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approximately three and one-half feet below the car roof. The sharp turning radius of the "40" makes it possible to maneuver the truck inside the boxcar even though the car is nearly loaded.

The two units at the edge of the door are not double decked. The car is linished off by placing tn'o units side by side ,on the floor. To do this, spacers are placed the full width of the car and the first unit is set on the spacers, as far back as possible, which is roughly eight inches from the side of the car. The second unit is aligned with the first, the forward edge just touching the spacers. The "150" moves forward-the first unit is pushed to the far side of the car and the second is set on the near side. This completes the car except for the blocking necessary to hold the load in place during transit.

The loading of a single-door car is accomplished in a similar manner except that some differences in technique are necessary due to the narrow door. Loads that are six to eight feet in width obviously cannot be loaded through a door that is six feet wide. Therefore, the units r-nust be placed in the car door with the length of the unit across the width of the car.

After removal from the stacks, the units are placed on Straddle Truck bolsters. Then the "150" picks up one or two units lengthwise and places the load in the door of the car.

When there are two units in the load, the "40" in the car raises the top load, and the "150" backs away to remove the lower one clear of the car. The "40" sets the unit and backs into the opposite end of the car. The "150" then sets the other unit on the floor and backs away. The "40" raises the unit off the bolsters and the "150" moves in and takes the empty bolster, thus clearing the floor.

Single-door cars require hand stacking of one unit on each side of the door, and the final unit is set lengthwise with the lift truck.

With the lift truck team, boxcars can be loaded and blocked, complete, in less than an hour.

Three SCR.LA Meetings

The Southern California Retail Lumber Association held three meetings last month. The first was a dinner meeting June 7 at Kover's Bull Pen in Sherman Oaks for the lumber dealers in that area. A directors' meeting was held in the association offices June 8, ancl a luncheon meeting the same day at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. H. V. Simpson and Howard L. Brown addressed the latter meeting on proposed new lumber grades, which was reported in the June 15 issue of THE CALIFORNIA LU]VIRER MERCHANT.

Boxer Joins Acme

Ned Boxer has joined Acme Appliance Manufacturing Co., Pasadena, California, as sales manag'er. He has been associated with the wholesale hardware field for many years u'orking out of the Bay area. IIe handled the Acme line of sliding door hardware, covering Northern California and Nevada.

In his new appointment, which took effect June 1, Mr. Boxer will have full responsibility of all Acme sales.

Rudyord Kipling

Rudyard Kipling $tas a monarch in the realm of literature. No divine right made him king. But he was more than any king has ever been; he was genius unquestionable; a flaming mentality that wrote its mark so high and so definite on the scroll of time, that it will never be erased. God touched him with that brush of genius. Kipling became immortal long before his death. God not only gave him immortality, but bequeathed to him the right to delegate immortality. Will the characters he built, the songs he sang, the stirring philosophies he penned, the mighty patriotism he painted ever die, think you?

As long as Britain lives-yes and perhaps long afterward -as long as the English tongue is spoken, the words, the characters, the songs, the philosophies of Kipling will remain deeply imprinted in the minds and upon the literature of mankind. A thousand years hence, when the passing of Kipling's own soul has long been forgotten, men will sit with lumps in their throats as they listen to that mighty song of the passing of the soul of Danny Deever, who was hangin' in the mornin'.

Will Mulvaney ever die? He who had been a corporal, but was "rejuced"? Will the Colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady, and their proclaimed under-skin sisterhood, ever cease to be? Will the time ever come, think you, when the devotion of that Lazarooshian leather Gunga Din will cease to be solace to the souls of men? Will Britain ever cease to spring to attention at "Oh, God of Hosts be with us yet, lest we forget, lest we forget?" Will the Eton school boy's rallying cry, "Play up, play up, and play the game," ever be forgotten? Will the Road to Mandalai ever be less a thoroughfare of romance and of sentiment than it is today?

We ought to have a "Read Kipling" season every year the world over. We should read again, and learn again, and live again in the companionship of his immortal characters and words. One of the sweetest things he ever wrote was the introduction to "The Seven Seas," in which he apologizes for stealing stories. "When 'Omer tuned his bloornin' lyre," he said, "'e'd 'eard men sing by land and sea, and what 'e thought 'e might require, 'e went an' took, the same as me. They knowed 'e stole. 'e lmew they knowed. They didn't cry or make a fuss. Just winked at'Ome'r up the road. An' 'e winked back, the same as us."

Kings will come and kings will go. The divine right to rule will continue to be one of the Old World's choice superstitions. But there will be no more Rudyard Kiplings to brighten and enthuse and entertain and inspire faltering men. Let us be grateful, therefore, that his thoughts and his words and the men and women who flame across his pages, are left behind as OUR heritage, immortalized by his genius, utterly indestructible.

Chouncey Depew ond Religion

A long time ago in New York City, a famous historian and philosopher had spoken to a vast audience along progressive lines of thought, when Chauncey Depew, business man of note, was called on. He made a little talk that is worth repeating-repeatedly. He said:

"I am a practical business man, overwhelmed with the cares of business. It is exceedingly difificult for me to get on a plane of philosophical thought. I am a practical man. I believe in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. ft was the atheism of France that brought on the French Revolution, because it taught license for liberty. Where are those old philosophers now? They are dead, while Christianity survives. The school of atheism led to despair.

"They tell us that there is no Creator, only a cosmic dust. Who made the dust? There is only protoplasm, indeed- Who made the protoplasm? They tell us of evolution from monkey to man, but all the scientists have never found the missing link. The simple gospel of the Son of a Carpenter, preached by twelve fishermen, has survived the centuries and outlives all other philosophies. There is no liberty that lasts in this world, and there is no government that has liberty in it, that does not recognize the Bible."

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When earth, as if on evil dreams, Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams

From the red disc of Mars; His fame, who led the glory van Of battle, well may cease, But never that which crowns the man, Whose victory was peace.

-Whittier.

Where Indeed?

Joe always had a tough time trying to get up in time to go to work in the morning, so he finally went to a doctor and asked for help. The doctor gave him some pills that he said would be a cure for his extreme drowsiness. He took one that night, slept fine, and was up and wide awake vrhen the alarm went off.

He dressed and ate breakfast leisurely and strolled into the office ten minutes ahead of time. He said to the boss:

"I didn't have a bit of trouble getting up this morning, and I'm here ahead of time."

"That's fine," said the boss, "but where were you yesterday?"