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O Many details of extra-fine workmanship typical of Long-Bell products.

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'3THE POTNT OF NO R,ETURN''

Address by CHARLES E. DUCOMMUN, President, Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce

(to Southern California Retail Lumber Association)

, During the pioneering phase of the new air age, we have become familiar with the phrase, "the point of no return." ft refers, as you know, to that point in flight of an aircraft where the fuel supply will permit no turning back.

There was a "point of no return" for earlier pioneers. too, who braved the deserts and mountains to build the. West. At some point on their journey the drvindling food supply dictated that they push on or die, because there would not be enough for the journey back.

Looking about us now in the land they carved from the wilderness, enjoying the comforts of which they never dreamed, it may be hard for us to realize that we, too, are pioneers in a great journey which has just recently taken us beyond "the point of no return." Our challenge is even greater than that of the other pioneers. \Me can blame no implacable act of Nature if we fail-no storm, no drouth. While the other pioneers had their lives to lose, civilization itpelf isin our hands. Its landmarks are these:

1. The world's pyramiding need for the products of industry.

2. The growing rvorld population and its food requirements, fn ten years there will be added more new people to the world than there are in thc entire population of the Western Hemisphere today. That is how fast the world population is growing.

3. The demand for more energy.from new sources to meet these needs.

4. The new technology and the technicians we require to guide us to world survival.

' And, finally, the political and spiritual climate rvhich alone will bring mankind through this greatest of all journeys to eventual fulfillment of his material and spiiitual needs.

1550 is the number of pounds of steel per person per year the United States will be consuming by 1975, in the view of the President's Materials Policy Commission. Nor will we ever reach the point where we will simply supply all the steel products we have and produce no more. Machines wear out. Obsolescence affects even the most durable of materials.

We are becoming daily more dependent upon other products not known or dreamed of a few years ago. We are well beyond the point where this trend may be reversed and we can still survive.

Nor is this phenomenon peculiar to the United States. fndustrialization is catching throughout the world. Survival dictates it. 45 million is a scientist's estimate of the number of people who are added to the world's population every year-a new mouth to feed, a new child to clothe every second.

Our present world population of about 2,500,000,000 cannot presently feed itself adequately. More than 50/o of the people of the world have barely enough food for minimum subsistence. How will a billion more survive? Why have hundreds of millions believed the lies of Com-

fhey Never Hqd lr 5o Good

"Characteristics of the Present One-Family Home," reported by the magazine, Living for Young Homemakers, are: the trend is toward the larger, higherpriced home, with a median sales tag this year at over $14,500, with an average squere footage of about 1,300. In 1956, one-story detached houses were built almost exclusively inall regions except the Northeast; 7O/o of all homes built last year had three bedrooms.2l/o had trvo bedrooms or less, and only 7/o had, four or more.

Exterior wall construction tvas 83/o f.rame, 16/o masonry, | ,4o other exteriors; 43% of the homes had basements, 63/o had no fireplaces; 50% of the homes had garages , I7/o carports. Drywall accounted for 55/o of interror wall construction, with plaster at 43/o; ll/o of the homes had dishwashers,34/o had garbage disposers, 55% had. exhaust fans.

munist imperialism-that it will bring them food, and relief from misery?

That we can live alone, surfeited and secure, in a world of rising population and a growing deficit of food, is a delusion no thinking American can accept. In a day of the nuclear bomb, the'millions who would die could easily take therest of civilization with them. Hunger could trigger the holocaust of nuclear war and this danger must be removed.

There has been an increase in world production of food. But it has been only l5/o in the past 40 years, while the population has increased by 3o/o-double the rate.

The world's deserts and steppes are tll'ice the area of the world's cultivated land. Many of them cannot be brought into food production by conventional methods of irrigation. New sources must be found, such as the reclamation of sea water.

Higher and higher demand for industrial energy is the price we must pay for our growing industrialization, for more output to sqpply the needs of our expanding rvorld.

Science foresees the day when common igneous rock u'ill be our remaining source of metals and other needs of an industrialized society. We know tlre common rocks of the eprth's surface r,r'ill yield not only metals, but also the uranium and thorium to help provide the energy for the processing. We know that 100 tons of igneous rock 'can provide eight tons of aluminum, five tons of iron, 1200 pounds of titanium, 180 pounds of manganese, and so on. If lr'e find a way to process rocks and do it with the energy they contain within themselves, we can even make an energy profit on ordinary granite. The amount of uranium and thorium in one ton of granite is sufficient in a nuclear breeder to provide the lnergy of 50 tons of coal.

The world has lived a long time on its supply of fossil fuels-coal, liquid petroleum, natural gas, oil shale, and tar. The desperate need for oil-to supply ener$y-threatens us now with World War III.

7980 billions represents the most optimistic estimate of the world's resoures of fossil fuels, expressed in equivalent tons of bituminous coal. It has been estimated that a world population of three billion people,Iiving at what we may call the American level, would exhaust these reserves in 23O years. But three times the population would use it in 75 years.

So we will need other sources of energy, in our new

,pioneering journey. Atomic energy already is installed ir, our industrial society. Solar energy is another great, com- paratively untapped source, although it is being used in

'many parts of the world for space heating. The develop- tnent of these vital new sources of energy is the key to future world production.

Water is not only a great common problem still in California but throughout the world. Rainfall ultimately will not supply our projected industrial world, unaided. We li ,' will need to reclaim water from the sea. In the processing we may also provide many minerals and chemicals. But certainly the world-and California in particul2l' qannef l" afford longer tolet 7O/o of its fresh water run off into the sea.

,,. "ALL Californians Must Work

Together"

i,j' North and South must work together in California to' 'cortserve our water. And we in the South heartily agree that California needs a water conservation program that will be just to every county of origin and its future needs.

We do believe that if we are going to spend $1,500,000,0C0 i' to bring watei to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, we should be reasonably sure that the title to the water is good-that the pipeline doesn't run dry.

Harold W. Kennedy, Los Angeles county counsel, re)i,' ' bently said the Klamath River, in an average.year, wastes