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o o r prGpcred to serve civilicn needs

THrs swimming pool is serving the young men of the nation at a military training base. It is another example of the rnany better values in wood developed through advanced lumber engipeering practice. Its framing members are made of lumber-fine, kiln dried, carefully selected boards, laminated with modern stmctural glues to form great arches, continuous from foundation to rocif ridge.

These glued laminated wood arches were engineered for snow Ioads, wind loads, concentrated loads. They were fabricated with precision, under modern factory controls. They were delivered to the job site, ready for erection.

In the not too distant tomorrow there will be many such structures serving the youth of America-as pools, gymnasiums, auditoriums, and play halls. They will come from toards of designers who are already creating buildings for the new age of progress.

Many of these new structures will be built with glued laminated wood arches and ply beams, not only because they are engineered to do the job, but their natural beauty makes them a majbr part of the decorative scheme.

These structures will be built by the contractors and builders who already have the skill and experience in building withlwood. Engineering in lumber which embraces product improvement, new methods of joining, and building design, is.prepared to help you serve civilian needs better and more economically.

Todcy

I've shut the door on yesterday, Its sorrows and mistakes; I've locked within its gloomy walls; Past failures and heartaches; And now I throw the key away To seek another room, And furnish it with hope and smiles, And every spring-time bloom. No thought shall enter this abode, That has a hint of pain, And neither malice nor distrust, Shall ever therein reign.

I've shut the door on yesterday, And thrown the key away, Tomorrow holds no doubt for rne, Since I have found today.

A Dcrk Excuse

Rastus had come late to worh and the boss was cross, and demanded to know why. So the darkey reached into his imagination for a good excuse, and came out with this one:

I'Boss, I'll tell you whuts de trouble wuz. H'it was dat lookin' glass in my room. When I gots up dis mornin' I looks in de glass an' never could see myself no place. So I made up my mine I had done gone to wuk. Afteh a while f notices dat de glass is done gone outa dat lookin' glass frame. Dass why I didn't see myself when I looks.' An' dass how come I gots here late."

Diggrng Holes

A newspaper reporter tried once to get Rex Beach to discuss the secret of his success. Rex declined. Being urged further, he said the best answer he knew was the one the Swede gave, when he was asked how fre had become the owner of sei'eral very rich mines in the Klondyke. The Swede said:

"Ay never tole no vun before, but Ay tell you now how it ban. Ay yust kept on digging holes."

Beecher Scrid:

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.

Altitude

A soldier bought a gallery ticket for one of the Broadway moyie palaces where they have just one balcony after the other. The young lady usher took him up and up and still higher up. Finally she stopped, handed him his ticket stub, and said. "You'Il find a seat on the next floor above. This is as far as f go. Higher than this, my nose bleeds."

, Friends

It is my joy in life to find, At every turning of the road, The strong arm df a comrade kind, To help me onward with my load. And since I'have no gold to give, And love alone must make amends, My only prayer is, while I live, God make me worthy of my friends.

-F. D. Sherman.

Seventy-six

"Pa," said Little Johnnie, at the supper table. 'lI sure saw, a grand picture today. Teacher brought it to schbol to show us. It made you feel sorta proud just to look at it. I don't know why, but that's thg way it made me feel. It was a picture of three men and a flag. I don't remember who they were. One fellow had a horn, the other had a drum, and the third fellow had a headachc."

one or a sroup .r "T,liif, 9":1"J,i"* the qthers about a dream he had the night before. He said he dreamed that. Hitler was dead and that he and his squad were given the job of burying him. And, you know, he said, we had to l, lower the casket into the grave twenty-five times. The other i soldiers wanted to know why.

"Well," said the dream teller, "the first time was for the movies, the second time was for keeps,,and all those other times were for encores."

Conlession

I was kissed by a rascal with laughing eyes, , ii And his kiss was hearty and warm;

He thought he had taken me by surprise, Just an innocent lass from the farm.

He said he was partial to dark brown hair, And he pulled my brunbtte curls;

He thought I'd be spellbound, and wouldn't care, Just like all his other girls.

He lauded my figure, my eyes, my skin, As only a ladies' man does;

He thought I would surely be taken in.; As a matter of fact, I was.

Fooled Them to Decrth

A Kansas farmer decided to diversify his crop, so he :, i' planted a field of pop corn. Just about the time the corn. ,,r was ready for picking the great drouth and heat wave of .:-: that summer came along, and the corn began to pop. ft ,jl popped until the urhole field was heaped high with drifts of pop corn. A herd of cows came by about daylight the next , ? morning, saw the pop corn and thought it was snow, and,.ii they just leaned up against the fence and froze to death, .rl

'MOST

With lumber nqmed crs "the most vitcrl wqr commodity," it hqs not been possible to tcke cqre oI the needs of our retcril deqler customers. But we qssure them we hqve done cnd will do our best in this most dillicult situcrtion.

Passage o[ Co-operative Sustained Yield Act Encourages Long Range Forest Planning

Washington, March 22,-Greater stabilizatiol.r of forcst con.rmunities is expected by foresters to result fron'r neu, legislation adopted by Congress today.

The measure authorizes the Secretaries oi Agricultttre anrl Interior to cooperate with the forest industries b1' giving exclusir-e pnrchase rights for timber harvesting on government land to private owners of acijaccnt forcsts provitled a harvesting schedule for the private lancl as rvell as thc public lancl is integrated on a basis to assure a continuecl balance of grot'th and f ield. The inclusion of tin-rber owned by state and local governments in such arrangements is also perrnittecl by the nerv legislatior.r.

It is expected that this larv u,ill have its greatest public benefit in areas u,here private o\\:ners of {orest lands do not Possess a sufficier.rt cluantitv of timber to permit them to ltal:rnce hart.ests u'ith 1611' grou'th, but n'here the inclusion of nearby governurent-ot,nerl timber s-ottlcl create a unit large enough to make balanced harvesting possible.

Voluntary but ll'idespread adoption of these arrangcrrcnts is expected both by government and industrv spoltesmen.

The resultant balancing of grou'th rvith f ield will assure hundreds of forest communities that the tinrber rcsorlrccs 11polr rvhich their livelihood depends will be n-raintainerl on a perpetual basis.

Both Secretary Wickard of thc Dcpartn'rent of Agricr-rlture and Secretary Ickes of the Department of Interior endorsed the measure which was introducecl by the late Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, in January 1943. The principles of the bill, horvever, were first vigorously urgecl by X{ayor David T. I\{ason, consulting forester, of Portland, Oreson, 17 years ago, and rvere repeatedly a<lvocated by spokesmen for the forest industries.

It lvas the seconcl lneasure adopted by Congress in less than 30 days on recommendation by the forest industries ancl by independent foresters as a step to help assure perpetuation of timber resources. The previous lneasure lvas a tax reforn-r amendment which removed inequities in the previous federal tax law which tended to discourage sustained tree farming.

Wood Tcnks

Wood tanks, used leum, rvil1 require an lor 1914 production, for storing rvater, chemicals estimatecl I@,427,000 brl. ft. the WPR reports.

YES SIR!

and petroof lun.rber

Dance Program Recalls 1910 Dayt

While looking over some old papers the other day, Otto \\r. Frese, San Francisco lumberman, came across a souvenir program of the annual ball of San Francisco Lurnber Clerks' Association No. l, helcl Januarv 22, 19IO. Officers of the association rvere Robe rt Galvin, president; C. G. Patton, vice-president; Wm. A. Sullivan, recording secretary; Timothy Sheehan, financial secrctary; E. V. \\rilson, treasurer, ancl FI. Slvanson, sergc:rnt-at-arms. Directors u'ere Samuel l)rugan, J. J. Feeney, D. Dickinson, J. Kavart;ruglr anrl C. Miller.

Among tl.re aclvertisers \\rere Loop Lumber Co., Herring's Nfill, Inc., Santa Fe Lumber Co., Christenson Lumber Co., Tl.re Greater City Lumber Co., Hart-Wood Lumber Co., \\/. C. Premus Planing N{i11, California Mill Co., Wilson Rros. & Co., N'Iacrlonald l-umber Co., Frank P. Doe Company, Dean Reversible Windorv Co., Edrv. F'. Niehaus & Co., \ran Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., Albion Lur-nber Co., Cresccnt Lumber Co., Anderson Bros. Planing Mill, Hauptman Lumber Co., Du,ight Lumbcr Co., E. K. Wood I-umber Co., and Pope & Talbot.

Wilson Bros. & Co., and Hart-Woo<l l-unrbcr Co., advertised "Cargoes Cut to Order."

Los Angeles Building Permits

Ruilding permits issuecl in Los Angeles in X{arch totaled 2,851 jobs with an estirnated valuation of $3,821,104. The value of the 2,563 permits issued in February was greater because more than $2.5 million of inustrial construction boosted the total to $7.194.870.

Housing accornnrodations for 777 families are included in the permits issued cluring March. Single drn'elling perr-nits total 586 at an average cost of $3,615 compareC to 97 at an aYerage cost of $2,895 a year ago.

During the first quarter of 1944,7,496 pernits were issued at a total valrration of $13,979,682 compared to 2,882 at $4,296,770 during the like 1943 period.

Redwood Mill Burns

Juan Creek Lumber Company's sarvmill at Juan Creek, Calif. was destroyed by fire \,farch 21.The mill had a capacity of between 55,000 and 60,000 feet in eight hours. Dean Creath is general manager of the company.

The coming events ol the next lew months will probcrbly hcrve a decided eflect on your business qnd person.

Contribute, wholehecrtedly, to the mcny aspects oI the problem to mcrke it cr success. Wcrr Bonds will help.

To l|elp You l|old Tlartime Business, Postwar

Advertising is telling of wartime uses where wood is serving best. Business executives, engineers, architects, builders and linancial men are learniag through their trade journals of the advantages of buil&ng with wood. Installations of Minalith* treated (flame-proo{ed) and Wolmanized Lumber* (decay and termite-prooled) are described.

Familiarize yourself with these two types of treatment that make ordinary wood long-lived. Be prepared to cash in as the postwar demands develop. Both Wolmanized and Minalith-treated wood are distrilcuted through regular trade channels. American Lumber & Treating Company, 1648 McCormick Building, Chicago 4, III. * Beg'istered tradematks