Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association Holds Annual Meeting In Portland

Charles M. Cooper of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was elected president of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association at the 21st annual meeting of this organization, held at the Benson Hotel, Portland, Ore., June n, D and 30.

Harrison Company, Seattle, and Norman Sawers, J. FyfeSmith Company, Vancouver, B. C.

President Adolph E. Wanke presided at the first business session held on Tuesday morning, June D, and gave members and guests a cordial welcome to Portland.

B. E. Bryan, Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, was elected vice-president, and Milton Taenzer, American Hardwood Company, Los Angeles, was elected secretary-treasurer.

The new directors are Robert Sullivan. Sullivan Hardwood Lumber Company, San Diego; Frank J. Connolly, 'Western Hardwood Lumber Company, Los Angeles; C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco; Ernest Hall, Lumber Products, Inc., Portland; Dallas Donnan, Ehrlich-

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Dallas Donnan read the minutes of the 1942 meeting and presented the treasurer's report. C. H. White, San Francisco, in his report of the progress of the Association, referred to the fact that with so many of the younger men now serving in the armed forces the work and responsibility of the older members of the various hardwood firms had been greatly increased.

Mr. White spoke of tl-re great loss sustained by the As(Continued on Page 16) tlillions of square feet of Celo-Siding, the new kind of building material, are being used for urgent wartime constfuction.

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(Genesis): "And Joseph made it a law of the land of Egypt unto this day that Pharaoh should have thefifthpart."

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So you see things haven't really changed much since Pharaoh's day. Joseph, it seems, was not only a man of high moral character who chose to lose his coat rather than his virtue; he was also a 2O per cent pay-as-you-go income taxer. ***

First prize this issue for the most colorful remark about national afrairs goes to the radio commentator, Earl Godwin. Discussing the Office of War Information (now practically decapitated by Congress) Godwin said: "Never has so much been concealed from so many by so few."

This column bragged ,:r."; loud about Elmer Davis when he was appointed head of OWI-and meant it sincerely. But Washingtonitis got him quick and hard. ***

Winston Churchill keeps up his record for terse and illuminating. English. Concerning England's hero of the African campaign, General Montgomery, Churchill recently said: "He is indomitable in defense, unconquerable in attack, and insufferable in victory."

First prize for an apt ili"tJattlr, go"" to the editor of the Wall Street Journal who declares that fighting inflation by payment of subsidies is like fighting fire by pouring gasoline on the flames. {<**

Sign in front of a retail lumber yard: "Special todayNO LUMBER.'' r was talking to " tt-ul, ;."1, in the back of his office when a customer walked in the front. "Quiet," whispered the lumber dealer. "Maybe he'll go way."

THINGS YOU NEVER HEAR NOWADAYS: "How's about shipping you a car of boards, Bill? I can make you a special price." "George, if you'll cut the price of that flooring a dollar I'll take a car.'i "Ilonest, Joe, if you'll give me that order I'll ship the car today." "I'm refusing that car of dimension, Henry, it's a bit green."

DEFINITION OF AN OPTIMIST: A lumber dealer who sends a mill an order for a car of lumber with an AA-1 rating and then hurries and makes room for the stock.

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN: Many sawmills used to advertise the slogan-"When you order from us, make room for the lumber"?

And Private Bill Smith, on KP duty, says he can remember back to the days when washing dishes and peeling potatoes was a woman's work.

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That overworked bromid+"Don't you know there's a qr41' spf"-is like Charity; it covers a multitude of sins. Every sorry rascal you catch off line or with his hand in someone else's pocket, pulls that one as an excuse. ***

While vacations of the travel kind are being generally frowned upon, it looks like it's every man's duty this summer (what with the mcat shortage and all that stuff) to oil up his fishing tackle and go out to some available water spot and do his bit to add to the nation's store of food; without ration points. Naturally, he should do it for patriotic purposes. But for all of that, he shouldn't forget to spit on his bait.

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Yes, Junior, the confusion is terrible. Lots of our citizens use their entire gasoline allowance driving around hunting for Black Markets. ***

Lowell urrote: "What is so rare as a day in June?" I can think of many. How about a thick steak in July, for instance? ***

Ogden Mills, a man who knew a lot about many tJrings, let fly with his right when he said: "In dealing with the paradox of want in the midst of plenty, don't make the mistake of abolishing the plenty." +!F*

The trouble with most of our left-wing postwar planners is that they propose to take a world made up of have and have-not nations, and make them all have-nots.

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