MY FAVORITE STORIF,S

By Jach, Dionnc

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some lees

Olcra

A bunch of colored folks were gathered round the dinner table, and several dishes of savory vegetables were going the rounds.

Next came a steaming dish of boiled okra, about the slippriest thing in the shape of food known to the vegetable kingdorn. They passed it to Mose Jackson, and he declined to help himself to any of it.

"Whutsa matteh, Moser" asked the hostr t'Don' you want no okra?"

"Noosuh," replied Mose, positively; "Ah nevah eats no okra."

"Whut?" asked the other in surprise; "you nevah eats okra? How come, boy?"

"Ah tells you, Mistuh, jes' how Ah feels 'bout okra. Ah nevah puts nuthin' in Mah mouth-Ah cain't control."

Northwest Lumbermen Attend Taxpayers' Dollar Analy zed

Freight Rate Hearing in Chicago Wilson Compton

Seattle, Wash., October 20.-A delegation of representative lumbermen left the Pacific Northwest Friday evening, October 21, f.or Chicago to attend a public hearing Tuesday, October 25, on the application of the West Coast Lumbermen's association to the western railroads for a substantial redu'ction in freight rates on lumber eastbound. The application was filed August 10,1932. The hearings will be before the Transcontinental Freight Bureau, an organization of the railroads.

The key rates sought by western lumbermen are 55 ,cents to Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis and St. Paul; 60 cents to St. Louis, Chicago and Milwaukee;6211cents to Oklahoma and Texas; 65 cents to Detroit and Cincinnati;70 cents to Buffalo and Pittsburgh and 75 cents to the Atlantic seaboard. A minimum carload weight of 36,000 pounds was included in the lumber application. Advanced by the West Coast association, the proposal was later followed by similar applications on the part of the Western Pine association, Portland, and the California Redwood Association, San Francisco. Each of the associations will have delegations at the Chicago hearings.

The following local lumbermen attended the Chicago

J. G. Dickson, Pacific States Lumber Company, Tacoma, Wash., (Chairman, Traffic Committee, West Coast Lumbermen's Association); n. yg. Demarest, Pacific National Lumber Company, Tacoma; O. P. Olwell, Jamison Lumber & Shingle Company, Everett, Wash.; Axel Hanson, White River Lumber Company, Enumclaw, Wash.; W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager and H. N. Proebstel, traffic manager, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, Wash.