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April

Tyest Coast Lumber Inepection Bureau-April 10-11' 2nd annual meeting, Mayfair Room, Benson Hotel, Portla'rrd, Ore.

Montana Building Material Dealers' Ass'n.-April 10-13, Buil$nS Products Exposition a^nd dealer convention, Great Falls' Mout

So. Oregon Timber Industries Assn.-April 11, meeting, Rogue Valley Country Club, Medford, Ore.

Sacramento IIoo-IIoo Club No. 109-April 11, annual golf tournament & dinner, Sierra View Country Club, Roseville, Calif'

Northwest Wood Products Clinic-Foregt Products Research Society -April 15-16, joint meeting, Davenport Hotel, Spokane, Wash.

National llome Improvement Council-April 15, remodeling seminar, San Francisco.

Dube, Ltd.-April 18, annual Redwood Empirq Santa R'osa Country Club, Santa Rosa, Calif.

National Building Material Distributors Assn.-April 20-23' spring meeting, Mountain Shadows Inn, Scottsdale, Ariz.

Northwest Hardwood Assn.-April 24-25, Spring meeting, Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Wash.

Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau-April 25, annual me.eting, Washington Athletic Club, Seattle, Wash.

Los Angeles Hoo-IIoo Club 2-April 25, old timers' nite & con@t, Los Coyotes Country Club, Buena Park, Calif.

Lumber Merchants Assn.-April 27-29, annaal convention, Yosemite National Park, Calif.

American Wood Preservers' Association-April 27-30, annual meeting, Denver Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colo.

May

National llome Improvement Month-May 1-31.

Arizona Retail Lumber & Builders Supply Assn.-May 1-3, annual convention, Stardust, Hotel, Yuma, Ariz.

Redwood Region Conservation Council-May 4-7,L7th annual junior logging conference, Humboldt County Fairgrounds, Ferndale, Calif.

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REDERICK the Great said to Voltaire, when that great French humanitarian was fighting against human torture of mankind are formed to be the slaves of the absurdest fanatic' WN in Europe: ooYour zeal burns against superstition, but do yoo-b"li"u" that the world will change? More than three-fourths ism. The fear of the devil and of hell is fascinating to them, and they detest the man who wishes to enlighten them." o'What a pathetic case," he remarked.

And, though today we know that there are a million suns as great as ours, and billions of great stars in the firmament kept in hu.rno.ry by a mighty power, mankind is still fanaticalabout patriotism, religion, politics and his fellow man. In that particular direction, man progresses slowlY*- if at all.

A visitor being shown through an English insane asylum noticed one of the inmates, an American, jabbering and covering the walls of his cell with diagrams.

"Yes," said the attendant, 'ohe tried to explain to an Englishman what waffles are."

A local paper ofiered $10 for each embarrassing moment letter accepted by the editor. One reader submitted the following:

"Dear editor: I entered my house last night and caught another

BY JACK DIONNE

1882-1966 man with my wife. I was indeed embarrassed. Please send $20, as my wife was also embarrassed." ooAny request my poor man?" asked the chaplain.

The editor read the letter and sent the man $30 with the note: 'oW'e don't wish to cheat you. We feel that the other man must have been somewhat embarrassed also."

Did your sn get "", oi*n -lru, ,lr, year in coliege?

Yes, indeed, one scar on the forehead.

The guards were fixing the electrodes to the body of the doomed man in the electric chair. The chaplain, who had been by the man's side for weeks, bent over him.

"Yes," replied the wretch, o'It'll comfort me a whole lot if you'll just hold my hand when they p*ull the switch."

During a grouse hunt in England where men and women both were in the line of shooters, two families were shooting from covers close together. Suddenly, a red, angry face showed over the side of a ooblind" and shouted:

"Curse you, sir, you nearly hit my wi{e with that last shot!"

'oDid I?" said the other aghast, "I'm terribly sorry, old fellow have a shot at mine."