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JONES GrRL

When Jones little girl was born, She set their hearts all a-futter; They named her oleomargarine, For they haven't any but her. HER

Lots Of Folks Have

Jim: "Who's your cook now?"

John: "Della."

Jim: "Della who?"

John: "Della Katessen."

Driving A Nail

"Don't yez know yit how to drive a nail widout mashin' yer thumb?" asked Pat of Mike. "IIow?"

"Hould the hammer handle wid both hands."

The Transportation Of Ancient Eastern Woods

Wood technologists a generation and more ago pulled wooden door beams out of the mud that covered forgotten cities near the mouth of the Euphrates River in the ancient country of Chaldea, and identified the species of wood. The identification brought much surprise for the wood proved to belong to forests growing only in the Andaman Islands in the remote East Indies. It was mute testimony to the high importance placed on wood as a building material in remote antiquity; for the route which ships must have taken to carry the timbers before the invention of the compass, followed the whole coast of India a distance of about 7,O00 miles each way or a total of about 14,000 miles for a cargo of this planking. The ships of those days could not have carried more than ten or twelve thousand feet at a time, and it is conservatively figured that each such trip would have required about two years to make. We know nothing of freight charges six thousand years ago when this building was estimated to have been done-three thousand years before the days of Nebuchadnezzar-but that must have been very, very experlsive building material, even at the lowest possible rates.

Suspicious

The man at the restaurant table was suspicious. He looked hard, then sniffed, at the little yellow cube which the waiter had placed in front of him on a butter dish. Then he picked up his knife in one hand and the bread in the other, and remarked: "I take thee for butter or worse."

Laugh

-like a boy at splendors that have fledTo vanished joys be blind and deaf and dumb; By judgments seal the dead past with its dead, But never bind a moment yet to come.

He Knew Why

First Drunk: "Shay! I can't shee a thing."

Second Drunk: "My God! Wassa matter?"

First Drunk: "Got my eyes shut."

A Recipe For Living

Win someone's trrraise-and then be square enough, To make rnen call him truthful who has said The fine things of you. Surely it were rough To heap humiliation on the head

Of him who guaranteed you sterling stuff.

Make people love you-then deserve their love, With all the might you have, or can acquire, From earthly sources, and that Source above Whence emanate the things all men admire. Be serpent-wise though gentle as the dove.

Get all you can from others-then prevent Those others from regretting what they gave.

Pay eager usury to him who lent The cheering word that made you strong and brave. Grant things you kindly said were kindlier meant.

Reach out and get-don't hesitate at this, If you reach out as avidly to give.

Pray there may be no serving chance you miss; Let live as willingly as you would live. Then eaxth, as well as heaven, will bring you bliss. -StricHand Gililand.

Rubaiyat of Nomor Rentum Forest Rangers Report Fire Season Closed

Wake ! For the hour that dost thy soul affright Has shot a bolt that puts all joy to flight; Lo, before thy door the landlord takes his standA silhouette that dims the dawning light.

Come, pay the rent and though the days are fair, Thy winter garment still with meekness wear; The bird of'time will round the circle fly And bring another "first" ere thou'rt aware.

"How large and fine the niftey flat"-thi,nk some, Others-"a rented house doth us become !"

Ah, keep the cash, and build thyself a Home; March not in lock step to a "rent day" drum.

Think, in each stately caravanserai

Whose doorways swing about by night and day, How tenant after tena,nt in his pride Abode a month or two and went his way.

Thyself didst move from that place unto this Intrigued by "Welcome" on a luzzy mal, Paid rent for that which one can never own And found the prospect somewhat stale and flat.

And lastly, by the hall room door agape

There stood in peevish mood a portly shape, Bearing a rent bill in his hand, alas ! To bid us pay !-And there was no escape.

Ah, then ! we did with fate a"nd wit conspire To change this sordid scheme of life entireTo oust the incubus that dogged our days And Build a Home nearer my heart's desire.

-A. Merriam Conner.

\(/estern Retailers' Annual Feb. 19-21

The 3fth annual convention of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association will be held at the Hotel Davenport, Spokane, Wash., February l9-2G21, 1942. A business program on subjects of immediate concern to all retail lumbermen is planned. There will be many entertainment features, and the annual banquet and dance will be held Saturday night, February 21.

San Francisco.-IJncle Sam's national forest rangers and supervisors of the California Region breathed deeply and thankfully as they rode the range, scaled logs, developed public recreational facilities or planned postwar forestry and agricultural projects.

And with good reason. The forest fire season now is well over in each of the 18 national forests of California and southwestern Nevada, and Forest Service records show an unusually low number of man-caused fires for the year.

"That's good news to rangers," declared Regional Forester S. B. Show, "because it reveals that the public is becoming fire prevention qen5siegs-an important factor in safeguarding scenic recreational resources for the 10 million vacationists who annually visit the national forests of the California Region."

This season's man-caused fires in the national forests of the region totaled 766, compared to 874 last year and an annual average of 890 for the past five years.

Lightning started 847 forest fires during 1941.

Cost of suppressing the current year's fires, which burned 103,400 acres, amounted to $600,000 for labor, subsistence, transportation and equipment.

Regional Forester Show credited public enlightenment through press, radio, magazines, commercial advertising, and the educational work of conservationists and public spirited organizations for the fire prevention improvement record.

Additional DefenseHousing Authorized for California

Washington, !an. 24.-Additional defense housing units for California today had been authorized under the recent Presidential allocation, it was announced here by Charles F. Palmer, coordinator of defense housing.

The Federal Works Agency has been instructed to proceed immediately with the construction of 3,000 demountable houses, and the Farm Security Agency with 1,500 dormitory units, at Mare Island, Vallejo.

The FSA has also received instructions to build at once 50 trailers for Benicia. California.

6,500,000 feet annually.

This concern started in the box business in 1923 and built its sawmill at Kyburz, Calif., in 1933.

The sawmill cuts 25,000,000 feet a year, of which 55 per cent is Ponderosa Pine, 35 per cent is Sugar Pine, and 10 per cent is Fir and Cedar.

P. V. Burke is president of Sacramento Box & Lumber

PURCHASE McCLEARY TIMBER CO. PROPERTIES

McCleary Timber Co. of McCleary, Wash., have sold their properties to the Simpson Logging Co. of Shelton and Seattle, Wash. The properties include the sawmill at Shelton, plywood plant and sash and door factory at McCleary. Simpson Logging Co. have large tirnber holdings, logging about 800,000 feet a day, and operate a mill at Shelton. Their timber holdings assure continued operation of the McCleary mills for many years. South Sound Lumber Sales Inc. of Los Angeles, who were exclusive representatives in Southern California for the McCleary Timber Co., will continue as representatives in that territory for the Simoson interests.