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Lumber To Bqck Up Our Fighring Men ls The First Order Of Business At Our Mills

Much of our currenl production is moving out on Government Requisitions.

Unril our United Norions iob is finishbd we will divide the bolonce of our producfion qmong our regulor customers who ore doing essenticll civilion work.

THER,E IS NO tET DOWN IN OUR GIUATITY.PRECISION MANUFACTURE AND KIIN DRYING

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"By profession I am a soldier,. and take pride in that fact. But I am more proud, infinitely more, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; a father only builds, never destroys. Thc one has the potentialities of death, the other embodies creation and lifc. While the hordes of deith are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I arn gone, will remember me, not from the battles, but in the homt. repeating with him our daily prayer,'Our Father who art t:?:ffi'oo.,rr""

MacArthur.

Thanks to my ota t,.-Uel frl""a Charlie Bird, of Stockton, California, for the above words of the General, extracted from one of his inspiring declarations. ft makes a priceless addition to a MacArthur scrapbook.

Such almost sublime eloguence stems from more than simply a brilliant mind; it must be founded in a soul steeped in a mighty spirituality. Witness his words when he made his famous landing at Leyte: "By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. The guidance of divine God points the way. Follow His name to the holy grail of righteous victory."

And witness further the high quality of the man when, in one of his communiques, he wrote: "To the weeping mothers of the dead I can only say that the sacrifice and halo of Jesus of Nazareth has descended upon their sons, and God will take them unto *Himself."

I was thrilled by the letter from a mother printed in one of the newspapers recently, which said: "The only crime of this man was that he could not stomach in silence the aimless slaughter of American young in Korea over which he was ordered to preside."

The entire nation enthusiastically took up the words of the old refrain with which MacArthur concluded his immortal oration to the Congress. Within fifteen minutes after his speech ended, men were rushing madly in every direction to .get hold of the old song. And within but a few days it was coming frequently over the air waves from hastily made records. * *

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade ?waf ," is now as well known to the American public as "Yankee Doodle" or "Dixie"; and so it ghall undoubtedly remain. Bruce Russell, cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times, Eoon aPpeared with a most impressive picture on the cditorial page of that paper. It showed thc white crosaea and helmets of a soldier burying ground, with thc title: "Young soldiers die, and mothers fade away." *

Another enthusiastic scramble by the publicity pcople followed immediately after thc General concluded his speech; almost before the echoes had died away. It was to get the speech before the public. It was printed in a thousand different shapes and ways, in newspapers, magazines, and booklets. Many of the latter are scrapbook pieces, with the oration beautifully typed and printed. Millions of such found immediate distribution, and, as they appeared, most of the publishers were swamped with demands for extra copies.

A whole string of phonograph records were made by various companies, and within three days after he made the speech, millions of Americans throughout the land were sitting at home and thrilling to the words and voice that had over night become world famous. Nothing like it had ever happened before in history.

OUR EDITORIAL ON MACARTHUR'S ORATION IN OUR MAY FIRST ISSUE BROUGHT THE GREATEST FLOOD OF PRAISE IN THE HISTORY OF OUR VAGABOND EDITORIALS.

As a matter of fact the entire drama was record smashing. Never before in history was an oration delivered under such conditions. The time, the place, the tense situation, and not only a great nation but the entire world hanging on his words, made the MacArthur speech extremely critical and dramatic. What would he say? How would he deport himself? What defense would he muster for his military and political convictions? Would he succeed or fail in justifying himself? Or would his critics find food for satisfaction in*this critical situation?

Safe it is to declare that not even his most enthusiastic supporters and admirers ever hoped or dreamed of the glory he was to win for himself in this vital public utterance. With one of the great orations of history rolling from his lips-grand thoughts, grand words, magnificent eloquence-everyone knew as he stepped down from the platform that one of the highlights in all the history of the United States had just been written by this remarkable man.