MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less

She Knew Her Motors

The little girl frorn the city was visiting on the farm, and she watched with interested eyes everything going on around her.

The very day after she arrived at the farm the farmer came to the house in great consternation, announcing that his best milk cow had been stolen during the night, and he was busy phoning the local police, etc.

The little city girl listened to his lamentations for while, and then ventured the following consolation:

"I wouldn't worry if I were you, Mister. She can't have gone very far."

"Why not?" asked the troubled farmer.

"She'll run out of oil. I saw the hired man draining her crank case just before dark last night."

East B.y Hoo Hoo Club Lumbermen Attend Rate Hearing

President Larue Woodson presided at the regular dinner rneeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monclay evening, June 13. The president announced that or,ving to summer vacations the next meeting will be held in August, when the new officers will be elected for the coming year.

"Tom" Tomlinson presided at the piano at intervals during the dinner hour, and the gathering \\ras entertained for a full hour by a radio headliner, Rev. Laurence L. Cross, who conducts the N. B. C. "Cross Cuts" program daily at 8:15 a.m. Mr. Cross told a lot of good Negro stories rvith his authentic Alabama accent, and concluded his program with an appeal for a better appreciation of the colored man's good qualities, his hurnor and his musical ability.

Taylor Sublett, of Strable Hardwood Co., led discussion on the proposed formation of a University Extension Class for lumbermen, and a number of those present signifled their intention of joining the class as soon as it is announced by the University authorities.

Ser.vall Morton conducted an old fashioned roll call, and kept sergeant-at-arms Earle Johnson busl' for a ferv minutes collecting fines.

Demands for equal rates with Canadian shippers were made by Pacific Coast lumber shippers at a hearing before R. S. Brown, examiner for the U. S. Shipping Board, held in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, June 22. It was charged by a number of lumber shippers that on account of the rate of exchange Canadian shippers have an aclvantage of about 13 per cent in freight rates on cargoes carried by Shipping Board ships. Among the witnesses at the hearing were L. L. Chipman, Long-Bell Lun,ber Co.; H. W. Bunker, Coos Bay Lumber Co.; E. D. Kingsley, West Oregon Lumber Co., and \M. W. Clark, Clark & Wilson Lumber Co. An investigation r,vill be made by the Shipping Board as a result of the testimony gi.,'en.

Norman Lind

Norman Lind, president and general manager of the Tacoma Oriental Steamship Co., Tacoma, died at Denver May 18, after an operation for appendicitis. Mr. Lind was a former resident of San Francisco, and was 'ivell known to lumber shippers. He 'ivas 50 years old, and was a son of the late John Lind, former governor of Minnesota. His body was sent to Minneapolis for burial.