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And Dbtributed By

E. M. SLATTERY BRoadway 1496

315 Produce Bldg., Loc Angeles

GEO. C. CORNITIUS

Amer. Natl. Bank Bldg. San Francisco

SAMUEL R. NORTON Henry Blds. Portland

"How Otd Are You-Old Timer"

From the "Service Station News"

"How old are you, old timer?"

Probably going on 40 and thinking of easing up a bit ?

Think perhaps that hitting the ball around a service station is a young man's job.

You are right, it is.

The kind of snappy, efficient, pleasant service demanded by the public today is young man's work.

It all depends on your idea of youngness. Thereby hangs a tale that takes us to Shanghai.

Shanghai is the big shipping port of China. Ships of all nations make it a port of call and gather from its docks the merchandise of the Orient for the people of the world.

In late years, the Stars and Stripes have mingled with'and competed against the Rising Sun of Japan, the John Bull of the British Empire and flaring flags of Europe.

Competition is keen, fierce. Men who go' down to the sea in ships are not soft. It is a young man's game, this freight business.

About 9 o'clock one morning, a spry light haired bewhiskered youngster alighted from a Jinrikisha and entered a building given over to Shanghai shipping firms.

He walked up three flights of stairs, entered an office and introduced himself as Robert Dollar, an American ship owner.

Mr. Dollar explained that he was taking atrip 'around the world selling the service of his fleet.

"I have heard of Robert Dollar, of course," said the shipper, "but I never expected that he would ever personally pay me the compliment of calling on me for business.

"Mr. Dollar I want to tell you that I appreciate your call and a man of your age who will take enough interest to go around the world to make a business call can have my business any old day."

There is your Shanghai story. The day Robert Dollar of San Francisco made that business call he rvas 79 vears old.

He Was A Gentleman

Farmer-Don't you see that sign, 'Private-No hunting allowed'?

Hunter-I don't read anything marked private.

Use Much Lumber

"P. R." writes: "lfolv much lumber is cut in the United States each year and what is the lumber used for?"

"Which country uses the most lumber?"

Statistics show that the United States leads all nations in the use of wood. We consume nearly half of the world's cut of lumber and two-fifths of all the forest products.

From 25 to 28 billion board feet of lumber are used annually in the United States in building construction. Another six billion feet of lumber are made yearly into crates and boxes in this country.

One hundred million cords of fuel are cut annually from our forests.

We cut 5,000,000 cords of pulpwood fromour forests every year and still we have to import from Canada and other countries more than half of our paper and papermaking materials.

All told it is said that we take nearly twenty-two and one-half billion cubic feet of wood from our forests annually. This is equivalent to about fifty-three billion board feet.

Fifty-three kinds of manufactures depend upon wood.Exchange.