REDWOOD I.UMBER

SAI.ESI AGENTS FOR The Scge Land d Improvement Co., Willib, Cclif. Scrlmon Creek Bedwood Co., Becrtrice, Cqlil.

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Willamette Valley Lumbermcn's Golf Tournament

The Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Golf Association staged its second annual golf tournament and "Get Together'"

This was held in conjunction with the Govern'ment lumber auction which was conducted in Eugene the fore part of the week.

In the lowest Lman team contest, the Eugene manufacturers' team turned in the lowest score and won the main trophy. Other entries in this event included the Eugene wholesalers, Springfield plywood concerns, Portland wholesalers, and railroad men.

Bob Arkley won the first low gross prize and received a golf bag. The first low net prize, a set of golf clubs, was won by Carl Stinson. Prizes were also awarded to the winners of the various other events.

There was a dinner in the evening at the Hotel Osborn. The com,mittee hopes to have another gathering of this nature some time next year. The lumber auction was well attended,' and practically everyone stayed over for the golf tournament.

PINE AUCTION HELD MAY 2T IN S. F.

A tbtal of about 13,000,000 feet of Pine was bought at an auction held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco,May 21. Leo Hennessy of the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Portland, was in charge.

Water Putty Has Many Uses

An item that is being sold by a large number of lumber dealers is Durham's Rock-Hard Water Putty. It meets many repair needs, comes in dry powder form and is ready for use when mixed with water. It hardens in 'about 30 minutes, can be sawed, chiseled, nailed, polished or colored. It is sold in sizes ranging from 1 lb. cans to 350 lb. drums.

Manufactured by Donald Durham Company, Des Moines, Iowa, it is distributed in Southern California by George R. Landreth, 220 North 16th Street, Montebello, Calif., Los Angeles phone ANgelus 2-4752.

WITH WENDLING-NATHAN CO.

Bob Raymer, formerly assistant sales manager of Yosemite Sugar Pine Luniber Co., Merced Falls, Calif., is now associated with Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco. Bob has been accepted by the U. S. Army Ferry Command and will be called for training some time in the next few months.

JOHN L. TODD BACK FROM ARIZONA

John L. Todd, president of Western Door & Sash Company, Oakland, and dean of the sash and door salesmen of the United States, returned May 15 from spending six months in Arizona. For the past several years he has spent the winter in Arizona, where he makes his headquarters at Tucson. His favorite form of recreation is golf, and he broke 100 a num,ber of times in recent months.

On his way back to Oakland Mr. Todd called on the trade in the San Joaquin Valley.

Col. F. G. Sherrill is Chief of the Materials and Equipment Section, Operations Branch, Construction Division of the U. S. Corps of Engineers. He is an Army officer with whom the lumber industry has had considerable doings of late, and who is held in high respect and esteem by the many lumbermen who have made his acquaintance, and who are familiar with his methods of operation. They like this Col. Sherrill. His whole attitude and philosophy toward industry is understanding and helpful.

Col. Sherrill recently made a speech that probably contained the finest disinterested tribute to lumber and its place in the war effort that has so far been uttered. It not only gives lumber highest rank in the list of vital war materials, but it answers in definite fashion the frequently asked question-"Does the Government really need all this lumber it is clamoring for?"

Recently in Washington Col. Sherrill met with representatives of the Southern Pine industry to discuss with them the great and immediate need for more Southern Pine, and he made them a speech. That speech contained the following remarks. They are entitled to the careful reading of every man in the lumber business anywhere. They would make a good page in any lumber scrapbook, for it is not often that so just and complimentary a designation of lumber is given. Here they are: not only to properly equip our forces, but to kill the enemy.

"Undoubtedly large military operations impend. How large, it is impossible to say. To a large extent we are supplying the British armies, the Chinese armies, the French armies, the Russian armies, as well as our own armies. 'The quantity of such supplies now depends on one thing; THE QUANTITY OF LUMBER AVAILABLE TO PUT THE SUPPLIES IN SHAPE TO SHIP.

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"Therefore, the magnitude of the military operations depend in the final analysis UPON THE QUANTITY OF LUMBER WHICH THE AMERICAN LUMBER IN-. DUSTRY WILL SUPPLY FOR WAR. IN MY JUDGMENT, EVERY OTHER OBSTACLE TO TREMENDOUS MILITARY OPERATIONS CEASES TO BE OF MOMENT IF THE LUMBER SUPPLY IS TOO SHORT TO MAINTAIN THE STRIKING POWER WE DESIRE TO MARSHAL ON THE BATTLE FIELDS OF THE WORLD.

"It is not only foolish but borders on criminal negligence if we allow the authorities to embark upon a program of fighting for which there is a greater consumptive capacity in arms, food, and clothing THAN WE CAN BOX AND CRATE TO SHIP THEM.''

PERSONALLY

Consider

THE LUMBER IN. DUSTRY THE MOST IMPORTANT IV\/AR INDUSTRY IN THE COUNTRY. It provides the wherewithal for troop housing, for the construction of ships, manufacturing plants, and hospitals. And finally, no acceptable substitute has been devised to box, pack and crate the ammunition, the bombs, the torpedoes, the guns, the tanks, the automotive equipment, the food, the clothing, the other impedimenta of war necessary to get to the fighting fronts

That is putting the matter in a light that makes every lumber manufacturer, every sawmill worker, every tree cutter a soldier-at-arms, bolstering those men who do the actual fighting and shooting.

Last year when this journal made the editorial statement that "LUMBER IS THE ONLY VITAL \VAR MATERIAL FOR WHICH NO SUCCESSFUL SUBSTITUTE HAS YET BEEN DISCOVERED" it sounded tike bragging. In the light of Col. Sherrill's remarks it turns out to have been a very pronounced understatement.

That's us. Always conservative. (Oh, is that so?)