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Somebody (we suspect Ray Saberson because Ray is one of those guys who writes interestingly and even romantically about sawdust or sealing-wax) in a recent issue of Weyerhaeuser News, writes eloquently and forcefully about a new romance in wood. Yes sir, he tells the story of the wedding of WOOD and GLUE, and of the marvelous children that have been born, are being born, and will continue to be born still more frequently in the years to come, of that very practical union.

Readers of these "v.g"inJ""ir"a that story thrust upon them almost innumerable times in years gone by. And the interest grows because the story itself has grown by those well known and oft repeated "leaps and bounds"; likewise with incredible continuity. Yes, friends, no more practical wedding ever was solemnized in this workaday world than that of WOOD and GLUE. Not even ham and eggs, .,poke" chops and sweet potatoes, nor apples and piecrust, can take the play away from these two when it comes to real, genuine, double-jointed, copper-riveted, wholesome and practical partnership for the benefit of all concerned. And here is one wedding where there is no possible danger of a divorce; one union that will never go on strike.

The first great wedding in the lumber industry took place when the first saw met the first log, and s3id-..lsf's cut up for a while, and then start building." And the next greatest one took place when the glue pot met the pile of waste wood and said-"Let's stick around together, and see what we can do for each other."

The "News" well "t"t"" tfrJ t"lu th"t for generations the mill man has always been at the mercy of the log. Then glue came along and set him free. Previously he had always been bound, restricted, and inhibited by the SIZE and the DEFECTS of the log. He could cut the log DOWN to the sizes of lumber it would produce, but was helpless in the matter of ENLARGING those units made by the sliced log. Today, with glues galore all of perfected character and capability as demonstrated in the practical laboratory, the mill man is able to make the log into a variety of products he never dreamed of before. Yes indeed ! With economical, powerful, quick-setting waterproof glues, he can produce wooden marvels recently unheard-of. And, to use another worn and tattered, but in this case entirely truthful epigr?m, "The surface has not yet been scratched." Scratched? Why, friends, a host of smart men in laboratories and testing rooms, say the possibilities of wood and glue remain a fathomless reservoir of practical prospects.

Because of glue, waste wood becomes steadily a smaller factor throughout the lumber industry. The improvement varies by species and by territory, but is general, nevertheless. Millions-yes billions of pieces of log cuttings that formerly had only one single destination-the burner-now are transformed and transmogrified (let that word alone, Proof Reader) into useful, salable wooden shapes and things. They have been transferred from the "total loss" to the "profit item" page on the industry books. The word "Laminated" has developed into an everyday thing in the lumber industry, while the word "plywood" is as commonly understood as dimension, boards, or flooring. Glue does it.

You can take narrow ul"rl" irrat nU no particular need in that shape and size (they don't even have to be straight or smooth) and glue a whole mess bf them together edge for edge until you create a board four feet wide or more. This glued-up board of great width can be put under breaking pressure and it will break anywhere except at the glued joints. Honest. Then you can rip this great board into any width the trade desires, and fix the cuts up into any shape the most particular user may demand. You can furnish smooth, straight, strong boards twice as wide as the greatest thickness of the l,og the lumber came from. Wide boards? Shucks! Glue says "the sky's the limit." You not only CAN do these things, but they are being done lots of places, by smart lumber folks who now laugh up their sleeves at the impertinence of the log that used to say to the mill s1311-"f[is wide shall my product be, and no wider."

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You can do the same thing with thickness. You can take a lot of waste, and a lot of glue, and a lot of pressutre, and a little brains and build up any size and sort of timbers you want to. And length, likewise, is the servant of the glue pot and the smart mill man. You can take short dimension and put finger-joints on the ends, slap on the glue, stick them together, and make long dimension as straight as straight can be. Wonders are being done in this fashion. A thousand methods are already in use for gluing-up wood to increase its size, strength, and usefulness. You can make wood as wide, as thick, and as long as you durn pleasewith glue.

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The possibilities? Absolutely unlimited. There was once a great Frenchman who wanted to accomplish some mighty purpose. His trusted lieutenant said to him-"It is impossible"-whereat the great man rose in his ,wrath and thundered-"Never use that blockhead word in my presence again !" And so the chemist, the test-tube man, and the research man may.well say to the lumber industry-"Nothing is really impossible in the combination of wood and glue." There is a single Pine mill in the West that actually sold and shipped during the past year ONE THOUSAND CARLOADS of valuable wooden products ready for use, every foot of which was made out of wood that until recently was called "waste." Ingenuity and glue did the trick. One certain concern we have heard of is making a grand success and doing a volume business simply prefabricating glued-up rafters. Just rafters, mind you. All over this country there are barns, hangars, garages, churches, and other buildings of various sorts requiring clear wide spans, to which the use of prefabricated, glued-up rafters are admir- ably adapted for roof supports. The possibilities are monumental. ***

It need hardly be re-stated, the story is so well known, that one of the most successful items of building material on earth today is plywood and panels. Through the use of this one item alone, glue has well nigh rebuilt the building business. Look about you wherever construction is going on, and see the part that plywood ptays. :f*!i

Truly the wedding of wood and glue, with the laboratory man acting as presiding preacher, has done wonders for wood and for the building business. And as time and experiment move on, lthe wonders will increase. No longer do you hear people say in voices sharp with scorn: "That's no good. It isn't solid wood. It's veneered." Those days' like the Dodo bird, the horsehair sofa, the mustache cup, and the bustle, are gone forever. No one scorns veneered or built-up wood anymore. For glued-up wood has gone Park Avenue and don't you doubt it. Adhesions for binding pieces of wood together were known to the ancient Egyptians more than 5,O00 years ago. But in the last generation-in the last decade-more progress has been made with wood and glue than in all the preceding centuries combined.

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In the days to come the lumber industry is going to turn more and more to the elimination of waste in its search for profits. It will have to. Smallness of size will cease to reflect upon the value of the products of the log. Men will glue small pieces into big ones, and make from them whatever they desire. Reversing the order of the unfortunates in stripes who "make little rocks out of big ones," the lumber folks will make big pieces out of little pieces. No doubt about it. Glue will entirely release the sawmill man from the enslavement of log size. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," Bob Fitzsimmons used to say. "The smaller the pieces, the stronger the glued-up block," the mill man of the future will say.

Wood, and glue, and brains will do it.