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wet, decrease amount of water used I gallon per sack of cement. If the sand is dust dry, increase amount of water I gallon per sack of cement. Change proportions of sand and gr4vel slightly if necessary to get a workable mix.

After thorough mixing the concrete should be placed in the forms immediately, then tamped and spaded to assure smooth, dense surfaces. New concrete should be cured, that is, protected from drying out, for at least five days.

County agents, farm bureaus and agricultural schools have descriptive literature and in many instances detailed plans for the type of concrete construction which helps war food production. It has been suggested that rural contractors and material dealers who wish to be of the greatest possible service in the war effort, should familiarize themselves with the special requirements for unreinforced concrete construction on the farm. By doing this they will be in a position to go after profitable business in the farm market and at the same time be contributing to the war effort in their own communities.

Copper Wire Deliveries

Special directions have been issued by WPB to copper wire mills and brass mills, stating that products approved by WPB for delivery during April may not be displaced in mill production schedules by any other orders, including authorized controlled materials orders, notwithstanding any provisions of CMP regulations, unless specific directions to the contrary are issued (directions 3 and 4 to CMP Regulation l), issued April6.

19dr & S Sts. Sacramento 9-0788

More Construction Authorized for East Bay

More than $3,000,000 in housing construction through private and public conversion of existing dwellings to create 2,000 additional family units in Oakland and Alameda has been authorized, it was announced by Eugene Weston, Jr., regional representative of the National Housing Agency

Mr. Weston said that to date, the total of public and private conveision authorized for construction in Oakland and Alameda is 3,400 family'units.

The NHA also declared that Washington had authorized an additional quota of 1,000 units.of private new housing construction in Oakland and Alameda.

Shook

Maximum prices for shook produced in the State of Washington west of the crest of Cascade Mountains are raised approximately $2.50 per 1,000 feet to equalize prices in this area with the level of maximum prices of shook delivered in Portland, Ore. (Revised MPR 186, Amendment 3), effective April 10.

Red Cedar Shingles

Sellers of red cedar shingles are permitted to adjust their prices to ceilings in effect at the time of delivery. However, prices may not be adjusted to maximum prices which will be in effect after delivery has been completed (Amendment 4 to Maximum Price Regulation 164)., effective April12.

SELF-RELIANCE

Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an artist into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders-those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

Fow The Mule Died

-Hillis.

Farmer Jones, who alleged that a freight train had killed one of his mules, and was asking for damages from the railroad company, was on the witness stand in court.

"Now, Mr. Jones," said the attorney for the railroad, who was plainly trying to belittle the claim for damages, "will you kindly tell the jury whether or not your mule was on the railroad track, which is the property of this railroad, when it was hit by the train?"

The farmer considered the question in mock seriousness. "'Well, sir," he said, "I didn't witness the affair, but f guess it must have been like you say. You see that was an awful smart mule, and I reckon if your train had jumped the track and took out after him through the woods, that mule would have hid behind a tree."

Sleep

"God bless the man who first invented sleep," So Sancho Panza said, and so say I: And bless him, also, that he didn't keep His great discovery to himself ; nor try To make it-as the lucky fellow mightA close monopoly of patent-right.

-John J. Saxe.

Nonsense Rhyme

See the h"ppy soldier; IIe doesn't give a damn. I wish I were a soldier; My God! Perhaps I am!

I Speed In Production

A well known literary man with a quick tongue in his head, was speaking of a particularly dull and uninteresting book a friend irad given him, and asked himr to read. He said:

"Iq 199! S_ir _{i_lliqp R.arnqay_ sixtgen y€ars to discover helium; the Curies thirty years. to find radium; yet in five rninutes, this book piodt"., tedium.'i

The Charge Of The Skirt Brigade

Half an inch, half an inch, half an inch shorter, Whether the skirts are for mother or daughter, Briefer the dresses grow, fuller the ripples show, While whisking glimpses know more than they oughter.

Forward. the skirt parade-is there a man dismayed? No !-from the sight displayed

None could be sundered. There's none to make remark-clergyman, clubman, clerk Gaping from noon till dark At the Four Hundred.

Short skirts to right of them, shorter to left of them, Shorter in front of them, Flaunted and flirted-

In hose of stripe and plaid, hued most exceedingly glad, Sporting in spats run mad, Come the short-skirted.

Flashed all their ankles there, ffashed as they turned in air. What will not women dare? (Tho'the exhibits show Some of them blundered.)

All sorts of shapes and pegs-broomsticks, piano legs, Here and there fairy legs, just built to walk on eggsCome the Four Hundred.

When can their glory fade-oh, the wild show they made, All the world wondered.

Grand dame and demoisefle, shop girl and Bowery belle. Four hundred? H'm, oh, wellAny old hundred! (Apologies to Tennyson.)

Advertising

Advertising gives industry an opportunity to keep its clean hands before the public. If industry is clean and has no dirty hands to hide, it should be proud to display that fact.

GOOD CHE,ER

It doesn't do a bit of harm

To grin.

It never causes much alarm

To smile.

Men have been known to laugh while at their work, Yet win. With cheerfulness to do their tasks, nor shirk The while.