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AITC to Consolidate Wood Aims

The board of directors and committee members of the American Institute of Timber Construction, spokesman for the -nation's leading timber fabricators, is meeting July 14-18, at the Grand hotel, Mackinac Island, Michigan, to advance and consolidate programs for: l. A course outline in engineered timber construction for students of technical schools and preparation of suitable and reliable lecture material for teachers.

2. AITC quality control and inspection system.

3._ A proposed AITC television presentati,on to be shown on 200 stations throughout the country which will better acquaint the general public with the beauty, efficiency, safety and economy of heavy timber construciion

4. Further development of AITC standards.

5. Development of additional sales aids.

I\4embers of the board include AITC President L. A.

Jacobson, president, Associated Wood Products, Inc., Berkeley, Calif.; Vice-President J. P. Weyerhaeuser, president, Rilco Laminated Products, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.; Executive Vice-President and Secretary Frank J. Hanrahan, Washington, D.C.; Treasurer Val Gardner, sales manager, Rosboro Lumber Co., Springfield, Ore. Other members include Ward Mayer, founder and chairman of the board, Timber Structures, Inc., Portland, Ore., and A. W. Talbot, presiclent, American Fabricators, Bellingham, Wash.

Pqrrish Directs D-G Lumber Sqles

J. O. Parrish, formerly lumber production manager of the Diamond Gardner Corporation, Red Bluff, California, has been named director of lumber and new product sales for the California Lumber Manufacturing division, according to Leo V. Bodine, vice-president of the Diamond Gardner Corporation.

The Plqn Book

A plan book on your office shelf Will add no kopeks to your pelf, Nor will it much increase your biz If you just let it stay as is

And not as does.

But take it down and show your trade

Exactly how good homes are made; How rooms are planned and windows set, How doors are hung, and we will bet That biz will buzz, For, look you, people like to think About the best place for the sink, And whether doors should open here Or there; and whether paint is dear Or stain is cheap.

They like to know where stairs go up, And where the kid can keep his pup; Where Ma can seat her company, Where Pa can find a balcony

On which to sleep. They like to put a parlor front, And closets, so one need not hunt For shoes, and sheets, and other things. An icebox for the man who brings The milk is good.

So, let your plan book tell a tale That will go far to make a sale. Show plan and layout, time and cost, And prove that beauty's gained, not lost By use of wood.

Thus will you help those folks increase Their comfort, happiness and peace. They will forget the coin they spent And freely gave, through monthly rent

The landlord man.

And they will bless the day that you Woke up and showed what you can do In helping them a home to build, With comfort and with beauty filledAll through a plan.

The Coftqge Gloss Writer

By Thomas Dreier

Long ago, in thinking about my own work in the world, I decided that there was a place for a man capable of writing cottage thoughts, just as there is a place for a man to write cathedral thoughts. I belong to the cottage class. After all, there is as much service rendered by one who builds beautiful cottages for millions to live in, as by one who builds a cathedral in which the few may worship.

If I had my way, I would make every cottage a miniature cathedral; each dining table would be an altar, and each meal would be a sacrament.

Religion and daily living cannot be separated. Religion must not be something apart from men's lives. It must be an integral part of their daily thoughts and actions.

Let us learn to sanctify the simple happenings of the day, and by so doing create for ourselves a state of heaven wherein we find ourselves.

Mixed Up

"Washington must have had the greatest memory of any man in history," said Jones.

"How come?" asked Smith.

"\Mell," said Jones, "they erected a monument to it, didn't they?"

The more a man r, "J"t"u.lllt;:*"r" it is necessary for the welfare of the State to instruct him how to make a proper use of his talents. Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous usages if it is not properly handled.-Wu Ting Fang.

Both

"Do you do your own work, or do you keep a maid?"

"Yes, f do."

"Yes you do what?"

"Do my own work and keep a maid."

Tb Do

It isn't the job we intended to do, Or the labor we've just begun

That puts us right on the ledger sheet; ft's the work we've really done.

Our credit is built upon things we do; Our debt on things we shirk.

The man who totals the biggest plus Is the man who completes his work. Good intentions do not pay bills, It's easy enough to plan.

To wish is the job of an office boy; To DO is the work of a man.

Absent - lUtinded

And ttren there was the absent-minded motorist who changed his oil every day, and his shirt every thousand miles.

Domestic, lmpoiled crnd FOR YOUR,