THE CALIFORI\IA LT]MBER MERCHAI\T

Jack Dionne, Publisher

January

Building Contractors Assn, of California, Inc., 35th Anniversary Congress, Hotel Ambassador, Los Angeles, Jan. 7-9, 1959.

Riverside County Hoo-Hoo Club 117 meeting and Concatenation, Elks Club, Hemet, Calif., Jan. 9.

Redwood Empire Hoo-Hoo Club 65 Election Nite, Green Mill cafe, Cotati, Jan. 9.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo-Ette Club 3 Dinner meeting, Californian hotel, Jan. 13..

los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 golf, dinner and vaudeville entertainment, Rio Hondo Country Cl'tb (1M27 S. Old River Road, Downey), Jan. 16.

Dubs, Ltd. monthly'Tournament and banquet, Peninsula Golf & Country Clu,b, San Mateo-Paul Gaboury, host; Jan. 16.

National Association of Home Builders 15th annual convention, ' Hilton hotel, Chicago, Jan. 18-22.

San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9 and Oakland Hoo-Hoo Club 39 joint Meeting and Tour, U. C. Forest Products Laboratory, Richmond, Jan. 19.

Sacramento Hoo-Hoo Club 109 Past Presidents' Night, Sherwood Room, Sacram6lf6-|{6mss Derr in charge; Jan.27.

Santa Clara Valley Hoo-Hoo Club 170 Dinner meeting, Red Coach Inn, Los Gatos, Jan.22.

\il/estern Pine Association Meeting Districts 6, 7, 8, Sheraton-Palace hotel, San Francisco, 9:30 a.m., Jan.23.

San Diego Hoo-Hoo Club 3 semi-formal Dinner-dance, 7:00 to 1:0O, Casper's Ranch, El Cajon, Calif., Jat. 24.

Southwestern Lumbermen's Assn. (512 R. A. Long Bldg., Kansas City 6, Mo.) Convention and Trade Show, Municipal auditorium, Kansas City, Mo., and Muehlebach hotel, Jan.25-27.

Western Pine Association District 9 meeting, Hotel Westward Ho., Phoenix, l0:00 a.rr., Jan,26.

Western Pine Association District 12 meeting, Cosmopolitan hotel, Denver, 9:00 a.m., Jan.28.

Imported Hardwood Plywood Assn. annual Membership meeting, Highlands Inn, Carmel, Calif.., Jan. 29-37.

We just shake hands at parting, With many that come nigh; We nod the head in greeting To many that go by. But welcome through the gateway, Our dear friends, old and trueHere's open house to you, my friends, Here's open house to you.Massey. ***

Oscar Rush wrote "The Cowpuncher's Prayer," in which is found this splendid New Year's stanza:Let me be easy on the man that's doutn And make me square and generous with all; I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town, But never let them say I'm mean or small. rftf*

And Virginia Wurfel wrote this lovely New Year's verse: Grant me, O God, the power to see In every rose, eternity; In every bud, the coming day; In every snow, the promised May; In every storm, the legacy Of rainbows looking down at me. ***

And there's the unforgettable "Game Guy's Prayer," that says: "O, Lord, help me to understand that You won't let anything come my way that You and I together can't handle." t :F *

Edmund Burke said that "Great empires and little minds go ill together." Every page of history, ancient and modern, proves that fact. | :B :F

Another famous remark that history proves true is that of Madame De Stael, who said: "The strongest of all antipathies is that of second-rate minds for first-rate ones." ***

And Thomas Hughes drove home a fine thought when he wrote: "Self-restraint is the highest form of self-assertion." *!F*

There was once a young man who started life as a preacher. After several years in the pulpit he discovered that mankind is more interested in its body than in its soul. So he became a doctor. He practiced medicine for several years and discovered that people are more interested in their money than in their bodies. So he became a banker. And the

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longer he lived the more certain he became that people are more interested in their money than in anything else, so he stayed in that business the rest of his life. *trF

When the average citizen is as careful about how public funds are spent as he is about spending his own private income, we won't hear any more kicks on government extravagance. 13 * :F

It would be a wonderful world to live in if we could just do as well today as we hope to do*tomorrow.

Politics makes strange bedfellows. That has long been said, and just as long been true. But notice how the bedfellows sometimes change after election time. Remember the good old story about the zoo where crowds gathered every day to witness the amazing sight of a lamb lying peacefully and unmolested in the cage with a great lion? One day a visitor asked the colored attendant at the cage whether or not the two animals were always left in the cage together. He said yes, all the time, and added: " 'cose now and den we has to replace de lamb. But it's always de' same lion." Politics is like that.

It has long been said that "A politician looks to the next election, the statesman to the next generation." It has likewise been often declared that "A statesman labors to make all men equal before the law; the politician to give the advantage to the side with the most votes."

Tolstoy told the story of a priest who saw a peasant plowing and said to him: "If you knew you were to die tonight, what would you do today?" And the peasant answered, "I would plow." And the priest said: "You have made a wise answer, my friend, for to plow is to pray."

Stephen Girard, famous Philadelphian of early Colonial days, had the same idea as that peasant. When someone asked him what he would do today if he knew he would be gone tomorrow, Girard answered: "I would plant a tree." ***

One of literature's famous examples of a play on words was written by that great author Anonymous, who wrote concerning a woman and her illicit love: "Her honor, rooted in dishonor, stands, and faith unfaithful keeps her falsely true.t'

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