Random Editorial Ramblings

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stay bright, whitre in the opan package they often get dirty and dull from standing in the warehouse or the pile. Looks like an interesting scheme.

Building is the second largest industry of the United States. For three consecutive years our annual building bills have exceeded a total of five billion dollars, or considerably more than the annual cost of running our federal and state governments.

It takes two full grown rubber trees one year to produce enough rubber for one auto tire. Look about you and see what a load of performance our riding habit has given the rubber trees of the world. Our great American Wizard Thomas Edison is reported actively in search of something that would rival his electrical developments, so far as usefulness to mankind is concerned. He is experimenting

F. W. COAN VISITS CALIFORNIA

F. W. Coan, director of sales, Shevlin, Carpenter & Clark Company, Minneapolis, Minn., was a Los Ang-eles visitor on March 9. 1O and 11, where he conferred with L. S. Turnbull, Southern California representative for the McCloud River Lumber Co. I\{r. Coan was on his way to McCloud, Calif., and Bend, Oregon, to visit the mills of the McCloud River Lumber Co. anh the Shevlin-Hixon Co. Mrs. Coan accompanied him on the trip.

Yy\IALTER ROBISON VISITS COAST

Walter Robison, of the wholesale lumber firm of Baxter, Robison & Montgomery, Chicago, and formerly sales manager of the Pickiring Lumber Co., Kansas City, recently spent a month on the Pacific Coast, when he visited all the Northwest lumber centers, including Vancouver, B. C., returning home by way of San Francisco.

F. A. KAUFFMAN RETURNS FROM HONOLULU

F. A. Kauffman, of the firm of MacArthur & Kauffman, rvholesale lumbermen, San Francisco, returned home March 6, on the Matson liner "Malolo" from a trip to Honolulu occupying three weeks. Mr. Kauffman -was accompanied by hii daughter, Mrs. F. H. Lavigne of Piedmont, and her son.

with rubber producing plants, hoping to find some that can be grown on our millio'ns of acres of waste land in thd Souih, that will produce satisfactory quantities and quality of rubber. If he succeeds, the world will be still more his complete debtor.

,,/ To the customer, the fellow who waits on him when he i drops into the place of businpss, is the company' Don't everf forget that. And consider what it means in YOUR business. First impressions are always important impressions, and the first impression the caller gets is from the first person rvho greets him as he entErs' The more your success depends on the staqding of your business with the public, the more thoughtful you should be of your poinls of contact. The man at the front of your office can do yorrt business more harm, than the man in the private office can do good. Don't doubt it.

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T. W. Pinnell. well-known Indianapolis lumberman and ba'"t.r, is spending his twelfth wintei in Southern Califor;i.. I\tr. Pinnell,'in addition to being the head of fifteen i"*U.t yards and mills in as many.H-oosier cities, is also oieridetti of the Indiana Lumbermen's Insurance Company, ;hi.h he assisted in organizing, with business relations in nearly every state in the Union' He keeps in close contact Uin'ni. brisiness interests during his vacations and since tt;r "tti',ral here has concluded negbtiations for the purchase of another yard in Indiana.

R. A. LONG IN LOS ANGELES

R. A. Long, chairman of the board of directors of the Long-Bell Lrimber Company, Kansas.City, has been spending Ihe past two weeks in Los Angeles'

Roy Barto Visits San Francisco

Roy Barto, president of the Cadwallader-Gibson, Inc.', Los Angele.,.ri'.t a recent San Francisco visitor on business. Iie made the trip to the Bay District in one of the Western Air ExPress Planes.