The Game Guy's Prayer

(From the Sept. 1, 1931, issue of The California Lumber Merchant. Reprinted by request.)

Dear God: Help me to be a sport in this little game of life. I don't ask for any easy place in the line-up; play me anywhere You need me. I only ask for the stuff to give You one hundred per cent of what I've got. If all the hard drives come my way, I thank you for the compliment. But help me to remember that YOU

WON'T EVER LET ANYTHING COME MY WAY THAT YOU AND I TOGETHER CAN'T HANDLE.

And help me to take the bad breaks as part of the game. Help me to understand that the game is full of hard knocks and trouble and make me thankful for them. Help me to get so that the harder they come the better I like it.

And, Oh God, help me to'always play on the square. No matter what the other players do, help me to come clean. Help me to study the Book so that I'll know the rules, and to study and think a lot about the Greatest Player that ever lived, and other great players that are told about in the Book. If they found out that the best part of the game was helping other guys who were out of luck, help me to find it, too. Help me to be a regular feller with the other players.

Finally, Oh God, if fate seems to uppercut me with both hands and I'm laid on the shelf in sickness or old age or something, help me to take that as part of the game, too. Help me not to whimper or squeal that the game was a frame-up, or that I had a raw deal.

When, in the falling dusk, I get the final bell, I ask for no lying complimentary stone. I'd only like to know that YOU feel that I've been a good, game guy.

NEIL C. JAMTSON VISTTS SOUTHLAND

Neil C. Jamison, of Everett, Washington, has returned home after spending a month visiting in Los Angeles and vicinity. He is head of the Jamison Lumber & Shingle Company, and is likewise in the commercial logging business in the Northwest.

Scrim Recommends Philippine Mahogany, Teak and lronbark for Boat Building

Walter G. Scrim, of Los Angeles, who imports Philippine and other fine hardwoods and distributes them all over the United States, is making his annual drive for boat material sales at the present time. All over the country boat building is starting, and will soon be in full fling wherever boats are used.

For boat building materiais Mr. Scrim stocks in large quantities at San Pedro, Philippine Mahogany, Teak from Siam, and Ironbark from Australia, three wonderful boat building materials. For the ordinary pleasure craft he recommends Philippine Mahogany, which is beautiful in appearance, light in weight, is little affected by either sun or water, and from which practically the entire boat can be built.

For the more expensive yachts he recommends Teak for decking and various other purposes. For ordinary work boats, such as fishing boats, tugs, etc., he recommends Australian Ironbark, famous for its strength, durability, wearing qualities, and all around hard work hardwoods.

Lumber dealers along the coast towns of the country do a splendid business for the next several months selling boat materials, and there is splendid opportunity for creating business along this line.

G. E ANDERSON JR. MAKES BUSTNESS TRIP

G. E. Anderson, Jr., sales manager of the Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., has returned from a two weeks' business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

When in San Francisco Mr. Anderson conferred with J. E. Peggs, Northern California sales representative of his company, and in Los Angeles with Don H. Doud, Southern California representative.

Call On Arizona Trade

H. W. Swafford and Joe Tardy, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, have returned from a week's trip to Arizona rvhere they called on the trade. Mr. Tardy, who was a member of the Arizona retail lumber family for many years, will henceforth represent the company in Arizona.