Rhymed Points For Dealers

Long years ago when I was just a lazy kid, I always tried to slough off half of everything I did. But one day dad he made me, with an argument of wood, Do just a little better than I really thought I could.

Said he: "My boy, the world is full of men who sit and holler;

Who wear the breeching out instead of getting in the collar. I don't want you to be a man who'll lie down in the path. And that is why I'm trying to enthuse you with this lath."

He had a half a dozen lath and wore out all the bunch. That lesson then was over. But I had a certain hunch That the next time he would bring to bear a mightv club of wood

If I didn't do some better than I really thought I could.

'Tis a lesson that has made me smile when other men would frown;

A lesson that has kept me up when other men went down. I've found there is no "spanking age;" we get it, young and old.

About the time our parents quit, experience takes hold.

And that old dame, believe me, friend, can wallop you for fair.

She'll put the wrinkles in your purse and whiten up your hair.

And jealous ! Wow ! If you forget one single thing she did She'll come and put you in a hole-and then sit on the lid.

I never say,: "How's business ?" I inquire : "Well, how are YOU?"

For the business doesn't live without a MAN to THINK and DO.

A smile in early morning brings good times; and, equally, A frown puts brakes on business. - That's the way it worlis with me.

Whenever business slackens up, I don't sit down and whine. I turn around and look at ME and say r "My, things are FINE."

And then I feel that things ARE fine, and start to selling wood More than a little better than I really thought I could.

New Plant Planned

A $250,000 construction program involving of a new plant on a 3f-acre site at E. l4thAve., is announced by the Eureka Mill & 3615 E. Fourteenth St.. Oakland.

Cargo

the erection St. and 58th Lumber Co.,

Into San Francisco Big

Monday, August 24, was the banner day for lumber tonlage arriving here from ports of Oregon and Washington. Eight vessels brought a total of. 7,762,W feet of fir. -The port record was made on July 9, 1923, when 9,976,000 feet of fir passed in through the Golden Gate.