The Three Surgeons

It was at an international meeting of famous surgeons, and they were giving experiences of notable surgical cures that had been affected iu their various countries.

The French surgeon spoke of an operation they had performed in Paris, where they took the heart of a lamb and replaced with it the defective heart of a man, and the man lived and "is walking the streets today."

The German surgeon told of taking the brain of a chimpanzee and grafting it to the diseased brain of a man, and the man recovered and "is walking the streets today."

"Pshaw," said the Ammican surgeon, "you haven't done any real surgery. In America we took an engineer from California and put him into the White House in Washington, and the whole nation is walking the streets today."

Cities Turn Back to Lumber-Built Attractive Wood Wayside Stands Homes Lure Motorists

Washington, March 24-Large cities have passed through their post-Victorian cycle of row brick house construction and are returning to the building of detached and sernidetached homes on individual park lots, it appears from figures on 79?. construction in 10 key cities recently published by the U. S. Bureau of Labor. The Bureau's statistics show 9,034 lumber houses built in the year of the survey and 6,395 of brick and stone. The wood houses consisted of 7,37O single-family dwellings and 1,664 twofamily dwellings; the brick and stone of 5,fi7 single and 788 two-family dwellings.

The Labor Bureau's investigation lr'as for the purpose of ascertaining the time necessarily elapsing in completing residences. Time is money in construction as in othei activities, involving as it does the amount of the payroll and the period during which there is no return on the capital.

The report shows that at the end of 9O days, 56.5 per cent of the lumber-built one-family houses were completed. In four months time another 19.7 per cent had been completed. At the end of 300 days 1.1 per cent remained uncompleted. At the end of 90 days 5.1 per cent of the brick and stone one-family dwellings rveri complete; at four months 20.1 per cent. At the ind of 7 moiths 73.2 per cent of such houses had been completed; at the end of 3@ days,7.7 per cent.

Similar figures were found for the two-family dwellings. By the end of 90 days 48.2 per cent of the lumber dwellings were finished and at the end of four months this figure had mounted to 75.1 per cent. In brick and stone 6.3 per cent were pompleted in 90 days ; 27.4 per cent in four months, and 70.9 per cent in 6 months. The highest percentage of brick and stone completions, 22.7 per cent, occurred with,in the fifth month. The highest percentage for lumber, 37.1 occurred rvithin the third montli. In onifamily dwellings these figures were 36.7 in the third month for lumber and 22.6 in the fifth month for brick or stone.

Washington, D. C., April 2.-An oilcloth-covered counter, a mustard jar, a bun and a hot dog, with coffee mug assistance, adequately supplied the tourist needs for refreshment along the highways a few years ago. Today he is not content with such simple fare. He desires an alluring setup.

Spring is near and the time opportune for farmers to modernize their wayside stands, build new ones, or expand.

Wood is the preferred material for stands. It fits into the out-of-door picture, possesses the distinct advantage of facility in handling, can be readily replaced and is economical. Of course, a rustic type of design is far better than the familiar shanty, and for this purpose there is a new manufactured product called "log siding," closely resembling a log externally, rapidly set up and sturdy under bad weather conditions.

Any retail dealer can quickly supply the exact kind of lumber needed. The dealer will advise the best species to use for load bearing, and here strength and not appearance is important. If the new strcture is to have a dining room, a variety of economical paneling or c.eiling lumber will be suggested.

In an effort to rid the landscape of temporary, ugly shacks and r'eplace them with inviting stands that beautify rather than mar the highways, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., offers free a limited number of leaflets, giving a plan and bill of materials which can be used by home carpenters and cut the cost of construction to a minimum.

A. M. NELSON GOES TO TUJUNGA

Arthur M. Nelson has been appointed manager of the Patten & Blinn Lumber Co. yard at Tujunga, Calif. For the past five years he has been manager of the company's yard at Reseda.