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Changer in MPR No. 215---Distribution Oakland Hoo-Hoo Wlll Hold Concat Yard Saler of Softwood Lumber

Washington, \'{:t.r' I I llxtcrrsion of the regtrlation uoverning salcs of soft'rvood lrrmlrcr bv distrilrution lar<1s to inclrrde vellon' clprcss lrtnrlrer, n'ith the exccption oi hcavicr inclustrial sizes norrn:rllr- stockctl and soltl only trv hardu-ood distrilrutors, rvas thc princiyr:rl one oI ser-eral changes macie in this rcgulation, the OlTice of l'rice Arlrninistration announced todar'.

This action, u'hicl-r becomcs eil'ective I'Iav 22, 19'l'1. u'ill permit distribution yards to reflcct rccentlr--increa-sed nlill priccs of thesc species irr their selline' priccs. Under the General }laxinrurn Price Rcgulation, n.hich formerlv covered sucl'r sa1es, scllcr-s \\'ere linritecl to the highest price ther' clrargecl cltrring \Iarch, 7912.

Distributors' prices are comprrted b,r' acldins together the f.o.b. mill cciling priccs, the inbound transportation charge from a spccihed b:rsing point arrcl a $5 handling charge, and adding to tl-re sun'r rr specified percentage nrarkup basecl on this sunr. \I:rrk rrps establislrecl bv the regulation zrre computcrl on thc lrasis o{ or.cr-a11 clistrilrution vard operations, inclrrding all s1'rccies, at (icneral Ifaximum Ii'rice Regulation levels.

For purposes of clarification, tu'o othcr changes :rre affcclcd b_v lorl:L_r"s :r('li"n :

( I ) Certain iten.rs, sr.rch as basc Lro:rrrls, casings, chair rails and hock strilrs hzrvc sonrctimes been classifled as rnouldings, the m:irk-rrps for .,r'hich are highcr than those ior lumber items. -flrc amerrclrrrerrt brings them rvithin coverage of thc regrrlation as lumlrer items.

(2) The ile{rnition oi "sale orrt of distribrrtion 1'arcl stock" is n-rodilicd to perrnit s:rles of southern pirre lunrbcr subject to relc:rsc rrnclcr \\-ar T'rorluction Ilolrrrl Ortlcr' M-61 :rncl also o{ sales of certain spccies of Canadian lurrrber sulrject to the Canarlian Controllcr of Tin'rbcr.

It is gcncrall,v rcquire<l th;rt lurnbcr be in thc rljstribution yarci's stock at thc tir.ne of slrlc. It u-ns inrpossilrlc to complv l'ith this rerlrrircnlelit ()rr species srrbject to limitatior.r orclers since,ipecilrt'en<l rrse is a corrrliti,rn r-rf relcase ancl <listribrrtors cann()t lr:tve suclr lurnbcr irr stock at tlre timc of sale. IIou-cver, 1hc anrrnrlr)rent lnorliires this rcclttirenrctrt so that lun.rbcr thlrt lrccor.r.rcs part oi stock prior to the rinre of rlclive rv rnav be sold lr-r. <listribrrtiorr r-arcls.

(Amen<ltrrcnt No. .i t,, Secor<1 licviscrl JltLxinrrrnr I'ricc Jiegrrlation No. 215 I:ll'ectivc flrrr- 22, 1()-l-1.)

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'\'-ice€Ierent Snark lSert E. Bry.ln annotlnccs that :r concatcnation rvill be hclcl at thc Claremont llrrtel, Berkeley, C:rlif., Frida-r' e vcning, -Jrrne 16, l!).14. fJinncr rvili be served at 6:09 p. m., rtnd there u'i1l be an entertaitrnrcnt program drrring the dinncr. Thc concatenzitior.r t'ill be held at 8:09 p. nr., ancl a hne class of Kittens is being liler1 up for the occasion. flcmbers are :rskc<1 to bting a Kitterr along.

The Nine that l'il1 be in charge of tl're coucrttcrration inclrrclcs: \ricegcrcrrt Snark, I',crt E. P,rliur; Senior T{oo-Hoo, G. F. Ror.rnington ; -lunior Hoo-Hoo, Leu-is Godard; Jabberu-ock, D. Norrnen Corrls;(irrrdon, (icorge Cla,vlrerg; Bojrrm, Hcrrrl FIink: -\rcanopcr-. Clemcnt liraser; Scrivenoter, \Iilanrl Grarrt; and Custocatian, I-rLrtre .|. \\rrto<lson. It is interesting to note that everl menrlrcr of the Nine is a past presiclent of Iloo-Hoo Clrrb No. 39, except D. Normen Cord,s, r'ho is the present Clrrb president.

The announcement scnt otrt bl tl.re Cotnrrittee states that this concatenation is lorrg or-crtluc. ancl it l'ill be a rortsirrg ()ne. This rvill ire thc last mecting in thc O:rl<1and district ior the ILro IJoo lear 19-13-1!)'14, lrnd a ltig tttrnotlt is expected.

f'Iark thc date, lrrnc 16. 19.1'1. trlr 1-our calcndar non'.

Price Chcnges lor Western Red Cedcrr

-\ rrrrnrbcr of ch:rnges in the pricc regulation ir'rr Wcstern rcrl ccclar-u'hich is rrsc<l in orrlinlLrr- constrttction tvork, an<l lts interior finisl-r anrl cxterior sirling t'et'c attnottttcerl orr -\Iav 20 b1- thc OfTicc of Pricc .\rlmir.risiration.

Tirc changcs, c1l'cctive }tar- 25. l9J-1, nraire ;r ieu- price :icljustnrents, establish uniforrl priccs of general applicalrilitv for sonre iterrs prer-iousl,r- colere6l ll-1' rpcci'Il pr-icing and bring the regrrl;rtion into conformit-r-l'ith llrr-scnt incltts1rY l)facticcs.

OJ'A declared that, l'ith some pricc increa::es an<1 sor.ue rcclrrctions, tlrerc is no changc in t1-re over-:Lll realization to produccrs. f Amenrlrncnt I t,, I{PIi -102--\\-estcrrr Red ('erlar Lrunlrer.)

On Eqstern Business Trip

.J oseph \Vcston, J'-1 f Ionte, C'irlii., Southrvcstellr represcntative for thc Doue'l:ts Iiir J'l_r'u'oorl -\ssocilttion, lcit on Jrrrrc 1 to visit W:rshingt,rn. D. ('.. \tlr-\'orl<:ttttl Boston on .\ssociatiorr'lrrrsiness. ITc erpccts to 1rc b:icl<:rlrorrt _ftrne 20.

You folks who love America, We need your faith today, This is the time for courage; This is the time to pray.

The above was sent ,rr*ofu ]otaier. Author unknown. But very pat at this critical time in our history. And here is another, the line that came with it stating that it was found on the dead body of one of our Marines, killed in the Far East; likewise very pertinent at'this time: And if our lines should form. then break

Because of things you failed to make, The extra gun, or ship, or plane

For which we waited all in vain; Will you then come and take the blame

For those supplies that never came?

For we, not you, will pay the cost, Of battles tor,*rolwe, have lost.

The time is at hand in the United States when every true American is going to have to stand and be counte<i. The time for fence-riding is nearly gone. Wouldn't it be fine if every free American would sign and hang the following in his office or his home, and stand back of it in the troubled days that are ahead:

"Pity the man who a".l "la l*n r,i-.etf. Pity the maii who does not possess his own spirit. It would be better to die a beggar covered with rags, yet with his soul erect, fearless, and free, than to live a king in a palace of gold, his soul slimy with hypocrisy and crawling in the dust of fear. I will do my own thinking; and when I have thought it, I will say it with words as hard as cannon balls if need be. I am a free man. I will mortgage my mind to nobody. I will give a deed of trust on my soul to nobody. No matter wheth,er I think well or i1l, what thought I have shall be my thought, and shall be a free thought. And I am going to admit cheerfully, gladly, the right of every other man to thus think and speak."

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Heard a splendid speaker the other day addressing a Rotary convention on the obligations and duties of citizenship in time of war. He expressed a couple of thoughts s<r well that his words bear repeating. He said: "No man has a right to kick or gripe about taxes today; but he HAS the right and it is his obligation to scream to high heaven when he sees or learns on good authority of the waste of that money; no man has a right to kick or gripe about rationing, but he HAS a right and it is his obligation to demand to know IF and .WHY that rationing is necessary." Looks to me like that covers two important questions in a short space of tim,e.

Those who defend cutting across the Bill of Rights in time of war, evidently forget the fundamental fact that those rights were instituted particularly for the protection of the citizen in time of stress and strain-not just in peace times. That, in short, was why they were born. It is because the founding Fathers realized. too well that in times of emergency, holders of power are inclined to use emergencies to put things over that would not be tolerated in times of peace, that Jefferson and his associates gave us the Bill of Rights to protect minorities; and particularly in troublous times.

Through the centurie, ;.; hl" "o*" down to us a definition of the word "justice" that will always endure: "Justice is the constant and perpetual purpose or will to render to everyone that which is his." You can add a million wellchosen words to those and it is doubtful if vou will have thrown a bit more light on the *subject.

When I hear or read the words of some politician lashing out against those who are brave enough to differ with him in opinion, and witnress the intolerance of his selfrighteousness, f am reminded of the philosophy of the ferocious Danton, leader in the French Revolution, who cried out in a speech to the Convention: "Be my brother or I'll killyou."

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Not long ago representatives of ten national women's organizations that were convening in Washington, visited by invitation the offices of the U. S. Forest Service, where they listened to a talk by Chief Forester Lyle F. Watts. According to printed reports, Mr. Watts took pot-shots at the lumber industry, and one of the pieces of advice he gave the women was that they "inform the public generally about the misleading character of the publicity campaign of the lumber industry." Thus dcies another of our paid employes and public servants contribute his share toward the upbuilding of national "rtjt l"U*rhe more abundant life.

I offer the next stanza of poetry as one of the weirdest pieces of war literaturre that has come my way. I understand it was written by a British soldier named A. E. Housman. It is difficult to understand the mental attitude of such a foeman as he describes, who tries to kill him, fails, and then, taking death from the saber, smiles at his killer, blows a kiss at him, and dies. No one can say that isn't drama as well as tragedy. Here is the stanza:

I did not lose my heart in summer's even, When roses to the moonlight burst apart: When plumres were under heel and lead was flying, In blood, and smoke, and flame-I lost my heart.

I lost it to a soldier and a foeman,

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(Continued from Page 8) i..,.; A chap who did not kill me-but who tried; r . Who took the saber'straight, and took it spriking, :- And laughed-and kissed his hand to me-and died. i:'r' "the stern joy that warriors feel in foemen worthy of their

There are nearly 4 million men in our 4-F draft ,,':, steel." It was.something of that same thought that the

I ' Sir Walter Scott in his "Lady of the Lake" wrote about t.' suddenly found himself surrounded on the mountainside by author of the above stanza must have had. If you will retion. If we may believe the Bible it was God Himself member, the wandering and lost King James of Scotland started the "4-F" business. Only he was a hundred ti-qici more drastic in His restrictions than are our army rcguhi the following from the 21st Chapter of Leviticus, andr f," sword, backed up against a rock, and dared them to come what you think: "The Lord spake unto Moses sd il,' on. "Come one, come all, for this rock shall fly from its whosoever he be of this seed in their generations that hd ,' firm base, as soon as I." Thus spoke the gallant King of Scotland. And Scott relates that it was then that Rhoderic any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of * Dhu expressed "the stern joy that warriors feel in foeman worthY of their steel." *** i I read the. other day that only 2 per cent of our draft huirdreds of heavily armed enemies. He gallantly drew his i,,:,, army had ever handled a rife when they were inducted.

Those figures shocked me. I always think of American

.l boys as being handy with a gun from the age of good judg- ment. And I likewise read officially that only 28 per cent , . of our recruits at the various naval training stations were

'' able to swim when they got there. Guess our latter-day parents aren't as interested that way as the mountaineer who was asked how he taught his boys to swim so young, and who replied: "I throws 'em in, and they swim,s ou.ti,. if'n they don't drown." f,l*>t* tt,, A bit of geography to keep us up with the war newsl We ;1:,- read much of Truk, the naval stronghold of the Japs in the i;.'. Paci.fic that has been getting frequently bombed of late . by our forces. It has been called the Japanese Singapore. i When you read of Truk, here's what it means: an ocean I I area of about 1600 square rniles, 38 miles north and south, and 4O miles east and west, the outer rim of which is a coral reef through which there are four principal passes; inside are eleven islands, none of them large, and a lot of ri''.' Some more geography. You read of the Japanese,trfing season. One thing c?n be said in its favor in addition to il tremendous and rugged beauty; its women are reputed be the loveliest in all India. Remember Kipling's Burdd girl a-sittin' in the old Moulmein Pagoda? Like that .:; *** tions today. You don't believe it? Ah,Iriend! Then r# shall not approach; a blind man or a lame, or he that hi a flat nose, or anything superfluous; or a man that is broilF en-footed, or broken-handed, or crooked-backed, or a or hath a blemish in his eye, or the scurvy, or scabbedl: .-.j he shall not go unto the veil or come nigh unto the altar; because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my saneturf aries." See? What did I tell you? r ***

God; for whatsoever man he be that hath a blemislr".

Preparedness. The Army Air Corps has a new t:'L book called "Jungle and Desert Emergencies," which into all pilot bail-out kits. One of the intereStiag pieari of advice to bailed:out pilots is: "If forced down inltfr jungle, don't monkey around. Watch the monkeys. Y6 can eat anything they can eat. .You can also eat:t! monkeys."

An editor, writing about the.Montgomery Ward b$ ness, suggests that Congress re-write the war powers.lil so that the Attorney General can understand it, Coq# now! fsn't that asking a good deal of finite minds? ,'i * * * .;

Douglas MacArthur should feel quite dt home in A tralia, because it was one of the MacArthur Ctan, J6hi small islets; the largest island shaped like the letter U, is MacArthur, who is called by Australians "the fathef" ten miles long and three miles wide; the Jap fortress in- New South'Wales." He went to Australia from Scotlar stallations are inside the great lagoon. where the MacArthur Clan is so old that there is an *** Scotch saying: "There is nothing older except the t: to enter India through conquered Burma by way of the

\T t maputra River. ft is covered with mountains of terrrific i,' height, and jungles the most impenetrable on earth. It

MacArthur and the devil." The MacArthurs used to cleii to be the oldest branch of ..the Clan Campbell, and ,th'tit

Indian border province of Assam. This is about the wild- headquarters was Strachur. Until 1427 when James I eri est country left on earth. It is traversed by the great Bra- cuted the Clan head, the MacArthur tribe was one of S strongest in Scotland.

' is the toughest fighting ground in the whole world. It is

R. L. Batts once said of our soldier dead: "To them, a wild anamals'paradise, abounding with dlephants, tigers, more the sunshine of the land they loved. They not agaii rhinoceroses, the mighty gaur which is the wildest and will look upon her verdant hills, her'plenteous rivers r wide-skirted meads. No more for them the joyous ,1:' w.rv5L vrlg f, ,, is quick death. The wild natives are as deadly as the ani- of her birds, the music of her rippling streams. No mora.j the clasped hand of friendship, the thrilling touch of lovq;i mals and the snakes. The great River swarms with croco- They are chosen for immortality. They died for us, ai

, dileg as do all the other rivers of thg territory. Some of for unnumbered millions who will follow in the paths oil l'., the world's highest mountains and highest cities are to be feet have trod. They died that liberty might live; that t$i found on its borders. The whole land is like a moving pic- most dangerous animal of them all, and deadly snakes are i1:, ,. there in abundance, like the cobra and the coral whose bite ture artist's wildest dream; but this is real. It is one of the lowly be lifted up; that peace abide among the peoplesi,ft the earth." t":.