HARD BOARD

Weldwood' Hqrd Boord ossures you of top quolity, in the right grode, of the right size, qt the right price

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\Teldwood Hard Board is available in both STANDARD and TEMPERED grades.

The STANDARD grade is your best bet for a thousand and one general uses.

And make a special note of TEMPERED grade. It's the perfect material for shower stalls, exterior sidings and many similar uses. It's light-colored, plastic-treated and extremely water - resistant.

No finishing is needed for either grade. The natural, light buff color of Weldwogd Hdrd Board is just what builders ordered. Especially since it provides a perfect base for paint... even of the lightest hues. rVeldwood Hard Board is sold by leading lumber dealers.

And ro meet qll requirements, both grades of rVeldwood Hard Board come in three popular thicknesses: I/8",3/16" and, l/4', and six convenient sizes: 4' x 4' , 4' x 6' , 4' x 8' , 4' x t0', 4' x 12' and 4 x 16'. Sizes up to 4' x 12' are wrapped six to a package. The 4' x16' panels come four to a package.

Are you of thc North? Thcn I claim with you a joint interest in your cntire galaxy of intcllectual godr. At the shrine of Lincoln'r broad humanity, of Webrtcr'r matchless power, of the cunning geniur of your Mcnlo Wizard (Edison), I humbly bow. Arc you of the South? Your Jefrerson, Jackron, and Lcc arc mine ac well aa thine, for they, too, were Americans, lords in that mighty ariatocracy of intellect that hae, in four generations, made the New World the wonder of the Old, with ite cumulative greatness of fofty centuries.

"Men have fought ere this and patchcd up a peace, but where in the annals of human history have we waged war more relentlesely than did Rome and Carthage, and then, without a murmur, accepted the arbitrament of the sword and swung into line, shoulder to shoulder, a band of brothers, one flag, one country, one destiny and that the highest goal of human endeavor. I have yet to hear an ex-federal who met Lee's veterans at the Wilderness or at Gettysburg, speak disrespectfully of the man who wore the gray. I have yet to hear an ex-confederate who mixed it with "Old Pap" Thomas at Chickamauga, or Joe Hooker above the clouds, speak disparagingly of those who wore the blue. fn commingling thus in a common brotherhood, those who followed the fortunes of the confederacy until human fortitude could no farther go; and those who with the sword's keen point held every gleaming star in Old Glory's field of blue, are furnishing a commendable example to all our countrymen, to all humanity. It is an echo, nay, an incarnation of those words of Grant-the grandest that ever fell from victorious warrior's lips: 'Let us have peace.'

"The battlefield was sown long since with kindlier seed than dragon's teeth, has blossomed and borne the fruits of Life, where Death reigned paramount. The flowers of the Southern fields are no longer dyed with the blood of the contending brave, but drip with heaven's dew; the sullen battery has gone silent on the purple hills, and crash of steel resounds no more amid our pleasant valleys. No longer the Northern child waits and watches for the soldier sire whose lips have felt the touch of God's own hand; no longer the Southern woman wanders with bursting heart amid the wreck and wraith of the fierce simoon, brushing the battle grime from cold brows, seeking among the mangled dead for all that life held dear. The curse has passed: 'Let us have peace t'

"Let us thank God that the fierce baptism of fire is in the past, and not yet to be; that the bitter cup can never be pressed to our children's lips; that never again while the world stands and the heavens endure will Americans meet in battle shock; that never again will our rivers run red with the blood of Columbia's brave, poured forth by her own keen blade; that the last stumbling-block has been removed from our path of progress; that we can now move forward with a giant's stride to that high destiny to which the chastening hand of God hath fitted us; the greatest nation and the grandest people in all the mighty tide of time." (End of Brann's remarks.)

Dear hearts and gentle people, I have quoted the words of a man long dead as a shining example of the kind of cloquence that reemr to be entircly miuing in thir country today; color, fire, thrillr, to rtir the hcart and etimulrte the mind. Such oratory today might do much to dircntangle ur from thc organized confurion that reignr about ur. It might not, like Thcreue, providc the cluc to lcad ue from the labyrinth, but it would help. Not morc Roolcveln to read into the radio in melodiout toneg the worde of other men, but thrilling mesrage-carriers, with hearts and minds and tongues combined by the hand of God to give them

When Marc Anthony, Rome'8 great Triumvir who conquered Carthage, was in turn overthrown by Octavius Caesar, he gloried, dying, that he "had conquered as a Roman and was by a Roman nobly conquered." His dying solace was understandable. This nation today and ite gallant sons who are going out to fight the good fight, need inspiration, enthusiasm for what lies ahead; the feelipg that those who die will die nobly for a great cause. Our boys need to be more than drafted-they need to be inspired, enthused concerning their job. Men fight best in a cause they consider holy. Our whole attitude in this war is too casual. We must do something about it.

Fan Maii

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Yost lJros. Lumber Company Milford. Nebraska

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Ransom Bros. Lumlrer with me. Yotr & Supply Co.

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Los Gatos, Calif.

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Chas. O. Kallman Lumber Sales

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Arcadia, Calif.

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