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'Watch any floor being laid with Bradley's StraigbtLine Qak Flooring. Strips, direct from the bundles, are loosely assembled, pulled up and nailed in place with amazing speed. No time lost because of off angle ends. Tongues and grooves go together easily and nail up snugly without forcing. Almost before you realize it, there's a completely laid, smooth, flush floor, ready for the finishers.

Then watch the smiles that go with the "kick" from a job well and quickly done! It's such smiles of satisfac. tion, made possible by Bradley's Straigbt- Line Oak Flooring, that mean rnore sales for you.

This faster laying, faster selling oak flooring is produced in standard grades and sizes. It may be shipped with Oak Plank Flooring, Oak and Gum Trim and Mouldings and other Bradley Brand Products. Just phooe your Bradley represeotative or address:

King Hassan, well beloved, was wont to say, When aught went wrong, or any project failed, Tomorrow friends, will be another day, And in that faith he slept, and so prevailed. New day, new hope, new courage! Let this be, O soul, thy cheerful creed ! What's yesterday, With all its shards and wrack and grief, to thee? Forget it, then ! Here lies the victor's way.

-James Nuckham.

As these lines are being typed, the saddest chorus my ears have ever heard is coming through the open window from the street below. For right this minute the newsboys are calling out a refrain that will cause every American heart to sicken, "Bataan has fallen." Nothing in the first World War ever carried any such burden of sorrow to our people as this. For the long, heroic struggle was all in vain. Words are vain things in such a time as this. The heart of the nation turns cold with horror. The people's lips are speechless with agony.

I listened the other U", ** " splendid gentleman who knows much of war from personal experience, addressed an audience of lumbermen on the subject of patriotism. He told of seeing two French soldiers during the first World War, half frozen in a trench, both wounded, crouching in frozen mud and ice while the shells burst over their heads. And one said to the other-"Ifow you feeling, pierre?" And the other replied: "I'd feel all right if I knew the folks back home could hold out."

And that, he said, is the spirit of all our fighting men. They aren't worried about themselves, or about the dangers that face them in this horrid thing called war. What they are worried about is the folks back home. So, said this speaker, Col. Ike Ashburn, our biggest job-those of us who do not go forth to fight-is to carry on back here so that the boys out there will have nothing to worry about Keep the morale high, keep the flag waving, and be sure that the boys out there know it. The family and friends of the fighting men should keep ever in mind the thought that it is THEIR duty to send nothing but optimistic messages, convey nothing but helpful impressions to the boys'in the fighting ranks.

And that advice is not "lr"l.ni", to be taken lightly. All too many of our boys in uniform leave behind them parents who do nothing to build up and hold up their morale, because they, themselves, are so downcast. Which is all wrong. Of course it's easy to sit back and say to another man"You shouldn't take on so about your boy going fs q731"but nevertheless it is a fact that the boy in the ranks who has to worry about how his folks are feeling and how they are taking the situation, has a burden to carry that should never be heaped upon hina.. He's got a big enough job without that additional burden.

As this is being *riaa.rr*"rrithJr epochal piece of news is before the building industry. The Government has just issued and placed in immediate effect the long-predicted order freezing all new construction in the entire country, with the exception of actual war needs. Minor repairs and improvements to existing buildings is all that will be permitted withou.t special order. Details of the new restrictions will be found elsewhere in this issue. The lumbermen will need no suggestion on our part to sit down and thoroughly study and digest them. This order afiects every manufacturer and retailer of building material in the entire country, regardless of the character of the material. It affects every building architect, contractor, laborer, artisan, and every man and woman in any capacity who is employed in any department of the building industry. ft therefore (Con,tinued on Page 19)

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WAR & BUII',DING

The plunge into war changed the needs of those who build-especially in the vitally important Southern California defense area. Problems have been created. Some of them have been solved.

\Ufe make a sPecial point in assisting dealers in solving their problems complicated by the war effort.

Celotex products simplify building problems, speed constructionth.y can be applied by any good carpenter, thus reducing the number of skilled artisans required.

Our engineering department will assist with designs and specifications and materials-and recommend competent applicators.