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Doubled salesy cul handling cosls with Insulile's Shingle-Backer Syslem

"I-rast year we soLd lOlfi more Insulite than the year before an increase of better than 180,000 feet ! At the satrte time our handling costs were sharply reduced. The principal reason was Insulite's new Shingle-Backer Systern. Today, rnost of rny custorners Lrse Bildrite sheathing and Shingle-Backer for double-coursed shingle jobs. Here's why this idea caught on fast. and how it helped cut our handling costs !"

Torn Higgiil, Manager United States Lumber and Fuel Company Battle Creek, Michigan

There raler advantager rnake relling earier. Bildrite can cut sheathing time as much as 43%.4-ft. widths elim. inate need lor corner-bracing (F.H.A. accepted). Does away with buildinq paper. Shingle-Backer cuts under-coursing time in halMroduces deep, modern shadow-lines. Both products practically eliminate waste, increase insulation value oI sidewall and are waterprooled throughout with asphalt. Both help customers build better for less.

Save ghed rpace, cut handling tirne. Slack Bildrite ouh doors. No need to worry about weather. It's waterprooled throughout with asphalt. Saves handling tirae, too. A car ol Bildrite can be unloaded in hall the time required lor wood sheathing (saves as much as $ll8 per car). Shingle-Backer saves shed space requires 4OfiIess arealhan wood uudercourse shingles. Comes securely packaged. Easier to load and unload. Speeds handling, expedites deliveries.

..GO HOME, AMERICANS !''

An American writer ,., *;"- I have much respect and in whose words I have much confidence, in reporting from abroad, sums up what numerous other writers and travelers have been telling us through the press for a long time now. He says no matter where you go in Europe you hear just one loud chorus that says: "Go home, Americans !" And adds it up this way: "Everybody says go home!" *** rt's all too true, as "tatJa ; ; wo.ds of a popular song -"A dollar ain't a dollar any more," but they're the only kind we've got, so why not hSng onto them? Guess I'm sorta narrow-minded on the subject, but I'd rather have those fifty-cent dollars buving good things here at home than have them buying ill-will abroad.

According to the best figures I have read we have spent a total of about EIGHTY-SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS since 1941 for so-called "foreign aid," and what have we earned by it? Not just the ill-will but the outright hatred of the people on the receiving end of the money troughs, according to the man I have just quoted. They DO hate us, he says. What a testimonial to our clumsiness !

It would require . boor.inJ"iie of the biggest dictionary to try and figure why this is. The fact simply is that, in the words of Jimmy Durante, "Those are the conditions that prevail," and it might not be too impolite to inquire what we are going to do about it? It seems to this country boy that the simple way to balance our budget, cut our taxes. and get back some of our self-respect would be simply to accept in full the invitation of those European folks, and just "go home." We've got a nice country over here ! Why not stay in it?

All men admit ttr"t c.JrgJ J".r,i"g,on was an incomparab-ie patriot, a heaven-sent leader, the greatest "father" any country ever had. But that isn't the half of it ! What a prophet he has turned out to be! How apparently straight from heaven itself were his warnings to his countrymen, '.-;hile he was fashioning this nation and this government. He saidt * * *

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influences (I conjure you to believe me, fellow Americans), the jealousy of a f;ee people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign infuence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."

What an uproarious "I told you so" he would be in position to utter, were he to return here today and look the situation over. Wonder what his calm judgment would think of a nation that spent those countless billions abroad, only to be met with the snarling invitation-"Go home, Americans?" ***

Yes sir, George was not only first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, but he was likewise first in the list of American prophets. The trouble is, even with the situation today as obvious as it is, we seem not ready even yet to accept his warning about danger abroad. The handwriting on the wall says "Go home, Americans," but we still seem to think it is a misprint; a typographical error. What saith the Good Book? "There is none so blind as those who will not see." ***

We have not only the words of Washington the Great, but likewise those of that other titan of Americanism, Thomas Jefferson, warning us to stay away from foreign entanglements; telling us in words of simple meaning that dragons lurk at the base of all foreign political embroilments; telling us to call the dog whenever false prophets appear advising us to leave these shores and spread out all over the wide world * * *

And do you know something, Junior? I believe that their words and wise warnings are just as practical today, and apply just as directly to American affairs as they ever did; and that Providence has supplied us in this generation with no men whose wisdom or foresight should by the farthest stretch of the imagination, be compared with theirs, or whose advice should receive even the remotest consideration when it opposes theirs.

No doubt some wise .tlu ,".1 men favo. the mess we have made abroad in recent years, and that dark and devious thing they call the United Nations. But, as the old saying goes, the wise who do so are not good, and the good who do so are not wise. ***

And the arguments that are offered by the One-Worlders, the foreign-aiders, the United Nations excusers, sometimes make you wonder if much of this nation hasn't declined into intellectual dotage and confluent confusion of thought. For instance, they S!ly-'r5o nation can go it alone."' Get it? "No nation can go it alone." And al1 the while we have fearfully before us every minute of the day and waking us from our sleep at night, the ever-present thought of a nation that IS going it alone; a nation by the name of Soviet Russia; which is not only going it alone, but keeps the pants scared plumb off of all the nations that are going it together!

Irrcd l{olmes (in forcfront alongside log) peers hopefulll at this whoppcr. "For fO lears I'r'c becn scarching for a perfect Reclu,ood log" hc is saying, "and this looked like If'." ()f course there's no such thing as a perfect log. rJ(e do get a gencrous sharc of these big fellows and the one shown here, going uP the log chain, is a beautt. Produced a lot of fine, soft grain lumber. such as wc pridcfulll narket under the H-E trade rnark. In fact this one rated such attention as to be q'orthv of a picture at the scene of our sales conference. Fine, big logs like these help maintain the supph' of H-E qualitl' Redwood. To be sure of the verv best, especiallf in the clear grades of drr' Red*,ood. specifv H-E Certified Drr'.

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"No nation can go it alone !" Russia goes it alone, saves her men, her money, her strength, and dexterously forces all the rest of the nations who go it together to waste those precious,possessions trying to out-think and out-figure and out-prepare that one nation that goes it alone. Russia stays at home as snug as the proverbial bug in the time-mentioned rug, and moves the markers around on the world's chess board. She tells the rest of the world-"figh1 hslg""go therg"-"worry about this"-"try to guess where we start trouble next"-and the free world knows no moment of rest from anxiety. Only the nation that goes it alone, seems to coast along.

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What a world of unholy glee that devilish nation which goes it alone and gets along so well, must be having the last few years.

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Imagine if you can the vast enjoyment she must be having in her inner councils, at the present truce situation. As this is being typed she has maneuvered the situation so that we are faced with the horrid possibility of being virtually forced to sit down at the council table with Red China; her hands dripping red with the blood of American boys. In order to save the lives of American fyers who are alleged to have landed beyond the Yalu, China demands that in some fashion we recognize her. What comes of that is yet to be determined. ***

But always, for years past, that brutish Russian government that goes it alone, keeps the free nations in general, and the United States in particular, in hot water; bloody, damnable hot water.

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The text of this little sermon is easily typed. Let's "go home, Americans !" And then, for a second helping, let's stay home, and keep our treasure for those who earn it and who deserve it, and keep our boys alive.

And let's do as *""n;r;t lra.r.a at Valley Forge, when he said: "Let none but Americans be on guard tonight."

I can't close this ,rr-o.l *,r"", relating a conversation I recently overheard which seems to me to be of championship caliber. f sat at dinner one night and got to listening to the conversation of six men at the next table. They were talking politics, and doing a smart job of it, so that I frankly eavesdropped, and was well repaid for listening when one of them said: "What do you think of this Adlai Stevenson, anyway?" And another replied: "You mean the Joe F'risco of the Democratic party?"

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Northern Colifornlc ond Oregon

Big 8 Building Months For 5o. Col.

The first eight months of 1953 were building recordbreakers in Southern California. Sixty-eight localities in this area issued $915,070 worth of building permits in the first two-thirds of the year, which exceeded the first eight months of last year by $173,362,701 for the same localities.

For the month of August their totals were $118,517,558, more than twenty millions above the same month last year.

In those same first eight months of the year the City of Los Angeles recorded a total of. 42,525 permits with a valuation of $309,437,714, a gain of 1605 permits valued at $102,611,567 over last year.

The unincorporated area of Los Angeles County also registered large building gains for the first eight months of the year, with a total ol $203,770,640 over $157,085.015 for last year. accounted for the most in-

Home building, as creases.

Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Instqll Officers

The Hoo-Hoo-Ettes Club No. l, Los Angeles, met at the Rodger Young Auditorium the evening of September 14. There was a good attendance and the main order of business was the installation of officers.

The ne'iv offrcers are: Bessie Stewart, C. P. Henry & Co., president; Violet Neal, Earl F. Wood Wholesale Lumber, first vice president; Helen Behriner, U. S. Plywood Corp., second vice president; Laura Turk, Hammond Lumber

Company, third vice president; Gwendolyn Ramsey, E. J. Stanton & Son, secretary, and Marguerite McWhorter, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., treasurer.

Sunday Washington, Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., is chairman of the Membership Committee for the coming year; Lynn Martin, The Phipps Co., was named chairman of the Initiation Committee, and Ella Shelton, D. C. Essley & Son, is chairman of the Publicity Committee.

Ann Murray, W. E. Cooper Wholesale Lumber Co., organizational chairman, reported that Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club No. 2 has been organized at Eugene, Ore. Letitia Derus entertained with songs atid played her olt'n ukelele accompaniment.

Retiring president, Evelyn Fryrear, Hammond Lumber Company, was presented with a beautiful necklace and earring set,

The next meeting will be held October 12, the place to be decided later.

Max R. Barnette, Southern California. Sales Manager for Hollo'lv Tree Redwood Company, made a fast roundtrip from Long Beach to the company's head office at Ukiah last month, in the new company-owned Cessna 195 plane recently purchased by William M. Mores, president of the concern. Less than five hours' flying time was required to make the round trip in the S-passenger job which will expedite travel of company executives throughout the west. The plane has a cruising speed of 165 mrles per hour and saved two full business days for Max Barnette, over other methods of travel, he said.

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