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W. T. White

The California Lumber Merchant salutes White Brothers, of San Francisco, and congratulates them on completing sixty-six years of active service to the lumber industry, the state of California, and the city of San Francisco. It is a most enviable record.

Sixty-six years is a long time to give honorable service as White Brothers has done. It is the oldest hardwood lurnber concern on the Pacific Coast, and one of the oldest in point of the same continuous ownership in the entire United States.

The firm was founded in Jannary, L872, by Asa L. White, and Peter White, and has been doing business continuously in San Francisco ever since. The big main yard is located at Sth and Brannon Streets, just one block from the main entrance to the Oakland-San Francisco bridge. White Brothers' big sign can be

National Asphalt Conference Annual For Los Angeles

For the first time in history the asphalt industry will meet on the West Coast. On February 20,1939, the Twelfth National Asphalt Conference will be held in the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, lasting February n to 24 inclusive. The meeting is under the auspices of The Asphalt Institute, with J. E,. Pennybacker, general chairman, and Daniel B. Miller, co-chairman. J. S. Helm, of The Standard Oil Company, of New Jersey, and president of the Institute, will oreside.

plainly seen by the bridge traffic. Their yard in Oakrand is at 500 High Street.

W. T. White, president of the company, is the son of Asa L. White. C. H. White, vice president and general manager, is the son of Jacob W. White, who was associated with his brothers who founded the business. There is a third generation of Whites actively identified with the business. Don White is in the San Francisco office, and Charles in the Oakland office. Both are sons of C. H. White.

Peter White, one of the founders of White Brothers, had been in the hardwood business in San Francisco four years before he and Asa White formed White Brothers, so the White family has been continuously in the business in San Francisco seventy years. The founders came from New Brunswick.

WM. AISTHORPE 44 YEARS IN BUSINESS

Wm. L. Aisthorpe, of the Aisthorpe Lumber Company, Chico, was 44 years in business on August 24. His first job in the lumber business was with the Sierra Lumber Company, Chico, manufacturers of California Pine lumber. in 1894.

BOB DIXON WITH UNION LUMBER CO.

R. C. (Bob) Dixon, formerly with Coos Bay Lumber Company, has become a member of the sales force of the Union Lumber Company.

Going and Coming

J. P. Gibson, Arizona Lumber Company, Phoenix, Ariz', and family are vacationing at Santa Monica.

Charles Snellstrom of the Snellstrom Lumber Co., Eugene, was in San Francisco a week ago on business for his mill.

T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is on a business trip to the Northwest.

O. H. Barr, Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, and family, spent their vacation in the Sequoia National Park.

Henry Adams, Gibbs Lumber Company, Anaheim, re' cently motored to Seattle to visit his daughter who is attending the University of Washington.

Gardner Pond, J. H. Baxter & his vacation at Huntington Lake. Co., Los Angeles, spent

Jack Halloran, Halloran-Bennett Lumber Company, Phoenix, Ariz., has been spending a few days with his family who are spending the summer at Newport Beach.

Weldwood Sales Chmb; "A Natural" Says N. J. Sorensen

"Weldwood is now the brightest star in the plywood sky; it is simply a 'natural' in wooden building material," said N. J. Sorensen, general manager of United States Plywood Corporation, at Los Angeles. He has a right to be enthusiastic. What the original plywood was to ordinary lumber, Weldwood is to ordinary plywood. It means outdoor plywood, a plywood that can be used for exterior use, in all sorts of weather and under all sorts of conditions. It is waterproof, vermin-proof, and highly heatresistant.

It has opened up new fields of plywood uses never before dreamed of. You can now build house exteriors, barns, sheds, trailers, signs, wagon and truck bodies, garages' store fronts, farm buildings and equipment, bill boards, boats, almost anything you want to use it for, out of Weldwood.

No wonder Mr. Sorensen reports that its use is growing daily as innumerable new ways of using it are discovered by the building trade everywhere.

A. J. Ware, Corona Lumber Company, Corona, is on a trip to the Yellowstone National Park.

George Gibson, Gibson Lumber Company, San Bernardino, returned August 12 lrom a European tour. He visited France, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, England, and also made a cruise through the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and Dardanelles to Istanbul.

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Oratory

Oratory ofrers the acme of human delight; it offers the nectar that Jupiter sips; it offers the draft that intoxicates the gods, the divine felicity of lifting up and swaying mankind. There is nothing greater on this earth. 'Tis the breath Sftfre Eternal-the,miss of the Immortal

Oratory is far above houses and lands, offices and emoluments, possessions and power. While it may secure all of these it must not for a moment be classed with them. These things offer nothing that is worthy of a high ambition. Enjoyed to their fullest, ttrey leave you hard, wrinkled, and miserable. Get all they can give and the hand will be empty, the mind hungry, and the soul sh'riveled.

Oratory is an individual accomplishment, and no vicissitudes of fortune can wrest it from the owner. It points the martyr's path to the future; it guides the reaper's hand in the present, and it turns the face of ambition toward the delectable hills of achievement. One great speech made to an intelligent audience in favor of the rights of man will. compensate for a life of labor, will crown a career with Blory, and give a joy that is born of the divinities. There is no tiue orator who is not also a hero.-John p. Altgeld.

A Difference

"That girl over there shows distinction in her clothes, doesn't she?"

"Are you certain you do not mean distinctly, instead of distinction?"

Where Happiness Dwells

Nobody knows where happiness dwells, Or how to snare it by charms and spells; It can fy like a lark; it can bud like a rose; ' But the secret of happiness nobody knows. This much is true; it will not depart

From the way of a tender and loving heart; ft can veer like the wind, it can turn like the tide, But in souls that have faith it will still abide.

wHERE;;- THEM

"Do you want your eggs ttrrned. over, Sir?" asked the waitress as she noticed the customer in the restaurant was not eating them "straight up."

"Yes" said the customer, ttturn them over to the museum of natural history."

Kinship

I am part of the sea and stars

And the winds of the South and North, Of mountain and moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth.

Blind Homer, the splendor of Greece, Sang the songs I sang ere he fell; The woman called Beatrice, Saw me in the depths of Hell.

I was hanged at dawn for a crimeFlesh dies, but the soul knows no death; I piped to great Shakespeare's chime The witches song in Macbeth.

All, all who have sufrered and won, Who have struggled and failed and died, Am f, with work still undone, And a spear-mark in my side.

I am part of the sea and stars

And the winds of the South and North, Of mountains and moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth !

-By E.H. S. Terry. {. {. {. TO THE LOVELORN

Question: f have been trying various scents of perfume to land my best beau, but fragrance doesn't seem to work. What would you advise?

Answer: You have the right idea but the wrong scent. Try the alluring aroma of ham and eggs and cofree on him, and Romeo will run true to form. ***

NO HALF.WAY HOUSES

"When you wuz on your vacation, honey, where did you stop at?" asked Maggie of the Ribbon Counter. And Hazel, of the cosmetics replied:

"Nothin', dearie, absolutely nothin'." rB**

No Music

"And have you music at the church?"

I asked the rural squire. ."\l[/all, no" said he "cant say we have, Jest singinr by the choir."

Mt. Whitney Lumber Company s Mill \(/ell Located

000,000 feet, and this will be logged on a sustained yield basis. Logging and sawmill operations will be carried on for 10 months of the year.

The sawmill is electrically operated and modern in every respect. It is equipped with a nine-foot Prescott band mill. All other equipment is of the latest type.

Leo C. Chase, formerly assistant manager of the BylesJamison Lumber Company, is resident manager at Johnsondale, and G. B. Mathews, formerly with Madera Sugar To Serve Pine Company, is superintendent.

Southern California

Henry E Prier

Announcement was made in the last issue of this paper of the appointment'of Henry E. Pries as sales manager for the Mt. Whitney Lumber Company, whose main office is at 3030 East Pico Street, Los Angeles.

The announcement was made by William E. Arblaster, vice-president and general manager of the company, well known Los Angeles lumberman.

The company's fine new sawmill, which started operating on June 1, is located at Johnsondale, Calif., named after W. S. Johnson, president of the concern, who is also president of the American Box Corporation, San Francisco, and one of the best known wooden box manufacturers and distributors in the country.

The mill is only 20O miles from Los Angeles, and lumber is hauled to Los Angeles over good roads all the way. In an emergency the company can give Z4-hour service on orders.

Plans are being made to serve the wholesale trade from Los Angeles stocks in the winter months.

Mt. Whitney Lumber Company is cutting Ponderosa and Sugar Pine, White Fir and Incense Cedar. The main part of the cut is, of course, Pine-Ponderosa and Sugar Pine running in about equal proportions.

The company has already received many compliments on the fine quality and texture of its Ponderosa Pine, and the Sugar Pine is equal to the finest.

The capacity of the sawmill is 125,000 feet in two shifts. Production will be 20,000,000 feet a year for the first three years. The stand of timber is estimated at more than 300,-

Henry Pries, the new sales manager, is a well known lumberman who needs no introduction to the trade in Southern California. His background of experience in the manufacturing and wholesaling branches of the business has equipped him well for his new position.

Mr. Pries started his career in the lumber business as a boy with the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Kansas City, so that in spite of his 30 years' experience he is still a young man. He left Kansas City in 1909 to come to California to work for the Weed Lumber Company, Weed. He worked there in various capacities for 14 years and then came to Los Angeles to join the stafi of E. J. Stanton & Son. He remained with this firm for more than 15 years, resigning August 15 to take his present position. In thls period he traveled the various territories, and for the last several years specialized. in calling on the motion picture studios. As a result of his experience he has a very large acquaintance and a great many friends in the lumber business who wish him well in his new connection.

California Lumbermen's Council To Hold Annual Meeting Sept. 17 -18

California Lumbermen's Council will hold its seventh annual meeting at Mountain View Ranch Hotel, near Santa Cruz, Calif., on September 17 and 18.

More than 200 attended the annual meeting last year at this resort, and the gathering included members, wholesalers and distributors of lumber and allied products.

Cost of registration is $10.00 per person. This includes entertainment, banquet, midnight lunch. Sunday breakfast and dinner and hotel accommodations. Checks for reservations should be sent at once to Bernard B. Barber, secretary, California Lunmbermen's Council, 234 Rowell Building, Fresno.

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Wholesale Sash and Door Men of So. Calif. Golf and Dine in Altadena

Ramroded by that able Secretary of the Association, Earl Galbraith, the Wholesale Sash & Door Association of Southern California, held a grand midsummer golf and dinner meeting on August 17 at the Altadena Country Club, Altadena. About forty members and guests teed off for golf at one o'clock in the afternoon. "Pick" Maule, of Pacific Wood Products Company, assisted Mr. Galbraith in arranging the foursomes and likewise the handicaps. All players were searched for weapons before being allowed to drive off, and amazement knew no bounds when only two pints and a half dozen small flasks were discovered in the entire assemblage.

On account of the fact that there were a number of guests among the players, including a foursome of glass rn€n, sp€cial ground rules were created by the committee. One of the most important special rules invoked was the one that provided that whenever a player stoops over close to his ball he is penalized a stroke. Amazingly improved lies following such action at previous tournaments were the cause of this special rule being enacted. All expletive words ending in "e11", "am", and t'itch" were likewise barred by the committee. This was meant to improve the morals as well as the golf of the players.

When the golfing fray ended it was found that only one man was satisfied with his score. It is related by a member of unquestioned veracity that Dee Essley was down in a sand pit blasting away, when another player asked him: "How's your game, Dee?" Dee replied, "None of your business, you big Sorand-So, and if you weren't a friend of mine I wouldn't tell you that much !" A good time was had by all.

When they all got cleaned up from the golfing fray and had crooked an elbow or two in the clubhouse, they sat down to a very fine dinner of steak and other stout viands. When the food had been partaken of, D4vid Teachout took charge of the prog'ram and held sway for a half hour in very graceful style. First he called on Jack Dionne for a speech, and instead of a speech Mr. Dionne told a bunch of stories. llis announcement that he was NOT going to make a speech was the cause of a round of applause.

After that came the presentation of the trophies. If there was anyone present who did not get a trophy of some sort for something or other, he must have been asleep under the table. Everyone got something to take home and lie about.

But "Pick" Maule got a real trophy, permanent possession of the handsome silver cup which he had won twice before. At the previous tournament "Pick" shot an 85. This time he took no chanees. He quit missing on purpose and turned in a card of 73 gross, which is good golf in any country, and especially on a course where down is up and up is down on every green because of the efiect of the near-by mountains, or something of that sort. Anyway, he got the trophy and a big hand. He refused to make a speech and that got him more applause.

Then Mr. Teachout declared the meeting adjourned and they went on their way, to meet again in 6O days, and start playing anew for another trophy which Earl Galbraith is going to offer.

G. W. ACKERMAN NAMED SALES MANAGER

Announcement was made a few days ago by Lloyd Swayne, president of the Swayne Lumber Company, Oroville, Calif., of the appointment of G. W. Ackerman as sales manager.

Mr. Ackerman has been for some years with the Clover Valley Lumber Company, Loyalto,n, as assistant sales manager, and was sales manager of the Feather River Lumber Company, Delleker, for several years.

Washington Vacation

L. G. Burns, Burns Lumber Company, Los Angeles, recently spent several weeks in the Northwest, with headquarters in Seattle, on a combination vacation and business trip. I{e was accompanied by Mrs. Burns and their son Jimmy. They traveled by train, shipping their car both ways by boat.

CHARLIE KENDALL WITH MacDONALDBERGSTROM

Charles E. Kendall has joined the sales staff of MacDonald-Bergstrom, Inc., and is covering his old territory, calling on the retail lumber trade in Santa Barbara, Orange County, Long Beach and the Beach territory. Charlie was formerly with J. J. (Jack) Rea, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman.

San Gabriel Valley Lumber Company, an important factor in the distribution of lumber and building materials in Southern California, has its headquarters at 311 W. Mission Street, San Gabriel, where a large yard covering several acres is operated. The company also has yards at Arcadia, Temple City and Baldwin Park. The firm was incorporated in 1904.

Leland Muller is vice-president and general manager of the company. W. H. Marmion is manager of the Arcadia yard. Both are sons of the founders, H. J. Muller and W. F. Marmion, who were for many years well known figures in the retail lumber business.

Bailey Muller is manager of the Temple City yard, and Glenn Wilcox manages the Baldwin Park yard.

A very large stock of lumber is carried at the San Gabriel yard, and all of it is under cover, insuring delivery to the job in first class condition. A number of new sheds were completed recently to take care of increased stocks of

BILL WILSON HEADS WHOLESALE DEPT.

Bill Wilson is now with the American Hardwood Company of Los Angeles and is in charge of the wholesale department. The company is enlarging the wholesale end of its business.

Mr. Wilson has been connected with the hardwood business for many years, starting in San Francisco in 1911. From 1914 to 1918, he traveled in Central South America and Southern Mexico, trading in Mahogany, Spanish Cedar and other tropical hardwoods. Fle operated the Wm' M. Wilson Lumber Co. in Los Angeles from I92l to 1928.