D$EWB 1948 GaIaIog of Basie PIywqiI DaIa

Sixteen pages of specifcation data, grad.e d,escription and, application suggestions- a basic manual for all who buy, sell, specily and use Douglas fir plywood in construction.

SEND for free copy of this new Basic Plywood Cataloga reprint of the sixteen pages appearing in the 1948 Sweet's File, Architectural. It covers the full range of Douglas fir plywood data, from panel sizes to finishing procedure. Single copies mailed free to any point in the United States. PI.YWOOD TARGE LIGHT STRONG

The little lonely souls go by, Seeking their God who lives on high, With conscious step, and hat and all, As if on Him they meant to call fn some sad ceremonial. But f, who am a pagan child, Who knows how dying Plato smiled, And how Confucius lessoned kingsAnd of the Buddha's wanderingsFind God in very usual things.

* * -Harry Romaine.

"A Fascist nation," writes a friend of mine, "is one where they name a street after you one day, and chase you down it the next."

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And another guy writes:. "A man who says he is boss in his own house, is positively not to be trusted; he'll probably lie about other things, too." ***

When we were kids and heard or read about Lincoln, we used to feel sorry for the boy who lived in a log cabin. Today millions of folks would like to rent one.

"Don't be too cocky," "Ju in.lr*ht club comed,ian to the piano player in the orchestra; "come next November you could be replaced by a President."

"There'll always o. "r, Lrrlr"rld," d""ltred the Britisher. "As long as Canada fights," chimed in the fellow from Montreal. "But, can we afford it?" asks the American.

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A most adroit word user is old John Garner in the story of his political career running in Collier's. Concerning the dependability of Roosevelt, he says: "FIe was a hard man to have an understanding with; he would DEVIATE from the understanding." Isn't that a gentle way of saying what so many other men have said so harshly?

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That well illustrates what Bill Henry, political writer of Washington, meant when he told about Henry Wallace, Alben Barkley, Jimmy Byrnes, Governor Kerr, and at least two others, showing up at the national Democratic convention in Chicago years ago, each with his speech already written and in his pocket, accepting the nomination for vice-president, each thoroughly convinced that FDR had promised him the job. * ,r *

Minnie the Moron says all this male criticism of women's toe-less and heel-less shoes is silly; that they are the most practical shoes ever made; the rain that runs in the heel, runs right out the toe.

Abe Burrows, well known character actor, says there is much satisfaction in knowing that in days to come, when Tyrone Power and Robert Taylor have lost their looks, HE will still be repulsive.

Phil Silvers, the comic, suggests a swell advertisement for a cemetery would be: "If you're not buried in Forest Lawn, you haven't lived."

Miss Vivian Kellems, who owns and operates a very important machinery manufacturing plant at Westport, Connecticut, is going around making speeches, and is getting a lot of publicity from the flat statement that she is not going to collect any more income tax deductions from her employes. She says "If High Tax Harry wants,me to get that money for him, then he must appoint me an agent of the fnternal Revenue Department, and pay me a salary and expenses for making the collections." She says Uncle Sam has no constitutional right to make a personal income tax collector out of her. It's something to think about, and what happens to her be interesting to see.

Want to read some magnificent patriotic thoughts, delightfully worded? Then read the following extracts from a speech made in connection with the Freedom Train, by Dr. M. F. Waldman. He said: "All the devices of po. litical machineryvotes and parties and programsare merely instruments to enable men to live one with another under conditions which bring forth the maximum gifts of each for the fullest enjoyment of all. We are engaged in the most difficult of all arts-the art of living together in a gracious society. For this it is not enough to be literate; it is not even enough to be literary. While mankind is literate as never before, environment for reason is least congenial. Thus, while the conditions for a good life have not changed, we now operate in a more complicated setting. In the perspective of history it will appear that ours is the tragic privilege-the tragic privilege of living in the greatest military crisis since Napoleon, the greatest economic crisis since Adam Smith, the greatest moral crisis since the fall of the Roman Empire. But if ours is the tragic privilege, ours is also the magnificent opportunity to understand that in unity there is strength, in good will there is prosperity, in tolerance there is progress-progress toward a better, a healthier, a happier*America."

I liked a speech that Senator Edward Martin, of Pennsylvania, made recently, in which he said: "I'll give you a

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(Continued from Page 12) program. It may not be a popular program, but, in the years to come, it will pay dividends. It will guarantee that your pension and social security programs will be sound and waiting for you; that your bank accounts will be safe; that you will continue to enjoy precious American freedom and liberty. THIS is my program: Say 'NO' to most of these flashy new spending proposals. Say 'NO' when men in high places offer to spend your money for you, and assegt they are giving you something for nothing." My personal opinion is that Senator Martin's program should be "must" reading every day for every American.

It is interesting to note that the Marshall Plan, as at present proposed, would cost every man, woman, and child in the United States approximately $SZ.06 each the first year; or $185.30 for every adult in this country. It's a lot of money. The Congress and the individual citizen will have that fact drummed into their ears by all opponents of the Plan, as though that were the vitd thing. It is NOT. That vast sum of money goes out; and none returns. For that is NOT the basis of the Plan. I'm going to let Lynn Landrum of the Dallas News, tell you what the Plan IS. In my opinion Mr. Landrum is so much the finest fundamental writer and thinker on any American newspaper, that I can't even think of one to narne second. So think carefully over his words, for the remainder of this writing will be devoted to some recent editorial remarks of Mr. Landrum. He says:

"Congress seems ai"pJ"a to forget that the recovery program for Europe is not wholly a relief program, or even chiefly one. ft is, after all, a first line of defense for the United States. It is an effort to make dollars, wisely expended, head off the necessity of resorting to bayonets and atomic bombs. The thought in Washington is that we are in danger of not getting our money's worth out of the investing of several billion dollars under the Marshall Plan. That is very loose thinking-if, indeed, it is sincere thinking at all. The Marshall Plan is NOT economic imperialism. It is NOT the desire to get a financial hold upon other countries. It is NOT a way to lay out capital for a dividend in dollars and cents to us. So far as dividends in monetary return, we might as well forget that. The outgo under the Marshall Plan, is outgo. There is no income under the Marshall Plan. It is NOT that kind of a plan.

"We need Europe, not as a colony or a commercial monopoly of some sort. That is what Moscow tries to make out of the Marshall Plan. But that is NOT what the Marshall Plan is aiming at. We need Europe simply because we are nei.ther big enough, powerful enough, or imperialistic enough, to spread out and fitl all the vacuums in the world. We need Europe to be European, not American. A little common sense will show that the United States will have a hard time trying to get on in a world which consists of the United States bounded on all sides by Russia. We don't want that, although Russia DOES. We can't stand that'

"The money that we propose to spend in Europe aims to restore Europe, but it aims to do that so that we can be free from all danger of a Europe over-run by Russia. Any monetary return that comes to us is subordinate to that major objective. The Marshall Plan is dollar diplomacywith the accent on the diplomacy and not on the dollar. It is dollar diplomacy because it uses our dollars in this emergeircy, as an instrument of national and international policy. But it is NOT an attempt to buy France or buy Britain and so on and on., We DO trade; but we take no souls in pawn. WE COME AWAY WITH NO POUND OF FLESH.''

Pcrcific Coast Hcrdwood Deqlers Will Meet June 17-19

The annual convention of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association will be held at the Santa Barbara Biltmore Hotel, June 17, 18 and 19.

The Association's officers are: President, Clarence C. Bohnhoff, Bohnhoff Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Vice President, Don F. White, White Brothers, San Francisco: Secretary-Treasurer, Stanton Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles.

Can Mcrke Mcsts Up To 84-Feet in Lengfih

Clift Wavell, Wavell Showcase & Furniture Co., Long Beach, has a special mast turning machine at his plant, which he designed himself, and it can really turn out the "big sticks."

Recently he made a SZ-foot boom for a U.S. Naval fueling ship which was turned out of a Douglas fir timber 16 inches by 16 inches by 52 feet. The company can handle masts and booms up to 84 feet in length.