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Henry Ford had to go back and take charge of the billion dollar empire that he built u/ith his own genius-and be took up that tremendous job without any sign of fear or faltering-I was reminded of what Mr. Ford told a magazinc writer thirty years ago when he was in his prime and at the height of his career. The writer was trying to find out what Henry thought was the secret of his success, and Henry told him: "There are only two things in the world that are really important-WORK and F'AITH." What a splendid declaration t It was work and faith and courage that b-ilt the America we love. And it's going to take plenty of all three to guarantee its future.

I read with intense interest recent stories suggesting that after ttre war is over Henry Ford is taking his great organization back over a highway that it foresook some fifteen years ago when Edsel, with modernistic ideas, began the building of continually more attractive looking, more ornate, larger, and more expensive cars. When Edsel took over the reins his father had put the whole world on wheels with his T Model, and then with Model A. Edsel, a progressive, went in for bigger and better looking cars. Soon low priced cars became a thing of the past. The several cars in the "Iower priced field" were tfiemselves large, attractive,_ luxury cars. Now, say students of the Ford situation, Edsel is gone, Henry is back in harness, and he is going to show the world some of the early day Ford methods whcn he quits making war machines. He is going once again to make a small, low-priced, low-cost, less adorned car, within the reach of almost every man or woman. Henry used to say in the T Model days-"Give them any color car Orcy want, just so long as it's black " Those days are coming back, they say.

Pcrsonally, I believ6 the sto-ry. And, likewise personally, I'm glad of i3. I have felt for years as though the motof car manufacturers got so all-fired interested in their rush for bigger, better, ntore luxurious, more colorful cars, they forgot entirely+very one of them-the fundamental theory on which Ford built his business; built the entire autqmobile industry, for that matter. That theory was to furnish dependable and satisfactory transportation for the poor as well as the rich, forgetting the luxury and the speed idca. Any one of the mass production auto manufachrrers could have gone back to the good cheap car field and done a world of good while cleaning up. But they were all busy working toward thousand dollar cars, instead of at least one of them working toward the two hundred dollar car. Ttrat's what Henry is going to do now, they say. And I hope so. There will always be plenty of manufacturers to rnake big cars for the rich, fast.cars for the yourg, and fancy cars for the fancy-minded. But good, dependable transportation without ostentation such as Henry F'ord is capable of producing in swarms like the locusts of the Bible days, would do much to help smooth thc transition road tlnt must lead ttris nation from top war production to civilian lrostwar production. Personally, I'm for Henry. Even at his adnanced age, he can be one of the strongest units in Oris nation in the economic struggle that must develop when the war ends. Wish he were even twenty yearg younger. What deeds he could perform. We have had no one else like him. None likc him will come after. Bureaucrats will never successfully bridge the grcat gap that must bc crossed between war and peace when the war ends. Men who have done things before and can do them again must lead the way{r God help us. f'| fire' Iadies should acqaint themselves with Gautama Buddha. Why? Because he was the first woman sufiragrst No foolin' The idea that women first won-equal rights with men in the past few decades is for those who scorn ancient history. For Buddha more than five hundred years beforc Christ, admitted women disciples into his free democracy of spirit on equal terms with the men. 'We are told that he did so only after having three times refused to admit then. Like Caesar and the croryn, that last ofrer was too much for him. But, dthough he recog4ized women'6 sufrrage in his great and growing organization, he took an awful slap at the ladies while doing so. lFor he uttered the prediction that their presence in his Order would reduce ..the life of thc Ord6r by half, for, he wrote: "As when mildew falls on a field the ricc is doomed, so when women leave the household life and join an Order, that Ordcr shall not long endure." Wonder what old Gautama would thhk if he could look the country ovcr today, and witness our modern distribution of woriren,'and their various activitiee?

Trees and religion. The history of Buddhism, as an e:ample, places great emphasis on trees. We are told that Gautama Buddha, founder of that religion that once swept most of the known world, sat a week each under four great trees while he thought out the science of living that became what is called Buddhism. The first week he sat and thought under the great Bo tree. The second week he sought thc 'protection of the Banyan tree. The third week the Muchalinda trce furnished him shade. The fourth and last week he sat under the Rajayatana tree. Then he announced that his studies were completed, and that he had discovered the eight-fold road to salvation, composed of eight rights, namety: right belief, right aspiration, right speech, right conduct, right occupation; right endeavor, right memory, and right meditation. fn fact, he laid down his whole philosophy of life that was welcomed by countless millions of people, after four weeks of thought and contemplation under those four great fndian trees.

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I hate to frighten my old friend, Charlie Williams, of thc Moore Dry Kiln Company, but I must mention a remark made in dead seriousness the other day by an engineer who has been doing a lot of experimenting with wood and electricig. As is well known, some remarkable results have recently been achieved in the laboratory by treating laminated wood and glue with electricity instead of with heat and pressure. Great things are now expected from further research into the relationship between wood and electricity. Well" what this engineer said was this: that it will be only a matter of time and thoughtful experimentation until chemista and engineers will discover practical methods of drying wood commercially almost instantly, with electricity. He says they will just bring in green logs, put an electrode to the end of each log, turn on the juice, and, Presto! The entire log will be free from moisture. He said they have gone far enough along with what they are now doing to fecl very sure that this can be done, and in most practical fashion. Interesting, eh? I'll bet Charlie Williams will hold the patent on the process, if it finally works out.

Appointed Assistcmt Scrlee Mcrncger

d J. (Clint) Laughlin has been appointed assistant sales manager for E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, succeeding the late J. Earle Heber. Clint has been with the Stanton organization for the past several months, and prior to that was associated with the lumber business in Los Angeles for a long period. He is widely known in California lumber circles.

Construction Order L-41 limiting construction is redrafted and issued in simplified form by the WPB.

I don't enjoy making "busts," but I make plenty of ttem, and whcn aomc fricnd catches me at it, I get'a ccrtain amount of kick out of it. Fricnds continually ask mobecause of tbe bodge-podge of subjects I writc about"what do you read?" Sometimes I read the wrong thinge. Tte above Btatcments may not seem related, but they are. In this column on August 15, I was typing some thoughts on the subject of Liberty. Before me was tlre text of a very eloquent spcech on that subject. The speaker quotcd Madame de Stael, famous French writer and politician of the revolutionary period, as saying "on the scaffold:" "Ah Libertyl What crimes are committed in thy name!" So I quoted both the quotation and the accompanying statement. G. B. Mcleod, of San Francisco, an old friend of mine, with ttre Hammond Lumber Company, read it and caught it on the first bounce, and threw me out at first base. Madame de Stael did make that remark. But it couldn't have been on the scaffold, for she died a natural death in 1817. Ah, welll Anyway, I penalizgd myself by taking an entire evening reading in part the history of that famous French woman. But I'll never send her to the scafrold again. I promise. Ho1rc none of her kinfolks sue me. I'd just have to admit, with Mark Twain, that my report of the Madame's execution was grossly exaggerated.

Lieut. Schaler Home On Lecve

Lieut. Albert M. Schafer, son of Albert Schafer, president of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., recently visited his parents at Montesano, Wash. on a 15-day leave. He is attached to the staff of General Galbraith, Commander of the San Francisco Port of Embarkation.

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