Stop Making Six to Two's

By Jack Dionne

Thin shingles are the bunk !

It seems as though everyone interested in shingles agrees to the truth of that slang statement.

When you cut wooden shingles thinner than five butts to two inches, you have made them perilously thin, and have endangered the good name of wooden shingles.

Here's the way it stands now: every shingle man you talk to says that the thin shingles are a mistake, and that it would be far better for the shingle industry if they rpere no longer manufactured; every retail lumberrnan echoes this thought, and generally adds something to it; every builder who is shown the difference between the thin and the better shingles, and then shown how small is the difference in cost, wants the better shingle.

So there are the three-the ONLY thre+people who should really be interested in the question of shingles, and they are all agreed that the 6 to 2 shingles should go into the discard, and appear no more.

Then why do they still make the thin shingle? AU they've got to do is set the shingle machine a little deeper, and have nothing come out of them less than 5 to 2 in thickness.

The trouble seems to be the lack of organized effort in