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How much lumber ,h";"; effort will demancl is something nobody in authority has even attempted to guess at, at the time this is being written. It makes no difference what the amount is. The industry will handle all such problems, and leave plenty of lumber available for all needed domestic and private building.

On Sattrrday, the l6th J"r*or"o...-b.r, President Truman made official announcemcnt placing this country and nation in a state of emergency. The night before he had spoken over the radio to the entire nation, announcing the action to come, and telling why. His was not a dramatic announcement. I-Ie was not on fire. If I dared use the word to a Truman, I would say that his voice was flat and unemotional. But his words were more assuring than his eloquence. He announced that we were going to get ready to resist the aggression of Black Russia as quickly and definitely as possible.

He announced that our military strength would be increased to somewhere between two and one-half and three and one-half million men, that we will turn out war planes five times as fast as we are now doing. He said that government will take whatever steps are necessary to hold the line with regard to wages, prices, production, etc., and that the nation will work harder and longer hours than it has been working. He said that we would raise the money for the huge cost of these emergency preparations by taxation. He announced that Charles E. Wilson, until recently President of General Electric Company, had accepted the job of Director of the new office of Defense Mobilization.

Getting Wilson was a fine stroke of business for the government. Not a new dealer, or a boy friend from Missouri, Mr. Wilson represents the finest ability there is to be had in this nation, and businessmen generally will breathe more freely at being called on to serve with him. Now we will ail watch with keen interest the steps that will be taken to build up our defense against the world-wide pressure of the Communist hordes. Certainly the lumber industry will do an enthusiastic job when called upon.

In the meantime, the world about us looks black. To the man in the street it seems that history has no precedent (as indeed it does not) for the fix in which we find ourselves. In Korea tens of thousands of our finest young men have fallen in conflict with the red hordes. It is like a death struggle between two men, one of them free to use his every effort. the other with his feet chained. MacArthur's planes and forces cannot go beyond a certain line to attack supply sources, etc. They must be rrtterly careful about the whole thing. It is a situation unheard of in all the history of warf are' :r :l: ::l

Who says he can't? The United Nations. And what is the United Nations, the man in the street wants to know? Apparently it is a debating society which sits and listens while savage men representing savage governments pour out their foul slanders against the United States. They say that MacArthur leads the United Nations forces. But does he ? France has about as many men helping MacArthur as would make a police force in a modest sized town. England has less than 6,000 troops helping in Korea. A few other nations have a few men each over there. not enough to quell a riot in a small town. But they call it the United Nations army. It is the United States army, and with its hands tied.

As Joseph P. Kenned;, ;.r-". ambassador to Great Britain and a leading Democrat under both Roosevelt and Truman, recently publicly said: we have spent fifty-two billions of dollars for foreign aid, and we have fewer friends abroad today than we ever had.

No, the man in the street feels that something is horribly wrong. He reads the papers and sees pictures of American boys fighting and dying in freezing weather in Korea, and on the same day Chinamen representing the men who are doing the killing, and Russians who are unquestionably giving the orders, rise in the United Nations assemblies and snarl and defame those dying men. Is this Americanism? How do they dare?

Are the meetings of nations so much different from the meetings of men? Suppose YOUR boy or mine was dying in Korea and we heard some foreign critter defaming them. What would we do? Why do we sit with such criminals? Why should we tolerate the Russian and Chinese representatives and listen to their insults? Is there any reason that would appeal to the average American? If you, friend, don't think that all of the men and women in this nation wherever you find them, are asking those questions today, then you'd better get out among them and listen. :l: )1, ;::

We are actually at war now, with all the war preparations and the state of emergency in full effect. The war in Korea is the fourth most serious war in American history. An inspired soldier, hampered by historically unheard-of restrictions, leads our forces. While here at home thousands of terrible little stinkers-Oh, what stinksl5 !-31s conducting a smear campaign against that man. That's another thing that could never have happened before in our history. The pinkish smear brigade is bold, and getting bolder. And getting away with it.

The man in the street ," "*r"* THIS question: "What are we going to do about the thousands of American boys who lie dead in the Korean snow? Shall we continue to hear them defamed by foul Communist5 felsvsl-they and their leader? Witl the United Nations debates make them less dear to us-or less dead?,, *** tOS ANGEI^ES 15, CALIF.

Maybe, on this New Year, you can get a laugh out of this true story. I have a two year old grandson, Jackie Bran_ non, of Houston, Texas. He fell in love with a popular song he heard on a record at home. The other night he said his little prayer before he went to sleep. He said: "God bless Mom, God bless Big Dad, God bless Sister, God bless all those we love-and Goodnight Irene."

Frank A. Connolly, president of the Western Hard.r,r,ood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been nominated for a di_ rector for the year 1951 by the board of directors of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

John Hanson, Anderson-Hanson Company, Studio City, made a trip to Dallas, Texas, recently where he visited the company's Dallas office and called on the lumber trade.

Your Christmas issue was excellent and read by every one here in the office, and I know it must have met with excellent reception elsewhere.

F. E. Nicholson, California Builders Supply Co. Oakland, Calif.

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