ANNOUNCEMENT

Our new l0-foot band savmill will go into production abo-ut December 15. Thb new mill takes its place in the industry to help increase needed production for Government use.

To produce .rs much lumber as we catrr and get it where it will make the greatest contribution toward winning the w*, is our

When the poet wrote: Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains, Men with eras in their purpose, Men with epochs in their brainsHe might have been thinking of such a man as Eddie Rickenbacker, who again came back from the dead the other day, and thrilled this nation of hero-lovers.

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One of the great thinkers-and likewise great cynicsof American history, Clarence Darrow, ortce uttered these powerful words: "In the great food of human life that is spawned upon this earth, it is not often that A MAN is born." Wonder if Clarence wouldn't think a man was really born when Rickenbacker was ushered into this life ?

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Several quotations from the sayings of famous warriors have been made in this column recently, with regard to the use of prayer and the intervention of Providence in warfare. I stumbled on another the other day. It was Frederick the Great of Prussia who said: "I've always noticed that the Lord seems to favor the side with the biggest cannon."

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Yet I turn always to the words of Lincoln, which seem so near the naked trutrh, when he said: "I have been driven many times to my knees, by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." The simple humility and prayerfulness of Lincoln did more than anything else to establish his greatness. No persona,l vanity, ego, or arrogance ever crept into his words. ***

Well, they say we may be going back to the horse and buggy days again. Not at all. In the horse and buggy days we had horses-and buggies.

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Two business men, not acquaintances, find themselves sitting side by side in a train. Both are quiet, preoccupied, evidently worried. Finally one of them heaves a long, loud sigh. The other one says: "You're telling me !"

They were probably little business men who were trying to discover some light through the darkness. By the way, Printer's Ink, a national printers' publication, is nationally publicizing and broadcasting a letter written by a small business man in Everett, Washington, who had been doomed, apparentfy, to business destruction. His temper finally lost its bounds, and he wrote the Bureaucrat in Washington (whose cynical nonchalance with regard to small business finally aroused his ire) a letter that fairly burned through the paper, and threatens to make the author famous. ***

And some wag has remarked that the new rookie in the army learns a great many entirely new things, but that what really opens his eyes is reveille.

And have you heard ,n" """ lborra the soldier who became very ill and was sent to the hospital, and was getting afong fine until he suddenly took a turn for the nurse? *** d.*{3

And then there is the pessimist who says that in these days of rationing you not only can't take it with you, but you can't even go after it.

And then there was the milkman who got drafted into the army, and wrote back to his wife: "Mary, this army is the softest job I ever had in my life. Just imagine'the comfort of lying around in bed until five-thirty every morning." ***

Still better is the one about the roughneck who wrote his wife from the army camp: "Jennie, this army life is fine. I like it. I'm eating the best food I ever ate, working no harder than I always worked, and living in a nice, clean barracks, with every convenience. The only thing I miss is my old spittoon in the front room at home." So she wrote him back, and said: "GIad you like the army. As far as missing that old spittoon is concerned, don't worry about it; you used to miss it pretty often when you were at home."

And then there is the rhyme that goes: Kiss me, CorPoral, kiss me, And hold me, hold me tight; And helP me get in Practice

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George Washington t* "",*"*""U, a humorous man' and no one ever made the mistake of "kidding" him' But he was not above a roguish remark himself, when the notion struck him. It is related that after the Revolutionary War ended and Washington was President, he asked Congress to provide a standing army of 5,000 men. (No WAACS were mentioned in the request.) Congress demurred; thought we didn't need that big an army. Whereat Washington replied that if Congress would get England to guarantee that she would never invade us with more than 3,000 men, he would be satisfied with an army of 4,000. One can imagine the Father of his Country laughing up his sleeve at this one.

Instructor In Army Air Corps

Joseph W. Tardy, Jr., has been commissioned a Lieutenant and is now an instructor at the Army Air Corps camp at Ajo, Arizona. He was formerly with E' K. Wood Lumber Company at its Hollywood yard' He is a son of Joe W. Tardy, who is with E. J' Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.

Payroll Savings'-'an American Effort

Employers who are giving their time and eftort to the furtherance of payroll savings systems are going far to ensure the success of the voluntary plan for selling War Savings Bonds. The voluntary sales plan, as oppose-d to compulsory savings, is based upon the American principle of free enterprise-of selling a product to a customer who is willing to buy it. It demonstrates, moreover, that business methods are the best way of getting our big job done, and that private organizations and individuals can cooperate with the government in the accomplishment of this task.

There is a patriotic motive involved too, in voluntary buying. Putting their money into War Savings Bonds is the only way open to many Americans for giving assistance in the fight against the Axis. To take from them the ability to do this voluntarily would deprive them of an impoitant outlet for pent-up patriotism. This is evidenced by numerous instances of people who speed up their bond buying when the entrance into active service of some relative or friend brings to those at home a fuller tealization of what the armed forces are doing.

Business and industrial companies who are becoming issuing agents for Series E Bonds are not only helping this genuinely American plan of selling War Savings Bonds, but are placing the firm's name before the public as an unselfish contributor to the war effort, and an integrate factor in our national strength.

Errcntial Lumbcr Workcrr Entidcd Northwcrt Loggerr Being ShiFtcd to Draft Defermcnt

Workers performing essential tasks in lumber camps and mills are entitled to draft deferment on the same basis as workers in aircraft factories and shipyards, Major 'General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, said today.

Without the lumber which the northwest loggers and mill workers produce, America's great Army cannot be adequately equipped, General Hershey pointed out. Selective Service Boards, he said, have been urged to give "the most serious consideration" to deferring men employed in the felling and milling of lumber. Such deferment will continue, however, only as long as the, worker remains on the job.

General Hershey's statement follovvs:

"While the selective system is primarily concerned with supplying men for the Army, it must at the same time defer from military service those r,r'orkers our factories, logging camps, saw mills and mines must have if our armed forces are to get the guns, ships and planes they need for victory.

"Without the lumber which the northwest loggers and mill workers produce, America's great army cannot be adequately equipped. To help insure the continued production of lumber, the agencies of Selective Service have been urged to give the most serious consideration to the deferment of men who are employed in the felling and m.illing of timber.

"'Workers performing essential tasks in lumber camps and mills are entitled to deferment on the same basis as workers in aircraft factories and shipyards. Such deferment continues, however, only while the worker remains on the job fo1 which he has been deierred. If he leaves, he is to be reclassified. This the soldiers and sailors on our far.flung fronts have a right to expect.

"f have great confidence that the cooperation of the northwest lumber workers will increase the flow of vital wood to our arms plants."

Amendm€nt 1 to MPR ZZ4

A new alternate method for pricing cement shipments to war construction jobs outside the manufacturer,s nor_ mal selling area has been established by the OpA.

Use of this alternative, set forth in Amendment 1 to Maximum Price Regulation 724 (Cement). is permissible only when the pricing method, indicated on lh" billing, the provisions in the original order ensuring the moviment of the cement to war procurement agencies are complied with, and the War Production Board certifies to the manufacturer and to OPA that the cement should not be shipped from a Bureau of Mines District having a surplus of cement and that both point of shipment and point of destination are in a Bureau oi Mines District or Districts where a deficiency of cement exists or is imminent.

The amendment is made retroactive to September 23, the effective date of Regalation 224.

San Francisco, Ngv. Il.-Loggers and other workers in certain areas of the northwest lumbering industry were being transferred to other localities where climate will permit lumber operations to continue throughout the winter.

Shift of the workers was ordered by the War Manpower Commission, which declared it is of paramount importance to keep the loggers and others at work in which their special skills can be fully utilized for the war efrort.

The Manpower Commission had previously imposed a stabilization order on the lumber industry so that the lumber workers must remain at their occupation.

Many lumbering operations in Northern California Eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana have already closed or will be closed because of seasonal conditions, it was declared. Movement of workers from these areas toward the Pacific Coast is now under way and will be accelerated.

fnstructions which tvent out from the regional office of WMC to field representatives asked for an immediate survey to determine the number of workers to be moved as well as the points from and to which the shift will occur. At the same time employment clealance arrangements were expanded to include Alturas, Dunsmuir, Quincy, Eureka, Susanville and Redding, California; and Klamath Falls, Medford, Bend, Eugene, Marshfield and Roseburg, Oregon.

Officials of War Manpower Commission and Selective Service System yesterday emphasized the important part lumber workers play in the war effort. They said:

"Without the lumber which the Northwest loggers and mill workers produce, America's great army cannot be adequately equipped. To help insure the continued production of lumber, the agencies of Selective Service have been urged to give the most serious consideration to the deferment of men who are employed in the felling and milling of timber."

Wall Papar Production Curtaifcd

Direct curtailment of wall paper production and establishment of simplification practices, reducing the number of styles and colors of wall paper, were provided for in an order issued today by the Director General for Operations, the regional WPB reported.

The war-time limitations upon the restriction of private house construction and the shut-down of many nonessential industries were factors considered in determining the extent of the curtailment.

The new order, L-177, and schedule 1 attached thereto, provide that no manufacturer shall purchase or put in process paper stock in excess of 5O per cent of the total tonnage of such stock used by him in the production of wall paper in the period July 1, 1941, to Jane 3O, 1942.

The order also provides for simplification and standardization practices which include the provision that no manufacturer shall use paper stock exceeding l9fu inch in width to trim to 18 inches, or use paper stock in excess of base weight previously employed by him.

$5,OOO Remodeling FHA Loans

Copper Conservation Amendment Continue Available

"special terms are available for Title I loans for financirrg cotrrersion or remodeling projects in designated critical housing areas which provide additional living accommodations for war workers," Wilson G' Bingham' Southern California District Director, Federal Housing Administration, stated.

"Loans for such purposes may range up to $5'000' and may run for as long as seven years, to be repaid in equal monthly installments," he said.

"Occupancy priority must be extended to war workers for 6O a"y" ttiet completion. Applications for W' P' B' priority assistance in securing critical materials for such prol""ir may be filed with the Federal Housing Administration Los Angeles Office.

"lfnfinished spaces are most adaptable to this type activity, such as. open or glassed-in porches-attics, or a building not used as a dwelling may be remodeled into a single ir multifamily house or converting single dwelling units into duplex tYPes, etc.

"The Government encourages this type of remodeling because existing structures are being counted on to absorb a large proporti,on of all immigrant war workers who need housing. Such remodeling requires a much smaller amount of critical materials than new construction'

"Everyone now knows that new construction has been sharply curtailed by material shortages, but additional horrsing continues to be necessary. Two sources remain open for additional housing-conversions or remodeling as above pointed out; and the acquisitiorr of existing homes, by families who may desire to purchase homes' The p. H. e. Insured Mortgage Plan offers a sound, protected financing method with many safeguards for the buyer who desires to acquire a home.

"Principal of these safeguards is the policy of sound property valuation based upon tested appraisal methods, which often operate to prevent over-borrowing on the basis of inflated prices. An additional and important safeguard arises through the protection afforded by the single, long term, generous amottizing mortgage which never matures until its last monthly payment falls due," Mr' Bingham concluded.

Installation of copper in buildings has been reduced to practically zero with the issuance of an amendment to supplementaty iottsetnation Order M-9-c-4 by the director general for operations.

The amendment continues to restrict the use of copper building products for repairs to 25 pounds or less and permits these small amounts to be used only when they were in the possession of the user on October 27-

IJsers formerly could purchase metal for such iirstallations. The effect of the amendment is to prevent the purchase, sale, delivery and use of any copper for installation in buildings so that stocks of such copper products in the hands of hardware stores, chain stores, warehouses, dealers, plumbers, contractors and others rnay be acquired by the Government and remelted for war use.

With sales to users prohibited, the order provides that deliveries of copper building products may be made only to scrap dealers, brass mills or Government agenciesiiparticulariy the Copper Recovery Corporation.

The amendment adds to prohibited uses screlvs, nuts, bolts, rivets, shear rings, strip for iaying linoleum, tie rods, and washers.

The order previously restricted use of copper items to buildings alone. As amended, the order extends thC: prohibition on the use of most copper products to water systems outside buildings, installations in cooling towers, and water towers.

CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT UNDER ALLOCATION CONTROL; SOME TYPES RESERVED FOR MILITARY NEEDS

All construction machinery and equipment placed under allocations control; production for civilian use of certain types of equipment stopped; 48 items, including graders, ditchers, dredgers, rollers, conveyors' derricks, concrete handling equipment of several types and mixers of various kinds allowed to be manufactured only for use of military; beginning November 15, the industry will operate on production schedules; vertical integration of industry from top to bottom under system of production quotas will supplint limitation orders at present in force through revocation of Limitation Orders L-82 and L-82-A (Limitation Order L-192), effective November 15.

Voluntary Tlre Conservation Program for Lumber IndustryrRecommended

Adoption of a voluntary tire conservation program for the lumber industry unanimously was recommended in Washington on November 16 by lumbermen and WPB representatives meeting at a conference of the Lumber Industry Transportation Advisory Cornmittee.

The suggested program would include education of drivers and service men in the care of tires through use of motion pictures arid educational literature; better road maintenance by elimination of rcck; ruts, stumps and oth:r obstructions from private logging roads, and greater use of railroad facilities and mechanical loaders.

Howard C. Richardson, representing the Office of Price Administration, recommended that lumbermen make contact with the state Tire Rationing Administrators through their local lumber associations to present their case for tire allotments. He said any trucker may request investigation of inequality of distribution by local boards.

A scarcity of flat and gondola cars for movement of logs presents some serious problems of transportation, an industry representative declared. Improvement in the railroad car situation, it was agreed, would follow strict adherence to the practice of shipping in carloads and with cars loaded to capacity.

H. E. Holman, chief of the Lumber Production Section of WPB and Chairman of the Advisory Committte, discussed the shortage of new road construction equipment and recommended that loggers first endeavor to obtain such equipment by lease or purchase of idle county and state equipment.

In the interest of tire conservation, J. K. Pearce of the Lumber Production Section, WPB, suggested investigation of the possibilities of eliminating truck hauls of logs and lumber over roads parallel to a rail line. Rubber may be conserved, he said, by making more use of rail hauls.

Allocation of public timber to adjacent or nearby mills rvould eliminate some cross hauls of logs, the Committee pointed out. A suggestion was advanced that WPB take up with the Federal and State authorities who are engaged in selling timber, the matter of allocations to existing mills, so as to reduce the total haul and eliminate the cross haul.

David J. Holmes, Transportation Division of WPB, suggested to the Committee the advisability o{ cooperation with local or branch headquarters of the Office of Defense Transportation in regard to local miilwork trucking and less-than-carload millwork shipments.

One lumberman suggested greater efficiency in operation of logging trucks may be obtained by greater use of mechanical loaders.

Representing the industry, at the meeting were: H. A. Gillis, traffic manager, \Mestern Pine Assn., Portland, Oregon; H. A. Hanlon, Cotton & Ifanlon, Odessa, New York; J. D. Mylrea, president, Thunder Lake Lumber Company, Wausau, Wisconsin; Cecil New, manager, Southern Hardwood Traffic Assn., Memphis, Tennessee; G. H. Shafer, general traffic manager, Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul, Minnesota; H. V. Simpson, alternate for K. C. Batchelder, West Coast Lumberman's Assn., Seattle, Washington; Hubert Whitaker, Ozan Lumber Company, Prescott, Arkansas.