House-Passed Forestry Appropriations Studied bv Senate Sub-Committee

Forest Service appropriations in the Agriculture Appropriation Bill, HR 2689, as passed by the House, total 937,754,563 for the fiscal I'ear beginning July 1, 1945. This represents a net increase of $405,468 over current appropriations according to Harris Collingwood, Chief Forester of the National Lumber Manufacturers A,ssociation.

Hearings before the Senate Sub-committee on Agriculture. Appropriations began on April 5th and rvill continue through most of April. The sub-committee consists of : Chairman-Richard B. Russell, Georgia; Carl Hayden, Arizona; Millard E. Tydings, Maryland; Par NfcCarran, l.fevada; John H. Bankhead, 2d, Alabama; Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Wyoming; Dennis Chavez, New Mexico; Burnet R. Maybank, South Carolina; Chan Gurney, South Dakota; C. Wayland Brooks, Illinois; Clyde M. Reed, Kansas; Raymond E. Willis, Indiana; Homer Ferguson, Nlichigan.

The House approved the Budget estimate of $7,300,000 for forest fire co-operation. This represents the full authorization and is $1,034,880 above the current appropriation.

The House approved $1,001,380, including overtime, for work associated with the Forest Products Laboratory. This is $227,52O below the recommendation of the Bureau of the Budget and $145,139 less than the current appropriation. The reduction is supposedly oftset by substantial sums advanced by the Army and Navy for research on products in which they are interested. The belie{ was expressed by the committee that the same sources can be relied upon for necessary sums during the immediate future.

Representative Harris Ellsworth, Oregon, and others appealed to the House to increase the appropriation by at least $1,500,00O to assure continuation of existing programs, including closer contact with industrial demands. No specific amendment to fulfill this proposal was introduced. Increases will probably be requested before the Senate subcommittee.

Representative Walt Horan, Washington, a member of the sub-committee, addressed Congress in behalf of more generous support of forest research. At the same time, he quoted from the annual reports of many states to show their favorable financial status. On this basis he urged fuller state co-operation

The sum of $5,918,778 for forest development roads and trails exceeds the current appropriation by $1,757,282.

The House approved $2,923,867-an increase of $1,000,000 over the current appropriation for white pine blister rust control. The reduction of $1,326,133 below the Budget estimate was made with full recognition of the importance of the 'ivork, but was explained by the committee on the basis of wartime shortages of workers.

The House figure of $62,100 for spruce budworm investigation is an increase of $1,860 above the Budget estimate.

Your Flag and my Flag, A blessing in the sky; Your hope and my hope, It never hid a lie; Your heart and my heart, Beat quicker at the sight, Sun-kissed and wind-tossed, Red, blue, and white. The one Flag, the great FlagThe Flag for me and you, Glorified all else beside The red, white, and blue.

-Wilbur D. Nesbit.

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Breathless the American nation waits each moment as this is written, hoping to hear or read those blessed words"The European war is ended." It has been that way for the past couple of weeks. There is little else in people's minds' * * *

Most folks, viewing the hopeless condition of reeling Germany, feel like the heavy puncher did in the fist fight. He landed two crushing blows that would have knocked an ox flat. And when the other fellow still stood on his feet, the puncher walked around behind him to see what was holding him up.

It's that way with ,htl ;r. Never before in history has an adversary as hopelessly and terrifically beaten as Germany, failed to cry for quarter. Guess that's because we never knew a nation saturated with Naziism before.

The other day was Jefferson's birthday. When his Declaration of Independence was sent to General Washington to be communicated to the army, the troops paraded to hear it read, and there was "tumultous applause" from those in uniform. In his order of the day on this subject, General Washington said: "The general hopes that this important event will serve as an incentive to every officer and soldier to act with fidelity and courage, as knowing that now the peace and safety of his country depend, under God, solely on the success of our arms, and that he is now in the service of a state pospessed of sufficient power to reward his merit, and advance him to the highest honors of afreecountry."

So the fighting men under Washington were infused with that same high tide of American patriotism that has filled the breasts of our fighting men from that day to this; such enthusiasm as Milton wrote about when he said:

No thought of flight

None of retreat, no unbecoming deed

That argued fear; each on himself relied As only in his arm the moment lay of victorY'

That's a wonderful description of the mental attitude of the patriotic soldier. He acts as though the whole fate of the battle depended on his own actions, his own courage, his own fighting success. ,<

A lumber friend of mine has a letter from one of his ex-employes who has been in the thick of the fight all the way across Belgium, France, and Germany. That boy's letter tells things too horrible to print, regardless of the outrage stories you may have seen.

*d(* fle says, in effect: "Don't let anyone tell you that the German atrocity stories are exaggerated. Let me tell you what f saw with my own eyes in Belgium when the Germans retreated, and we moved in." And then he factually relates what he saw in the shape of bodies of BeIgian women and children. It would make you ill to read them. And that is what that soldier saw.

And how are we goirrglo lu"l.r"..r, punish the beasts? That's the hell of being a civilized nation. If we were noi so overly civilized we might do a pretty fair job of making the ghouls suffer at least partially in proportion to what they've got coming. All we can do is catch them and kill them. And catching the right ones is some problem, too. If we were not quite so civilized that little matter would be taken care of, too. We wouldn't be too particular about which were the right ones.

We could follow at. *if"*On, " the old gag about divorce. The man said to the divorce specialist-"I don't know whether or not I have grounds for divorce." The quack said-"You're married, aren't you?" The man said, "Yes." And the quack said-"What more grounds do you want?" If we wanted to really do business with these cursed Huns, the only question to ask when we caught one even remotely connected with any atrocity should be"Is he German?" Then "bang! bang!" ***

One of the kindliest men I know of seriously and sincerely advocates the unsexing of every German, thus let- ting the race die a natural death; that is "natural" with a bit of help from the surgeon. We won't do anything of the kind, of course, because we are civilized. But there's a swell idea there.

And then, of course, there are the nice, sweet Japs to consider. I quoted Kipling last issue as saying that there are just two kinds of people in the world, Germans and human beings. He didn't mention Japs, and the reason probably was that he didn't classify the Japs as humans. If he had lived to this day, I am certain he would have doubted their right to any such classification. Too bad all Japs can't be herded into a nice, air-tight chamber, and the gas turned on. So long as we are killing them by the hundred and thousand every day now, it couldn't be much worse to just finish them all at once. A little impractical, like the German idea stated above, but interesting, nevertheless'

The war news tells of the reconquering of historic Mandalay, in Butrma, by the Allies. What thoughts that brought back. Kipling made Mandalay a name that will go echoing along through the,deep corridors of time as long as literature shall last and the English tongue be spoken. And music came along to double its popularity, and add its fame by making Rudyard's poem one of the stirring and lusty songs of the past generation. England's part in the present World War illustrated perfectly the countless words of patriotic fervor that Kipling wrote about his beloved home land.

Rudyard Kipling died in 1936. But can anycte who watches war-torn England doubt that he still plays-he will always play-a trenchant part in the drama of Britain's life? flis songs, his flaming words of patriotism, go marching on, inspiring Englishmen in every walk of life, to live that England may live, and die that England may not die. If it be true that "there will always be an England," then the spirit, the inspiration of Rudyard Kipling must have large credit for that immortality. In all the su,fferings that England has undergone during the last five years, the undying words of Kipling have never ceased to be a heartstrengthening influence. For surely God touched Kipling with the ineffaceable brush of genius, and made him immortal even before he died: and makes his shadow loom larger with the passing ot*an.*t*t. What an influence !

As long as Britain lives; as long as the English tongue is spoken, the writings of Kipling will remain deeplyindelibly-imprinted in the minds of all men, and particularly loyal Brtishers. A thousand years hence when the passing of Kipling's own soul has long been forgotten, men will sit with lumps in their throats as they listen to that lusty song of the passing of Danny Deever, who was hangin' in the mornin'. Will Mulvaney ever die? He who had been a corporal once, but was "rejuced"? Will the Colonel's Lady and Judy O'Grady ever cease to be of a great sisterhood? Will the time ever come, think you, when the pathetic devotion to duty of that "Lazaroosham leather Gunga Din" will cease'to be solace to the souls

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(Continued from Page 9) of men?. Will Britain ever cease to spring to attention at those timeless q7e1ds-"ferd God of Hosts be with us yet, lest we forget, lest we forget"?***

Will the Elton schoolboy's rallying cry-"Play up ! Play up! And play the game," ever be forgotten? WiU the Road to Mandalay ever be less a thoroughfare of romance and sentiment than it is today? Kings will come and kings will go on this earth; but there will be no more Rudyard Kiplings to enthuse and sustain the faltering faith of men. Let us be grateful that his thoughts and words and countless inspirations and the unforgettable men and women who flame across his pages, belong, not to England alone, but to all of us. No one has a monopoly on Kipling. If you have eyes to read, a mind to understand, and a heart to swell big as the thoughts he left behind, then he belongs to you, also. He is OUR heritage, as well as Britain's. His genius is immortal and indestructible. If you seek strength and inspiration to patriotism in these years of horror-try Kipling. You will find his words headquarters for such.

All nations cannot o. .*"ir, l.rorr*; but they should be equally FREE. Whether that can be brought about or

Hoo-Hoo Members Hear Tcrlk on Plcrns For Lumbering In South Pccilic

Members of Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 heard an interesting talk on "Plans for Lumbering and Production of Vegetables in The South l,acific" at their regular dinner meeting, held at Wilson's Confectaurant, Sacramento, on Wednesday evening, April 18.

The speaker was Knowles A. Ryerson, Assistant Dean, College of Agriculture, Davis, Calif. Ife u,as introduced by W. Henry Gilbert, program chairman.

Housing

NHA Administrator Blandford reports seven prog.rams for the construction of privately financed housing. The quotas assigned were Blytheville, Ark., 35 units; Healdsburg, Calif., 15 units; Merced, Calif., 60 units; Sacramento, Calif., 400 units; Visalia, Calif., 6O units; Dubois, Pa., 15 units, and White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., 35 units.

not is being discussed at this moment at the great international peace conference at San Francisco. We of this generation must be both wise and brave, in order that those of the next generation may owe to us-not only their liberty-but their reason.

Louis Brornfi.ta, r"-o.rl.*ni, recently said in discussing reports of tremendous desiruction of American foods here at home: "The American farmer cannot produce too much food. The advocates of scarcity are not only foolsthey are enemies of mankind." He had been reading the newspaper reports of the deliberate destruction of hundreds of carloads of potatoes and eggs.

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When we produce all the worth-while things we need, fill all our stomachs, clothe all our nakedness, and house all our people comfortably-then we will have genuine prosperity, regardless of the wage scale. ***

And the little restau** -n.r. cute window advertisements have often been quoted in this column has one now that reads: "Wanted-A man to undress potatoes."

Low Cost Reforestction Possibte in Oregon

Reforestation can be done at a cost of $2.00 per acre as compared with former planting costs of $14.50 per acre, declares Lynn F. Cronemiller, Oregon Assistant State Forester. This is made possible because of means of exterminating white-footed mice, devised by the State Forestrv Department. Tillamook County has deeded 200,000 acres of the Tillamook burn to the State and the Forestry Department plans to exterminate the rnice, seed the ridges and then depend on new trees to reforest the lower slopes and vallevs

Attends Pittsburgh Meeting

Kenneth Shipp, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, returned to his office April 20 lrom a trip to pittsburgh, Pa., where he attended a meeting of the board of directors of the National Plyvi'ood Distributors Association.

Helps Rehabilitate Okinawa Villase

Atenniya Village, in the center of Okinawa, on April 9 became the first Okinawan town to be rehabilitated by America's military government, and about 500 civilians registered with Capt' Donald Spaulding of Burbank, Calif', according to a press dispatch.

Capt. Spaulding said: "First we'Il see if the town had a mayor and if not I'11 appoint one. We'll try to keep all the original village officers at their old jobs."

The news dispatch stated that after the villagers have 'been reestablished in their own homes, stragglers from outlying farms and burnt out villages nearby will be given shelter. This particular village was untouched by American shelling, and it is .estimated that it can take care of 2000 people.

Capt. Spaulding, before entering the Service, was a member of the office staff of the Blanchard Lumber Company at Burbank.

Plans for Ecsy-to-Build Displcy Rcck

Made Avcdlcrble by AFPI

Plans for a display rack designed to accommodate the forest informational literature which it makes available to any organi zation engaged in the manufacture or sale of forest products, are being sent this week to mills and retail establishments all over the country by the public information service of American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

The rack is designed as a convenient means of display for information literature on a reception room table, the wall of a mill near an exit or time clock, or on the counter of a retail establishment. One sample was produced and is now in use at the headquarters of American Forest Products Industries in Washington.

The display is planned to accommodate the following publications: America's Forests, Trees for Tomorrow, New Magic In Wood, Paul Bunyan's Quiz, Progress In American Forest Management, A Big Job for America, Our Forest Future, and Your Friend John Citizen.

Will Move to San Frcrncisco

Ernest T. Dolge, retired Tacoma lumberman, and Mrs. Dolge, plan to move to San Francisco soon. Mr. Dolge was prominently identified with the lumber industry in the Northwest for many years, and operated a sawmill at Tacoma. He retired in 1943.

Housing

Housing Administrator Blandford says that there should be no international barrier to the free exchange of information touching on all phases of housing.

The NHA anounces housing quotas for seven localities under the H-2 program which allows construction under predetermined sales and rental ceilings of $8,000 for sales and $65 a month for rentals. The quotas are BethpageFarmingdale, N. Y., 1,40O units; Brooklyn-Long 'Island City, N. Y., 1,400 units; Dothan, Ala.,25 units; Knox City, Texas, 10 units; Bodega Bay, Calif., 10 units; Sanger, Calif., 35 units; Shelton, Wash. ,20 units.