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. .. BUT there will be a big difrerence inthe f,oorc they mqke

The flooring on fhe leff hos been carefully kiln drid, accurolely mochined, ond properly groded. It will moke o beauliful, longJosting hordvood floor thot will complelely sotisfy the horne owner. Ihe flooring on the ri hf wos poorly seosoned, indifterently groded, ond hos serious monufocluring defecfs. Difficulty ond odded expense will be experienced in loying lhis flooring, ond there will undoubldly be comploinls on fhe completed floor.

Hardwood flooring hcs to be bought on conlidGrG€o lhere's no bigger gomble thon the purchase of unbranded flooring through "Ay-by-nlghf" sources of supply !

I Hardwood fooring, more than almost any other building material, must be purchased on the reputation'of the manufacturer and the integrity.of the dealer who sells it. Flooring is received in wire-bound bundles, making it impractical to examine individual pieces, as you can do when unloading lumber. Furthermore, even closest scrutiny of every strip will not disclose shortcomings in seasoning or certain de- fects in manufacture. These will become apparent only as the fooring is being laid, or after the foor has been in use.

When you buy fooring through unknown sources, you have no recourse. You don't know what you're getting until it's too late! Protect the home buyer, and yourself, by purchasing accepted brands of flooring and buying through recognized, reliable dealers.

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(Continued from Page 8) that I don't understand money, and know few if any who DO) when I heard two very interesting speeches on the subject. I sort of gasped at what I heard, and all those around me seemed to be in the same fix. One speech was made by a distinguished banker to a bankers convention. His subject was "our irrefleemable currency." "The advocates of the 'easy money' policy and the unlimited issue of 'dishonored currency' are now in power," said the speaker, and from that springs of disastrous inflation.

The second speaker talked on the same subject, but made it even plainer by the use of a very striking illustration. He read from the face of a bank note these words': "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private, and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury, or at any Federal Reserve Bank." Then he read the correspondence that was recently exchanged between a citizen and the Secretary of the Treasury, naming names and dates on the letters. A man lrrrote to the Secretary of the Treasury and enclosed a Federal Reserve note for ten dollars. He called attention to the words quoted above about "lawful 'money," and he asked that the Treasury send him ten dollars in lawful money in exchange for the note'

The Secretary of the Treasury, or his deputy, which is the same thing, replied by sending the man two five dollar United States bank notes. Immediately the man, eager to bring the matter to some sort of understanding of "lawful money," returned one of the five dollar notes and asked the Treasury to send him five dollars worth of "lawful money" in exchange therefor. The Treasury returned him the same note, with the terse statement that they have no legal interpretation of what "lawful money" means. And this closed that very interesting correspondence. Don't YOU think it's interesting?***

So that is what the banker, the other speaker I have referred to, meant when he spoke of "dishonored" and "irredeemable" money. I had no idea previous to that time that such was our money situation. When you ask for "lawful money" in exchange for a bank note, you just get other bank notes in return. Of course all the credit of the

United States Government is behind those bank notes; but that is true and has always been of all printed currency, only it used to be backed up by and interchangeable for coin of the realm. So now I am more confused than ever, if possible, on the subject of money. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who started this strange money ball rolling by taking us off the gold standard, probably knew as little about money as any living man; which did not keep him from tampering with it. So there we are. Or rather, where are we? Pull a bank note out of your pocket, read that statement about "lawful money," and then scratch your head a while. The banker speaker said that that was why money buys so little today, and predicted that it would buy still less before it buys more.

All of which reminds me of the very best story going illustrating our economic situation. A small sawmill was shut down for want of a combination fireman and engineer. Finally the mill owner hired a man who recommended himself highly in that capacity, and told him to go down to the mill and start the fire and get up steam while he, the owner, rustled up a crew of men. A couple of hours later the mill man walked into the mill and the boiler room was hot. while the big new man was shoveling in the fuel at a great rate. He glanced at the steam gauge (which is like the face of a clock with a hand-pointing to the steam pressure) and saw it pointed at 90. He shouted at the new man-"You've got it too hot-it's 9FI never saw it more than 70 before." And the fireman said: "NINETY HELL! THAT'S THE THIRD TIME AROUND !" And, after listening to those two men talk 3bout our money situation I decided maybe the fireman was right, and it IS the third time around right now.

Too Checp

"Too cheap 16 fg trtls-" Warming Lumber Co., Duarte, California.

Grade A

"A .dollar a dozen and all grade A."

Frank W. Fortna, McCollum-Fortna Lumber Co., Grants Pass, Ore.