\(/alter S. Johnson Otganizes California Lumber Industry For Employee Savings Bonds Campaigns

San Francisco, June S.-Walter S. Johnson, president of the American Forest Products Corporation; is organizing over 200 major firms in the lumber and wood products industry to conduct within-company campaigns aimed at signing up as many as possible of the industry's 40,000 employees on a plan for regular saving each payday for United States Savings Bonds.

Johnson, lumber industry leader and outspoken free enterpriser, is a past president of the Western Pine Association, one of the industry's major trade organizations. He is serving as volunteer chairman to spearhead the lumbermen's efforts in support of the government's Savings Bonds program.

"It all happened in San Francisco last month," Johnson said, "when Mary Pickford, who was completing a nationwide tour to promote Savings Bond sales, asked me to take over the leadership of a campaign which rvould reach top management of California lumber firms and, through them, their many employees.

"Mary Pickford has been one of lJncle Sam's leading bond salesmen since World War I in 1918 when she stumped the country in behalf of the old Liberty Bonds. She has been behind every Treasury Bond drive since. You just don't turn down a patriotic American like'America's Sweetheart'-particularly when she asks you to do something that will help our govern- ment as much as it will help each of the employees in our California lumber firms.

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