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J. C. Dlouc, Prer, cad -Treqr.r I. E. Marda, Vice-Prcr.; W. l. Blccl, Secrgtcry Publtrhcd tb. lrt aad l5th of ecch Eotrth 6t

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How Lumber Looks

Lumber production during the week ended June 8, 1940, was 9 per cent greater than in the previous holiday week; shipments were 2 per cent less; new business, 3 per cent less, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations eovering the operations of representative hardwood and softwood mills. Shipments were one per cent below production; new orders, ll per cent below production. Compared with the corresponding week of 1939, production was 3 per cent greater; shipments 7 per cent greater and new business 9 per cent less. The industry stood at 72 per cent of the as reported for the same week were 28,248,000 !9e-t,--o1 ! per cent below production. Production was 231,957,ffi leet. Reports froir 100 hardwood mills give new-business as 9,346,000 feet, or 7 per cent above production. Shipments as ieported for'the same week weie 8,973,@ f991,- 9r 3 per c-nt above production. Production was 8,716,0@ feet. seasonal weekly average ot l9D production and cent of average 1929 shipments.

Reported production for the 23 weeks of 19,1O per

' Productigt' during week ended June 8, 194O, ol 378 identical ,s'Sftwood mills was 229,I36,0ffi feet, and a year ago it l6s 222,63,000 feet; shipments were respectively 225,9/,W feet, and 2LO,969,W feet; and orders received fSO,00O feet, and 223,m,m feet. In the case of hardds, 83 identical mills reported production this year a year ago 7,3T,ffi0 feet and 6,457,W feet ; ^shiPments 6967,Cin feel and 7,249,M feet, and orders 8,O27,ffi leet and 7,8O8,000 feet. t9 da shi t was 8 per cent above corresponding weeks of ments were 7 per cent above the shipments and were 6 per cent above the orders of the 1939

For the 23 weeks of I94O to date, new business was 4 p-er cent above production, and shipments were 5 per cent above production.

The ratio of unfilled orders to gross stocks was 19 per cent on June 8, 194O, compared with 18 per cent a year ago. Unfilled orders were 5 per cent heavier than a year ago; gross stocks were 3 per cent less.

During the week ended June 8, L94O, 485 mills produced 24o.,673,W feet of softwoods and hardwoods combined; shipped 237,221f/J-:: feet; booked orders of 214,845,@0 feet. Revised figures for the preceding week were mills, 512; production, 2n,575,W feet; shipments, 242,659,000 feet; orders, 22|,O7O,NO feet.

Lumber orders reported for the week ended June 8, 1940, by 399 softwood mills totalled N5,499,W feet; or 11 per cent below the production of the same mills. Shipments

The Western Pine Association for the week ended June 15, 105 mills reporting, gave orders as 68,200,00O feet, shipments 69,686,000 feet,- and production 84,263,W feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 235,355,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended June 15, 115 mills reporting, gave orders as 26,876,40O feet, shipments 26,442,W feet, and production 26,W.@ !9et, Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 56,009,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association reported production from 13 operations for the month of May, 1940, as 31,310,000 feet, shipments 33,391,00O feet, and orders received n,263,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 26.555.000 feet.

Samuel Rawlins Stevens, in his new book "Trees," tells of their character as living things, their habitat, their uses to man, and the great lumber industry they have made possible. His scene is the North American continent, with brief excursions into foreign tree lore, and a prevailing emphasis on the timber belt of Southern United States.

One chapter is illustrated with diagrams on the amusing and ingenious sign language evolved by lumbermen of the South to communicate with each other above the continual shrill scream of sawmills where they work. Other chapters are on tree growth and distribution, history of sawmilling, shrinkage, lumber grading, good lumber and good construction, famous trees in history, reforestation, forest fires, soil erosion, and odd facts concerning trees.

Mr. Stevens is one of a family of prominent lumbermen, and he has served on the staff of two lumber associations for over a quarter of a century. During the World War he served the United States government as lumber expert and technician. He has contributed to various trade and technical publications. For several years he conducted research departments for lumber manufacturing concerns, has specialized in tree growth and shrinkage, and is equipped with practical as well as technical knowledge on kiln-drying of lumber.

"Trees"---New Book by S. R. Stevens Nationa 4

holcsalers Annual

The forty-eighth annual of the NationalAmerican Assoc *""trGfirtF l/-'3' estchester ntry CIE6.-Rye,-N Y., on June 4-5.

The following officers were re-elected for the ensuing year: president, J. A. Curry, J. C. Turner Lumber Co., New York; first vice-president, R. C. Hermann, Pittsburgh, Pa.; second vice-president, Farnham W. Smith, Blanchard Lumber Co., Boston; treasurer, William Schuette, It., New York; secretary-directing manager, Sid L. Darling, New York; manager 'Western district, Roy A. Dailey, Seattle, Wash.

The following nine directors were chosen to complete the board of thirty: H. F. Beal, Beal Lumber Co., Jacksonville, Fla.; John O. Gronen, C. O. Gronen Lumber Co. Inc., Waterloo, fowa', c".l , F Sodethcrg, Ca*€ederbetg tl

MacDonald & pa Morse

New York, N. Y.;Earl V. Smith. Earl V. Lum Co., Salt Lake City,

Member Of Sales Staff

4L S*itn*t, formerly of the mill department of 4-rekaSsh Door & Mouldine Mills, San Francisco. is now a Streetl Dallas. Texas.

The book "Trees" is being distributed at $3.00 per copy by-Qlcil gaugh & c^-f"'

Do you fear the force of the wind-the slash of the rain? Go face them, and fight them, be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf-go wade like the crane; The palms of your hands will thickenThe skin of your face will tanYou'll grow ragged and weary and swarthyBut you'll walk like a man! :i** -HamlinGarland'

Shakespeare wrote long ago that foqn-fifths of trhe world could irot conquer England. f wrote the other day that Hitler could not conquer F'rance. The blood-bathed Nazi showed me to be a bum prophet. But f'm still backing Strakespeare's prediction. ,f rF :f

When the history of this present day is written, it wiU be said that Hitler revolutionized the science of warfare; and Mussolini the art of cowardice. ***

With regard to the Roman dictator, a word is coming into common use by American writers; the word Jackal. I remember when I was a kid I loved to read the African adventure stories written by Rider Haggard. fn one of them a Zulu named Umslopagaas was about to fight a great black warrior. As he lifted his battle ax said to his foe: "Tonight the Jackals will laugh as crunch thy bones." The Jackal, you see, is the comes AFTER the battle.

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Honest, wouldn't you hate to know that history was going to say about YOU what Mussolini must know it is going to say about HIM?

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These words that the great historian Macaulay wrote concerning John Hampden, partly explain, I believe from my amateurish viewpoint, the terrific recent happenings in France: "When he drew the sword he threw away the scabbard. He knew that the essence of war is violence, and that moderation in war is imbecility." That, unquestionably, was the attitude of the Germans. They .'threw away the scabbard" and took the initiative every minute of every day-

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Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate cavalry officer rdtro has been referred to by historians of our Civil War as "the spirit of battle incarnate," is alleged to have said that his method of winning battles was to "git thar fustest with the mostest men." ,Frtr+

This black hour in the history of civilization is putting a severe strain on human faith. Everywhere I go people in groups are talking war. And if you stand two minutes to listen, you generally hear something like this: "I don't understand why God allows that murderer to succeed, and to keep on killing decent people." That seems to be the chief worry of worlds of people; why does God allow a barbarian who hates all religion, to destroy Christian nations, and bring such immeasurable misery upon them? *,f* rf*t

To minds accustomed to think of the Almighty as a Supreme Being, a sublimated man, who sits on a shiny throne above clouds and manages ttre affairs of this world, that jS a most natural question. No doubt the Christian being torn in the Roman arena; the being burned at the stake by the Catholics; the being tortured by the Reformers; all asked that guestion-"why does God permit it?" {. * ,1.

It is related that at the beginning of the Civil War som€one said to Abraham Lincoln: "We trust, sir, that God is _or\ our side." And Abe is alleged to have replied: "It is more important to know if we are on God's side."

We hear and read much of late about "a Roman peace." In the days of the Roman Empire the people of the rest of the harassed world came to call "a Roman peace" a peace settlement "enforced with sword, and scourge, and binding slavery." France faces such a peace, as these lines are being typed. ***

And the term "fifth column" which now becomes a household phrase following recent developments in the enslavement of Europe, comes from the recent civil war in Spain. One of Franco's generals remarked that: "There are fotrr columns marching on Madrid, and a fifth column of civilians in the city who will rise up to aid the troops."

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By the way, do you know how many aliens there are living in this country? About 3,600,000 who have not sworn allegiance to our Flag. Of these there are 365,000 Germans, and about 700,000 ltalians.

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Victor Hugo wrote: "Man is master neither of his own life, nor of his fate. He can but offer to his fellow man his efforts to diminish human suffering; he can but offer to God his indomitable faith in the growth of liberty."

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Theodore Roosevelt said this, and you should put it in your scrapbook. "There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 per cent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else. When two flags are hoisted on fhe same pole, one is always hoisted underneath. The hyphenated American always hoists the American Flag undermost."

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Surely lines of national cleavage are fast disappearing in this country. The other day I read the keynote speech of a political orator in the "deep South," and he took his text from-who do you suppose? Abraham Lincoln.

They've evidently been wiped out the West, also. Paul Harrison tells about a movie tive in Hollywood. They were preparing t/ make n picture in his studio, and he said to t{e wri staff: 'lMaybe we'd betIt's old stuff." ter pep up that speech

;" ;* would stop at nothing. corn, as the farmer said. He'd

A man who'd do f{e'd even pull up almost try to change the name of Arkansas. Remember the famous speech made in the Arkansas Senate by Cassius M. Johnson when some politician suggested changing the name of Arkansas? You don't? It's too long for this column, but it ends up in this fashion: "Change the name of Arkansaw! You may extract sunshine from cucumbers, hide the stars in a nail-keg, put the sky to soak in a gourd, hang the Arkansaw river on a clothes line, unbuckle the belly-band of time, and turn the sun and moon out to pasture, but you'll never change the name of Arkansaw ! The whole world will pause and wonder at the audacity of the lop-eared, lantern-jawed, half-bred, half-born, whiskeysoaked hyena who has proposed to change the name of Arkansaw!"

Australian Paper Reprints Editorial

"Speaking of Selling," by Jack Dionne, which appeared in The California Lumber Merchant was reprinted in Timber Development, published at Melbourne, Australia, in their April issue.

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