INSECT SCREEN CLOTH

Lumbermen Oppose Proposed \(/age Boost

Washington, D. C., July 8, |947.-Affirming that the establishment of wage rates is not a Federal function and calling for a thorough revamping of the Wage and Hour Law, Mr. A. J. Glassow, first vice president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, testified today before the Subcommittee on Wages and Hours of the House Labor Committee in opposition to a proposed increase in the minimum wage.

"A noticeable trend of business firms to confine activities to intrastate commerce rather than interstate resulted from the passage of the original Wage and Hour Law," Mr. Glassow stated. Within the lumber manufacturing industry, he continued, this trend would be accentuated if the law is further extended. This would disrupt normal distribution channels and make it more difficult for veterans and other builders to get lumber.

Mr. Glassow, general manager of Brooks-Scanlon, Inc., Bend, Oregon, pointed out to the committee that his company is in no way directly affected by the proposal to increase the minimum wage to 6O cents. Minimum wage at his company's operation is $1.30 per hour straight time; average wage in the sawmill, $1.70 per hour; average wage in his logging operation, $1.86 per hour; the Oregon lumberman stated.

"Only a small segment of our rvhole economy is directly affected by the proposed increase in minimum 'il'ages," Mr. Glassow told the committee. "It is inescapable, horvever, that the changing of the wages of the lowest paid workers . . . will mean a substantial increase in rvages 'across the board' for all employers."

Branding the establishment of a rigid minimum lvage as an "unnecessary and unhealthy curtailment of the freedom of enterprise," Mr. Glassow charged that the proposed increase is an admission "that \ve can never return our economy to a prewar level; that the rvartime inflation of wag'es and prices is permanent."

Calling for a full review of rvhat he terrled "hasty and ill-conceived" Wage and Hour legislation before any step is taken to extend it, Mr. Glassorv took exception rvith the Committee's announced intention to consider only the minimum rvage clause of the legislation during the current hearings. "It is wrong," he stated, "for your committee to try to come to a logical conclusion on a sullject of sucl-r grave importance in a very short space of time without any consideration of the fundamental error involved in the statutory determination of wages."

Through endorsement of this proposed increase, Mr. Glassow charged, labor unions are relinquishing their primary function and tacitly admitting their inability to determine wages through collective bargaining.

If helping the working man raise his standard of living is the purpose of the Committee and of the proposed legislation, Mr. Glassow concluded, it r,r'ill not be accomplished so long as our economy is hamstrung with biased, unjust, and unintended interpretations of the Wage Hour Act.

Crates lor Cantaloupes

An average season's cantaloupe shipments from California and Arizona total about 23,0ffi carloads or, roughly, 7,500,000 crates, of which practically all are the Jumbo size with a small proportion of Standards and Ponies. The shipments start first in the Imperial Valley, usually about May 15, running through July 4. This area, including Blythe, accounts for approximately 3,000,000 crates. The Yuma, Arizona, deal starts about May ZS and runs through July 4, with the Phoenix, Arizona crop starting to move July 1 and running to about mid-August. This combined Arizona territory will use about 2,000,000 crates. The balance of the shipments comes from Central California, starting about June 25 and extending into the middle of September. This area extends from Delano to Woodland with the biggest volume moving from the West Side district of the San Joaquin Valley. This crop amounts to approximately 2,50O,00O crates. (American Eagle.)

Appoints Advertising Agency

The Celotex Corporation, Chicago, I11., has annouuced the appointment of The BlainerThompson Company, Inc., Nerv York City, as the company's advertising agency.

From J. C. Ferger

"Your Silver Anniversary Number has been read from cover to cover with a great deal of pleasure. It brought to mind many of my old friends whom I have known throughout the years past. You are to be congratulated on this issue." J. C. Ferger, Fresno, Calif'

Thomqs Edison Scrid:

"Why should one envy the captains of industry? Their lives are made of those vast, incessant worries from which the average individual is happily spared. \tr/orry, worry, that is the evil of life !

Triumph of Education

A certain sports writer referred to a well known prize fighter in terms the fighter didn't like. So when he met the writer he jumped all over him.

"You called me a dumb ox, and for that I'm going to beat

"What do I consider the neares! approximation to hap- your face in," said the wrathy fightgr: piness of which the present humay/nature is capable? Why, "f said it, and I reiteratd\ it," gdid the writer living on a farm, which is onel own, far from the hectic, The fighter cooled off visi[1]'That's different," he said. artificial conditions of \he cityFa farm where one gets di- "fn that case I'll overlook tKe insult. But don't think for rectly from one's owh\oifwhat one needs to sustain a minute that an apology will get you off if lrou call me names again." life, with a garden in fro( and a healthy, normal family to contribute those small domestic joys that relieve a man from business strain."

Lord Byron On Stcrrs

Ye stars! which are the poetry of .heaven, In your bright leaves we would read the fate

Of men and empires-it is to be forgiven

That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create

In us such love and reverence from afar That fortune, fame, power, life, ffave named themselves a star.

Enlightened Mind

Longfellow said: "An nrhlightened mind is not hoodwinked. It is\t shut pf in a gloomy prison till it thinks ligence."

A Bit Modilied PerhcPs

A lady was shocked at the language used by two ditchdiggers in the street outside her home, and complained to the foreman about it. He called the two men over and asked what kind of language they had been using. One of them said:

"Well, boss, me and Butch was working there side by side when I accidentally let my pick slip and hit Butch on the head. Butch just looked at me and said; 'Now, really Joseph, in the future I must ask you to handle that implement with more caution.' And that was all we said boss."

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me. Black as the pit from pole to pole" I thank whatever gods may be, For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud, Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears, Looms but the horror of the Shade, And yet the menace of the years, Find, and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How changed with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

-W. E. Henley.

Her Future

"Lips that touch liquor shall never ;ledCh mine," said the fair co-ed. And after she grfupadcl she taught school for years and years.

A Quick Comeback

A Scotchman, leaving the home of a friend he had been said to his friend's little son:

"No'w, Sandy, which one taught not to be greedy, so I will hae the wee one."

Mr. McTavish quickly handed him the nickle, and said:

"Well, noo, Sandy, for being a guid bairn, and no' greedy, I'll gie the big one to ye."

BMD Opens New Wcrrehouse Building Material Distributors, Inc., currently serving Northern and Central California from their warehouses at Stockton and Fresno, announce tlie opening of a new distributing point in San Jose, California, to supply retailers in the central coast counties.

The new warehouse at 668 Lincoln Street, is now stocking Martin-Senour paints and top-quality builders hardware. IJnder the managership of Frank M. Riley, distribution of the entire BMD line will begin as soon as the space can be utilized. The addition of this new warehouse extends the effectiveness of BMD's exclusivelv ..'.'holesale service.

Establishes New Plywood Firm

David S. Betcone, long associated with the development of markets for Douglas fir plyr,r,'ood, has established a new firm to supply industrial panel users with plywood and veneer cut to size and pattern.

The firm, known as Engineered Plywood Products Co., has offices and factory at Tacoma, Wash. Mr. Betcone heads it as president. He had been employed by Douglas Fir Plywood Association, the trade promotion organization for fir plywood producers, for the past eight years.

Chcnge ol Address

The offices of the Lamon-Bonnington Lumber Company have been moved from the St. Clair Building, 16 California Street, to Rooms 505-6-7 Morris Plan Building, 717 Market Street, San Francisco 3. The telephone number remains the same-GArfield 6881.