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Thereos a $rand new upsur$e of interest in lurnber produets; and the reeently forrned lVoodwork Institute is pushiog it hard.

An accelerated trend in wood-something of a renascenee-started irr Chicago a year agoo when the Arnerican Wood Window Institute was organized. A strong program of promotion was put into effect; and thatts when things began to roll.

We, in California, are now earrying the ball with our statewide organizatiol-pqsfl1ryork fnetitute of California. Obviously every rnember is selfishly inter. ested in more widespread and more intelligent uses of wood. That is the purpose of this non.profit organization-composed of manufacturers of lumber., doors, windows, millwork and allied produets.

Lumber and wood products are your bread and butter. Of course you earry other things. Why not? Just the same you are a lumberman. Your chief interest and primary business is lumber and lumber products. You know lumber and so you know how to advise whereo when and how to use it to best advantage, when lumber is obviously the material for the job.

This is your eampaign. This organization is telling your story. You are urged to eollaborate by pushing lumber products whereo in your judgment, the situation calls for lumber.

And rincc that roul-rtirring performance, there har been not one whit of let-down on hir part. Hir lerrer rpeecher, intcrviewr, and hir long quertioning by the Senatc, were right up to the high rtandards ret by hir firrt oration. Since which timc hc hae gone calmly on hir way, hia every critic opcnly on the defensive, their every effort againrt him serving chiefy to contrart in the public eye this remarkable man, and his less-than-remarkable detractors.

The existing situation, so far ag the public is concerned, could hardly be better illustratcd than by what happened at a pair of baseball game8. Truman pitched a ball at a game in Washington, and thc crowd booed him thoroughly. MacArthur pitched a ball at a game in New York, and the crowd roae and cheered him to the echo. What greater comparison could be drawn? tl. *

There is an old adage that says that if a man does you a great injury, he never forgives you. The goings-on in Washington since the MacArthur speech prove that saying to be a true one. Regardless of the merits of the MacArthu::Truman controversy, the manner in which MacArthur was dismissed defies justification. This great military genius, this great patriot, this man who has been described by Winston Churchill as a "great statesman," was fired without a moment's notice, about like old Tom Pendergast would have fired one of his ward-heelers. And now the Washington gang is turning high heaven in a frantic effort to justify what was done. What the public thinks about it was well illustrated by the events that took place at the ball games just mentioned.. *

It were waste of space to relate here the public attitude with regard to the MacArthur-Truman controversy, since the facts have filled the public press to overflowing. A month after MacArthur's dismissal competent and reliable reporters in Washington agree that the mails are still well packed with letters to Congressmen concerning that matter. Administration propagandists say these missives are only about 5.5 to 45 in favor of MacArthur. But unbiased reports say they are a hundred to one in favor of the General, and in bitter and abusive criticism of the Administration. One reporter says that most of the letters are so potent they would make a longshoreman blush, and that the telegrams are so hot the birds can't ";, .;. the telegraph wires.

But the important thing is that MacArthur has placed himself-and has been by the public placed-in position where he can assume a position of leadership in promoting and perhaps heading a return to old-fashioned Americanism. The thinking people of this nation agree that our greatest need today is to turn away from the all-time low in political mo:ality to which we have fallen; from the whirlpool of paternalism, mink coats, influenced loans, crooked political machines, continual scandals in high places, and all the moral decay, greed, corruption and confusion that fill the public prints.

MacArthur must not venture into politics. He is too old, and too valuable to be so sacrified. His army dismissal has deprived him and robbed him of no part of the honor and rcrpcct won by a lifetime of rervice to thir nation. Rather that rclpcct har grown a thourandfold rincc hir return home. He can rtand thc verdict of hi.tory. Hil record is clean. There is no blot on hir namc. And hc potlcsler to a greatcr cxtent than any other man the rpirltual qualifications and pcrsonal proweer that could lead this nation back from the low rpiritual eltate into which it has fallen. He is truly a mighty force to rupply a mighty need. And he needa no political portfolio to do ro.

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IJow could I better keep track of nry many friends, and also keep cheered up by Jack l)ionnc's terrific editorials, if I didn't keep vour magazine coming? That I ask you, and at the price, horv could I spend g5 more wisely??? You're doing a wonderful job' Rod Flendrickson New York. N. Y.

You are doing an excellcnt joll-cducationally, socially and politically-in citing current events of trcnrendous importance to your readers. You havc un' doubtcdly directed an<l re-dircctcd the thinking of nrany lumbcrmen.

Chas. A. Peirce I-os Angeles, Calif.

issue. Wc sold Jack Dionne. Mrs. Chester Rose Lumber Chico, Calif.

Ted Hoyt and Mel Gre enlee Organize New Corporation

our mill E. Rose Yard

I don't want to miss one birt can't get along without Thanks ! I just couldn't be without the Merchant. Tom Jacobson, Sr. Oakland, Calif.

E,fiective May I a new corporation, Lumber Mill & Supply Co., was formecl by Lumber Mart and Greenlec Lumber Co. of l,os Angeles, with offices at Rooms 5,6, and 7,4200 Bandini Boulevard, Los Angeles 23. The metrrllers of the corporation are G. C. "Ted" Hoyt, president, and B. M. "Mel" Greenlee, secretary and treasurer. The corporation will do a strictly wholesale business, and rvill handle Ponderosa pine, Sugar pine, and Douglas fir, manufactured by rvell established mills in Northern California and Oregon. Nlr. Greenlee will be in charge of the northern division at the mills. Mr. Hoyt u'ill be in charge of sales at Los Angeles. The telephone numbers are ANgelus 3-7503, and ANgelus 9-3280.

W. J. "Bill" Belau will be associated with the nelv concern as salesman. He is well known to the trade, having been r'vith Lumber Mart for the past several years.

Aptos Ycrrd Hcs New Owner C. E. Bo.rser Lumber Co., P. O. Box 253, Aptos, Calif., has been purchased by Howard O. Axtell.