How Lrumber Lrooks

Portlau<I, Oregon, November 23-Octobcr \\'as the third straight month that Douglas fir sarvmills of u'estern Oregon and \\'ashington have topped the billion-foot mark in lur.nber production. Xfills cut 1.012 billion board feet for the n.ronth.

I-Iarris Smith, secretary of the \\'est Coast I-umbermen's Associ:rtion, said this l;reaks all existing records for a three ntonths' consecutive output.

Thc lumber executive also confirmecl earlier estimates that Douglas fir mills of this region \\'ere expected to set an all-time full year production record of 10.5 billion feet of lumber for 1950. This rvill top the 1929 record cut of 10.29 billion feet rvhich has stood f.or 2l years.

Sn-rith said the huge total produced during October of one Lrillion feet t'ould supply enough lumber to build 100,COO moclcrn five-room homes. If it u'ere all shipped bv boat it u'ould fiIl 200 cargo ships or if shipped bv railroad it u'ould fill 33,334 freight cars.

Although the freight car shortage \\'as the n'rost severe in history and lasted for nearly fi'r'e months in Southern Oregon and Northern California. Smith said trucks and cargo vessels rvere able to take up much <lf the slack. He said the outptlt this year u'ould have been much higher if freight cars had been more plentiful during peak summer shipping periods.

The rveekly average of \\rest Coast lumber production in Octobern.as 233,488,000 b.f. or 112.3% of the 1945-1949 a\.erage. Orders averag'ed 193,320,000 b.f. ; Shipments 225.9.50,000 b.f. ; Weekly averages for September .s'ere: Pro<luction 23,+,330,000 b.l. (142.8% of the 1945-1919 average) : Orders l97.56l,nO b.f.; Shipments 231,614,000 b.f.

Fortl'-three rveeks of 1950 cumulative production 8,890.35t',000 b.f.; Forty-three rveeks of 1949. I,l5-+.100,000 b.f.: Forty-three rveeks of 1948, 8,028,855,000 b.f.

Orders for forty-three rveeks of. 1950 breakdou'n as follorvs: Rail 5,9063A,N0 b.f.; Truck 482.151.000 b.f.; Domestic cargo 2,096,356,000 b.f.; Export 190,022,000 b.f.; Local 570,454,000 b.f.

Tlre Indttstry's unfilled order file stood at 771.29(t,000 b.f. at the end of October: Gross Stock at t312,907,000 b.f.

Lur.nber shipments of 416 mills reporting to the National Lumber Trade Barometer were 7.0 per cent below production for the week ended November 11, 1950. In the same week nelv orders of these rnills u'ere 9.2 per cent belorv production. Unfille<l orders of the reporting mills amounted to 44 per cent of stocks. For reporting softwood r.nills, unfilled orders lvere equivalent to 22 clays' production at the current rate, and gross stocks were equivalent to 48 days' production.

For the vear-to-date, shipments of reporting identical mills were 5.2 per cent above production ; orclers were 5.7 per cent above production.

Compared to the average corresponding week of 1935-1939. production of reporting mills was 66.6 per cent above; shipments were 72.9 per cent above; orders were 68.6 per cent above. Corrrpared to the corresponding $'eek in 1949, production of reporting nrills rvas 6.1 per cent above; shiprnents were : 6.1 per cent belou';and new orders were27 per cent below.

The \\'estern I'ine Association for the rveek ended Novem- : I er 11,93 mills reporting, gave orders as 57,813,000 feet, ship rurents 62,189,000 feet, and production 66,534,000 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the rveek totaled 162,333,000 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended November 11,87 units (ll2 rnills) reporting, gave orders as 12,351,000 feet, shipments 15,516,000 feet, and production 18,(X4,(Xl0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week totaled 48,519,000 fcet.

'fhe \\'est Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended November 4, 179 rnills reporting, gave orders as 120,071,000 feet, shipments 125,107,000 feet, and production 114,881,000 feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the u.eek totaled 556,760,000 feet.

For the week ended Novenrber ll, these same mills reported orclers as 113,749,000 feet, shipments 112,530,000 feet, and production 116,797,OOO feet. Unfilled orders at the end of the rveeli totaled 556,159.000 feet.

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It is the animal natufe of man that prompts him to shun difficulties, to take the easiest way around obstacles, to dodge duties, and to play truant from obligations. It is the divine nature within us that finds pleasure in toil, joy in conquest, happiness in tasks well done, and , peace in squared accounts.

"There are two kinds of -* r "n*e who do their best today, and forget about it; and those who promise to do their best tomorrow-and forget 3[es1 i1."-Chinese proverb' * *

"Yesterday is a dream and tomorrow is a vision, but today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day."-Sanskrit.

"Yesterday," said " ,.".rrl "Jt*r.rrtion speaker, "is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is a golden opportunity." **

Dr. Stanley E. Hall used to say, "\ /e do not stop playing because we grow old, but grow old because we stop pilaying."

"No safety device t "" j.a *b..r it.r.nted to take the place of the one just above the ears," says an oft-repeated modern axiom that is always true.

Primitive man found it to be his worst enemy; the Romans built a temple to it; and inan to this day, in spite of all the advances of civilization, still cowers before the specter of his most disturbing tormentor-FEAR.

Friend making i" " -att.l oi r."ipro"ity. A man doesn't give you his friendship-he trades with you. If you have little to offer, you get little in return. In friendship you must give as well as take. If you are one of those who wonder why you lack success as a friend maker, stop for a. moment and consider what you have been giving your friends in return. That may help you solve your problem.

You are as young as your faith; as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confi*dence; as old as your despair.

"The;e is no progress unless there is discontent," said John P. Marquard. True. Philosophers have often said that the universe in which we live is an evidence of God's discontent. Had He been satisfied with things as they were, this world would never have been made. And the world owes every forward step to men ill at eas€; men unwilling to follow in the ruts m*ade by plodders.

John Truslow Adams in "The Tempo of Modern Life" tells of an explorer who once attempted a forced march on the upper Amazon River. For days they traveled fast. But one day the natives refused to budge. "They are waiting," said their chief, "until their souls have caught up with their bodies." Nice thought ttere.

"Thousands of people cSoss London Bridge every day," wrote Thomas Carlysle, "T*|t fools."

To so live that you will be love4 is a fine art. Moreover, it is the soul of salesmanship.

Elbert Hubbard said, "To be gentle, generous, patient, and forgiving, and yet never to relinquish the vital thingTHAT is to be great." :r *

John Ruskin said, "Lfnless we perform divinc service with every willing act of our liveE, then we never perform it at all." **

The prayer of Socrates, "Grant me to bc beautiful in tbe inner man, and dl I have of outer things to be at peace with those within. May I count the wisc man only, rich, and my store of gold be such as none but the good can bear."

Socrates stood in tfr. -ialt ol*. market place in Athens one day, looking at all thc food and merchandise heaped high for sale, and he thanked God that there were so many things he did not want. * *

Wrote Bruce Barton, 'A God with imagination enough to create oceans and solar sFtems and sexes and seasons

THIS JOURNAL BELIEYES. . . .

os oll iruc Americons oncc bcllcved, thol o mon gets olong in this world, nol by on Act of Congr_ess' Uur ty hij own Industty, choruCter, couroge, o-bility, perseveronce, cmbltion, stlcknolfiYcncss, ond love bC r:Uerty; ond that oll govcrnrne,nt is for - os Thomos Jeficrson nought-is !o provlde o profective fromework in which hc con live, loborr ptoduce, work out his own dcstlny' ond ochieve t{re things he longs lori it bellevel In tlrc Arncricon who stands on his own feet os our forefcthers dld, eorns his own living, provides for his own fiturr, ond is beholden ro ne:tier governmcnl' mon, not dcvil-for- his sup' porti who occeps lorgcose, glftl, subsidles, ond ipeciot privileges from nobodY.

and poets and mountains and mothers and mart)rrs.--€uch a God can be trusted to make the hereafter just and satisfying and full of interest. I think about it very little, but I shed few tears at funerals. I leave it to HIM."

Over the grave of Byron's dog, "Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues ot.m1n-without his vices."

A man whose son was not doing very well in his grammar class in school, one day met the boy's teacher. Instead of being upset by the boy's poor grades, the father said to the teacher. "There's one thing f want to thank you for -you've given my son something he never had before, and I don't care whether he passes or not. I would rather he came home and said'I'seed'when he had seen, than say 'I saw' when he had ":.1 seen at all."

Sam Jones, the most famous and at the same time most rabid revival preacher the South ever produced, believed that colleges were poor moral influences. He wouldn't send his boys to college. He used to say, "f would rather have my sons reading the ABC's in heaven, than reading Greek down in ffell." Sam was a bit prejudiced, wouldn't you say? But Oh! What a sp*eaker!

Keep that boy in you alive ! Let that be a daily effort ! Don't get crabbed; Don't go sour ! Don't be too busy to do a lot of laughing and a lot of smiling ! Don't let the corners of your mouth get the turn-down habit ! Don't be so busy chasing dollars that you quit getting a lot of fun out of the world, and putting some into it ! Keep that boy in your heart and mind-alive ! Because, when he dies, Mister, you're dead !

Strange how rapidly the *lrtd progresses in some di-

Two New Reprerentatives Added To Field Promotion Staff

As part of the plywood industry's program to provide market level service to plywood users and specifiers, two new field representatives have been added to field promotion staff of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the trade promotion group of the 58-factory West Coast plywood industry.

The two new plyrvood representatives are Richard E. Anderson and Stuart Williamson. Anderson is the new south'western field representative, rvith headquarters in Dallas. Tex.: Williamson will travel from San Francisco, Calif., headquarters.

The additions bring to seven the number of technically trained plywood field representatives stationed in key market areas throughout the country. Other field promotion offices are in Tacoma, 'Wash., Chicago, Ill., \\rashington, D. C., New York City and Ames, fowa.

New southwestern field man Anderson is a forest products engineer, having graduated from the University of rections, and how slowly in others and-perhaps-rnotG important ones. When Voltaire was making his irnme64 fight to put an end to human torhrre in Europe, his friend Frederick the Great wrote to him, "Your zeal burns aCainst superstition, but do you think this world will change? More than three-fourths of dl mankind seem formed to bc sl,aves of the absurdest fanaticism, and they detest tte man who wishes to enlighten them." Looks like Frederick was somcthing of a prophet, considering what goes on in Euro1rc an Asia today.

On Voltaire's funeral "";; were the words, "He gave the human mind a great emphasis; he prepared us for freedom." And, while theologians were condemning the dying Frenchman, that great American, Benjamin Franklin, brought his grandson to see and visit with him who did more to make men free than any other. And Voltaire put his hand on the boy's head, and begged him to dcdicate his life to "God and LibertJr."*

"Life is easier to take than you think," wrote thc gifd Kathleen Norris. "All that is necessar;r is to accept the impossible, do wighout the indispensable, and bear the intolerable."

It was Leo Tolstoi who wrote, "The powerful means for achieving true happiness in life is-and without any dogmas -to spread out from one's self in every direction like a spider, a ivhole spider's web of love and to catch !l it everything that comes along, whether it is an old woman, or a child, a girl, or a policeman."

John Quincy Adams, who, after leaving the Presidency, went back to the House of Representatives and served there many years, dropped dead on the foor of thc housc while making a speech. His last words were his epitaph, "I am content."

\\rashington in 1947. Prior to joining the plywood association field staff, he u'as district sates engineer for Timber Structures, Inc., Portland, Ore. His experience also includes five years in construction rvork before the war in q'hich he served as a naval lieutenant.

Stuart Williamson rvas formerly a freeJance industrial engineer, having graduated from Art Center School in Los Angeles. Williamson's. experience also includes several 1'ears in commercial construction work as well as residential and heavy construction. During the rvar he served overseas u'ith the Canadian army.

Members of the field promotion staff call upon architects, retail lumber dealers, plys'ood distributors, contractors, building authorities, agricultural and architectural colleges as u'ell as industrial users of plywood. A principal function of the department, in addition to furthering acceptance and use of plywood, is to render technical assistance to those rvho sell or use the materiat.

Head of the plyrvood qssociation 6eld service staff, which rvas established in 1938, is Joe Weston u'ho directs the pro. gram on behalf of the panel makers from the trade association headquarters in Tacoma, Wash.