Modernization TriplesValue

round trip between home and place of employment more of an excursion than a time-using ordeal. Bus service made shopping trips and going to school easy and simple for the family.

"With sharp restrictions on civilian transportation in effect, old dwellings near industrial plants, stores and schools are again attractive. I\fost of them can be modernized and repaired without undue use of critical metals. When a majority of the dwellings in an old residential neighborhood are renewed the values of the rvhole district will rise. In such cases housing rehabilitation programs which have been planned as post-war projects may get going right now."

A "Home Remaking" booklet will be mailed free upotl postcard request to Northern California Homes Foundation, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, Calif., and Southern California Homes Foundation, 1348 "E" Street, San Diego, Calif.

\(/illiam M. Gunton

William M. Gunton, well-known lumberman and father of Howard M. Gunton of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, passed away in Chicago on February 4.

Nowhere does lack of imagination cost more than in old house ownership. If owners of Grover Cleveland period homes, like this, could shut their eyes and visualize the attractive, modern cottage that could be created from such an old homestead, there would be less value lost in real cstate depreciation and money spent on wrecking operations.

Tte complete transformation of this old house was accomPlished through the use of morc imagination than money. On an average, a dollar spent on modernization jobs like this can represent three dollars earned in increased real estate vatue. ManY old homes can be instantly improved merely by changing t'dated" lines and by replacing old-fashioned millwork.

War necessities which are now enforcing reduction o{ travel may prove to be a blessing in disguise, Northern and .Southern California Homes Foundations hope, in an outline .of opportunities for "home remaking" in older residential neighborhoods of cities and towns.

"Even in small centers of population districts in which iromes u'ere first built have lost value in most cases because of the rise of industries nearby," Bernard B. Barber and .Orrie W. Hamilton, Foundation Chairmen, point out. "Seekers for new homes joined in the modern movement to the .country, where acreage might be had instead of lots.. Nerv highways and low-cost automobiles rnade the longer daily

Mr. Gunton was born in Michigan 8O years ago. He was in the retail lumber business in Chicago for many years and in 1898 also went into the sawmill business in Rochelle, La. IIe came to the Pacific Coast in 1900 and engaged in the wholesale lumber business, specializing in buying West Coast Pines and shipping to eastern markets.

In July, 1906, three months after the San Francisco {ire, he opened a retail yard at Beach and Powell Streets, San Francisco. He closed out this yard in 1910 and returned to Chicago, where he entered the building busi' ness. He retired some years ago.

He is also survived by two other sons, Perley E. Gunton of Chicago and Raymond W. Gunton of Evanston, Ill., and three grandchildren, Emily and Harriette Gunton of Oakland, and Charlotte Fenucane of Tennessee.

Los Angeles Fha Offices Moved

Southern California district offices of the FHA have been moved from the Federal building to the Bendix building, 1206 South Maple avenue, lvhere larger quarters have been secured.

Protection Fences Can be Built of Wood

Ten Years Ago Today

From Februuary 1,1939 lssue t'Er v. 4 u4'J 4YEr45s vr v's

Industrial plants, many of which are engaged in defense production, are asking the War Production Board for priorities on a daily average of one hundred tons or more of zinc-

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Arizona ' coated steel for the construction of protective fences' Lumber & Timber co. of Flagstaff, Arizona, the officers, Priority request blanks, covering a critical material, re- r:_- r- quire applicants to indicate possible substitute *aterial"s. *::j::'::.11j^1-:.".1:n-"^:Tl]?::"Tu^-t#T:::t:1::' so far, most fence appricants have failed to reatize,h"l.-" satisfactory protective barrier can be built of qveed-a ne11- r- critical material.

Despite the admitted necessity of keeping unwanted tres- tlmes' , pasters out of industrial plants and areas, the priority auth- coos Bay Lumber co. airrr,"rrtled its Bay point plant orities have pointed out that wood can handle this job satis- ' factorily and add that a protective fence now being built_in frontoftheWhiteHouseinWashingtonisbuiltofwood'L|-'LL1.

This condition offers abund.ant sales op,porturriti.s iJ plant in oakland adlocal lumber merchants who are looking for opportu'itie.r rn one recent typical ,.qo"rt for a fence priority, a man- ufacturer,. who was asking for thirteen tons of steel and zinc to erect 3,500 feet of industrial protection, stated that:

Avenue pler' to boost sales volumes which have contracted because of the decline in residential building.

"No substitutes are available." In the immediate vicinitl- of this plant there were nearly one hundred lumber yards

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Incontrasttothecriticalsteelsituation,lumbermills.-.-i.-find their yards full and overflowing wiih grades an6 trlct manager ror tne weyernaeuser sales Lompany' lengths well suited to the building of protective fences. As "Moses Is Here," "n "rri"l. by Sam T. Hayward, Haythe result of large sales of certain other grades for the direct ward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, appeared needs of the Army and Navy, there is actually an over sup- in this issue. ply of material suitable for this purpose.

A wood fence may be "open'; like a steel wire fence, ,

Al Nolan, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, barriertocasualintruders,butpermittingpassersbytolook was on a-thirty-day trip in Southern California and Ariinside. or (unlike woven wirl; it ""tr t. solid, keeping zona, conferring with their representatives and calling on . out not only wandering feet, but wandering eyes as well. As tne traoe' 'railroad men have known for years, wood has longer life

To stimulate activity ir, ,r,. ,.*odeling and repairing of . than galvanized steel, if the structure is exposed to smoke homes in their community, the santa cruz Lumber comand corrosive gases' - pany and Norton-Phelps Lumber Company, of Santa Cruz, 4"y-lence is an uncertain barrier to trespassers. No fence ,an-a ,.ri"s of advertisements in the local paper, Santa in itself is an absolute bar to intrusion, if a person really Cruz Sentinel. wants to get in. All that any fence can be counted upon to do is to keep out the casual trespassers, to notify all and A retail lumber yard was opened by the Castro Valley sundry to "keep out," and to slow down the dangerous and Lumber Company at Castro Valley. The company was determined intruder. The guards nust do the rest. organized by A. V. Lucas, who will manage the yard.

Invocation To The Great

Lincoln return! And Washington, and Grant, Franklin and Jefferson and John Paul Jones!

Now that the fanged and coiled assassins plant Terror and death, our very fields and stones

Cry out for you who labored, dreamed and fought To make us strong and free ! Be at our sides Knowing our country, like a raft, is caught Amid a reeling world's disastrous tides!

Faintly I see, against the grey of dawn, Their figures stand, with faces grave and stern, And high, proud, noble brows. "O sons, fight on, And we, too, fight !" Their sad eyes darkly burn; While mightier far than battleships or tanks, These guardian great are marching in our ranks!

(Stanton A. Coblentz in Neu' York Times.)

A Better One Needed

The numerous sawmills, particularly in the South, that many years ago got ready to quit business because their timber was gone, and are now getting ready to run indefinitely, remind us of the following story:

Jim Scott, a poverty-stricken backwoodsman, had become the father of his twelfth child. The cradle in which the child lay had served its purpose for elwen previous children, but now its rockers were so far gone there was no more rock left in them.

"Guess we gotter git a new cradle, Jim," said the wife, with plaintive sigh. "This one's about all used up."

Jim looked the dilapidated cradle over and saw that it was ready to fall apart.

"Guess yore right, Sal," he said. Here's two dollars. Next time you go to town, git one at the stor+but this time, git one that'll last."

Gone

With rue. my heart is laden, For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden, And many a lightfoot lad. By brooks too broad for leaping, The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lipt grrls are sleeping, In fields where roses fade.

-4. E. I{ouseman

Resigned To His Fate

Grandpappy Morgan, a hillbilly of the Ozarks, had wandered off into the hills and when supper time came and he failed to return, young Jake was sent out to search for him and bring him in. Jake located Grandpappy standing quietly in a clump of bushes.

"Gittin' dark, Grandpap," said Jake.

"Yep," said Grandpappy.

ttSupper's ready."

ttYep.tt ttYep.tt ttNope.tt

"Ain't ye hungry, Grandpap?"

"Wal, ain't ye comin' home?"

"Why not?"

"Cain't."

"Why cain't ye?"

"Standin' in a b'ar trap."

Business Is Fun

Business is getting up at six to meet a customer at eight who doesn't show up until ten.

Business is pleading with a customer to be patient while you exercise the privilege of being impatient with your subordinates.

Business is scheming ways by which you can help your customers make an extra dollar in the hope that they will let you keep ten cents for yourself.

Business is driving all day to see a man who is .,in conference" when you get there.

Business is reaching for the restaurant check, and getting stuck with it nine times out of ten.

Business is getting indigestion and livcr trouble trying to entertain the trade.

Business is pretending you are prosperous when you haven't made a dime for two years.

Business is showing a prospect how a job should be done, and then have him give the order to a competitor.

Business is feeling happy about landing a big job that will probably cause you to lose your shirt.

Business is erecting barriers against salesmen who want to see you, and advising your salesmen how to get past the barriers that are erected against them.

Business is fun.