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- Hey you mugs, uh, I mean, gentlemen.
Well, well, it's Laurel and Hardy, as if I didn't know.
Hello boys, this is Pete Smith, as if you didn't know.
Say, I'd like your help here for a minute, do you mind?
No, of course not.
I just want you lads to show the audience
how much wood the average person totes.
Wood, got any?
No, like most guys, you don't realize
how many articles made of wood products you carry around.
For instance, that newspaper.
Yeah, that newspaper is largely made of trees, wood pulp.
Of course, most people know that,
but many people don't know that a lot of other objects
come from a wood base.
Take Stan's glasses.
The rims are plastic.
About 60% of plastic is wood flour.
Powdered wood, my friends.
Got a fountain pen?
Just as I thought, plastic barrels.
Okay, gents, anything else in your pockets?
Be careful of fish hooks, Stan.
A billfold.
Imitation leather made with cellulose acetate,
a wood product.
Uh-oh, what's up?
Why, Mr. Laurel.
Oh sure, your wife's, of course.
Anyway, they're rayon, another wood product.
Well, what else, boys? A cigarette case?
A plastic, also a cigarette holder.
More plastic.
Anymore wood, my lads?
(clanging)
No, but there's wood in his hat, the sweatband.
Right, more imitation leather.
(twanging)
A new spring hat, eh?
More? Yeah, a pipe, the bowl of which is wood.
The stem, plastic.
Book matches.
These matches are wood pulp, so is the cover.
It's amazing the amount of wood we use.
Ain't it the truth?
And now, a penknife.
The handle, plastic.
Let's see what's in the suitcase, boys.
The suitcase, do you mind?
That's it, let's see what we have here.
Any slippers?
Yes, here we are.
They're real leather like your shoes and belt,
but tanned and made durable by tan bark from the forest.
Then, too, the counters and insoles are wood fiber.
Okay, Ollie, let's proceed.
Wood in bottles?
Well, Hardy, uh, hardly, no pun intended.
Anyway, witch hazel and cascara are just two
of several hundred drugs and remedies from trees.
Next, an imitation leather toilet case.
Mirror with plastic back.
Brush back is plastic.
Bristles of both brushes are cellulose plastic.
This bottle top is plastic.
So is soap container.
Bath sponge is cellulose plastic
and I'm not at all surprised.
Hey Stan, what else you got?
Come, come, fellas.
Don't tell you're running out of plastics.
Let's take a look at some more of your junk.
Uh, I mean, your nice things.
Ah, a razor, handle is plastic as are most electric shavers.
Ouch, that blade ain't no plastic, bub.
And now, writing paper,
scratch pad,
envelopes,
and book, all wood pulp, kiddies.
Pajamas are rayon and rayon is a wood product, remember?
Hey, what you got there, chum?
Oh, shorts, eh? More rayon.
But Stan, such colors!
(Hardy laughs)
And now, a shirt,
tie,
and socks, all rayon.
Say, the suitcase.
Yeah, even that's made out of laminated wood
covered with canvas.
And it's a good thing these lads didn't come around here
with a trunk.
We'd be here for days.
Oh boys, you can go now.
Goodbye Stan, so long Oliver, and thanks very much, guys.
Darn nice of you to help.
Hey!
Oh well, they need exercise anyway.
- Goodbye now and thanks to you Pete Smith.
This is Lee Vickers carrying on.
Well, Laurel and Hardy little realize the importance of wood
to their daily lives.
And I wonder if most of us know just how important
forests and research are to the winning of this war.
The answer may be found at Madison, Wisconsin,
where the United States Forest Service
maintains its Forest Products Laboratory.
Here, for years has been carried on
a broad program of research
to increase uses of forest products
and find new uses for waste materials.
Here's where they figuratively put the tree in a test tube.
(mellow music)
Research makes very important contributions
to our welfare not only during peacetime,
but doubly so in wartime.
Without flash or fanfare, these men patiently carry on.
Engineers, foresters, scientists, chemists
practicing their magic, searching out ways
to make our warplanes lighter and therefore, faster,
pressing together thin veneers of wood,
developing materials suitable for training planes
with a strength comparable to that of steel.
No glue is used and it comes out with a piano finish.
This saves time.
This compregnated slab is strong enough
to bear the weight of a four-ton elephant,
believe or not.
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And here it is, an all-wood training plane,
light, sure, swift, and safe.
Even the gas tank is wood.
Research has determined the best woods for pontoon bridges.
The planking and rails are light,
but strong enough to take terrific punishment.
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A shortage of material for gas mask charcoal
was answered by our chemists
finding a better charcoal and an improved filter paper.
Wood for horse-drawn artillery must be tough and light.
A pound may still be only 16 ounces,
but at the end of a day, it seems more.
Shipping cases for food and other war material are tested.
This is called a shinnying machine.
(fanfare continues)
Cases for rifles and other munitions must be strong
and every inch saved means more cargo space
and cargo space is very important to our lend-lease program.
These are some of the little things that help to win a war.
Wood cellulose is an essential element in gunpowder.
Research for greater efficiency is continuous.
Barracks to house our soldiers and trucks to move them,
all wood or partly wood.
Mess halls, recreation halls, armories.
Here is a laminated arch with a span of 84 feet.
It will rest on the walls without further support.
A laboratory triumph.
The steel it replaced can now go into a battleship.
Some 30 types of skis were put through grueling tests.
Now, when our boys start out for ski patrol
on distant mountains, they can feel confident
their skis are dependable.
(fanfare continues)
Forests and forest products are indispensable.
America should make sure they are produced
abundantly and perpetually.
America should develop from its forests
new uses, new industries,
so that when these boys come home again,
there will be a job for each one of them.
(fanfare continues)
To help do this, to produce better war supplies
for the front, and most important of all,
to help teach pirate nations that the American people
hold those liberties conceived by our patriot forefathers,
baptized in precious blood at Valley Forge,
at San Juan Hill, at Chateau-Thierry, and at Pearl Harbor,
those liberties so jealously guarded
by our national government,
more important than life itself,
that is the number one job
of the men at the Forest Products Laboratory,
the men behind the men behind the guns.
Let us too help keep it flying.
(fanfare continues)