Russian Lumber Admitted to Entry

The cargo of Russian lumber recently brought to Providence, R. I., bythe Finnish steamer Anversoise was adqitted to entry on April27. This shipment of lumber had been widely hailed as a "test" shipment, the purpose of which would be to determine whether the regulations concerning admission of convict-made goods, issued by the Treasury Department in November, 1930, was valid. This lumber cargo did not come fromthe sections of Russia covered by the Treasury's exclusion of last February loth, in which it has been determined by the Department that convict labor is being used in the produ,ction of lumber and pulpwood. This shipment, therefore, was not in any sense a test of the Treasury regulation.

The decision, however, applies only to the Anversoise ,cargo, IJndBrsecretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills has announced, and that each shipment from Russia must stand on its own merits as to elltry into this country.

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association states that it is their intention to raise questions concerning the origin of all future shipments of Russian lumber, and to ask the exclusion of shipments when there are grounds for believing that they have originated in the areas covered by the Treasury's exclusion order of February lfth and that they may be wholly or in part the product of convict labor.

S. F. Firm Represents Oregon Mill

MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd., San Francisco, were recently appointed exclusive representatives for Northern California for the A. F. Coats Lumber Co., Tillamook, Ore., manufacturers of fir and spruce lumber and shingles.

Penberthy Lumber Co. Opens

Yard at Los Angeles

The Penberthy Lumber Co. has opened a hardrvood yard at 8D East 59th Street, Los Angeles, where they will carry on a general wholesale hardwood lumber business. They will carry complete stocks of hardr,voods, both foreign and domestic, California white and sugar pine, and spruce.

The company will be under the managership of Paul Penberthy, who has been associated with the hardwood lumber business in Los Angeles for the past ten years, and is well known to the hardwood trade on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Penberthy is also well known in the hardwood ceriters of the East and South where he has made frequent trips during the past several years to the hardwooC mills.

ED. BANGS SPENDS VACATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Fd. Bangs, Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg, Calif., was a Southern California visitor around the first of the month. wherg he spent his vacation sojourning in Los Angeles and San Diego. While in Los Angeles, he was a visitor at the company's Lbs Angeles office. Mr. Bangs has been connected with the Union Lumber Company for many years.

:SJiJ'- - \\'\( l\G=sr provides the practical automatic and efficient curing method for every job-large or emall.

The marketing of Sisalkraft for concrete curinq started with th-e bie iobs. We proved tlat the besi architects and con:tiactors cah be shown the ad- vaTlages ald the €conomy of :r:ing Sj.sa{fraft on vanrages an(l ute economy or u8rnq DtsatKralt on buildihs floors. And,-eoery bit o7 Sisalbaft so used, hai been throush "our sold, through -our ded.lers. But-sidewalksr^store floo_rs, gara walks, store floors, garage floors, driveways, basement floors, curbs, -well- platformso stock feeding platformso floorso dairy barn flo_orsr- etc.o all need curin Iroors, oarry Darn ItoorE, efc., anl neec cunng as much as floore of tle skyscraper. Sisalkraft is ideal for all tlese applicationi anil icores of others,where at times curing has previously been impractical.

A gooil -any dealers have proved that they can convince their cugtomers of the advantages of Sisalkraft for such cuotomers such curing and thereby make profitable new ealee. An in increaeing number of dealers are talking. Sisalkraft curing for all concrete work iu their communityo and are tlereby adding to their profit, and ope.i.g new sourcea for repeat bueineee. Vith the patent situationr eettled, you now f,ave every reaEon to get behind thie application. There ie no longer auy danger of cheap, inefficient paper being eold

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REG. U.9. PAT. OFFICE

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Recommend it for concrete curing eheath. ing, flooring under finiehed roofe, covering material pilee, hay etacks, lining eiloe, and a gcore of other uees.

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2O5 W. Vacker Drive (Canal Station) Chicago,Ill.

55 New Montgomery St.. San Francisco, Calif.

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AMAKER SAIDcroakers this summer, upon the edges i there they sit, croaking and croaking, after all. And so it is along life's men, are only frogs of men".

BOTH GOOD GUESSES because the rigging costs

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Four Men At Table

It chanced upon a winter's night, Safe sheltered from the weather, The board was spread for onJy one, Yet four men dined together. There sat the man I meant to be In glory spurred and booted, And close beside him to the right, The man I am reputed. Thc man I think myself to be A chair was occupying, Hard by the man I really am, Who to hold his own was trying. And though beneath one roof we met None called his fellow brother, No sign of recognition passedThey knew not one another.

"I've bought a car. Now I don't have to walk to the bank any more to make my deposits."

"Ah, you drive down?"

"No. f don't make any."

DIDN'T MEAN TO

"You didn't tell me you had a new car."

"My gracious! I wonder if I missed anyone else?"

Pay First

Dry Offrcert-"Listen, son, do youwant to make five dollars?"

Backnroods BoY-"Y"", sir."

Dry Officer-"'W'ell, I'll give you five dollars if you'll take me up to that whiskey still in the woods."

Backwoods Boy-"All right, give me the five dollars."

Dry Officer-"Not yet. I'll payyou the five dollars when I get back."

Backwoods Boy-"Mister, give it to,me now., You ain't comin' back, so you won't miss it." / world,

The Letter

I held his letter in my hand, And even while f read, The lightning flashed across the The news that he was dead.

How strange it seemed ! His living voice Was speaking from the page, Those courteous phrases, tersely choice Light-hearted, witty, sage.

I wondered what it was that died ! The man himself was herc. His modesty, his scholar's pride, His soul, serene and clear.

These neither death nor time shall dim, Still this sad thing must beHenceforth I shall not speak to him, Though he can speak to me.

-Edward Rowland

BENFRANKLIN SAID-

"If time be of all things most preciou\, was(ing time must be the greatest prodigality, sinc6.,lgs\ tiq{ir lever i:ilt,lt"il;.,?"d -n" we call time enous\atraflsTves