WELDWOOD Plywood

tYeldutood Plyutood and Pfuttuood. Prod*ctt are m,an*factured. and narheted b1t UNITED STATES PTYWOOD CORPORATION IHE MENGET COMPANY

Neu York, N. Y

Yes. Mr. and l{rs. America are interested in rDTeldwood. They're learning more about it every day. Louiryille, Ky.

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1920 East lsth St Rlchmond 6l0f

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Ocklond 7 570 Third St. TWinoqks 5544

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Wlll Discuss Reconversion Problems

Redwood Seasoning Committee Findings and Postwar Plans

Problems of reconversion, including the distribution of surplus building materials, and postwar industry plans will occupy the directors and delegates of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association when they meet October 25 to 28 at the Mayflower Hotel, Akron, Ohio. The directors and delegates will represent the 22,0N lumber dealers of the United States.

"As lumber dealers constitute the main channel of dist:ibution for materials going into all types of light loadbearing construction-homes, farms, commercial and serv' ice establishments, and industry-supply-this meeting can have far reaching effect on our National economy," stated H. R. Northup, Secretary, National Retail Lumber Dealers .r\ssociation, Washington, D. C.

"IJpon this construction industry lies the burden of taking the first steps toward converting our economy from a war to peace-time basis," Secretary Northup explained. "Lumber dealers as the center of the home building distribution system must be ready to finance and man their business, and to handle the huge quantities of materials that will go into home building the post-war public will demand.

"How fast the slack in employment will be taken up will depend in large measure on how fast private building can get under way as the war ends. The type of homes that rvill be built will depend on the kind of materials that reach lumber dealers' stocks during the first few months after the cessation of hostilities,"

Retcril Group Hecrr Discussions on Order t-335

Two meetings were held recently in Oakland, sponsored by Wood Products Co., Oakland service organization which serves a group of San Francisco Bay district retail lumber yards, for the purpose of hearing discussions on Order L-335.

The first meeting was held at the offices of Wood Pro-' ducts Co. The speaker was Don Campbell, Chief of Marketing Control, Lum,ber and Lumber Products Division War Production Board, Washington, D. C. The second was held August 10 at Hotel Leamington, Oakland. The principal speaker was Stewart C. Gris'ivold, WPB Regional Lumber Adviser. San Francisco.

Research sponsored by the California Redwood lumber industry for means of controlling seasoning defects has borne fruit in form of uniform schedules for receiving casehardening stresses in kiln-dried Redwood lumber.

The investigation was inaugurated early this year through the setting up of a research group, the Redwood Seasoning Committee, composed of kiln operators at member lumber mills. This step, in line with the industry's perennial improvement program, is a looking forward to the servicing of postwar customers with even higher quality and dispatch.

A progress report just made by the committee indicates that in the reconditioning of one-inch kiln dried Redwood lumber, a temperature of 170 degrees Fahrenheit, rvith relatively high humidities, will entirely relieve casehardening stresses within 24 hours.

The report also stated that an investigation was under way into the use of chemical solutions to facilitate the seasoning of thick stock. Several actual tests have already been made.

Another important phase in seasoning Redwood lumber, now under consideration by the committee, is the proper segregation of stock at the green chain, according to its green moisture content. It is pointed out that such a procedure has a favorable effect on the time in the kiln.

Fir-Tex oI Southern Cclilornic Announces Personnel Chcrnges

Announ,cement is made by Fir-Tex of Southern California that Charles C. Conkey, who has for some years covered the Pasadena to San Bernardino, Imperial Valley, and San Diego County territory, has been brought inside as assistant to Stanley C. Moore, general manager. He has also ,been appointed secretary of Coraltex, fnc., manufactdrers of Coralite and Coralite Handityle, which concern is a subsidiary of Dant & Russell, Inc. Charlie's many friends throughout Southern California will be glad to hear of his well-deserved promotion.

Roy Holker, who was many years with Ker'ckhoff Mill & Lumber Co., and later with C. Ganahl Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is now with Fir'Tex of Southern California as auditor. and is assistant secretary of Coraltex, fnc.

Hardwoods For Homes

When hardwoods are again available for civilian trade, Iarge guantities will be uied for interior finish in mo' derately priced homes.

How do we know this? WeIl, the trend was that way before the war, and. it will continue when we are free to build homes again.

..MOST VITAI"

With lumber ncuned cs "the most vitcrl wqr commodity," it hcrs not been possible to tcrke ccrre of the needs ol our retcil decler customers. But we cssure them we hqve done crnd will do our best in ihis most dilficult situation.

(To a young aviator)

O, Thou who did'st create this lad, And sent him forth from Thee to roam The spaces of the earth and sky, Receive hi.m, now that he turns home. He lived consorting with the stars, And died the death that young gods die, Who break their proud, resplendent wings, Combating evil in the sky. Receive Thy son, and give him place Among the chosen ones whose wings Protect Thy throne; that he may feel Entrusted still with glorious things !

-Adelaide Love

A Britisher was asked al a]r"iu" the difference between the bearing and attitude of the American "GI Joe," and the British "Tomriie." He said: "The British 'Tom,mie'walks into a place as though he owned it; the American 'GI' walks into a place as though he didn't give a damn who owned it." ***

And they say in London that a lady shopper said to a sales lady in one of the big stores: "Do you still stock blacko,ut materials, or is the craze over?" She thought it was just a gag.

Another is about the laly ;o;n., in the food store who said to the grocer: "Are these high-priced eggs fresh?" He said: "Fresh, madam? They're positively insulting."

Lots of screwball thingl n*r"*uorr. in World War one, too. They were not as uncountable as they have been in this war, but they are worth recalling. For instance, sugar was rationed, and the ration was very, very small. But you could buy all the candy you wanted and could pay for, and the supply seemed unlimited. Throughout the war cattle hides went down until they broke the hide people generally; but shoes, made from these same hides, went UP in price continually. You couldn't build a ho,me the last few months of the war; it was forbidden. But you could buy a million dollars worth of pleasure automobiles -if you had the million. Those are just a few samples. ***

One difference will probably be in the termination of war restrictions. At the end of World War One all restrictions were dropped like hot coals the minute the emergency ended. It would take an optimist, indeed, to suppose that anything of the sort will take place when this war ends. It will take quite a battle to wring a world of authority from hands that will cling to it with bulldog tenacity. We know enough already to be certain of that.

However, I believe building restrictions and regulations concerning the use of lumber will be among those that will be released or at least reduced very quickly after Germany falls. There are many reasons why this should be so. After World War One they were reduced within a few days after the armistice, and removed just a few days later. *:&*

You hear lots orf guessing about how soon our boys will be home after Germany takes the count. ft's purely guesswork because the great war in the Pacific will still be going on. After World War One the United States army of occupation of the Rhineland consisted in the beginning of. 220,O00 men of our A.E.F. This arrny was relieved after seven months by l9,0OO Regular A*y men, who stayed in Germany until January, 1923, Our Army of Occupation this time will necessarily be much larger. How long it will stay and how large it will be will depend on the peace arrangements. And they are strictly in the embryo stage up to this moment.

Speaking of peace terms, according to my country-boy way of thinking, the fundamentals should be easy to arrive at. The details, I admit, will take some figuring. Germany must be made to replace everything she has destroyedeverywhere. She must rebuild everything she has torn down-everywhere. She must indemnify every person to whom her war machine has brought a loss:+verywhere. She must replant every field she has laid waste---everywhere. And she must pay in some fashion for every human life she has taken, for every cripple she has caused, for every physical act of vandalism and destruction+verywhere'

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It is unfortunately beyond the scope of human possibility for her to atone for all the agony, the despair, the horror she has brought to the world. There is no method or means for accomplishing that end. But slo,w and painful though it will be, the entire German nation ,must be put'to work to undo so far as within her lies, the havoc she has wrought, the destruction she has created. Can you think, dear reader, of any reason why this should not be? The Christian philosophy of turning the other cheek won't work in the case of Germany. The chances are she would fasten her fangs in the cheek. The good old "eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth" should be the measuring stick of peace with the Boche. With deliberate ferocity she has ground her iron heel in the face of the world. Let her repay, replace, until the debt has been atoned for as far as is humanly possible. That would take time, you say? Well, what's wrong with that? Those war-mad people will be far better off rebuild-

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