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Jock Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told

STORIES br 20 years---Some less

Nothing Personal

She was a tall, lovely looking young lady, and she was playing a practice round of golf alone. She was stooping to tie a shoe lace when a long sliced drive from the parallel fairway came sailing over and smacked her most indelicately, not to mention severely. She was mad as a hornet and her eyes were blazing her wrath as the repentent player from the other side came running up to apologize.

"Sir," she cried, "what do you mean by shooting over here and hitting me right in the middle of the back?"

His eyes twinkled. "It didn't look like the middle of the back to me," he said.

"Sir," she said again, "you're a stranger to me. It's the middle of the back to you, see?"

B. C. Waterborne Exports Show Lumber Code Manual

Washington, D. C., July 28.-Waterborne lumber exports from British Columbia during the first five months of. 1934 reached a total of 387,374,W board feet as compared with 244,028,W board feet in the same period of 1933, according to reports from American consuls at Victoria and Vancouver, recently made public by the Department of Commerce. This shows a net increase of 59 per cent for the period.

Although exports to the United States and to the Orient were greatly reduced, there was a gain of. 2L7 per cent in shipments to the United Kingdom. British importers have been buying heavily because of the resumption of building activity in the United Kingdom. Canadian participation in this increased business is attributed to the Ottawa InterEmpire Trade Agreement and the trade extension activities carried on by British Columbia lumbermen and public officials.

A recent issue of the London, England, Timber Trades Journal quotes Axel H. Oxholm of the Forest Products Division of the Department of Commerce at Washington as declaring that the feat accomplished by the British Columbia exporters in building up their overseas trade during the past three years is unparalleled in the history of lumber exporting.

Oxholm gives a major portion of credit for the increase to Canadian lumber specialists, who have visited overseas markets in an endeavor to educate foreign consumers as to the merits of Canadian woods, these specialists being supported by Canadian trade commissioners stationed in the world's principal markets.

"The CA'nadian trade promotion activities in foreign countries," says the Timber Trades Journal, "have surpassed anything heretofore attempted by that country, and as a result the Domiirion has developed a very extensive export lumber trade spread over a vast foreign territory, to some extent at the expense of less enterprising nations."

in Preparation

Washington, D. C., July 25.-The Compliance Department of the Lumber Code Authority has begun the preparation of a manual to be used by field agents of the Authority's various administrative agencies, and which primarily will be designed to assist in the education of members of the industry in Code observance, and secondarily to assist in enforcing the Code among individuals and concerns who are disinclined towards voluntary compliance.

As tentatively outlined, the manual will contain among other things the following:

(a) Suggestive helps for obtaining and maintaining voluntary compliance.

(b) A thorough analysis of the provisions of the NIRA, and of the Lumber Code.

(c) A digest of all pertinent Executive and Administrative Orders which may have a bearing on the investigation of violations under the NIRA.

(d) A list of interpretations of code provisions and examples of their application.

(e) Suggestive helps for developing evidence to support a successful prosecution of each article of the Lumber Code; also for the development of evidence showing that a particular operator is engaged in inter-state commerce or that his business affects inter-state commerce.

(f) A digest of the laws of evidence pertinent to the investigation of code violations.

(g) A digest of the court decisions under the NIRA.

(h) An outline of Federal procedure.

W. L. AISTHORPE S. F. VISITOR

W. L. Aisthorpe of the Aisthorpe Lumber Co., Chico, was a business visitor for a few days in San Francisco around the end of July. Mr. Aisthorpe looks for better business in his district this fall, owing to the good prices being received by growers for prunes, peaches and almonds.

Rotarians Praise Police Chief Pioneer-Flintkote Roofing Mart

San Francisco Rotarians honored Chief of Police William J. Quinn for the "courageous and stalwart position" he assumed during the city's recent strike crisis by presenting him with a framed resolution of the club, at their meeting August 7, citing his physical and moral courage, his judgment and his generalship.

The presentation was made by Rotarian M. A. "Matt" Harris of the Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco.

O. R. Schramm

Otto R. Schramm, sales manager of the Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., Montesano, \Mash., died suddenly at his home there on August 4. He was a native of Pennsylvania. He was widely known in the Northwest where he had been connected with the lumber industry for a long period, and before joining the Schafer Bros. organization, he was in charge of sales for the Grays Harbor Commercial Co. at Cosmopolis, Wash. He is survived by his wife and five children.

Remodels Office

E. P. Sappington, El Monte retail lumber dealer, recently remodeled his lumber office by refinishing the interior and installing a new lighting system. Mr. Sappington has been operating his yard at El Monte for the past thirty years.