Vagabond Editorials

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FOR IT. Set as:de all subterfuge. Tear away all camouflage. Destroy all fences, inhibitions, and restrictions except those of fair play, and SELL LUMBER WHEN THE NEW FINANCES BECOME AVAILABLE AS YOU NEVER DREAMED OF SELLING LUMBER BEFORE.''

Solicit business *.r" nJ""J ,J no.r"u, f rom man ro man, from office to office. Follow the example of the automobile man. If you don't think depression can be overcome in the midst of depression, check up right now on the business of one Henry Ford, whose customers flood him with orders and patiently wait for delivery.

The sin of omission i, ;"i the tumber business the same as the sin of commission. The man who fails to carry the message and do the work in HIS town, has contributed toward the failure of the effort to kill depression. Get the old feet off the table, the old seat off the chair, put on the

G. E. Manspeaker Opens L. A. Office

G. E. Manspeaker recently opened an office at 1205 Rives Strong Building, Los Angeles, where he is carrying on a general wholesale lumber business in Douglas fir, pine, recl cedar, sprucet plywoods and box shook. He is representing the A. C. Tebb Lunlber Corporation of Aberdeen, Wash.

With P. S. Associated Mills

Fred C. Whittemore has joined the Los Angeles sales force of the Puget Sound Associated Mills and will assist George S. Melville calling on the Southern Califorhia retail trade. Mr. Whittemore is well known rn retail lumber circles. Ife was with Weaver-Henry of Los Angeles for a long period, and later s'ith the Moulding Supply Co. of Alhambra.

M. Huddart

J. M. Hudclart, retired lumberman, who at one time was agent in San Francisco for EasJern & Western Lumber Co. of Portland, died at his home in Woodside on March 31 at the age of 73.

Mr. Huddart left his 973 acre estate at Woodside, a magnificent Redwood property, to the city and county of San Francisco.

old thinking cap, and go out and see what you can do to divert the money that is being spent and going to be spent intlie near future in YOUR territory, into building channels.

rn the old days *n"";.;" i"". in the hey-day of her glory, the proudest boast of any Roman citizen rev3s-"Qivis Romanus $ss1"-pfuich meant, "I am a Roman citizen." No empty title, was this. He had to prove it by his deeds. No sluggard, no doubter, no unbeliever could be a "Civis Romanus." Let us take our lesson from ancient Rome and make each man his !e3sf-"1 am a lumberman," and let him prove it by his deeds, and strive, just as did those Romans of ancient days, to be loyal and helpful ***

And let us fight the good fight so that when the great day comes when the history of all good and courageous deeds are written. it will be said in truth of the lumbermen of 1935 that they were indeed BUILDERS.

Coast Counties Club

Elects Officets

Wiley T. Masengill, manager of the Pacific Coast Coal Company's yard with headquarters in San Luis Obispo, rvas elected president of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club at the annual election ,of officers held in Monterey, April 4.

W. H. Enlow, manager of the Watsonville yard of the Hammond Lumber Company, was elected vice president.

J. H. Kirk, manager of the Southern Pacific Milling Company's yards with headquarters in San Luis C)bispo, was elected treasqrer.

M. D. Bishop, Watsonville, was re-elected secretary-manager.