TWIN HARBORS IUMBER GOMPANY

here about the extreme importance of 'rvhat goes on'above the ears of men in these critical days there is one thing I'd like to make abundantly clear, and that is that I am llot proposing u'e should undertake to teach other tnen rvhat our freedom of opportunity system is all about rvith any idea that \ve are even in the slightest u'ay superior to those we would teach.

On the contrarty, I propose tl'rat u'c tlo it because we have failed in the past to discharge the rcsponsibilities of citizenship and are faced rrou' n'ith forever forieiting our heritage if u'e fail again to do it.

!\re should approach the job in a spirit of cleep humility, never forgetting that the preser.rt retreat from freedom has not taken place because free<lour failed, but because rve failed to understand ancl lieep ir.rviolate the heritage of freedom 'n'on for us bv so-called little men.

It was little men, desperately seeking escaPe from tyranny, 'ivho braved hardship and deatl-r to set ttp here in a wilclerness a new rvorld dedicated to religious freedon-r' ft was out of the belief of little men in freedom of opinion, {reedorn of choice, that the great illstitutions tlf America grew.

We are the spiritual descer.rdants of l}iglish seafarers from mediaeval torvns and villages rvho learned by trial and error how to manage nerv and strange employments in 'ivhich the penalty of failure u'as death, and ended by creating a new kincl of society, a society based on the freedom of choice of the individual.

That society u'hich rvas hervn otlt of the travail of little men of great faith ar.rd cottrage can be saved by little men, if u'e help to revitalize that faith and rekindle that zeal.

The problems \\:e face today are no greater, no more serious than Americans have licked in the past. \\'-e are no less able or courageotls than they were, BUT, the rnissing ingredient that must be rekindled, as Herbert Hool'er pointed out in his moving and magnificent address last June are-to quote his u'ords :

"The fires of spiritual fervor rvhich once made the word, American, a stirring description of a man u'htl lived and died for human liberty, rvho knen' no private interest, no personal ambition, no popular acclaim, no advantage of pride or place l'hich overshadorvs the burning love for the {reedom of man."

In spite of all ortr mistakes, our aPPeasements, our retreat from freedom; in spite of the fact that lve have become largely idle lvorshipers of empty u'ords, we are yet the only hope for the 'children of men in our time.

But rve can justify that hope only if leaders LEADonly if managers NIANAGE.

It is our job. It is more ! It is our beholden duty as the beneficiaries of the greatest heritage of freedom on this earth to carry out in our day the fundamental philosophy of the Founding Fatl-rers, u'hich Thomas Jefferson put into these words:

"I knorv no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if lve think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control rvith a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by EDUCATION.''

Note that Jefferson said "by education;" not by disfranchising them, uot by coercing them, but by stimulating their thinking. If 1\'e use the "little gray cells" above the ears ourselves, to the point of knorving precisely lvhat we believe and 'ivhy, and then search out ways and means (ancl the only rvay it \'\'ill be done, I emphasize again, is for each of us to do his share) to stimulate the thinking of all our people so that the horizor-rs of men everywhere may be rvider.red, the use of their inherer-rt capabilities stepped up, their zeal rekinclled, ancl their understandings heightened, theu they rvill RECREATE here in America the free society u'e have been frittering au'ay.

This spiritual rebirth of man as a responsible individual rvill release a force for good beyond our comprehension' The irresistiltle onrvard surge of sixty million men and \lromen u'orking through voluntary collectives of free men n.ill not only meet the moral challenge of our day that we shall maintain here in America a breakrvater against the risir.rg ti<le oi paganism behind rvhich to preserve the souls of nren, but n'ill carry us forlvard to a greater destiny than any 1ve have yet visioned-builders of a rvorld rvhere every man t'ill knon sleet freedom's 'ivay.

America lvas built on dreams, and if we preserve the freedom of opportunitv system, IF \\rE' KEEP MEN FREE TO DREANI, u'e can clream up a still more magnificent America.

New Plant to Be ComPleted bv June

Masonite Corporation has awarded the contract for con' struction of its harclboard manufacturing plant at Ukiah' Calif., to Barrett & Hilp, of San Francisco' The estimated maximum cost of the rvork is in excess of $900,000'

The factory building, expected to be completed by next June, n,ill hottse the manufacturing unit, tempering plant and rvarehouse. Its over-all length will be 1,000 feet, with the rvidth varying from approxim,ately 100 feet to 300 feet' It rvill have concrete floors, steel frame and corrugated metal siding. The roof rvill be of pre-cast concrete slab' The engineering was handled by Masonite's engiueering department under the direction of Frank G. Lesniak, Chief engineer.

A one-story offrce building of frame construction , 92 by 40 feet, is being erected under a separate contract, whiclr went to'Frank M. Crane, of Ukiah. Floors and exterior walls will be of tempered hardboard, and interior walls of standard hardboard. The building rvill be air-conditioned. Victor G. Wandmayer, of San Francisco, is the architect' cttt is over one-

Awarding of these contracts is the second major construction step in the execution of the west coast expansioll program announced by Masonite last March. The project included purchase of a factory site of 114 acres for a logging road from the plant site into the company's timller reserve.

Construction u'ork on the road was started in July. This contract is held by Utah Construction Company, also of San Francisco.

The volume of Douglas fir sarvtimber fourth the total for the United States.

CHARLES

Petroleum

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