THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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Iacorporaled uader ths lcws ol Colilonic l. C. Dionae. Prcs. 6d Treca.; I. E. Mcrtia, Vice-Prog.,. W. T. Blcck, Secretcry Publirhcd the lst 6d lSth ql ccch EontL at 508-9-10 Ccntrql Buil,ring, 108 Wcgt'Sixth Street, Lo8 Aagelea, Cclit., Telepbone VAadi}e '1555 Ellotod 6 Second-clcgr nqtt€r Septonbar 25, 19t2, ql the Post Ofiice qt Lor Algclcr. Ccliloraia, under Act ol March 3, 1879

How Lumber Looks

Lumber shipments of 426 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 9.6 percent below production for week ending October 26, 1946, according to the Statistical Division of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. In the same rveek new orders of these mills were 5.3 percent below production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills, amounted to 62 percent of stocks' For reporting softwood mills, unfilled orders are equivalent to 26 days'production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 40 days' production.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended November 2, 90 mills reporting, gave orders as 52,844,000 feet, shipments 56,625,000 feet, and production 62,434,N0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 185,188,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 2, 78 units (107 mills) reporting, gave orders as 16,67S,OW feet, shipments t4,728.000 feet, and production 14,803,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 70,087,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the 'iveek ended November 2, 139 mills reporting, gave orders as 81,972,00A feet, shipments 78S05,000 feet, and production '84,075,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 483,073,000 feet.

C. G. "Tiny" Renier Speaker at Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Meeting

Chester G. "Tiny" Renier, program director of radio station KMPR, Hollywood, was the guest speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club at the Chapman Park Hotel, Tuesday, October 29. Ifis subject was, "Behind the Scenes in Radio." Writer, producer and director on many coast-to-coast radio program,s, Mr. Renier has won several special citations for his work, including the highest award in radio, the Peabody arvard, in 1945. He also gave a transcription of J. Edgar Hoover,s address, "Subversive Activities in the United States." made before the American Legion convention in San Francisco. Thc interesting program was enjoyed by a large turnout. George Clough introduced the speaker.

In memory of Robert S. Forsyth, who passed ar,riay recently, the gathering remained silent for ten seconds. President Bob Osgood presided at the meeting.

Mill To Be Bebuilt

Mill No. 2 of Moore Lumber Products at O'Brien. Oregon, which burned down October 27, will be rebuilt. The mill's capacity r,r'as 40,000 feet per day. Jim Pack is manager of Moore Lumber Products, which has headquarters at Grants P:s:O*gg::_

Remcnulacturers Convene Nov. lg

Members of the Pacific Lumber Remanufacturers Association will hold their convention at the Multnomah Hotel. Portland, November 19. R. T. Titus, Portland, is executive secretary of the association.

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Lumbermenfs Hi-Jinks November 29 Roy Stanton Builds Sectional House

Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion will hold a Hi-Jinks and get-together for lumbermen at the Royal Palms Hotel, 360 South Westlake Avenue, Los Angeles, Friday evening, November D, 1946.

Three hundred tickets will be on sale at $5.00 each which will include dinner and show. Dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m. and will be followed by an unusually good entertainment program. Cocktails may be obtained in the Cocktail Room of the hotel from 5:30 p.m. on. The proceeds of the Hi-Jinks will be used by the Legionnaires for Christmas work with the veterans in hospitals.

Don Philips, Jr. is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. Assisting him in the general arrangements are Russell T. Gheen, Paul Queen and Don Gow. Tickets may be obtained from members of the Committee, and members of the Post. GET YOUR TICKETS EARLY.

Harold Hamilton is Commander of Lumbermen's Post.

Lumber Firms Merge

Willamette National Lumber Co., Salem, Corvallis Lumber Co., Corvallis, and Lumber Management Corp., Portland, have merged into an organization with capitalization of $1,800,000. Emerging firm will retain name of Willamette National Lurnber Co. and its officers and directors will handle affairs of the new organization.

Willamette is now constructinC a $1 million mill in Linn County for production of 160,000 feet per day. The company's headquarters will be at Foster, site of new mill.

Officers of present Willamette firm who will carry over in to the new company are: W. W. Clark, president; George T. Gerlinger, vice-president; William Swindells, executive vice-president and secretary; Maurice D. Clark, assistant secretary and treasurer. Together with David T. Mason they form board of directors. All are from Portland.

E. J. Stanton & Son announces the formation of the Stancraft Corp., which will be devoted to the manufacture of sectional building units. Stancraft will manufacture units which can be assembled into a house 800 square feet in area.

fn announcing their policy, Roy Stanton, president of Stancraft Corp., stated that "The amounts of materials that are by-passing normat channels of trade has become so great that we felt it essential that we do something to divert the materials back through normal channels. The Stancraft Corp. is, therefore, dedicated to producing units to be sold through regularly established dealers and incorporating at the same time the best construction possible that can be offered with available materials."

Stancraft will offer units with both interior and exterior wall surfaces applied, and all items except floor joists and sub-floors will be factory fabricated reducing construction time considerably. No plumbing or wiring facilities will be furnished as Stancraft believes this can be done to a better advantage by the local contractor to meet local code conditions. The house, when erected, will contain a living room, approximately 12 x 2O, kitchen, 8 x 14, two bedroorns, 8 x 14, and a bath, 6 x B.

The price of complete units for erecting the shell of a house is expected to be less than $3,000.00 retail.

Stancraft cordially invites any of their friends to inspect the model house now erected in their yard.

Scn Frqncisco Building Permits

Central Permit Bureau of the San Francisco Department of Public Works issued 690 building permits valued at an estimated $2,627,638 in October bringing the 1946 total to 6,995 permits for an estimated $35,675,308 in construction. This compares with 593 permits issued in October 1945 valued at $I,844,942. The ten-month total last year was 4,483 units or $12,652,852 in construction.

Of the permits issued in October, 2A6 were for residential construction, of which 167 were one-family units, valued at an estimated $1,811,850. Permits for 12 units of non-residential construction valued at $80,593 were also issued. The remaining permits were for alterations to cost about $735,195.

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Every child who has the use Of his senses knows a goose Sees them underneath the tree Gather round the goose-girl's knee, While she reads them by the hour From the works of Schopenhauer. Patiently the geese attend, But do they really comprehend What Schopenhauer's driving at? 0h, not at all; but what of that? Neither do I; neither does she; And, for that matterneither does he.

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That one comes tripping to the tongue when reading some confusing order, regulation, or amendment, from one of the Bureaus in that Citadel of Confusion-Washington.

When toward long-windedness in your business you, take thought of the order alleged to have by General Marshall to General Eisenhower. to London. Invade continent. Destroy German army." )F**

A woman in Indian sent for a native electrician and gave him a iqb re-wiring her house. ahead arld us€ cornmon seruf uq€ corrunon 1:i philosophQr gblmly but r..1 5, mon sense\.iJ a rare .J education !'{ of God. *r** said to him: "Just go Whereupon that dusky replied: "Madame, comAll I have is a technical

"There is only one thing worse than being talked about,A thinker named Gracian wytfr4te following in the and that is not being talked about."-Oscar Wilde. year 1601 r "A shrewd man lytfG that others, when they Barnum. tight. ***:fi<* seek\hinyi do not seek hyr(y'fut rather seek their advan"Speak well of me if you can; speak ill of me if you tage i\$im and bVb{ryfi/Study that one over whenever must; but for heavens sake-SAY SOMETHING."-P. T. your bri*rp of self g*+ln gets to making your hat fit too t'Godr" said universe."

Kahlil Gibran, "is the very breath of the ***

The pessimist comes to a mpeting to criticize conditions. The optimist comes to that same meeting with a plan for improvir* *n"T. * *

Goethe said: "Be careful what you desire in the days of your youth, lest you to l"o**l"h of it in your old age."

Just in case there is any possible doubt in your mind that the ladies of this country like color, take note of the fact that in the year 1945 there were sold in this country more than 120 million lipsticks. * x<

Communism is a poisonous European product that breeds beggars, but bakes no bread. *

Quite a furore was created recently when it was officially reported that our auto manufacturers-in spite of the scarcity here at home-have been shipping large numbers of new cars abroad. Lots of us probably forgot that the British government owns 434,000 shares of General Motors

Benjamin Franklin, wisest most practical man in

$merican history, once uttgfd this piece of sound phil{"ophy: "When you assgrtlble a number of men to have t\ advantage of theilf6int wisdom, you inevitably assemble\ith those mg;/all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of ogifiion, their local interests, and their selfish views." Iq6ther words, you take the bitter with the sweet. ***<

Lest yo-ir be given to supposing that this nation has become in any sense narrow minded, take notice that all over this broad land the night spot broads are singing broad ditties-little tales of bawdry set to music-while enthusiastic, inebriated, and overcharged audiences shout their approval with lusty voices; and we read with excited interest that some glamour gal has been selected to play Amber in a movie-the story of a trollop who couldn't say no. I can account for our present public tastes only on the basis that the population of the world we live in is freely interspersed with frail flewsies and half baked Don Juans, and that "like takes to like."

Half a billion dollars worth of books were sold at retail (Continued on Page 8)

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Plywood

Super Harbord

Harborite

Doors

Cement Asbestos Board

Cemesto Board

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Hardboands

Upson Boards

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Caulking Compounds

Adhesives

Insulation

Celotex

Celo-Siding

Kimsul

Sisalhraft

Sisalation

Asphalt Roofing and Shingles

Nails and Wire

Corner Beads

Corrugated Iron

Stucco and Poultry

Netting

Hardware and Screen Cloth

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(Continued from Page 6) in the United States last year. A shocking percentage of these were dirty books, filled with obscenity and thinly ' veiled filth. Reminds me of the story of the lady shopper in the book store. The saleslady said to her: "Here is a book you SHOULD read." And the lady shopper said: "f suppose I should, but it keeps me so busy reading those I SHOULDN'T, that f haven't time."

Thomas Dreier says that when organization rules provide for paying men who do nothing, or assigning more men to a job than the job calls for, then waste is being deliberately created, and waste is evil, and he draws the excellent conclusion that: "There can be no permanent profit in evil."

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We need a Cicero. History holds no nobler record than that grand old Roman, who, with moving though pathetic eloquence, uttered a series of spoken appeals that gained {, him immortality as he pleaded for his country. \,k**

\ Thomas Jefferson once said that, "The whole art of \sood government is the art of being honest." What an old foggy Tom was, wasn't he?

Some interesting thingJ ni"" n"nnened recently, two of high public interest. One of them was the public announcement by Dan Tobin, head of the world's biggest labor union. that "Strikes must be curtailed or the Nation will sink into chaos and organized labor will perish." The other was the public statement by Commodore Small, head of CPA, that he did not believe in regulation or regimentation of business, and wanted to see all controls removed at the earliest possible moment.

I read the threatenr", n*Urtri.s every day in the newspapers, and, instead of marveling at or bewailing the darkness about us, f recall that history convinces us men have been always thus. There is really "nothing new under the sun." The great Frenchman, Voltaire, who could express himself better than almost any man in history, wrote a waspish little book named "Candide;" in which he discussed mankind in this delightful dialogue:

(Candide)-"Do you believe that men have always massacred one another as they do y, that they have always been liars, cheats, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, drunkards, misers, envious, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?" (Martin you believe that hawks have always eaten they have found them?" (Candide) "Without doubt." (Martin) "Well, then, if hawks have always had the same character, why should you imagine that men have changed theirs?"

Men have not changed, as Voltaire so well illustrates. Had we kept our entire military strength in Euorpe and Asia, Russia would have been just as friendly to us today as she was when we were pouring into her hands the tools with which she made her immortal defense against the Nazi hordes. With each shipload of American troops that carne home, Russia grew less friendly. With each gun that we silenced, her good will disappeared in exact proportion to the reduction of our fighting strength. With each plane that we grounded, snarls replaced smiles in our direction. Voltaire could have told us it would be that way. Our trouble is we don't read enough history. WE F1ORGET THAT HAWKS EVADE EAGLES. BUT EAT PrGEoNs'

The more we, as a nation, produce of the things we use, the more there is to distribute, the more there is for each of us to share. Wealth-true wealth-can only be created by production. Wealth isn't money, as has been said millions of times and still is all too little understood. If we had all the money in the ulorld and there was nothing to buy, we'd starve and freeze to death. The only thing rnloney is good for is to exchange for the things we want and need. We can't distribute what we haven't got. We can't distribute what we haven't PRODUCED. Some of the production has to go to pay for the industry or the farm that made it. Some has to go to defray the cost of government. The remainder, and it amounts to more than two-thirds of all that is produced, goes to the people who did the producing and in the form of wages. The more each worker produces of this world's goods, the more there is for him to share; and that is the only basis on which real wealth can be distributed. Increasing costs and lowering production spells two words: INFLATION and DISASTER.

In World War II, American Industry made a production record that turned the course ofwar. Now, as the world turns to peace, those same mines, mills and men are dedicated to providing better living for us all.

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