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Whot ls A Murderer?

A famous criminal lawyer was ll'alking down the street when a fugitive pursued by the police fled past him.

"Stop him I Stop him !" yelled the police.

The criminal lawyer paid no attention. One of the police halted.

"Are you deaf ?" he asked. "Why didn't you stop the murderer ?"

"And what is a murderer?" cross-examined the lawyer.

"\Athat a question ! A murderer is a man who kills."

"Ah, I understand. A butcher."

"You old fooM mean a man who kills another man."

"Of course," agreed the lawyer. "You mean a soldier."

"You idiot. A man who kills men in time of peace."

"Now I understand. An executioner."

"You fool ! A man who kills another man in his home."

"Now I get you. A doctor."

At this moment another murder was committed.

A Betier Society

We lvill not defeat communism by denouncing it. \\'e rvill defeat communism ,only by surmounting it with a similar devotion to our orn'n social ideals of economic justice and public service. The commut.rists in Russia are more sacrificially in earnest about what they want than r'l'e are here about rvhat we ought to want. Troubled times are ahead unless this nation can shake itself free from its stupid self-complacency and selfish materialism to lay hold upon its chance of building here a better society.

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

Boost, You Sucker, Boosl

Don't sit supinely on your roost

But come along and helP us boost For better things of everY kind, And leave your kicking clothes behincl. Oh, let us boost for better streets And softer beds, and longer sheets, For smoother lawns and better lights And shorter rvinded blatherskites. For finer homes and larger trees, For bats and boosts and bumble bees, For shorter hours and longer PaY, For fewer thistles in our haY, For better grub and bigger Pies, For tu'o more moons to light the skies. And let the lvolves of war be loosecl Orr every guy who doesn't boost. Itzell

M'her.r your wife finds a letter in your pocket you forgot to mail. But nran ! That ain't nothing to what happens when she finds one you forgot to burn.

Pockoged Power

Cartridge-ac,tuated devices, which utilize the energy of a fired cartr.idge, are used to drive studs into steel or through other surfaces; shape and punch holes in metals; start jet engines; eject seats from airplanes; separate stages of launched missiles. (In 'the historic orbital flight around ,the earth made by Lt. Comdr. M. Scott Carpenter, Jr., Winchester-Western explosive bolts were used: to free the e.scape tower at the nose of the capsule; to separate the rocket from the capsule at point of orbi't; to jettison the retrograde rocket after re-entry.)

l{owever, the principal commercial 'application of "packaged power" is'the powder-actuated fastening tool used extensively in the construction industry. A 32-page technical bulletin gives engineers detailed illustrations of the bas.ic ballis'tic behavior of cartridgeactuated systems. In limited supply, copies of "Packaged Power" are available from Ramset. 289 W,inchester Avenue, New Haven 4, Connecticu't.

Frederick Kronz To Retrrn To Civiliqn life

Frederick H. Kranz, former General Manager of Golden State Lumber Company, Santa Monica, California, now on active duty rvith the 146th Air Transport Wing is Management Analyst will be released with the Wing on August 31, 1962 and will return t6 civilian life.

While on active duty Major Kranz has been Chief of the Management Analysis Division at the Wing-Headquarters. This job is similar to management consultant in a civilian organization and requires a thorough understanding of organizationql plan- nlng, management reporttng, hnance, maintenance, operations, data processing and management engineering. He has been personally responsible for sophisticated management analysis projec_ts as well as the direct supervision data processing, reports management, graphics presentations and operations analysis including management advice to senior commanders.

When asked by the California Lumber Merchant, Major Kranz stated that he had no firm plans after August 31, 1962 but hoped to return to the lumber industry.

"Profit From Progress"

Profit from progress is the theme of National Building Material Distribu- tors Association's 1lth Annual Fall Convention, to be held November 1377,I%2 at the Palmer House in Chicago, Illinois.

More than 600 Wholesale Building Material Distributors, guests and manufacturers are expected to attend the four-day meetings, says Association President D. B. Richardson, president, Richardson Lumber Co., Denver Colo.

As is customary at NBMDA fall conventions, conference boo,ths will again be available to manufacturers for discussion with individual distributors attending the meeting.

More information is available from NBMDA Headquarters, 22 West Monroe St., Chicago, Illinois.