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and Distributbrs of Mexican, African and Philippine Mahogany and other hardwoods from Tropical America and the Philippine lslands.

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CUSTOM MIITING

Resowing, ripping, S2S, S4S, or detail motcher work of our remqnufqcturing plant ot Long Beqch, Cclifornio.

KII^IV DRYING insurance policies,

Precision drying of both hordwoods ond softwoods.

Lumber from the Northwest con be processed crt our Long Beoch plont on o milling cmd drying In-Tronsit freight rote.

Security benefits and their older members." pensions

So said this labor ""a"]"J"rt to a Congressional Committee. He had the same thought that a certain construction labor union must have had. They were offered a considerable increase in the wage scale, and the members voted to decline the offer, because they believed the present scale was alread! reducing building volume, and an increase would reduce is still *ot..*

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The large increase in wages given John L. Lewis' miners has created much discussion as to its e,ffects. Some say that it will increase the price of coal, and all the products that coal assists in making; which is practically everything. Others, who approved the deal, claim that'it will prevent almost unlimited loss of production in all the major basic industries, and therefore more than offset the more direct inflationary tendencies. You take your choice.

Speaking of prices, ,h" l:*;r, industry can truthfully say that it is probably the only basic industry that has red'uced prices in the last few months, in the face of infationary activity in most other lines. And the reductions have been considerable.

The predicted summer slump in business has entirely failed to show up. The latest release by the Federal Census Bureau showed that 60,055,000 civilians were working in June, an all time high for peace or war. Add the military and the total is 61,453,000 souls employed. The earnings and purchasing power of this great army of well-paid workers keeps the economic level high.

Liquor continues .. b" Jp;"1, i..,."t*ent with Americans. During the year 1946 the United States consumed 231,000,000 gallons of whisky, more than 40,000,000 above the total of the previous year. The distillers and the pub' lic paid $3,500,000,000 in whisky taxes during the year, according to the published reports.

Your Uncle Sam go, ; * *"ru."d in whisky taxes, something like $2,700,O00,000 of the total, and the state and local governments got the rest' Yes, the Department of

Commerce figures this nation paid $8,700,000,000 for whisky, beer, and wine in 1946, an average of $89 per person for everyone over 18 years of age. These hell-raising commodities certainly are popular, aren't they?

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Someone sent me a paragraph without naming the author, that is stoutly worded, and reads like this: "Communism is a smoke screen that hides a vast obscenity-a gospel of hatred, preying on the unhappy and dissatisfied."

How the thought ot tirrri..frJ*r", has taken hold of the lumber manufacturing industry. In a recent interview, F. E. Weyerhaeuser, of Tacoma, Washington, told a newspaper man that Weyerhaeuser's 2,100,000 acres of Western timber land is strictly a scientifically controlled timber farm on which they are growing trees for all time to come. Some farm! r( r :x

Ilorace Greeley's advice-"Go West, young 631"-1pxg given before the day of the "disc-jockey," Today he would undoubtedly say to the ambitious youngster-"get yourself a disc-jockey job." If the things we read in the papers and mags can be in any part relied upon, then the heaviest inflation in this country today is in the pay of the so-called "disc-jockeys," meaning men who act as master of ceremonies for radio programs made up of records, commercials, and little bits of talk on the part of the "jockeys." Just why these huge incomes are paid for jobs requiring so little, is something that none of the writers on the subject seem to explain. They tell us that these boys who simply announce a record to be played, utter a commercial, or spring a gag, get as high as four hundred thousand dollars a year for so doing. Read that over again if you want to know what inflation reallY means.

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Hitler wrote in his terrible book Mein Kampf-that book that preceded the late war and the reading of which filled the world with nameless dread: "It will be my duty to fight the next war in such terrible manner that my enemies cannot endure it." In that he was a prophet. For he DID so fight; and we who won are not entirely certain yet about enduring it.

An army of women have been driven out of the house and into jobs in recent months by the difficulty of making ends meet with only the husband's earnings to depend on. A Wall Street Journal survey in key cities across the nation shows that more and more women have gone out looking for jobs of late, and plenty of them getting them' Employment

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(Continued from Page 8) of women increases rapidly, in spite of the fact that a great wartime army and navy has been demobilized. There are five million more women working in this country today than there were in 1940, just before the war. >k**

To prove that this is really a "Vagabond" column, I often incorporate something strictly for the scrapbooks of readers. Here is one I think many of you lovers of eloquence will appreciate-and clip. You seldom think of doctors when thinking of human eloquence. So I offer a portion of a speech made long ago by a medico, that ranks among the highest. In 1878 the dreadful scourge of Yellow Fever swept parts of the South. Two young doctors, partners in practice, heard the call of duty, closed their office, and went down to fight the dreaded fever. One of them, Dr. Manning, died. Doctor Swearingen survived. Returning home, Dr. Swearingen was asked to speak at a memorial service for Manning, and the following part of his remarks, perfect samples of the entire speech, I offer for your scrapbook:

"Life for Manning *""-r"i, J "rr"rrrr. Every ripple of the river was a melody. Success and prosperity, handmaidens of pleasure, came at his command. Fame had already claimed him as her favorite-ehi\! and showered honors ori him. Friendship paid !e* -itehes-n qributes to him, hope whispered her sweetes!'"stories, and l\e, almost divine in its purity, had thrillef.his heart with ecstgcy, garlanded.his life with roses, and flled his world with r4usic. Thus surrounded, with everSi wish gratified, with every day gemmed with a triumph a4fl every hour sparkling with a joy, in the bloom of youth pnd the glory of manhood, he heard the wailing cry for hflp and went down to that beleaguered city. i'r*{<

"He died where the true soldier glorifs in dying, in the front rank and;gn the field of battle. /\Me cannot all be great, but we can be useful. We carLhot all have marble tablets, gilded rhausoleums and muldd columns, to mark our last resting b,lace. But we caSi{ have, as he had, our image implanted itt:qhe hearts of.pved companions, and our monument in the tear\-that-falf around our graves. Let us cherish the memory and emulate the virtues of our dead hero, and live as he lived, and die as he died, at the post of duty."

Wall Street Journal Givet Weyerha euser

Splendid lfrite-Up

The June 25th issue of the "Wall Street Journal" paid unusual attentic,n to a lunrber concern, the \\reyerhaeuser Timber Company and its subsidiaries. More than three colums are devoted to this story, which u'as especially prepared on the grounds by a staff rvriter. In three newspaper columns it gives the la-vman a very clear and definite picture of this great lumber organization, rvhich is lrequently referred to in the lumber industry as being "big as General Motors."

The Journal story treats mostly of the progressiveness of the organization, and of the wise and mighty efforts tl-rat are beinig made to perpetuate itself in a big r,vay, and at the same time develop continually more and better products from trees. It tells of the great laboratory at Longview, Washington, where 44 high class technicians have nothing to do but delve into trees and tree fiber to see rvhat can be Ccne with this material that has not been done before; also of Cloquet, Minnesota, where another great laboratory has developed wonderful and practical products norv well knorvn to the building trade.

Much is said about the Weyerhaeuser plant at Longvielv, Washington, 'ivhere, in addition to three sawmills, other units of rvood use have been built or are lteing built to use everything that comes from a Fir 1og, including the bark. A second pulp plant is being built there now, also a nerv plyrvood plant, and a wonderful bark 'plant has been completecl and is in operation. At various of these units they make valuable things other than lumber. At one they erd-lock short lumber to make "mile long" lumber; as long as they please. At another they convert dry sar.vdust into highly compressed fireu'ooci, using 44 of their orvn patented n.rachines for so doing. In addition they lease out 27 of these machines on a royalty basis, and are now btrilding 12 mote. That's horv big Weyerhaeuser sidelines oef

Weyerhaeuser is builcling a new lumber mill at Spring6eld, Oregon, end rvill immediately build another at North I3end, Oregon.

Its more than tu.o million acres of timber land are being treated as prac'iical .tree farms, and a perpetual supply of timber is conficlently planned. There is more than fifty billion feet of comlnercial timber on these lands at present. \Veyerhaeuser products sold for more than $66,0@,@O in 1946.

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