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What this Country needs is: More Paint on the Old Place and Less Paint on the Youn$ Face.

DICK PUTMAN IN ADVERTISING GAME

For the is stepping first time in fifteen years, L. R. (Dick) Putman out of the lumber association business.

He used to run arid he organized ber Dealers.

,a retail yard in Arkansas (still owns it)

'the Arkansas Association of Retail Lum-

'Ihen he was made Advertising Manager of The Southwestern Lunrbermen's Association, of Kansas City, retailers.

The Southern Pine Association, of New Orleans, grabbed him and made liir-n Advertising Manager.

He left and organized The American Wholesale Lumber Association, the first great national organization of wholesalers tlaat has been a blessing indeed to the wholesale end of the lumber business.

Now he engineers atr amalgamation between the Ameri- can Wholesale Lur-lrber Association which is to be perfected at a joint meeting to be held in March, and when that takes place he is going to step out of the lumbelassociation work' He will leave behind a tremendous rvholesale lumber association stretching from ocean to ocean and capable of great good to the industry.

And he is going into the lum'ber advertising business' He will become a partner in the firm of P'erry Hanly Advertising Company, of Kansas City. He will manage the Chicago office, and have direct charge of their building material department. This concertl has many large lumber accounts now, including both Long-Bell and The Southern Pine Association and others, and Mr. Putman will go out after more of them. National advertising is their forte'

Mr. Putm,an is admirably fitte'd for the work, and wiill undoubteclly n.rake the sam'e success that he has o{ his every other activity.

OR SIIIIGTES WIIII

AT WHERE TO PLACE YOUR ORDERS WHEN YOU CAI{ - HAVE THE QUALIFICATIONS OF ALL THE WORTH WHILE CONCERNS CROSS INDEXED AND AT YOUR FINGER TIPS.

ALWAYS UP TO DATE

JUST THE KIND OF A BUYING drpnX YOU HAVE ALWAYS wAl.lTED. SAVES TIME AND TELEGRAPH BILLS AND INCREASES YOUR EFFICIENCY.

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