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Tell c floor layer you c(m furnish ocrk flooring free hom crook curd wcrtch his eyea open"

Show him Brcdlefs Stsciqht'Line flooring cnd they'll open still wider.

Becquse tom cnry curgle he looks ct ii . . . by qny iest he gives it, it's sbcight from end to end, piece by piece, bundeE:EEndle, ccr by ccs.

Ecrch piece ol Bradley's SEqight-Line Ock Floor" ing mcrtches snugly wiih the nexl . . no ends oul oI squcre nor lorcing.to overcome crook . no leneion nciled in to threcten lcrler opening up.

To the floor lcryer this mecns lcrster lcyinqt to the owner, cr linisbed floor of superlctive smoolbnegs . . . to his wile, lileline f,ooring beauiy.

To you" the decler, il necms c lqster selling flooring wilb more timeg lrunover qnd morg proliL thall we quote on your initial ordcr including Oak Plank and Beech'Flooring, too and enough interior trim in Oah, Gum or Arhansas Soft Pine to mahe up a car? fVith the years a richer life begins, I fhe spirit mellows; L. Sipe age gives tone to.violins, ---\Uine, and good fellows.

On your ledger, Brcrdley's Strqight'Line OaL Flooring does not necD cr netw or unbied item ol inventory. Ii doee meqn cr smcEt proved improvenent in cr stictly stcrple itern which will substantiqlly boost yoru volurne ol hcndwood 0ooring scles.

-John Trowbridge.

Twenty-five years ago I attended a convention in New Orleans at which the Southern Pine Association was organized. At that time I was one of six men who were publishing lumber journals in Southern Pine territory. A few days ago I attended the 25th birthday convention of that Association. Of that group of lumber journal publishers who were there 25 years before, I was the only one still living. The other five had long since gone to whatever reward Providence provides for lumber journal publishers. ***

So the Association honored me with a solid silver trophy, nicely engraved- When I carried it home my wife asked me where I got it. I told her the Southern Pine Association gave it to me. She wanted to know what for, and I told her "for being so damn old." *,trt

The five who had passed on were: Jim Baird of The Southern Lumberman; William Eddy Barns, of The St. Louis Lumberman; Jim Defebaugh, of the American Lurnberman; Bolling Arthur Johnson, of The Lumber World Review; Walter Wright, of The New Orleans Lumber Trade Journd. Not only are those five men gone, but three of the journals they published are likewise gone, The New Orleans Lumber Trade Journal, The St. Louis Lumberman, and The Lumber World Review. The family of Jim Defebaugh still owns and publishes the American Lumberman, and two of Jim Baird's talented lieutenants jointty publish The Southern Lumberman;-Stanley Horn and Jack Whaley.

THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN was 27 years old April First, 1940. As a demonstration of how the Lord must take care of ambitious young fools, let it be known that when I undertook to go into the publishing business I had a wife, three baby daughters, a small home partly paid for, and four hundred dollars. I haven't much more than the four hundred dollars today, but the family is grown and healthy, and the home is paid for. That's something. ***

Time flies. It seems but a day since THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN was born and but a day laterthough it was 18 years ago-that THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT came into being. But much lumber history has been made in those 27 years. The files of the GCL and the CLM bear witness to that history. Think of the thousands of good men and true who have come into the lumber picture and then passed into silence, in those years ! Think of the billions of feet of tall trees that have fallen before the saws and ggne out into the world to serve the needs of mankind, during those years ! *:*,k

Which is enough about Looking backward is a swing toward morbid Young men built the world, and will continue to it. The best laugh I have had is at the sad the present of politicians who are low-rating candidates on the ground is "too 9." What students of history the one that a politicians ust be ! A man in his deep thirties is too Presidentt He is older than Thomas he wrote the Declaration of Independence; olde Alexander the Great was when he had quer; older than most of the world's greatest men have been when they performed their prodigies; older than Jesus Christ was when He had performed His great mission, and returned to His Father.

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I hold no brief for any individual in the Presidential race. But decrying the fitness of a man to hold high office or perform worthy deeds simply because he is not of advanced years, amply testifies that the critic must be utterly destitute of the faintest shadow of knowledge of the history of mankind. Great thinkers, great theologians, great explorers, great authors, great scientists, great statesmen, great rulers, great inventors, great doers of every sort since the world began, have in the main been young men. A listing of them would fill a book bigger than the biggest dictionary.

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