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ANNOUNCING Our Fiftieth Anniversary

Ot the Sth day of February , Igftl,we will celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the founding of the E. K. Wood Lumber Company by Edwin K. Wood at San Francisco, February 5, 1895.

We take this opportunity to express our grateful appreciation to our many loyal customers, our friends in the lumber industry, and to our employees, who have contributed so much to our success.

Engaged as we are in all-out war production, we pledge the continued use of all our energies and facilities in furtherance of the war effort.

Wherever you are this winter night, Beneath white stars or silver rain. God will keep you in His sight, Because I asked Him to again.

Wherever you are these new, co,ld days, Beneath the sun or clouds of snow, God's own sharp eyes witl ever gaze, Upon the every step you go.

Wherever you are, my dearest dear, In crimsoned war-ground's hellish clime, Remember He is somewhere nearI send Him to you, all the time.

Peg o'My Heart. ***

The sweetest piece of patriotic advertising that has come this way this season was a short radio anno'uncement that said: "Tie a string around your heart to remind you to buy another war bond."

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Another sign of the times is the fact that you don't need a long cigarette holder these days, to stay away from cigarettes.

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We have been frequently told that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." So what? Consider the onion, and what it keeps away. Yet folks seldom brag about it.

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The locked door of a tobacco store is said to have carried the following sign: "Out of cigars. Out of cigarettes. Out of gum. Out of films. Out of stamps. Out of patience. Out of town.tt

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\Me must not blame God for the fly, for man made him. He is the resurrection, the reincarnation of our own dirt and carelessnsss.-p1. Woods Hutchinson.

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Whenever Voltaire said something, there was wisdom and power in it. Witness this little remark: "I envy the beasts two things; their ignorance of evil, and their ignorance of what is said abo'ut them."

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I guess I shocked some good and scholarly friends of mine the other day when, in discussing the great men of history, I placed Voltaire right close to the top of my list. Because he did more to set men free and strike the shackles from their minds and wrists than any other one man in all history. And freedom is the priceless gift that rnust be prized above all other human possessions. Yes, friend, if you want to meet the greatest champion of human freedom -and a man who championed it when such championship won the ill will of the most violent men in human historyget better acquainted *,}r ,l"r*"oble Frenchman.

"If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of this world, they would take away spring and youth; the former from the year; the latter from humanlife."-Balzac.

Take pains with the letters you write; even with your humdrum business letters. Take some of the drum out of them, and put in more of the hum. Every letter you write influences the opinion of someone regarding the sort of person you really are. Many of the world's greatest reputations have bebn built upon the writing of letters. Surely with the brains God gave you, you can think of some better way to open a letter than saying: "Replying to yours of such and such a date and so on, etc." Most folks write that sort of stuff, without thinking how entirely free from intelligence it really is. **!F

Wrote Heloise to Abelard: "What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions; they can raise them as much as though the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness, the delicacy of speech; and sometimes even a boldness of expression beyond it." We thinking humans waste a fine weapon when we write poor letters' * {. *

Letters have had a profound effect on the history of the world during the last nineteen hundred years. The letters that Paul wrote were the strongest pillars upon which the citadel of Christianity was builded. The letters that Luke wrote gave us the most beautiful pieces of literature ever printed, including the story o,f Christmas. Neither of them said "yours of the fifteenth to hand and'contents duly noted," or any of that rot. If they had, the story of Christianity might never have been written.

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I have quoted in this column before the priceless gift of letter writing possessed by Abigail Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams. There is nothing in our literature finer than the thoughts that fell from her pen. I thought of her the other day when reading of the Presidential inauguration, in Washington. On the day John Quincy Adams was inaugurated, his wife wrote him these words: " 'The sun is dressed in brightest beams, to give thy honors to the day.' And may it prove an auspicious

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