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Bv Jack Dionne

not guaranteed---Some I have told

STORIES bt 20 years---Some less

The Weather Was Right for Batde

My good friend, Jas. A. Kirby, of New Orleans-Southern gentleman of the oldest school-unreconstructed rebel -and a teller of tales of the South compared with whom Irving Cobb is a stuttering 3mstsus-toves to review stories his father used to tell him as a boy concerning an old Tennessee negro servitor. This darkey served the Kirby family all his life, in and after slavery days, and was one of those colored characters whose attributes made them beloved of their white people, and picturesque in their family history. One of the best of those stories is this:

Mr. Robert Kirby, the elder, sat on the front porch of his Tennessee home one day in the eventful year of 1870, reading the latest newspaper, and particularly interested in reports of the imminence of the Franco-Prussian War.

The negro Isaac was mowing the lawn just a few steps away. So Mr. Kirby turned to Isaac and said:

"Isaac, did you know that the French and Prussians are going to war?"

The mowing operation stopped. fsaac scratched his head, and registered deep interest.

"Goin' t'fight, is dey, Mistuh Robert?" he said.

"Yes, looks like they're ready to start right now, and nothing can stop them," said Mr. Kirby.

The darkey looked about him. The sun shone clearly and bright, there wasn't a cloud in the sky of blue, and all nature was showing to best advantage just what she could do on a fine spring day in Tennessee.

"Well, Suh, Mistuh Robert," he declared, "dey suttinly gwine t'have a rnonst'ous fine day fo' it,"

Appeal for Century o[ Progress L. L. Chipman to Manage LongExhibit House

An appeal for continued support of the Lumber Industries' Exhibit House at A Century of Progress Exposition, entering its second season in June, is being made by Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. in a letter to the directors of. organized groups in the lumber and allied industries. With approximately $10,000 required for operating the bxhibit this year, about half the amount is yet to be obtained.

Dr. Compton remarks that lvhile it has been proposed that the Lumber Code Authority shall be empowered to raise a million dollars for general national trade promotion "the industry has so far failed to respond even rvith the additional $500O necessary to cairy the most promising and least costly specific small lumber house promotion project before the Industry."

The Lumber House, constituting the lumber industry's visualization at the Exposition of the inherent appeal in a modernistic small home of all-wood construction, will be refurnished and redecorated under the auspices of the National Furniture Association, and the interior paneling will be refinished.

Subscriptions may be mailed to Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., chairman of the 1934 Lumber House Committee. 111 West Monroe St., Chicago, or to Ralph Flines, the committee treasurer, Edward Hines Lumber Company, 105 W. Adams St., Chicago, or to American Forest Products Industries, Tnc., 1337 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C.

Bell Southern Operations

L. L. Chipman, manager of the Export Department of the Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, has been transferred from Longview, 'Wash., to Kansas City, Mo., to take over the duties of Mr. W. L. Prickett, who died in Kansas City, April 25.

Mr. Chipman, who will have the management and general supervision of the company's southern operations, joined the Long-Bell family in 1901 as city salesman for the Coal Department. He remained with that department five years during which time he became its manager. When the company decided to close out its coal operations, Mr. Chipman was transferred to the South where he spent a number of years with the lumber manufacturing department. Later he took over the management of Export Sales rvith headquarters at Beaumont, Tex. In 1924 he went to Longview, \Mash., when the headquarters of the Export Department were moved there.

Jones Lumber Co. Celebrates

75th Anniversary

Jones Lumber Company, Portland, Ore., recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the business in 1859 by Justus Jones and his son, John Halsey Jones. Morris H. Jones is the present head of the firm. Harry E, Jenkins is general manager, and Howard Jenkins is superintendent.