Random Editorial Ramblings

(Continued from Page 6) will not be so unrelenting in their theories of business for 1929 and beyond. To keep up with the fast speeding pro cession of business requires constant study and deliberation, all weighed in the scales of 1929-npt the scales of years ago' rr !r *

Funny how we tear down our old established beliefs in this modernized life. We used to say-"What you don't tnow, won't hurt you"-and most of us took it for granted. In business today we have all of us discovered that what we don't know not only hurts us-it destroys us com]pletely. "Facts", says Frederick H. Ecker, President of The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, "are obviously lfie most important things in business. Study facts". Not knowing needed facts conceTt"U la, kills any business.'

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Larue Woodson Flies From Seattle To San Francisco

L .J. Woodson, San Francisco, Northern California representative of The Wheeler Osgood Company, and of the Pacific Coast Plywood Manufacturers, Inc., made the trip from Seattle to San Francisco by air recently. He traveled.from Seattle to Portland on August 2I on a big Ford tri-motored plane, and from Portland to San FranciscoOakland by Boeing air mail plane. The trip from Seattle to Portland was made in t hour 15 minutes, and {rom Portland to Oakland airport in five hours flying time, leaving Portland at 7:25 a.m., and arriving at Oakland at 1 p.m., with a half hour stop at Medford.

Larue, who was returning {rom a rveek's business trip to Tacoma and Seattle, where he conferred with The Wheeler Osgood Company, and with G. L. Bartells, general manager of the plywood organization,' says he likes to fly, and reports having had a very enjoyable trip.

G. H. ZIMMERMAN VISITS CALIFORNIA

G. H. Zimmerman, vice president of Wm. Cameron Co., Inc., 'Waco, Texas, was a iecent California visitor, where he spent several days in San Francisco and Los Angeles. On his way West, he visited Yellowstone National Park. Mrs. Zimmerman accompanied him on the trip.

that I have seen lately was the crowd of lumber merchants that turned out on a recent Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, California, to witness a showing of new models of built-in furniture at the plant of a well-lcrowr\ built-in manufacturer. If you hailitold me that three hundred and fifty lumber dealers wofl{d leave their homes, their towns, and their business and;fravel from all parts of Southern California-some of thefi traveling as far as 150 miles and return-to see a mangficturer's display of ANY kind, lrrowing the genus lumbebnan as I do I would have scoffed at the very idea. But they DID come, and they stayed three hours, looking over the new products, and watching the plant turn them out. To me it was more than a showing of new and attractive goods; it was a triumph in merchandising, and an anazing demonstration of the moderrl lumber merchant's interest in the development of his own business. Think it over, and see if it wasn't a real event in retail lumber history.

W. A. PICKERING RETURNS TO KANSAS CITY BY AIR

W. A. Pickering, president of the Pickering Lumber Company, recently returned to Kansas City from a business trip to California. Mr. Pickering traveled by Western Air Express plane from Los Angeles to Kansas City, having previously made the trip West by air over the same route. The air trip to Kansas City is made in 13 hours.

Nelson Brown Is A Southern California Visitor

Nelson Brown, New York State School of Forestry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, has been spending a few weeks in Southern California. While in Los Angeles he called on Russell Gheen and Earl Bowe, graduates of the New York State School of Forestrv.

J. A. THOMAS MAKES ROUND TRrP BY ArR ROUTE

J. A. Thomas, assistant sales manager of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, Los Angeles, recently traveled from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back by air. The trip was made on a tri-motored !'okker of the Continental Air Express line both ways, going North <ln the afternoon of August 20 and returning on the morning of August 23.