T\TENTY.FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY

As reported in The California Lumber Merchant March 15, 1929

M. M. Riner, of Kansas City, Mo., Snark of the lJniverse of Hoo-Hoo, will be guest of honor at Hoo-Hoo meetings in California. He will be at San Diego March 1Q, in Los Angeles March 20 and 21, in Stockton March 22, in San Francisco March 25 and 26. and at other points.

The Bayside Redr,'r'ood Company, Eureka, has sold its sawmill and all lumber and logging equipment to the Dessert Redwood Company, of which Howard L. Dessert, Jr., is the head. '-fhe latter concern is a non-operating compauy with large Redwood timber holdings in Humboldt Cour,ty. The new owner has organized an operating company, the Humboldt Redwood Company, to operate ,1t" nsu, proPerties. The Humboldt Redwood Company will buy timber from the Dessert Redwood Company.

The McCormick Steamship Company, San Franciscc'r, announces that it has purchased the steamers "Point Judith" and "Point Lobos" from Swayne & Hoyt. The boats, sister ships, have been placed in the coastwise trade.

The Diamond Match Company, which recently purchased the Tilden Lumber Company, at Stockton, has taken a 2}-year lease on the old Falconbury Lumber Company yard at that place. It will build a planing mill on the new property, and use the entire lease for lumber storage and handling. Ira 8,. Brink makes the announcement. the the

Clem Fraser, vice president and assistant general manager of the Loop Lumber & Mill Company, Alameda, has been appointed general manager of this concern, succeeding I\{errill Robinson, resigned.

A meeting of Southern California retail lumber dealers has been called to take place April 6, at the Alexandria Hotel. Paul Hallingby, of the Hammond Lumber Company, rvill preside. There will be a luncheon, then an afternoon meeting, followed by a dinner with the ladies present.

The San Jose and Peninsula lumber dealers and Peninsula Hoo-Hoo Club will have a joint meetipg at Hotel St. Clair, San Jose, on March 25.

Charles S. Russell, president at his home in Portland, Oregon, of Dant & I{ussell, died March 11, at the age of 70.

Whittlin'

By Mark Whalon

At blacksmith shop and country store, I see no whittlers anymore; It makes me think, around these parts, That whittlin's one of those lost arts That rise and flourish, wane and pass, Like temperin' bronze, or Venice glass. I guess 'twas lost about the time That thinkin' got to be a crime.

When I say whittlin' f don't mean A-scrapin' wire or spark-plug clean, Nor makin' whistles in the spring; I mean a wholly different thing. I mean the whittlin'that was done In sober earnest-just for fun. They whittled not for what was wrought But rather as an aid to thought.

To figure close-to fix a trade

When some deciiions must be madeA good jack-knife and piece of pine And whittlin' shavin's from it fine Just soothed and smoothed and made things straight And helped when things was out of joint To whittle deep and to a point.

At politics they'd argufy, And how the words and chips would fly, An' you could tell where they had sat 'Some notching, haggling Democrat Outnumbered, in unequal strife, But fighting back with tongue and knife, All 'round was shavin's slick and slim, Republicans had heckled him.

In Washington I heard 'em say Beneath the White House, hid away, They found a room all set apart Devoted to the whittler's art. Some President the kinship knew 'Twixt whittlin' straight and thinkin' true. I do not choose to give him nameIt's whittled deep in Halls of Fame.

Now'days we take things on the run An' do a thing-because it's done. We never stop to calculate, To reason out or meditate.

Opinions, too, that's handed out, We swaller down without a doubt.

'Pears to me that it would pay ,sometimes to whittle a diff'rent way.

A Pig Story

The Manzanalo (Colorado) Sun tells one about the little city girl visiting the farm for the first time, who made a tour of the barny_ard and rushed in to her mother:

"Just think, I saw a whole bunch of little pigs throw a great big pig down and start cLewing off its vest buttons."

W:rh Bqnners

Although I am beaten, no one shall knowI'll wear defeat so proudly. I shall go About my business just as before; Only when I have safely closed the door Against you and all, shall I be free To bow my head-when none can see.

Tonight I'll shed my tears, but tomorrow when I walk with you, I will be gay again. Though I am beaten, no one shall guess, For I will walk as though I am Success.

Cresson

-Abagail

Physicol Troining

Train your mouth to smile when the day is dark; your tongue to speak for the advancement of humanity; your nose not to sniff at those beneath you; your ears to hear nothing but good of others; your eyes to see the needs of your fellow men; your hands to supply those needs, and your feet to walk always in the upward path, though stony and steep.

-Gerald Gray

Hoppiness

Happiness does not consist in the things themselves, but in the relish we have of them, and a man hath attained to it when he enjoys what he loves and desires himself, and not what other people think lovely and enjoyable.

-La Rochefoucauld

(That's a remark most of these folks who gurgle their love of grand opera, might well take home.)

A Shorr Skirr Trogedy

He was a little lawyer man

Who softly smiled as he began

Her dear, dead husband's will to scan.

And thinking of his coming fee

He said to her quite pleasantly;

"You have a nice fat legacy."

Next morning as he lay in bed

With bandages about his head, He wondered what on earth he'd said.