East B.y Club Celebrates 18th Anniyersary

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 celebrated its 18th anniversary at its regular dinner meeting held at l{otel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, February 15.

The Club 'vvas organized February LB, L925. Hugh W. Hogan was its first president. Four former presidents have passed away. Of the remaining 14 three were unable to be present, and 1l sat at the head table. The eleven past presidents who attended were: Clem Fraser, Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland; B. E. Bryan, Strable Hardwo,od Co., Oakland; L. J. Woodson, Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp., San Francisco; Earle Johnson, 'Watsonville Lumber Co., Watsonville; G. F. Bonnington, Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco; Miland R. Grant, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland; S. C. Forsey, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Jas B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland; Tom T. Branson, Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland, and Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co.. San Francisco.

In the absence of President George Clayberg and VicePresident D. Normen Cords, Lewis Godard presided.

Tom Hogan III, program chairman for the evening, introduced the speaker, D. V. Daniels, retired lieutenant of the U. S. Submarine Service. His talk on submarines was of particular interest, and the innumerable questions asked by the big audience were thoroughly and satisfactorily answered by the speaker, whose submarine service totaled more than seven years.

Replacing an entertainment feature Mr. Godard asked H. Sewall Morton to put on a quiz of the past presidents as to what they didn't do during their term of office. Mr. Morton's questions and the answers received created a lot of amusement.

Announcement was made that the Annual Reveille will be held on Friday evening, May 7, at Hotel Leamington, Oakland. The annual golf tournament will be held on Saturday morning, May 8. Lewis A. Godard, is general chairman for the 1943 Reveille.

Following a brief talk by Mr. Godard on the history of Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39, Carl R. Moore, who served the Club as secretary-treasurer for 14 years, and whose work over that long period contributed in great measure to its success, was given a big hand.

JOHN McBRIDE IN MARINE CORPS

John McBride, son of E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co., Davis, Calif., is a candidate for officers training school in the U. S. Marine Corps. He is now at Paris Island, South Carolina, undergoing preliminary training.

The flying rumors gathered as they rolled, Scare any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it, added something new, And all who heard it, made enlargements, too.

(Moral: Cut out the loose talk.)

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What a transient thing is fame ! For the past few years the world has been marveling at the genius of Hitler, while cursing him for his crimes. Today those same folks are needling him for his blunders. What was it the sage said? That man is a peacock today and a feather duster tomorro$r. So let it be with Adolph Soon the day will corne when not even the Germans will do him honor.

They say he may be dead. It is not difficult to imagine that when the debacle at Stalingrad grew into reality, one day he looked up from his brooding seat to discover that he was surrounded by a ring of beetle-browed Prussians. Those Prussians are proud folks. They have always been. It is from them that the philosophy of the German Master Race sprung. Those iron men must have squirmed unhappity for years past under the disdainful thumb of the little fat-behinded painter from the wrong side of the railroad tracks. So, why shouldn't they-when Stalingrad felljust walk in and take charge?

IfI just had to guess right now, I'd guess that that is what has happened. What they would or did or will do with him, is an open race that anyone can make his own private bet on. We've all heard and read countless suggestions for punishing Hitler if we ever get our hands on him. The best one I've heard suggested giving him twenty years in the electric chair. To turn him and his gang over to the Poles, and Benito and his crew over to the Ethiopians, is a sentence frequently uttered. And not bad, either.

The recent score against Hitler, kept in baseball fashion, would read like this right now: "Many runs; no blitz; many errors."

And the official theme song of his Russian armies is: "Oh, I have sighed to rest me." And the Russians join in by singing the second line of the same chorus which goes: "Deep in the silent grave."

Shortly after Hitler started his war for world conquest he was making one of his excited speeches, and cried aloud:

"We shall fight until Germany dominates the whole world." And a German mother in the great audience.that heard him' screamed out: t'With whose sons?" She knows now.

Now shoes are rationed. They took away our tires and put us on foot, and now they take away our shoes and put us on Let us hope they don't take away our pants. Newspapers generally reported genuine panic among the women when shoe rationing was announced. Yet I'll bet that rnost of those who worried about the shortage of shoes have been wearing shoes without toes for years past. So they started the shortage.

How would this be for the slogan of the shoe rationers: ..BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE BUT ONLY THREE PAIRS FOR DE FEET? Lousy, eh?

As a matter of fact no one in his good senses would be hurt by a limit of three pairs of shoes a year, except growing kids. I know boys who make a good, stout pair of kicks look like a last year's bird's nest every month. But grown folks? Nix.

Personally, if the Government tried to make me buy three pairs of shoes a year I'd get out some sort of an injunction. I don't average one pair of new shoes a year. Send for my confidential booklet on how to buy few shoes but be well shod all the time.

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Which reminds me that I've been tempted for some time past to offer my readers my confidential booklet on how to make automobile tires wear longer. One of the big tire companies is running two. page ads in the big consumer magazines showing a picture of a tire that has gone 43,000 miles. The ad says people can hardly believe it has gone that far. Yet the picture shows all the non-skid worn off; the tire is worn entirely smootll I can show you tires that have gone a lot farther than that and are at least one hundred per cent better than the tire shown in this ad. Wonder what they'll give me for my secret. Maybe I'll ask them. Because any good driver, barring unavoidable accidents, can make a set of stock tires run from fifty to seventy thousand.miles+afely. And this paragraPh isn't kidding.

Get back to the subject of shoe rationing. It was widely (Continued on Page 8)

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(Continued from Page 6) reported in the press that the news leaked out from many sources, and caused many t'runs" on shoe stores that were remindful of some of those old timey bank runs. One of the papers says that Mayor LaGuardia, of New York, tipped off many of his friends to what was going to happen. He didn't say shoes. He just told them it would not be food, but for them not to do any unnecessary walking They caught on.

Speaking of shoes, Rookie Buck Jones said he had always understood that an army travels on its stomach, but as far as he is concerned that's all baloney because that isn't where his blisters are.

And speaking of baloney brings to mind the furore caused by the beautiful, stylish, and unquestionably brilliant Congresswoman, Clare Booth Luce, who, in her maiden speech in the House at Washington, referred to some of Henry Wallace's "global" thinking as "globaloney." Clare undoubtedly remembers that when Henry was Secretary of Agriculture he killed off all the little pigs in a world that was hungry, and plowed under cotton in a world that was naked, so she naturally takes a little salt with his philosophies. Whenever I read any of Henry's theories I thank God that salt isn't rationed.

Now we have a uil u"i"r" cJrr*r"r" that will authorize the Government to draft women and girls, take them from their homes, send them hither and yon, tell them where they must go, what they must do, and how they must do it. To the author of that bill I suggest an operation called "trepanning," that spreads the skull, takes the pressure off the brain and gives it room to grow.

A couple waxes patriotic, and, being of proper age and health, she joins the WAACS while he joins the army. The wife gets $50 a month as a WAAC. He gets the same as a private. Her being in the service does not deprive her of a married woman's allotment of $50 a month, $22 coming from her husband's pay, the other $28 from the Government. So she gets $1OO a month, while he gets $28. At least, that's the way I understand it. Which only goes to prove the old cynical theory that a man "3i11'1 got no chance." ***

And now the Marines are enlisting women. They have no fancy name. Not yet, at any rate. But I imagine a quick way to the hospital would be to call one of them a "Leatherneck." Wouldn't that be your guess?

Lots of great men -"r";":" il midwinter. Recently we observed the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Ben Franklin, Robert E. Lee, and Bobby Burns. What a group ! God must have been using wonderful ingredients when He constructed each of them. Abe Lincoln: the most Christ-like man who ever held a position of great temporal power. Washington: who gave to the word "patriotism" more meaning than it had ever known before. Franklin: the most p'ractical man in history, and truly great in a wide variety of fashions. Lee: one of the knightliest gentlemen ever fashioned by the hand of Providence, and one of the great soldiers of history. Burns: the poet who sang the songs of the conunon man as no other singer has ever done, and whose name and fame grows with the generations. ***

I have room here for a wonderful tribute to Lincoln that f recently came upon. A great statue of Lincoln stands in Parliament Square, London; still stands through all the bombing. During the blitz, there was much talk in England about moving the statue, or giving it some protection. It was then that a British citizen named Charles E. Elcock wrote a letter to the London Daily Telegraph, which that paper printed, that read:

"There appears to be a well-meaning agitation afoot to protect or even remove the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Parliament Square and to preserve it against possible war damage.

"I was passing the other day and looking up, saw the classic chair, and in front of it-standing erect-the gaunt figure of the great American in his ill-fitting clothes. As I thought of the magnificent generosity of our American friends---of the American nurses lost in the black waters off Iceland-my hat came off and I stood. there bareheaded, contemplating with reverence that fine representation of the indomitable Lincoln.

"Leave him alone. He wants no shelter behind sandbags. Through the storms of winter and the night-shattering bomb raids, let him stand there and take it as he always stood, upright and unafraid. Let him remain as he is, an immortal inspiration of never-faltering belief in the unconquerable spirit of free men and free women the wide world over.tt

Panel Discussions Will Be Featured at Retail Attended Portland Meeting Lumber Industry War Conference

The Retail Lumber Industry War Conference to be held by the Lumber Merchants Association of Northern California at San Francisco, on March 27, will be confined to a constructive educational program, giving serious consideration to merchandise and commodities, not only for the duration, but the post-war period.

Plans are practically completed for the meeting and will include a merchandise and commodities panel. W. C. Bell, managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, will act as moderator, while E. P. Hoener, Western Building, Portland; James Mackie, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, San Francisco, and probably B. L. Johnson, American Builder, Seattle, will answer the many questions.

There will also be a panel on governmental regulations with competent representatives from the various agencies to answer these questions.

The questions should cover merchandise, commodities and governmental regulations, and should be submitted at once to Secretary B. B. Barber, 1833 Broadway, Fresno, Calif.

Ed Heiberger In Army

Ed Heiberger of the office staff of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, is now in the Army. Ed is an expert rifle shot and therefore will be very useful to llncle Sam, possibly as an instructor.

Representatives of Northern California distribution (stockpile) yards who attended the meeting held in Portland on February 8 included the following: A. J. "Gus" Russell, Lumber Distributors, Inc., Stockton; Jas. McNab, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; Millard C. White, Christenson Lumber Co., San Franciscol George Young, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, and George R. Kendrick, Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, San Francisco.

Representing the Southern California distribution (stockpile) yards at the meeting were: Cliff Roberts, Benson Lumber Co., San Diego; A. J. Macmillian, Consolidated Lumber Co., Los Angeles; C. M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; Leslie Lynch, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles; A. B. McKee, Jr., San Pedro Lumber Co., Los Angeles; George McGill, Jr., of Eugene, Oregon, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles; Ed Culnan, 'Western Lumber Company, San Diego; Al Privett, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Frank Evenson, American Products, Inc., San Diego.

Three Sons In The Service

George and Alexander Scrim, twin sons of Walter C. Scrim, Los Angeles hardwood importer, are at the United States Merchant Marine School at San Mateo, Calif. They were both students at Redlands lJniversity. Mr. Scrim's oldest son, Robert, is an Ensign in the Navy.