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OAK TREES
because lhe uniform qualify of Oak in the lree has a lol lo do with the uniform +ixture and color of Oak in the floor.
At the lef+ is a close-up, phoiographed In the hea* of a typical stand of gRlOtEY'S oak' timber. No timber of greater uniformity grorvs.
Below is a panel of "BRADLEY BRAND" Clear Plain Red Oak Floorinq. produced from this timber. No Oak Flooring of g.e"i"i uniformity is produced.
The process bv which trees like these, are converted info floor'inq like this, embraces all the skill which BRADLEY has aciuired in a business lifetime devoted to the manu{aclure' of uniformly fine floorinE. Yet, without resting on the laurels of a'reputaiion foi excellence, BRADLEY has constanfly slriven for improvemeni through diligent research . '. in drying, seisoning and refining. .Tll" results of that research have been incorporaled in "BRADLEY BRAND" Oak Flooring as rapidly as each developmenf proved its worth as a practical improv-e' ment. so fhat todav "BRADLEY BRAND" represenis the highest standard of comparison in uniform hardwood flooring value.
Rely, fhen, on "BRADLEY BRAND" Oak Flooring, for il meets every specification for lexture, color, grade, quality and refinement factors upon which you can depend fo help you profit in the relurn of building activity now fully under way .. facfors which will build your orvn reputation as a dealer in Oak Flooring of sustained uniform excellence.
He is a man who always likes to mark The books he reads, with lines for emphasis, Calling attention to some rare remark Which coincides in point of view, with his. He pencils heavily along a page What strikes his fancy, or provokes his wit, And any thought that he considers sage, Carries approving marks in front of it.
-Helen Rowland Prommel. t*)k
Don't know who this lady author is, but when I read that stanza it seemed like she must have been watching me read. Because every book of my own that I read, finishes up with nearly as many pencil marks as printer's marks. And that's the chief reason why I seldom read a borrowed book. The owner doesn't appreciate the penciled footnotes. Have you that habit, gentle reader? It's lots of fun, and puts more zest in your reading. ***
Guess that's why I've lost the habit of reading modern fiction. Nothing impressive or colorful to underscore with pencil. Besides, I'm so far behind with the books I have marked down for reading sooner or later, that it would require the years of Methuselah to furnish sufiEcient reading time. Have taken some time recently to dig into the most interesting history of Greece and Italy, now that those two nations are locked in mortal combat. If you, friend reader, haven't time to do a lot of such historical digging bu.t would like to get the background of these nations and peoples, get Well's Outline of History, and you can get caught up with the story of Greece and Rome without spending weeks to do so. And, if you like history, you'll get a great thrill out of the narrative. ***
You will find that there is nothing new about the Italians and Greeks warring against one another. They've been doing so since about three hundred years B. C. If you'll start back about 750 years B. C. you will find that Central Italy was peopled by a dark-skinned white people who had Iong been there, a Mediterranean race. Northern Italy was peopled by brown-skinned Etruscais. Southern Italy and the Island of Sicily was peopled by Greeks. So many were there that they called that region "Magna Graecia"-Great- er Greece. They warred for the first time, the Greeks and Romans, in the year 290 B. C. That was when the great Grecian King of Epirus came over to lead the Sou.thern Italy Greeks against the Romans. I{is name was pyrrhus. Three battles they fought in that first war. pyrrhus won the first two, decisively, but each time lost so many men that he declared that one more such victory and he would be destroyed. FIe was, for the third time the Romans overwhelmed him, and he went back to Epirus. But that is where we get the world famous phrase, a "Pyrrhic victory.,' He won great battles, but lost the war. That was the start of war in which the Romans and the Greeks have engaged many times from then on.
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And it is worth remembering that the Italian nation that today is fighting Greece is a composite of the Romans and other races of.22 centuries ago, and the Greeks who populated Southern ltaly. These fighting nations of today are really distant cousins.
The history of Greece ;a;":" is literally heaped high with colorful men who did interesting things, and made remarkable remarks. About 390 B. C. a tough guy named Brennus led an army of wild Gauls into Italy, and conquered Rome itself. The Romans paid him off, and he took his army and departed" But when they were weighing the ransom gold on a balance scale, an argument rose as to the fairness of the counterweights Brennus was using. Angered the Gaul leader drew his sword and threw it into the scale on top of the questioned counterweights, saying: "Voe victus !" ("'Woe to the vanquished.") That saying became immortal. In the early days of the United States Senator William Marcy made a political crack that has likewise achieved something of immortality. Henry Clay, the great Kentuckian, was criticizing the federal government's distribution of political favors, when Senator Marcy replied: "To the victor belongs the spoils." The gentleman had undoubtedly been reading the remark of Brennus.
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This colurnn expressed the opinion months ago when the defense program was in its infancy, that the lumber industry nationally was much better equipped to furnish a
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Wherc Quality Sfarts
From extensive virgin forests in the region noted for growth of solt, even textured pine, comes the "Poul Bunyctn" product. Soft Ponderosct cmd Sugcr Pine cut by selective logging. Milled, kilnsecrsoned qnd remqnufqctured under yecr round production.
Red River ships complete qssortments of industriql crnd building items. Straight ccrs or mixed ccns.
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INCENSE CEDAR PENCIT AND BUND STATS
The Red River
VESTWOOD, CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
Saler O6ce: 715 Vertern Paci6c Bldg., lOSl So. Broadwey
Warehoure: L. C. L. Wholerale, 7O2 E. Slauson Ave.
SAN FRANCISCO
Saler Office: 315 Monadnocl Building
OAKLAND
Seler Odce: 908 Financid Center Building
MEMBER WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION
This Mark Means
TUMBER "'ITH - PIUS
Wolmanized Lumber* has that plus value: ability to withstand decay and termite attack. It is endun'ngr lumbermade enduring by pressure treatrnent with WoLnan Salts* preservative.
Subiected to alternate vacuum and hydraulic pressure in large steel cyliuders, the wood becomes deeply saturated with these preservatives. Washing-out or leaching is prevented by "fibre-fixation." The finished lumber is clean, odorless and easy to handle. It can be painted.
Wolmanized Lumber is produced at many plants lhroughout the country. Strict technical control and exacting specilications assure unilormity of product. It is sold through regrutrar kade channels under the one identifying name. AI'IERICAN IIIMBER & TREAIING COMPAIIY, 1648 McCormick Building, Chicago, Illinois. t8cgiltercd TradoMarl
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(Continued from Page 6.1 tremendous amount of emergency lumber than it had ever been before, particularly as compared with its ability to do so at the time of the World War. Time seems to have proven the correctness of that opinion. A much greater volume and percentage of dry lumber is now available than ever before, due to the rapid developrnent in the past decade in the building and improvement of dry kilns. In addition, good highways in every direction has helped the mills to give splendid service in the matter of delivery. Many an army or other defense unit under construction has been able to get its immediate lumber needs in almost no time at all. Twenty years ago it took time to dry, dress, and deliver lumber even short distances. Not now. When you sign an order for lumber nowadays, you must make room for the lumber, because it doesn't wait.
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Which reminds me of ; ;J football story. A Texas gentleman has a colored chauffeur that is REALLy a football fan. Ife can tell you right offhand the name and. position of every player in the Southwest Conference. He knows the weight, ability, and football habits of them all. One day several white men were shooting questions at him about these football teams, and listening with amazement and amusement to his prompt and interesting replies. Finally one of them said: "Now, tell us about Texas A. & M." He said: "Well, Cap'n, dat A. & M. team is a good, strong, all-around team what kin play any kine o' football; but dey's got a fullback named Kimbrough WHAT DON'T \ /AIT." Which is the best descriptipn of Kimbrough I have ever heard. And also a good description of lumber transportation as we find it nowadays.
When a well informed:J*:-"" declared about sixty
Christmas Fund Generously Supported
Announcement is made by East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 that the 194O Good-Fellowship Christmas Fund received lO5 subscriptions rvith a total of 9610.00.
The campaign committee for 194O consisted of George Clayberg, chairman, Bob Cook, Frank Brown and Ed La Franchi.
The administration and disbursement committee is as follows: Thos. T. Branson, president; Jas. B. Overcast, past president; Carl R. Moore, treasurer; C. I. Gilbert and B. E. Bryan.
HAL EWART VISITS S. F.
Hal Ewart of Portland, Ore., Northwest representative of Atkinson-Stutz Co., San Francisco, was in San Francisco for a few days at the first of the year to confer with this concern's principals. Mrs. Ewart accompanied him on the trip.
days ago with regard to prospective lumber orders for defense needs that "We ain't seen nothing yet" it seemed like he might be mentally meandering. But time has proven that he was not. Lumber orders great and small for every department of the defense program continue to pour in, and the lumber industry continues to be hugely helped by same. Untold millions of feet of lumber and timbers have been bought, the need of which could not have been even anticipated two months ago. The weather man has proven in many instances to be a severe impediment to the builders of training camps, etc., but like the "ill wind that blows" some good to someone, has helped the lumbermen. Unusually wet weather has made building slow and difficult in many places, and necessitated the use of millions upon millions of feet of wooden planking to build wooden highways to and through the camps so that construction might continue. A great deal of 3-inch planking has been quickly cut and delivered for such purposes. And these are only a few of the cases where lumber has profited and been able to furnish needed service. When a camp site becomes boggy, nothing but planks can quickly build highways to allow the work to go forward.
Probably next to steel, lo l"J" ,"ur"try has been more benefited by the defense program, than lumber. The demand has naturally permeated every root and branch of the industry, the production industry at least, and seems not to have done a great deal of harm to domestic building. There is, of course, difference of opinion on that score, some retail lumbermen contending that ordinary home building has been retarded by the rush of the defense program. But the general tone of the industry at the present moment is most excellent, both as to hardwoods and softwoods, and the industry looks forward to the best year it has known since the twenties.
Sam Nigh Enters Retail Business
Sam H. Nigh, who for the past five and a half vears has represented Shevlin Pine Sales Compan.v: at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has gone into partnership with Lloyd M. Hebbron of the Hebbron Lumber Company, Santa Cruz. The business is norv operated under the name of Hebbron-Nigh Lumber Company. Mr. Hebbron is president and Mr. Nigh is secretary of the company.
Injured In Bus Crash
William Buchwald, foreman of the sash department of Eureka Sash Door & Moulding Mills, San Francisco, 'r,vas one of eleven persons injured when a San Rafael-San Francisco commuter bus crashed into the rear of a 15-ton truck and trailer in a dense fog on the Waldo approach to the Golden Gate Bridge, January 3.
Mr. Buchwald, t hose home is in Fairfax, Nlarin County, sustained compound fractures of both legs.
Sees Increased Demand for Commertial Remodelins in 1941
1941 will see an appreciable widening in the demand for commercial remodeling and a sizable increase in business opportunities for dealers and contractors who are modernization-minded, in the opinion of Henry W. Collins, vice president in charge of merchandising of The Celotex Corp.
"With business on the upsr,ving in all lines, and competition keen for the increased volume of retail business, even' store, showroom and office that has become out of date is a prospect for a bright, new, attractive interior and exterior," he pointed out.
"During 1941, commercial jobs should be easy to sell. Tl-re initial outlay on the commercial job is not just an expenditure, as it is rvith the home owner, but an investment that will bring cash returns.
"The rapid increase in acceptance of insulating interior finishes during the past few years broadens this field for the rvide-arvake contractor tremendously. Stores, theatres. restaurants. taverns, showrooms. and offices all present ready markets for these finishes to contractors who go after this type of business.
"Because we feel the commercial remodeling market represents an important part of. l94l business, b'oth to lumber dealers and contractors, we are no\,\r preparing a special program of merchandising and application helps. These rvill be ready for distribution shortly af'ter the first of the year."
Kiwanis Club Guests of Lumber Company
The Kirvanis Club of Canoga Park rvere the guests of the Hammond Lumber Company, Tuesdal', December 17, lr.hen they held their meeting in the nerv ofifices of the company's Canoga Park yard. Dick Speer. manager of the yard. u.orked up a fine menu for the occasion and they rvere served a delicious plank steak meal.
Neil Mclennan sang solos, accompanied on the piano by Miss Margaret fngram. Wayne Bechtelheimer lead the group in singing "America" with l\[rs. Ruth Parkinson at the piano. W. I. Poulter, in charge of branch yards of the Hammond Lumber Company, and Dick Speer, addressecl the meeting. Dr. Thompson was chainnan. Follorving the meeting, the guests inspected the nerv ofrfices.
New Company Takes Over Empire Mill
A ne'iv company, Cape Arago Lumber Company, has been organized to take over the Empire Lumber Company's mill at Empire on Coos Bay, Oregon.
R. T. Moore, Bandon, Ore., is president of the ner\r concern. N. E. Johnson. IIarshfield, is vice-president; J. B. Bedingfield. Marshfield, is secretary and W. J. Srveet, Bandon, is treasurer.
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D.H. Miller, superintendent and general manager of N{oore Mill & Lumber Co., will hold a similar position with Cape Arago Lumber Co.
It is expected that the plant will be ready to start operation in the spring.