Shevlin Pine Sales Gompany

O. V. WilsorL Preaidant Mcrtel D. Wilson, Vice-PregidEnt contracts and the Treasury Department's proposal for limiting profits of war contracts to a maximum of 6 per cent.

They will employ 150 carpenters, apprentices and laborers in connection with this Benicia project. Martel Wilson will be in charge of the production of the prefabrication of the houses for the Benicia job and also the two other contemplated projects. Chester Gianelli will be general superintendent of the Central Lumber Company's prefabricated department, assisted by Merle Eisenhart, Arthur J. Smith, and Harold Akerman. Paul Wilson, secretary of the company, will handle the procurement of all materials.

This progressive lumber concern has ah interesting history. It is an outgrowth of the old C. L. Hatch Lumber Company which began business in Stockton in 1914 as a second-hand lumber yard. It was incorporated in 1918 and purchased in 1919 by S. H. Rothermel, who became president, and O. V. Wilson, who became secretary-treasurer, and with them were associated J. W. Jacobson and Albert Snyder as silent stockholders. It was operated under the supervision of Messrs. Rothermel and Wilson until 1928 when they purchased the stock owned by Messrs. Jacobson and Snyder, and the business thrived under their leadership. In 1935, Mr. Rothermel wished to retire and his entire stock was purchased by O. V. Wilson and his three sons, Martel, Vincent and Paul, all of whom became active officials of the corporation. Under the management of this quartet, "'Wilson,'Wilson, Wilson and Wilson," the business has been expanded and enlarged.

O. V. Wilson, lr- Trecsurer Pctul W. Wilaon, Secret<rry

O. V. Wilson, president, is a native of "Old Kentucky," a graduate of Baylor {Jniversity, Waco, Texas, taught school for twelve years and came to California in 1913, and has just celebrated his twenty-second year with the concern. He is a member of the International Order of HooHoo, a charter member of the Stockton Kiwanis Club, also a member of the Yosemite Club of Stockton. He is one of the original incorporators of the Central Lumber Company and has seen it grow from a two-man yard to the present organization composed of more than fifty.

Martel D. Wilson, vice.president, is a native of Texas, e graduate of Stanford University, took post-graduate work in New York University and spent three years on the Stock Exchange in New York City while associated with H. L. Dougherty & Co., stock brokers. He became a member of the Central Lumber Company organization in 1935 and is now in charge of the prefabricating plant.

O. V. Wilson, Jr., is treasurer. He is a native of Texas and a graduate of the College of Commerce. While still officially a member of the firm, he is now located at Mather Field, Sacramento, in the United States Air Service. He expects to be transferred soon to another field as an instructor of air cadets. After the war is over, he will resume his active duties with the company.

Paul W. Wilson is secretary, and is a native oI Texas and a graduate of the College of the Pacific, Stockton. He has been connected with the firm for the past seven years and is in charge of all sales and promotion.

rHE KNITTERS

(Here is one of the most exquisite poems of the first World War. It was written by a war mother, Mrs. John B. Evans, of Selma, Alabama. There is a thrill in every line.)

Do you wonder, dear, what they say to me, These knitting needles, two?

As the dull-grey wool, and khaki's gold, In turn pass o'er and through?

They say to me-yet none may hear'Tis so far in the dim, deep past, While heart and mind keep time, and croon, To the lad whom my soul holds fast.

"God gave unto you"-they whisper low, "Threads of beauty not wrought of hand;" Didst thou weave them well? Will thy stitch hold true?

Somewhere in that No-Man's Land?

They were thine alone e'en before earth's light Or the eyes of man might lrrow; Oh, tell us now, did'st thou render well?

Ah! The proving alone must show.

'bid'st thou weave them true?" they still sing on, ' "The pattern of Christ was thine;" Will thy stitch hold fast-each day must prove, Oh, Mothers, your boy-and mine ! The needles fall from my trembling hands, My soul to its God stands bare !

While the blind tears from my eyes fall fastThen I see-Oh, my boy, so fairt

"V/hjr, Mother dear," I hear him say, With the same sweet boyish kiss; tt'Twas for God and for thee, we came away,"

Greater love hath no man than this.

Fear not! Though he walk through death's shadows deep, A voice fills my soul with song"If thy stitches fail, and thy threads grow weak, His Savior will make them strong.'

Oh, Mother-heart of the world today, Torn, bleeding, crushed, afraid, For the child of thy soul in yon far-off war-

Trust thy God! Be not dismayed!

Two pierced hands-with Infinite Love Will Strengthen thy threads so frail, Thy boy to his God and you holds true; Dear Mothers, he will not fail !

LINCOLN'S GET'TYSBURG ADDRESS

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, w€ cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

Was Willing To Treat

During the course of a physical examination of a new army recruit, the doctor said to him:

"Young man, have you any scars on you?"

The soldier-to-be said:

"No, sir, but if you'Il excuse me a minute I'll get you a cigarette out of my coat pocket.',

AN OLD BOOK, WASN'T IT?

And then, of coursg there was the flapper who said that her ambition was to move to Hollywood, and live in a house with seven gables.

Same Lessons

"My son," asked the proud father, ,,why do you always stay at the foot of the class?,'

"But, Daddy," replied the boy, .tt really nakes no difrerence. Teacher gives us the same lesson at both ends.',