Remember! Celotex Insuloting Sheqthing is . .. double-vvqterproofed

- Every one of the millions of tough cane fibres which make up its insulating core board is impregnated with a waterproofing agent during manufacture.

HERE'S PROOF of rhe kind of performonce thot hqr mqde Celotex the Greotett Nqne In lnsulotion. In o recent letler, Mr. A. J. A4cMullin, President of the Oleon lumber & Supply Corp., Oleon, N. Y., wrote:

"Our Compony opplied rhe regvlar Vz" Celotex Boqrd on the exlerior of our mill ln 1922. No riding of ony kind wos opplied over the Celotex Boord, ond consequently ii hor been subiected to oll kindr of weother, including roin, snow, summer sun, ond even o f,ood, when the Allegheny River went on rompoge in 1912, fl hos given very sotisloctory cenice los 27 yeors ond we hqve no inlention of rcplocing it, os it is rtill in good condition ond os good os onything we could reploce it with."

JThis remarkably strong, durable insulating board is then coated on both sides, and on all edges, with a thick, enduring "raincoat" of speciallytreated asphalt which seals out moisture.

* Yes, ilouble-wateryroofed,, yet it has more than twice the vapor penneability advocated by government agencies!

* Safe even under severe exposure during construction! Even cut edges are highly resiStant to moisture penetration.

* Enables contractor to resume work more quickly after the heaviest rain, thus cutting costly delays.

* Protected against dry rot, termites, and fungus by the exclusive Ferox process,

* Combines exceptional structural strength and rigidity with high thermal insulation.

* Builds and insulates, all at one low cost.

* Yet costs no more than ordinary sheathing.

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I wrote recently about our potato subsidy business; how our government paid $3.50 a hundred for potatoes and then sold them for as low as one cent a hundred, to keep them off the market and out of human consumption; how we kept the price of potatoes up at a cost to the taxpayers of more than three hundred million bucks a season; remember? Latest news in the papers is that because of falling farm prices it is going to cost the government at least five hundred million dollars more in the next year to keep food prices up and farmers happy. So I v.'as reading about the government egg situation the other day. It's almost as absurd and violative of all reason as the potato caPer'

It seems that our government has stored in a cave in the side of a hill at Atchison, Kansas, more than ONE THOUSAND CARLOADS of eggs. We, the taxpayers, bought these eggs at a cost of over fifty millions of dollars in order to keep up the price of eggs. These eggs are now dried and packed in barrels. Since the first of the year we have bought and rendered unavailable for familv use 160,000,000 dozens of eggs that were good, eatable food when the government bought them. The officials who handle the egg program are said to be hoping that some use will be found for all these eggs. All this, they say, to enhance the welfare of the people of the nation. We pay higher prices for eggs to eat, and then pay fifty million dollars taxes for government egg destruction. Know any words that would properly describe your feelings in such matters, Junior? ***

I know some pretty good adjectives, myself, but I discovered for the first time how feeble they are when I read and heard about the latest Lilienthal mess: how we are actually wet-nursing, supporting, and educating at the taxpayers' expense active, militant, avowed Communists, via our Atomic Energy Commission. I admit holding no love in my heart and very little respect in my mind for the ponderous and confused bureaucracy that has infested Washington since the spring of 1933. I admit that after the things that have been done, I consiiJered myself immune to surprise at anything further they might do. But when they put the chairman of the Commission on the witness stand and asked him the direct question, what would he'do if he found out that a man he was educating with government money was an avowed and active Communist, and he bluntly replied that he would keep on educating him at government expense-I gave up. There are no words, decent or otherwise, that could express my indignation. ***

Just shows how far v.re have drifted down the dark road. I doh't think there was ever a time f.rom L776 to 1933 when such a thing could have happened, without creating a spontaneous explosion that would have rocked the nation, and knocked the roof off the Capitol. Now, we are indignant-but we just talk.

To a national lumber convention held in Washington recently, Senator Robert A. Taft delivered an address, in which he said: "For the first time in peacetime, the President has demanded the right to fix prices; the right to fix wages; the right to allocate materials, which, in effect, is rationing; the right, if industry does not expand as he thinks it should expand, for the government to go into that business. * * x The basic issues seem to me to propose a fundamental change in our whole system of government'"

On the same program the well-respected Senator Ken. neth S. Wherry said, in part: "The financial stability of the United States of America is in question at this very hour. And the thing that gives us the most concern is the socialistic trend of our government. We hear much talk about the cold war with Russia, but right here at home, within the borders of our beloved country, some of us are engaged in a cold war for the preservation of our republican principles of government. Many are asking, 'Will socialism be our children's heritage !' My answer is that it WILL BE unless you and I and all the people who believe we have the best country on earth, get busy and do something about it. Too many of our countrymen are asleep-asleep to the dangers that confront us. They say-'It can't happen here !' Fellow Americans, IT IS HAPPENING HERE."***,,

Just to get this bad taste out of my mouth and mind, hark to this story-a true one-about Davy Crockett, who died in the Alamo. He was a congressman once, and when called upon to make his maiden speech, the courage that made him a great hero, deserted him, and this is what he said: "Mr. Speaker, I can lick airy man in this house; but right now danged if I ain't scared plumb stiff."

The 1950 annual convention of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association will be held in the magnificent new Shan-rrock Hotel, Houston, Texas, on October gth to 14th, 1950.

Appointment of John A. Hash as Assistant Advertising Manager of The Celotex Corporation rn'as annouirced today by Gates Ferguson, Advertising Manager.

Mr. Hash l-ras been a member of the Celotex Adver' tising department since 1944.

I have enjoyed reading yoor magazine very much. Particularly appreciate Jack Dionne's editorial in the May 15th issue, .rvhich expresses the sentiments oi many common everyday Americans.

Yours very truly,

D. C. WILKENS, The Western Pacific Railroad Co.. Los Angeles, Calif.

O lt goes on fqst qt low qpplicoiion cost.

O lnsures longer life.

O Gives belter ihsulqtion-better resistqnce lo heol, wqler qnd decoy.

O Guorqnlees mqny yeors of sotisfoctory service.

O Requires minimurn mqinfenqnce.

Termite proof.

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The 57th annual convention of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association was held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, Chicago, June 7th and 8th, with a very large crowd of delegates in attendance. W. B. Turner, president, of Spartansburg, South Carolina, presided at the business sessions. One of the highlights of the meeting was an address by Dean Charles E. McAllister, of Spokane, Washington, delivered at the annual banquet on June 7th. He spoke on "Who Are You?" Martin T. Wiegand, of Washington, D. C., was toastmaster.

Major addresses heard at the business sessions were: "The Relationship of Lumber Distribution and Production in Maintaining Our Domestic Economy," by H. E. Holman, chief of the Forest Products Division, Washington, D. C.; "Grass Root Thinking of the Retailer," by John D. McCarthy, of Springfield, Ill., secretary of the Illinois Lumber & Material Dealers Association; "What the Customer Expects," by C. W. Wright, sales consultant, Toronto, Canada; "Be Sure," by H. V. Simpson, of Portland, Oregon, executive vice president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association; "IJp From the Ozarks,," by J. M' Bemis, of Prescott, Ark., Ozan Lumber Company;