INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

*This neu insuhting buililing board. is

N T B o D U o I N G t0Q deliaere,J in 4 x B sheets, finished, in oyster

MADE BY THE WOOD FIBER DIVISION OF THE SIMPSON IOGGING CO. AND DISTRIBUTED IN tOS ANGELES BY CATIFORNIA PANET & VENEER COMPANY

F"B thirty years onr firm has prided itself with tho slogan 66The Best in Plywood.ee We have waited il long tirne before ileeelpting il nerv prodaelt whieh is 56best in its field.ee

We sineerely believe Sirnpsotr Insulating Build,ing Bourd, and, Simpsotv l)eeorutiae Wull Tile deserve that elassifieatiorl.

PS Hardwood, Plywood, and Formica are rvailable for immediate delivery.

Henry Bcrnhardt's Dog

(The following is from the Congressional Record, April 29, L9L2.) A message from home'today stating that old Bob, deaf and decrepit, but the family pet and pride and protector for fifteen years, had died, halted interest in all else with me save memories of the past; and while he was only a fox terrier dog, no affair of state or burst of Congressional eloquence, nor dream of future glory attracts my attention. (From a speech by Hon. Henry A. Barnhardt.)

Chimney Smoke

Out in the countryside farmers say with a smile that you can judge a man by the smoke frorn his chimney. Good, honest, pearl-grey smoke means that the fire has solid, dry wood; black, heavy plumes mean that the housewife is struggling with green wood and dustpan loads of chips, bark, and debris from the woodshed foor. Through the more than three centuries of our nation's growth, smoke banners have told a tale. In pioneer days a plume of smoke meant a cabin in a clearing where a traveler was sure of food and warmth. Smoke banners are the flags of country living. They tell a story of farm homes where men and women, boys and girls, live close to mankind's basic occupation.

Radicrnt Wcters

fn the cup of life, 'tis true, Dwells a draft of bitter dew. Yet no other cup I know, Where such radiant waters flow.

-Agnes Robinson

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Tom Allen's Speech

Tom Allen was a colored man who, for at least two generations, acted as guide and cook for white hunters in the Big Thicket of East Texas. Tom had a speech he had memorized so thoroughly that he could reel it off without a bobble, and it always delighted his white friends to hear him do so. This was Tom Allen's speech:

"fn promulgating your esteemed cogitations, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable philosophical observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess clarified conciseness, a coalescent consistency, and a coordinated cognancy. Eschew all conglomeration of fatuous garrulity, babblement, incongruity, and assinine affectations. Let your extempDraneous descantings and unpremeditated expectations have intelligibility, various vivacity, and unvarying veracity, without rote of monotirade or thresinonical bombast. Sedulously avoid polysyllabic profundity, pompous proclivity, or sententious vacuity. In other words. talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, and purely. Say what you mean and mean what you say and don't use big words."

A cub reporter essentials. so he

"John elevator its way doivn. It stories to bare elevat aft to see if the have e would been 45 the nin of November."

"My first turkey l" eSrc\i*fed the bride proudly, sat down to dinner./lfrepared and cooked it all ehth of one of the Franc|, which prediction came true. w summoned the kilg to hear his own "This one wasn't death sentence

An astrologer who had mistresses o\ Louis, the K

"Seeing ycu future," said King Louis, "tell me when you wi

He was freed.

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before "I hope, my dear," said thq yoqf to his new girl friend, "that you never park with bcid91rf,n dark roads. ". '-

"Not unless I'm driven to i{" she replied, coylf.

Elect Officers at Annual Meeting

The annual meeting of stockholders of Curtis Companies Incorporated, manufacturers of Curtis Woodwork, was held at the main office in Clinton, Iowa on April 21. At this meeting a new office was created. G. L. Curtis, president of the company since 1911, was elected chairman of the board of directors. E. J. Curtis, vice president since 1923, was elected president. G. M. Curtis, se.cretary since 1938, was also named as vice president.

Other Curtis officers named are: C. A. Armstrong, vice president; H. H. Hobart, vice president; E. B. Oyaas, treasurer; G. A. Jensen, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer.

Curtis Companies Incorporated are entering into their 81st year in the woodwork business, starting in Clinton, Iowa in 1866. Manufacturing and distributing plants are located at Clinton, Iowa; Wausau, Wis. ; Lincoln, Nebr.; Sioux City, fowa; Topeka, Kansas ; Minneapolis, Minn. and Chicago, Ill. Their products are sold exclusively through retail lumber and building material dealers throughout the United States.

New Scwmill

The Crowley Lumber Company has completed its new sawmill at Big Bar, Calif. Capacity of the mill will be approximately 70,000 board feet per day. The lumber is to be hauled to Redding, which is the nearest railhead. Forty to fifty men will be employed in the logging operations and at the mill.

Carl Crow Will Talk Before

S. F. Lumbermen's Club

The regular monthly luncheon of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club was held at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, April D.

' President Herb Schaur presided, and made the announcement that Carl Crow, editor of Crow's Lumber Digest, Portland, Oregon, will be the speaker at the next meeting of the club at noon, May 27, at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco.

Fred Rogers amused the members with impersonations of well known actors and political figures.

Door prizes, consisting oT hard-to-get items of solid and liquid merchandise, were won by: Larry Owen, Frank Duttle, Barney Garcia, Max Cook, Carl Warden, and Alfred E. Wolff.

Vetercrns' Emergency Housing Progrram Moves Offices

Federal offi,ces administering the Veterans' Emergency Housing Program in the Southern California district have been moved to new Los Angeles headquarters, it was announced by W. Conrad McKelvey, assistant regional representative of the Office of the Housing Expediter. The new address is Room 711, W. M. Garland Building, 117 West Ninth Street; telephone PRospect 4711. The staff formerly occupied offices in the Ninth & Hill Building.