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Lignum Vitae Blocks For Bearings

The Davis Hardwood Company, Bay and Nlason Streets, San Francisco, now carries in addition to Lignum Vitae logs, a complete stock of Lignum Vitae sawn blocks. The blocks are boxed heart timbers, coated with clear shellac and are stocked in two bracket sizes:7" and up by 7" and up by 24" and longer in length; and 10" and up by 10'and up by 24" and.longer in length. The grade of the blocks is in qccordance with the U. S. Navy Department specifications 39L2d, type "B-block."

This block form of Lignum Vitae is proving very satisfactory. It eliminates considerable lvaste. There is saving in transportation costs and labor. Blocks furnished in this form reduce waste in the elimination of sap and irregularities in the log, and save operations in the manufacture of Lignum Vitae bearings for ships.

Announces Scrle ol Stecnrrship Compcny

D. R. Philips announces sale of IOO% of the stock of the Lawrence-Philips Steamship Company to A. C. Penberthy. The Lawrence-Philips Steamship Company are owners of the coastwise steamer Larvrence Philips, ex Tillamook, and is now operating in the South Pacific.

The Dorothy Philips Steamship Company, owners of the S.S. Dorothy Philips, will ,continue in business as heretofore in the coastwise lumber trade.

The Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company are agents for the S.S. Dorothy Philips and S.S. Stanwood.

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Horrors \':

Jones: "What on earth are you laughing so loud about?"

Bones: "I just locked a woman in a room with a thousand hates, and no mirrors."

Duty

Who does his duty is a question, Too complex to be solved by me; But he, I venture the suggestion, Does part of his, who plants a tree.

Success Through Fcrilure

(By an Unknown Author) f attribute what success I have had in rea"hing the goal of my earlier ambitions, to my failures. We learn mighty little in this life, from success. Success feeds the ego; failure chastens it. Success makes you look up, and the sun dazzles your eyes; failure forces you to look down, and watch your step.

The man who can fail and learn, who can try and still go on, is the man who succeeds in the end. The failures are the men who succeed too early and too easily, or the men who fail and let it bowl them over-the men who quit.

A Little Behind

Game Warden: "H"y, young man, what's the idea of hunting with a last year's hunting license?"

Young Hunter: "I'm only shooting at the birds I missed last year."

Plcin English

Lawyer: "Then you admit that you struck the plaintiff with malice aforethought?"

Defendant (angrily): f don't admit nothing of the sort. I told you twice that I hit him with a brick, and on purpose. There wasn't no ma[ets about it-just a plain half a brick, like any gent would use."

Below the Belt

A clergyman was being shaved by a barber who had evidently become nervous from a night's dissipation. Finalty he cut the preacher's chin, and the reverend looked up at the guy with the razor, and remarked reproachfully:

"You see, my friend, what hard drinking does to a man?"

"Yep," said the barber. "Sure makes your skin tender, don't it?"

Femcrle Courcrgre

That a woman has more courage than a man, is something no thinking person can deny. Have you ever seen a man go into a store and try on four or five or six one hundred dollar suits with only thirty cents in his pocket?

a The Old Stqge Roqd

Around the narrow bend the swerving stage, 'Car€ens and turns, resumes its drunken pace, The whip flings out in writhing, snapping rage, Thick clouds ol dust begrime the driver's face. And others go the curving, shade-ficked way; A herder, leading sheep to distant fold, A thief, a rogue, a priest in sackcloth grey; A miner with his bags of virgin gold. But now, in lone and solitary state, The road draws close it cape of dust-choked weeds; The oaks bend low in grief at the long wait, For men, and carts, and reckless, daring deeds. The wagon-ruts grow faint, and then are gone, In memory alone, the past moves on.

-Jennette Gould.

Love Knows No Fcrvorites

By Margaret Morrison

ft must be admitted that love is more practical than fear. It harmonizes, nourishes, beautifies, constructs, and maintains good. Love is never idle nor unernployed in blessing or in serving.

Love, in its wisdom, withholds not needful rebuke, but administers it with the spirit that heals. .Love knows no favoritism, but shines alike on all because it IS love, and can do no other.

Love is holy, whole, or healthful, and confers health because it sees scientifically the infinitude of good, and is aware of omnipotence. Love is serene in conscious security, and remains unshadowed, uninterrupted, in the midst of seeming hatred and malice.

Love is light, transforming gloom into glory, lifting burdens, pointing the path of freedom and p.rosperity. Love is law, irresistible in its operation.

Vigmette

"He is the type of fellow that goes into a drug store for a nickel drink, and expects.to get with it two glasses of water, the use of a table and chair for an hour, the opportunity to listen to the radio and read a thirty-five cent magazine, the privilege of three fen-minute conversations over the telephone, and then complains because the place isn't air conditioned."

America

Dr. Paul Austin Wolfe said: "With all its faults, America is still the great hope of mankind. The common people discovered it before the social scientidts. The social scientists think of America as a problem. Ttre common people think of it as an op'portunity."

Northern California Retailcrs Annual OPA Officials Attend Oakland Meeting

_ (Continued from Page 6) chant, was called on for a few remark-s, and he followed up with some stories.

President Ray Clotfelter presided at the business session which began at 8:30 a.m. The registration for the convention exceeded 200.

Lrurcheon

John Kuropatkin Chapel, author, traveler and radio commentator, spoke on "The European War-Economic and Political Aspects."

Larry Smith, foreign correspondent, author and radio commentator, spokc on "The Pacific Theater of War.,' Master of Ceremonies Earle E. Johnson, of Watsonville, asked Jack Dionne to tell some of his humorous stories.

The luncheon attendance was 150.

Dinner

The dinner was held at 6:30 p.m. Earle E. Johnson was again Master of Ceremonies.

The speaker of the evening, Dr. George S. Benson, president, Harding College, Searcy,. Arkansas, addressed the gathering on "The Secret ol American Prosperity-A Greater Appreciation of The American Way of Life." Dr. Benson was r,varmly applauded for his talk in which he described free private enterprise as the secret of American prosperity, and stressed the need for teaching in the schools just what free private enterprise means. More than 1gO attended the dinner. Many ladies were present both at the luncheon and dinner.

A meeting of the members of Wood Products Co., was held at the offices of this organization, 410 Western Professional Building, Oakland, October 9. The meeting was attended by Peter A. Stone, price exe.cutive, lumber branch office of the Office of Price Administration; Louis Gervais, OPA Portland office; W. S. fngram, regional building material specialist, OPA, and J. F. McKillips, district price specialist, lumber division, OPA.

There was further discussion of matters dealt with at the June D, 1941 meeting, which included: Charges for fancy grades in common, weights on Douglas Fir, remanufacturing charges, $5.00 and IO/o markup, margins on dunnage, custom milling charges, and the proposed amendment of MPR 26 reducing boards and dimension an extra dollar when rough.

Other subjects discussed were: Permanent California ceiling, the proposed regional OPA committee, sales to other distribution yards, and extension of time past October 16 as the effective date for the reduction of the price of Douglas fir boards and dimension. The answer to the last question was that there will be no extension of the time.

Bcrck lrom Northwest

Jack Ferri of Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned early in October from spending four weeks in the Northwest. Part of this time he relieved G. A. Hemstreet, Portland, the firm's Northwest representative, who was on vacation, and part in calling on sawmills