Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 7) of our modern university education is the late age at which boys finish their studies, and try to make their start in the world. At a time of life when the men of half a century ago had become inured to the storms of existence' our young men of today step out as fledglings. I think it's a disadvantage.

I get'a mighty kick always out of reading the vagabond wanderings of my friend Tom Dreier, advertising and publicity man of originality and flavor who lives in Winchester, Massachusetts. He says what he thinks-and there's fun in doing that. No form of human life gets less fun out of their work than fence riders. ***

Tom Dreier spends a lot of his writing time poking fun at frauds. And, the world is so well filled with palpable frauds that he lacks not for targets. I have just been reading one of his editorials in which he tears to pieces the religion of "hell-raisers who feel old age creeping on them and become militantly religious." He takes the position of the rhymist in the old doggerel that says:

"King Solomon and King David In youth led wayward lives, Each had a few affinities, As well as numerous wives; But when old age came rolling in With all its aches and qualms, Then Solornon wrote the Proverbs, And David wrote the Psalms." ***

All of which reminded me of the lady who at a dinner party once found herself seated next to the great Frenchman Voltaire, he of the well-stored mind, the flashing wit, and the rapier-like tongue. The discussion turned to religion, and the lady ventured the assertion that in recent years she had found herself becoming deeply interested in religion. "I regret to hear you say so, Madam," said Voltaire. "Why?" asked the lady, surprised. "Because," said Voltaire, "f have noticed that when woman ceases to be acceptable to man, she turns to God."

Chas. G. Bird Re-elected President Appointed Secretary-Manager

Charles G. Bird, manager of the Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, Calif., was re-elected president of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club, at a meeting of the board of directors held at the Hotel Stockton, on Thursday evening, March 15. Other officers chosen were W. S. Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto, vice president, and W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards, Inc., Modesto, treasurer. Mr. Tillson and Mr. Bird were elected to represent the club on the California Lumbermen's Council.

Back From East

Frederic S. Palmer, manager of the Pine department of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, exclusive distributors for Kesterson Lumber Company's Ponderosa Pine, returned March 10 from a five weeks' Eastern business trip.

Mr. Palmer feels optimistic about prospects for Eastern business. Eastern dealers expect business will be better this year than for several years past, he states, and Eastern wholesalers who handle industrial business also report an improvement.

Incidentally, he was glad to get back to California, after the record cold weather he experienced in the East. It was 18 below zero when he was in Boston, and the thermometer registered a SGyear record of 24 below when he visited Toronto, Ontario.

Charles S. Tripler recently resigned as secretary of the Central Valley Lumbermen's Club, Stockton, to take the position of secretary-manager of the East Bay Lumbermen's Club, Oakland, succeeding C. R. Buchanan, who recently resigned.

Mr. Tripler is well known in the San Francisco Bay district, having been formerly secretary of the San Francisco Retail Lumbermen, and prior to that was associated with the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. for many years. He took up his new duties March 15.

Clement Fraser, Loop Lumbbr & Mill Co., Alameda, is president of East Bay Lumbermen's Club. H. K. Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland, is vice president, and Clyde Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, is treasrlrer. Offices are in the Ray Building, Oakland.

George Gorman Visits Mills

George W. Gorman, sales manager of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned March 2l from a lo-day trip to Oregon. Mr. Gorman made the trip by automobile. He attended the price correlation meeting in Portland March 14, as one of the representatives of the Redwood Division, and then paid a visit to the sawmill of the Hammond-Tillamook Lumber Co. at Garibaldi, Ore.

He made the return journey by way of the Redwood Highway, and visited the company's mill at Samoa, Calif. He was accompanied on the trip by his wife and daughter.

Administrative Member Lumber Louis Malone Passes Away in Code Authority Appointed San Francisco

Washington, D. C., March 8.-Harry L. Gilchrist, Major General, U. S. Army, retired, has been appointed an administration member of the Lumber Code Authority by the National Recovery Administrator. He is the third appointee named to represent the Administration without vote in the Lumber Code Authority. Those designated previously are F. A. Silcox, head of the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Ariculture, and A. C. Dixon, formerly a lumber manufacturer of Eugene, Ore., and a former president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

Major General Gilchrist has no interests in the lumber and timber products industries. As a youth, however, he served a three-year apprenticeship in the planing mill of the Gobeille Pattern & Construction Co., Cleveland, O. His military career followed his graduation from Western Reserve lJniversity at Cleveland, and has included 36 years of commissioned service in the regular army. He was in command of the first U. S. expeditionary forces to participate in the World \Mar, and following the Armistice was for two years in command of the American-Polish Expedition in Poland. On March D,t9D, he was appointed Chief of Chemical Warfare Service with the rank of Major General. He was retired with that rank on Februarv 1. 1934.

Redwood Productton Quota Set

The production quota for the Redwood Division for the second quarter of the year was set at 98,00O,00O feet.

L. R. PUTMAN VISITS S. F.

L. R. "Dick" Putman, marketing editor of the American Builder, and former secretary-manager of the Southern .Pine Association, recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business.

Louis Malone, production manager of The Pacifrc Lumber Company, Scotia, Calif., died in St. Luke's Hospital, San Francisco, March 13, of kidney trouble, after an illness of more than four months.

At his bedside were his wife, Mrs. Grace Malone, and his two sons, Robert and Edward Malone.

Mr. Malone was born in Chicago, December 31, 1884, and came to California with his parents when he was one year old.

He went to work for The Pacific Lumber Company in their Wilmington yard in 1905, and left there to come to Scotia when the Southern California yard was closed out in 1916. In the 18 years that have passed since then he rose to the position of manager of production at the Scotia plant.

It would be hard to find words to express the high regard in which Louis Malone was held by all of the personnel of the organization from the president down to the youngest employee. Whatever might be said would be an understatement.

Funeral services were held in Los Angeles, Friday, March 16, and interment was in Forest Lawn Cemeterv. Glendale.

Stockton Gets New lndustry

A 50,000-barrel storage tank is being erected by George H. Corse & Associates at the Port of Stockton which marks the beginning of a new industry there when gasoline and petroleum products will be shipped to the Port by freighters and tankers from Southern California and Gulf ports for distribution in Stockton and the interior cities. The supervision of the building program is under the direction of L. A. Elsener, San Francisco representative of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Works.