M. f. C. Certificate Program Ready to Launch

After months of active preparation the Millwork Insti; tute of California is right now in the act of launChing the Certification Program which was indorsed and brought into being at the luly t928 meeting. Within thirty days it will be in active operation.

The Institute has drafted the various stickers,, labels, and certificates in very attractive shape, and they are at present in the making.

There will be stickers for every piece of Certified millwork. There will be a handsome Certificate for the builder, to show that his millwork is certified. And there will be an impressive looking Certificate of large size to hang on the wall of the Institute member, showing that he has qualified for the furnishing of Certified Millwork under the Certification Program.

The members are certified for their work under four groups, lst, Residential and Court Group; second, Apartment and Hotel Group; third, Mercantile and Commercial Group; fourth, Institutional and public Group. Some of the members will be certified under certain of the groups, others for all of them, according to their desires "nJ prooi of ability to create and supply the difierent kinds of mill_ work.

Each mgmb., *ho desires to furriish Certified Millwork must makC definite 'applicatio'n for Certification under either or all of the four groups named. His fitness will be adjudged by a M. I. C. Committee inspection of work that he has done in the past.

The M. I. C. office is sending to all the architects in California a statement of this Certification program explaining in detail the aims and objects of the program, and the value to the architect and builder of using Certified Millwork. In this manner they hope to sell the architectural profession of the use of strictly Certified products.

This Program has been unfolded by Managing Director H. T. Didesch in admirable fashion. The scheme was the child of his own brain, and he has given to the development of its details all the craft of his long years of millworle experience and application.

When the Certification Program is in full force and effect the fnstitute will have sontething definite and something wonderfully valuable to which it can tie its trade extension activities-a tangible thing that means much to the building public, and the building industry.

Its practical application to the building industry of California will be watched wiih intense interest bv the industry.

California Building Permits for November

Pencils and Pencils

A pencil is a queerish thing Its hide is made of wood; And how they get the lead inside , I've never understood. Perchance they pump the substance in, Mayhap they jam it through; The explanation of the job I gladly leave to you.

A pencil in its salad days Is trim, and sleek, and long, But it grows shorter day by day While writing prose or song. It seems to lead a sorry life, No matter what it cost, It peaks and pines, its point breaks off And half the time it's lost.

A pencil is a servile thing; In office, den, or school, It does the bidding of the wise, Or labors for the fool.

Mine limps across the pages white And writes these foolish things, Its brother in anotheds hand No doubt an. epic sings. If I were mine, I'm sure I'd stand Upon my rubber head, And just erase a lot of stuff That never will be read. I'm sometimes angry with the thing, My thoughts are drab and blue, And then my pencil softly says, ' "Now don't blarne me, it's you.

If I were owned by Jack Dionne I'd write some worth while things, I'd liven up the wear;r brain And give the spirit wings;" conner.

p. M. Hotchkiss Reelected ,/ President of Redwood Assn.

At the annual meeting of the California Redwood Association, J. M. Hcrtchkiss, Hobbs-Wall & Co., was re-elected president for the coming year. L. C. Hammond, Ilammond Lumber Co., was elected vice-president, and R. F. Hammatt was re-elected secretary-manager.

The Board of Directors was increased from seven to nine members, and consists, in addition to J. M. Hotchkiss:and L. C. Hammond, the following: Otis R. Johnson, Uniori Lumber Co. ; P. C. McNevin, The Pacific Lumber Compdny; C. E. DeCamp, Casper Lumber Co.; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.; F. V. Holmes, Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co.; M. E. Olmstead, Great Southern Redwood Co., and H. W. Cole, The Little River Redwood Company.

Special committees were appointed to review the association activities of the past and to make recommendations to the Board of Directors for another three-year program. These committees will report at an early date.

Union Delmrs Redwood For Brtdge Job

*Included in Los Angeler totals.

The Union Lumber Co.. recentlv delivered 150.000 feet of Redwood for a highway bridge- job in San Bernardino County.

PIONEER PRODUCERS rHrs NoBtE

SugarPine,whichis over 6 feet in di. arnetef and more thon zoo feethigh, anted,otes ilw dis' cwery of Amerko; the inuention of printing by mov. able types; the bwning ot tlu sta\e of loan d"\rc; tlw excotntnunicdtion of Luthcr in Gamany; the uiting of Francis Bacon's philosoplry, ur William Sho\espeare's drama; and the use of fireorms.

T**o'"Hour this long period, Nature built for perma, nency, and developed a straight grained tree whose fibers are strengthened by the buffeting of snow and storm. The heartwood has mellowed with the passing summers, and the sap ring has grown ever thinner. It takes five centuries to bring a $ugar Pine tree to full and the re, sulting wood is straight of grain, soft of texture, and thoroughly decay,resistant.

Atn uaa curing ond air dtying lroccsscs scrus t$gcatly improac its rwrfing qnlities end rzusc it'to ta\e p;nt ba.er and l:old tt bngo. Madera Sugar Pfi4 with its gancrous din'vttsrbns, is thcre, forc thc d4light of wood,war\ets and pattern nt\ersthe uorldovct.

Manufactuners and C-alifornia Representative of