The Kid Has Gone To The Colors

By W. M. Herschell

The Kid has gone to the Colors, And we don't know what to say; The Kid we have loved and cuddled Stepped out for the Flag today, We thought him a child, a baby, With never a care at all, But his country called him mansize, And the Kid has heard the call.

He paused to watch the recruiting Where, fired by the fife and drum, He bowed his head to Old Glory And thought that it whispered: "Come !"

The Kid, not being a quitter, Stood forth with patriot-joy

To add his name to the rosterAnd, God, we're proud of the boy !

The Kid has gone to the Colors; It seems but a little while Since he drilled a schoolboy arrny In a truly martial style. But now he's a man, a soldier, And we lend him listenir,rg ear, For his heart is a heart all loyal, Unscourged by the curse of fear.

His dad, when he told him, shuddered, His mother-God bless her !-cried; Yet, blest with a mother-nature, She wept with a mother-pride. But he whose old shoulders straightened Was Granddad-for memory ran To years when he, too, a youngster, Was changed by the Flag to a man !

OPA Amends Schedule on Douglas Fir Doors

San Francisco, Dec. ?9-An amendment making changes in the schedule of ceiling prices on Douglas fir doors was issued today in Washington, it was learned here by Harry Camp, regional director of the Office of Price Administration.

The Amendment, which becomes effective January 1, 1942, was issued by OPA director Leon Henderson. It will make the following changes:

1. Manufacturers are permitted to charge two point shorter basic discount from list prices to buyers who did not receive the seller's prevailing maximum discounts during the first nine months of. 1941. The basic discount contained in the original schedule remains unchanged for those purchasers who received the seller's prevailing maximum discount during this period.

2. The extra amount allowed for F-5 and F-ll7l raised panel house doors is increased from 10 cents to 25 cents.

3. Maximum price of one type of garage doors is lowered by 50 cents for the l/s inch thickness to jobbers and a new price is provided for dealers 50 cents higher than the jobber price.

4. The record requirements are clarified by a provision stating that any manufacturer who sells, or any buyer who purchases more than one thousand dollars worth of fir doors in any month after December, 1941, must keep records of all sales or purchases made during that month.

Red River Lumber Co. Gives Bonus

Westwood, Calif., Dec. 2S.-Employees of the Red River Lumber Company today were in line for a defense bonus of.2l cents an hour after January 1.

In addition the company has announced it will grant one week vacation rvith pay for all employees with 1400 hours time worked by June 30, L942.

WITH REDWOOD SALES CO.

Louis Ehling, who has been for the past several years with the California Redwood Association, is now in the sales department of the Redwood Sales Company, San Francisco.