SHAKES ARE WIDER BY FAR fhe Wise builder knows thclt wider shclkes cost less to cpply

It's important to lumber dealers that the average width of the cedar shakes in a carton is a mighty essential factor to their Builder customers. When an applicator drives two nails in each shake*, it just naturally takes fewer nails, fewer hammer strokes, less time. when he uses shakes that have a generous average width. He covers more wall area with less efiort, saves labor time and money , gets a better-looking wall for the money. You get a better satisffed customer, more repeat sales when you stock Fitite Shakes.

We take the time, the trouble, and spend the money to screen out the narrow, hard-to-use shingles before theA eoer get to the Fitite Shake machircs. How do we use the narrow stock? Sure, we use it to supply you with colorful sample fans, so you get a double benefft from our policy of giving the builder the extra value of wider shakes. Sound sensible? You try 'em. Compare Fitites for width, for color, for customer satisfaction. You'll be glad you did.

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"I do solemnly bind myself in the sight of God, that when I shall be called to give my voice touching any such matters of this state in which freemen are to deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in my own conscience shall best conduce and tend to the public weal of the body, without respect of person ol tTor*ot any man."

According to the llouston Post the above stanza was the printed creed of Stephen Daye, an early American settler who established the first printing plant in the American colonies in 1639, more than three hundred years ago. He call'ed it-"Oath of a free man."

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In the article accompanying the above quotation, the Post remarks that the faith, and patience, and staying power of the American people are now on trial', and that in the long pull they may count more than guns or jets. Such sentiment appears to be growing.

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Heard a famous radio commentator discussing our war effbrt, and all the weapons of war that we are creating at present, and then he remarked that perhaps we should be building a mighty spiritual force, and that if we did, we might not even need the material weapons.

Not out of line with the thought expressed in this space two weeks ago that the good people of the world get together in their thinking and create a mighty spiritual force by holding tight and continuously to the belief that right is stronger than wrong, that courage is better than fear, that good is bound to overcome evil in the long run, and that it is possible to make such thinking an actual working force that might save the world*in this age of doubt.

Abraham Lincoln once said, "We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; vye have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched, and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. fntoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us. ft behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."

Well remembered is the story about Lincoln that has been printed and quoted countless times. Someone asked him-"Is not God on our side?" And Lincoln replied, "The important thing is to know whether we are on God's side." This has always been a great text to direct human thinking. Plenty of people are of the calm opinion that if we are on God's side, and know it and act and talk it, that in itself will form a mighty power for good, stronger than any weapon of war. Washington was undoubtedl'y a man who held calmly to that opinion. This, of course, is the direct opposite of the opinion expressed by Napoleon, (some historians credit it to other European history-makers) that God seemed always to be on the side that had the heaviest cannon, or the most battalions. That, also, is the "might makes right" type of philosophy.

But the little old lady who was quoted here two weeks ago, believed firm$ that the concentrated power of good thinking by good people throughout the world, might easily create something so powerful that the evils of the Kremlin would in time become helpless by comparison. Certainly it looks like something bigger, and better, and finer than the power of fear and force and guns, is needed in the world today if the world is to be preserved. Washington believed that he needed tbat sort of help to meet the emergencies that beset his path, and it could be said of that great man that "he did not doubt in his heart" that right was on his side, and that therefore his cause must prevail. We could use a lot of the George Washington type of thinking to walk rvith us today.

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Tuned in on a radio news broadcast of national scope the other evening, and heard a news broadcaster out of San Francisco give the lumber and timber industry some wonderful free publicity. He said he had just finished a trip through the forested areas of northeastern California, and he told of the wonderful things that he saw being done everywhere he went in the regrowing of the forests of that great territory. He said that the trees now being cut are being large$r replaced by the intelligent efforts of man to preserve forests for the future. He was very enthusiastic, and told of various methods he saw being used to insure forests to replace the trees now being cut. His visits were to the pine and fir areas of California. His report gave the timber owners and growers wonderful credit for their practical and scientific efforts to reforest the land they are cuttirrg.

The broadcaster showed very plainly that he was not only greatly impressed and pleased by what he saw, but likewise much surprised. To even the well-informed l'ayman, the new consciousness of the lumber and timber industry toward future forests, generally brings definite surprise. He told of seeing land being cut over for the second time, and cut in such fashion that other forests will come along indefinitely on that same land. He said that the timber folks are not making timber grow, but rather are intelligently helping it to grow, by assisting nature in highly intelligent fashion. Such national publicity on this subject is certainly pleasing and useful publicity for the lumber and timber industry.

Strange how systematic and intelligent tree growing impresses people not closely in touch with the industry. All people like trees, and for generations all they read or heard about with regard to commercial forests, was tree cutting. And now that tree growing plhys fully as large a part in the business of the lumber and timbermen as tree cutting, the fact always attracts much attention. Therefore national broadcasts like the one referred to here, telling the public things about tree growing that very small segments of the public ever knew before, is great stuff, and wonderful for the industry.

No Chcrnge in Reql Estcte Credit Rules

Washington, June 30-No change will be made in real estate credit controls fixing minimum cash down payments on houses, the two Federal agencies administering the controls announced today.

The Federal Reserve Board and the Housing and Home Financing Agency, administering the controls, issued a joint statement to the effect that complex machinery looking to the relaxation of Regulation X, which governs real estate credit, will begin to take effect tomorrow. Since it will require at least five months to complete the procedure set up in the new act, it appeared certain that there will be no relaxation dnder it until Dec. 1.

Ted Back left June 20 with his wife on a trvo rveeks' va- cation trip to visit relatives in Wichita, Kansas. They l.raveled by automobile, and will visit the Grand Canyon and other National Parks on the way home. Ted is manager of the Back Panel Company, Los Angeles.

H. Park Arnold, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale, was elected a trustee of Kiwanis International at the annual convention held at Seattle. Wash.. on Tune 15-19.

Henry M. McCarthy, formerly with Roddis California Inc., is now with Neiman-Reed Lumber Co., Van Nuys, calling on the industrial trade. John Frederick and Bob Neiman will continue to call on this trade also.

Bob Harris, Lounsberry & Harris, Los Angeles, turned from a trip to the Pacific Northwest. has re-

Today's market shou,s an increasing public feeling ovcr high costs and the shrinking power of dollars. Builders and buyers are price and value conscious to an exrren-re degree. They are keenly alert to cclmPetitive advantages-products that give more, do more and save costly labor time. That's r.r,hy it pays these days to push quality Rcdx'ood. Good, sound H-E Redrn'ood is a sr.rper quality building product created by Nature. It affords your customer the time saving benefits of work-ability, in cutting, shaping, litting, nailing, gluing, finishing. Selected quality Redwood is unbeatable for scores of uses. Its warmth of natural color is an added advantage u'ith limitless possibilities. To be sure of dry Redr'ood, order H-E Certifed Kilr Dried.

Oar trade c/?.tracter, the H-E trIan, personifes the Holmes Ettrekt idea ot' teanwork in actiott-teantwork witb our H-E dealers, otrr sa/es represcntttit;es, nti/l tuorkert and logging crews.