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This is Practic IJseful- *Know the Lumber You Use" complete details about ldentrfrtd Lumber
T) VERY lumberman should have this lL o"*, interesting booklet! It tells how lumber is graded lists sizes and grades used for ordinary construction purposes. . . describes'the nation-wide acceptance of identified lumber . . explains the Ca,r Card Tally.
In addition to this new booklet, "Know the Lumber You Use," the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will be glad to aid in preparing or revising the building code supply you with consumer booklets at half price send you free working plans and construction detailsof anything made of wood, details of which are not readily available through regular plan serviees . give personal advisory service on large projects assist in conducting builders' schools send you, on reguett only, "Lum'ber Facts." a bulletin service of sales talks and new merchan<iising methods
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Executive
The best executive is the one whb has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.-Roosevelt.
Human
"Why so depressed, old man?"
"The horrible cost of living; coirstant bills for materials, paint, and shingling.'f t'No, my daughters."
"'What, your house?"
I Help The Judge
Judge (To prisoner): "Yourwife says you have her terrorized. (Whispering) As one man to another, how do you do it?"
Monkeys
The monkey pichs nuts off the trees, Keeping two jumps ahead of his fleas, But a nut with a car Which he owes mostly for Is picked quick by slick mortgagees.
Demoted
"My advice to you," said the baseball manager to .the tookie, he had been giving a try-out, "is to join one of the :Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea."
On Ship Board
t'My heart is on the ocean," recited the poet. "That makes you one up on me," exclaimed the seasick golfer.
LIF'E
'I am of the opinion that mylife belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possibe before handing it on to future generations.-George Bernard Shaw,
Hustling
To have your name bear proper fame Through ages yet to be, Let every sun see something done, (eep working busily.
Let not a day pass on its way Without some work completed, Or you will find yourself behind r From all youn kind deleted.
Mistakes
When a plumber makes a mistake he charges twice for it.
When a lawyer makes a mistake he has a chance to try the case all over again..
When a carpenter makes a mistake it means an "extra."
When an electrician makes a mistake he blames it on 'finduction" because nobody knows what that is.
When a doctor makes a mistake he buries it.
When a judge makes a mistake it becomes a law of the land.
When a preacher makes a mistake nobody knows the difference-including himself.
But when a home builder makes a mistake he usually has to live with it the rest of his life.