An Open Messq,ge for Mr. T. L. Stearns ' Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. Los t4ngeles, Calif.

We take tfiis opportunity of addressing you as a preliminary to a call by one of our salesmen, in the hope that it will prepare the way for hirn.

'W'e want you to receive him with an open 6i1d-ns1 as "just another wallboard sale$nan," but as the bearer of an important measage about Buttress, a really superior wallboard. a wallboard that has certain definite features: l. It's strongerl

2. It's more flexiblel

3. It deadens soundt

4. lt defies frrel

Your customers not only depend upon you to give them a wallboard that will prove satisfactory, but they actually expect a recommendation from you ai to the best wallboard they can buy.

For this reaEon, Mr. Stearns, we hope you will carefully consider the message our salesman will bring, to our mutual advantage. Buttrers Manufacturing Company, 6910 So. Alameda St., Los Angeles, Calif.