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Lumber shipments of the 494 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 11.3 per cent belorv production for the week ended June 23, 1951. In the same week new orders of these mills were 20.4 per cent belo'iv produ'ction. Unfilled orders of the reporting mills amounted to 51 per cent of stocks. For the reporting softrvood mills, unfilled orders u'ere equivalent to 25 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were ecluivalent to 46 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identicai mills were 4.6 per cent above production; orclers were 0.1 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding l'eek of 19351939, production of reporting mills was 76.7 per cent above; shipments rvere 6'6.3 per cent above; orders were 49.2 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding u'eek in 1950, production of reporting mills r.r'as 2.5 per cent belot'; shipments were 12.9 per cent belor,"; and nerv orders were 26J per cent below.

The \\/estern I'ine Associaticin for the n'eek ended June 23, 105 mills reporting, gave orders as 69,459,0@ feet, shipments 69,303,000 feet, and production 78,875,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 210.103.000 feet.

M. ADAMS Aecistqnt Mcncgcr

May, 1951, 16 companies reporting, gave orders received as 40,309,000 feet, shipments 54,072,Un feet, and produc- 'tion 58,178,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the month totaled 56.123.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the tveek ended June 23, 87 units (111 mills) reporting, gave orders as 12,658,000 feet, shipments 13,125,000 feet, and production 14,410,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the u,eek totaled 41,58.1,0@ feet.

The \\rest Coast Lumbermen's Association

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Nctional for the week

NO.7 OF A SERIES

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Colifornio Builders SuPPIY

Bock Ponel ComPonY

OAKTAND

Kenneth Shipp ElectedPresident Of National Plywood Distributors Association

Kenneth J. Shipp, president of California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, was elected president of the National Plyu'ood Distributors Association at the Association's 9th annual convention, helcl at Sun Valley Lodge, Sun Valley, Idaho, June 10, ll, 12,13. Emory I\[oore, Fiddes Moore & Co., Chicago, was elected vice president.

John P. Ashton, Ashton Wholesale Service, Des Moines, Iorva, was elected president of the National Building Material Dealers Association, whose convention rvas held at, the same time, and Art E. Lundgren, Lundgren Tacoma, Washington, \vas chosen

B. E. Babbitt of Chicago continues as managing director of both associations, with offices at 20 North Wacker Drive. Chicago 6.

The speakers included former president William \\:. Logan, Sr.; B. V. Hancock, president, Douglas Fir plr,_ wood Association; Dean O. Bowman, Assistant Adminis_ trator, National Production Auth'ority; Melvin H. Baker. president, National Gypsum Company; Norman O. Cruver. price executive, Office of Price Administration: O. Harrv Schrader, managing director, Douglas Fir plywood A;_ sociation.

The entertainment included a day morning, and a barbecue at evening. A fine program for the capable committee.

The attendance ltras of the country. Those the following: golf tournament on SunTrail Creek Lodge in the ladies u-as arranged by a a representative one from, all parts from the Pacific Coast states were l. Wg Back, Back Panel Company Los Angeles, Calif.

J. \. Adalns, Puget Sound Plyu,ood, Inc. .Tacoma, Wash. Jackson Beaman, Southern Oregon plvn.oods fnc. . Grants pass. Ore.

Lat Caldin, Jr.. California Buitders'supply Co. l..Oakland l)avid Carstairs, Simpson Logging Co. .-. Shelton, Wash.

{oh.n 5 Corliss, Tacoma pine"Ftyivood .Tacoma, Wash.

Jack Davidson, Davidson plywood Sales Los Angeles

Perry A._Dame, Vancoun.. ply*ood Co. Vancourrer, \A7ash.

Charles M. Duecy. Menasha plywood ytb _Dobbs, P. O. Box 107 Stevensor,, O.".

__-L9.P. North Bend, Ore.

P. D, -EgSl West Coast Plywood .Aberdeen, fuash.

Harold C. Ellicott, M. and M. Urood Working Co. .. ...Fortland, Ore.

D. C. Fssley,_Vancouver Plywood Co. ..... .Los Angeles l. C. Hil! \1v Hitt Lumber Co. .... .Los Angeles

R. G. Extra, Evans Products Co. . . Coos Bav."Ore.

H. B. Gar:-ison, Evans Products Co. ......Coos Bav. Ore.

Joseph Goldston, Olympic Veneer Co. ......C.estrari, Ore.

.lohn I Gregor, Davis Plyn'ood Corp. ....Olympia,lVash.

Beverly Hancock, Douglas Fir Plywood Association .Tacoma, Wash.

Robert L. Heustis, U. S. Plyu'ood Corp. ....Seattle, Wash.

Leonard E. Hall, Lumber Products Co. ....portland,-Ore.

Russell ],\r. fones, Western Veneer Co. Eugene, Ore.

{ar9!d !. Jotre., Western Veneer Co. Eu{ene, Ore.

Fred L. fohnson. Columbia Plvrvood Co. ...Seatlle, Wash.

Robert N. Kelly. M and M \\rood Working Co., ... portland,Ore.

Leslie O. Pou'ell, San Jose Plyrn'ood Co. ....San Jose, Calif.

Renjamin .T. Levinsin ...Seatile, Wash.

A. E. Lundgren, Lundgren Dealers Supply Co. ...Seattle. Wash.

Winston McCallum, Douglas Fir Plywood Association ..Tacoma, Wash.

H. E.. Manning, Pa,cific Veneer & Plywood

,Corp. .....Bellingham, Wash.

Gene Man', Aberdeen Plywood Corp. .. .Abeideen, Wash.

V. A. Nyman, Aberdeen Ply.ivood Corp. .Aberdeen, Wash.

Paul A. Olson, Tacoma Pine Plywood Co. .Tacoma, Wash.

J._A. Overgard, Western Veneer Co. Eugene, Ore.

Chester G. Patton, Oregon-Washington

Plyrvood .....Garibaldi, Ore.

N. S. Perkins, Douglas Fir Plywood Association ..Tacoma, Wash.

A. G. Peterson, Buffelen Mfg. Co. .Tacoma, :W,ash.

Francis M. Radditz, Jr., \\ranke Panel Co. ..portland, Ore.

$l"l 4. lhively, E. J. Stanton & Son ..Los Angeles

D. C. Sallel-. Wheeler Osgood Co. ... .. .. .Tacoma, Wash. (Continued on Page 12)

As the late Robert Dollar lay dying, in 1932, he called his three sons to him and showed them the Stars and Stripes unfurled, and under it the Dollar Flag. He read to them from the Bible, then pointed to the flags and said: ,,ye'll keep them both flyin', lads.',

I am writing this piece on the Fourth of Juty. And for. two days I have been reading dozens of my lavorite patri_ otic selections, from a variety of my favorite books and collections. Wish I had space to reprint a bunch of them. If there is any one thing we need, that our minds cry for in these days when sordid politics seem to reign supreme, it is to soak our souls in patriotic words of men who thrill and stimulate us.

From my scrapbook let me quote a short paragraph fr,om the thoughts of Woodrow Wilson; one thai at*ays strikes home to me. Wilson said: ..you do not need Wishington. There is genius enough in this country to master the enterprise of the world. When I hear Americans begging to be -assisted by the Governmen! I wonder wtrere*Ifre| were born? f wonder how long they have breathed thl air of America? I wonder where their papers of spiritual naturalization are?',

Thomas Jefferson once said with great emphasis: ,,I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philoso_ ph5 in politics, or in anything else, where I -." caiable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the lasi degre_ dation of a free and moral agent. IF. I COULD NOT -GO TO HEAVEN BUT WITH A PARTY I WOULD NOT GO THERE AT ALL."

Wonder what Jefferson would say could he be here on this Fourth of July? Matters of inestimable importance are being debated; matters so grave that the lives of mil_ lions of young men may depend on the right judgments being arrived at; the very fate of civilization, of all that we hold dear may be hanging in the balance. And what happens after the trial has been made and the evidence of-such yi-ta,l character presented? Just one thing-one fearful, frightening thing. They take a vote, and the votes on which eternity itself may depend are cast strictly on the party line. Somewhere there must be the weighty factor of -right and wtong, of justice or injustice in such matters. But no ! Vote her straight ! Nothing matters but to stick to the party line ! Doesn't that fact frighten you, you lovers of America?

Can you imagine the immortal Washington voting nothing but some political party lirie? Can you imagin. f_ir,- coln settling the fate of the world in such fashion? Can you possibly believe that any of these men would have given even a thought to the matter of politics when pass_ ing judgment on vital matters of patriotism and Americanism? Brann the fconoclast said this of Washington: ,,He belongs to no section, to no p,arty. He was truly an American, pre-eminently a patriot. The nobility of his character was his very owri i the dazzling splendor of his undying fame is the brightest jewel in Columbia's crown of giory, for it was born of a dauntless valor and nurtured wiih the priceless blood of a people whom kings could not con_ quer, nor sophists deceive., *

On this anniversary of the day when the Declaration of Independence c:une into existence, it might be well to wonder what would have happened had those 56 patriotic and fearless men who signed it been given to the same type of thinking that prevails in Washington today? There was nothing about those signatures to indicate the political beliefs of the signers, as there would be with absollte certainty if we were doing it today. Those men did not vote the party line. If they had, there never would have been any United States of America !

They were very radical, those fifty-six signers, and what they were doing on that Fourth of July was world-shaking. So being men of wisdom as well as logic, they started in by giving their reason for what they were doing. In the introductory paragraph of the Declaration they said that "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." They were starting a rebellion, so they wanted the world and posterity to know how come.

Then, as all of us know but oftentimes some of us_like myself-forget, the Declaration laid down four truths held to be self-evident. They are: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty. and the pur_ suit of happiness; that governments derive their just pow_ ers from the consent of the governed; and last, that an oppressed people have the right of revolution. Some of the genius that animated Lincoln when he wrote his Gettys_ burg Address must have permeated the minds of the writers of those terse and trem*endous charges.

The third part of the Declaration makes up more than half of the entire document, and enumerates lg charges, "acts of oppression," aimed at the British King, each charge