U. S. Forest Service and TECO to Joindy

Study !(/ood Lookout Towers

Washington, October 24,-A joint study of the use of wood for lookout towers and other structures is to be made by the U. S. Forest Service and the Timber Engineering Company, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association reported today.

C. M. Granger, assistant chief, Forest Service, has advised the Timber Engineering Company that they are arranging to detail one of their engineers to the project for an indefinite period. The Forest Service engineer will supervise the collection of cost data on wood and steel lookout towers now being gathered, and he will also work with the TECO and NLMA engineers on industry recommendations covering designs, specifications, fabrication, erection and transportation matters relating to wood towers ancl other structures.

The cooperative study will get under way at the earliest practicable moment.

West Coast Visitor

L. O. Taylor, general manager of the Shevlin Pine Sales Company, Min,neapolis, Minn., attended the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at Pasadena on November 3-4. He also visited the mills of The Shevlin-Hixon Company, Bend Ore., and The McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud, Calif., and their San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

C. D. Johnson lumber Corporation

I Wonder, as the lumberman Pursues his hustling way, Outselling shingles, boards and joists

Throughout a busy day, How frequently he seems to see

As in a pleasant dream, The happy homes he helps to rear, With rosy lights agleam.

I Wonder if the lumberman finds compensation for the trials of a weary day in thoughts of future home builders and owners who will long retain pleasant memories of him, his kindly advice and efficient service.

So much that is rvorth while goes into the planning and rearing of a home; faith and hope, worthy ambitions, love and magic dreams; the lumbermen may well rejoice to know that appreciative memories of himself will linger rvithin these shrines of human happiness; and that perhaps for many years to come his name will be repeated and his part in the task of home rearing pleasantly remembered.

Take heart, Mr. Lumberman; in these years of topsyturviness, you have had more than a modicum of trouble, but there are shining compensations. Yours is a beautiful task and a needed one. The lumber store is a real asset to any community; but far more than this, it should become a place dedicated to the kindly, sympathetic and efficient solr'ing of building problems and gracious aid in making dreams come true.

It may be a pleasant greeting

Or a warm sunny smile,

It may be the moments taken

Just to sit and chat awhile;

It may be advice well given

Or the goodbye at the door,

But you feel the gracious presence

Of a little something more.

I Wonder ii you vrere ever adopted by a dog; we have been just recently and the experience is a very pleasing one. He-the dog, came to us in the night, right out of the sky, in so far as rve knorv; he carried no creclentials, didn't seem to know where he was, and demonstrated good nature, so rve greeted him rvith enthusiasm and named him, Corrigan. -Not very good for calling prlrposes; but with that name he'11 come without calling.

Uncle Silas says: "I hear that the great Dictator, Mussolini, is copy catting Hitler's racial purity campaign; well, that reminds me of the old expression, 'monkev see, monkev (lo.' " A. Nlerriam Conner.

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BRtrNCH S.[,LES OFFICEST