Vagabond Editorials

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I fear we always will. (If I don't have to scrap another one, however, it will suit me fine.)

I might add, in passing, that from what I have read about the depressions of the past, this one lacked a whole lot of being a champion for severity. It has lasted a long time; but others lasted longer. And this one witnessed the loss of a huge amount of money; but that was simply because we had more money to lose. In actual darkness and severity, this wasn't the worst of the American panics by a whale of a lot. Yes, all the banks have closed before; and that other time it was no Government-arranged "holiday." They folded up, that other time, and Congress had to pass a general bankruptcy law, and many states repudiated their public debts. Dark details of past panics are shudder-creating. **t

But why dwell on depressions of the past, except simply as a reminder that this depression is nothing new or novel; that we've had worse before; and that they were invariably followed by grand times for a long while. So will this aftermath be. Let us simply hope and trust that we remember some of the lessons we have-or should havelearned. For it is natural and inevitable that we have a decade of magnificent prosperity ahead of us now.

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Personally, I rejoice that the day of the salesman is returning; that we will enter into a glorious era of hustling, working, thinking, producing, selling such as we never knew before. That's the kind of times that give to life and business-a thrill.

Some men mourn at seeing competition come back. Non- sense ! When competition ends, efficiency dies, initiative disappears, and virility becomes only a name. We need competition to make men and things grow. Henry Ford remarked not long ago that "competition is a basic necessity in this country, in price, quality, and production."

Sure ! Competition builds mind and muscle; makes men and nations grow! ***

If there is anything that makes my blood boil it is to hear or read the jackassinine opinion that the good old days are never coming back because human invention, the machine age, and mass production have changed things around permanently, and we've got to find another route to travel. That statement always convinces me of just one thing, namely, that I have met one rnore guy with an atrophied brain; a petrified think-tank. I always feel like saying to the owner of such an opinion-"Go to work, you sad rascal, and forget it !" * * *

What a pitiful thing it is to think that just because we slipped into the trough of a business wave, human ingenuity must cease, human brains must stop functioning, and we must go back to raising our own food, spinning our own clothes, and living Chinese fashion from now on. Surely, in all God's great creation, nothing could be farther from the truth! ***

I like to think that I live in a land and belong in a generation whose future is ahead-not behind. I like to think that I live in a land where the glorious productions of the human mind are still in their infancy, and that generations and centuries of inventive genius of every worthy kind, beckon us on to higher concepts, and to greater progress.

IDEPENDABILITT-RIGHT PNIGES ANd GO}IPLETE 8TOCK8

Pulpits are of Quartered Oak in. tricately carved by hand.

Pews are made of Plain Oak.

Those who blame the machine age, mass production, and too much invention for conditions bf recent years' fail to state why mankind has known such conditions at frequent intervals for hundreds of years, long before invention had well started, the machine age had been thought of, or mass production invaded our civilization.

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Human invention hasn't really gotten well started yet. All worth-while invention brings benefits to the human race, and only the man who cannot see the forest for the trees, thinks otherwise. Only the whangdoodle mourns the crirnes of progress. This thinking nation is today starting on the pathway to a greater tomorrow.

Southern Lumberman On West Coast Trip

John Cox, sales manager of the Vaughan Lumber Co., Ifouston, Texas, spent a day in Los Angeles recently calling on their sales connections. He was enroute to the Northwest where he will spend a few weeks visiting the mills. The Vaughan Lumber Co. is one of the largest wholesale concerns in the South.

Change In Name

The name of the Lennox Lumber & Supply Co., Inglervood, has been changed to the Joslin Lumber Co. M. E' Joslin is the owner and manager.

Only the first rung of the ladder to the heights above, have our feet touched. The wise men are pressing for- | ward and upward, courage in their hearts and a litany on their lips, ready to wring frorn the future the greatness they know it possesses for them.

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Laws of lirnitation along the line of greater progress and usefulness are man-made, not God-made. We're going to have great times in this country during the coming decade.

The Good Book says: "The God of heaven He will prosper us, and we His children shall arise and build." But don't forget-it says "ARISE !"

BUYS S. S. BANDON

The Moore Mill & Lumber Co. has purchased the S. S. Bandon from the Willis Navigation Co. of Seattle. This vessel was formerly in the Alaska trade. The co,mpany also operates the S.S. Alvarado, and both vessels will be used in transporting lumber from the mill at Bandon, Ore., to California ports.

In New Location

The Diamond Match Co. has moved its yard from the old location at Suisun to its new premises at Fairfield. W. H. Lodge is manager.

Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers'

Read This Fascinating Story!

It'r atmort unbelievable-and yet it'r r lact that beautilul Philippine Mahogcny lay unappreciated, certainly unvalued, until the American occupation ol the Philippine lrlandg during the Spanirh'American War in 1898.

Here wag this vagt lote*, easily ranlting lirrt in thc tropicat world, not only in size but abundance and value-a wood rtrikingly beautiful in figure and luperb lor such important architectural and decorativc purpoler a3 interior trim, paneling, millworlt, doorl, etc.

Thir intererting, larcinating rtory ol Philipplne Mrhogany ir being told in ! ncw rcricr of bulletinr irrued by the Tradc Promotion Divirion of the Philippine Mahogany Manufacturctt' lmport Arn., Inc. Thrce rre alrcady of, the prerr. Scnd for therc threc numberr and ack ur to put your ntms on oul mailing lirt to rcceivc there bulletinr, to you mry read thir interc*ing, rerial rtory ol Philippinc Mahogany-itr charactcrirtics and applicationr.

A thorough knowledge of Philippine Mahogcny will make money lor you.