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(Continued from Page 8) boards, the rains, the floods, the heat, the drought, the drunks, the skunks, the trucks, the tires, the timber, the "Juneteenth," the Fourth of July, the Whites, the Blacks, the Reds, etc., so that honestly I'll be damned if I know when, if ever, we will have any lumber to sell you. But it was good hearing from you."

That could be used as a model letter for the many men who are so busy these days trying to explain to their lumber needing friends just why it is that they cannot sell or ship them anything. For, as Durante says in his swell radio program-"those are the conditions that prevail." ***

Guess I'll have to quit printing things in this column like the shipping of forty-one million pounds of butter to Russia. Every lumberman I have talked te since that issue came out has cursed deep, dark oaths into their beards, as they think of their own kids who seldom taste or see butter. One of our U. S. Senators said in a speech the other day on the subject of OPA that what this country needed was some first class resignations in Washington. Some of these days the cover will come off of the Lend-Lease mess, and when it does there will be a sensation. Talked at length with an American couple just back from several years in Mexico City. They could hardly believe what they discovered about our scarcities of necessities. In Mexico, they said as so many others have previously told me, nothing is scarce in the way of American products. Prices are high, but everything is there in plenty that we have trouble getting out here. They evidently get them first. The American Black Market gets next call. The little man in the street in this country, is the forgotten man. You can get everything in this country, too, if you have the.money to pay, and know where to go. But poor little Mister John Citizen !

Tops Them All

You have written many fine "Vagabond Editorials," but the editorial pages of your issue of July I tops them all.

Congratulations on your clear thinking and your helpfulness to the cause of good Americanism.

E. B. Culnan Western Lumber Comoanv San Diego, California

How many of our great crop of war heroes this time will go into politics? Never before has there been so magnificent a reservoir of such men to draw from. Most of the discussions you hear of Presidential possibilities from among our warriors, fail to recall what a crop of such timber the Civil War created. When you check them over yourself, it will probably surprise you. The only one usually mentioned is General Grant. But in 1864 the Democratic party nominated for President General Geo. B. McClellan, of New Jersey, who was narrowly beaten by Abe Lincoln. Four years later the Republicans elected Grant, and did it again in 1872. Then in 1876 the Republicans elected General Rutherford B. Hayes. Four years later they elected General Garfield. In 1888 they elected General Harrison. Next they elected Majqr Wm. McKinley, a Civil War vet also, who was followed by Colonel Teddy Roosevelt, a veteran of the Spanish American war, and last of our soldier presidents. When you consider how small was the crop of able men the Civil War gave us compared with World War Two, may we not confidently expect in the next decade to see some of the great leaders of this war seeking to make history politically also? Civilian political leaders who look eagerly to the future, could see some warlike forms on the horizon if they looked closely.

Acquires Scn Diego Planing Mill

A ner,vly organized company, American Mill and Manufacturing Co., has leased rvith option to buy the San Diego Planing Mill at San Diego. Frank Evenson, general manager of American Products Inc., San Diego, heads the new company.

Frank O. Benz, manager of the San Diego Planing Mill, will be associated with the new concern and has been appointed sales manager. Jeff Crandall, superintendent of the mill, 'ivill also continue r,r,'ith the nerv firm.

Johnson-Smith

Miss Frances Smith of Santa Ana, Calif., was married to Major Charles Russell Johnson II, U. S. Army Air Forces, at the Church of The Messiah, Santa Ana, July 7.

Major Johnson is the son of Otis R. Johnson, president of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, and is stationed at Roswell, N. M., where the yorrng couple will live following a l0-day honeymoon.

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