How Lrumber l.rooks

The most important aspect of the lumber situation on the Pacific Coast is the failure of the much-advertised and heralded car shortage to materialize. There is no car shortage, ar.rd frorr every indication there will be none this summer or fall. This has entered strongly into the entire lumber market picture, and is accountable for much of the present softness in the demand for both Fir and Western Pine.

The West Coast Lumbermen's association 162 mills, for the week ending August 14th, reports as follorvs: Orders, 106,194,000; Production, I09,747,000; Shipments, 102,883,000; Unfilled orders, 487,971,0W.

For the week ending August 7th, the Western Pine

More Thcn 400 Attend Opening oI E. K. Wood OIIice Building

There was an attendance of more than 400 at, the open house held by E. K. Wood Lumber Company to celebrate the opening of their splendid new office building at 727 Kennedy Street, Oakland, on Monday evening, August t6.

Vice president John B. Wood acted as host, and he was assisted in greeting the visitors by President Warren Wood, Manager James McNab, and Assistant Manager Frank Teakle.

A description of the new building will appear in the next isSue of this paper.

Formal gpening Shastcr Plywood Inc.

Shasta Plywood Inc., announces the formal opening of their plant ten miles south of Redding, California, at tenthirty A.M. August 30th.

Icck Edgecombe With Portland Shingle

Association, 96 mills, reports as follows: Orders, 56,444, 000 ; Produ ction, 76,257,000 ; Shipments, 65,820,000.

The Southern Pine Association, 110 mills, reporting for week ending August 14th, shows: Orders, 18,158,000; Production, 17,440,00A; Shipments, 17,074,W.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, reporting for the week ending July 31st, lumber shipments ol 375 mills were 3.5 per cent below production, and orders were 12.4 per cent below production.

West Coast Lumbermen's Association, reporting for the first seven months of 1948, show production 5,052,620,000 feet, topping last year for the same period by 184 million feet; Orders for the first seven months were 5,095,122,000 feet.

New Bibliogrcphy oI Forest Mqtericl Issued

Nation-wide distribution is being given the new 1948-49 revised booklet, "School Bibliography on Forests," published by American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

Copies of the bibliography are being sent to county and city school superintendents, officials of normal schools, and teachers colleges in 48 states in order that they may secure sufficient copies of the material included for teacher use during the coming school terms.

The material listed in the booklet is prepared especially for use by teachers, group leaders and for libraries, dealing with the importance of trees in our everyday life, and as our only natural renewable resource.

The booklets, wall displays, and motion picture, described in the bibliography tell a factual and interesting story intended to create better understanding of the nature, extent and problems of our forests.

Distribution is also being made to forest industries and forest agencies throughout the 48 states. Additional free copies may be obtained from the American Forest Products Industries, fnc., 1319-18th Street N. W., Washington 6, D. C.

Cqble Address: TIPACO

The Seven Wise Men of Greece, attending a great dinner in Athens, and being asked"What is the ideal State?" replied:

Solon: "That in which an injury to the least of its citizens is an injury to all'"

Bias: "Where the law has no superior."

Thales: "Where the rich are neither too rich nor the poor too poor."

Anacharsis: "Where virtue is honored, and vice detested."

Pittacus: "Where dignities are always conferred on the good, never on the bad."

Cleobolus: "Where the citizens fear blame more than punishment."

Chilo: "Where the laws are more regarded and have more authority than the orators."

In the depression of tlsz" *t,* asked a young business man in Southern California how business was. He answered: "Well, we seem to be having a very quiet boom."

At the beginning ", air"riu lv., r*o a top sergeant drilling and instructing a squad of Texas rookies said to them: "And always be polite to soldiers from other statesthey're our allies."

A radio crooner is reported to be a guy who sings by ear, through his nose. ***

And a returned vacation motorist was heard to remark that what they need most around the average town is a good detour. **t<

. Plato once wrote that "life is happiest and most harmonious when those who rule are the last people in the world who would choose to be rulers." Old Plato didn't live in the days of our American politics, evidently, or he'd have said that backwards. Doesn't it seem to you, as it does to me, that those who demand in loudest voices to be allowed to rule, are freguently those least fitted for leadership.

IN ONE'S POWER TO MAKE THEM BELIEVE BY FORCE."

Uncle Joe Stalin follows that last way of thinking.

when the Republr"""":": ,,1 1,rrr" to nominate a candidate for the Presidency they had a wealth of able, tried, trained, and popular men to choose from. When the Democrats met their choice was cut down to one man, one whom even most Democrats were opposed to. But there was no choice-no alternates. For twelve years President Roosevelt had been busy killing off and in various ways destroying every possible Democratic candidate for President. For twelve years, to be mentioned as presidential timber, invited destruction. So, when the showdown came, there was nobody for the Democratic convention to name but the little man Tom Pendergast sent to Washington, just to show his power.

Three years after w"; ** o* ended our national budget was four billion dollars a year. Three years ifter World War Two it is FORTY BILLION DOLLARS a year-a senseless amount that any group of intelligent business men could cut deep and fast. But politicians are NOT business men at any time-particularly in an election year.

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An enormous food crop is being harvested in the United States. Does that mean lower prices for food to the consumer? Don't be silly! We are being told frankly by informed'thinkers that the huge crops will create surpluses which will in turn force the (overnment to increase the subsidy parity payments to the farmers and producers. So they will have to increase taxes to get the added money to pay the added subsidies in order that the farmers and producers may be able to hold the price of food sky-high. And the hell of it is, that isn't a joke. It's simply the way it is. We hear and read demands that prices come down, while every move of government and of labor and of business serves to shove and hold prices up. Do f know a remedy? Nix! Screwball thinking created this situation, and only the elimination of screwball leadership and management can ever hope to right matters.

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-*Jrra today the philosophy of an old timer named Machiavelli is much more popular than the above thoughts of Plato. "Mach" said: "The nature of the people is inconstant, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to hold them to that persuasion. Accordingly it is expedient to be so equipped that, when their belief gives out, ONE WILL HAVE IT

I might add that the only way to emerge from the mess we're in, is the hard way. We can't spend our way out of it as that dear, demented New Deal used to suggest a few years back. It won't be that easy. Such ideas as that are what got us into this financial and economic tailspin we are now troubled with. I said during the years of the