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When, after many battles past, Both tired with blows make peace at last, What is it, after all, the people get? Why, taxes, widows, wooden legs, and debt.

-Francis Moore

Radio commentato, *.ia";";, whose powers of speech are especially fine, was unusually effective the other day when he commented on the recent visit of Hitler to the tomb of Napoleon, in Paris. Kaltenborn wondered what thoughts crossed the mind of this modern Attila; wondered if he had ever read the immortal remark that Col. R. G. fngersoll made when he, too, visited that spot, and looked down upon that sarcophagus? And Kaltenborn quoted these words of Ingersoll:

"A little while ago f ia"la *by th" grave of the old Napoleon, a magnificent tomb, fit for a dead deity almost, and gazed in the great circle at the bottom of it. In the sarcophagus of black Egyptian marble at last rest the ashes of that restless man. * * * And as I looked, I said: I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes; I would rather have lived in a hut with the vine growing over the door and the grapes growing and ripening in the autumn sun; I would rather have been that peasant, with my wife by my side and my children upon my knees twining their arms of affection about me; I would rather have been that poor French peasant and gone down at last to the eternal promiscuity of the dust, followed by those who loved me; I would a thousand times rather have been that French peasant than that imperial personative of force and murder: and so I would ten thousand thousand times."

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Many people ask many questions about this man Hitler. But the one I keep asking myself, and cannot possibly answer is-how can he sleep?

How can a man "r""n ;" "J" "ooo, him hundreds of thousands of youthful dead; hundreds of thousands of torn and maimed bodies; millions of innocent people whose tears of misery swell the very ocean tides; millions of little children doomed to unmeasured gloom through all their days; the old and the yomg, the maiden and the bride, youth and age, rich and poor, all doomed to horrors immeasurable, and all because of his maniacal ego and his blood lust that passeth understanding? How can he sleep?

And here on this side of *anJ o"""r, we hurriedly and feverishly prepare to build up a great national defense system, because of the threat of Hitler. In seven years Hitler has built this machine of war that destroyed and enslaved most of Europe in a few short weeks. In those same seven years ure Americans have wasted billions upon billions of dollars in leaf-raking, boondoggling, and various other sorts of trnintelligent relief efforts, practically all of which could have been invested in national defense efforts, and furnished the needed employment at the same time. What a different situation we would have been in had we spent our billions that way!

The lumber industry ," lnrlrruiury situated and equipped to render any possible sort of service in the defense campaign. The Government can get anything it wants in any possible guantity in the quickest sort of time, and at most reasonable cost, from the entire lumber industry. I would say that the manufacturing end of the industry is even BETTER equipped for defense service than it was when we entered the first World War.

That is true for tr," ,"l"orl ttLt ".-rnills today go further into the manu,facture of their products now than they did twenty-odd years ago, and could therefore furnish, if necessary, a great volume of completely manufactured wooden articles, that they had neither the equipment nor the ability to make in those days. A generation ago the sawmills mostly made lumber and timber. They make a lot more than that today, both in hardwoods and softwoods. The other day a Government man called on a friend of mine who makes cabinet products, and asked if he could turn out certain hardwood items in great quantity, such as tent stakes and pegs. My friend told him there were hundreds of sawmills ready and able to make such stuff quickly from their own raw materials, and were the natural people to turn it out quickly and economically. That same thing will happen with innumerable wood products. Modern planing mills and remanufacturing plants all over the country can make any sort of wood products the Government may want, and deliver them ready for use. Those are services the lumber industry could not give in the ottrer World War.

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We have to stop and cogitate a while to realize how much the lumber industry has changed in the last generation. Take seasoning. Lumber seasoning was strictly in its infancy at that time. Today it has reached the height of perfection. Twenty-odd years ago most West' ern softlVoods were being either air-dried or shipped green, especially Fir. The kiln-drying of Fir was anything but practical. Yellow Pine only kiln-dried its thin stock, and did a might5r crude job of that. The kiln-drying of hardwoods was still considered a sort of wild-eyed gamble, with no thought of exactness or precision. Definite moisture-content with uniform seasoning from surface to center was only a hope.

Today we can kiln-dry all commercial woods perfectly. If the Government wants softwoods or hardwoods dried in some exact manner, or cut, dressed, turned, or worked into sizes ready for immediate use on delivery, it can get almost anything in reason from sawmills, and get it quickly and in volume. Because the lumber manufacturing industry is an entirely difrerent business from that a generation back It is a service business today, and don't you doubt it. ***

That's technical stuff I've been talking about. When it comes to ordinary building material the lumber industry can do a great deal better job than it did in the last war. Talk about deliveries ! They'd better not start ordering dimension and boards until they are ready for them, because the stuff will arrive shortly after the purchasing agent hangs up the phone. And the possible volume is unlimited. What the Government wants, it can get, quickly, dependably, and in any possible volume. That goes for all the Western and Southern softwoods, and for Southern hardwoods.

And of course when it ";": .Jp"rr"r" and plywood, that's another industry that was definitely in its earliest infancy during the last war, that has now brought its products to a high state of perfection, and with production facilities capable of impressive volume. fn fact, I have heard rumors of tremendous panel orders already, stuff that could not have been had at any price twenty-odd years ago.

I doubt very much if there is a fundamental industry in America whose ability to serve under a defense program has improved as greatly since the last war as has wood products.