Retailers' Annual Convention

(Continued from Page 21) the annual football game between the University of California and the University of Southern California at the Olympic Stadium, Los Angeles.

The following resolutions were adopted: our appreciation and thanks for the donations of the badges for the delegates to this convention and for the assistance of a clerk at the registration .desk.

RESOLVED, that the California Retail Lumbermen's Association in convention assembled do extend by this resolution their appreciation of the help and cooperation of the advertisers who have taken space in the Year Book and to the exhibitors who have contributed to the success of this convention.

RESOLVED, that the Secretary be instructed to write to the lumber retail papers a letter of appreciation of the publicity which they have given, making for the success of our convention.

RESOLVED, that the convention here assembled by rising vote express their thanks and appreciation of the tireless work of the program committee, consisting of Mr.

RESOLVED, that the Secretary of the Association be instructed to write a letter of appreciation to the management of the Hotel Alexandria for the assistance extended to us in the furnishing without cost meeting rooms and committee rooms for the sessions of this convention and also the many courtesies extended throughout the sessions of this convention to the delegates.

RESOLVED, that the Secretary be instructed to write to each of the speakers a letter of appre,ciation, thanking them for their valuable help in giving to this convention interesting and constructive discourses on practical methods that may be pursued in the establishment of our industry on a more satisfactory basis.

' RESOLVED, that the Secretary be instructed to write a letter of appreciation and thanks for the financial assistance in the matter of contribution of money to our conveirtion fund from each of the following cement companies:

Riverside Cement Company

Monolith Portland Cement Company

California Portland Cement Company

Southwestern Portland Cement Company

RESOLVED, that we extend our thanks and appreciation to Mr. Kenneth Smith for conducting the program of the noonday frolic luncheon for the delegates and visitors to this convention.

RESOLVED, that the Secretary be instructed to write to the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, expressing

RESOLVED, that this convention here assembled do express their appreciation and thanks for the valuable and untiring work of the standing committees who have functioned for the past year.

RESOLVED, that we express our approval and appreciation of the organization during the past year of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, headed by its President, Mr. Frank O'Connor, and that we personally express to Mr. O'Connor our appreciation of his cordial cooperation in attending various group organization meetings throughout the state.

RESOLVED, that we extend to the California Redwood Association our appreciation of their friendly cooperation with the organized groups in the various localities and the beneficial results to our industry in cooperating with our Lumber Relations Committee.

RESOLVED, that we extend a vote of appreciation to the Western Institute of Trade Secretaries for their consistent and untiring efforts in working out the mutual problems of our stabilization program.

RESOLVED, that we recognize the progressive steps for the advancement of our industry in the organization of the California Lumbermen's Council and recommend to our members a careful study of the program of the Council.

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NOW'S THE TIME TO START TO BUILD

Digging is cheaper, foundations are cheaper i Now's the time to start to buitd. You buy lumber for nothing, they throw in the roughing, i Now's the time to start to build.

Get an architect that's almost starvingHe'll make your plans and specs for just a farthing; tf you're in a hurry you u/on't have to worry For now's the time to start to build.

Bricks are now cheaper, cement is now cheaper, i Now's the time to start to build.

$oofing is caving, in glass there's a saving, ', Now's the time to start to build.

Fifty contractors will gladly do your bidding, You can pass the good ones up for one that's skidding, If profits l,ook quite dim, the subs will all help him, Now's the time to start to build.

Plumbing is cheaper, wiring is cheaper, Now's the time to start to build. Labor is active, terms are attractive, Now's the time to start to build.

There will come a day when prices will be higher, Now's the time to open up and be a buyer, And if you are craving, to make a big saving, Now's the time to start to build.

Ralph Gross in Atlantic City Realtor.

"THE JOKE OF THE MONTH'|

(Contributed by a lumberman)

A Retail Lumber Dealer is a man who knows a Great Deal about a Very Little, and who goes on knowing More and More about Less and Less until finally he knows Practically Everything about Nothing.

A Wholesale Lumberman is a man who knows a Very Little about a Great Deal, and keeps on knowing Less and Less about More and More until finally he knows Practically Nothing about Everything.

In Xanadu

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure'dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

-Samuel Taylor Coleredge.

A Prayer For Home

We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; fd the lsvethat unites us; for the peace accorded us this dayi for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for thf health, the work, the food, the bright skies that make oup lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the eart$ and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle. Give us couri age, and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare us to ouf friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may bel in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us thi strength to encounter that which is to come, that we bc brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.Robert Louii Stevenson.

Poor Advertising Copy

William Wrigtey was once dissatisfied with his adveri tising copy, and said so to Barron Collier.

"What is your gum flavored with?" asked Collier. "Spearmint."

"Then why show a bulldog tearing the seat out of 4 tramp's pants? and the phrase, 'Don't cheu' the rag-chew Wrigley's Gum?' Why not advertise Spearmint?" And he DID.

Politician And Statesman

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.-James Freeman Clarke.

Friendship

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted, so that I might share in what ! was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation, as the most terrible mode in which disgrace could be inflicted on me. He who can look on the loveliness of the world and share its sorrow, and realize something of the wonder of both, is in immediate contact with divine things, and has got as near to God's secret as anyone can get.-Oscar Wilde.