Jack Dionnets Goon Stories Now In Book Forrn

Jack Dionne, well known publisher of the Gulf Coast Lumberman and the California Lumber Merchant, who is conceded to be one of the best after dinner spealrers and stgw tellers in the United States has recently announced the publication of 24o ol hir best "Nigger" stories under the title of "Cullud Fwr."

Northwest lumbermen are well acquainted with Jack Dionne and his remark$t9 abilty to always have ready a good coon story to fit into every situation. Wfih a keen sense of humor and an intimate knowledge of negro diiect, Jack's stories always ring the bell, and too, without being srtt rtty or salacious.

'€ullud Fun" is the best of twenty-six years' of story telling, a clean book which can be read and enjoyed by the children as well as the older folks. The book con.tains 160 pages neatly bowrd and it is going in the South like wild fire. Th*g who gpeak frequently in public will find "Cullud Fun" a great asset in dreasing up their talks and thoce who have difrcutty in lnowing wh"t to say can selcct stories from this book that will eliminate the n€cessity of stumbling "lo.g clumsily for lack of wonds.

Half of the first issue of "Cullud Fun'l has already been sold. The price is $2.fi) qer coFr_y: Tb"* wishing to_get 'jCrrllud Fun" can rend $2:(X) to JacfDionne, 318 Centraf Building, Los Angeles, C,alifornia, and a copy will be mailed promptly.

homes we've been reading so much about. And a lot of his ideas are good. He says that, in the South particularly, the sun would never set on such a house. Correct, my friend ! All the air conditioning on earth would be required to offset the effects of the sun on such a structure in summer'

And, if the public wants standardized, unit-built homes, made at the factory of big, cut-to-fit sheets, they can be made out of laminated and other methods of making big boards from wood to much better advantage than they could out of metal; lighter, easier to handle, eaiser to fit and adjust, with aU the good qualities of wood, and none of the drawbacks of metal. Wood has all the advantages. All it has to do is employ them.

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A wise business man remarks that large profits in business only develop in two ways. First, when the demand greatly exceeds the prciduction. Second, when some one learns how to produce something of common use at much less cost than his competitors. And he says that in the first case they always use their big profits to increase their production, and as soon as it catches up with demand large profits cease. In the second case large profits continue until competitors learn to make the article also at low cost, and then the consumer gets the benefit and the profits. tr.**

True, brother, true ! In the lumber manufacturing business the first way is the only way large profits have ever come. And they have always come for very temporary visits when emergencies of some character cause the demand to soar. And the mills have a one hundred per cent record for success in quickly and effectually destroying those large profits by swamping the demand under a tide of increased production. Nobody in the lumber business ever made any large profits by the second route.

Someone is always asking me why I don't jump all over the sawmills for the terrific price-breaking slide they have been indulging in the last year or so. Why, bless your soul, I can't do that ! When, as my friend Carl Crow says -'(Bys1y mill man is fighting for a toe hold, hoping by some means to remain in the picture until the upward swi4g comes," it is not the time for criticism, or unkindly remarks. That time-honored and never-to-be-rqrealed law of self-preservation has made every man a lone wolf in his desperate scramble for existence. That's one primwal instinct we all understand. whether we admire its effects or not.