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Uncaturated building prper ir hid betw€en Shingles and ridewall rheathing.

Outer coursc b laid Vz" tower than the under (conccaled) layer, providing attractive thick appearance and shadow line.

No. I CERTIGRADE CEDAR SHINGLES or Cedar Shaker for out€r coure.

Unstalned No.2, No. 3 or Undercoursing Grade Shingles are used for the under cosr€. Use of these inerpenrlve undercour:ing rhingles is an important ccononly factor. A rtrip of shiplag may bc urcd as a convenient nailing guide for both under and outer cosn€s.

Wcr:her expo,surcr rney be va:ied to achievc nany decirable architectural ellects. Sixtecninch shingler or shaker rnay bc erpoced up to 12" to the weatfier. Eighteen-inch rhlngler allow exporure ar g?est ar 14" to thc seathcr.

Cedar Shinglec rnd Shaker may be laid witfi €ithsr tight or spaced iointr, depending on the efle,a ilesircil.

Two rust-rerirtant, rmall head 5d nails per rhingle or rhake for outer counre, ap1plleil 2' above buft-line anil t/t" from edges. Each under-courrc rhingle rnay bc staplcd tentporarily, or held in phce wit'h onc 3d nail.

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The literary man is oftentimes painfully misunderstood. Stuart Holbrook, the great Northwest writer whose hobby is forests and woods, has a new book entitled "Burning An Empire." ft concerns the great forest fires of American history. A fellow who bought one wrote and demanded his $2.50 back. He thought it was a book on baseball. "I wuz robbed," uras his complaint.*

Long years ago, I wrote a couple of books. A joke-loving friend who bought one of them, wrote me: "I read your ad and I bought your book. Why the hell didn't you get the fellow who wrote the*ad, jo w*rite the book?"

How easily a smart man can simplify an apparently hopeless tangle of thoughts and words. Take the subject of the atom. Generally it requires most of the dictionary to attempt to explain it. Now my friend Thomas Dreier, of Boston, tells it simply and in a few words. He says: "The whole scheme is fundamentally simple. Everything is made of 92 different kinds of atoms. Each atom is only a different arrangement of three kinds of fundamental particles-electrons, protons, and neutron.; t: now you can tell 'em.

"The race of tyrants is not yet extinct," wrote an historian several centuries ago. No, not then, nor now, nor ever so long as the human race shall endure. How provable is that historian's remark today. As George Gissing wrote: "In the days to come, as through dl time that is past, man will lord it over his fellows, and earth will be stained red from veins of young and old."

How admirable is complacency and the ability to remain calm and casual in the face of general alarm; like the world is in today, for instance. Bugs Baer says he refuses to let the atomic threat disturb his rest. Says he is like the fellow in the boarding-house who was awakened by hearing the landlord screaming frantically-"FlRE !" The boarder turned over on his pillow, and suggested to the excited shouter: "Call me when*thefloor gets hot."

"To individuals who are afraid of responsibility, the future always looks dark and dangerous," says Dr. V. O. Watts, distinguished economist. "For them, freedom is less important than 'security'. They want a 'strong government', headed by a benevolent and energetic leader, to care for them. When such individuals become sufficiently numerous, the nation becomes weak and poor. Where, then, is the 'security' they sought?" *

And jumping right back from the serious to the ridiculous, one of my friends is having a lot of fun. He has organized, he says, a corporation for a special purpose, and is selling stock in that mythical corporation to all his friends. The entire business of that corporation is NOT TO RAISE OKRA. He insists that if he can get enough people for stockholders, he may succeed eventually in discouraging the raising of okra, thoroughly and completely. And that, he thinks, would be a great national blessing.

He reminds me of .rr" lorol.a irott er in the famous old story, who, when he refused to eat okra and was asked to explain why, declared that "f nevah puts nuthin' in mah mouf Icain'tcontrol."

Which foolishness reminds me of the campaign that a distinguished friend of mine tried to start a few years back among his innumerable friends and acquaintances. .He wanted to establish a society for the prevention of putting parsley on plates. I recall that I Fpoke for a membership right quickly, being one of those crude souls always seized with a potent ambition to pick all parsley from plates and throw it on the floor. Anyway, his campaign evidently didn't get far, as I have heard nothing of it lately, and entirely too often I still find a gob of parsley on my dinner plate. The way I remember it, his plan was to get every man pledged to always throw the parsley on the floor if in a private eating place; and if in a public place, to walk out indignantly without paying the check. But, like many gallant campaigns, it died a-bornin'.

Says Carl Carmar, folk historian, and author of "America Sings"; "Not all of ma_nts'wisdom has come from the great. The le, in the passing of the generations, have also I truths; truths proved by their create saylngs Ssing their simple vernacular, they sifted and polished by thousands of own long ex re-tellings until they reach the ultimate in succinct meaning. From the simplicity and brevity of a proverb which has been affirmed by a community as a whole on its journey through time, comes beauty that is not often rivalled by individual literary craftsmen." ***

The imagination of man has the horizon of experience; and beyond experience or nature man cannot go, even in imagination. Man is not a creator. He combines. He adds

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