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LIME, UME PUTIY AIVD COTONED STUCCO FTII.I III{E OF OTHEN BUII^DING ESSENTIAIS

This will be a year of Opportunity. ***

In that respect it will UjUT tf* no other year.

Ever since the Declaration of fndependence was given to the world, Opportunity has belonged to all men, and to all men alike-in THIS country.

In the old days the Kings used to say: "God made you a peasant, and made me a King-gave you rags and me a robe-God did it."

Of course, it was an unholy lie THEN as it is NOW. But from the standpoint of the fellow under foot, it might just as well have been the ,y1.

They used to celebrate Christmas by hanging on libbets other God-worshipping men who chanced to disagree with them. On the birthday of the gentle Jesus they would desecrate His memory, and pretend that they were championing His cause. The horrors practiced upon the early Christians by the Barbarians, have only been surpassed in the intensity of their ferocity by those that were practiced by later Christians upon one*another.

The world found its tortuous way through eras of agony and injustice when for a man to think forcefully and intelligentln and speak freely-even though every thought and word was for the benefit of struggling humanity-was dangerous indeed.

And you can trace the liberation of the human race-the dawn of Opportunity-to that day when those inspired forefathers of ours signed their names to that Declaration and gave it to the world as the true birthright of man. It set at liberty thought, speech, ambition, originalitn initiative, patriotisrrq love of country, love of home, and love of God'

This will be a year of Opportunity. Every one of us will have the opportunity to do his level best in the particular work that he has, chosen. My rights only terminate where YOURS begin. We have the Opportunity to think, and speak, and work, and do just as we think best, provided we db not infringe upon the rights of others. We have the right to create success for ourselves, and to enjoy its fruits. Wc have the right to pursue health, happiness, and prosperity in the way we think best, so long as we do not intrude upon the other fellow's efforts in the same direction. We have the right to help the other fellow, to cooperate with the other fellow in order that we may help one another-The Golden Rule-and to the end that the nation may be the better off. *{.*

And when you say: "I have the right," you have one hand on the Declaration of Independence and the other on the Constitution of the United States, and don't forget it. And don't forget that before that first document was written no man had ever before in the history of the world been able to say, "f havg the*right," and get away with it.

So, as we get ready to make this a big year, let us each breathe a little prayer of thanldulness for such OPPORTUNITY.

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Freed.om is expensive-noted economist F. A. Harper, tells us that 31 cents out. of every dollar lrre earn goes to the government, about one-third in direct personal taxes, such as income and property taxes, and two-thirds in the hidden variety. For instance, 23 cents out of every dollar earned goes for food, and 5 cents of that 23 is taxes added on in one way or another to the actual cost of the food. And the cost of freedom goes up, just like everything else -back in the days before the Civil 'War, the government only took about 5 cents out of every dollar, and look at it now! * r :F

Mr. Harper thinks that the higher taxes have been attended by a corresponding slackening of productive e.ffort, especially in the building up of capital. He doubts that a nation of "free" people can long survive this trend, and urges that the government reduce by at least half, their take from each dollar of personal income.

Another fellow has figured out that the aid given to the rest of the world since VE-Day has cost us $t5O per person and that the aid recently voted for Austria, France and ftaly, plus the Marshall plan $17,000,000,000 (if passed) will cost us another $150 per person. Here is a list of our aid to the world up to the present time: UNRRA $2,700,000,000; United Natiqns Organiz4tion $29,289,349; Lend Lease $?.,271,360,118; fnternational Monetary Fund (U.S. share) $2,750,000,000; fnternational Bank $635,000,000; Export-Import Bank (loans) $2,931,209,176; British loan $3,750,000,000; Aid to the Philippines $64O,000,fiD; Grants by the War Department$1,77t,926,293; Surplus property disposals, abroad $1,148,000,000; Greek-Turkish aid $,1,00,000,000; Relief in war-devastated areas $350,000,000; Relief in occupied areas $60O000,000; International relief organiza(Continued on Page 14)

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CATIFORNIA BUILDERS SUPPIY CO.

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CAL|TONNIA EUIIDERS SUPPLYCO.

3180 Hqmilton Avc., Fraao, Collf.

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CALIFORNIA PANEL & VEilEER CO.

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ELLIOTT BAY LUMBER, CO.

600 W. Spokqn. St.

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SIMPSON INDUSTRIES

Shollon, Worh. Phonor Sholloo 6ll

UTAH LUMBER CO.

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(Continued from Page 12) tion $7t,073,000 ; Other appropriations, 80th Congress $300,000,0O0; Reimbursement, Italian invasion currency $350,0O0,0O0; Forgiven debt of Italy to the United States $1,000,00Q000; Known total $21,697,857,936. Just divide that by 144,000,000 (the population of our country) and you come out with $150 each, or you should.

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'We've been pretty good to Mr. Stalin and his playmates especially; in the first nine ,months of.'47 we sent, among many other items, 43 electric locomotives, 33 steam locomotives and 69 diesel-powered locomotives; a great quantity of railroad car wheels; $14,539,000 worth of machinedriven tools; $59,284,000 worth of industrial machinery and $2,543,000 worth of agricultural machinery. The whole value of this first nine months goods to Uncle Joe adds up to $113,684,000 when all the items are put together. Wonder when he'Il start sending us back the things he's built with the things we've sent him?

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Truly it has been said that Atlas used to be pictured as a strong young man carrying the world on his shoulders. Today he wears striped pants and a goatee.

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And, speaking of loads the taxpayer carries, Richard Ifarkness, N.B.C. commentator, is responsible for the statement that there are still approximately 45,000 persons on the Federal pay roll engaged full or part time in dispensing information, publicity or propaganda. Their salaries total more than $75,000,000 a year. There was a time when the Federal government did not spend one dollar for publicity andpropaganda.

As one fellow said, fortunately, the cost of living doesn't affect the popularity of living.

On December 31st Mr. Petrillo and his 225,000 union musicians in the United States discontinued the practice of making musical records. He said that "members of the federation realize that in making recordings and transcriptions they are making their own competition" which would destroy them. That's what Mr. Petrillo said. "We do not know of any other business," said the mighty Petrillo, "that would make an instrument that would destroy it." Proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that while Mr. Petrillo may be a successful union dictator, he perhaps knows less about history and the history of economics than any other one living man'

How could he fail to know that throughout the progress of civilization and modern economics the art of multiple reproduction from an original model has contributed immeasurably to the happiness and material welfare of mankind? All people who know anything of the world's progress understand that. Why doesn't Mr. Petrillo? Take his own business. So far from recordings and broadcasting having reduced the total demand for the services of musicians, the popularization of music has vastly increased it. Mr. Petrillo and his men have made the mistake of looking a gift horse in the mouth. As a matter of fact, had records never been made or played, Mr. Petrillo's union would today be only a handful of members. It was the recording that popularized music, put it within reach of the millions, and gave musicians a place in the sun they had never dreamed of previously. They owe much to recordings. How can they help but understand that fact?

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The entire foundation of Mr. Petrillo's protest is built on shifting sands. It just isn't true. It would be just as bad for the stenographers union to announce that no more carbons would be used for copying manuscript; that no more letter copying machines would be operated or tolerated; that every sheet of manuscript for any purpose must be separately written. That would be exactly what Petrillo has done. Several hundred years ago printing came along to put thousands of copyists out of work; and it furnished e,mployment for hundreds of thousands of printers. Later +he type machines came along to put tens of thousands of hand-setting printers out of work; and furnished employment for several times as many men in the printing business by speeding printing, reducing its cost, and increasing its use a hundred times over. A newspaper writer gets paid but once for an article; yet the thing may be reprinted a million times. If the writer were Petrillo he would declare he had a kick coming-that each newspaper should be a separate printing job. The comparisons could go on endlessly. But proving that Mr. Petrillo is wrong, doesn't help the situation at all. The public is like the colored boy in jail in the oldest of stories, who when his lawyer told him he couldn't be locked up for such a charge, answered -"Vl,Isll, I'se heah, ain't I?" Petrillo is wrong, but he's also strong, and as long as our lawmakers remain weak, such monkey business as the stopping of record making is likely to continue.

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"If parsons said'Let us laugh' as often as they say'Let us pray,' churches would be fuller and people happier and better," the vicar of Borstal, England, wrote in his parish magazine. "You may keep all the commandments and practice all the virtues, but if it makes you a sanctimonious sourpuss, then you are no Christian." Check, Mr. Vicart Check and double check!

Roy Stanton Will Attend Hoo-Hoo Big Crowd Will Attend Hi-Jinks Meeting in Salt Lake City

Arch W., Loney, Hoo-Hoo vicegerent snark for Utah and the Rocky Mountain district, was a recent Los Angeles visitor to confer with Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo Roy Stanton, Jr.

Mr. Loney has been associated with the lumber industry for the past fifty years in various capacities for the United States Government, private concerns, and in the construction field. He now heads Arch W. Loney & Associates of Salt Lake City. He has been active in Hoo-Hoo for the past thirty years, his number being 949.

Mr. Stanton will leave for Salt Lake City February 23 to meet with Mr. Loney and lumbermen from Idaho, Montana, Colorado and lJtah, when plans will be made for a concatenation and a drive for new members in the Rockv Mountain district.

Starts Advertising Agency

Holton C. Rush, formerly advertising manager for E. L. Bruce Co., is now president of a new advertising agency in Memphis, Tenn., which operates under the name of Greenhaw & Rush, fnc.

Mr. Rush was with E. L. Bruce Co. from 1934 until December l, 1947, when he resigned to start this agency. Prior to that time he was connected with Blackett-SampleHummert Advertising Agency in Chicago. He was also in the advertising and Sales Promotion Department ,of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Chicago, from 1927 to 1932.

Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3 of the American Legion will hold its semi-annual Hi-Jinks and get-together for lumbermen Friday evening, January 23, 1948, in the Rainbow Isle, Mayfair Hotel, 1256 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles.

Dinner will be served at 7:@ p.m. followed by a fine floor show. Don Gow, chairman of the Arrangements Committee and the members of his committee, have arranged for a gala evening's entertainment.

Tickets can be obtained from members of the Post, or callipg Commander Randy Seguine, SYcamore 2-7326,Pasadena.

A big turnout is expected. Get your tickets early.

Southern Cclilornio Retcilers Annucl Meeting April 15-16

Orrie W. Hamilton, se,cretary-manager of the Southern Calilornia Retail Lumber Association, announces that the Association will hold its annual meeting at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, April 15 and 16, 1948.

Wishes Us Success

"I particularly enjoyed your Christmas issue, and wish you and your fine magazine every success in the New Year."

L. H. "Abe" Lincoln

Lincoln Lumber Co.

Oakland, Calif.

Named Editorial Director

Washington, D. C., January S-William F. Jibb, formerly chief of public relations of the Florida Forest Service, has been named editorial director of the American Forest Products Industries, fnc., Washington, D. C., it has been announced by Chapin Collins, managing director oI the industrial organization. He succeeds Ben IC Weatherwax who is entering his own business in Washington state.

A native of Arkansas, Jibb received his formal education in Jacksonville, Fla., and is a journalism graduate of the University of Florida. For six years prior to the war, he sqrved in various capacities with Florida newspapers and a radio station. For two years, he was editor of the Plant City, Florida, Courier.

He is a veteran of the Navy, having served as intelligence offiier for two years in the Caribbean and two years as public relations officer and combat photographer in the Pacific and Asiatic theaters. During his Pacific service, he made 13 assault landings. He holds the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit for combat service and the Chinese Yun Hui medal for liaison work with Russians and Chinese communists in China and Manchuria.

He joined the Florida Forest Service in 1946 and has been particularly active in publicity for the "Keep Florida Green" program. This is part of a national "Keep America Green" project which the American Forest Products Industries encourages. In 1947, he was made an honorary member of the Florida Future Farmers of America.

Announces Dissolution of Fordyte-Crossett Sales Company

Fordyce, Arkansas, December 24, 1947: B. A. Mayhew, president of the Fordyce-Crossett Sales Company, Fordyce, Arkansas, today announced the dissolution of the Sales Company as of January l, 1948.

ft is understood that the principal suppliers of the Sales Company, Crossett Lumber Company and Fordyce Lumber Company, will market their production in the future through their own sales offices located at the plants of the respective companies at Fordyce and Crossett. Both companies manufacture Pine, Southern Hardwoods and Royal Oak Flooring.

P. H. Olwell Openr Offices in Everett, Wash.

P. H. Olwell has gone in the wholesale business for himself, under the name of P. H. Olwell Lumber & Shingle Company, with offices in Everett, Wash.

He was vice president and general manager of the Jamison Lumber & Shingle Company of Everett, and was with that concern for thirty-three years.

Henry Olwell has been prominently identified with the red cedar shingle industry for many years, and is widely known in the lumber trade throughout the country. He served as president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau for two years, and has been on its board of trustees for more than twenty years.

President Signs Bill lncreasing lnsurance Authorization Under Title Vl of NHA

Washington, D. C., December 27, 1947-Signing by the President today of the bill increasing insurance atthorization under Title VI of the National Housing Act means the Federal Housing Administration can resume at once effective aid to private industry in providing urgently needed housing for veterans, according to Commissioner Franklin D. Richards. The new legislation increases the insurance authorization $250,000,000 immediately, with an additional $500,000,000 authorization available at the discretion of the President.

"To assure the most advantageous and equitable use of the new Title VI authorization," Mr. Richards said, "its use will be carefully controlled by selective processing rather than by the volume of applications received. Instructions have been issued to FHA field offices to receive applications regardless of volume until the total authorization has been committed for insurance."

Mr. Richards pointed out that the volume of applications filed may exceed the new authorization. However, the greater the volume, he explained, the more selective FHA field offices can be in carrying out the goal of Title VI to provide housing for veterans.

The basis for selecting applications for processing and issuing commitments will be: (1) efforts will be made to see that a major portion of all commitments issued are for rental units; (2) commitments will not be issued in excess of the builder's capacity to complete construction during the term of the commitment; (3) commitments will not be issued in excess of the estimated market absorption; (4) preferential consideration will be given to those applications offering the best possibilities for the production of housing at the lowest prices and rents.

Mr. Richards stated by such selective processing the Federal Housing Administration strengthens its efforts to combat inflationary prices while encouraging the production of urgently needed housing. Under the selective processing plan, builders are encouraged to file applications in an orderly manner rather than at a highly accelerated rate. The Commissioner also stressed the fact that FHA field offices are taking precautions to see that necessary current cost estimates do not reflect costs of inefficient building operations.

It has been estimated that FHA field offices probably cannot process and commit more than the total presently approved authorization, including the $500,000,000 authorizition discretionary with the President, in the time remaining ,until March 31, 1948, the legal expiration date of the legislation. At the present time, almost one-third of new residential construction is being financed by Title VI insurance.

"I would like to point out," said Commissioner Richards, "that Title VI is an emergency activity of FHA. It has no effect on the permanent insurance plan carried out under Title II, Sections 203 and 207, which is the insurance of mortgages on homes and large scale rental projects under the National Housing Act which specifically directs the FHA to encourage improvement in housing standards and conditions and to provide a system of mutual mortgage insurance. Nor does it affect Title I reoair and modernization operations."

Home Show at Scrn Frcncisco April 7-14

The first home show to be held in northern California since before the war will be held in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium from April 7 through April 14, 1948.

The show will use more than 80,000 square feet of floor space. It is being sponsored by the San Francisco Real Estate Board and the Associated Home Builders of San Francisco, fncorporated.

Plans for the show include model homes, completely furnished, to be erected on the display floor. Gardens will be provided in different areas in order to break the commercial atmosphere of the show.

Offices for the San Francisco National Home Show have been opened at 1011 Humboldt Building, and Ira W. Curry is managing director.

New Building Matericls Compcrny

Melford C. Kupps, formerly of Los Angeles, has organized the Butte Building Materials Company to be located at Paradise, Butte County, California. This concern will handle a complete line of building materials. Mr. Kupps states that he will have his new firm in operation shortlv after Tanuarv 1. 1948.