Stockton Public Spirited, Far Seeing Community

Stockton is about to realize the ambition of a half century to possess a waterway over which deep-water vessels may course straight to the heart of the city. On Tuesday, April 21st, the people voted bonds to the amount of $3,000,000 to take care of Stockton's portion of this enterprise. The overwhelming majority demonstrates how determined the people of Stockton are that their products shall have direct access to the open sea.

To Stockton and its immediate region the completed channel promises reduced transportation rates for the growers of field crops and the vineyardists. the orchardists and the packers. Ii gives promise of great'economic advantage to all Central California.

An appropriation amounting to $2,407,500 has been recommended by the Rivers and Harbors Committee and it is expected that the mbney will be voted at the coming session of Congress. The State has been asked to devote $419,000 as its share in the work. Stockton is ahead of these co-operating agencies in providing its portion of the necessary funds.

The proposed channel will be twenty-six feet deep and one hundred feet wide at the bottom. The bond issue of $3,000,000 voted by the city will take care of half of the costs of right of way, dredging, terminal facilities and harbor development.

Wide possibilities for an expanding trade are thus opened up to the whole surrounding rqgion. Stockton itself, by achieving immediate contact with the open lanes of the sea, expects to rise to a high place in the world of commerce. Its initiative in promoting the construction of this deep-rvater way demonstrates fully that it is a publicspirited and far-seeing community.-San Francisco Chronicle.

192+ LUMBER CUT 37 BILLION FEET

Washington, May 8.-According to a Census Bureau announcement today 769 large sawmills have reported a cut of. 16,210,107,000 feet of lumber in 1924. The same mills reported 16,910,026,W feet in 1923, tt'e 1924 decrease being 700,000,000 feet, or 4 per cent. In 1923 the cut of these mills was 45.5 per cent of the whole reported lumbgr output; if their proportion remained the same in 1924 the total 1924 reported production would be 35,620,000,000 feet and the total of production 37,000,000,000 to 37,5@,000,000 feet.

\Mestern states cut, from reports lor 1923 and 1924.

Building Leaps Ahead For 1925

Building in San Francisco for April" 1925, jumped more than $1,000,000 over April, 1924, and total building to date Ior 1925 is $18,508,800.

Building to date exceeds the same period of. 1924 by $L,728,620.

Following is the report for April, 1925:

Riley's Living Philosophy

It's natchural enough, I guess, When some gits more and some gits less, For them-uns on the slimmest side To claim it ain't a fair devide; And f've known some to lay and wait, And git up soon, and set up late, To ketch some feller they could hate Fer goin' at a faster gait.

The signs is bad when folks commence Afindin' fault with Providence, An balkin' 'cause the earth don't shake At every prancin'step they take. No man is great till he can see IIow less than little he would be Ef stripped to self, and stark and bare, He hung his sign out anywhere.

My doctern is to lay aside Contentions, an' be satisfied; Jest to do your best, and praise er blame That follers that, count jest the same. I've allus noticed grate success Is mixed with troubles, more or less, And it's the man who does the best That gets more kicks than all the rest.

-James Whitcomb Riley.

CRUSOE DIDN'T GIVE UP

Robinson Crusoe was the original optimist. Things looked bad for the old boy, but he didn't kick, and he didn't whimper. Crusoe used his head He studied the situation all over, and then he said: "I have it-I'll advertise !"

Think of it ! He was a thousand miles from nowhere. The possible readers of his ad were only a few every several years. It was hard times, money depression, bad conditions, all rolled into a lump. But Crusoe didn't let that stop him. So he fung a shirt at the top of a pole, on the highest point of his island.

His first ads brought no returns. But he didn't quit advertising. Not Robinson. He changed the "copy." Put up another shirt. And he kept on doing it. And finally he got a ship-by persistent advertising.

True Philosophy

"We are all children in the Kindergarten of God, and there will come after us greater men who will understand things that we gtrn1ef."-flumboldt.

Modern Speed

Lots of people are in hurry and don't know where they're going.

A young fellow bought a new car, had it a few months and bragged; "I've gone ten thousand miles."

"Where?" he was asked.

"Oh, just around."

That's one trouble with modern life, everybody in a hurry, burning up energy and gas; and just goin' 'round.

People like to hit the high spots. But it's hard to live on thrills.

They don't make a good steady diet.

-The Rotariazonian.

Some Shot

The colored porter got a job around the college observatory. One night he noticed a fellow get under the big telescope, change its line several times, finally glue his eye to the glass-and just then a star fell.

"Misyuh" he said, "Ah thought Ah'd seen me some gunmen in Mah time, but Ah nevah knowed there was nobuddy in yo' class."

How She Raised Them

A colored mammy had a big family of boys so well behaved that one day she was asked:

"Aunt Sally, how did you raise your boys so well?"

."Ah'll tell yo' Missus," said'Aunt Sally, "Ah raise dem boys wid a barrel stave, q:' A.tt raise dem frequent."

The Only One

The teacher was trying to give her pupils an illustration of the word "perseverance."

"What is it," she asked, "that carries us along rough roads and smooth roads, up hills and down hills, through jungles, swamps, and raging torrents?"

"Please Miss" said little Johnnie, "It's Pa's Ford."

To avoid a colorless existence: Keep in the pink of condition. Do necessary things up brown. Never show yellow. Treat people white. Be well read, hence not green on material topics.

Put business transactions in black. Renew youth by getting out under the great blue all possible.