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I cannot climb a hill on New Year's Day, And, looking down the coming year, behoid The good that shall befall me on the way, The ill and heartbreak that the days unfold. But I am sure of this: the unknown year Will bring me various hours when I shall need Patience for waiting, courage for my fear, And resoluteness if I would succeed. There will be hours demanding faith, when I Can see no farther-and bring hope, and prayer; And ah, there will be times when earth and sky Will be so lovely and all life so fair, And love so very sweet, I shall stand dumb. God help me journey through this year to come. *

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V. Emans.

I'm glad I cannot, like the poet quoted above, climb a hill on New Year's Day and look down upon the coming year. The way things look in the world right now with all the dark clouds that seem hanging low, I fear such prospect might give me the jitters, and, instead of looking into the future I'd close my eyes tight, fearful of what I might see.

During the dark a"y" lf t"i., Forge, Thomas paine utteied the famous words: "These are times that try men's souls," Change "try" to "fry" and you've got a pretty fair description of world prospects as this New Year opens. You've got to draw hard on your faith to find the prospect at all encouraging to the whole human race.

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Caesar said that he "found Rome wood and left it gold." The year 1951 did the same-in reverse. Business and industry profited highly during the year.in this country; but to the world in general it was a depressing, disagreeable year. Fear has waved a dark banner over the human mind. There wasn't a good laugh in the whole twelve months.

Come to think or it, rslz l"orlrun'. have to be anything very wonderful to be a happier year for humanity than 1951, now would it? Personally, I'm inclined to think she'll make it.

Let us fix in our -i"d"'ari. J.""aoul sentiments of the poetess, Mary G. Brainerd:

"f see not a step before me, As f tread on another year; But the past is still in God's keeping, The future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance, May brighten as I draw near."

Two middle-aged businessmen, strangers to one another, are sitting side by side in a train. Both are quiet, pieoccupied, worried looking. Finally one of them heaves a long, loud sigh. The other one said: "You'fe telling me !"

Get up right in .rr" ,"J"ilg. Go to bed right at nightStart with joy in your heart, hope in the future, kindliness in your purpose. If it is a dark day, never mind-help lighten it up. If it is a bright day, you can add to its brightness. Give a word of cheer, a kindly greeting, a warm hand-shake to your friends. Forgive, and try to forget your enemies. If all of us would bear in mind that happiness is from within and not from without. there rvould be a well-spring of joy in human hearts, and the sun would shineforever'

The world committed the Golden Rule to memory, but forgot to commit it to life-and NOW look!

Lincoln said: "We """"ja"J.nl" *". for a worthy object, and the war will not end until that object has been attained. Under God, we hope it will not end until that time."

Socrates said, in a*.,rlf"g tl-".f before his judges: "During my life f have not sought ambition, wealth. I have not sought to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of patience and justice, and above all, with the love of liberty."

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The Third Chapter of Ecclesiastes says: "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace." We know the prophecy is true regarding war, but wonder when that time of peace is going to show up. * ,< *

Shakespeare was no doubt top man in the writing world, but when it came to prophecy he was a washout. Witness that he says in "Anthony and Cleopatra": "The time for universal peace is near." Near what?

And Victor Hugo *r" io 0.,a., in the prophecy department. Long ago he wrote: "In the twentieth century war will be dead; hatred will be dead: frontier boundaries will be dead; MAN WILL LIVE!"

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How much more gifted in that "mystical lore when coming events cast their shadows before," was an Englishman named Henry Norman who long ago warned the world and posterity in this fashion: "When on the border of any country in Europe or Asia the sentries challenge-,Who goes there?'-1hs answer is always-'Russia !' ,' In our book of latter-day prophets, Henry Norman goes to the head of theclass'

Pray hard for the su--'vival of private enterprise during 1952. Hard work, personal ambition, and initiative built America. No recipe, aiming at the destruction of a nation could improve on one to let the government do for individuals those things that they should do for themselves.

Emerson wrote: "See n"- an" *"ss of men worry themselves into early graves, while here and there some great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.

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You never can tell where a sermon is coming from. Frederic O'Brien, in one of his stories of the South Seas. tells about going into a low, vicious grog shop on a South Sea island, and seeing there a tatooed, hideous-looking native in conversation with some other natives. The hideous one dashed his war club down on the bar and declared in no

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A pleasure indeed to remit for another year's delightful and inspirational reading. A Merry Christmas and a Happy Prosperous New Year to Mr. Dionne and staff.

Paul Revert

Los Angeles, Calif.

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The Home Builders Store Carlsbad, Calif.

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C. L. Weber

J. G. Kennedy Lumber Co. Lafavette. Calif.

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Alhambra, Calif.

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South Laguna, Calif.

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The name of Chapco Hardboard has been changed to Oregon Hardboard. It is manufactured by'the Chapman Manufacturing Co., Corvallis, Oregon. Wm. M. Wilson, Los Angeles, is Southern California representative.

uncertain terms-and dared anyone to contradict himthat Solomon's Songs have the Second Chapter of Corinthians skinned to death for sheer beauty and poetry.

"So enter that daily ,n:" -;."t become more learned and thoughtful; so depart that daily thou mayest become more useful to thy country and mankind."-(Inscription on entrance hall at Cornell.)

God grant me grace "lu l'ulrr"r,".

To bear cheerfully what I cairnot change; Courage to fight for what I can help to change; Wisdom to know the difference.

-Eliot Wardworth. ***

At this New Year's time the prayer of Robert Louis Stevenson seems very appropriate: "We beseech Thee, O Lord, to behold us with favor; weak men and women subsisting under the cover of Thy patience. Be patient still. Suffer us yet a while longer, with our broken promises of good and our idle endeavor against evil; suffer us a while longer to endure, and (it may be) help us to do better."

Dant & Russell Sales Co. and Fir-Tex

Move San Francisco Oflices and \(/arehouse

Dant & Russell Sales Co. and Fir-Tex of Northern California have moved their general offices to their ne\r warehouse at 1455 Custer Avenue, off Third Street, San Francisco 24, where eacl, firm is carrying a complete line of products. The new telephone number is Mlssion 8-.+332.

The stock carried by Dant & Russell Sales Co. includes plywood, doors, mouldings, and jamb sets. Thev also make direct mill shipments of Douglas fir, Ponderosa and Sugar pine, redwood, and cedar shingles.

Fir-Tex of Northern California carries a corlplete line of building materials which includes: Building Board, Insulating Tile, Perforated Acoustical Tile, Roof Insulation, Firkote Sheathing, Coralite and Handitvle, Philippanel, and Mal-rogany Exterior Siding.

Educational Program To Be Conducted

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Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 announces its educational program on lumber and allied products. This rvill be a l2-week course. Cilasses will be held one night a rveek starting Thursday, January 10, at Merrit Business School. 57th and Grove Stieets, Oakland.

John C. Gaffney, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, is chairman of the educational committee.

The subjects to be covered are the various species of softwood and hardwood lumber, sash & doors, milling, plyu'ood, estimating, financing, and selling.