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and Chopin and Mendelssohn and Wagner, all were small men, less than average stature. James Whistler, the painter whose mother's picture has been made immortal, was a small fellow. The almost legendary artist, Michelangelo, was short. The greatest debates in American history took place between two men, Abraham Lincoln-6 feet 4 inches in his stocking feet, and Stephen A. Douglas, a five-footer.

Writers? Milton was a very small man, so was Balzac, and Goldsmith, and Descartes, and Dryden, and Epictetus, and Heine, and Horace, and Ibsen, and Keats, and Charles Lamb, and the mighty Macaulay, and the Irish poet, Thomas Moore; and Pope, and Renan, and Thoreau, and Swinburne' :{< * {<

And scientists? Archimedes was small. Likewise Kepler. And Herbert Spencer, and Steinmetz. Oliver Wendell Holmes was just 5 feet 5. James Madison was the shortest American president. Martin Van Bure,n and John Quincy Adams were both little men. So was Alexander Hamilton. So was Andrew Carnegie. With these samples you will understand that there was nothing short about a lot of the short men of the world when it came to doing and thinking.

Now, lest someone anr; t *:ld be so mad as to ctaim all these quoted facts as my own, let me say that I got them out of a book written many years ago by Paul O'Neil, whose identity I do not know, but who must have spent a long time in the research on which the book, called "Why Be Short?" was built. ***

I wish someone would write a book of the same sort about the tall people of history. I'd like to read it and see how the list of long men compare for greatness with the shorties I have mentioned. I recall right now that Washingto,n, and Jefferson, and Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee were all tall men. I'd like someone to take it up from there. Bet it would be interesting.

SoGol Deolers to NRLDA Show

As early as July, these dealer members of the Southern California Retail Lumber Assn. (and their wives) had already registered to attend the big Third Annual Exposition of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Assn. in Chicago, December 10-13: Charles M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles; E. V. Davies, Thompson Lumber Co., San Bernardino; Thomas J. Fox, John W. Fisher Lumber Co., Santa Monica, and Frode B. Kilstofte, Rossman Mill & Lumber Co., Wilmington.

I O4,OOO June Housing Storts

New nonfarm dwelling units started in June totaled 104,000. This is 30,500 units less than last June. An upward revision of 260O units brings the total starts for the first six months of 1956 to 569,000 units, which is 125,500 less than the like period of 1955 and, on a seasonally adjusted basis, is at the rate of 1,070,000 units annually.