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Show LEHI FREE PRESS- - LE HI. UTAH I . I I WHO'S NEWS Science Teams With Forest Industry To Provide 'Wood to Burn' for U. S. I .11 (Released by Western Newspaper L iuoa l One of the odd results of our defense program is the development of one of America's oldest industries and most abundant natural resources as the newest THIS WEEK Ersatz material. By LEMUEL F. PARTON NATIONAL AFFAIRS and Timber .tor . ; i ' ) si' ; .- - its expanding new products are being substiWJX Service.) (Conooiidated Feature for substitutes and replacYORK In his rev. novel, tuted XJEW A metal alloys and comthe some ing "Storm," nominated by reviewers for the Pulitzer prize, position materials which had George Stewart notes that man is previously replaced forest prodAlert in ma, and not ucts. The reason for all this is Weather Building, a land ani- - simply that timber is plentiful, " i -- : :r I CARTER FIELD ' Drastic Action K'ouM Follow Failure of Labor To Etui Defense Strikes Success . Russian in Helps British Cause Sorth Africa. 1 - ,Bell - - y s XT'., J" -- -. ' From log to living room every step in the forest products industry is being improved by modern methods. Above picture shows a workman handling a log in the early stages of lumber production in the saw mill. At right prefabricated housing. In the process units of a house are built with factory methods at a central point and hauled to the home site and assembled as r all-tim- low-dow- al er bureau on January 16, 1939. IN ANOTHER, and possibly more enjoyable, century, Cadet Charles M. Wesson, known as "The Bull," was a famous at West line-buck- Ordnance Chief Comes Up With Point. For years in the ordnance 34 department S Billion in Hand of the army, he has been bucking congress, trying to break through the line for an appropriation touchdown, and almost always thrown for a loss. But now, as Major General Wesson, chief of ordnance since 1938, he finds his appropriation upped about 1,600 per cent to around $5,000,000,000. General Wesson, bulky, musd cular and appropriately at 63, has been a glutton for punishment, trying to get goods and gear for the armed forces. But he stands up well othunder it, with no come-bacer than an occasional wry wisecrack. Away back in 1920, he made an earnest plea for antiaircraft guns, insisting that the bombing effectiveness of planes was increasing rapidly and we would be in a bad way If we didn't keep ahead of it. The general might just as well have asked for caviar and champagne for the daily army ration. It was pretty much that way for the next 20 years. And now, all at once the man who blew in Brewster's Millions is a compared to the general. beetle-browe- k skin-flin- t, He was born in St. Louis, Mo., and was graduated from West Point in 1900. In 1907, he joined the ordnance department, made good on his job as a hard-workin- technician g and competent and passed quite a few miracles in keeping the U. S. arsenal at Watei town, Mass., kicking out fighting equipment during the World war, with or without congressional appropriations. As commandant of the Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland, he spent much time explaining to congress why the army found it difficult to patch up old Springfield rifles, or get its shoes half-soleIn some manner or other he gets along with congress. d e s. 0 hand-plante- v m-- n d Hit Jr x Above photo shows one of the scientific steps in the forestry industry of today. Width of annual rings and quality of wood are carefully correlated with factors of climate and soil affecting growth of the tree. a toll of some $40,000,000, and an even greater waste $110,000, 000 results from decay and disease. Millions of dollars are being spent annually by the forest products industries to check the ravages of fire. And approximately 334,000,000 acres of privately owned timber are now under fire protection, according to United States forest service surveys. There are upwards of 100,000 forest fires each year, about of them set by careless smokers and one-four- th Speed Alaskan Defenses in Arctic Hardships rmriBAiNius, auaoiva. Despite weather, inadequate transportation facilities and formidable natural obstacles, the corps of engineers is speedily building America's defense outposts in the far reaches of Alaska. Roads, landing fields, dock facilities and modern army posts are appearing in this uncharted Arctic wilderness. Temperatures range from moderate in southeastern Alaska to extreme cold even in the central section, ' L This will yield future dividends. constructive action, taken by the forest products industries, is the development of continuous forest production which eventually will put the forests of America on a conThis basis. stant, sustained-yielview, which insists that "timber is a crop," operates in three ways: by selective logging cutting only mature, commercially desirable trees; by leaving clumps of seed trees to produce a new crop by natural methods; and where neither selective logging or the leaving of seed trees is practicable, by the planting of seedlings and young trees. And with the development of the modern tree farm, the lumber industry is taking definite steps to provide for further replenishment of our forests at a rate which even the most extensive cutting will not equal. The most ambitious of these projects is the Clemons tree farm in Grays Harbor county, Wash. This farm, which promises to be a model for the industry, comprises over 200 square miles, or 129,023 acres, in a region famous for forests of Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar, and Sitka spruce. The rugged and rolling terrain is not suited to general agriculture, but is land primarily suited by reasons of soil and climate to forest growing. It is estimated that within 50 years timber of commercial size will be available, thus systematically working toward making timber a continuous crop. So there's no excuse for putting off Reproduction comes mainly from writing that letter home! natural restocking from seed trees Wide Variety of Products. which are left but where fire has There are in use at the present killed new growth and seed trees, time more than 15,000 different kinds hand planting is resorted to. of paper and paper products. They The extent to which the West play an indispensable part in every- coast has gone into the business of day routine from the time the replenishing our forests can be morning paper is delivered, through gauged by the fact that over 63,000,-00breakfast on foods which were seedlings have been planted by packed in cartons and bags, at the hand on the forest lands of Washoffice where ledgers, letters, files, ington and While 6,000,000 checks and memos record business mature andOregon. over-rip- e trees will be transactions, where the telephone harvested this year in the Douglas directory lists your numbers, where fir region, these trees, which would the ticker tape traces market fluctu- decay if left standing, will be reations, and where other pieces of placed by between two and three paper request you to "please re- million seedlings to mit!" the 10 to 12 seedlings supplement And there is one bill marked which nature plants for every tree "must remit," and addressed to the cut. lumber, paper and pulp, and plyLegislative Aid. wood industries, which is being paid Unique in legislative history an off in a constructive fashion which example of an industry sponsoring is the action in obtaining passage of an Oregon law which makes it compulsory for loggers to leave reserve trees to maintain continuous forest growth and to provide adequate restocking. No provisions for the future can be adequate, however, unless proS ' "f tection is provided for this present forest growth. Forest fires throughout the United States annually take semi-weeklie- khaWk, by Several moves have been made dilater which seem to point in this in rection, and there is a disposition becongress, as a result, to pause acfore rushing on to such drastic bill tion as that envisioned in the Smith Howard introduced by Rep. of Virginia and rushed througn the house by a big majority despite the views of the administration to the contrary. At the time the Smith bill was sent to the senate, which was some on Pearl days prior to the Jap attack of Harbor, there was no probability disits enactment. As told in these patches at the time, the expectancy was that the bill would be amended drastically in the senate, and, unless the amendments were sweeping indeed the bill would be vetoed by the White House. However, it was pointed out in those dispatches that the willingness of such a large majority in the house to vote such action, rather than any legislation which might soon result, This evidence of was significant. the house oDinion for nonular more truly and accurately represents public opinion than any other branch of the government spelled the certainty that eventually, unless labor mended its ways, such action would result. well-know- n shown. long-rang- Vfc ,B where winter temperatures as low 50 degrees below zero are not uncommon. High winds often make unloading of materials from ships extremely dangerous. In the coastal regions of western and southwestern Alaska sudden high winds known as "willawaws" present a serious hazard to flying, shipping and other operations, These disturbances, which are more frequent from October to Mirch, are usually of short duration but violent. ' "v7. ri ( another fourth due to incendiary causes. Modern scientific methods of fire fighting have been enlisted in recent years with increasing effectiveness. Lookout towers, pumping units, trained crews armed with portable chemical extinguishers, and parachute squads are all contributing their part. In our present crisis, the gravity of this peren nial menace is increased because of; the possibility of sabotage activities! in our forests, or incendiary airj raids a threat already anticipated by our military leaders, who have organized emergency forces which would go into action if such happened. Insect Pest Loss. Less spectacular, but even more destructive, is the ravaging work of the forest insect pests. Entomologists have found the most effective means of control of some forest insects is through introduced parasites. In the case of an insect which kills evergreens of the Northeast, parasites are being bred by the billions and "dusted" from airplanes over the forests. Another method of reducing loss from disease and decay is by concentrated cutting of over-ripmature stands of timber such as are highly attractive to the insects. Not only is deterioration so rapid that the loss exceeds the accumulated annual growth, but the likelihood of insect attack makes another hazard. In other words, accepted forestry principles now call for harvesting timber crop before the decay of old age sets in, and before attacks by insects. The importance of such conservation efforts is obvious, in view of the defense production goal set up for the forest products industries for 1942. National requirements for next year include 32 billion board feet of lumber, 16,000,000 cords of pulp wood, 75,000,000 cords of fuel wood, 2,000,000,000 cubic feet of miscellaneous products, and 1,765,000 barrels of turpentine and resin for naval stores, according to Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard. s of the $8,000,000,000 expected to go into construction business next year will be for defense purposes. Substitute Role. One interesting sidelight on this picture is the extending role played by wood in "substituting for substi tutes. Metal alloys and composi tion materials, which have replaced wood to a certain extent in recent years, are now under priority rulings. Wood is being "rediscovered" and engineers and architects are taking full advantage of a natural resource so abundant that there is no danger of bottlenecks. To again quote secretary wickard "Steel plays the spectacular part in guns ana tanks and warships, but wood does much of the every day work. Cantonments, defense housing, and factories are going up. Wood is needed for pontoon bridges, gunstocks, ships, and docks. Srje- cial types of wood are needed for airplanes. Wood goes into the making of high explosives. As charcoal, it is used in gas masks. This list could be multiplied many fold." t i rri auc loresi,a unime mineral re sources, is potentially inexhanstihiA and research in forest products is a dennite part of forestry. Amazing scientific advances in new uses of wood are beine made daily, many of them originating at me uoresi iroaucjs laboratory at Madison, Wis. Here are being tested new principles of prefabricated house construction, forecasting a major new industry. Revolutionary developments in timbered construction have been achieved through use of new resin glues and ring connectors, making it possible to substitute laminated wooden arches for steel beams. Plywood has been improved arid perfected and experiments "are still continuing-- ' ' ' high-pressu- re e, Three-fourth- M "f,,,f This picture is far more true today than it was then, for since that prediction was made the countryhas not only gone to war, but has been solidified and unified to an extent which one month ago was beyond the wildest hopes of the interventionists. Casualty lists have a way of smothering tolerance of the other fellow's views, but one month ago there was no thought of such serious casualty lists at any time this year. Nor could there be any calculations based on the effect on this country of the "dastardly" attack by the Japanese. Events in that attack, and off Malaya, including the sinking of the two Japanese warships as well as our own and the British, have driven home to this now united country the truth about air power, and the vulnerability of the strongest battle fleet without air supremacy. With that lesson pounded home and clinched, there is going to be very little patience with any strikes from now on which curtail our airplane production, or for that matter any other national defense produc- tion. Labor is going to find the public insisting that work not be stopped because of any dispute over wages or hours, and particularly over whether this or that union has jurisdiction in a given factory. Buy Defense Bonds Help African Drive Russian Successes There are sighs of relief here that the campaign in North Africa seems to be going as well as most of the experts had hoped. The underlying reason is that if it were not going so well there would be a storm of criticism because American production of planes and tanks had gotten under way so slowly. It is admitted that only the unexpected success of the Russians in the last few weeks has saved the British in North Africa. Had the Germans been able to dig in for the cold weather after their failure to crush the Russian armies and take Moscow and Sevastopol, they could have diverted such a tremendous flying force to North Africa that the British would have been stopped and even Egypt threatened. Underlying all this is the failure of the United States to get big production of planes, tanks, etc. under way earlier. Had that been done the British would have had such ample material in North Africa that the mopping up of the German forces from Egypt to French held territory in North Africa would have been under way several weeks ago Obviously the British have had superiority, but not enough superiority to make th inh a Everyone expected the Nazis to Dut ..... im- a Ka4am iikiil man run tho fciitri fin 'c kalians in the same territory last year, and they have. In fact have done even better than they the British anticipated. They would have been beaten more quickly if the British had been able to wait until more planes and more tanks were at their disposal. But they could not wait. They had to follow a time table set not by the state of their supplies and armament, but bv thp Eastern situation "may have had something to do with it, too. 1 m He's Different "Your husband has a new Su4 "No, he hasn't." "Well, something's d.fftrert "Yes; it's a new husbard' She's At It uill it be ifl uife makrs her apieatanre "SA' upstairs making a iiou." "Uote long f " Or Feed It squea&rmSUreIhearda "Well, what do you ant m. Get up and oil it?" to It's an ideal marriage if the is a treasure and the husband rif k ' treasury. 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The necessity WASHINGTON. defense for having no strikes in so far as particularly production, etc. are conairplanes, explosives, cerned is of tremendous importance now that Washington sincerebe surly hopes this hurdle may mounted through patriotic on the part of labor union lead- 24-Ho- ur is a growing crop and presents rVaAnfon,D.C. have com. no bottleneck. We live at the monly supposed. In proof of the fact that there is bottom of an ocean of air but that no cause to worry about being dedoesn't make us a land animal, any prived of toothpicks, or having the more than a crab is a land animal morning paper cut down to postage because it lives at the bottom of a stamp size, a recent survey directed body of water. by University of Michigan forestry shows our forests to be which gatha storm experts, Dramatizing clocka rate which will exat and of ered up north growing Japan, recordfrom all causes by ceed and drain the down it this way, ing huof 1945. inter-plathe resulting ing The significance of this and the man nature and meteorology,, Mr. Stewart's book is an incidental, per- Importance of the forestation work inhaps not intended, reminder that the being done by the forest products considis it when behind the is evident far dustry politicos have been meteorologists in grasping the full ered that United States uses half more than half the paimplications of man adding wings to the lumber, of the wood used his breathing apparatus. per, and two-fiftin all forms in the world. Francis W. Reichelderfer, the U. S. Paper Use High. lean, baldish, chief of the U. S. Today the United States uses as weather bureau, seems to have much paper as all the rest of the had something like that in mind world combined, our consumption for many years, and that's all to e this peak reaching an year our fightthe food just now, as of approximately 14,000,000 tons. ers, on, under and above the Stacked four feet wide by four feet sea have the best weather servhigh, the yearly woodpile to make ice in the world. It was in the for our daily and weekly newsprint serological service of the navy alone would reach from papers Reichelderfer that Commander coast to coast. To give an idea carried through his "air mass" of how much newsprint is used in analysis which revolutionized the United States, "we, the people" weather forecasting. Bringing more than 36,000,000 copies of read into focus with meteorology the 1,900 daily newspapers and modern communications, aviaof the 14,000 weeklies copies science tion and revised military and Yet, despite this was a little heeded but supremeprodigious consumption, there is and important assignment, ' ly enough standing timber in the UnitCommander Reichelderfer made ed States of the principal species good. now commonly used in pulp and paHe isn't dealing bulletins the way per manufacture to keep the indushe used to. The most authentic try going at its present production 200 years, weather news now is deep rate for approximately from Sibyl's Cave of the Winds, not even considering the steady reannual growth. slipped out quietly to the armed plenishing It takes nearly 2Vt million tons of forces and a touchy job it is, with the seven seas to cover. The compaper to wrap our packages each mander is putting on forced draught twelvemonth. And think of all the the full 24 hours in the old red brick letters that must be written annually to use up approximately 600,000 tons weather building in Washington. of stationery! from In 1918, the youth Harlan, quantiInd., two years out of Northwestern tiesYet despite theisenormous wood of there enough used, encommissioned university, newly paper-makin- g the kind suitable for to Lisbon sign in the navy, was sent to dig weather reports for the wob- standing in our forests today to last of the NC-- 4 across the for more than 200 years if every bly crow-ho- p ocean. Thereafter, joining the aero-logic- tree stopped growing tomorrow! And huge reserve, which does not service, he was the weather this include wood for building and even Lindof consultant polar fliers, gave is being bergh the gun for his historic fight all the other purposes, to Paris, cleared or held Dr. Ecke-ner- 's replenished by nature, supported by modblimps, served from 1922 to the forest products industries' ern forestry program, approximate1928 as head of the aerological servly as fast as it if being drawn upon. ice, and became head of the weath- Syndicate-W- Service.) NU A If you suffer from monthly cramps, headache, backache, nervousness and distress of "irregularities" caused by functional monthly disturbances try Lydla Plnkham'i famous for Vegetable Compound relieving pain and nervous feelings of women's "difficult days." Taken regularly Lydla Plnkham's Compound helps build up resistance against such annoying symptoms. Follow label directions. WOETH Forming Habits It is just as easy to form a good habit as it is to form a bad one. 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