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Lumber production during the week ended March 15, 1941, was one per cent less than in the previous week; shipments were 6 per cent greater; new business 3 per cent less, according to reports to the National Lumber Minufhcturers' Association from regional associations covering the opera- tions of representative hardwood and softwood mills. Strip- ments were 4 per cent above production; new orders 15 per cent above production. Compared with the correspond- ing week of 1940, production was 14 per cent greater,.shipments 15 per cent greater, and new business 22 per cent greater. The industry stood at 131 per cent of the-average o! production in the corresponding week of 1935-39 aid 124 per cent of average 1935-39 shipments in the same week.

Reported production for the 11 iareeks of I94I to date was 18 per cent above corresponding weeks of 19,1O; shipments were 21 per cent above the shipments and new ordeis were ?\ p"t cent above the orders of the 1940 period. rFor the 11 weeks of L94L to date, new business iaras 11 per cent above production, and shipments were 7 per cent above production.

The ratio of unfilled orders to gross stocks was 35 per cent on_ I{1_rch 15,1941, compared-with 22 per cent a yiat ago. Unfilled orders were 40 per cent grealer than a year ago; gross stocks were 13 per cent less.

During the week ended March 15,467 mills produ ced Z4l,161,qq feet of softwoods and hardwoods combined; shipped 249,833,0@ feet; and booked orders of. 278,L32,0ffi feet.

Lumber orders reported for the week ended March 15 by 3ST softwood mills totaled 265,7ffi,0N feet, shipments were 237,9O3,000 feet, and production was 230,357,000 feet.

Reports fuom 97 hardwood business as 12,364,000 feet, production 1Q804,000 feet.

mills for the week gave new shipments 11,930,000 feet, and

The Western Pine Association for the week ended March 15, 98 mills reporting, gave orders as 93,204,000 feet, shipments 70,388,000 feet, and production 65,550,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 336,393,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended March 15, 118 mills reporting, gave new business as 32,019,000 feet, shipments 31,435,000 feet, and production 33,687,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 1OB,352,000 feet.

The California Redwood Association for the month of February, 1941, reported production of eleven operations as 33,700,000 feet, shipments 32,738,00O feet, and orders received D,343,O0O feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled €,415,000 feet.

With the armament program directly benefiting the entire Pacific Coast, a sensational increase in building permits w'as recorded in February over the corresponding month of 1940, according to the Western Monthly Building Survey prepared by H. R. Baker & Co., of San Francisco.

Permits from 93 leading cities total $51,n1352, an increase ol 125 per cent over the $22,301,817 recorded in February, 1940. Approximately 12,7O8 permits were issued

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And history will no doubt recite that in the month of March, 1941, the United States of America entered upon another great rendezvous with destiny-possibly the most momentous one in all her history.

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For a number of years past we have been accustomed to saying and hearing and reading these words: "Well, no one can say ure are not living in history-making times." How little we knew! History making has come utrxrn us with a rush in the last few months.

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Across the ocean waters on a small islanfl just off the mainland of Europe a heroic band of people, comparatively small in numbers but mighty in soul and courage, has been standing off such onslaughts of force and horridness as the past history of the world has no previous record of. We have been helping that small island and its defenders indirectly up to now. Now we go forth to help them, directly. And once our foot is in that path, there can be no turning back'

The sublime courage of the English during the past year has won the admiration of every worth while human in this country, and step by step almost every man, woman, and child throughout this land has come to consider himself or herself a loyal British ally, straining every hope and every prayer in the direction of the British heroes. Now a united nation girds up its loins to do whatever it may to see that that little island and its fighting people are not swallowed up and destroyed by the powers of darkness. God go with us!

F'rom the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico to the forestcovered hills of Canada; and from the rock-boundcoasts of Maine to Coronado's silvery strand-we find a people who are united in one great thought, nameln that England must be saved. Can you imagine picking up your newspaper some morning to read the shocking news that Britian has been overnrn by the hordes of Huns, and has capitulated? Can you think what a pall of darkness would settle down upon the minds of all men here at home, if such a thing should come to pass? It would be like unto that darkness that settled down upon Golgotha at the passing of the crucified Carpenter.

No, England must be saved. And England shall be saved. We alone have the power to save her, and we are in that act of using it. We must upset Hitler's childish theory that providencHr whatever that strange law is that he believes in-made a horde of murderous egomaniacs to rule the rest of the world and bring it suppliant to his feet. We've got to get that wrong idea straightened out. And it won't be easy. ***

I don't believe that the all-wise Architect of the Universe planned it Hitler's way. Hitler dooms religion, forgetting that so far in human history religion is the only idea that has proven indestructible. Before the Tower of Babel reared its crest into the clouds; before ever the Sphinx gazed out upon the desert waste; before Jason sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece or Agamernnon led forth his gallant men to meet the warriors of Troy-religion was seated deep in the souls of men. And, when, Time looks back upon Hitler and his Hellishness as it now does upon those other days, religion will still be here. !t * rl.

That's why I believe Hitler cannot win. He might have destroyed England. But he set out first to destroy the God idea in the souls of men; and that idea is bigger and more indestructible than the courage and might of England; and the English people have placed their faith in God and His protection. And I don't believe it will fail them. And this whole nation feels the same way.