Appointed Southwestern Representative Quality Lumber Will Asain Be Available

Harold K. Wilson, registered architect of Hoquiam, Wash., and long-time advocate of construction with plywood, has been named southwestern representative for Douglas Fir Plywood Association and has established his office in the Chamb.er of Commerce Building at Los Angeles.

He succeeds Joseph Weston, who resigned after seven years employment with the industry trade association to manage The Warfield Co. a building development company which will construct houses designated as designed by Joseph Weston. The firm plans to operate throughout southern California with each house of special design for its individual location.

Mr. Wilson, who attended University of Washington school of architecture and is a,licensed architect in the state, has had wide experience with the panel material both as a practicing architect and as a designer of many types of plywood buildings and marine craft developed by a large plywood manufacturer.

As early as 1937, he incorporated the use of thick ply'r,r'ood panels as gusset plates and other structural members in light commercial buildings. During the war, he has desigired and supervised construction of prefabricated barges for the Bureau of Ships and assisted in the design and supervised construction of folding plywoocl assault boats and foot bridges.

His experience includes specification of plywood both for interior and exterior walls of new and remodeled homes of all sizes and types, including prefabricated structures. In addition, he has acted as consultant on the use of plywood in commercial and pleasure boats.

There is welcome assurance to farm builders regarding future lumber supplies in a statement recently released by Weyerhaeuser Sales Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

"As soon as war needs are satisfied, there will be plenty of quality lumber available for civilian consumption. The present scarcity of lumber for civilian needs is due almost entirely to the fact that war needs continue to absorb practically every foot that is manufactured.

"When the needs of our armed forces are satisfied, lumber can again flow freely into civilian markets. There should be no lag in this flow for there are no reconversion problems in the lumber industry. The millions of board feet now being produced daily can simply be channelled to civilian needs.

"The lumber quality will be equal to the best prervar quality, which was the most accurate and carefully finished lumber ever offered the American farmer. Accelerated methods of drying and new manufacturing procesbes assure quality lumber for all farm construction. Forest reserves are large. And modern lumbering practices are gradually putting our timber .operations on a sustained yield basis where the annual growth of neu'timber is approaching the harvest."

Sells Yard

G. H. Johnson has sold his lumber yard at Redlands, which he established thirteen years ago, to Carroll Crane, who has been connected with the business for over ten years.

Mr. Johnson was in the lumber business for forty-four years, twenty years at Redlands. He was with the Bowman-Johnson Lumber Co. first, and went to Redlands in 1925 lrom Fresno. He intends to take a rest, and then rvill make his future olans.

Mr. Weston, a leading small homes architect and chiei architect of a division of the federal Resettlement Administration before joining the plywood association, has contributed much toward the widespread acceptance of the panels as a building material. California now is recognized as the greatest per capita user of plywood both in peace and war.

Douglas Fir Plywood Association has two other field representatives, one at Chicago and one at Washington, D. C.

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"What General Weygand called 'The Battle of France' is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to bbgin. Upon this battle depends the burvival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned upon us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island, or lose the war. If,,we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister and perhaps mpre protracted by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British empire and its commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, THIS \VAS THEIR FINEST HOUR."

(Churchill.) ***

Folks, those of you whose eyes have just read and whose minds have just absorbed the above paragraph, write this down in your Book of Life: here is one of the most sublime utterances that ever fell from the lips of any human being in history. Before you read it over again, get THIS thought in your head: the speech was made immediately after the nameless horror of Dunkirk. It was delivered as a rallying cry to the British people and a defiance to the Hun at the most tragic time England has ever known, or can ever know. When Churchill uttered those words he knew that the British fighters gathered alonq the Eastern shores and the "White Cliffs of Dover," did not have sufficient amrnunition to last them more than TWENTY MINUTES if the Crermans came. Yet knowing these dreadful things and with head unbowed, Churchill called this mighty declaration of Churchill's. It's hard to believe, is it not, that the man who uttered those inspired words and whose leadership undoubtedly saved Britain during the dark years that have just ended, is having to fight for his political life right at this time? If they knock off Churchill, those who love to roll the fumous charge of "Perfidious Albion" over their tongues will certainly have something to talk about. And if the reds and pinks take over the British government at this time, we'd better just hand the Old World to the Socialists and Communists and build our Democratic defenses here at home on the double.

Everywhere I turn, and in much of the mail I receiVe, I get the question: 'What do you think of Truman?" For Truman is very quietly and unobtrusively but very definitely nevertheless a very much discussed man nowadays. The answer is easy. I think rnighty well of Truman. I think he is a plain, simple, ordinary, straightforward, everyday American; and there is an overwhelming demand throughout this country for such a man. We greatly needed a Truman. *** on the soul of the world to witness the courage and de- A musician himself, Truman must have been familiar fiance of Britain. When the listing is made of the most with that recently popular song entitled-"There Will Be amazing utterances that ever fell from human lips since Some Changes Made." Without fanfare or spotlight he tirne began, you will find the above paragraph at the very has been changing the face of the Government at Washtop of the heap. Churchill is one of the four or five great- ington so that in just a few weeks tirne it is already a comest orators in human history; and the above speech, all , p1.1. turnover; a great job of face lifting. I particularly

After having had grand opera for so long a time, this nation appreciates a singer of more homelike and simple songs. I think Truman is that sort of a songbird. "By their works ye shall know the.m" saith the Scripture. A man must indeed be hard to please who does not approve of the works in general that Truman has done since he so suddenly was catapulted by Fate into his high office. When he suddenly found himself in so difficult and trying a position, some good and benevolent spirit must have whispered into his ear these wise words: "BE NATURAL." Because that is exactly what he has done. It was a perfect prescription. It is working marvelously.

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No speech ever appearing in this column got so enthusiastic a response as Patton's speech to his soldiers before they invaded Germany, which ran.last issue. So I thought that, while we were on the subject of great speeches, it would be a perfect time to give you for your scrapbooks like some of his selections for high office. Clinton Anderson, of New Mexicoi or Secretary of Agriculture, was an inspirational selection. A great guy in many ways. He used to be International President of Rotary, and in that way endeared himself to an army of thinking people all over the country. IIe's a guy you can go places with.

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