THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT JackDiorne,futbl*hn

How Lumber Looks

Lumber production during the week ended September 14, l94O was 19 per cent greater than in the previous holiday week, shipments were 13 per cent greater, and new business 10 per cent greater, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of representative hardwood and softwood mills.

During the week ended September 14, 501 mills produced 274,083,ftO feet of hardwodds and softwoods cbmbined, shipped 278,66f,W0 feet, and booked orders of 336914,000 feet.

Lumber orders reported by 418 softwood mills for the week totaled 321,900,000 feei, shipments were 266,089W feet, and production was 263,350,000 feet.

Reports from 100 hardwood mills for the week gave new business as 14,114,000 feet, shipments 12,577,000 feet, and production 10,733,000 feet.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended September 14, ll2 mills reporting, gave orders as 118,598,000 feet, shipments 95,710,000 feet, and production 100,026,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 4O1.254,0N f.eet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended September 14, 130 mills reporting, gave orders as 57,648,000 feet, shipments 43,193,00O feet, and production 35,883,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 135.878.000 feet.

The California Redwood Association for the month of August, 1940, reported production of 13 mills as 30,156,000 feet, shipments 31,290,000 feet, and orders received 35,963,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 32,173,0N feet.

Lumber cargo arrivals at Los Angeles Harbor for the :ek ended Sentember 21 totaled 17.763.W feet as com- week ended September 17,763,W as pared to I6,769;W feet the previous week.

Issuance of building permits on. the lqlifr:. Coast in ISSUanCe 01 DUlIOlng permlrs on tnc August, 1940, continuei ai a level substantially-higher than thal of 'the same month last year, although off moderately from July, 1940, according to the Wesrern M_onthly Building Surviy prepared by Hl R.Baker & Co' of San Francisco.

"Aeeresitb ,rilue of permits issued by 93 Pacific Coast citiei-in Aueust. 194O, was $31,619,470, 21.35 per cent above 2I.35 per above citiei in August, was $3I,619,470,2I.35 per the $26O56.741 shown in Ausust, 1939, but 4.92 pet cent the $26,056,741

August, $ZO,U5O,/+I

August, IvJv, but +.vz pet cerlt under the $33,256,303 total reported by the same cities in July, 1940. - Los Angeles with a permit total of $6,805,613 was in first place. San Diego and San F'rancisco were in second and third oositions liith totals of $1,877,506 and $1,599,301 $1,877,506 $1,599,301 thrrd posltlons wltn totals or Qlro//,Juf, anc +l'Jvv'JUl respectively. Burbank, Honolulu-, Oakland, Portland, Penver and Se-attle all reported permits in excess of one million dollars.

Lumber deliverries by water from the Pacific Northwest in August, as reported by the Pacific Lumber Carriers' Association totaled 86,301,00O fe'et.

Deliveries at the various ports were as follows:

PBESDWOOD (STA3IDARD AND TEMPERED)

PBESDWOOD TEMPNTIIE QUARTRBOARD (STANDARD AND DE II'XE)

STNUCTURAT INST'LATION

INSI'LATING tAfiI, TII.E AND PLANK

DUBBISEAI SHEATTIING

CENTUNY OF PROGRESS FLOORING

PATTENMD CEIIJNGS

CANEC INSI'LATING IATTI, TII.E AND PTANK CANECINSTLATION r I I I I

Rudyard Kipling was more than a great Englishman, a great poet, and a great patriot; he was a great prophet. Read this, from his work "The Islanders," in which he talks of those who wait too late for their preparedness:

But ye say "It will mar our comfort."

Ye say "It wil minish our trade."

Do ye wait for the spattered shrapnel, Ere ye learn how a gun is laid?

For the low, red glare to the Southward

When the raided coast towns burn?

Light ye shall have on that lesson-

But little time to learn.

Strong premonition of things to come in those words written long ago, aren't there? As these lines are being typed the "spattered shrapnel" is making a Hell out of London, and out of the lives of the brave English people. But another British bard, a far greater one as poets go, writing hundreds of years ago declared HIS belief that, no matter how bad the going may get, England will never be taken. For Shakespeare wrote:

This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. *

Of course, before Shakespeare's time, England 'telt the foot of a conqueror" nu.rnerous times. Not like in these times, however. Each successive invasion of the British Isles brought new blood lines from the farthermost corners of what was then the world, and finally fused them into what we now call England. The early history of the land is that of savage tribes battling one another. The first great invasion that brought culture was that of Caesar, about 55 B. C. IIe came with 80 ships, and partly conquered England. The next year he came again with 800 ships, and did a better job of it. But he never took ScotIand or lreland. Scotland was populated by a wild bunch of gazabos who painted trheir faces when they went into battle, for which reason the Romans called them Picti, or Picts. They evidently were tough.

But Caesar started the civilizing of England in some substantial ways. Right now, in their defense of their island home against these modern savage tribes, the Germans, the British use parts of two great highways which the Romans built at the very beginning of the Christian Era, the Great North Road from London to Edinburgh, and the Walling Road, from Dover to York. It is significant that the invading Romans left something with which to battle the invading Teutons two thousand years later. It has frequently been remarked by historians that Caesar's Legions, by building these great permanent highways, endowed Britain with one of the primary principles of civilization. Do you suppose that this infamous Caesar of today would leave any enduring monuments to future civilizations were he, like Julius Caesar, to take England? Nay. Not so. Nothing would he leave behind him, had he his will, but smoking ruins, millions of dead and dying, and a prostrate civilization.

Should England fall

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now-as Heaven forbid-it would not, of course, be the first time. The fiercest horde of barbarians that ever swqtt across the channel came from Germany in the fifth and sixth centuries of the Christian Era, and fairly destroyed root and branch the growing civilization they found there. The Celts and Romans they found and destroyed, together with their priests and their temples. There were the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. And they gave to Britain the name of AnglaLand; now England. Like the Germans of today, they replaced semi-civilization with the fiercest barbarism.' The last and final conquest of England, you will recall from your school books, was that of the Normans under William the Conqueror. They did a thorough and complete job of it. And now began the making of what is now Britain; the blending of all those varying blood-streams beginning with the Iberians and the Celts and right through to the Norman French; the mighty melting pot of nationalities and breeds that in thousands of years had combined to make what we today call the English breed. Kipling tells it beautifully, in this fashion:

"The Norman conquest:, ;ra: was the beginning of the history of the English race as one people, and of England as'a great power in Europe.

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