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Conference of Architects from Latvia and the Balkans, Southern California Building Center (7933 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles), July 4: Host: Stan Borbals.

Pacific Coast Builders Conference first annual meeting, San Francisco, July 6-9, sponsored by San Diego Building Contractors Assn. (Stanley C. Scott, president, Home Builders Council of California) and other groups. John Jacobson, Sacramento, program chairman; Richard E. Doyle, San Francisco, ladies' program.

Preview Showing of New Materials and Displays, Southern California Building Center (7933 W.3rd St., Los Angeles), Noon to 7:00 p.m., July 6.

Ptilippite Mahogany Association annual meeting, Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai, Calif., Iuly 12-16.

Southern California Chapter, American fnstitute of Architects, Dinner meeting, Southern California Building Center (7933 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles), July 14.

Black Bart Hoo-Hoo Club 181 atrnual Golf-Swim-Barbecue party. Ukiah Country Club and Home of Bill Moores, Ukiah, j"li ii; Chairman: Ed Gillespie.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club 2 Election Night and Western Fun Nite Stag Party, Lakervood Country Club, July 17. Golf, 10:39 a.m.; Cocktails, 5:09 p.m.; Dinner, 7:09 p.m. Reservations imperative, and Golf awards only presented following dinner.

August

Reception honoring E. C. N. Brett on his retirement as Chief Architect,'County of Los Angeles, Southern California Buildine Center (7933 W. 3rd St., Los Angeles), August 7.

BY JACK DIONNE

It is related that Abraham Lincoln once went to listen to an address by that great orator, Col. R. G. Ingersoll, and, returning home, said to his wife: "What a marvelous instrument is human speech, played by a master."

Some authority once said that Lincoln revolutionized the American manner of speaking and writing; that he did for our American type of English what Dante did for the ftalian. He did more to create a simple style of expression, using few and easy words in a way to give them unheardof power, than any other man.

One of Lincoln's greatest and most-quoted remarks during the Civil War was: "I have been driven many times to my knees, by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."

our children today ,"":" "; ,oJ rr.,r" of the great Americans who have put life and color into our history by the grandeur of their speech. Most of them have heard or read of the eloquent Patrick Henry and his immortal yye1d5"Give me liberty, or give me death-" and his equally famqlr5-"ff this be treason, make the most of it." But it should be remembered that Patrick Henry had no antagonist worthy of his steel, so far did he outclass his field.

But history tells of a series of debates that took place in the U.S. Senate that challenge comparison. The great Daniel Webster and the powerful and dramatic Henry Clay were on one side, and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina, often called "the master logician of his age," opposing them single-handed. An English journalist, over here to report those debates, wrote back to his paper: "Flistory has no parallel. There has been nothing like it since the debates of