How Lrumber Lrooks

Lumber shipments of 400 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, were 3.3 per cent below production for the week ended J:uJry 24, 1948. In the same week new orders of these mills were 9.5 per cent below production. Unfilled order files of the reporting mills amount to 58 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood mills unfilled orders are equivalent to 29 days' production at the current rate, and gross stocks are equivalent to 48 days' production.

For the year-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 4.1 per cent above production; orders were 4.9 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 193539, production of reporting mills was 53.7 per cent above; shipments were 56.5 per aent above; orders were 42.3 per cent above. Compared to the corresponding week in 1947, production of reporting mills was 2.4 per cent below; shipments were 10.4 per cent above, and new orders were 15.3 per cent below.

The Western Pine Association for the week ended July 24, I00 mills reporting, gave orders as 70,045,000 board feet, shipments 72,970,000 feet, and production 77,837,NO feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 225,010.000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended July 24, 83 units (104 mills) reporting, gave orders as 18,507,000 board feet, shipments 17,897,00O feet, and production 17,966,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end oT the week totaled 65,688,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended July 17, 161 mills reporting, gave orders as 100,966,0n board feet, shipments 80,694,000 feet, and production 83,121,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the week totaled 528,615,000 feet.

For the week ended July 24, 162 mills reporting, gave orders as 96,206,000 board feet, shipments 100,815,000 feet, and production 101,524,000 feet. Unfilled orders of the week totaled 521.530.000 feet. at the end

The California Redwood Association reports the following data for the month.of June, 1948, compiled from the reports of ten companies: Production, Redwood, 33,407,000 board feet, whitewoods, 7,446,m0 board feet; Shipments, Redwood, 30,231,000 feet, whitewoods, 7,329,000 feet; orders received, Redwood, 25,4I6,N0 f.eet, whitewoods, 6,382,000 feet; orders on hand June 30, Redwood, 42,122,N0 feet, whitewoods, 5,193,000 feet; stocks on hand, June 30, Redwood, 120,030,000 feet, whitewoods, 8,444,000 feet.

For the year to date: Production, Redwood, I87,364,M board feet, whitewoods, 39,361,000 board feet; shipments, Redwood, 170,046,ffi0 feet, whitewoods, 33,260,000 feet; orders received, Redwood, 166,295,ffi0 feet, whitewoods, 33,878,000 feet; orders on hand June 30, Redwood, 42,122,000 feet, whitewoods, 5,193,000 feet; stocks on hand June 30, Redwood, 120,030,000 feet, whitewoods, 8,444,000 feet.

Congrctulctions

Mr. and Mrs. John Eells are the happy parents of a baby boy, Robert Graham, born at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, on August 5. John is the popular manager of Roddis California, Inc. at Los Angeles.

The Best For The Lecst

Ifere's my check for another year's enjoyable reading of The California Lumber Merchant. It always was and still is the BEST for the LEAST. Yours for continued success.

Forrest W. Wilson Hidden Valley Ranch

Joshua Tree, Calif.

We all make mistat.r. So *i hold elections to try and correct them. Then, of course, we make more mistakes, and have to hold more elections.

Now that the national political conventions are history, it may once again be remarked that no speaker hit any high lights in the way of political oratory. Sad, is it not, to refect that the days of real oratory in America, are gone? The microphone did it. Orators no longer exist, pouring out their inspired thoughts through unrehearsed lips. Every speaker has a mike. Every speaker has a manuscript. So every speaker is just a reader, a declaimer at best. Too bad. ft was one of the grandest of the human arts'

All authorities agree that the greatest nominatinq speech in American history was delivered by Col. R. G. fngersoll on June 15th, 1876, in nominating James G. Blaine for President at the Republican national convention. He said: "Like an armed warrier, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor." Ingersoll had no "mike" to amplify his speech. He needed none.*Blaine got beat.

It often happens that way. The greatest orations are not always successful. Daniel Webster did his grandest job of oratory when he pleaded in court to break the will of Stephen Girard, who had endowed Girard College, but provided that no clergyman should ever set foot inside its doors. Webster surpassed himself, pierced the skies with his logic and his oratory. But he lost the case. No clergyman has ever entered Girard College-one of the greatest educational institutions .l .i*1_

Which reminds me of a true story that made the world laugh at the time. Fforace Greeley went to Girard College for a visit. Greeley dressed in old fashioned style, and wore a rather ecclesiastical-looking hat. FIe was stopped at the door by the perpetual guardian of the gate. The guard thought he was a preacher, and he stepped in front of Greeley and said: "Sorry, you cannot enter." Greeley swelled up with indignation and said: "The hell I can't !" The guard stepped aside and said: "Come right in."

Just as the nominating speech of Ingersoll for Blaine tops all other nominating speeches, so does a bit of political invective uttered by John Randolph, of Virginia, top all recorded pieces of political invective. And THAT is something, for political invective is something Americans have been famous for. John Randolph, of Virginia, hated Henry Clay as few political foes have ever hated. He recognized the brilliance of his foe, yet despised him otherwise, so his remark about Clay that "like a .mackerel in the moonlight he shone and stank," still holds the championship. Political foes with vitriol in their speech have tried ever since to surpass the Randolph masterpiece; but Randolph is still the champ.***

Naturally the passions and prejudices that arise when politics boil high, are conducive to the creation of articles of condemnation, and tens of thousands of verbal barbs are loosed in every presidential campaign in this nation. The unkind remarks that were made pro and con by the Republicans and Democrats at their recent conventions were wholesale and loud, but nothing worth quoting came to my attention. Having listened to Southern campaign oratory for so many years, ordinary stuff does not impress me. Flowever I will say that bitterness swept mountain high in the writings of our better known columnisis and editors, with regard to the Henry Wallace convention. f have never read meaner things. One columnist likened Henry's press conference to a bunch of boys hazing the village idiot. And Paul Gallico, one of our very best American writers today, said that looking back at the Wallace convention he felt that he had spent four days in a cesspool. It is true that Henry seems to have earned the beating he is taking-but how does he stand it?

Outside of the bitterness that it so frequently engenders, I love political oratory. Time was when f went from place to place to listen while the political windbags waved their arms in hurled challenges that they did not mean, and uttered philosophies that they did not understand. A political speech by a master speaker-r'-zithout benefit of microphones-is one of the delights of public life. What a timeless thrill it must have been to listen to Pericles of Athens, who used no unnecessary word, and misused no word. Or to have been standit* tr *anr* "rowd when Cicero said:

"Now the great foundation of justice is faithfulness, which consists in being constantly firm to your word, and a conscientious performance of all compacts and bargains. The vice that is opposite to justice is injustice, of which there are two sorts: the first consists in the actual doing

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(Continued from Page 6) of an injury to another; the second, in tamely looking on while he is injured, and not helping and defending him though we are able; for he that injuriously falls on another, whether prompted by rage or other violent passion, does as it were, leap at the throat of his companion; and he that refuses to help him when injured, and to ward off the wrong if it lies in his por,ver, is as plainly guilty of baseness and injustice as though he had deserted his father, his friends, and his native country." As the slang phrase goes-"that's talking to him."

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Only we have nobody who speaks that sort of language in these days of ours. Take it back. Churchill can. But even Churchill uses a manuscript to speak from; although f understand he does *Of it.

I heard William Jennings Bryan repeat his famous "Cross of Gold" speech when f was a young kid, and I never forgot the way he thundered that final phrase about pressing down the crown of thorns upon the brow of labor. The most eloquent political speaker I ever listened to was the late Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey. He made all others, including Bryan, sound cheap when he got going good. I heard him when he made his most famous utterance, that went like this: "I agree with Lincoln that all the armies of Europe could not, by force, make a footprint in the Blue Ridge or drink from the waters of the Ohio. But f warn you, my countrymen, that if this nation ever dies, it will die from within, and not from without. If this nation ever dies, there witl be no resurrection morn. There will be no guardian angel to roll away the rock from our sepulchre door, there will be no Easter Morn for this Republic."

-t<** f always liked the story of the colored brother who lived on the Northern boundary of Kentucky where political strength was well divided, and Democrats and Republicans battled for honors at each election. This darky said that on election morning the Republicans offered him two dollars for his vote, and then the Democrats offered him one dollar. "FIow did you vote?" he was asked. ,,f done voted fo' de Democrats," he said. 'Dey was.less corrupt."

Then there was the political speaker addressing a large crowd, and a heckler started cutting in with the question"How do you stand on inflation?" The speaker ignored him, and kept on talking. Again came the question-,,Ilow do you stand on infation?" Again, and yet again the question was asked, and always the speaker ignored it. Finally others in the crowd took it up, and demanded to ftn6yy-"[few do you stand on infation?', Crowded to the wall, the speaker had to repJy. He said-,,Well, brothers, I did not come here to discuss infation because there are other things more important, Qut if you must know, I'm in favor of payin' her off*and lettin' her go."

And let me remind you here of one of my favorites of all political stories. A candidate for office on the Democratic ticket had publicly proclaimed that if beaten in the primary, he would withdraw from all political activity in that election. Ffe was beaten, and immediately began working openly for the Republican candidate. At a public speaking the Democrat who had defeated him dared him in public to explain his lack of faith, and his broken promises. "Did you or did you not," he demanded, "publicly declare previous to the Democratic primary that you would support even a yellow dog if he rvere the legally elected nominee of the Democratic Party?" The defeated one admittedt that he had made such a public statement. l'Then" said the speaker, "will you now explain how and why you are now actively opposing my election?" Said the other: "f DID say that I would support the legally elected nominee of the Democratic Party, even though he were ayellow dog-but LOWER THAN THAT,'PLEASE GOD, THEY'LL NEVE*R ?"lO ME!"

Long, long ago Woman's Suffrage was one of the big questions before this politically-minded nation. Should we let women vote, or should we not, was the moot question. Opinions ran riot. The famous old minstrel man, Lew Dockstader, voiced his opinion on the matter while acting as a black-face end-man in his show. "Sure, let 'em vote !" he said. "WE DON'T HAVE TO COUNT 'EM !" And I remember Senator Joe Bailey exclaiming: "All this talk about letting women vote or not letting them vote, is silly. Women don't want to vote. If they did they would have been voting long ago. Who's going to stop them when they want to?" Sounded logical at the time. And they were soon voting. * * *

Heard a prayer not long since. A grand one. Don't know the author, but it sure is timely right now. It simply said: "God give us the wisdom to change what must be changed; to accept serenely what cannot be helped; and the insight to lcrow one from the other." Swell, eh?

And then some recent cynic came up with this one: "If we have to re-make the world, ute've got plenty of mhterials to do it with; THIS oNE wAs MADE OUT OF .HAOS TOO."

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Speaking of lumber, here is one for Riplev. There is a netv wholesale lumber firm in Fresno, California, named Reid & Wright. No foolin'. R. F. (Bob) Reid, and R. J. (Bob) Wright. Reid and Wright and both named Bob. Both good guys with lots of friends. Both veteran lumbermen. Some publicity chance, eh?

Los Angeles;

L. B. Culter;

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Scrim Lum-

Scrim Heads Philippine Mahogany Association ior 16th Year

Walter G. Scrim, Scrim Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected president of the Philippine Mahogany Association for the 16th consecutive year at its annual meeting held at the RanlT Springs Hotel, Banff, Alberta, Canada, on July 16-17-18, 1948. Other officers elected \\rere : Vice President, I-Iorvard R. Black, Black & Yates, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Secretary-Treasurer, Roy Rarto, Nfahogany Importing Co., I-os Angeles; Assistant Secretary-Treasrlrer, G. P. Purchase, San Francisco.

The follorving rlirectors were elccted : \\ralter G. Scrim, Rov Barto, Flot'arcl R. Black, J. Ilavmond Peck, J. K. N{cCormick, and T. B. Bledsoe.

At the rneeting a committee \\-as appointed for the purpose of formulating an Association Code of Fair Practices in connection 'n'ith the Order of the Federal Trade Commission in dismissal of the Philippine Cases, and the desire o{ the Association to adl.rere to this ruling by taking steps tot'ard holding themselves, as well as others, in line as regards practices r,vhich might be out-of-line in this regard, particularly 'ivith respect to using the word "Philippine" r,vhen advertising and selling the product

The n.rembers also cliscussed many other matters of vital interest to the Association, as well as the industry as a rvl-role.'

This splendid location in the Canadian Rockies afforded many points of interest. A cotnmittee including Mrs. Frank J. Connolly and Mrs. Robert S. Osgood $'ere in charge of the entertainment.

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