IF YOUR GUSTOMERS WANT I I T

Walnut, Mahogdny, Oah, Birch or Gum plywood, please give us a call, and the chances are we can be of service to you.

Softwoods remain scarce with us at the present time.

(Continued from Page B) to be had, but because they are not to be had under OPA rules and regulations. Food and clothing of various kinds disappear, and there is much clamor for their return. Yet most of these scarce articles are scarce only in the White Market. In the Black Market, they are all plentiful. Because they will not or cannot meet OPA prices manufacturers either fail to produce in maximum quantity, or, having produced, either store the goods or sell them Black Market. The only people who get hurt are those who are either unable or unwilling to pay Black Market prices. The little folks and the honest folks get hurt the most.

Turn the nation ,"""" ;r": lpa ,."trictions, and you would instantly see a rush of production OF EVERYTHING that would soon find proper price levels through the only real regulatiofi ever devised by Providence-the Law of Supply and Demand. There is only one possible way to fight inflation and bring genuine postwar prosperity and that is through unrestricted maximum production. There is healing in production-healing of numerous economic and financial ills. I know of nothing that would do more to settle the present strife between labor and management than tremendous production of all worthwhile goods. All the whipsawing in the world on the subject of hours and wages can produce nothing in the end except discord, unless at the same time they develop and create and increase production of goods. fn production lies a good job for every good man; and another job if he doesn't like the first one. In that way lies genuine prosperity. Fighting over wages and hours is at the best, artificial. Produ.ction is everything.

If oPA was kicked J :"; prices might rise for the time being. But as rapid would be the rise in production. It would be far better to pay a higher price than OPA prices in a White Market, than pay still higher pricesas are NOW being paid-in a Black Market. And the untrammeled production route would quickly take care of the situation, and people with needs to be filled and money to pay for them would find shelves heaped high with good goods, instead of the present pitifully empty shelves in our stores-

Yes, I believe the present method is wrong because it deprives this nation of need6d production, encourages criminality by creating a Black Market oceanic in proportions, and creates nothing that is good. Thirty days after OPA died, we would be seeing plainly the sunlight of genuine rather than artificial economics.

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Sometimes you find splendid sermons in moving pictures. I found many in the dialogue of the beautiful picture, "The Bells of St. Mary's." A young priest and a nun who clash over the teaching of children, furnish the thinker a whole basket full of food for thought. One is terrific. The young priest thinks a boy should be able to defend himself with his fists. The nun teaches the turning of the other cheek. The priest says to her: "After all, outside these walls this is a man's world." And the gentle sister, gently asks this terrific question: "AND HOW ARE THEY DOING?" There, I believe, in that simple question, is the most damning arraignment of man's management of the world I have ever heard. It might be well for every man, every day, in considering the plight in which the world finds itself today, to ask this simple question: "AND HOW ARE THEY DOING?" Could the job possibly be done worse?

Keep Up Ttie Good Wonk

I always read "The California Lumber Merchant" with a great deal of pleasure and profit. However, I wish to particularly compliment you on the fine editorials in your December 15, 1945, issue.

I especially enjoyed the following editorials and articles: "Christmas," "Selling Human Happiness," "A Year of Opportunity Beckons," "What Enthusiasm May Do," and "Keep That Boy in You Alive.', They contained a lot of inspiration and jusl good common sense.

Thank you very much, and keep up the good work.

Glen M. General Manager, Whiting-Mead Co. of San Diego, San Diego, Calif.