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Building Code Expert Opporer T-E-W Bill New Construction in M.y Totaled

Washington, D. C., May 28-In a statement this morning to the House Banking and Currency Committee on provisions of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill relating to building codes, James W. Morgan, President, Southern Building Codes Congress, lashed out at this proposal to interject federal authority into the field.

"The Southern Building Codes Congress u'as formed as a means of solving problems of mutual concern among Southern cities in respect to those lar.vs rvhich are enacted under the police powers for public safety and rvelfare. We are opposed to the principle of federal intervention and interference in this problem," Mr. Morgan asserted.

Mr. Morgan, who also is Commissioner of Public Improvements, Birmingham, Alabama, was vehement in his denouncement of federal interference in a problem which he termed "one of local jurisdiction" rvhich can and is .,being solved adequately by strictli' voluntary and cooperative procedures which rvere initiated by and are being carried on at the local level."

Predicting that passage of the T-E-W bill would lead to the establishment of a centralized building code in Washington, Mr. Morgan pointed out the shortcomings of such a code in meeting local requirements and conditions.

"There is too much of this regulating and directing of living standards 'from Washington," he .continued in pointing out the dangers inherent in making an administrator all-powerful in determining local building standards. Turning to the success which the Southern Building Codes Congress has experienced in improving codes in the South, Mr. Morgan made it clear that the progress was due in large part to the fact that the recommended Southern code fit the needs of Southern cities and was "a code accepted and used because of its merit-not because we had a club to wave over their heads and compel them to adopt it.,'

"We need neither the help nor the interference of a fedral bureau. in this matter," he reiterated.

Bcck lrom South Americcrn Trip

A. E. Fickling, A. E. Fickling Lumber Co., Long Beach, returned on May 31 from a 38-day tour which included stops inall the principal cities in the South American countries. Mr. Fickling is a member of the Lion's Club, and while in Chile he attended the first meeting of the newly organized Lion's Club in Valparaiso. All the trip was made by airplane, and he traveled 18,000 miles.

$1,449Million

Washington-New construction during M"y totaled about $1,449 million, an increase of ll/o over April, but slightly less than the normal seasonal gain, the Commerce Department estimated.

The figure was 40/o above May 1947.It includes all work actually done during the month in all construction fields, both public and private Industrial building was the only type of privately financed construction to show a decline. Totaling $114 million in May, it was 2/o under April and lgls less than in the same month last year.

Farm construction showed the greatest increase, 35%, from April to May. The April total was 937 million compared rvith $50 million for May and g4O milli<-rn for Muy, 1947.

Private construction in May-valued at $1,111 million, or a lO/o gain over April and a 4llo gain over Mayof last year-had the greatest total but types of public construction showed the most marked increases.

Public construction last month totaled $338 million, about 18ls more than in April and 40/o over May, 1947. The value of educational buildings put in place in May was $40 million, up 74/o over May, u'hile hospitals and institutional building were up 18316 lor the same period.

Private non-farm residential building put in place last month reached $575 million, up 1fi6 over April and 62% more than were put in place in May of last year.

Private owned public utilities put 9203 million of ne\,\, construction in place during May, 716 more than in April and 33/o more than in May, 1947.

Donner Lumber Compcrny Opens Olfice In Los Angeles

The Donner Lumber Company has opened offices at 5225 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. J. Donner is owner and manager. They handle Pacific Coast woods on a commission basis in Los Angeles territory. J. Donner recently moved to Los Angeles from Chicago where he has been selling lumber for some 25 years. I{e rvas before that sales manager for the S. H. Bolinger Lumber Company, well known sawmill concern, at Shreveport, Louisiana, and has been well known to the publisher of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT for more than thirtv years.

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At this season of the. year when all over the land colleges and other educational institutions are graduating young people and sending them out into the world to seek their fortunes, the above quotation would, in my opinion, fit well into every commencement address. For in all this world's history, it was the wisest and most beautiful choice a man ever made.

In case you are " fi..f"ifrl" Jryorr Bible history, this is the story, boiled down. The Lord appeared to Solomon and asked him what He could give him-what He could do for him? And Solomon, who thus had his choice of all the wealth and power the universe afforded, replied simply: "Give thy servant "l "fdT","nding heart."

It was a wonderful choice that won the admiration of Diety, for the Lord said to him-not in these exact words but in this sense-"Because you have made so fine a choice, I will not only give you a wise and understanding heart, but I will also give you all those other kinds of wealth that you did not ask for, such riches, and honor as no man ever had before." That's the tale in all its simplicity. It is a beautiful story that not enough young folks-or old ones either-are familiar with. That swell story might well be used as an object lesson in all our processes of living, as well as in commencement sp€eches.

Want to read a nice little sermon on this thing we call living? Here is one from the pen of Talbot Mundy in his "Log of Tros of Samothrace": "Whence I came, I know. Wither I go, I know not. I came forth from the womb of experience. What I know, that I am. What I know not is the limitless measure of what I may become. Life grows, and I see it. And so I grow, because I know it. I will strike such a blow on the anvil of life as shall use to the utmost all that I am. Thus, though I know not whither I go nor what I shall be, I shall go to no home of idleness. I shall be no gray ghost lamenting what I might have done. but did not."

To be successful (and I'm not talking about your bank account because that's the fool's way of measuring success) you've got to be happy. (Of course if you're happy you're already successful and your only serious problem is to stay that way.) To be happy you've got to be healthy. Think and talk heatth. Exercise intelligently. Cultivate the sunshine and the open air. Get out and play with the kids. Absorb all you can of their enthusiasm. euit doing and eating and drinking things that any even half intelligent person knows will hurt your vitality and effectiveness. Keep the old grin on your mug. To live, laugh, and love is the eleventh commandment, and the one that means success in life: real success. we often hear or ,."J .,Jan*wonder of the solid and substantial character of the food the majority of people are alleged to eat for breakfast in New England, and particularly in the area around Boston. Heavy meats, sweets, and vegetables predominate on such menus. John Adams, second President of the United States, went farther 3-LUNIBER MERCHANT ..vn . Duran 3 than that. He customarily " drank a quart of hard cider every morning before breakfast. However, my friend Tom Dreier suggests that it probably shortened his life-he only lived to be ninety.

When folks get to talking about the "good old days," old lumbermen in the Minnesota country are inclined to think back to the meals that used to be served some fifty years ago in the logging camps of that Northern territory. To remind them of some of the details, C. M. Oehler, who was once a camp clerk in the Virginia and Rainy Lake country, has written a book called "Time In The Timber," and thus he describes old time camp food: "The meals were enormous. This is what was served for the day. For breakfast we would have oatmeal with canned milk, flapjacks with syrup and butter, fried potatoes, ham, bacon, fried pork, bread, doughnuts, and coffee. At noon we might be served soup, meat, potatoes and gravy, corn bread or muffins, canned stringbeans and canned beets, doughnuts, one or two kinds of cake, canned plums, peaches, or apples. In the evening we probably would have soup, meat, potatoes and gravy, two kinds of canned vegetables, cookies, and doughnuts, cake and pie, rice or bread pudding or canned fruit." Understand, folks, that's all they furnished the loggers to eat. If a man couldn't get along on that, he just had to starve.

Another old timer who lived to be 93, yet worked and studied hard all his years was Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He discussed the subject of death with calmness and even humor. He said: "If the good Lord should tell me I had only five minutes to live, I would say to Him, 'all right, Lord, but I'm sorry Y*ou can't make it ten.',,

Read the other day the soundings-off of a laundry operator in one of our large American cities. He said that soap that cost him 6s/ cents a bar before the war now

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