W|eret/er [rr/Ji*'o SIR AIGHT-LINE Oak Flooring

You and your customers will see the advantages of Bradley's STRAIGHT-LINE Oak Flooring ^t ^ glance. Each strip is precisioned to exact size, with straight, parallel lines and 90degree angles throughout. This eliminates crook and provides perfect side and end matching. Tongue and groove go together easily and snugly. No forcing or nailed-in tension to cause opening up later on.

These and many other advantages have been proved in thousands of installations. Needless to say, then, that in Bradley's STRAIGHT-LINE Oak Flooring you'll find every answer to quick and profitable sales.

Aoailable in all sizes and grades of standard strip. To start your order mwing, get in toucb witb the nearest Bradley represmatiae, or address:

Wishes sometimes come true. There was a popular song that said that "if you wish long enough, wish strong enough" your wish will come true.

How many times in ;".rJ few years since Hitler started out to crush the civilized world have you heard people say: "Wouldn't it be a grand thing for the rest of the world if Hitler and Stalin would only lock horns?,, No doubt millions have uttered that remark, and other millions have thought it. WeIl, there's one general wish that has certainly come true. Those two great powers for evil are locked in deadly and mortal combat. How much this bloody diversion will help England remains to be seen.

Reams have been -rr.,l' lr"l" "nr.r,s armies plunged across the Russian lines about the political aspects of the situation. The crux of American opinion seems to be that every Nazi, every Nazi gun, plane, tank, and other weapon of destruction that the Soviet can put out of commission, is just that many that will not be used against England-or ourselves-later on. ***

Read one of the finest tributes to the character of the British people-particularly with reference to their habits in war-the other day, to be found in literature. ft was written by Sir Walter Scott in the .,fntroduction,' to his immortal poem book "The Lady of the Lake.,' It is really a beautiful character sketch of the English as a breed, when Scott writes of "the generous compassion which the English-more than any other nation-feel for the misfortunes of an honorable foe." Can you imagine finding compassion for a foe in Hitler or Stalin?

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Compassion is a Christ-like characteristic at any time and in any breast. But the compassion that finds expression in the hearts of warriors for an honorable foe, deserves the praise of men and angels alike. Sir Walter could have sounded no higher praise of the English. And, coming from a Scotchman, it is high tribute, indeed. ***

Nowadays everyone seems to be telling everyone else what to read, particularly with reference to the war. So let's join the throng. Have you read, "The White Cliffs of Dover," by Alice Duer Miller? If not, you've missed a masterpiece. That is, if you like poetry. It is a little book of poetry, with war as a background, is told in England, and with some American sidelights. Miss Miller sure wrote herself a whale of a little book, photographing the spirit of England at war, in marvelous fashion.

You hear and read " ,ra "0""a what may be expected when this world war finally ends-as end it must, some day. One thing seems fairly certain if civilization survives, and that is that the end of the war will find the English-speaking peoples of this world bound together by bands stronger than ties of steel. What the novelist called "the bright face of danger"-a common and heartshaking danger-is bringing Americans and Britons closer and closer together. England must and will be saved from the mailed fist of the destroyer, who knows nothing of compassion or of mercy. And in the years and generations to come these English-speaking nations will be a power for good and a power for peace that will mean everything to a war-torn world, striving to rebuild a tattered civilization. What better coalition for saving humanity could arise? ***

We who have been accustomed for the past decade and more to look upon lumber as a disappearing industry, note with wonder what the American defense effort is doing directly for the industry. It started out with tremendous orders for materials for housing our new army, navn etc. Now it spreads far beyond that. From various departments of Government there come to our desks communications of many sorts, suggesting new and useful things that wood and lumber can do right now to help in the defense effort.

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For instance there is one from Nathan Strauss of the United States Housing Authority, many pages devoted to specific suggestions for releasing various metals for strictly Governmental use by replacing them with wood. It is important that the metals that Defense needs shall be re- leased from ordinary use' and, in order to keep business moving, that they be satisfactorily replaced' So USHA suggests wood and lumber for scores of practical uses' The matter is put up to the lumber folks to find the right wood to make the various replacements, not as a commercial proposition, but as a duty to help keep the wheels turning in the national "T"lt"i:".

Surely lumber is getting the breaks. It is being used in huge quantities in places and directions where lumber ordinarily goes; and in addition, because of its versatility and adaptability it is being suggested for an almost infinite variety of substitutions for metals that are so needed for guns, planes, and tanks. We know that we need all the steel and aluminum the country can turn out' The production of those metals is limited' But there is greater elasticity to the possible production of lumber than there is to steel and aluminum, and without a doubt the lumber industry will find the means to produce and deliver the materials that are needed, and supply them in satisfactory fashion.

President Asks Funds to Double Defense Housing Program

The President has asked Congress to double the defense housing program by appropriating an additional $300,000,000 to construct 75,000 new homes' Construction work is still incomplete on the first 75,000 defense housing units approved, but the President states that by June, t{+2, tZl,m additional housing units will be needed' The new appropriation does not cover the President's estimate of our full requirements.

"The effect of the defense housing program has not yet been fully registered on the housing market," the President's message declared. "Some new plants have not yet reached full capacity and many new facilities remain to be constructed."

Buys Yard At Valley Springs

The Diamond Match Company has purchased the Valley Springs branch of the Valley Lumber Company of Lodi' Supervision of the new yard will be under Harry Stewart, -"t.g"t of their Oakdale yard and district manager for the company.

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