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Daniel Webster's Address to the FIag

"When my eyes shcll be turned to behold lor the lcst time the sun in hecrven" mcy I not aee him shining on the broken cnd dishonored frcrgnents of cr once glorious unior-* on stqtes dissevered, discordcmt, belligerent,' on cr lcrnd rent with civil feuds or drenched, it mcry be, in fraterncrl bloodl Let their lcst leeble curd lingering glcnces rcrther behold the gorgeous ensigm of the Republic, now hown crnd honored throughout the ecrth, siill lull high cd. vcrnced, its crms crnd trophies stresnti-" in their origincl lustre, not cr stripe erqsed or polluted, not cr single gtqr obscured, becrring lor its motto no such interrogcrtory crs-'Whct is crll this worth?'-nor those other words of delusion crnd lolly-'Liberty lirst cnd union cdter. wqrds',' but everywhere, sprecrd cll over in chcrcrcters ol living light, blczing on crll its crrnple lolds crs they lloat over the secr crnd over the lcnd cmd in every wind under the whole hecrvens, ihct other sentiment decrr to every Americcrn hecrrt-Liberty cnd Union, now .'nd lorever, one crnd insepcrcblel"

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Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club Elect Officers War Has Not Stopped Home Building

Geoge E. Ream, George E. Ream Co., Los Angeles, was elected fresident of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2 at the monthly meeting held on December 11. Other officers elected were: R. S. Osgood, Frieder Brothers, Los Angeles, vice-president, and Fred E. Golding, Anglo California Lumber Co., Los Angeles, secretary-treasurer.

D. C. Essley, D. C. Essley & Son, Los Angeles, was named vicegerent snark for the Southern California-Arizona district.

All the new ofiicers addressed the meeting, discussing Hoo-Hoo activities for the coming year. Harold Alberto, the Gay Deceiver, entertained the group with his amusing stories and tricks of magic.

Lumber Deliveries From Northwest

Deliveries of lumber from the Northwest to California ports for the mohth of November totaled 65,842,800 feet, according to reports by 14 companies to the Pacific Lumber Carriers' Association, San Francisco.

Deliveries to the various ports were as

San Francisco

Santa Barbara

Hueneme

Los Angeles

San Diego

Total . ....65,842,800

John W. Fisher, Fisher-Swartz Lumber Co., Santa Monica, and past president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, states that the war with Japan has not stopped building activity in Southern California.

"We have more jobs going this month than in any December for a good many years," Mr. Fisher said.

With the Federal government now spending half a million dollars on the expansion of the Douglas Aircraft Company's plant facilities in Santa Monica by the erection of a new warehouse and freight yard, local home builders expect that the demand for defense housing facilities will increase rather than diminish.

FHA Sets New Hish

Capt. Wilson G. Bingham, Southern California district director of the Federal Housing Administration, announced a new November high in the number of applications received by the Los Angeles FHA for home building loan insurance.

The month recorded a total of. 22D applications for insurance of home mortgages amounting to $9,383,000, as compared with the previous November high in 1938, when 2179 applications with mortgages totaling $9,695,0@ were received.

L. A. Wholesalers Have Christmas Party

The Los Angeles wholesatre lumbermen held their annual Christmas Party at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, Thursday noon, December 18. There wps a large attendance and after luncheon there were several impromptu talks and group singing. The Christmas spirit predominated and the gathering departed r,vith pleasant memories of a delightful party.