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Someone asked a well known New York wit why he drank liquor during the holidays, and he replied: "It makes other people seem so much more interesting."

He may have a thought ther'e. It is said that the right condition of alcoholism makes dim-wits seem like brightwits, and snub-nosed milkmaids*look like cover girls.

"Mike" Quinn, an old friend of ours, is an Episcopal Bishop with a keen sense of humor. He likes to hand out little reminders like: "Drive carefully; the man you hit might be an Epis"oP"t-i' * *

After- reading one of Vishinsky's bloody diatribes before the United Nations, someone was heard to remark: "Any man who has Vishinsky for a friend---doesn't need any enemies.t' * * * i.**

"The Kablegram," a bright little advertising magazine, offers a fine bit of philosophy. It tells about a big league baseball pitcher who pitched a no-hit game, yet struck out only one man, and suggests: "I{e needed eight other men to help him, and demonstrates again that the big potatoes are on the top of the heap because a lot of little potatoes are in there holding him up."

The story went the rounds during the football season concerning three star players, on three di,fferent teams, who funked their studies and were dropped from competition. They met and talked it over. Said one: "That trig was what threw me." Said the second: "I couldn't handle that calculus." Said the boy from Notre Dame: "Either of you guys ever hear of long division?"

The gag has been goirrj.*rl ,1""u" for some time about the two drunks walt<ing down the railroad track. Said one: "These are the longest stairs I ever saw." The second said: "Yah, but what gets me "r;-,1"": low handrails."

Which brings up th.e one about the last lecture of the semester and the professor said: "Study hard if you want to pass. The examination papers are already in the hands of the printer." And then he added: "Are there any questions?" And a voice from the rear asked: "Who's the printer?"

The busy business -"rr."i"rl comes in fgr a drubbing, as in the following: Busy Business Man: "'Where is my pencil ?" Secretary: "Behind your ear." Busy Business Man : "Come, come young lady, I'm a busy man. Which ear?"

And hcre is one that will bring a touch of sadncss: The old man boasted ttat he must bc getting strongcr in hiE old age; he can carry twenty dollars worth of goceriEs today much easier than he could carry five dollan worth when he was young. :3 :; *

The heat of the Presidential campaign brought to mind many times the old story of the Irish nationalist speaker, who said: "My friendq it is my pride that in dl my years of sacrifice to tte cause of lrcland, I have ncver said one unkind or untrue word against anyooc, not even against Tories and Orangemerl lying, thieving bigots and reactionary scoundrels

The practical joker in the high-toned eating p; ""-- plained lbudly to the waiter that hc could not cat the soup that was set in front of him. The w'aiter brought thi head waiter, and he brought the managcr, and to cach the customer made the same loud complaint that he couldnt eat the soup. "\f,Ihat's wrong with the soup?" askd the manager. "Dlothing," gnnnd the joter, "only I havont got a sPoon'" -. * * *

The philosophy that opportunity should bc tahen advantage of the minute it appears, is well illustratcd by thc story of a young man who was an invcstigator for a large insurance concern. He was sent to ftrd a young w@an who had come, unknown to herself, into a large eetate. He accepted the assignment and was not sccn again for weeks. When he finally returned, the lady was with hirn. He bad marriedher' * * 'r

Is this the atom age, as has been so often said, or is it in fact the chlorophyll age? Onc of the mcdicd journals tells of a doctor who mixed aspirin with e,hloro,phyll, for stinking headaches. * :r *

Then there was ttre wo'naq who was told by her husband's doctor to give him as mucb of a sleeping 1rcwdcr as she could get on a nickel. She didn't have a nickel, so she used five pennies. He slept five days. **:l

Tom Dreier tells of a boy who could bc wonderfully good, arrd yet be dangerous. He said that Danicl Bliss, of the class of 1E52 at Amherst, in his youtt proftssed no particular religion, yet was acknowledgcd to be the bcst boy in town. A pious brother said to him: "Darq you are the most dangerous boy in town- You neither lie, drin\ swear, nor quarrel, and people say 'Dan Bliss is not a Christian, yet what a good boy he is."'

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It was Voltaire who said: "He who serves his country well, has no need for ancestors."

Intolerance is generally either blind, ignorant, or both. The newspapers carried a story about a minister of the gospel who publicly burned a copy of the new and well advertised Bible, because it does not mention the virgin birth. Wonder if he tore out of his own Bible the mighty books writtgn by St. Mark and St. John, and St. Paul? They don't mention it either. You sometimes wonder whether or not the most fanatic religionists ever read the Good Book.

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"If I had a million," \prote George W. Olinger, "I would quietly search for those elderly women, most of them mothers, who through no fault of their own are obliged in their sunset years to go out to work, washing, scrubbing, dusting the offices and homes of others. These heroic souls who must earn their way to the end of the trail, whose grey hair is the symbol of America's best womanhood, desire only the peace and contentment of a home, and freedirm from worry, work, and fear. Build, if you will, your great monuments and memorials, give your bonuses to the returned soldiers who are still able to work; but surely no individual, citn or state could do better than to provide generously for those who havg given so much to so many and who ask so little in return."

Before the next i".,r. lr L** ro,.rrr"l rolls around, wr will have a new President of ttre United States. We have great hopes for him, chiefly because of the high personal quallfications hc has demonstrated gince Novembcr 4th. He has been kindly, he has been consideratc, b has shown simple courtesy wherever poasiblc, and given qecrlz lran who desenred one a kindly hearing. He bar endearcd himself much more to tte American pcoplc:incc clection, trnan he had before. When gratuitour insultr were shoutcd at him by the oh so fittle inan is tbc \f,Ihite Houle, he has never shown a sign of hurt, or pique; he has nevcr anrptred. ft is no small thing to Lnow that we have a Lindln courtcous gentleman presiding over tte deetiDics of +hir gr,eat nationThcre could be no 6ner foundation for the sucecrs of hig administration. ff there is a grain of pcttishncs in hiE make-up, it has failed to appcar, afthough thcrc har becn much provocation.

Bill Henry, skiUull andyst for thc Los Angetc Timca, says: "So what we havc now-at least m thc suifecc-ig a real leader who makes swift dccisionc plu a hanoonious Congressional group, and a busincadike hard core of professional executives of Cabinet rank dl ready to tale over and function with trminimurn of fuss and confurion- Now, :rnyone in his right r.i"d knows tbat it tates nore than this for a successful adrninistration, but it loob lihe a mighty businesslike operation at this point an4 ofthand, f'd say that's about wbat the folks who votcd for Ikc had expected of him."

Yes, Sir, he's made a finc start. He wm oycr aa diftcult an individual as MacArthur by sinply giving hin a pr@pt hearing when he announced hc had somcthing to ray. ft's easier than ever before to accliaim-*I LIKE fKE."

Hammond Announces Huge Redwood Reforestation Program

A quarter-million dollar program designed to bring 51,000 acres of cut-over or heavily burned land in California's redwood region up to Tree Farnr standards was announced recently by the Hammond Lumber Company.

"We consider this program part and parcel of the company's policy to operate its lands on a sustaining yield basis," Waldron Hyatt, general manager of the firm's redwood division stated.

Plans call for installation and maintenance of I protection system for about 48,000 acres cf cut-over land located in the Little River and Maple Creek basins. About 3,000 acres of land, heavily burned in 1945, will be replanted. The Hammond Lumber Company already operates two Tree Farms totalling 21,221 acres.

"'We believe our present logging is up to Tree Farm standards," Mr. Hyatt said. "Now we want to bring the protection system on our early logged lands up to the same high standards maintained on operating areas."

Hammond's forestry staff has completed mapping the project and expects to have the protection system completed by 1957. A road system now underway will make any point in a high hazard area withip 1,000 feet of a road. The completed project will contain 178 miles of roads and fire trails. Nearly 70 miles of the rcad system has been completed.

Twelve and one-half miles of snag-free fire breaks will be made along key ridges. Three lookout points, an aerial patrol during fire weather, 6re fighting equipmenland radio communication are part of the protection system.

Hammond's re-planting operations will be the first extensive job of its kind in the redwood region in nearly 30 years.

During the next five years thc company expects to seed 2,145 acres with redrvood and Douglas fir. About 785 acres will be planted with two-year-old trees.

E. T. F. Wohlenberg, president of the Redwood Region Conservation Council, hails the Hammond Lumber Company program as a "great forward step in the direction of sustained yield forest management." The American Tree Farm System coordinated nationally by American Forest Products Industries is underway in 35 states. In the redwood region Tree Farms are sponsored by The California Redwood Association.

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A group of German public relations men rvith Fred Landenberger of the California Redwood Association, and under the sponsorship of the United States State Department, recently visited the Big I-agoon operation of the Union Lumber Company. Thev were particularly impressed rvith tree farming methods of the company, its heavy trucking of logs and mechanical equipment and skill.

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\(/eyerhaeuser Will Plant Three Million Douglas Fir Seedlings Thig Winter

Vail, Wash., Dec. 24-Weyerhaeuser Timber company announced today that it expects tri plant approximately three million Douglas fir seedlings on its tree farms this v;inter, with a third of them going to the company's Vail-.lIc Dorrald operation.

Supervising the planting of approximately 1,000,000 one and two-year old trees on the Vail and l{cDonald tree farms is James W. Church, Weyerhaeuser branch forester. The million seedlings rvill be split evenly between the trvo tre.: farms, according to Church.

and held that post, except for a three and one-half year wartime hitch in the air force, until transferred to VailMcDonald.

Church, rvho normally has 25 to 30 men including five graduate foresters in his Vail-McDonald forestr5r crews, will supervise planting crews of approximately l5O men, mainly teen-agers, during the late-fall and early-spring planting seasons.

"The Vail-NIcDonald area is ideal for forest growth," says Church. "Natural regeneration of fir stands is.excellent in most instances. However, planting is necessary in some areas that have failed to reseed naturally. A total ol 9,7N acres have been planted on the Vail-McDonald tree farms to datc."

A tall, bespectacled fellorv, Church puts hundreds of miles each month on a radio-equipped Weyerhaeuser pick-pp truck patroling the Vail and McDonald tree farms. Ranging from eastern Pierce county to western I-ewis county, Church keeps in constant touch with all areas of the VailMcDonald operation through his two-way radio.

Born and raised in Seattle, hc is married, the father of a eration, replacing Vincent Bousquet as branch forester in daughter, 5, and a member of the Puget Sound chapter, September of this year when Bousquet was transferred to' Society of American Foresters. He resides in Centralia. the firm's Klamath Falls, Ore., branch.

Church, 36, is relatively new to thc Vail-McDonald op-

No stranger to forestry or the Weyerhaeuser Timber company, 'Church joined the firm in I94O, following his graduation from the University of Washington college of forestry. After 18 month,s as tinrekeeper at Weyerhaeuser's Snoqualmie Falls branch, he rvas named branch forester

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