Vag.bond Editorials

(Continued its revenue from that department. Whenever you raise the cost of ANY commodity or service to a level which the prospective buyers consider prohibitive, they cease to be prospects. The, new .postal rates have simply put the people of this country to work discovering how to get along without postage stamps. And they have discovered so many ways to get along without three cent stamps that it is more than likely the postal department has hoist itself on its own petard, and when the price of stamps goes back to two cents (as it ultimately must) a lot of people are g|ittg to be able to get along without two's as well as without three's.

A buys a dollar's -*an.r -Jr"rr.r,air" from B and has it charged. On the first of the month B sends A a bill by

Reuben C. Merryman

Reuben C. Merryman, prominent resident of Pasadena and former lumberman, died suddenly at his home in Pasadena, Calif., Saturday night, December 10, follorving a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs. Merryman entertained a group of friends at their home on Saturday night, and later at a theat'er party. Upon his return from the theater, he was taken suddenly ill, and died a half hour later.

NIr. Nlerryman was born in Fond du Lac, Wis., October 8, 1863. At the age of eighteen he entered the lumber business in N{arinette, Wis., continuing in it for nineteen years. In 1900, he came to Cali{ornia, acquiring land holclings ancl becoming interested in fruit-growing, at which time he \\ras a director of the Southern California and the State Fruit Grorvers' exchanges and a director of the First National Bank of Visalia, Calif. Fourteen years ago, he established his residence in Pasadena and since that time his interests had been centered there. He was vice-president of the West Coast Bond and Mortgage Company, a member of the executive committee of the Oak Knoll branch of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, a director of the Lyon Van and Storage Company, and had extensive property holdings in Pasadena and vicinity. He was a member of the Rotary Club. a director of the Pasadena Athletic Club, and he took an active interest in the Y. M. C. A. and in the civic affairs of Pasadena.

Mr. I\ferryman is survived by his widow, Agnes H. Merryman; his mother, Mrs. A. C. Merryman, of Marinette, Wis.; two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Olmsted, of Dallas, Tex., and Mrs. Amy Greene, of Palm Springs, Calif., and one brother, A. C. Merryman, Jr., of Altadena, Secretary of The California Lumber Merchant.

Funeral services were held at Pasadena on Tuesclav afternoon. December 13.

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mail and pays 3 cents for the stamp. A sends a check by mail, paying the bill. He pays 3 cents for a postage stamp and 2 cents tax on the check. That's a total of 8 cents on that transaction; or 8 per cent of thb bill for collection purposes. Business can't carry that sort of burden. It will find a way around it. It IS doing so. The tax on checks and the high price of stamps will destroy themselves. They should be corrected.

The banks have been busy for three years now teaching the people of this country to get along without banks. Then, when the average man had practically forgotten what a bank looks like, along comes Uncle Sam and makes ' check writing more of a burden by taxing checks. Jr:st as a whole lot of folks are learning to get along without postoffices, so are a lot of people learning'to exist without banks.

A nice little home for a hen and her chicks takes a very few boards and a couple of sticks. It's hardly enough to be bothered about and you don't like the trouble of picking them out. You'll probably make about twenty-five cents-and that isn't enough for you lumberman gents for you like to talk dollars, not nickles or dimes. But kindly reflect these are different times and you'll sell just as much of your lumber and stuff if you'll handle these LITTLE BILLS OFTEN ENOUGH.

Bryan D. Harris

Bryan D. Harris, trvo and one-half years of age, only son of Mr. and IWrs. Lloyd Harris, Oakland, passed away Dec. 2nd in the Children's Hospital, Piedmont, as a result of burns received two days previously.

The child had been bathed by his mother, who was called away to answer tl,e telephone. Although the tub had been drained the boy crawled back into it and turned on the hot water faucet. Mrs. Harris returned to the bathroom to find her little son badly burned.

Mr. Harris is a member of the sales staff of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco.

R. W. HUNT VISITS LOS ANGELES

Robt. W.'Hunt, district manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., San Francisco, has just returned to San Francisco from a short business trip to [,oS Angeles.

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J. R. Freeman

M. L. Booth

N. \U7. Tatterson

R. R. Leishman

E. W. Hemmings

Julia Brockman

Evelyn Major

Lewis Graham