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\Ve have eeveral designs of thesc beautiful front doors, which we carry in both DOUGLAS FIR and PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY.

The Fir door is dl verticd grain, h*try raieed panel and heavy raised mould outside.

PHILIPPINE doors arc all dark red fibon grain, with heavy raised panel and heavy raiscd mould outside. the manufacturers'association in the Pacific northwest has also licensed some forty wholesale and retail yards in California to place upon their lumber the 'copyrighted trade and grade marks of the Association nnder the supervision of its inspe,ctors.

The official grade marks of the Association are designed to be the "sterling" mark of quality on West Coast lumber items. Every mill or yard authorized to use these marks receives regular inspection and verifi,cation of its grading practices by the experienced inspectors of the Association. Marking licenses have been withdrawn in several instances where operators have failed to maintain the standard grades pres'cribed in the published rules of the Association. This policy will be followed stri,ctly. Grade marks are a practi,cal insurance to the home builder that the grades used conform with the grades specified for his structure; and the Association will not petmit its official grade marks to be used by any operator who does not live up to this requirement.

The retail lumber dealers of Los Angeles are out in the lead of the entire country in the promotion of grade marked lumber. But the interest in placing identified lumber in the hands of the builders and consumers is rapidly extending to other areas. The retail lumber dealers in the Atlantic Coast states are following the example set by the dealers of Southern California. More and more lumber is being ordered from the mills of Oregon and Washington grade marked for shipment to the Atlantic Coast. A substantiai grollp of retail distributors in Westchester County, New York, within the New York metropolitan area, have recently adopted a program of supplying their trade with grade marked lumber, very similar to that now in efiect by the members of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los'Angeles. These New York dealers are now starting to mark their lumber in stock with the grade marks of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. under the instruction of our inspectors, just as the Los Angeles yards made their start several years ag'o. Every previous period of building activity in the United States has developed "jerry,' building, substitution of grades less than specified and other chiseling methods which in many instances prevent the home builder from getting honest materials and honest workmanship. In so far as the West Coast Lumberinen's Association can help to keep the present re.r'ival in home construction clean from these evils and abuses, through making sure that at least the lumber used is honestly identified for the grade it actually is, we propose to do so. The movement undertaken by the Los Angeles dealers for pushing the use of grade marked lumber is one of the most progressive undertakings in this direction at any time and in any part of the United States. It has the heartiest backing of the manufacturers' association.

The Douglas fir forests of the Pacific northwest constitute a permanent supply of lumber for the building requirements of the regions which their woods natnrally enter. Aside from the great reserves of the National Government, there are still some 340 billion feet of standing commerc'al timber in the hands of private owners, or enough to carry last year's cut of West Coast lumber nearly seventy years. Even more important, however, than this vast storehouse of virgin timber, as an assuran,ce of future supply, is the increasing extent and volume of reforestation.

Under the provisions of the N. R. A. Lumber Code, West Coast operators put into practice effective methods o{ fire prevention, "fire-proofing" cut-over lands through the falling of snags and reforestation-which were worked out by experienced foresters lvith the cooperation of the United States Forest Service and the State Forestry Departments of Oregon and Washington. When the Lumber Code was killed by the Supreme Court, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association decided to carry right on these practical measures of forest conservation. They are no longer required by law; they have become a matter of voluntary cooperation for the welfare and permanency of the industry. The West Coast Lumbermen's Associatiorr employs t'"vo skilled forestry engineers whose entire time is devoted to inspection of logging operations and working out of the most practical ways and means of regrowing the forests which are ,cut. Probably two-thirds of the industry is continuing the same methods of fire prevention and reforestation which were adopted in the days of N. R. A. These include the leaving of seed trees or patches of timber so that cut-over areas will be thoroughly reseeded. A number of ,companies are developing "selective logging" under whi'ch only a portion of the standing timber is removed in the first cutting. The net effect is that the regrowth in the Douglas fir region probably already exceeds the rate at which old timber is being cut. Oregon and Washington will always be great lumber producing states.

T. F. ECKSTROM VISITS CALIFORNIA

T. F. Eckstrom, general manager. Pacific Mutual Door Co., Tacoma, was in Southern California on June 16 and 17, conferring with R. A. Forbes, manag'er of the Southern California sales office and warehouse at Alhambra.

Mr. Eckstrom was returning from an Eastern trip on which he visited all the company's warehouses. He found business conditions very encouraging in all the centers he visited.

.FINDS PINE MILLS BUSY

J. A. Brush, of the Brush Industrial Lumber Co., Los Angeles, industrial specialists in Ponderosa and Sugar Pine and hardwoods, returned recently from a trip through the Ponderosa and Sugar Pine mills of California and So'uthern Oregon.

Mr. Brush states that he has never seen such a scarcity as there is at present of No. I Shop and Better and No. 2 Qommon. in both Ponderosa and Sugar Pine. He found the mills exceedingly busy, and was in fact reminded by the present activity bf the years 1921 to 1923.

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YOU COULDN'T EXPECT HIM TO KNOW

The near-sighted Professor in English, called the class to order then addressed himself to the man he saw in the back of the room.

"You in the back there, what was the date of the signing of the Magna Charta?"

"f dunno."

"You don't? Then tell me, who was Bonnie Prince Charlie?"

"f dunno.t'

"'WelI, then, tell me what the Tennis Court Oath was?', "f dunno."

"Listen, young man. I assigned these questions day before yesterday. What were you doing last night?"

"f was out drinking beer with some friends."

"Out drinking beer instead of studying? Then how do you expect to pass this course?"

"f don't. f'm just the plumber, and I'm fixing to repair the radiator as soon as you get through here."

THE LETTER "E"

What an important letter is 'E'

It is always out of "cash," forever in "debt," and never out of ttdanger." At the same time it is never in ..war,r' always in t'peace," and necessary in something to "eat." It is the beginning of "existence" and the end of "life." Without it there could be no "happiness" and no "heaven."

It is the center of "honesty" and always in "love." It starts with ttencouragementt' but ends in ttfailure," begins in "errof' but ends in "fi,zzle." ft plays an important role in "hone5rmoon" as well as in "wedding,tt but, alas, ends with "divorce." ft doesn't appear at 'tirth" but is in every ttdeath" and ttfuneral.tt

It calls you to ttbreakfast" and serves you at ttdinner" and "supper," but it isn't in "lunch" although it is partial to "tea." Nor does it approve of "liquort' or the ttcocktail hour,tt even though it favors ttalett and ttbeer.t'

The motor of your car runs without it for it isn't in "ignition." nor in ttoil,t' but it appears in "gasoline" and t'exhausttt as well as in the ttuniversal,tt in ttgears,t' and in ttdifferential." ft has no use for ttlights" or ttrornst' but makes the "wheels" and "tires" run. And how would the old bus look without ttfenders.t' ttpanels." or ttseats?tt

So don't be unmindful of that little letter "E" even thoueh it doesn't take to ttgolf,tt for it helps make ttbaseball" and tttennis-t' in fact manages to make itself necessary in most of the thinss we do.

Sharing

Sharing is the great and imperative need of our time. An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens his life, especially if sharing be done not formally or conventionally, but with such heartiness as springs out of an understanding of the meaning of the religion of sharing.-Rabbi Stephen Wise.

To Save

To save something each month develops self-control. This power frees one from fear and gives abiding courage. Such moral strength is of much greater value than the mere possession of the money that has been saved.-Samuel W. Reyburn.

Bad

I had a little Sorrow

Born of a little Sin, I found a room all damp with gloom And shut us all within. And t'Little Sorrow," weep, said f, And "Little Sin," pray God to die, And I upon the foor will lie And think how bad f've been.

-Edna Vincent Millay.

Ghosts Of Happy Houses

There are no ghosts to creep about the hallway, Or stand unhappy at some turn of stair; We do not need to scour away the shadows That other tenants might be leaving there.

The busy little ghosts of happy houses, Are very quick to take themselves away, It is the lonely shadows would be staying To creep about a house at close of day. No ghosts will slip before us through a doorway, Nor wait above the attic's narrow stair; The new house creaks and stirs and is uneasy, Waiting for ghosts to fill the sterile air.

-Elspeth Clarke in New York Times.

Friendship

The colored woman who was being treated for a badly hunged up head and some missing teeth, was evidently very reluctant to tell how she came by them. But the doctor insisted on knowing.

"Well. Doctuh," she finally said, "ifn you mus'know de truf, ah got kicked in de face by a gentleman friend.t'

National Lumber Reunion at Seatde

Washington, June 25.-The lumber industry of the United States is eagerly looking forward to a national gathering in force of lumber manufacturers from all over the United States on the occasion of the mid-summer meeting of the directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, which is to be held in Seattle, Washington, July 22 and 23. The same week will witness the meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and that Association proposes to act as host to the officers and directors of the National Association as well as to all visiting lumbermen who may be prompted to accept the open invitation which ha been extended to them by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

President Walter B. Nettleton of the National Association, is a resident of Seattle and is intent upon bringing to his home city lumbermen from every section of the United States. Mr. Nettleton and his associates are eager to show and explain the wonders of their Douglas fir industry to their friends and rivals. In the Pacific Northwest lumber is the greatest manufacturing industry and lumbermen are the outstanding industrialists. The setting is therefore ideal for a business and pleasure gathering of the industry in this year of gratifying recovery, and the outcome is expected to be a closer union of the industry than has existed heretofore. A glittering program of entertainment has been provided extending over the whole week of July 20; The Seattle Lumbermen's Club and the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club will assist in a,cting as hosts to the lumber pilgrims. The program includes visits to sawmills, logging camps, door factories and other industries, the annual golf tournament of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club, an all-day cruise on Puget Sound, and visits to Mt. Rainier, which is to be called Mt. Tacoma during th{s wgek.

Aside from the open and executive sessions of the Lumber Association on lumber affairs, there will be an interesting inspirational and educational program featured by an address by C. P. Winslow, dire'ctor of the U. S. Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis., who will outline the Laboratory's program in the interests of the lumber industry, such as the pre-fabricated all-lumber house, fire-resistant treatments for wood and other methods of processing wood to complement its native qualities with acquired ones. Mr. Winslow will also suggest desirable types of cooperation between the lumber industry and the research work of the Government. As the greatest forest owner in the United States, IJncle Sam is now devoting exceptional attention to improvement and extension of wood utilization as a double-barreled way in which to perpetuate his forests and simuitaneously make them nationally beneficial-industrially, socially and conservationally. Reciprocally, the forest industries are now whole-heartedly committed in principle to sustained yield forest management, and the Seattle meeting will be marked by consideration of the future of the lumber industry as a domesti,cated, as it might be put, instead of a "wild life", industry. More and more the woods industries will grow their trees and systematically develop new products and improve old ones.