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groups he found fifteen big, powerful men who wanted to be guards, and among them a runt. He looked the small man over. "You want to play guard?" he asked. "Yes sir," said the other. "But aren't you awful small?" asked Rock. "Yes sir, but I'm awful tough," said thd boy. He was. That was Metzger who became one of football's immortals in the position of guard.

Many wonderful thoughts have been uttered concerning the California Redwood trees, but none more eloquent than an utterance of the famous agnostic, Col. R. G. Ingersoll, who said: "Here are trees that have outlived a thousand human governments. Ilere are limbs older than the pyramids. While man was emerging from barbarism to something like civilization, these trees were growing. Older than history, every one appears to be a memory, a witness, a prophecy. The same wind that filled the sails of the Argonauts, swayed these trees."

Some philosopher o""" l"ru *la *n"ru are two things we want to know about a rich man. First, how did he get his money? Second, what is he doing with it?

With Christmas at n"*, anr, is a good time to think of the words of George Horace Lorimer: "It's good to have money and the things that money will buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." That remark is as full of wisdom as a tree full of owls. If you don't believe it, check over the men you know who have amassed great fortunes and see if you don't discover that a lot of them have lost, in their headlong pursuit of wealth, many of those intangible and priceless things that money cannot buy.I know a lot of such men. I have a great pity for them. On several occasions I have told them so. Of course, they never believe it, so gradual is the change in their fiber. Such a man is like the church member that Sam Jones, the old Southern revivalist (how I used to love to hear him talk), used to tell about. Sam said he dropped into a strange church one Sunday morning to attend services. It was a very high-toned church. He stood at the head of an aisle for some time. and no one noticed him. Then he tried another aisle. Same result. No one offered him a seaL IIe saw a tall, hatchet-faced man with an unctuous expression, in one of the back pews, and Sam touched him on the shoulder. Sam said he could tell by looking at the man that he had "his light hid under a bushel" as the Bible puts it. The man seemed exceedingly annoyed when Sam nudged him. Sam asked: "Whose church is this?" The man replied: "Christ's church." Sam meekly asked: "Is He in?"It made the man awful mad, but he got up and found Sam a seat. And when he got back to his own seat, he found that his light, which he had "hidden under a bushel," was out. And he blamed Sam for putting itout. But Sam said the fellow's light was out all the time, he just didn't know it.

That's the way *t,n,;" *"". They hide their light under a bushel, and don't even know when the light goes out, they are so busy getting the gravy.

Moves To New Location

Sarvmill Products Co. recently moved from 675 East Florence Avenue, Los Angeles, to 730O Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles. The yard is orvned by Alley Bros., Santa Monica.

Cargo Shippers

Gorman Leases Plant and Property o[ Paciftc Tanlc & Pipc Co.

George W. Gorman announces that Gorman Lumber Sales Co. has leased the prgperty of Pacific Tank & Pipe Co., 462I Tidewater Avenue, Oakland, l'r'hich includes the wharf, electric and steam loading cranes, long sorting table and large storage capacity for lumber both in the yard and under shed.

The Pacific Tank & Pipe Co. will continue operation under the new management. It is also intended to do custom kiln drying of lumber and to develop the property into a wholesale lumber terminal, offering the facilities to all shippers of lumber.

R. E. Inman, who has been with Pacific Tank & Pipe Co. for many years will be general manager of the Tank & Pipe plant.

The office of the Gorman Lumber Co. has been moved from San Francisco to 462I Tidewater Avenue. Oakland. Telephone number is ANdover 1000.

H. B. WISCOMB VISITS COAST

H. Bruce Wiscomb, sales manager of West Coast Plywood Company, with headquarters in Chicago, recently visited the company's plant in Aberdeen, Wash. He returned to Chicago by way of Los Angeles, where he conferred with R. W. Dalton, California sales representative.

"The Golden Theme of Hoo-Hoo"

"To light a lamp of hope in the home when the oil is low and the wick itself burns: to put a loaf where therc was but a crust; to put a flush on a pale cheek; to take away despair and put confidence in its stead, cannot, we believe, be done by the simple giving of alms !

"But when we know that the noblest, best thing we can do for a man is to turn him about and point him in the direction of using the talents he may HAVE-then do we approach the Golden Theme of Hoo-Hoo.

"If on every }foo-Hoo day each member of the Order could testify to the fact that during the past year he had been able to assist at least three deserving human beings to an opportunity to earn a living, then would rve touch that Golden Theme thread of Harmony, which means perpetuation away into the future, where the mists are, thereby developing our Theme into a Rope of Gold, anchoring HooHooism to that millenium time, 'when the hills and the clouds, the seas and the mountains echo back Health, FIappiness and Long Life, Peace and Good Will to all mankind.' "

-By Bolling Arthur Johnson, founder of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-'Hoo, taken from his address at the 33rd annual, held at Minneapolis in September 1924, his subject being "The Story of Hoo-Hoo."

Back From Middle West

Roy Seemann of the Seemann Lumber Co., Encinitas, returned at the end of November from a business trin to his old home in Minnesota.