Your Worst Competition

.A speaker at the recent convention, among other things said: "Your WORST competitor is your MOST IGNORANT competitor; the man you do not know is the man that fixes your price. Oh, my friends, if we could only GET AWAY from t\e OLD-FASHIONED IDEA that originated when two cobblers in a given village made shoes for that community, and if you went to one of them you could never go to other, because you would gain the eternal hatred of the man you left. Jealousy ! Trade rivalry ! Wicked cut-throat methods, such as prevailed when two or three carpenters did all the mill work of a village, when there were no mills, when tu,o or three cobblers made all the shoes when there were no shoe factories. But THOSE TIMES ARB IN THE PAST, meo i we cannot live under that sort of thing norv, and the fellorv who is today selfishly nursing the idea that he rvill let these other fellows go to all the trouble and then put his own nose in the trough, and swill himself with your effort is SO SELFISH. SO GREEDY, SO UNWORTHY, that he cannot MAKE a SUCCESS of life, even if he does MAKE money."

John Dudfield Convalesctng

John Dudfield, Dudfield Lumber Co., Palo Alto, rvho has been sick for the last two months is reported to be convalescing nicely. During his absence from the office, Joseph Jury is in charge. H. C. Trimble, manager of their office, is looking after the buying.

Seattle Meet

Thomas Work, Jr., son of Thomas Work of the Thomas Work Lumber Co., Monterey, was the winner of the high jump at the Intercollegiate Meet recently held at Seattle. He iepresented Stanford at the meet. He will also participati in the National Intercollegiate Meet at Chicago.

Milt Cross A Bay District Visitor

Milt Cross, Cross Lumber Co., Merced, was a recent San Francisco visitor where he spent several days calling on his lumbermen friends in the Bay District. Milt states the present lumber demand in his section is not any too brisk but that the dealers look forward to good fall demand.

Careful I-oading

P.clrcd evcn and snug to prcvent shucking. Bundlcc arc wirc-bound - rhey do not brealc open. Watcr.proof paper apnons at doors t6 protcct froir moisiurcandilirt. Separatcd by widtttr and grades foc exr,y unloading. OnIy dry, clean, tight carr us€d.

NICHOLS & COX LUMBER, CO.

Grrnd Rrpidr, Michi$n. *fi&'#n, Hardwood Flooring