Page 14 — P. A. Features, March 31 _ Secondary Industries _ : OOD is entering new fields of usefulness as new processes enable it to perform tasks never before possible. In the postwar world sticks of timber will be shot full of strengthening plas-_ tic, sliced into thin layers and welded together, squeezed into metalli¢é hardness, converted into lustrous resin, made into a superpaper useful as aluminum sheet, in- jected to resist fire and decay, er dyed internally and exter- nally with colors of the rain- bow. Chemists predict that the usefulness of cellulose (used for paper, rayon, explosives) may even be exceeded by another part of the wood, lignin it is ealled, that has been allowed Continued from Page 17 Thorez “declares that these militia “had their reason for ex- istence during the insurrection against the Hitlerites and their Vichy accomplices. But now the situation is different. Public security must be guaranteed by the regular police forees, con- stituted for this purpose by the same reasoning, all in regular armed sroups ought not be maintained any longer. It is in the network of the diverse Parties and groupings of the Re- isistance and in the cadres fixed by law that the patriots must exercise their activity. .. .” Similarly, with the local Com- miittees of Liberation _ .. “they eught not substitute for the mu- nicipal administrations and de- partmental administrations, just as the Council of National Resis- tance does not substitute for the - government The tasks of the Committees of Liberation is not to administrate, but to aid those who administrate. .. .” This does not mean that the Communists prefer a return to party strife in the coming April and May elections. wish to dissolve the Liberation Committees. On the contrary, the Communists are still hopeful that in many localities the Re- sistance movement will remain united and offer a common ticket to the electorate. A grand con- ..ference of all these liberation > committees is being called for July 14, as in the days of the great French Revolution. BUT the Communists realized that to press a “dual power’ meant to impel France toward civil war, and to give the gsoy- ernment over to the most reac- tionary forces which are now in- triguing behind the scenes. The popular forces could easily have begun such a struggle for power, but they might not have won it without endangering the war as strong and Nor does it - to flow down our rivers as troublesome, black gooey waste ‘from paper-making and chemi- cal wood processing. @ THERE is one new process that makes, for example, maple as hard as ebony. - Doors and bureau drawers that will never stick in muggy weather or rattle during dry spells will be a welcome result of the new transmuted wood that keeps its shape no matter what the humidity. The ‘trick is to combine with the natural. wood one of the new kinds of plasties, which it- self can be made in part from wood, although it usually isn’t. This methylolurea, which sounds complicated but really isn’t since it is a white solid, soluble in water, is made from ammonia (familiar as a Irit- entire coali- effort and perhaps the Anglo-Soviet-A merican tion, What I have given of the Ivry speech will help indicate the achievements and the issues of the complex French scene. Of course, I have not deal at all with foreign policy. Incidentally, Thorez himself hardly deals with these matters, preferring to indicate the main line of Communist activity for internal affairs. You come away from reading this speech with the echoes of the applause ringing. in your own ears. Vast issues remain unsolved in France, and they will be solved only by immense political battles in the coming months. - : ehen cleaner), carbon dioxide (which you exhale every few seconds), and methanol (the non-drinkable ‘Swood alcohol’ as it used to be called when it Was made from wood as it isn’t always now). OOD soaked under pressure in a solution of this chemi-_ cal has formed within it hard and water - insoluble resins which oceupy the wood cells and even the cell walls. Heated at this stage the wood can be twisted and bent into any de- sired shape, which is held per- manently when cooled. Soft, weak, fragile woods be- come hard, strong and stiff. California redwood and tide- water cypress with their lovely grain, color and texture, can be made sturdy and overcome the softness, virtues that be-- ‘rance Today But the strength of the Communists is such—and their leadership is so able—that you feel that these problems will be solyed without ruptur- ing the national unity which now exists, and without cre- ating probiems for the grand alliance as a whole. On the’ contrary, a new kind of France is emerging—strone and democratic. Hitherto, France has either been weak and re- actionary or strong and reac- tionary. In our time, the new lind of France has the chance of stabilizing itself and help- ing to show the way for all of Europe, thanks in large part to men like Maurice Thorez. come disabilities for some uses. Low-cost softies of the lum- ber world when transmuted be- come competitors of prized hard maple, oak and walnut in their natural state. The hard woods of our forest when urea- allowed serve like the dense tropical timbers imported from distant lands. j BHAUTIFUL colors that no tree ever dreamed of can be infused permanently through the wood. CGolorful wood to match any decorating scheme without recourse to paint is the result. Tough, scar-resisting colored floors matching the rugs or the room tone are now possible. g Other wood you will be using and seeing will be built up of thin sheets and small pieces, stuck together with various glues, resins and “gunks.”’ These are the plywoods, ve- neers and laminates of yester- year, vastly improved and re- modeled. Ordinary plywoods of the past were suitable for in- door use out of the wet. Mod- ern plywoods are the weather- resisting material of war craft, such as our own PT boats. The binders are now synthetie re- sins that set under heat and pressure and make a joining that is stronger than the wood itself, The development of phenolic resin glues which resist mois- ture and weather has made pos- sible large structures of lami- nated timbers, such as bridges and blimp hangars. Wood sheets as thin as 1/48 inch can be cemented to steel, aluminum or other sheet metal and the combination bent, cut and stamped. This wood-faced metal. will be used in paneling for walls in offices and homes, airplane cabins, streamlined trains. and even automobiles. And turn about, it is possible to bond a thin stainless steel sheet to a birch plywood base to r | make such things as 2 m kitchen sink that wall be- free and lighter than the ventional sort at about ~ fifth the cost. Sandwich ‘wood, which one kind of wood for a and another for surfacing: find new uses for wood. Al light balsa wood sandw: between a hardwod vene: used in building the B Mosquito bombers, and a ~ arly fabricated board ms sulate your future home, fee astonishing new m of gluing almost any to anything else, called welding,” works on wood a: as metal. When it is no i needed to replace rivets b millions in warplanes, it revolutionize many cons tion methods in peacetime duction. 5 Termites, insidious yn and that carelessly aban: highball glass do not harp kind ‘of built-in wood ¢ “impress” by scientists ol U.S. Forest Products La - tory who figured it out. S. of veneer are impresnated - a water solution of phi’ resin-forming; chemicals, then bended together with — This imprege, squeezed t its size during the heating ess, changes into “compre sturdy product used in the | for airplane propellers, ee that. must carry heavy and tool parts in aireratt _ tories. Because compreg | | naturally highly polished, tremely hard surface, ur | aged by water, alcohol or acids, it promises to appa the future in fine fur tables, the tops of bars. | floorms. "3 Wood which will alway tain its compressed thie when the atmosphere moi has dried out is made by tling up in the wood when — compressed the desired an of moisture:=/Called “stay: it is stronger than all com? JUMBO HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY THE FGI.AND JOHNNIE IS BEING HELD BY ANNIE _UNTIL HER CHIEF RETURNS. BUT WHEN JOHNNIE TAKES HER IN HIS ARMS, SHE DROPS HER REVOLNER---- OHHH, JOHNNIE! 1 DION'T KNOW YOU CARED! WHAT? Steg sce HAVE A OUT THE BACK DaoR, DATE WITH THE F.B.T. TO EXPLAIN YOUR. CONNECTION WITH THIS SPY-RING! AND SO THE ADVENTURE OF JUMBO AND THE SPy-GANG EN- AND AT LAST JOHNNIE GHIPS a: AFTER EVERNTHING HAS GEEN: 4: EXPLAINED TO THE CREW OFT ISTY QUEEN + = Sul | SOCKED YOU THAT TIMES meat PART OF THE FEI. 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