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New home builders and folks interested in remodeling can see the latest designs, ideas and new materials which add so much to the beauty and livability of the home, in actual use as the finished product at The Home Builders Store in Carlsbad, California, rvhere they have just completed a carefully planned program of modernization ol their store and offices.

The plywood wall coverings displayed show how the application of modern designs and treatments can transform an ordinary building material like plywood into a product of great beauty and utility.

The walls of the office are made of stock four-foot sheets of quarter-inch Douglas Fir plywood, grooved and laid out to their own design with their own tools, and finished in the most modern "Blond Effect" which gives a subdued textured grain. The feeling of soft warmth which plyrvood treated in this manner gives, makes it an ideal wall material for living rooms, dens and libraries.

In an adjoining office are displayed a number of very attractive and interesting plywood walls and ceiling materials. Stock plywood, used in sixteen-inch strips or planks with edges beveled to form a very small vee at the joint, is used on one wall and finished in a dark modern effect. Baskotweave, a very interesting plywood material, is shown as a wainscot on another wall; it is an embossed woodboard of real merit and beauty. Kraftwood, an unusual plywood, is used o,n other lvalls, and shows the random plank pattern, finished in two colors. The ceiling appears to be a fine enameled surface, but it, too, is made of stock plywood, the large sheets being carefully fitted together and glued into place, forming a single plywood sheet.

"Artply," still another plywood, with a pattern of inlaid strips which hide all joints, is displayed on the wall as one enters the office, and on the ceiling of the little display room in the store you see "Artply" in a pattern 16 inches square.

Not a batten or strip of any kind has been used in the offices.

In addition to these plywood walls and ceilings, they carry plywood of many kinds for many purposes. One which is attracting much attention is the special waterproof plyrvood which will not separate even when soaked in water for months.

Celotex plank is shown, applied both vertically and horizontally, in natural tapestry, brown ripple, light green, light tan and ivory finishes. The entire ceiling of the store is laid with sl-inch Celotex key-joint units, applied in an attractive design.

The soft beauty of genuine black rvalnut may be seen on the curved wall fixture as you enter the office. This material is black walnut veneer on a cane fibre back. coming to the home in the form of a plank.

Celotex hardboards are used effectively in streamlining the two curved fixtures in the store, one wall of the little bathroom, top of the three steamlined fixtures in the store and ofifice, and the Century of Progress flooring in the bathroom.

Sheetrock, the modern plasterboard with the recessed edge and the Perf-a-Tape hidden joint system, is demonstrated on the ceiling and right hand wall of the model display bath room.

Knotty Pine cabin lining forms the panels on the front of the main counter. It comes in two patterns, beaded and vee jointed. These patterns are shown separately and together, both vertically and horizontally.

Knotty Pine is shown in the I x 12 moulded edge, with natural shellac finish on the rvall inside the Display Cottage.

The fine texture of interior plaster at its very best ma1' be seen on the ceiling of the office. There you may see a really beautiful piece of work.

To give assistance to the liorne builder, they display many floor materials, including the following: in the east show window, panels of white oak in three grades; in the west show window, panels of red oak in three grades; on the floor of the store, one-inch hard maple; on the floor of the front office, select plain red oak, with a finish of white shellac and waxed; on the floor of the rear office, vertical grain fir flooring with finish of shellac and waxed; Century-of-Progress flooring in the display bathroom; Bruce block flooring, factory finished, laid in basket pattern in the display cottage; bnd on the little display porch are lZ-inch Roman pavers laid in the popular basket pattern.

On the center gable of the display cottage are Clear Vertical Grain Red Cedar shingles laid 5 inches to the weather on one side and the same with every fourth course doubled on the other side.

Asphalt shingles in several patterns are also .shown. On the roof over the bath are Universal shingles in larvn green color; on the porch the nerv thick-tapered butt in the latest Aluminum surface.

A number of the fopular exterior rvall siding materials are displayed. Wide sidings, such as the lGinch Knotty Pine rustic siding, is shown on the front of the display cottage, with knots completely hidden by the paint, and the mitered corners carry the horizontal lines around the building.

Two Redwood combination sidings are displayed, which have been designed to appear as a single wide board to meet the styling of the day. One of them is on the back wall of the little porch, painted white, and the other is on one wall of the cottage, finished natural.

Tlvo patterns in Red Cedar siding may be seen on the large swinging panel in the cottage. One of them shows the shingles laid in varied courses, and the other meets the present day requirement of wide sidings by doublecoursing a row of shingles to lay ten or eleven inches to the weather. In this instance the upper layer is laid a half inch below the under layer to give a darker shadow line and form a drip to the siding.

One wall of the display cottage demonstrates the studand-board single wall construcion, with detailed 2 x 4 studding and 1 x 12 Knotty Pine giving the effect of board and battens. Here also is installed a swing-out casement sash operated through the inside screen. The simple detailed window frame is typical for single wall house construction.

An ideal material for open ceilings and porch ceilings is the 8-inch vee joint shiplap which is shown on the ceiling of the little porch. This material may also be used effectively in the wider widths as a siding, in which case the corners are mitered to carry the design entirely around the house.

Several front doors of the latest designs are displayed and a catalogue with colored illustrations is a great help in making selections. Modern interior door and window casings and trim are shown throughout the store and offices and displayed in color in the sample mouldings arranged at one end of the counter.

A disappearing door, here in actual use, solves the problem in the new home where a swinging door is in the way, no matter which way it swings; it is installed in a wall of ordinary thickness and works like a charm.

Modern medicine cabinets, ironing boards, corner cabinets, shoe racks, and other conveniences for the home are on display.

Six scale models of picket fences are shown in the ftont windows in the following styles: Carlsbad special, combination, odd and even, single cut, flat top, and double cut.

To further help the builder and remodeler, they have selected many clippings and pictures of homes, exteriors, kitchens, out-door living rooms, porches and sunrooms. which have been arranged and mounted in large plywood scrapbooks. And for color schemes, they have the ,,Age of Color Book" and "Color Selector."

The company has issued an 8-page folder which gives a

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THE HYMN OF' HATE

And this I hate-not men, nor flag nor race, But only War with its wild, grinning face. God strike it tiil its eyes be blind as night, And all its members tremble with affright ! Oh, let it hear in its death agony

The wail of mothers for their best-loved ones, And on its head

Descend the venomed curses of its sons

Who followed her, deluded, where its guns Had dyed the daisies red.

All these I hate-war and its panoply' The lie that hides its ghastly mockery, That makes its glories out of women's tears, The toil of peasants through the burdened years, The legacy of long disease that preys On bone and body in the after-days. God's curses pour, Until it shrivel with its votaries And die away in its own fiery seas, That nevermore Its dreadful call of murder may be heard; A thing accursed in very deed and word From blood-drenched shore to shore!

-Joseph Dana

' JONATHAN SWIFT'S EPITAPH

(Inscribed over his tomb in St. Patrick's Cathedral, in Dublin.)

"Flere lies the body of Jonathan Swift, Dean of this Cathedral, where fierce indignation can no longer rend his heart. Go ! Wayfarer, and imitate if thou canst, one who, as far as in him lay, was an eainest champion of liberty." (Dated Oct. 19, L745.)

And then, there was fhe man who walked into a tailor shop with a suit of clothes on his arm. "Shall I press it?" the tailor asked. The man said, "No, just shine the coat to match the pants."

Not Needed But Needled

Doctor: What you need is an electric bath.

Patient: Nothin' doin', doc; I had an uncle drown that way at Sing Sing.

NO T-EUCHING MATTER

A man may smile in the face of deaftr, But there never will be found

A man who can draw a placid breath

With his garters coming down.

The Other End

Mandy Jones, colored, was the complaining witness agains! her husband.

"As I understand the case," said his honor, "there had kicked in the "No, sah, de wall an' " replied Mandy. "Ah had dat again ked me in de stummick."

A Place For You

you are, there is some younger person who you are perfect. There is some work that will be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is someone who hates you because he doesn't understand you. There is a place to be filled that you alone can fill.

Hardly Deep Enough

"Mirandy," said the colored preacher, as he led her toward the brook for baptism, "I'se gwine to lead you out heah in dis stream an' wash all youh sins away."

"Lawsy, Pahson," giggled the erstwhile frolicsome damsel. "in dat li'l ole shallow creek?"

LET'S PASS A LAW

Oh, Paddy dear, an' did you hear, The news that's goin'round? They're sawin' lumber, buildin' sheds, An' tearin' up the ground. An' soon we'll have a lovely yard, All stocked with lumber fine, An' sash and doors, an' shinglesAn' many a good side-line. There's just one thing that makes me mad, An' breaks my calm sereneI want a law to hang a man Fer shippin' lumber green.