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AVAILABLE nowthe door that in prewar years brought the garage door business back to the lumber dealer. Featuring new, improved, easier-acting and more dependable hardware, the Craw-Fir-Dor will again be one of your best volume items. And it will be yours exclusiuely, because Craw-Fir-Dor is sold only ihrough lumber dealers. Feature Craw-Fir-Dor. Suggest it on bills of materials. Contact your regular source of supply NOW and build up your stocks!

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Theodore Roosevelt once told' his sons there was no greater goal for a rnan than laying down his life for his country. Little did he know how his own family would exemplify thisthree of his sons reached that goal-Quentin was shot down over France in World War I; Teddy Jr. died of battle fatigue in Normandy in World War II; and Kermit died in Alaska diuring this last war. ***

"The only way human beings can win a war is prevent it."-General George Marshall. ,1. * {.

Now that politics are heating to the boiling point, they are digging up the story about MacArthur that made the rounds during the war in the Pacific. A Navy boy remarked: "Every man in the Navy will vote for him-just to get him out of the Pacific." ***

Eddie Welch, story-telling friend of ,mine, loves to tell about the colored Sergeant in heavy artillery who asked and was granted permissio,n to fire one of the big guns during the invasion of Germany in World War Two. He pulled the cord, and as the robr subsided he threw back his "haid" and shouted: "Mistah Hitlah---count 5rou' men !"

"Terrible isn't it?" writes a friend; "they assassinate Godly men like Ghandi and Lincoln, while the men of blood and Godlessness like Hitler and Stalin go on and on." rl.**

"I don't like good times," Lee Shipley quotes Old Man Sikes of Ourville 'as saying: "they make overalls cost too much." And then, says Shipley, "Philosopher Sikes laid his finger on the great American weakness, which is that in periods of prosperity millions of Americans quit cutting corners." He says "millions who used to have kitchen gardens and back yard chicken coo,ps quit bothering with such things-and then blame rising cost of food on other folks." ***

Looks like there is more sense to that remark than to any of the recent talk in Washington about the high cost of living and what to do about it. We kick about the cost of meat, and then eat a lot more meat than ever before. We kick about the cost of chicken and vegetables, because we used to raise a whole lot of our own, and we don't now. We are badly spoiled, which is a part of our trouble. We have quit cutting corners.

Speaking of inflation-as who dods not?-have you bought any prescriptions from a pharmacist recently? When you do, you will find out what inflation really is. We can all recall that in days gone by if a prescription cost as much as six bits (seventy-five cents to you) we would scream like a panther. Today you couldn't buy an empty bottle for that. rN. .!F *

Which reminds me of the guy who was found insane in court and,sent to the asylum. The testimony showed that he was saving one dollar bills; he thought they would be worth money again some time. ***

When a woman judge in Los Angeles gave a drunk driver six months in jail on top of a one thousand dollar fi.ne, I became thoroughly sold on women for judges. A drunk with a car is just as dangerous as a drunk with a loaded grrn, and both should be crimnial offenses anywhere, any time. I'm in favor of building a monument honoring the Los Angeles woman i"Ug".*

The Dallas News editorially asks how Petrillo, "a vulgarian of the sort to be associated in the public mind with bulletproof automobiles and material crassness, is the spokesman of musicians of the highest type in this country?" f've got my hand up, Teacher. It's because these artists have no choice in the matter. They take James Caesar Petrillo to act as their spokesman-or else. On top of that Petrillo hires smart lawyers, wins important decisions in the courts, and lives right up to his middle name. The artists, personally, did not pick Petrillo. But he'll pick them if they get out of line. That's the answer. As Petrillo himself so well says: "Musicians have to eat."

A master of words, is a master indeed. Recently I read an obituary by a word master. It was the shortest and finest obituary f ever read. The fact that it was written about an old friend of mine was what attracted my attention. But this bit of writing would win my cheers even though the subject were unknown to me. ft appeared in th'e San Francisco Chronicle, and concerned the death of Downey Harvey, one of the world's most astounding personalities. Give ear, you word lovers, to this: "San Francisco died a little Thursdlay, when Downey Harve5 89, called it a life-and passed on." If that isn't a literary jewel, friend, then don't ever waste your time searching forjewels'

But that isn't the only exquisite bit of word slinging I'ye run onto recently. A fellow named Gus Arriola" who (Continued on Page 14)

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For 25 years-ever since Wood Conversion Company was founded-there has been only ONE answer to the question, "Who Sells Balsam-Wool?"

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(Continued from Page 12) draws a comic strip for the papers, wrote a thrilling line. He spoke of "the few individuals that are keeping the waters of the world muddy." That "keeping the waters of the world muddy" is a classic, and tells in a few veords what innumerable other writers have failed to tell thotrgh they used volumes. I don't think the present world situation is half understood by the vast majority of people. The fact is that a few men, sitting in thi Kremlin, stand squarely in the way of the peace and happiness of more than two billion people in this world, and say fs ffugs1-"you shall not pass." Just like that. If that little group of Godless creatures would step aside and let nature take its course, the whole face of the world would begin to smile. Hope would replace hopelessness; peace would replace war; smiles would replace tears; happiness would replace agony; health would replace tragedy and starvation; countless millions of women and little children would smile again; wretchedness would be replaced by joy; and the entire world would begin an upward march toward the sunlight of peace and prosperity. A new world would be born the very minute that group of men permitted it. Atl the horrors that now beset the people of this world, are chargeable to them. That such a thing could be seems hardly crediblebut the facts speak for themselves. That little group of Godless men have muddied the waters of the world, and they will stay muddied and the world will remain tragic, until something is done about them. ***

About fifty years back William Allen White sprang into national prominence when he wrote an editorial that swept the country like a forest fire. He called it "What's the Matter With Kansas?" The editorial made him famous. Too bad the old boy from Emporia isn't here today to write an up-to-date editorial along the same line asking "what's the matter with this country?" He could do full justice to this situation, just as he did to the frailties of his state of Kansas two generations back. Look at this Russian situation. Right this minute our American diplomatic representatives in Moscow are strictly confined to quarters, spied on continually by the Russian secret police, and forbidden to deviate in the slightest fro,m their official duties while in Russia. And over here we allow swarms of Russians of every kind and character to enter this country, to roam at will, and do what they please. We have no't the faintest idea where most of them are. We are certain they are all spies. We know that most of them utter limitless insults to this country whenever they speak in public. And we stand for it. 'We are doing nothing to change the situation. And while the biggies of the Ruskies live over here lavishly, move in the best society, hnd are housed like kings (like kings used to be housed), they go the utmost limit in abusing everything American, on every occasion. Wonder what old Editor White would say about such conditions? Can't help wondering, myself, if a nation so softheaded or soft-hearted as to allow such conditio'ns, is fit to own the freedom it so highly praises yet so fearfully gambles with?

Why don't we limit the activities-and the t.ongues-of our Russian visitors to exactly the same extent that they Iimit us? From every major port in the United States shipments of valuable American goods are going to Russia in a steady stream of ships, just as we used to ship stuff to Japan before the last war. Are w€, do you suppose, a nation that learns nothing by experience? To the layman, it looks as though all these weird and insensible conditions could be easily rearranged. fs there some law that says we must always be the fall guy? Must we always turn the other cheek when slapped on one? Must we smile and say thank you when the Vishinsky's and the Gromyko's spit on our polished shoes? And if so-why? We don't have to make war talk. We don't have to indulge in personalities. All we have to do is say politely to Russia-"from now on we use the double system of rule making; the rules you make for us, we shall copy for you; we shall simply do unto you as you do unto us." And we might add, "the next foreigner who stands on American soil and utters insults to America and Americans is going to get kicked to hell out of here on a one way ticket before his insults are cold in his whiskered puss." Then we'll be getting somewhere.

Scrn Francisco Firm Resumes Drying oI Philippine Woods

White Brothers, rvholesale hard.ivood dealers and importers, recently put the first charge of Philippine Mahogany through their dry kiln in several years. Frorn nor,v on this firm rvill have regular shipments of Philippine hardrvoods arriving at their San Francisco and Oakland yards.