Western -Walker Gets Fikh Gold Star o

The Western Hardrvood Lumber Con.rpany and P. J. Walker Company of Los Angeles have been givera its Fifth Gold Star in recognition of achievement in completing wartime schedules in the nranufacture and delivery of merchant ship components.

Herelvith is a facsimile of the letter received from H. L. Vickery, Chairman of the U. S. Maritime Comtrission Board of Production Arvards, advising them of the arvard for their continued contribution to merchant ship construction.

The Western-Walker "M" Pennant non' carries six stars. First recogr.rition of their rvar efforts came on October 13, 1942, l.hen the original ('M" award was conferred. The honor rvas again renerved on the follolving dates: June 24, 1943, December 15, 1943, May 3, 1944, Octol>er 26, 1944, and March 28,1945.

As of March 31, 1945, the U. S. Maritirne Commission brought to a conclusion the issuance of the gold star arvards.

There's a special art in writing, To a fellow who is fighting, If you want to be a helpful friend of his; Leave out everything that's dreary, Let your attitude be cheery, For he's pretty long on trouble as it is.

(Author Unknown)

For there is hope ", " ;.J it*i. i" cut down, that it will sprout again.-Job l4 :7.

Spring, the time ro, roJ.rJ, ttl" ti-. for ptanting-yesthe time for painting. For paint is the sign of self-respect, the badge of solvency, the chest ribbon that proves the wisdom of the man with the brush.

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And again we hear the cry of the war bo,nd salesman say- ing: "BUY BONDS TO BUY BOMBS TO BOMB BUMS.''

A thought worth ,.*.,rl.Jnj' *n." a jackass looks in a mirror, only a jackass can look back to him.

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And here's a better one: Ffuman ideals are like stars; you don't reach them; you just reach FOR them.

This year there are ,.r", l"r"lu in Europe many, many more of those little white crosses like the ones that were raised in l9l7 and 1918. And the same heart-searing words mark the new o,nes that marked those of a generation back: "ffere lies in honored glory an American Soldier, known only to God." Yes, the lists of Unknown Soldiers grow great this year.

Kipling wrote ,orr* "rJ' l"*r. are just two kinds of people in the world-Germans, and human beings. And the more Germans we kill, the better off the human beings will be.t'

Lt. General Simon soriJ"r l"l*.r, Jr., who led the new Tenth Army in the invasion of Okinawa, recently said: "Kill more Japs-and faster. The faster you kill them the sooner the war will be over. The man who kills the most Japs, is my man." Buckner's father was a Confederate General.

Today all over e*"ri"l.; ;*.r" are praying. r am thinking of the story of Tolstoi about a priest who saw a farmer plowing the field, and said to him: "If you knew you were to die tonight, what would you do today?" And the farmer replied: "I would plow." And the priest said: "You have made a wlse answer, friend, for to plow is to prayJ'

Stephen Girard, famous Lni.itnoian of other days and the founder of Girard College, had the same idea. Sorneone asked him what he wo,uld do today if he knew he would be dead tomorrow? And Girard answered: "I would plant a tree." For planting a tree, like plowing, is praying. ***

Can't pass Girard without relating the famous story about his school. He endowed Girard College with one specific instruction-that no clergyman should ever be permitted within its haUs. The case was tried in the co,urts, and the will stood up. But the story that tickles me is, that one day old llorace Greeley went to visit the college. He wore furpny looking clothes, and a peculiar hat. And the guard, who stood always at the door mistook him for a clergyman, and stopped him, saying: "Sorry, but you can't come in here." Greeley said: "The hell I can't !" And the guard stepped back and said: "Beg your pardon. Come in."

Fortunate, indeed, is the human who has lived so wisely and so well that when he reaches those days when he has crossed the crest of the hill orf life and finds the shadows always slanting from the West, he finds that his storehouse of such treasures as friendship and affection have not been made subject to the "*u l-1,. *

George lforace Lorimer once said: "It is good to have money and the things that money will buy; but it is good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy."

Trouble with a lot of political platform planks (promises) is that they look like oak before election, but take on the appearance of slippery elm afterwards.

During George Washington's term as President of the United States, the entire expenditures of the Federal Government was abo,ut 65 cents per*year per capita.

Today the Federal debt alone is about $2,000 per capita. A man and wife and three kids owe ten thousand dollars. The mobs of people we see every day crowding the streets, the stores, the eating places, the theatres, and everywhere people can go to spend money, don't seem to have the faintest idea where this money comes from that burns their pockets. They think it came in the regular way. But it didn't. It's just part of the three hundred billion the people

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P LY\TO O D FO R \TAR . LATE R FO R PEAC E

TI OPnY all ply*ood ' be ,ns con sumed for vitolmilitory uses. Whe n these requirements hove 6een fil ed ond limitotion orders eased, tlzre will be greater opportunities Ior the lumber deolers thon erer 6elore in supplying the huge demand to fill civilian needs.

De sign [or postwor lrving wrll co ll [or dn evel e*panding usz of thrs meterial.

When reconversion permits we will ogain serve in o [ull measure as we have olwoys done in the past -- but lzt's win the war f irst

(Continued from Page 8) of this nation have borrowed. They are spending money they owe and must pay, just as certainly as though they had borrowed it from " O1ln.* But it's fun while it goes on.

One of the things that the Japs bank on in their belief that they can (or perhaps I should now say "could") conquer the world, is the knowledge that when the Romans reached out and slapped down the rest of civilization as it prevailed at that time, the average Roman soldier was just five feet two inches tall. The Japs argue that that proves you don't h-ave to be physical giants in order to be conquerors. They're finding out that'a lot of their notio,ns were-well, just notions.

Newspapers report a definite shortage of $500 and gl@0 bills. Authorities say that gamblers, racketeers, and income tax dodgers have been hiding them away to dodge the income tax. Let me see now, where did I hide that roll of thousands I won on that*long shot last summer?

And then, of course, there was the philosophic sailor who was heard to remark that the trouble with dames is you can't fall into their arms, without taking a chance of falling into their hands.

The housewife goes to the meat market and finds the market but no meats. She screamed. Congress investigated. For many days witnesses tripped to and from the witness .stand. There virere two groups. On one side were cattle raisers, feed men, meat packers, shippers, and others who are engaged in some fashion or other in the meat business. All of them told the same identical story. There is more cattle than ever in history, and the trouble with the meat situation is the fumbling and bungling of impractical and unwise federal bureaus, fmmediately the Government showed its interest in the matter by cutting down food shipments abroad; likewise appointing a committee to investigate reported waste and impractical and unwise distribution of American food abroad. Everyone knows that there has been tremendous waste of American goods shipped abroad, by Lend Lease and otherwise. It has been given away unintelligently and impractically. The assumption of our squandergang that American supplies and resources were inexhaustible and limitless, has gotten us very largely into our present food fix. Wholesale wastefulness abroad. Fumbling the distribution system at home. The investigating committee won't do much, because right after its appointment the President lifted his eyebrows in no, uncertain manner while discussing it. But an aroused public voice will have some effect. r read a newspape, "aoly loJ". some Americans going across the Canadian line to a small Canadian city to see about the reports that scarce American goods are not scarce in Canada. They corroborated the scandalous reports, found they could buy plenty of things over there that are hard to get here; THAT CAME FROM HERE, Particularly they reported getting two pounds each 'of American butter plainly marked Lend Lease. Kind of makes you mad, especially when honest questioners get only a reminder that there is a war on.

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Then another group paraded. They denied every statement of the men in the meat business. Not a word'of fact in the statements made by the other crowd, they said. This group is made up of economists and statisticians. They said the meat men were wrong because their figures did not agree with bureau figures. Asked where the bureau got the figures, they said from other bureaus. It is significant that all the men engaged in business said one thing, and all the professional statistical men said the opposite.

There are nearly two and one half billion people in the world, and one hundred and thirty million of us. We just can't carry that load, our starry-eyed non-workers but freegivers to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sumner Wells recently wrote: "There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth, and lasting international cooperation cannot be attained;" there are few of us who do not appreciate the vital truth of the words: ',ff God does not build the house, those who build it, build in vain." ***

I have been thinking favorably regarding a work or fight bill. But the frank admission, just as the European end of the war seems to be approaching, that they want it for postwar purposes, made me see the light. As win-the-war legislation it is hard to oppose. As after-war regimentation to add to all the other regimentation, it scares me. Getting rid of the regimentation-getting rid of the unnecessary bureaus-getting from under innumerable war regulations -those are going to be big jobs when the war ends. Don't doubt it.

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We have been told by the best inforrned men in Congress that the Executive Department of our government is the greatest hoarder of manpower. They have demanded that the Federal payrolls be slashed. No soap. They continue to grow, in spite of the Bird Committee reports that there is a great army of employis we would be better off without. That, of course, has been a strong argument against work-or-fight legislation.

Thomas Jefferson said: "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." President James Madison said: "ft is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." Atre Lincoln said: "At what point is the approach of danger to be expected? If it ever reaches us, it muSt spring from amongst us." John Garner said: "ff Communism comes to America it wiil come in the name of Democracy."

General Ike rsenhow.r:"; i. o"r, when a newspaper man asked him what he wanted most to do after the war ends. He said: "I want to put on slacks and lie down on the banks ol a lazy Texas river with a fishing line tied to my big toe and the hook baited for catfish. If the fish bite, I will wake up. But I hope they don't bite."