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13231 Eost Soufh 5t., Artesiq, Golifornicr with four or five employes doing a volume of around $200,000 a year.

He saicl ccrncertecl effort u'as neecled by as nianv clealers as possible t, persu:ttle tlre railr,,ads tri pirt irrto serr-ice nrore plug-door ancl double-cloor freigl.rt cars.

Mr. Caves added that his committee is giving consideration to plans for promoting the use of piggy-back lumber shipments, using truck trailers on flat cars.

Phil Creden, general chairm:rn of the E,xpositiorr conrmittee, arrcl llartin C. -[)u'ver, Iixpositiorr clirector, rc'porte<l that plans for the 1958 I',xprosition irr Cl'ricago durirrg November are crystallizing fast. This 1.ear, they- reporte cl, enrphasis is being placecl on clinics atr<l cither progrzrrnmirrg that u'i11 en:r"ble an inclir.idual rlealer to obtaiu professional advice regarcling his or,vn problems in such fielrls as materials han<lling, stcire rnerchanclising, ancl home constnlction.

The fact that a score o{ nen exhibitors alrea11r. har-e taken space tvas cited as evirlence tl.rat tlre Exlt,rsitiorr is servitrg lr,ell one of its major l)rlrp()ses, u'hich is to denronstrate that tl're retail lumber <lealer is a lrotent. aggressive. irrragittative ntert'lrarrrlisittg f,rrce.

Past I'resiclent Parrl lt. F-1,v. repc.rrting its chairrnan of the Corrrnittee on [rcluciition arrrl tr[erchanrlising, saicl etlorts to obtain manufactrrring srrpport of the proltosecl salestraining progral.ll u'ere continuing and tl.rat frrrther clecisiotts probably rr"oulcl be nracie at a nreetitrg of the comtnittee to be helcl early in Iune. Overu,helnrirrg evirlence of high dealer irrterest in such a l)rograur n'as clearll' established.

Mr. Ely also urged that the retail lumber industry take steps to sell young men on the career opportunities afforded by the industry, stating that this vitally important matter had been neglected.

Raynron llarrell, executive vice-president of the Lrrmber Dealers ltesearch [, rlrncil, :airl ihe nrenrbersl'riP of tlre Council continues to g=r()\,v ar-rcl clescriberl several ne\\' pr()- grams to be inarrguratecl in the immecliate future. He explair-recl also that the Council hacl clecicled to take greater advatrtag'e of research facilities e-xisting u'ithir.r the lumber inclustry.

Reporting for Phil Rrrnion, chairman cif the Membersl'ri1r comnrittee, rvho r,vas urrable to be present, l.ixecutive VicePresiclent Northup saicl that a brochure clescribing the serr'ices of the National Associatior.r harl been macle available to :rll interestecl federated associations ancl errtressecl the l"rc-rpe that it tvoulci be usecl etTectively. Comments frt.rm r.nanirging officers emphasized the fact that personal contact in a prosliective nrember's office is neces,sarr. if real progress in rnembership is to be rnacle.

Iir.erett B. \\'ilson, director of public relatiorrs, saicl several ner.l. proflr:ims u,oulcl be presented to the Comnrittee on Flciucation arrcl X'Iercharrdising, irrclurling plarrs for helping clealers cash in orr the HIC program, trvo plans designed to step rlp the performance of dealers' salesmen, ancl the prepar:rtion of a manrral telling how inclir.iclual clealers carr concluct Honre Plannirrg ancl Inrprovernent Institutes in their on'n commulrities, as a l-neans of con.rpiling lists of goocl prospects for home builclirrg ancl honre irnprc,\'enrelrt JO DS.

He said continuing study would be given to dealer newspaper advertising, in the hope of arriving at some helpful principles that would increase the effectiveness of the huge sum that dealers spend on advertising each . year.

He saicl also that NliLl),\'s Honre Irnprovenrent leaflets arrr[ its l'-stirnatirrg Kit liacl been u-ell receiverl arrcl that orrlers u'ere beginning to conre in for the recentlr- offered Hcime InrProvenrent Estimating \[anrral.

I'resiclent O'\,I:r11ey also reportecl that the str-r<11- of the association being cor-rdrrctecl b1' a firrn of rtranagenrent coltsrrlt:rtrts \\'as under\\'a1- ancl that a complete report is expected for the board rneeting in November.

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Boom times are peri6ds when all men get rich by charging one another too much. They are necessarily temporary. The times that follow are called recessions.

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called," said John Stuart Mill. **rt i.**

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But Cicero said: "There is nothing sb absurd that it may not be found in the books of the philosophers." !t**

Wm. Hazlitt wisely said that "When a man dies who does any one thing better than anyone else, it leaves a gap in society." {.**

' "Dontt let it worry you," says some sage, "if that son of yours shows no sign of ever becoming President. Remember that ![febster, Clay, Franklin, Calhoun, and various other.great Americans never got there."

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"If a man write little," said the great Francis Bacon, "he has need of a great memory. If he confer little, he has need of a present wit. And if he read little, he has need of much cunning to seem to know what he doth not."

The brightest star in the firmament of human virtues is kindliness. In this Lincoln surpassed. Thus he is immortal. In him there was no ego, no vanity--<nly kindliness and understanding.

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