Big Vote Needed to Save Shingles

'lVhat are you doing, Mr. Lumberman, to help defeat the anti-shingle bill which will be on the voters' ballot at the November election?

Are you doing your share to arouse sentiment in your community to the importance of voting NO on this measure.

It is No. 5 on the ballot and every lumberman should see to it that he and his family and his friends and his neighbors go to the polls and vote to kill this bill.

As a matter of fact the lumbermen are pretty well aroused. and are joining very generally in the campaign, but in some guarters there is an apparent lack of interest-or laek of enthusiasm, anyway.

Indeed, the country newspapers are doing more than sone of the lum.ber folks, for they are printing column after column of publicity to call their readers'attention to the glaring injustice of the bill antl the terrible hdndicap it will place on the farmer and the home-owner if it is not defeated.

The headquarters of the lumbermen's committee in San tr'rancisco is in elose touch with the country press and is getting back whole baskets full of clippings showing how the newspapers of the state have responded to the appeal for honest publicity on this subject.

For those who are not fully familiar with the drastic provisions of the measure it may be well to read. the ofrending sections once more. Ilere they are:

"Every wooden buikling hereafter erected in incorporated town, city or city and county, shall have the exterior walls thereof and roofs thereon constructed of the same kind of materials and in the same manner hereinbefore provided for semi-fireproof buildings; provid.ed, however, that the exterior walls of any wooden builcling may be constructed of wooden materials or stuceoed. or Yeneered on wooden frame work."

'Which, boilecl down into plain language, means that, should this act carry at the coming election it will be illegal to build a house with a shingle roof in any incorporated community in California-city, town or village. It also means that if you live in a house now that has a shingle -roof you cannot in the future repair it with shingles. Beeause Section 68 of the same act provides:

"Every semi-fireproof building and wooden building hereafter erected shall have tlie roofs thereof constructed and maintained in good repair with materials as in this act hereinbefore provided for semi-fireproof buildings. "

There is abundant reason for the passage of sensible builtling laws with a view to lessening the great fire hazard, particularly in congested districts, in large cities, and in the industrial districts. There should in these sections be provision for fireproofing on the roofs and under the roofs.

But for the great majority of the people the most convenient and economieal rooffng is still the old reliable shingle. This is particulariy true of the small detached residence structures in the snaller towns and villages. For such structures it would be hard to dqvise a better, more economical, safer or more enduring roof than one of good, air dried shingles, properly laid. The danger of such a roof taking fire from any external source is most remote.

r TEE TEBEE STONE CUTTEnS

The story of the three stone cutters has a greater meaning today than ever. To the first a stranger inquired, ttMy man, what are you d.oing?" t''Working for wages." ttAnd you?" he asked. the second cutter, "I am cutting stone." And to the thirtl he put the same question and he replied, "I am building a temple. "

To the passer-by they were all doing exactly the same thing, but to the man behind the chisgl one had. his attention riveted on w&ges, the second. merely putting in his time cutting stone, but the third was thinking neither of cutting stone nor wages-vision, he was looking ahead to the temple that would rise when these stones were properly shaped

If you go about the country and visit those in charge of retail lumber yards and. building stores, and ask the question, "'What are you doing?" One Fan will tell you, "I'm just sticking around. here until I can get something better." He'll never finat it. The second will tell you he is selling lunber, tunning a lunber yard. The thircl will tell you he is helping to build up and beautify the town, to make it a better place to live. Ele renders the people a serviee of value such as builcling homes and other buildings more beautiful and substantial than ever before.

"SHIilGLE SERUICE''

To the home builder between now and the November voting on the referendum conrirts of adviring your curtomerr of the value of Shingles ar a roof and wall covcring.

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