SheYlin Pine Sales Gompany

LETTER TO ST. PETER

Let them in, Peter, they are very tired, Give them the couches where Let them wake whole

With sun, not war. And Remember where the sleep. new dawns fired. their peace be deep. bodies iie,

And give them like. Let them make noise. God knows how they were to have to die ! Give swing not gold harps, to these, our boys. Let them , they have had no timeGirls sweet/s meadow wind, with flowering hair.

A Dirty Questio

"Did anyone asked she, icily.

"Don't think guy.

ever tell you how you are?" t'hey ever did," the self-satisfied

"Then where on earth did to linow. the idea?" she wanted

The Hammer

Consider the hammer.

of summer in a ripened pear. how they are missed. Say not to fear; It's going to be all right with us, down here.

-Elma Dean in American Mercury.

Another Screwball Army Story

They were two cavalry rookies, and each of them was assigned a horse. The one of them said: rr1'll cut off my horse's mane," said the other. So he did. But it soon gre\nr out again. Then the other screwball suggested cutting off his horses tail hair. He did. But that soon grew out again, too. So they scratched their heads again over the problem.

"We've got to do something so we can tell our horses apart."

Let's measure the horses," said one of them. Sure enough, it worked, and for the first time they could tell the ho$es apart for certain. For the white horse was two inches taller than the black horse.

MOUNTAIN-TOP MEN

Said the Emperor Marcus mountain." : t'Live as on a

Great men live on mental

Their spirits tower above

They have trees and bird song, hills to climb, The Tell e storms.

Their minds are above cynicism, and despair.

They look out over the into the Promised Land

They see the while little men battle with phantom shadows in the

Their heads are i the clouds, but their feet are bedded in the solid rock Fact and Reason.

A good one doesn't lose its head and fly off the handle.' It finds the point, and drives it home.

It looks on the other side, and clinches the matter firmly. Occasionally it makes mistakes, but it rectifies them. It keeps pounding away until the job is done.It is the only knocker in the world that does constructive work.

-The Optimeter.

The family had returned sennon. Mother thought

Dad criticized the organist made a lot of mistakes. Sister didn't choir's singing. But they all shut up when chipped in: "I thought it was a mighty good for d nickel."

. ORIGINALITY

It is {ot at all likely that anyone ever had a tota[y original idea. He may put together old ideas into a new combination, but ,the elements which made up the new combination were mostly acquired from other people. Without many borrowed ideas, there would be no invention, no new movements, or anything else that is classed as new..

An Easy Choice

"Cold weather's coming on Uncle Mose," remarked Colonel Crabtree to his old colored servitor. "\il/hat do you want i'rae to send you for Christmas this year, a ton of coal or a bottle of licker?"

They take the risks.

They dire -Chas. C. Peale, D.D.

"Kuhnel, Suh," replied Uncle Mose, shaking his head in disbelief. "You mernbry sho is gettin' bad, Suh. Sholy you remembahs dat me an' de ole'oman don't burn nuffin but jes' wood."

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club to Hold

Christmas Party December 18

The annual Christmas Party of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club will be held in the Leamington Bowl, Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Friday evening, December 18. Dinner be served at 5:30 p. m.

Vice-President D. Normen Cords will be chairman of the meeting. He reports that he has lined up a.program of 13 vaudeville acts that will be rvell worth coming to see. A large attendance is anticipated.

Appointed Southern California Representative

Peter A. Van Oosting is now representing the Herbert A. Templeton Lumber Co. of Portland, Ore., in the Southern California territory. Mr. Van Oosting was with E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles for a number of years and is well known in Southern California lumber circles.

Two Boys In Service

Earl Carlson, salesman for Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, has two sons in the Army, Earl K. and Jaines Russell Carlson. Earl is attending radio school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., and James is at Camp Kearns, Utah.

On Sick List

F. A. (Pete) Toste, Rockport Redwood mington, is convalescing at the Seaside Beach, following an appendectomy.

Company, WilHospital, Long

N. ANDERSON IN NAVY

Henry N. Anderson of Twin Harbors Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., has received a commission as Lieutenant Commander in the U. S. Navy. He is stationed at Portland.

Ceiling on Railroad Ties

A simple and effective manner 9f setting maximum prices for railroad ties in cases where n railroad did not receive similar ties during the first quarter ol 1942, base price of Maximum Price Regulation 216-Railroad Tieswas announced November 6 by the OPA

Amendment No. 3 to the regulation authorizes the OPA lumber branch to set such maximum and, to speed the process, gave the branch power to set them by mail or telegram where speed was desirable in the interest of national security. The amendment becomes effective November 12.

AT OFFICERS' TRAINING SCHOOL

Ralph Lamon, son of Fred Lamon of Lamon-Bonnington Co., San Francisco, and formerly salesman for the firm, is now at Officers' Candidate School No. 1, Fargo, North Dakota. He expects to graduate about January 9.

JOHN L. TODD rN ARTZONA

John L. Todd, president of Western Door & Sash Oakland, left recently for Tucson, Arizona, where he spend the winter.

Mr. Todd, known as the dean of the sash and door salesmen, has spent the last several winters in Tucson, where he enjoys playing golf on a number of the local golf courses. He is accompanied by Mrs. Todd.

Sacramento Warehouse Moved

Announcement is made by California Builders Supply Co. that they have moved their Sacramento office and warehouse to 19th and S Streets, where they have purchased the former site of Superior Lumber Co.

The move was made necessary by reason of the fact that their old site has been taken over by the U. S. Engineers. The telephone number remains the same, Sacramento 2-0788.

San Francisco Visitors

Harry W. Aldrich of the H. W. Aldrich Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., Mrs. Aldrich and their son, Hank, spent last week in San Francisco. They attended the StanfordCalifornia big game, November 21.