Pine Sales Gompany

Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me, I want a ship that's westward bound To plow the rolling sea. To the blessed Land of Room Enough Beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight And the fag is full of stars.

Van DYke'

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What is friendship? To me it means understanding, loyalty, and helpfulness. Friendship is not a passive thing. It is an active, sleepless intent to do something for the other fellow. The man who has that concept of friendship never lacks frie,nds. How could he?

rn the past two month: ,*n"1" had continual occasion to realize the illimitable blessedness of a multitude of good friends. When my troubles were deepest it seemed as though messages of cheer and courage from friends helped immeasurably to keep my spirits up. All my life I have thanked God for my friends. I thank Him more sincerely and understandingly now.

Yes, Sir ! Some rough J"u a"rlo* poet expressed it this way rather well: f never make diagrams of him, No maps of his soul have I penned, f don't analyze, I just love him, Becaus+he's my friend.t'

"I knock him when only he's with me, But never when he's away; If other folks knock him, they'll wish, see? That they had had nothing to say.

Men are like potatoes. Take a bushel of potatoes of all sizes and shapes, put them into a big basket and shake it, and what happens? Why the big potatoes come to the top, the little potatoes go to the bottom, and the rest of the potatoes take the same rank that their size entitles them to, the bigger ones nearer the top, and the smaller ones nearer the bottom. And no matter how often you shake the basket that same thing happens. And it is exactly the same way with human beings. Every time the basket of humanity is shaken you'll find the big men at the top, the little men at the bottorn, and the rest of them take their places nearer the bottom or the top, according to their siee.

God made the wortd. -"; ;. did not make yoUR world. He provides the raw material, and out of that every man selects what he wants, and builds an individual world for himself. The fool looks over the material, selects a few plates of ham and eggs, a few suits of clothes, a few dollar bills, and is satisfied. A wise man builds his wodd out of wonderful opportunities, thrilling experiences, adventure, romance, and miracles. Nothing wonderful ever happens in the life of a fool.

Show me how a -"r, ,t1""*rr,1rr" no-" and rll tell you what kind of a God he worships in his heart.

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The siege of Warsaw brought to my mind the eloquent words of the late Judge Norman G. Kittrell, when he said: "Whenever or wherever any people arise and bare their bosoms to the invaders of their native land, and the despoilgrs Of their homes, their action, by its inherent moral power, is lifted into a realm where no human statute has application, and no human tribunal has jurisdiction."

Right now lumbe, ,"";, "0. Considerably up. And that means from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the good old Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. Lots of lumber is being bought. Wholesale particularly. No one is rushing around shouting, "f want to buy five hundred cars, quick." It isn't that way. But there are hundreds and hundreds of buyers who are picking up one, two, and even ten cars of stuff. And when you get a lot of folks indulging in that same habit it runs into a whole lot of lumber. The lumber business has automatically hitched its truck onto the increased business tempo occasioned by the European war. That's the way it looks from the road. The future ! Shucks, let's wait and see. Prophesying in times like these are certain indications of a weak mind.

Perhaps no other ,** *.t" industry has known so little prosperity in the last 15 years as lumber. For the down-sweep of lumber prosperity started-not when the depression started in 1929-but years before that. And since that time the lumber industry as a whole has eked out a very precarious existence, at best, while the shores of the lumber sea have been strewn with the wrecks of countless units that could not stand the strain. It would take several years of dependable profit making to pull the industry generally out of the hole it has been digging for itself through 15 years of sub-normal conditions. Let us pray that those years may be at hand. col. Lindbergh's recenJ.;r.:" to the American people on keeping out of war was filled with the wisdom of the ages. I had no idea the man could think in such magnificent fashion. He advised Americans to rernain aloof from war thoughts, war propaganda, war hysteria and, leaving the war on the other side of the Atlantic, settle down to living and thinking normally and peacefully, following happy pursuits, building a national consciousness of normalcy and happiness as a safe assurance against being sucked into the horrid confagration that now sweeps so much of the world. A spiritual protection against the horrors of war was the crux of his plan. Of all the "stay out of war" talk I have heard and read, Col. Lindbergh's is the only one built and based on spiritual protection. He thinks harmony and happiness at home is our best safeguard against war.

The most hopeful ,"nJ*., ;""" read concerning the German nation is the fact that the Bible is still the "best seller" of all books in Germany. With religion frowned and almost spat upon, the German soul still cries out for spiritual sustenance and support. Is it too much to hope that a spiritual rejuvenation may rise in Germany to overcome the tide of blood and brute force before it is entirely too late?

R. A. Collins New Gen. Mgt. of Graves Co.

R. A. Collins, formerly second vice-president and treasurer of Graves Company, Los Angeles, has been appointed general ma'nag'er, succeeding Howard Coor-Pender, who recently resigned.

Mr. Collins has been with the company for many years, serving the last several years as treasurer, and is well known to the California lumber and millwork trade. He took over his new position on September 15.

Called On Retail Dealers

Jack Ivey, field representative for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, has returned from a three months' trip through Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico where he called on the retail lumber trade. His headquarters are in I-os Angeles.