DOUGLAS FIR

SUGGESTIONS FOR SPECIAL PATTERNS:

Where special patterns or patterns made up of small panels are desired, the recommended method is to sheath with 5/16" or 3/8" Plyscord placed horizontally, then apply the f inish panels (Plypanel or Plywall) as designed. For additional technical data, see Sweet's File for Architects or write the Douglas Fir Plywood Association.

There are three grades of Douglas f ir plywood panels made especially for various phases of wall construction. PLYWALL is made especially for standard wallboard use; PLYPANEL is a premium panel used for quality interior work where both sides are to be exposed as ln built-ins; PLYSCORD is a utility panel made for subflooring or sheathing walls and roofs, or for interior walls which are to be covered with sanded plywood, acoustical materials, tile or linoleum.

CAN PLYWOOD BE SPECIFIED NOW FOR POSTWAR, USES?

The increased capacity of the industry vill make MORE Douglas fir plywood available for civilian consrnPtion THAN EVER BEFORE, as soon as the needs of the almed s€rvices ' lessen ot wal testrictions are lifted. There will be no reconYersion delays; the same tyDes and grades of Douglas fir plywood that aiC now being nade can flow inn€diately into peace-timb building and conslruction.

(Continued from Page 8) turned soldiers to go back to the land and t4ke up scientific agriculture as a lifetime profession, we will be well on our way to solve some of our pressing immediate problems.

Proverbs says: "Ife that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth vain persons shall be void of understanding."

I'm getting a wee bit discouraged, I must admit. The day I've been waiting and hoping for through the long years of war and the dull years of depression that preceded them seems just as far off as it ever did. My instinctive notion that the end of the war would usher in that day, has already been proven wrong. What day? Why, friends, the day when the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of government go back into the places and positions they occupied in our national life from Washington to lloover; the day when the law of supply and demand comes back to its old position in our economic, financial, and industrial life, because all the substitute laws we have tried are pure fakes; the day when the federal government retires completely from business, and when all of the bureaus go back to where the woodbine twineth and are seen no more; the day when the MERIT SYSTEM returns, applying to all those who work, whether that work be with head, or hands, or both; the day when equal rights under the law come back to all our citizens alike, just as it used to be; the day when we will create genuine prosperity by producing in the greatest possible volume the good things of life, making them at the lowest possible cost and selling them at the lowest possible price; the day when the time honored fundamentals of thrift, economy, honesty, debt paying, saving, and hard work come back again to our national consciousness; the day when life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the normal American manner we used to know and prize, become once more our national ambition. I might mention a few more details, but those are the fundamentals.

And the greatest of these is the MERIT SYSTEM. By that I mean the system on which everything that America means, was built. Everything ! What this country needs today more than any other one thing in this world is a return of the precious American philosophy which says that genius, thrift, industry, sweat, frugality, ambition, integri- ty, productiveness, and excess THINKING and DOING will be proportionately rewarded. For THAT is the merit system. That is the system that built this country, made it great, strong, rich, and the envy of the rest of the world. That system practically disappeared in the years that preceded the war; and it will not return now unleSs its supporters are willing to strive for it.

"The heights that great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward through the night."

It was the merit system the poet was talking about in the above stanza. Take the history of every great man in this nation's history and when you read his biography, you will find something like this: "He worked harder and longer, thought straighter and better than the rank and file of his fellows, and so he rose above them, and prospered." That's the way we build great men. That's the way we build leaders o,f all kinds. No man and no nation ever became great the easy way. We sirnply put a premium on ability, on efficiency, on productiveness, and American ambition did the rest.

These sort of sticcesses are gone for the present. Ben Franklin's homely maxims, the ones America followed and lived by for more than a hundred years, would get a worker into trouble these days. Overwork and over production and over ability are frowned upon. The man who became great by toiling while his companions slept would find himself in all sorts of trouble in these times. The fact that that is how all the progr6ss of the world was made, makes no difference. There must be no incentive to work harder, better, longer. No merit system. Many a man gets his ribs kicked in for working so hard, he shows up his fellows' :f :f x

So we are not building any Edisons now, nor any Henry Fords, or Andrew Carnegies, or Franklins, or Lincolns. Sad, isn't it, that we seem to be living in a c,limate that is unhealthy for the things that created all our power and greatness? We've all got to work and pray for those good old days with their good old fundamentals, to come back; the old faiths, the old proven things on which the might of this Republic was founded. Until they return, there will be no great upward surge of any sort in this nation. Why, with the prevalent thinking of today it is difficult to understand how we can even develop foremen not to mention leaders. The philosophy of less work for more pay and all men share alike regardless of the difference in their ability, can take us as a nation and as individuals in but one direction. And that direction is NOT up.

America cries aloud today for leadership; men without selfish ambition, or craving for personal power; men willing and able to serve with knowledge, with courage, and with conviction. and with no interest in the next election.

As usual, Winston Churchill takes the top prize for perfectly chosen descriptive words and phrases. The whole world laughed the other day when he described Britain's new Prime Minister Attlee as: "a sheep in sheep's clothing." No other one thousand words could have done the job more thoroughly.

And the top prize for the most impressive and successful speech made in this country this year by a civilian, goes to-whom do you think? You know, if you've been reading about the Labor-Management Conference. It was John L. Lewis. You may not like him, but you'[ have to admit he's smart. For years the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the New Deal have joined their strong efforts in favor of a planned economy, with the government running everything, prices, wages, profits, etc. That philosophy was strongly backed at the Conference. Then big John L. rose, and the industry members, their loins girded to fight a death fight for free enterprise in American business, could scarcely believe their ears when he TU r.

"The resolution seeks to perpetuate Government control of prices, profits, and the fixation of wages . I am opposed to labor's being required to bargain collectively within these limits. I want free enterprise and free collective bargaining. Free enterprise and free competition have acted in the past and will act in th'e future as a brake on profits and will bring lowered cost to the consumer. We must not inhibit industry from making profits. Labor, investors, and the public generally are entitled to share in the fruits of American technical genius. Price controls should come off as soon as possible. Price and profit limitations should be removed. What Mr. Murray and the C.I.O. are asking for is a corporate state wherein the activities of the people are regulated and constrained by a dictatorial government. We are opposed to the corporate state. Whenever we get production started the competitive situation will take care of prices. Ford's entire policy in the last 30 years has been to raise wages and lower prices. General Motors has tried to do the same. That will come again if we give industry the chance. The stock market is advancing all along. Values are increasing and there is no chance for pessimism. To quote the immortal James A. Garfield-'America is sound, God reigns, and the flag flies over the Capitol at Washington.' "