are clinging they also would cling, But it speeds from us all like a bird on the wing. They loved; but the story we cannot unfold; They scorned; but the heart of the haughty is cold; They died; aye, they died; and we things that are now, That walk on the turf that lies over their brow, That make in their dwellings a transient abode, Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road.

Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and pain, We mingle together like sunshine and rain, From the gilded salon to the bier and the shroud, Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?

In his own incomparable way, Col. Bob Ingersoll spoke of Lincoln as follows: "FIe was educated in the University of Nature-educated by cloud and star-by field and winding stream-by billowed plains and solemn forests-by morning's birth and death of day-by storm and night-by the evbr eager spring-by summer's wealth of leaf, and vine, and flowerthe sad and transien'i glories of the autumn woods-by winter, builder of home and fireside, whose storms without "t?a.*,ni social warmth within."

Some wise man has well written that Lincoln revolutionized the American manner of speaking and writing; that he did for our American type of English what Dante

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(Continued from Page 8) did for the Italian. He did more to make a simple style of expression, using few and easy words in such a way ds to give them unheard-of power, than any other American.Witness the Gettysburg Address. Witness the little impromptu speech he made to his friends and neighbors when he left his home in Springfield, Illinois, to go to Washington. His words: "Without the assistance of the Divine Being, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail. Trusting in Hirn who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending youo as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell." Search all the books in the language and see if you can find anything to compare with those expressions

He was a very practical fellow, was Lincoln. (Every year at this time I recite sorne of my favorite Lincoln and Washington stories in this column. This is one I think I have not told before.) When he said he fought "with malice toward none," he meant it literally. When he was a youngster working in a store in Springfield, a drunken bully entered the store and tried to start a riot. Finally, all efforts to appease the fellow having failed Lincoln said to him: "Well if you must be whipped, I might as well do it as any other man." So he grabbed the big bully in his great arms, crashed him hard to the ground, and held him there while he calmly rubbed a hand full of "Smart weeds" in his face. The bully cried with pain, and begged for mercy. So Lincoln picked him up, brought some cold water and bathed his burning face, and sent hirn on his way, a well chastened bullY'

His sense of humor was immeasurable. Innumerable true stories have been told on the subject. He could "kid" his own people much easier than he could the enemy. One day at the worst part of the Civil War, someone asked Lincoln how many men the Confederates had in the field. Ffe replied that they had twelve hundred thousand. When the questioner exclaimed in wonder at that figure, Lincoln gravely informed him that every time one of his generals took a whipping, he always reported that he was outnumbered three to one. "I must believe them," said Lincoln, with that twinkle in his eye, "and, since we have four hundred thousand men under arms, and they have three times as many, they must*have twelve hundred thousand."

But his greatness, the humility and gentleness and Christliness that makes him grow even bigger as the years pass, was based on his entire lack of vanity, egotism, arrogance, and vengefulness. On the eve of his second election, he said: "My gratitude is free from any taint of personal triumph. I do not impugn the motives of anyone. ft is no pleasure to me to triumph over anyone." There speaks true greatness. Can you imagine one of our political leaders today saying such a aT"*;t * Washington had much of the personal modesty that marked the character of Lincoln, although he lacked Lincoln's magic gift of self expression. When he left his beloved Mount Vernon to take up the great cares of the Presidency, he wrote: "With the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hopes of answering its expectations."

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"No nobler figure ever stood in the forefront of a nation's life," wrote John Richard Green. "Washington uras grave and courteous in address; his manners were simple and unpretentious; his silence and the serene calmness of his temper spoke of a perfect self-mastery. But there was little in his outer bearing to reveal the grandeur of soul which lifts his figure, with all the simple majesty of an ancient statute, out of the smaller passions, the meaner impulses, of the world around him. ft was only as the weary fight went on that the colonists discovered, however slowly and imperfectly, the greatness of their leader; his clear judgment, his heroic endurance, his silence under difficulties, his calmness in the hour of danger and defeat; the patience with which he waited, the quickness and hardness with which he struck. the lofty and serene sense of duty that never swerved from its task through resentment or jealousy; that never, through war or peace, felt the touch of a meaner ambition; that knew no aim save that of guarding the free-' dom of his fellow countrymen, and no personal longing save that of returning to his own fireside when their freedom was secured."

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It is the smaller things about Washington that intrigue me. For instance, he was the most punctual of men. When he said he would meet the Congress at a certain hour, not one minute after that hour had arrived, he was there and ready. And he demanded punctuality of others, so far as their affairs with him were concerned. It is recited by one of my favorite historians that when he invited guests to dine with him, he seated himself at the table at that hour, regardless of whether or not the guests were all there. And when they came late, he said to them courteously but tersely: "My cook never asks whether the guests have arrived, but whether the hour has." ***

And by the war the meaning of the office of President was done in interesting fashion. According to the Madison Papers, the convention that created the Constitution first thought to call the head of our government "His Excellency." A committee changed that to the simple title"President of the United States." It is understood that that wise man, Dr. Ben Franklin was the author of the title. It is reported that he likewise facetiously suggested at the same time that they call the Vice President-"His Most Superfluous Highness." Dr. Franklin would! '*rF*

The words you read and hear so often these days-..a just and lasting peace"-were the words of Lincoln. At his second inauguration he uttered these matchless words: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's

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