WE CAN'T SUPPLY EVEN A NORMAL DEMAND FOR Redwood Lumber TODAY!

Our production oI Redwood lumber has lcrllen oll stecrdily during the pcst three yecrs, due to shortcrges oI men clnd skilled workers. More thcrn hcrll ol our reduced output is requisitioned lor militcry cnd wcr uscge. The smcll remcinder oI our availcrble stocks cqnnot begin to supply present civilicrn demands, which hcrve increcsed severql hundred percent over pre-wcr levels. However, we <rre doing everythin€t we ccrn to give our decrlers, AII WE CAN. We crpprecicrte your considercrtion crnd know you'll continue to understqnd we're tryrng to work with you, hcnd in hcrnd.

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Llncover your head, and hold your breath, This boon not every lifetime hath, To look on men who, have walked with deathAnd have not been afraid. *

The above was evidently written in peace time. Today it is no novelty to "look on men whohave walked with death." They are all about us, on every train, in every theatre, on every street corner; men with the ribbons and insignias to show that they have seen death at close range-have known the thrill of mortal combat-of mortal fear perhaps. There are tens of thousands of them all over the country now. The boys I used to pick up in my car as I drove through country districts were then in training. Those I pick up now have all been overseas, and returned. What a vital, living thrill it is to talk to such men. Boys in years, but men in all else, for they have walked through the valley of the shadow of death, and come back to tell the story.

One boy I talked with is back fro'm Germany. He saw some of the horror camps. He saw other places where captivated young women from other lands had been at the unmerciful mercy of the German soldiers. "I cannot tell you about what I saw, even [ow," he said. "It would sicken you. Myself, I will be nauseated the rest of my life, just remembering." IIow can such nameless and unbelievable crimes ever be atoned for? I said to that boy-"who do you blame for the things you tell about?" And he said "every man, woman, and child in Germany-they are all to blame." And that is the feeling of all the many soldiers returned from there that I have talked to. A thousand years of sack-cloth and ashes could never atone for onetenth of the infamy that we know abotrt; and we have but scratched the surface.

In this column recently I quoted a speech by General George S. Patton, and one by Winston Churchill. We have another man in the American high command with a wonderful gift of expressing his fine thoughts. General Douglas MacArthur. Read what MacArthur wrote about his son. f think you will put this in your scrapbook, too. He said: * * * .

"By profession I am a soldier, and take pride in the fact. But I am prouder to be a father' A soldier destroys, in order to rebuild. A father only builds, he never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death. The other embodies creation, and life, and while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me, not from the battle, but in the home, repeating with him our simple daily prayer: 'Our Father which art in Heaven."'

MacArthur is one or -f"titiri. h"ro.". To me he looks and acts more like our familiar American eagle than any man in our history. I wrote in this space a year or so ago that he was my favorite American. He still is; although I have so nnny heroes now it is hard'to separate them. As Frank Wherritt wrote several months ago in this journal: "Never in history has a General started with so little, and never in history has an army advanced so far." And never have such wonders been accomplished with such saving of human life. A few days before he died in the Pacific, the famous columnist Raymond Clapper, wrote about MacArthur. He reported that MacArthur, still in Australia, had been "pushed around and left on starvation rations." But his spirit was unbowed, he fought ingeniously with what he had, and when the power finally came to his hands he performed the impossible; and is still doing so. It took a great man to sit and "take it" as he did for so long. Clap per said that MacArthur "reminded of a wounded lion." He fights like one, too.

When the news ""-" Jrr"J tli radio that the voters of England had swamped and snowed under the man to w.hom they owed their lives, their freedom, and their continued existence as a nation, I could hardly believe it. f knew from my reading that there was a strong swing toward Communism in England-who could doubt the plain evidence of it?-but it seemed impossible to me that they would throrry their great man overboard while the battle still raged. When Napoleon, in 1803, cried out that "Perfidious Albion" was not to be trusted, it looks like the "Little Corporal" was something of a prophet. If it had not been for Churchill, England today would be only a province of Germany. Yet the men on whose necks the Nazi yoke would have fallen the heaviest, were the ones who turned against him. He saved them from "National Socialism"; so they repaid him by voting for Socialism straight.

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They call it the "Labor Party," but that is largely window dressing. The whole text of their campaign was "closer collaboration with Soviet Russia," and the "nationalization of industry." When you take industry from its owners, you destroy property rights and private enterprise. When you destroy private enterprise and property rights, you leave no trace of democracy behind. And so far as "closer collaboration with Soviet Russia" is concerned, it is a notorious and

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(Continued from Page 8) provable fact that when you collaborate closely with smallpox you soon break out with it, yourself. It hurt me, because all along I have had a mind picture of Britain and the United States standing shoulder to shoulder in a battle royal against the world-wide sweep of Communism; perhaps a winning fight. Now we have no such shoulder to back us up. Socialism with Communistic tendencies would make a mighty poor ally against the Communist Curse.

It tooks like we rr"". luol. ]n .rr". is left of real democracy in this troubled world. And if we are to judge by the open resumption of Communistic activities here at home, by the tidal wave of strikes and work stoppages in vital war industries in this country right now, and by all the published demands against business and government for postwar hand-outs, it looks like maybe our own democratic foundations are mighty shaky. Because as certain as God made little green apples and hung them on trees, if our own left wing gets all the somethings-for-nothing they are now demanding, we won't even have the shell of democracy left. Free enterprise is democracy, and democracy is free enterprise, and when you destroy one you kill the other. Freedom is divided into two equal parts; to have, and to hold. We're going to have to do a lot of very determined holding in these United States in the next year or so, for if we do not, then the brightest national star in the firmament of history, may become just a memory.

{<** states it well. And when the entire record is unveiled, brothers, watch out for your blood pressure!

Official announcement by WPB that motor cars may probably be unrationed by the first of next January. In the papers, doubts are expressed. There can be no doubt that the Government will relax its grip on the automobile business just as fast as is humanly possible for the great and vital reason that here is the biggest and best way to employ men who are leaving the armed services, and the War plants. The motor car industry, with all its tremendous association of industries, will undoubtedly play the leading part in furnishing needed employment for worthy job seekers. To bring that about'as rapidly as possible, the unrationed manufacture and sale of cars is the first step.

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By the first of next January we should and I believe will have unrationed building in this country. For the building hungry nation is going to supply many, many millions of good jobs at the time when they are needed most. I am sure that the authorities realize fully the necessity for turning building and building materials loose as quickly as possible, if for no other reason than to furnish jobs for the multi-millions who will be seeking them; "a mighty draught for a mightier thirst," as Lewis Browne once wrote. Building cannot supply all the jobs that will be needed as we switch from war to peace, but-like the motor car industry-it will supply an unbelievable number. The great reservoir of building needs-if backed up by building materials-will take hundreds of thousands of men into every department of production, distribution, and construction. The sooner the restrictions can be lifted on building and building materials, the sooner the banner will be seen flying from coast to coast, reading: "Millions of good jobs available in the building industry-NO\M."

The resignation of General Chennault removes a most colorful figure from this war; one that the American public highly esteems. Remember a year or so ago when an officer remarked to Chennault that it was too bad we couldn't just press a button and kill all the Japs on earth at once? Chennault answered: "We don't want to do that. Think of all the fun we are having killing them slow."

That They Can Gm No Accounting

One of my friends asks just what is my attitude toward Lend-Lease, concerning which I have written some critical things. The Dallas (Texas) News expressed my opinion very clearly in a recent editorial, as follows: "Of all the prodigal programs in the history of mankind, our schedule of Lend-Lease has been the greatest. It was justified on the basis of the emergency. When any great and complicated program is carried out under such pressure of urgency there is inevitable mismanagement and waste as there has been in this case. But the time has come when there should be strict accounting. A number of recent reports from the war investigating committee indicate that the several agencies controlling our benefactions abroad do not cooperate with each other and even keep their individual records so carelessly

IN THEIR OWN FIELDS OF OPERATION. Congress should reconstitute and reintegrate the whole Lend-Lease program, salvage the records of past operations, and present to the public a definite account of what has been done, what is being done, and what they intend doing in the future. The time has passed when any military operations demands the veiling of these records." The Dallas News

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