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They Were All Listed

The papers carried a story recently about the young soldier home on furlough who heard some folks kicking about taxes, and who smilingly remarked: "You folks don't know what taxes are, yet. Wait until we twelve million service men start getting our pensions."

And that recalled one of the grand old stories of the Civil War. Two old veterans, one of the Union and the other the Confederate army, got to talking about the Civil War. They fought it all over again, step by step, but, while the debate waxed hot it nevertheless remained friendly. Finally the Union vet used that good old clincher:

Refurns To Wqshington

Stuart Smith, in charge of the Western Softwoods Section of the Lumber Branch, Office of Price'Administration, Washington, D. C., left for the East on February 13 following a three weeks' business trip on the Pacific Coast.

"Well, John, w6 won the war, didn't we?"

The old Confederate thought that over for a minute, and then said:

"Yes, you did. But according to the records you comc mighty nigh to losing it."

The other wanted to know:

"What records you talking about?"

The veteran in grey said:

"The federal pension records. According to them records every man in the Union army must have GONE HOME WOUNDED.''

Cclifornia Visitor

W. R. Morris, eastern sales manager, IJnion Lumber Company, with headquarters in New York, has been a recent visitor at the .company's head office in San Francisco, the mill at Fort Bragg, Calif., and the Los Angeles office.

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