PAMUDO PIYWOOD

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PLYWOOD MIIJS

Dietributed Exclusively Since l92l by PAGITIC MUTUAI. DOOR GO.

Just !(/onderin'

I wonder if you'd like to hear A little tale of yesteryearA tale as apropos today, As in a time now far away, When river boats came floating down With,cargoes for a southern town, Wherein a winsome little maid Con,cerned herself with debts unpaid.

Once in the ever so long ago, a little girl who lived by a great river which was often spoken of as "an artery of commerce," Ieaned against her father's knee and looking up with wistful eyes, said,-

"Father, I wish the river would rise, for then the big boats would run, if the boats ran, they would bring the cotton down. If the cotton came down, you could sell it; then you'd have plenty of money, then you could pay mother that twenty dollar gold piece you borrowed from her, then mother could pay Aunt Sarah the ten dollars she owes her, then Aunt Sarah could give Sister Jane the one dollar she promised to give her Nerv Years; Sister Jane could pay brother John his fifty cents back, and John said when he got it he would give me the half dime he owes me and two whole dimes to buy marbles. That's why I want the river to rise and the big boats to run. f or,r,e nurse a dinre, and I do want to pay my debts."

"There you are," groaned father, "we are all, big and little, like a rol\,' of bricks; touch one and away we all go. Even down to my little fairy here, she has, as a child, as great an interest in the rise of the river as I have. We are all, old and young, waiting for money with which to buy marbles."

I found this little tale in an issue of The North San Juan Times which bore the date, September 11, 1874. The olcl pioneer newspaper has been defunct for many a long year, but the story is as fresh and vital today as upon the day in which it was published. It needs no illucidation, for toda1, as then we are realizing more than ever our interdependence and we know that what touches one of us, individually or nationally, is felt by all.

-A Merriam Conner.

Appointed Art Director

The appointment of Howard W. Rapport as art director of The Celotex Corporation, Chicago, has been announced by W. C. Rodd, advertising manager. Mr. Rapport will continue to supervise copy as well as art for several of the company's lines of products, including acoustical and roofing materials. He has been a member of the Celotex advertising department for eight years. Previously, he was with Western Newspaper Union and Columbia Broadcasting System.

WITH SUMMERBELL ROO,F STRUCTURES

Frank Watson, San Francisco Bay district lumber salesman, formerly with MacDonald & Harrington, I_td., and Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., is now associated with Sunrmerbell Roof Structures, Oakland.