How Lrumber Lrooks

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association reported that lumber production for the week ended September 19 totaled 256,45O,W feet, shipments aggregated 27O,797,U0 feet, and orders booked were 305,965,000 feet.

Production for the week stood at tzI per cent of the average of the corresponding week 1935-39, and shipments 131 per cent.

Seattle, Washington, September 12, 1942.---The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in August (4 weeks) was 174,173,000 board feet, or 89.8 per cent of estimated capacity. Orders averaged 197,583,000 board feet; shipments, 183,349,000. Weekly averages for July were: Production, I&,822,W board feet (83.7 per cent of the 1926-l9D average) ; orders, 22?,979,W; shipments, 193,875,000.

Eight months of. 1942, cumulative production, 5,894,573,000 board feet; 8 months t941, 5,870,221,0A0; 8 months 7940, 4,926,767 W.

Orders for 8 months ol 1942 break down as follows: rail, 5,163,028,000 board feet; domestic cargo, 682,510,000; export, 1O5,817,000 ; local, 888,928,000.

The industry's unfilled order file stood at I,144,922,W board feet at the end of August; g'ross stocks, at 571,970,m.

In August the West Coast lumber industry kept up its struggle to sustain war production. Many mills ran overtime. Log shortages, however, reduced operations of a third of the region's mills to below normal. The net box score for the month was recovery of production from July's decline nearly to the June level. War lumber requirements remain unchanged, except in stronger pressures on the industry from the increasing substitution of wood for steel. This centers in heavy construction demand for lumber in sizes and lengths which can be produced only in the Douglas fir region. A distinctive August feature was upswing in demand for timbers going into especially urgent military and naval projects. Consolidation of the business of war lumber procurement in the Corps of Engineers has had a practical and decisive'effect on war lumber buying and is greatly appreciated by the industry.

The Western Pine erro"i"tion for the week ended September 12, 81 mills reporting, gave orders as 69,424,ffi f.eet, shipments 7l,843,W feet, and production 74,503,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 383,333,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended September 19, 103 mills reporting, gave orders as 31,829,000 feet, shipments 30,675,000 feet, and production 25,331,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 159,060,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended September 12 reported orders as 115,000,000 feet, shipments L04,482,W feet, and production 107,000,000 feet. For the week ended September 19 orders were reported as 165,988,000 feet, shipments 134,908,000 feet, and production 126,717,O@ feet.

(ody the tirm names shown - above are fictiti.ous.)

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4BB NEW NAMES of Lumber Producers were reported in our TIVICE-A-WEEK Supplementol Sheet lrom April filteenth through the lirst of September of this yecrr.

Think ol it-an overqge of l0B new nctmes per month!

qre one ol the thousqnds who qre seeking supplies of Lumber ol oll kinds, it mecrrs vitcrlly importcnt informqtion on possible SOURCES OF SUPPLY. True, mqny of them will not be oble to fill your orders, but there moy be q number of smqller producers who hcrve unrestricted species ond grcdes ovoiloble.

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"When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken." (Deuteronomy, Chap. 2+, V. 5.) {<*{< rt is true, of course, .;. i";-erable religious zealots have claimed immunity from military service because of their religious beliefs; and most of these have pointed to the Commandment "Thou Shalt Not KilI" as a basis for their claim that they should not be made to fight. They would offer the plea that in this Commandment Almighty God forbade army service. **t

They tell me the above quotation from the Bible has been offered at various times in the past year as a basis for asking deferment from the draft. Some of the offers have probably been made humorously. It is one of the old Mosaic Laws, that is, one of the innumerable laws and iules laid down by Moses when he was leading the Israelites toward the promised land. In the same group Moses also prescribed the laws covering human slavery, polygamy, and other matters of that sort. They don't go nowadays, either.

It should be remembered that when Jesus Christ was asked the direct question what commandments a man should keep, and He enumerated them for His questioner, He did not say "Thou Shalt Not Kill." He said, "Thou Shalt Do No Murder." And what a difference that is ! Murder is one thing. Killing righteously in defense of God and country and civilization is something else again. For tbe exponents of murder are at large in the world today; and unless righteous men meet and kill them, this vaunted civilization of ours will surely disappear as have many previous civilizations. ***

And so millions of our young men are going forth uncomplainingly from their peaceful homes and pursuits, clad in warlike apparel and armed with warlike weapons, steadfastly disposed to use those weapons upon Jhose who have destroyed the peace of the world. These young men are th€ defenders of humanity, the angels of liberty, the nemesis of the monsters of tyranny. They fight to keep our country on the map of the world, its starry emblem in the heavens, the hope of liberty alive in the world of . men. They "shall do no murder," but they shall teach ,a fearful lesson to those who have set out to enslave the world. Their patriotism is.as shoreless as the air. ***

When men stand and die to defend their homes from the invader, regardless of who or what or where they are, their action awakens chords of fierce sympathy in the hearts of all men. Strange, isn't it? There is something definitely sublime, inspirational, about the fight the Russians are making against the hordes of the Nazi. Men who but eighteen months ago feared the effect of Communism on the world as much as they did the threat of Hitlerism, have now become enthusiastic partisans of the embattled followers of Stalin. And much of the sentiment the world now feels for the Russians is simply because they are defending their homes. The love of home is deep and ineradicable in the human heart, and he who defends his home against outrhge is engaged in a sacred calling.

Wonderful thoughts n1.,"**Jnrrently been inspired by defenders of their homes. I remember an utterance of Judge Norman G. Kittrell on that subject that has a thrill in each word. He said: "Whenever and wherever any people rise and bare their bosoms to the invader of their native land and the despoiler of their homes, their action by its inherent moral power, is lifted into a realm where no human statute has application, and no human tribunal has jurisdiction."

And Major John W. l"Jr.r*"*oressed the same idea in this magnificent fashion: "None but great causes can ever produce great events. A transient gust of passion may turn a crowd into a mob; a temporary impulse may swell a mob into an insurrection; but when a whole people stand to their guns behind their hearthstones and as one man resist aggression; when they shake a continent with their heroic endeavors and fill the world with the glory of their achievements, history can make for them no higher vindication than to point to their deeds, and say-'BEHOLD!"'***

I claim that the above two quotations betong in every patriotic scrapbook. And, speaking of inspirational words, do you recall the following excerpt from the inaugural address of President John Quincy Adams, words filled with that humility that ever marks the great man? He said: "Knowing that 'except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain,' with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit, with humble but fearless confidence, my own fate and the future destinies of my country."

Lord Nelson, most ,"-""" l"*rr"n admiral and sea hero, used to say when discussing warfare, that whenever a question arose with him as to whether to fight or not fight, he always fought. Waiting for the other lellow to make the decision of when and where to start the fight was not ttle way the great admiral liked his warfare. And another great English fighter, John Hampden, felt that same way about it. I've quoted him often before, but that sort of man will stand a lot of acquaintance. He is the fellow who said that in warfare, when you draw the sword, throw away the scabbard, because the essence of warfare is violence, and half-hearted warfare is suicide.

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We hear much about the age of soldiers. A well known authority tells some remarkable things about the ages of the men who fought in our Civil War. They are worth repeating. He says that in the Union arnny, which throughout the war totaled 2,778,304 men, over 2,000,000 were under 22 years of age; 1,500,000 were 18 and under; 800,000 were 17 and under; and 100,000 were 15 and under. That was the Union army. There are no authentic records, so I am informed by a competent authority, on the ages of the men who fought in the Confederate armies, but historians agree that they took them young and old both in their total of less than 900.000 men. A historian who saw the Confederates at Charleston reported that: "Them that wasn't bald was beardless." They were both very young, and very old.