DU PONT TELLS HOW 'UIIIIIONS OF NEW JOBS WItt SCIENTIFICATTY AR,ISE

America's industrial system, if allowed to progress unhampered, can provide a quarter again as many jobs by 1975 as it does now. This was the conclusion reached in "The Story of Employment Opportunities," a new booklet published recently by the Du Pont Company, of Wilmington, Delaware.

"It is a system," the booklet says, "that by 1975' assuming no catastrophe intervenes, can bting 23 million more industrial jobs, and a national total of some 80 million. These can be better jobs, with increased purchasing power' shorter working hours, and a higher living standard."

' The 3?-page illustrated booklet points out that "tomorrow's 'help-wanted' advertisement is being written by the research of today if research were ever stopped, we might see the end o{ a system which already has brought this nation to a point where 17 million are employed in manufacturing industries, and more than 6O million in the nation's civilian economY.

"The cold statistics of a nation's economic progress," the booklet makes clear, "acquire meaning only when they arr: reflected in the life and work of people." The chief beneficiary of industrial progress is the worker. Fast climbing pay scales have pushed his purchasing power to five times what it was 100 years ago, twice what it was 25 years ago' Shorter hours and higher pay have sparked a boom in the recreation business to the tune of $31 billion annually.

But continued progress, the booklet emphasizes, "is only possible, not inevitable; these new opportunities will not create themselves' They will come into being only if research is expanded to encompass the ever-widening horizon of knowledge, only if industry pours many billions into research and new Plants.

"The sums of expansion can ,come only if individuals are free to save, if corporations are free to earn a profit commensurate with the risks involved, and if a fair share of the earnings can be retained without penalty from taxes that are inequitable. These freedoms must be jealously guarded, for if they are not we may destroy an economy that has brought plenty to so many."

In addition to the climbing pay scales, the booklet points out, "A $7 billion benefit package is tacked onto the paycheck oI workers in the U.S." The Du Pont Company alone "spends $12 million a year on its medical and benefits programs; just one facet of it-disability wages-meant the expenditures of $3.2 million by the company last year, and $35 million in the past 17 vears. On a nationwide basis, 38 million people have some protection against off-job disability, and the benefits paid out in a typical year now total $475 million."

The booklet says that of technology's many contributions, none has meant more to industrial employes than development of more and better machines. Today, industry provides each worker with enough power-driven equipment to equal the help of 236 human assistants.

It dramatizes, too, the fact that better tools mean more jobs: "The past century. for instance, has been one of mechanization. The craftsman's toolbox of 1854 has given way to vast and intricate plants and equipment that represent an investment of thousands of dollars per worker. At Du Pont, the 'toolbox' for each production worker costs $20,000; for industry in general, over $11,000. Yet there are more jobs today-millions more jobs-than there were in 1854. The population of the U.S. now is six times larger (Please turn to Page 53)

IIIE SNMORD SUDI: AMERICA'S DEMAND FOR WOOD 1929 - 1975

Pulpwood, Pulp, Poper ond Poperboqrd

In pulpwood, pulp, paper and paperboard production, 'supply factors indicate that the upward trend in production can be sustained during the next 20 years with costs maintaining their relation to competing materials about as now.

Historically, the expansion of the pulp industry has been due to its ability to develop additional sources of low cost pulping materials through modification of its processes. Significant expansion of output during the next 20 years is .expected in all the major grades of pulp except soda and sulphite pulp.

Utilization factors indicating expansion can occur without prices rising at a rate greater than prices of competing materials include the development of more economical barkers and chippers, which can increase the supply of sawmill residuals for pulping; developments in sulphate pulping which have made it a versatile process of using practically all species of softwoods and hardwoods for all grades of pulp, and adaptation of groundwood pulping to a wider range of species, including some hardwoods as well as Southern Pine and Douglas Fir.

In the West, increased utilization of sawmill and plywood mill residuals can provide relatively low-cost wood for a major expansion of sulphate pulp and whole wood fiber production during future decades. Over a longer period, large volumes of wood left as logging slash in oldgrowth operations may also contribute greatly to the pulpwood supply. Large volumes of thinnings are available in areas of second-growth Douglas Fir.

In the East, major changes in wood supply must oc-

lorge Lumber Use For Pqllets

It is estimated that the number of wood pallets produced annually, which has increased from minor quantities in the early 1930s to about 20 million at present, will continue to increase to 37 million by 1975. The use of wood in pallets is generally preferred because of the strength provided in relation to weight, the lower cost of wood compared with steel, the durability of wood compared with paperboard, and the ease with which wood pallets can be repaired. Lumber required for pallets is expected to increase to about 1,230 million board feet by 1975, as compared with 660 million board feet in 1952.

cur if the present level of pulp production is to be maintained. A pronounced shift toward hardwood pulping is now going on in anticipation of a reduction in Canadian imports (where wood costs are also rising) and in an effort to improve the regional competitive position.

In the South, the softwood pulpwood situation is not as critical as in the East. The use of sawmill residuals is just being developed. There is an estimated annual potential supply of mill residuals for the period of projection of from two to three million cords in the South. Logging slash might yield an equal amount of pulping materials if technological developments make this feasible, but some price rise would probably be needed to make this economically usable. Considering the potential of Southern Pine growth under good timber management and the small logsize requirements of the pulp industry, it can be anticipated that the large forest holdings being developed by the southern pulp companies will be a much more important source of pulpwood by 1975 than at present. Hardwood pulping is most important as a means of increased pulp production without a prohibitive cost increase.

Insulating Board and Hardboard

It is expected that prices of insulating board and hard(Please turn to Page 46)

Keep Climbing

An intrepid mountain climber was scaling the peak of Mont Blanc years ago. For many days he battled doggedly upward, storm-buffeted and stung by sleet. Finally the exposure overcame him. He died above the clouds, his eyes still fixed toward the summit.

They buried him up there on his own rugged battle ground. On the boulder that marks his grave is carved this simple inspiring epitaph:

"He died climbing."

Lorge U. S. Timber Sole

Redding, Calif.-The largest sale of federally owned timber in recent years was held here November 16. The government auctioned 160,000,m0 board feet of Pine and Douglas fir located in a 3,@O-acre tract in the ShastaTrinity National Forest. A minimum price of $1,995,000 had been set in advance of the auction.

NUhA Confesf Sells Lumber

More than a third of a million dollars' wortl-r of lumber and wood products was sold to farm families who entered the $10,000 rural home improvement contest sponsored jointly by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and Country Gentleman magazine, it rvas disclosecl by NLMA Executive Vice President Leo V. Bodine. who hailed the contest as "one of the most success,ful sales promotion projects ever sponsored by our association," and Robert Reed, editor of Country Gentleman.

First prize went to James A. Haughwout, Jr., Rural Delivery, Reedsville, Pa. Haughwout, his family and his lumber dealer were honored at a special luncheon, at the Penn Ifarris hotel in Harrisburg, Pa. He was presented with a $2500 check by Bodine. M. L. Peek, manager of Country Gentleman, presented the top dealer award to S. Max Smith, secretary-treasurer of J. M. Young & Sons, Belleville, Pa.

fn commenting on the success of the contest, which ran from Jan. 1 to July 31, Bodine reported that entry blanks were requested by 7,000 persons, of whom 695 subsequently entered tl-reir completed projects in the competition. Dollar outlays for these projects totaled $1,154,767 of which $810.657 went for materials. Purchases of lumber and wood products amounted to $335,931. Bodine estimated that in addition to these outlays, many thousands of dollars rvere spent for lumber by contestants who failed to n-reet the contest deadline.

SCP| Reseorch Cenfer

The Structural Clay Products Institute has announced plans for the construction of a functional brick and tile building 'n'hich will house its national Research Center, to handle the industry's rnulti-million dollar research program.

An Editorial

There are many sorts of heroes. Some, we may feel, are foolhardy because their ideal is bizarre. But no life is wasted that leaves behind it an epitaph like that.

Heroes die climbing. They don't rust. They don't yield. They don't wait for the storm to subside and the sun to come out.

Selling goods or scaling mountains, it's all one. Fighters never fail. If they succeed, they succeed greatly. If they die, they die greatly*and "sail with God the seas."

Big R.emodeling Mqrket

Berkeley, Calif.An annual $22,000,000,000 market in home remodeling is available to builders, Alan E. Brockbank, past president of the NAHB, declared to a session of the Neighborhood Rehabilitation Institute here. ,He said that 5l/o of the nation's 49,000,000 dwellings are more than 30 years old.

Ponel Door Soles Increqse; Voriefy of Stock Types Suits Trqditionql qnd Modern Design

Dealer sales of panel doors are increasing-and a continued increase in sales is indicated by the current trend toward greater use of panel doors in modern homes. Some Ponderosa Pine panel doors that are boosting dealer sales are illustrated here. The numbers are those assigned by the U.S.

New stock doors feature equal-sized panels symmetrically arranged in clean modern lines. Panel doors of traditional design, such as the six-panel Colonial (N.D. 108) and the eight-panel Colonial (N.D. 111), are available to those who prefer traditional architectural styles.

A "rancho" door (N.D. 103), with three equal panels, has been designed especially for modern ranch-style houses. Panel doors are most appropriate for a ranch house, for they were used in the original haciendas of the Southwest, the architectural ancestors of today's, ranch house.

Louver doors (N.D. 731) have an important function in air-conditioned homes, and for that reason they also shorv an increase in sales. The louver door provides privacy, yet allows the free circulation of air that is essential to proper functioning of an air-conditioning system.

For use in their own catalogues, dealers and jobbers can obtain glossy prints, suitable for reproduction, of the accompanying illustration from Ponderosa Pine Woodwork, 105 West Monroe Street, Chicago, 3, Illinois. The charge is $1.00, including all handling and mailing cost.

Ponderosq Door Stqndord Reody

Printed copies of Commercial Standard CSl2O-53, covering Standard Stock Ponderosa Pine Doors, which has L''een in efiect since July 15, 1953, are now available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., or from any of the Department of Commerce field offices, for 25 cents a copy.

The standard, originally established in 1944, and revised in 1946 and 1948, provides minimum specifications and -"izes for stock ponderosa pine doors in four thicknesses, langing from fi to 1)( inches. Illustrations for 112 stock designs are shown.

Alt AROUND IHE YARD-These cqndids show scenes of ihe voried operdtion st Holsinger's. The two Photo3 ql left show some of lhe "former invenfory" hqndled by the reioil yord. Left pholo in the bot' tom pcnel shows lhe office of the com' pony. Center shows lhe ottroctive Plote gloss windows of the furniture deport' ment. Right s(ene is view of the wore' houses ond, oi teor, q port of the yord's lumber inventorY.