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WnpN people ask you about the availability of lumber for today's postwar construction, tell them that lumber will soon be flowing freely into domestic markets.

Tell them that lumber volume will be adequate to serve normal civilian requirements. Assure them that postwar lumber will be equal to the finest ever produced by the industry.

With great modern dry kilns providing "manufactured weather", the time needed to produce properly seasoned lumber is greatly reduced. Where natural seasoning requires months, kilns are now performing the sam6 service in a matter of hours. Over 40 million board feet of seasoned lumber can be turned out each working day by the dry kilns of the industry.

These kilns can speed the postwar delivery of seasoned lumber for civilian consumption. What the industry has done for the war, it can do for peacetime needs, because war needs and civilian needs are almost identical.

As a nation we have the timber, the mills, and the facilities to produce quality lumber for all our normal needs. Timber is a Crop. Modern forest management, with proper forest harvesting practices, is making significant strides toward the goal of sustained timber yield where timber growth equals the harvest.

You can count on lumber, our great renewable natural resource, for future building needs.

Bingen on the Rhine

Last winter when the American troops swept to the Rhine, dispatches told of the taking of the little town of Bingen. To many an old timer that report brought back a lovely poem that became a song years ago, a po€m called "Bingen on the Rhine." An interesting thing about that song about a German soldier from Bingen who fell fighting in the French Foreign Legion in Africa, was that its author was a gifted English woman, Caroline Sarah Norton, a fairly respected poetess of the Victorian literary period in England. She wrote many other things, but none of them attained the fame of her poem about Bingen. It started out:

"A soldier of the Legion, lay dying in Algiers, There was lack of woman's nursing, there was.dearth of woman's tears;

But a comrad,e knelt beside him as his lifeblood ebbed away,

And bent with pitying glance to hear each word he had to say.

'Bear a message and a token to some distant friends of mine,

For I was born at Bingen-fair Bingen on the Rhine."'

And the tear'stirring poem ended with these words of the dying soldier boy:

"'f let them take whate'er they would, but kept my father's sword;

And with boyish love I hung it where the bright light used to shine, On the cottag,e wall at Bingen-fair Bingen on the Rhine."'

Properly Named

Employment Clerk: "Chief, there is an applicant here who says he used to make his living sticking his right arm in the lion's mouth at a circus."

Manager: i'\Mhat's his name?"

Employment Clerk : "'Le[ty' Jones."

"Sccrbbing" Through LiIe

Life is an obligation. We are obligated to the Great Executive for the privilege of helping Him in His work of bettering the world. Every time I see a man or woman going through life tearing down through hate rather than building up through love, I seem to feel that he or she is a "scab" in God's snign-a union whose constitution is the Golden Rule and whose by-laws are founded on Service.

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John J. Ingalls once said: "Forests decay, harvests perish, fowers vanish, but grass is immortal. Beleaguered by the sullen frosts of winter, it withdraws into the impregna' ble fortress of its subterranean vitality and emerges u.pon the first solicitation of Spring."

Tempted

Judge: "What induced you to strike your wife?"

Defendant: "Well, Judge, she had her back to me, the broom was handy, and the back door was open so I could run, and I just thought I'd take a chance."

. Burns on Educcrtion

One of the bitterest critics of higher education was Bobby Burns, the immortal Scotchman. Once he wrote: "A set of dull, concbited hasps, Confuse their brains in college classes, They gang in stirks, and come out asses, Plain truth to speak; And, syne they think to climb ParnassusBy din' o' Greek !"

Music

Music is a thing of the soul--a rose-lipped shell that murmurs of the eternal sea-a strange bird singing the song of another shore.-J. G. Holland.

Lumber Is The Target

. two needs dominqte our sudden peqce-time economy throughout Americq . .

, "Reconyersion" & "Reemploymenl,, : . : fo o greot degree these gools depend on lumber. More lumber for you is our torget for lodoy.