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Lumber shipnrents ol 177 rrrills reporting to the National Lumber.Trade Barometcr r.vcrc 4.5 Per cent ltclon' production f<-ir thg n'eek ended November 20, 1943. lu the same week nen or<lers of these mills u-ere 3.0 ller cent less thatt prorluction. Unfilled order files in the reltorting mills amounted to 95 per cer-rt of stocks. Ftir reltorting softu,ootl rnills, rrnfillecl orclers are ecluivalent to 3ll tlavs' production at tl're current rate,:trrr1 grttss stocks ltre equil'alent to 37 rlavs' proclnction.

For the vear to date, shipn.rents oi rcportitrg.. irlt'rrtic:tl rnills exccedecl ptocluction br' 7..5 pcr cetrt; orclers lr-r- 8.3 per cent.

Con.rparecl to tlrc itvcrage corrcsl'rott<littg rr'eeli oI l().].5-3q' production oi reporting mills u'as 32.9 per cent il-rclttcr; shipments n'ere 39.6 pcr cent grclttcr; ttud ordcrs u'crc 3S.2 l)er cen I grerrl ef

The Western Pine Association frtr the rveek crlclcd Novelnher 2O, 102 rnills reporting, gave orders as 65,399,000 feet, sl-ripnrents ()1J,781,000 feet, an<l production 77,15(t,000 feet. Orclers on hancl at the enrl of the r'r'eek totalccl 3'12,711.000 feet.

25,998,000 feet, shiprlents 21,'[95,000 {eet, and production 22,79730A feet. Orrlcrs on hitr.rd at thc end of the u'eel< totaled 147.660.000 feet.

'fhe Califr-,rnia Redn'ood Association reported production of t.nvelr,e operations Iclr the rnonth o{ October, 1943, as 37,000.000 feet, shiprnents +3,300,000 feet, ancl orders receir.ed 41.000.000 feet.

The West Coast Lunbertrtctr's Association for thc rveelc ended November 27 reporle<lot-tlcrs :ts 108,49'1,000 feet, shipnr,ents 108,848,000 fect, ancl prodttction 106,958,000 feet.

Rcilroqd Ties f-o clariiv pricing oi railroa<l tics, the O P.\ defrnes "nornral loading-point" us tneauir.rg thc "ttortnal loacling out lioint." as the sales point to rvhich prinrary forest prodructs c:rn be most cheaply transported frotn the point of pro<lrrctirrrr. (Secon<1 l{evised N{aximrrm l'rice Regulatictn 216, -\rrrcnchnent 1) etlective Dec. 4. 29

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Postwar Lumber Demand Will Absorb All Production

The lumber industry need have no fear of shriuking markets either during the war or afterrvard., J. Philip Boyd, Director of the War Production Board's Lurnber and Lumber Products Division, declared in response to numerous inquiries from lumbermen.

Consurnption for civilian and military construction has decreased and this has created the rather widespreacl impression that the general over-all demand for lumber is decreasing. Quite the contrary is the case, Mr. Boycl pointed out, and the industry need not worry about overproduction now or after the war.

"Civilian consurnption of lumber in 1943 was held to half of the amount used in 1942 chielly because of thc urgent necessity for conserving supplies for war uses. This 1943 consun-rption figure, it should be rernen-rbere<I, represents permitted use, not potential demand. Wherr this dammed-up civilian demand is released after the war-, it will absorb the drop in military consumption and it would even absorb a production 5O per cent greater t{rarr we now have, if such an increase in production rvere possible.

"Today, the over-all demand for lur-nber is as great as can be met by the industry and will undoubtedly continue to be as great for the duration. Increased nrilitarv demand may be expected as nevv fighting fronts are openecl up and supply lines are extended. Consumption for boxing

Reaching Your Prospects Through Their Pocketbooks

In advertisements like this, we are telling businessmen, Government and industrial executives, architects and builders how Wobnanized Lumber* is saving time and money on all kinds ol construction. You'll certainly profit by the interest aroused.

Wolmanized Lumber is ordinary wood made hiqhly resistant to decay and termite attack by vacuum-pressure impregnation with Wolman Salts* preservative, the "alloying ingredient". Be prepared to push the sale of this treated lumber for postwar uses. American Lumber & Treating Company, 1648 McCormick Bldg., Chicagro4, IlI.

and crating is a case in point. Five billion board feet r.vere used in l94I: 14 billion were used in 1943 and further increases are expected in 7944. During the current year, military and permitted civilian consumption used all the timber the industry could produce and drew heavily on mill stocks and retail and wholesale yard stocks.

"Lumber is one of the most critical materials today. The industry should push production to the limit."

Appointed FHA District Director for Southern California

John E. McGovern of Los Angeles has been appointed to the position of district director for the Federal Housin.g Administration. Southern California District.

Mr. McGovern has been associated with the Federal I-Iousing Administration for the past six years, durinq rr'lrich time he has acted in the capacity ol Zone Rental Manager and Assistant Zone Commissioner with headquarters in Los Angeles.

Immediately prior to his association with the FHA, he held an executive position with the Flome Owners Loan Corporation.

Mr. McGovern has a background of over twenty yea!:s experience in real estate, mortgage loan and appraisal work and is a member of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and the National Association of Real Estate Boards.

Chirstmas is coming again!'

And once again do we hear, The chiming bells and the dear old songs And voices athrill with cheer.

Christmas is corning again ! 'Flaunting the forces of night, Dispelling the shadows of fear, Filling our hearts with delight. Christmas is conling again ! Nothing can alter its sway t Ever this message it brings, "Night is succeeded by day." Clouds are dispersed by the sun, Stars do not fade with the years, Hope lights the pathway ahead, Smiles are more potent than.tears.

Merriam Conher.

Yes, as Mrs. Merriam Conner (the blind poetess who looks at the world through the visions of an inspired mind since her earthly eyes have gone dark) so well says: "Christmas is coming again." What do you say we talk about it a little? What is Christmas, anyway? Sometimes, witnessing the inebriated antics of so great a percentage of our population at this fateful season, I can't help wondering how many of us have forgotten what the occasion is, and what it means.

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On December 25th we celebrate the birthday of a certain Jewish carpenter who lived, and worked, and taught, and laughed, and loved more than nineteen hundred years ago in that barren country that we now call "the Holy Land." What sort of a fellow was He, this young Hebrew who, by the time He was thirty-three years of age had done His great work, and gone home to His Father? Artists of the old school did the world a great disservice by picturing Him with both paint brush and $'ords as a sadlooking "Man of Sorrows," so that many people even to this day, still think of Him in that way.

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Yet every open-minded student of Biblical lore understands that H,e was indeed nothing of the kind. He was probably the most vivid, the most vital, the most magnetic, the most thrilling Man that ever walked the earth. How otherwise can you, picture strong and busy men and women dropping everything that they had, to rvalk behind this young unknown Jew from the desert country of Nazareth, and following Him even to the cross? To get a mental picture of this magnificent young Man, radiant with strength, vibrant with confidence, His. face and form as appealing as His tremendous words were inspiring, woqld' be a wonderful Christmas present for anyone who pre: viously had failed to consider Him in this fashion. You don't think that the man who scourged the money-changeis' from the temple in such manner thqt they fed before hiri '-:"' like chaff before the wintry wind, was any pale, tired: looking, physical weakling, do you? On the contrary'HF',j was undoubtedly the most impressive and tremendou; ,,; young Man they had ever seen, with eyes that flam€d,.'., with indignation at the desecration of the temple of His '..: Father; with muscles hard as steel.

Yes, sir, it would be a swell idea for every thinHng person at this coming Christmas season, to get a cbrrected , ' ' idea of the founder of Chirstianity. Saul of Tarsus was a bloodthirsty ruffian whose business was seeking out, tora ;'i turning and destroying the followers of Jesus. He had incited the stoning of the gentle Stephen, and held the robes of those who cast the stones. One day he was. on his way to Damascus to ferret out and kill some more Christians. Saul of Tarsus was tough. The hardest, cruelest ganster you ever heard of was probably a gentle creature comlrarecl with Saul. And as he proceeded along the road to Damascus he met face tb face a young man he had never seen before. To Saul, Jesus of Nazareth was only the name of a crucified Jew whose followers he was intent on destroyinig. Yet when Saul met the resurrected Jesus face to face that day on the road to Damascus, what did he do? What did he say? Was he tough? Was he SauI the killer of Christians? No.SaulneededbutoneglanceatthatyoungManof Nazareth, and said: "What wilt Thou have me do?" That was all. But for the remainder of his long life, Saul of Tarsus was Paul the Apostle, visiting the peoples of the civilized world and preaching and proclaiming the gospel of Jesus. One moment he was face to face with that incomparable Carpenter; yet that moment changed the entire course of human history.

Picturetoyourself,friend,whatmannerofmanthatmust have been that Saul of Tarsus saw that day on the road to Damascus. Can there be an iota of doubt in your mind that He was such a Man as never before and never since has walked this earth? Can you doubt that He was wonderfut' to look upon, that He overflowed with strength and vitali- ; ty, that He fairly flamed with life, and hope, and confidence., and physical beauty and virility, in addition to His 3piritual magnetism? When we get that sort of a picture of this. Jewish Carpenter, we are started on the road to understand- r I ing what it was that happened to Saul, the killer, that da-y,,.*

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(Continued from Page 6) on the road to Damascus, and to so great a multitude of other people who saw and heard Himi; and we begin to glimpse the whyfor of His indelible impression upon billioqs of people who have come after.

More than His physicar:;";".rce must have been the flaming tight that shone frorn His countenance. A "man o'f sorrows" forsooth ! Where do we find Him, as He proceeds on His mission of preaching the philosophy of love and fellowship and understanding and forgiveness? Wherever happy peopls gathered together, there He was. At weddings, at friendly gatherings where men and women and little children were to be found. That He was a joyous companion seems undebatable. We find Him saying to His friends: "They call me a winebibber, and a man gluttonous." We find Him changing water into wine so that the wedding feast might take place as planned. We find Him doing many things a_nd going many places that indicate definitely that He was a friendly, joyful, marvelous comPanion'

If you want to read the finest history of His life, read the Book of Luke during the Christmas season. Just as Jesus met Saul and Saul-or Paul-followed Him even to martyrdom, so did Luke meet Paul and do likewise. Luke was a physician practicing his profession in Antioch., when Paul came there. And Luke stepped forth and joined Paul and became his "beloved physician" as Paul calls him in the Bible, and stayed with hirn even unto death. And when Paul died, Luke took up a search of the records, and ultimately wrote his Book of Luke, and likewise the Acts. And it is Luke alone who gives us the story of Christmas, the story of the Bethlehem Babe in the manger. No other Biblical writer tells that story. Luke likewise tells us many of the other beautiful stories of the New Testament. In Luke alone you, will read about the Thief on the Cross. the Prodigal Son, The Good Samaritan, and many others. In Luke, if you read with open eyes and mindi you can trace the story of the keenest, livest, strongest, most attractive young Man that ever lived-J.r"; ol Nazareth.

There will probably be a greater evidence of religious interest among our people this Christmas than there has been for many years past. The war has done that. Just as we have learned that "there are no atheists in fox holes or in war planes," so we are in some fashion getting closer to the Almighty in our talking and in our thinking. With ten million of our young men baring their valiant bosoms to the trials of war, it is inevitable that there shall be a rededication to spiritual things. You can read it in all the battle dispatches. Man, facing the great beyond, turns instinctively to a higher Power for consolation, in fox holes and elsewhere. Men who never thought about Him before, turn to God, never doubting His existence. Logic has nothing to do with it. It is a natural upturning of the human heart and mind. From the hearts of millions of mothers this Christmas there will rise to the throne on high that prayerful plea: "Spare my boy."

The strongest evidence ; ;" I*ir,rr,"" of God is the terrfic necessity for His existence. What good is the mighty universe without Him? To whom can prayerful women turn, i.f He is not listening? Why should inanimate matter decide to resolve itself into billions of blazing suns and countless symmetrical planets and go rolling through space forever in perfect coordination, without a Mind to guide and direct them? Ridiculous! The fact that we shall celebrate Christmas testifies to the continued efficacy and necessity of religion, for Christmas in its true sense, is entirely a religious event. Christmas this year finds the old world enduring the greatest agony of its long existence. Never was there a time when the help of that Jewish Carpenter of Nazareth was so sorely needed.

How unfortunate it is that the cruel oppressors and tyrants who brought this bloodrbath upon the world cannot meet face to face, as did Saul of Tarsus, with that matchless Carpenter, and be prevailed upon to say, as Saul did: ,,What wilt thou. have me do?"

Awarded Legion of Merit

Major Roy D. Craft, son of Dale Craft, shingle manufacturer, Grays Harbor, Wash., has been awarded ths Legion of Merit by the United States Army. The award rvas given for his work in organizing the Kodiak Bear, Army newspaper, and for his efforts in behalf of the amphibian training force, of rvhich he was special officer. He is a former Washington and San Francisco newspaperman.

We wish you the JOY of Christmas

The spirit's sweet repose;

We wish you the PEACE of Christmas--

To mark the Old Year's close;

We wish you the HOPE of Christmas

To cheer you on your waf )

And ^ heart of FAITH and GLADNESS

.To face each coming duy.

Prefabricated Small Farm Service Buildings

(Continued from Page 10) houses, hardrvare stores, hatcheries, feed stores, irnplcment dealers an<1 industrial prefabri'cators. The prices charged by thesc competitive outlets usually must inclutlc two profits-the pre{abricator's ancl tl-re rctail mcrchar-rt's -whi1e the dealer's price inclrrclcs only his ou'n profit.

"The active support of both cotlnty farm agcrtts atrtl agricultural engineers has bcen securerl lrv n'rost clcalers. Agricultural building experts favor the prefalrrication by dealcrs of small farm buildings bccattse it eliminates the errors and 'rule of thumb' construction methods rvhich frequently reduce the efficiency of {arm structures. Improper provision for ventilation, inadequate insulation and the improper use of materials are cited by agricultural engineers as three of tl.re main faults in farm building construction.

"Brrilding farm structures in their orvn yards has also given dealers an opportunitiv to rlemonstrate the advantages of neu' t1'pes of materials and to malie bctter rrse of tl.rose materials most readily ar.ailablc. For exlrmple, one of oru' new products, Celo-Siding, rvhich combines thc functions of extcrior finish, siding, sheathing and insulation, has been usecl cxtensilclv. When thc farrrrer sccs a nc\\' llllterial such as this in a finishecl stnrcture, he appreciate.; its aclr'antages morcr cqrricklv tharr l'herr he can only sea a sanrple of the proclrrct itself.

"The brrlk of farnr brriiding prefabricatiolr todav is beinq done bv dealers in the middle rl'cst ancl f:rr u'est. This is probably because a considerable percentage of dealers in these turo areas entered the business during the depression years of the last decade and therefore gained much valuable experience. How'ever, there is no reason rl'hy dealers in the east au<l soutl.r shoulcl not Iincl pr-eiabricatinSl an erlr-rallv prolitable ventrlrc if they are located ir-r farr-ning communities rvhere there is a consiclcrablc demand foc small service buildings."

New Design Manual for Timber Connector Construction

Designers rvho are using the timber connector method of construction rvili find extremely valuable the nerv Design Manual {or Teco Timber Connector Construction just issued by the Timber Engineering Company, of Washington. D.C., the manufacturers of Teco connectors and grooving tools.

The 40-pagc book offers con-rplete design information covering t1.re rlss of Teco connectors, iucluding data on load values, spacings, etc. The material is presented in chart form for reaclr-use of architects and engineers and includes sr.rch additional inforrnation as reconrmctrdcd cambers for st:ur(lard trusses, approximatc rveights of various timber conncctorecl roo{ trusses and a table ol clitnetrsiot.rlrl prope rties of -'\lierican starrdard-sized lttmber.

The rlat:r- prescnted is clrarvn in accorclance u'ith the recent WPB National litnergency Spcci{rcatiorrs for the Design, Fabrication, and Iirection oI Stre ss (iracie Lttnrlter anrl Its Faster-rings u'hich becarne manrlator-v ou Nor-ettrber first.