ffi

<-;, Where Quality Storfs

From extensive virgin forests in the region noted for growth of soft, even textured pl[e, comes the "Poul Bunyctrt" product. Soft Ponderosct crnd Sugcr Pine cut by selective logging. Milled, kilnseqsoned cnd remcrnufqctured under yecr round production.

Red River ships complete crssortments of industriol crrd building items. Strcright ccrs or mixed ccrrs.

II'IU3ER CT'T STOCK MOUIDING BOX SHOOK

PLYWOOD

NTCINSN CEDAR PENCtr. AND BIJND SI.ATS

TRAI'B

MILL, FAcToRIEs AND GENERAL SALBS \ffi/

LOS ANGELES

Seter Ofice: 715 Vectern Pacifc Bldg., lO31 So. Broadway

Varehouse: L C. L \ffholesale, 7O2 E. Sl,auson Ave. SAN FRANCISCO

Salec Ofice: 315 Monadnoct Building setec ofice: rt?1H::3 center Buildins

III/ESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION

REDWOOD PANETS Boost Deoler Profits ond Good Will

T7hileyou are building extra "foot' age" by selling the e:ftra "yearage" o-f Redwood for outdoor lumber, don't forget it is also rdeal for interior panels, tnm, beams, etc. Sell Redwood for ALL exPosed placesinside and out. Order irours as Palco Redwood.

Pacific

Son Froncisco o Los Angeles

Soonsors oI theDurobleWoodJlnstifute REDWOOD HEADSUARITRS

(Continued from Page 6)

England's on the anvil-hear the hammers ringClanging from the Severn to the Tyne I Never was a blacksmith like our Norman kingEngland's being hammered, hammered, hammered into line!

England's on the anvil t Heavy are the blows ! (But the work will be a marvel when it's done) Little bits of kingdoms cannot stand against their foes, England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into one'" rt rt rt

And as this is written England's being hammered, hammered, hammered in a way never dreamed of before, especially by Kipting as he penned the above lines. But Hitler the Headsman is a bit late with his announced personal march into London. The other day I read a wonderful letter from a Britisher in London to my splendid British friend Claude King, of Los Angeles. There was no waste of words. The Londoner wrote: '1Our morale was never finer, our coutrage never higher, they can't beat us." And it begins to look as though Benito the Brave, whose mighty battle feet, after one brief look at the British Mediterranean fighting forces, skipped back into mine-protected Italian harbors and has been seen and heard of no more, is not at all pleased with the way the war is going. He thinks Adolf the Axeman has done him dirty. Adolf gave Benito to understand that the war was about over, that he would take England a couple of weeks later, and all Benito enpected to do was pick the pockets of the mortally wounded. Instead of which he finds himself fighting some first class people who just won't stay licked, and he is very unhappy. He realizes that if England should win the Battle of Britain, in about three days they would take poor little Benito with the big chin, and that would be the end of him and his cowardly march of conquest. Benito doesn't like fighting armed gentlemen* t*" nl** unarmed Ethiopians.

Not meaning to joke about a great tragedy, my friend George Purl says London can't be taken, and proves it mathematically. He says that according to official sources, the British lost 2,O00 in dead and wounded the last two weeks of August. There are about 9,000,000 people in Greater London, so at the rate of one thousand a week it would take Hitler about 180 years at his present rate of going, to wipe out London. And George says Hitler would run out of ammunition long before the 180 years was up, and anyway, he's too old to fight that long. If you want any more interesting figures on the subject, write George Purl, Dallas, Texas, and I'll guarantee you'll get an interesting rePll' * * *

Now let's get over to this side of the Atlantic for a short visit. In the last three months Congress has trans- acted more vital, dramatic, breath-taking, history-making legislation than in any other peace-time period in our whole history. It passed the first peace-time draft law-the most important peace-time measure on tJre record books. Besides, it passed the Hatch Act to clean up Federal politics and prevent in future some of the horrors perpetrated in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and other places in the last few years; authorized the construction of the biggest navy the world ever heard of; passed an alien registration and regulation law; passed a guard mobilization bill; and arranged to spend more money for national defense than any normal man can even understand, so big are billions. And all this since June 4th at which time Mr. Roosevelt tried to make them go home, said there was nothing for them to do, and added (in that nice, cutting way of his), that of course, they could stay and make speeches if they desired, but there was nothing for them to do and no reason for them to stay. Certainly sees far into the future, doesn't he? t:Ft<

Jesse Jones is now Secretary of Commerce. That Cabinet office has been vacant for some time past in the person of Harry Hopkins. When the papers announced the appointment of "Big Jess" as his Texas friends call him, I said to myself, now we will find out what Mr. Jones thinks about the coming Presidential election. If he thinks Roosevelt will win, he'll take the job. If he thinks Willkie will win, he'll turn it down, for it would be very temporary, whereas he has done so wonderful a service as head of the lending agencies that any President would want to keep him. I might have known, however, that he was too smart to "tip his mit." He said he'd take the cabinet job only if they'd let him hold his lending agency position, too. And so valuable is he that Congress arranged for him to take both places. So I don't know what he thinks about the election chances. He played safe. But if anyone is worrying about his ability to do justice to both his big jobs, they can stop. He knows more about commerce, business, and finance than all the other New Dealers put together, and if he only gives five minutes a week to the Commerce post it will be a great improvement on what we've recently had.

Jesse Jones is a good old lumber boy. He started life working in a lumber yard in Dallas, and later became owner of a big string of yards. He still owns them. He got so prominent as builder and financier that Herbert ffoover reached out and pulled him into RFC when he organized that agency. He has saved the Government countless millions of dollars by his wise and skillful handling of Government loan money. His mind works like a cross between a Corliss engine and a steel trap. He can out-smart and outthink almost anybody in business and financial matters. For a time there were two powerful and able financial and economic personalities in the Roosevelt administration,

Jesse Jones and John Hanes. I{anes was so able that Mr. Roosevelt appointed him to the Treasury Department in the face of Hanes' assurance that he was rabidly critical of the New Deal. But Hanes soon took a walk. Jones stayed and gets bigger and bigger. Insinuate that he thinks in New Deal terms, and his Texas friends die laughing. But Jesse Jones, the lumberman, knows his onions. He is a splendid public servant.

The prize for the best recent political remark goes to some guy in San Francisco, who, when his attention was called to the Willkie buttons all over the streets, remarked: "Yes, he's polling the biggest LAPEL vote in history."

BACK F'ROM EASTERN TRIP

W. R. La Franchi, manager of the Fresno branch of Hill & Morton, Inc., returned recently from a business and pleasure trip to the Eastern and Southern States. He picked up a new Buick at Flint, Mich., and made the return journey by the Southern route, calling at hardwood sawmills in Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana. He was accompanied by his wife.

Bathroom Aid

A wood strip three or four inches wide set about four feet from the floor and running around all four walls of the bathroom makes a convenient base on which to attach towel bars and tumbler and soap holders.

Forest Rangers Seek Fire Cooperttion From Hunterg

Aware that California deer and bird hunters are their own best monitors in adhering to the sportsman's code of ethics, the United States Forest Service has just issued a cautionary notice in the interests of forest fire prevention.

"We haven't funds to assign as many patrolmen as in previous years to guard against hunters' fires this fall," said Regional Forester S. B. Show. "And if my opinion of sports'men is still correct we won't have to. -

"Despite severe fall fire hazards in the woods the past several years, hunters have proved to us quite conclusively that they can be careful with their campfires, warming fires and smoking materials.

"The woods are mighty dry this fall again so it will be another acid test for nimrods to show that they can prevent outbreaks of man-caused fires on their hunting grounds and the nation's forests."

The Forest Service has established a number of checking stations throughout popular hunting areas where measurements rvill be taken to determine the condition and quality of deer in the national forests. Attendants also will keep tab on the fire situation.

The cooperation of sportsmen in registering their kills has been especially helpful in deer management. Such studies may be used as a basis for analyzins and regulating deer populations.