The tlcrn Who Poys

A great many years ago there appeared in the Roycroft Magazine an editorial with so much truth in it that it was reprinted in th,ese columns, and is worth repeating to business men of today, as follows:

"The will to pay is hereditary, just as much as red hair, or buck te,eth. It is a common fallacy that a man pays his debts because he has money. This is not necessarily true. On the contrary, the matter of paying has only a remote relation to money.

"On the one hand is your friend with abundance of money who cannot be cajoled, threatened, beaten or gassed into paying the most ordinary debt. On the other hand, the poor fellow without a visible dollai who is Johnnyon-the-Invoice. Money has little to do with either case. It is the breed of the man.

"The man who pays is the man who thinks in advance.

He never fashes a ro11 ; he does not drive a car and carry a mortgage at the same time; he does not hang up the butcher, or the grocer for food that he cannot afford to eat; he never lights the fire without wondering where the coal or gas man gets off. He never throws the bull, nor pitches the bluff, nor gives notes, nor writes checks dated tomorrow; but when the bills come in he is there with the coin of the realm, God bless h'im.

"sometimes he feels sore at the rest of us. He does not feel that he gets on any better than the fellow who skins as he goes. Still he goes on and pays, and pays, and pays, simply because it is in the breed. And, after all, the world does think a lot of his breed. The man who pays is the bulwark of society. He is the balance wheel of civilization. He is thc mainspring of commerce. Business blesses him and he has honor among rnen for all time."

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ItWilliam C. Beal, manager of the Builders Supply and Lumber Co., Tucson, Ariz., attended the Exposition in Chicago last month of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn', of which he is a director.

Pat Tynan, that half of Winfree & Tynan, left Partner Henry Winfree holding the fort in S. F. last month while he trekked to Seattle with his wife Marian to spend the Christmas holidays with his folks.

Don Bufkin, SoCal representative for Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., has been named to the board of directors of the Building Material Dealers Credit Assn., announced Jim Dean' secretarymanager of the L. A. group. Don will serve the 1957 fiscal term.

The traveling Kahns are at it again ! Bob, head of Forsyth Hardwood Co. in San Francisco, and his wife Mabel spent the last two December weeks vacationing in Hawaii and seeing old friends. Bob, who was born in Wales, was raised in the Islands.

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Terry Mullin of the Tarzana Lumber Co. and the Terry Lumber Co. yards in suburban Los Angeles, and his wife were hosts to a group of friends (and having a merry time, according to the L. A. Times) at the annual Candelight Ball last month.

Art Williamson, Cords Lumber Co. and his wife journeyed to Denver for a two-week vacation and visit with relatives and friends over the holidays.

Joe Tardy, prominent southern California wholesale lumberman, has left for Arizona and Texas on another sales trip to his dealer accounts of the Southwest. Jose expects to be absent from L. A. until the first of February.

'Duke \ily'arnock, president of Dant & Warnock, Menlo Park, recently spent two weeks visiting Texas accounts.

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School for Foresfers Scheduled

Forestry Dean Henry J. Vaux announced that the ninth annual Forest Management Field School at tl-re University of California will be.held January 28-February 1, at Walter Mulford Hall on the University Campus at Berkeley. The Forest Service, California Forest and Range Experiment Station, and private industry will cooperate in giving the instruction. Students at the week-long school will have the opportunity to follow the use of punch cards through making a forest inventory, making a lumber grade recovery study, and making a growth study. To obtain further information, write Ed Gilden, Extension Forester, 25 Walter Mulfcird Hall, University of California, Berkeley 4, Calif. (Telt them you sazu it '* Tht C"lit"r"it Lumber Merchant)