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Lu Lu

The keeper was showing the distinguished visitor through the wards of the insane asylum. They carne upon an inmate, a man, who sat on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands, tears streaming down his cheeks, and crying aloud:

"Oh, Lu Lu, Lu Lu!"

The keeper explained:

"FIe was engaged to a girl named Lu Lu, but she jilted him and married another man, and this poor fellow has been moutrning for her ever since, until he lost his rnind and became the poor wreck that you see there."

The visitor shook his head in sadness, and they went on. As they approached the violent ward he heard a great commotion inside one of tbe padded cells, and the keeper showed him a peek hole where he ccluld look in. There was a wild-eyed maniac inside the cell, who was punching the thick walls of the cell with both fists, and every time he struck a blow he shouted:

"Lu Lu! Lu Lu!"

The startled visitor asked:

"Who is that fearful man?"

And the keeper replied:

"That's the guy that married Lu Lu."

Sonnet For Redhecrds

E. L. Mayo, in Poetry

Red hair is dangerous; it goes deep in, Feeds at the central fire, and so must burn; As men who work at ovens and furnaces turn Pale, not red, your redhead has white skin; And though the heat of the sun is crueler To them than others, burns them, freckles them, It cannot change their'white to swart or dim The holocaust reflected in their hair.

Nero and Socrates and Lancelot

Will witness this, and Antony's sharp Queen, England's Eighth Flenry, great Elizabeth, Blake, Verlaine, Villon and-take one more breathShaw, Beatrice, Cesar Borgia, Magdalene, Christ, William Shakespeare and Iscariot.

He Could Add, Too

"What happened in 1483?" asked the history teacher.

"Luther was born," replied the student.

"And what happened in L487?"

"Luther was four years old." -----------------

Exercise

The human body is made up of four hundred muscles, evolved through centuries of physical activity. Unless they are used, they will deteriorate. The. business executive should look for ways of using his muscles, naturally, each day. Instead of always using his desk bells, he should occasionally do an office errand himself. He might, with profit, walk one way or part way to his office instead of riding; he should cultivate muscle hunger.

This Story Is Fighting Tclk In Errgland

The traveling circus going overland from city to city in Scotland, Iost a huge ape through disease. The carcass of the great, brown-haired beast was thrown alongside the road in a wooded district, and left there. Along came two country Scots, McTavish and McPherson, saw the dead beast, and stopped to examine it curiously. Said McTavish:

"He's nae a MacPhairson, fer the MacPhairsons hae red hair."

McPherson said: "An' he's nae a MacTavish, fer the MacTavishes are black as nicht."

There was silence. Then one of them said:

"I'll tell ye. Let's gae up ate the big hoose on th' hill an' ask the rich MacGregor if his English butler is missin,."

Dickens Said:

O, let us love our occupations, Bless the squire and his relations, Live upon our daily rations, And always know our proper stations.

Executive Ability

When you know rnen and how to handle them, you've licked the problem of how to run a business. The executive's job is to provide leadership, the kind that develops the best efforts of the men under him.

Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood

Washington, D. C., July l3-Wholesale lumber yards may apply to the Office of Price Administration for permission to continue the operation of retail departments, if those departments were being operated separately before June 23, 1943, OPA said today. This is the date when the regulation covering distribution-yard sales first established separate selling prices for wholesale and retail distribution yards.

The action, effective July 18, 1945, instructs wholesale yards to file applications with the Building Materials Branch, OPA, Washington, D. C. Until agency approval has been granted in writing, the retail department of a wholesale yard may not sell lumber at the higher maximum prices established for retail distribution yards.

Another change in the regulation affects hardwood flooring manufacturers who during the years 1941 and 1942 operated distribution yards through which they sold flooring made by their own and other mills. Manufacturers who can show that they were operating in this way before 1942 may apply to the Building Materials Branch for authority to resume this practice. Until OPA has approved an application in writing, a manufacturer may not sell hardwood flooring produced in his own mill at distribution yard mark-ups. This change will relieye some cases of hardship among manufacturers in consuming areas who had normally been able to get a retail price for their product when sold through their distribution yards.

In approving applications either by wholesale yards or by'hardwood flooring manufacturers, OPA will make sure that mark-ups are restricted to sellers who per{orm the services required by the regulation. The two new provisions are not expected to have any significant effect on prices.

Today's action also permits distribution yards to charge premium prices for sorne special types of lumber produced by the yards in the course of their regular operations. Formerly, they could charge the premium prices for these types of lumber only when purchased from the mills.

The premium price is limited, however, to sales to customers needing lumber with these special qualities. For example, a yard may sell ladder stock at the premium price only to a ladder manufacturer or ladder repair shop. Customers who may pay the premium prices are designated by OPA either in the regulations or by special authorization.

The action also names California as one of the areas where trucking charges from the railhead to a yard 1O miles or more awav. may be added to maximum prices. Finally, two minor technical changes are made so that the regulation will conform with the revised regulation on Western pine and associated species of lumber.

(Amendment 10 to Second Revised Maximum Price Regulation 21S-Distribution Yard Sales of Softwood-effective July 18, 1945.)