"Paul Bunyan's" PR0DU(TS

Go To War

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(The following is the most famous letter ever written by a great war leader to a sorrowing mother. ft was sent by Abraham Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, whose five sons had died in the Civil War; dated Nov.2l, 1864. In times like the present, such a letter is apropos.)

"Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice u.pon the altar of freedom."

Theodore Roosevelt.",J, J*J-an is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his wellbeing, to risk his life in a great cause." ***

Sophocles said: "\l[/'ar does not of choice destroy bad rnen, but good ever." The thoughtful of this world have long bewailed the unfortunate fact that war destroys, not the old and the worn and the less useful, but the young, the strong, the useful, with their fine lives and abilities still before them. But in war it has been ever thus: and ever will. be, it seems. ***

There is a famous old adage that it is better to build friendships than battleships. But Hitler and Hirohito cast aside that wise choice in favor of the battleships and the airships, and so the whole world has been obliged to make that horrid choice likewise, in self defense.

Heard an interestitg ail",rlriJn ,n" other day about the physical stature of military leaders, as evidenced by those occupying the spotlight in the warring world of today. The fact that Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Churchill, who take the leading roles in Europe's mammoth struggles, are all

SMALL men, was the basis of the discuss-i,*n. Why are great military men so frequently of small trtature? Hitler is a little man, and of peculiar build. So is Stalin; short, more powerfully built than Hitler, but a small ntan nevertheless. Mussolini is short, but rather dtoclry. Churchill is short and rather roly-poty in physical construction, Napoleon was a very small man. Genghis Kahn ivas smaller than his average soldier. Does this prove anything, aild if so, what?

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Napoleon always told his soldiers that every private carried a prospective and potential marshal's baton in his knapsack; all he had to do was earn it; and Napoleon therefore put the highest known premium on efficiency. The American army, thank God, is constructed after that same manner. "There's always room at the toy'' can be truthfully said to every American doughboy.

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Victor Hugo was probably the worst prophet in history, while one of the great writers and thinkers, for he once said: "In the Twentieth Century war will be dead; the scaffold will be dead; hatred will be dead; frontier bound' aries will be dead; dogmas will be dead; MAN WILL LM." Wonder what the old boy thinks if he is able to look down upon this earth today. He would see more war' more hatred, more scaffolds, more bitterness over boundaries, and more men dying terrible, unjust, and untimely deaths than ever before in history.

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War is admittedty and provably the greatest of all crimes; yet never in history has there been an aggressor, regardless of how horrible his philosophies or his acts, who did not color his crimes with the pretext of justice.

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In song and story we have heard forever of "the grandeur that was Rome, and the glory that was Greece." 'Where is that grandeur and that glory now? The grandeur that was Rome has become a degree of degradation never before known in that once proud land; and the glory that wag Greece has changed to a measureless horror which the valiant and home-loving natives of that sunny land did nothing to deserve.

Rousseau said: "Men and nations can only be reformed in their youttr. They become incorrigible as they grow old."

That would furnish a mighty fine text for some forceful thinking, as we consider the world of the future.

Carlyle said: "Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings, and sufferings in this earth." Freedom reached its highest pinnacle some twenty years ago, and seemed at that time to be preparing to encircle the earth and all its people. Yet, strange as it may seem and almost unbelievable, today freedom struggles for life and breath in the stranglehold of a monster that makes Medusa seem sweet by comparison.

Henry Ward Beecher *rU,'Lr not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words, while their ears can yet hear them and while their hearts can be thrilled by them." And, if there are'men in the armed services who deserve that sort of word from you, this would be a good time to send it. Tomorrow, you recall, might be a bit late. ***

If you are inclined to fret because you have had no vacation trip this summer, you might ponder the words of a great thinker of the past, named Saint Augustine, who said: "Go not abroad. Retire into thyself. For truth dwells in the inner man."

Thomas Jefferson said: "The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and t5rrants."

Thomas Paine said: "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by-refection. It is the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

We read and hear a lot, and think considerably more right now, abogt Japan. And to even the best read man, the mental picture that rises before him when he approaches this subject is vague, confused, and lacking in most essential details with the exception of their war record since Pearl Harbor. So I suggest most earnestly to every reader of these lines that he read an illustrated article on Japan in the August, 1942, issue of the National Geographic Magazine. When you finish reading it, you will be grateful to me for this suggestion. And undoubtedly you will agree with the author of the article that the trouble with the American. Japanese situation is that we know nothing about them, and they know all about us. The article is splendidly written, is entirely factual and in no sense opinionated, but it will give the interested American something solid to work on when he considers Japan and the Japanese. In this story the Japanese picture has been boiled down to a point where anyone can grasp it, giving you a lasting and understandable impression that you might otherwise spend months of book reading to achieve. It is a picture of an unbelievably ambitious people who have been taught from the beginning of their national history that they are so directly descended from their gods that they are far superior to all other people, and that their ruler is himself a god by direct descent. On such a basis is built their present terrific stroke for world domination. But read it for yourself, and see.

Discuss Conservation Order M - 208

A large number of lumbermen attended a meeting called by the Southern California Retail Lumber Association at the Embassy Auditorium, Los Angeles, Wednesday afternoon, August 26, when George Squires and David Mclaren of the Los Angeles office of the War Production Board discussed and answered questions on the new Conservation Order M-208. James A. Whiteside, of the Los Angeles'War Production Board offrce, also attended the meeting.

Orrie W. Hamilton, San Diego, secretary of the Association, talked on some of the problems of the Southern California dealers. He left for Washington, D. C., on August 27,where he will take these matters up with officials of the war agencies.

H. Park Arnold, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Company, Glendale, vice-president of the Association, presided.