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How Lumber Looks

Building permits issry-d in June, 194O, f.or 91 pacific Slope cities- aggregated $27,CfJ0,941: down 8.87 per cent, from tire month earlier total of $29,ffi,346, and 4.98 per cent lower than the $28A15,239 level. reported for the'same cities in June, 1939, accordin_g_ tp t!. Western Monthly Building Sulyey prepared by tr. R. Baker & Co., of San Francisco.' -^T\S^ZS lga-ding cities recorded permits aggregating g21,696,852. Volume for these top ralking citiei was 4.-78 per cent lower than that reported in l\{ay-, 1940, and 1.82 ier cent below the level 1lqined in June,'Ig3g.' Los Ange'les headed the list with 95,561,@8 ind was followed bv"San Francisco with$2,W,770. Seattle, Wash.; Oakland, Calif. ; ?14^Yqlqo"ver,,B. C., all had permits totalling in excess of $1,000,000. Cities reporting tonstruction pe-rmits in excess of $500,000 included Burbank, San Diegb, Long Beach, Pasadena, Glendale, Sacramento and SoutL Gate.-Califorg_!; Honolulu, T. H.; Portland, Oregon; and .Spokane, Washington.

The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association reported that lumber production for the week ended July 20 was l1 p.t cent grealer than the previous week, shifmints were 141er-cent greater.and new business.ll per clnt larger.

Production for the week by 514 millJ was 252p49,ffi feet of softwoods and hardwoods combined. Shipments were 25I,271,000 feet and orders 281,185,00O feet. For the plgc^e$ng week the figures were: Mills, 502; production, 22,6,852,W feet ; shipments, 219,955,00O; orders, 253,977,000.

Reports from 113 Western Pine Association mills for the week ended Jaly 20 showed new business as 80,766,000 feet, compared with 81,863,000 the previous week.

Shipments reached 79,473,W feet, against 73,884,000 and

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To date orders are 2,8O,424,000 feet compared with l,89O,222,W in 1939.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended July 20, 136 mills reporting, gave orders as 43,885,000 feet, shipments 35,528,000 feet, and production 28,176,W f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 87,738,000 feet. Orders were 15,709,00O feet, or 55.75 per cent above production for the week.

Lumber cargo arrivals at Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor for the week ended July 27 amounted to 11,888,000 feet, compared with 18,4&,W feet the preceding week.

Lumber deliveries by water from the Pacific Northwest as reported by the Pacific Lumber Carriers' Association, San Francisco, totaled, 102,147,100 feet in May, and in June, 76,926,000 feet.

Deliveries at the various ports were as foilows:

Stewart Holbrook Directs Campaign Against \(/estern Pine Semi- Annual Meeting

Forest Fires in \(/ashington State at San Francisco August 9

Stewart H. Holbrook, well known author and lumber publicity man of the Pacific Northwest, is active manager of a "Keep Washington Green" campaign that started in June of this year, and is well under way. He has established an office at Olympia, Wash., from which the statewide work will be carried on. Organizing every available group of civic minded people in the entire state in a concerted and organized efrort to prevent forest fires, is his job. The big lumber and timber owning firms in Washington are solidly behind him, and helping finance the campaign. He will speak before groups in all parts of the state, soliciting and directing their assistance to the movement.

Back From Hawaii

Henry M. Hink, vice-president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned July 24 on the Matson liner Matsonia from a four weeks' vacation trip to the Hawaiian Islands. IIe was accompanied by Mrs. Hink and their daughter, Bernice.

Vacationing At Santa Cruz

H. B. Hadfield, sales manager, C. E. Williams Lumber Company, Wilmar, left July 26 Lor a two weeks' vacation at Santa Cruz where he will visit old friends.

Portland, Oregon, July 13.-The semi-annual meeting of the Western Pine Association will be held in the Palace Hotel at San Francisco on Friday, August 9, according to an announcement today by S. V. Fullaway, Jr., secretarymanager. Committee meetings will be held on the two days preceeding.

It is expected that Dr. Wilson Compton and Harris Collingwood, of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, will be present and discuss such timely subjects as lumber in relation to the National Defense Program and forest conservation. A California business leader will also bring a message of interest to the Western Pine industry at the August 9 meeting.

CHAS. WILLIAMS, PRESIDENT OF MOORE DRY KILN COMPANY, IN CALIFORNIA

Charlie Williams, of Jacksonville, Florida, president of the Moore Dry Kiln Company, was a brief visitor in California during the past week, en route to Portland, Oregon, where he will spend the summer.

Mr. Williams reports that their business is wonderful so far this year in the kiln department, and that in addition they are doing a constantly growing business in stackers and other automatic lumber handling machinery and equipment. He says that many Southern sawmills are now installing 'Western type equipment for handling lumber, such as carriers, hoists, stackers, etc.

Saw the heavens fiU with commerce, Argosies of magic sails; Pilots of the purple twilight, Dropping down with costly bales; I Heard the heavens fill with shouting, i And there rained a ghastly dew; tr'rom the nations? airy navies, ' Grappling in the central blue.

-Tennyson in ,'Locksley Hall.,' ***

Talk about predictions of airplanes, and air commerce, and air fighting! What else could Lord Tennyson have been talking about in this passage from .,Locksley Hall"?

For months past in many parts of Europe, and over England, the "airy navies" have been ,.grappling in the central blue," and fhe .,ghastly dew" comes from the spluttering machine guns, and the dropping bombs of death. Evidently the distinguished English bard had likewise the power of prophecy. :l€ {. * rF*rf

Just an hour ago f stopped work to listen to Lord Halifax over the radio. He was answering Hitler,s recent tirade. How beautifully all those British statesmen speak t He mentioned "the unconquerable passion of man for freedom." fsn't that splendidty put? And when he got to Mister Mussolini, he skinned him beautifully in just a few words. He spoke of the Duce .,flushed with victory over F'rance whom he never fought," and claiming to be master of the Mediterranean '.which he has never conquered." He said more in a few short minutes than Hitler did in two hours.

How horribly most of our speakers of today waste words. I listened to a great part of the speeches made at fhe two national political conventions, my chief hope being to hear some fine, old-fashioned oratory. And there was none. The NEW DEAL convention was the most disappointing to me, because I expected to hear some stem-winding oratory when the Southern delegates got the fosr. And not a single speech was made that by the widest stretch of the imagination could have been called decent oratory. The keynote was delivered by a Southerner; and I cannot recall ever hearing a worse speech or a lrorse speaker. I've always declared rathcr blatantty that the South is the source and final resting place of oratory. Guess I'll have to wait for a new crop of political orators. ***

And when Mr. Roosevelt made his acceptance over the radio, he used thousands upon thousands of words to simply say-"I accept." That reminds me of the famous story of the fierce old Spaniard who lay dying, and the priest was at his side. The priest said to him-..Before I can give you absolution, you must forgive your enemies.', The old Spaniard said-"I haven't an enemy on earth.', "'What?" exclaimed the priest, who knew something of his history. "You have no enemies?" .,Not an enemy," replied the old Spaniard. "I killed the last one yesterday.,, And thus it was at the NEW DEAL convention. Every other possible candidate had been effectually and completely destroyed before the convention started. yes, ..v/e planned it that way."

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I can remember when every Democratic convention was studded with silver-tongued speakers who took the very stars down from the heavens in their eloquent enthusiasm. Woe is me, how we have retrograded into oratorical mediocrity !

By the wan who "r" lr"r.r".,ltitr orators in American history? (Please do not hurt my feelings by confusing oratory with reading prepared scripts before microphones.) Men can no more agree on this subject than fhey can about which woman of history was the most beautiful. It is entirely a matter of individual taste. With a great love of oratory and eloquence bred deep in my bones, I have devoured and studied the words and thoughts of most of the famous speakers of American history, and I arrange my favorites in THIS fashion: Patrick Ffenry, Abraham Lincoln, Col. R. G. Ingersoll, John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Major John W. Daniel, and Joseph Weldon Bailey. Unfortunately for me the only one of these I ever heard was the last named. I do not include William Jennings Bryan. I heard him deliver the "Cross of Gold" speech that established his oratorical fame, yet I think Senator Joe Bailey, of Texas, surpassed him-and surpassed all other speakers I have ever heard---as the rays of the noonday sun eclipse a farm lantern. THERE

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Our children today learn all too little of the great Americans who have put life and color into our history by the grandeur of their speech. Most of them have heard or read of the eloquent Patrick Henry and his immortal words-"Give me liberty, or give me death,'-and his equally famous oration that ended-.'If this be treason, make the most of it." But it should be remembered that Patrick Henry, in his famous debates, had no antagonist worthy of his steel, so far did he outclass his field. There were no other titans of logic and eloquence to thunder against him, or to attempt to confuse his golden tongue.

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I am thinking of another series of debates that took place in the United States Senate at one time, with the great Daniel Webster and the powerful and dramatic Henry Clay on one side, and John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, often called "the master logician of his age,', opposing them single-handed. An English journalist, sent over here to report those debates, wrote back to his paper in London: "History has no parallel. There has been nothing like it since tlre debates of Milton's angels.,, yet few Americans today remember that it ever happened, or that such giants of intellect, with golden tongues attuned to their marvelous thinking machinern ever graced this American soil, and filled our chambers of Congress with the marvels of their oratorical magic.

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For extended flights of oratory, for beautiful thoughts and phrase construction that delighted the ear and the mind, the famous agnostic, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, a soldier in the Federal A*y during the Civil War, had no counterpart in American history. It is related that Abraham Lincoln once heard Ingersoll speak, and returning home said to his wife: "What a marvelous instrument is human speech, when played by a master."

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The three great orators of ancient history were, of course, outstanding; Pericles, Demosthenes, and Cicero, the first two Greek, the third Roman. Demosthenes and Cicero were of the flaming type of orators, the type which William Jennings Bryan represented. Their eloquence rose in speed, and power, and rhythm as they pyramided. Pericles was the ponderous type of orator. Something of ' his style may be gleaned from. the fact that, before every public utterance, he prayed to the Gods that he might use no unnecessary word, and misuse no word. That was the school to which the late Senator Joe Bailey, of Texas, belonged. As he became more dramatic, more enthused, more inspired by his own thoughts, he slowed down instead of speeding up, making every word carry its burden of power and of logic. FIe never ..shot to scatter."

I heard Bailey end one of his speeches on Americanism with these words, slowly, powerfully, every word driven in like a railroad spike: "I agree with Lincoln, that all the armies of Europe could never make a footprint in the Blue Ridge, or drink from the waters of the Ohio. But if this nation ever dies, it will die from within, and not from without; it will be suicide, and not murder. And I warn you, my friends, that if this nation ever dies, there will be no resurrection morn; there will be no guardian angel to roll away the rock from our sepulchre door; there will be no Easter morn for this republic." That's what I call speaking. *rf*

And, speaking of redundancy and circumlocution, and word waste in public speaking, it might well be said that public writing is still worse, as illustrated by the two national political platforms recently written. Reams of empty words, which will be forgotten the minute the heat of conflict rises. I would remind you that Abraham Lincoln once ran for fhe Legislature in lllinois, and in his platform there were just twenty-seven words. He wrote: "I believe in a United States bank; I believe in a protective tariff; I believe in a system of internal improvements; and I am against human slavery." He got elected. I think a platform of about that length would get a lot of votes today. What are platforms for, anyway, but to confuse the gullible? ***

Daniel Webster once said: "f shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's, and truth's. I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American." How would that be for a mighty good political platform today?

I would like to close this with a prayer. In line with my recent reading, this is it: "Oh Lord! Please don't ever let Westbrook Pegler turn his guns loose on me !" How that guy can write! And what magnificent courage he has!

With Lamon - Bonnington Co.

Ralph Lamon, son of Fred Lamon, is now associated with Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco.

Since graduating from Stanford two years ago Ralph has been working in Douglas Fir, Pine and Redwood mills to gain experience in the manufacture of lumber in preparation for his entry in the wholesale business.

Eagfe Rock Lumber Co. Mod etnizes Office and Display Rooms-Holds Open House

Eagle Rock Lumber Company, 2214 Fair Park Ave., Eagle Rock, held open house on Friday and Saturday, J:uly 72-13, when the public inspected their remodeled home.

The company has just finished the remodeling and modernization of its offices and show rooms. The hardware and paint department that formerly occupied the front of the building has been moved to the rear where space has been made available, and the large room vacated is now devoted to the display of lumber and building materials,

There are sections of walls finished in Philippine Mahogany and three different patterns of Knotty Pine. The ceilings are done with Johns-Manville decorative insulation board and USG weatherwood. Part of the walls are finished in Johns-Manville bevel plank in five different colors. The bookkeeping department is finished in a variety of hardwood panels, including oak, birch, maple, walnut, pearlwood, Philippine Mahogany and gum.

The former L-counter has been streamlined, semi-circular in shape, and faced with panels of Johns-Manville decorative flexboard in a variety of colors and patterns.

The Eagle Rock Lumber Company was established in 7912, and is one of the oldest business establishments in Eagle Rock. Emil F. Swanson, owner, widely known and progressive retail lumberman, purchased the business in 9n.

Going and Coming

Jas. B. Overcast, sales manager, Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, was back on the job July 29 after two weeks' vacation spent at his cabin in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near Ben Lomond.

George W. Gorman, Gorman Lumber Co., Oakland, returned recently from a business trip to the Pacific Northwest. He visited Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B. C.

Howard M. Gunton of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, was back at his desk July 16 from an enjoyable two weeks'vacation with his family at their cottage at Clear I-ake, I-^ake County.

H. G. Larrick, Barr LumbeJ Company, Solano Beach, and Fred Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, did some deep sea fishing off the Coronado Islands on Monday, luly 22. They reported fishing good.

Jeff Crandall, superintendent of the San Diego Planing Mill, San Diego, and Mrs. Crandall, have returned from a six weeks' automobile tour through the East and Northwest.

Kenneth Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is back on the job after a two weeks' vacation spent in Northern California and at Huntington Beach.

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Dealers Cash in on Septic Tank Sales

A full carload of Palco Redwood Sectional Septic Tanks with 3,500linear feet of Palco disposal drain are now being installed to serve Sacramento's new $150,000.00 El Rancho Motel, materials for which are being supplied by The Diamond Match Company, Sacramento. The picture shows tank sections being loaded on this company's truck for delivery to the job.

A third straight carload of Palco Redwood Sectional Septic Tanks was recently shipped to Bishop, Calif. for the U. S. Indian Service, which has installed hundreds of these tanks throughout the Southwest with installations at a half dozen places in Alaska.

"L 34 per cent increase in sales of these products this year to date," said Max Cook, director of sales promotion for The Pacific Lumber Company, "is contnbuting to some very profitable business for the lumber dealers who previously lost this business to mail order houses, concrete pipe plants, and plumbers." These products are marketed exclusively through lumber dealers.

H. R. MacMillan is Lumber Controller of Canada

H. R. MacMillan, of Vancouver, 8.C., has been named. by the Canadian Government to the office of Lumber Controller of the Dominion, as one of their wartime measures. Mr. MacMillan is an internationally known lumber exporter. Mr. MacMillan has named E. C. Manning, Chief Forester of British Columbia, as his chief assistant, and together they will establish and enforce a wartime code for the entire lumber industry of Canada..

Oregon to Have New Douglas Fir Plywood Plant

Buffalo, N.Y., July 8, l940.-Announcement was made today that Oregon Plywood Corporation has been incorporated for $250,000 for the purpose of constructing a modern plywood plant at Sweet Home, Oregon.

This new corporation has acquired a site of approximately thirty-five acres, including a log pond capable of storing five million feet of logs and exclusive water rights insuring adequate water supply at all times for storage and other purposes.

Officers of the corporation include Franklin A. Hofheins, president; Robert F. Hofheins, treasurer, and Earl W. Lesher, secretary.

fn'commenting on the organization of the new company Frankli,n A. Hofheins made the following remarks:

"Oregon Plywood Corporation expects to have its new plant in production early this fall and will be in position to meet a demand for, not only the conventional grades of Fir Plywood, but of several specialties including lumber core plywood. The plant is being equipped to turn out these products on a quantity production basis. It is planned to install a fifteen opening hot-plate press, which will produce the standard grades and also plywood made with water-proof adhesives.

"The plant will have an annual capacity of approximately 5O,00O,00O feet and will be one of the most modern and finest equipped plywood plants on the Pacific Coast.

"The Sweet Home location was chose,n because of its proximity to the largest remaining stands of large, soft, original growth Douglas Fir, there being over thirty billion feet of timber in the immediate area."

The offices. of the president and treasurer are at 28 Church Street, Buffalo, N. Y., and of the secretary at Sweet Home, Oregon.

\Tholesale Firm Openr Pine Dept.

Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, recently opened a department to handle Ponderosa and Sugar Pine lumber.

E. J. Doty is in charge of the new department. Mr. Doty was connected with a large wholesale concern in Ohio for the last few years and prior to that was with the Tarter, Webster & Johnson organization in San Francisco.

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Scgh and Door Wholesalers Hold Golf Tournament

Glenn Fogleman, The California Door Company, was the winner of the Sampson Co. membership trophy donated by the Sampson Co., with a net score of. 77 at the Wholesale Sash and Door Association of Southern California golf tournament at the Fox Hills Golf Club, Los Angeles, Tuesday afternoon, luly 23.

Bayman Bouck, Patten-Blinn Lumber Company, and Jim Pretty; W. P. Fuller & Co., tied for the Hollywood Door guest trophy, donated by the West Coast Screen Co., with a net score of 68. They will play off the tie at an early date.

Dee Essley, with a net score of. 70, won the runner-up prize f.or the guests and was presented with a beautiful cigarette case donated by Tyre Bros. Glass & Paint Co.

Jim Block, The Celotex Corporation, Baymon Bouck, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., and Bob Osgood, CadwalladerGibson Co. Inc., were the winners of the blind bogey prizes.

Golf balls were presented to the winners in the various special events. The golf balls were donated by Frank Gehring, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., and Paul Baugh, E. U. Wheelock Inc.

Dinner was served in the Club House at 7 :@ p.m. after which Chairman Earl Galbraith awarded the prizes to the winners. Boulder Young, in charge of promotion for the Fox Hills Golf Club, gave a short talk on state open amateur golf championship that will be held at the Fox Hills Golf Club on August 15-16-17-18.

There was a good turnout, 50 playing golf and 60 were present for dinner.

D. D. McCallum, Orrin Wright and Earl Galbraith were in charge of the arrangements for the tournament.

EDWARD H. SCHAF'ER, JR. WILL STUDY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY FOR PH.D. DEGREE

Edward H. Schafer, Jr., son of Ed Schafer, Los Angeles representative for Herbert A. Templeton Lumber Company and Cobbs & Mitchell Co., is spending a few weeks with his folks following his attendance the past two years at Oriental Institute, University of Hawaii, where he received his master's degree in Chinese history. He graduated from the University of California in 1938, majoring in anthropology. He is one of twelve students in the United States and the only one in Hawaii to receive a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.

Mr. Schafer has learned to read and write classical Chinese faster than any other "haole," according to Dr. S. Y. Ch'en.of the University of Hawaii. He will enter Harvard University this fall where he will do postgraduate work in Chinese history toward a Ph.D. degree.

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