Just Wonderin'

I Wonder if the sun will shine Through drifting mists of tender grey, While perfumed breezes whisper low, "It's Mother's Day."

And as we wander back again Across the years where fancies stray, Will memory chant in sweet refrain.

"It's Mother's Day?',

I Wonder if Mother's Day isn,t the most beautifully sig_ nificant and important one of all those we celebrate.

I Wonder how you spent Mother,s Day; did happy memories stir within the deep pool of your heart, thrilling and enriching the passing hours ? Did scraps of half for_ gotten poems and songs tug at your heart strings ? I think we might share a few.

You and I will both be singing Mother McCree and That Old Mother of Mine,-and was there ever a sweeter bit of descriptive writing than this;-

"In her eyes there's the blue of Killarney, On her cheek there's the rose of Kildare, On her lips there's a wee bit of blarney, And the snow of Athlone in her hair.,'

Critics tell us that these songs are imperfect, poor poetry, etc., but what do we care? There may be never an Irisher in our family tree, at all at all, but we like the sentiment of those songs and we sing them on Mother's Day, critics or no critics.

If we demand perfection of line and sentiment, there's Kipling's immortal Mother O' Mine; and I wish every child would learn it by heart and that a copy of it might occupy an honored place in every family scrap book.

Do you recall this very old and lovely tribute to the mother who has gone beyond the touch of our hancls and the sounds of our voices?-

Backward, turn backward oh time in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight; Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Press from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair, Over my slumber your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep mother, rock me to sleep."

And so with songs and poems, tenderly sacred memories of the dead kindly thoughts and loving consideration for the living, we honor Mother's Day.

A. Merriam Conner.

Opens Treating Plant at El Paso

^ Cht:-"qo, Ill., May 7-The American Lumber & Treating Co., Chicago, announces the opening, May 1, of their four-teenth treating plant, located at El paso, Texas. The El paso plant meets a need for pressure-treating facilities at this division point in the Southwest, where westbound Southern woods and eastbound West Coast material can be treated in transit at lowest cost to the shipper.

The El Paso operation embodies all the refinements in plant design developed by the treating company in collaboration with engineers of the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, builders of the plant. Treatment with either ,,Wolman Salts" preservative or creosote is available at El paso. Two large treating cylinders, high-speed incising machines and fully automatic adzing and boring equipment provide capacity for fast handlihg of orders.

As part of the transit treating program, an ample storage yard, well equipped with tracks and switching facilities, has been laid out adjacent to the plant yard, where material may be stored for seasoning before and after treatment. For airseasoning of lumber under cover, a roofed shed, sixty feet wide by four hundred feet long, has been built beside the treating plant buildings.

Following the established policy of the American Lumber & Treating Co., the El Paso plant will ofier pressure-treating service only to lumber manufacturers and dealers. euotations on treating in transit may be secured from the El paso district office of the American Lumber & Treating Co., p. O. Box 1676. H. A. Morriss has been appointed district manager for the area, and will be stationed at the El paso office to handle inquiries and orders.

Back On Job

Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales, was back at his desk early in the month after several weeks, absence due to an operation.

WITH ANGLO CALIFORNIA LUMBER CO.

Eric Hexburg is now a salesman for Anglo California Lumber Company, Los Angeles. He calls on the retail lumber yards in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area and travels the "kite" territory.

BACK FROM S. F. TRIP

Francis Hanson, West Coast Screen Company, Los Angeles, was in San Francisco last week on a business trip.

N_ew booklet, giving helpful suggestions on usc of philippine Mehogany in residentiel, commercid and institutionel build:iirgs, eveileble to architects. Write Philippine Meho3eny Meaufiturers' Impott Associetion,Inc., f f l W. 7rh Sr., Los Angeles, Cel.