MY FAVORITE

By Jack Dionne

not guaranteed---Some I have told

STORIES (or 20 years---Some less

lf He Hadn't He Couldn't Understand

An old friend, Dr. J. P. Gibbs, of Huntsville, Texas, himself an accomplished story-teller, sends me the following nigger story to be added to the collection:

The big, stout colored woman was brought before the judge charged with unmercifully beating her eight-yearold son. The Judge discovered that she was guilty of having severely beaten the child, but that otherwise she was a good, hard-working widow, so he proceeded to de-

C. l. Gllbe* Elected President

East B.y Hoo Hoo Club

C. I. Gilbert, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., popular Oakland lumberman, was elected president of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club for the coming year. G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, was ele,cted vicepresident, and Carl R. Moore, Moore Mill & Lumber Co., was re-elected se,cretary-treasurer at the meeting of the club held Monday evening, August 14, at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland.

Dire'ctors are M. R. Grant, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; Frank W. Trower, Trower Lumber Co.. San Francisco; C. I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, and Joseph Z.Todd, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland.

Active past presidents associated rvith the board of directors are as follows: Charles S. Lamb, Lamb Lumber Co., Oakland; Clement Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton Inc., Oakland; B. E. Bryan, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland; Ray B. Cox, Built-in Fixture Co., Berkeley; L. J. Woodson, Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, and Earle E. Johnson, Independent Lumber Co., Livermore.

Henry M. Hink was appointed chairman of the educational committee, whose principal work at the moment is the promotion of the University of California Extension course for lumbermen. He will be assisted by M. R. Grant and G. F. Bonnington. Chairmen of regular standing committees and the Sergeant-at-Arms rvill be appointed at the next meeting.

Major A. W. Brewer, an executive of the Salvation Army, gave an entertaining talk on the beginnings of music and its development into its modern aspects, from the birth of pure rhythm to the introdu,ction of harmony and melody. He interpolated several amusing analysis of late popular airs showing their derivation from older tunes.

liver to her a lecture on the responsibilities of a parent. He was waxing warm in his discussion of his own ideas of how a parent should control a child without using the rod to excess, when she broke in on him:

'Judge," she said, ttCan I ax you jes' one question?"

"Certainly," said the judge, "what is it?"

"De question f wants to ax you, Judge, is dis, is you evah bin de parent of a puffickly wuthless niggah boy?"

F. "Tommy" Tomlinson, Donovan Lumber Co., again displayed his skill in rendering jazz piano numbers, and the boys showed their appreciation.

Professor Emanuel Fritz, associate professor of forestry at the University of California, was present and aided the club in laun'ching its campaign to make the Extension course popular.

Several executives of Hammond Lumber Co., and Chas, R. McCormick Lumber Co. attended the meeting.

Old and new boards of directors will meet August 28.

Farle E. Johnson, retiring president, occupied the chair.

Mayor Shaw to be Guest o[ Lumbermenrs Post

At a meeting of Lumbermen's Post, No. 4O3, American Legion, held on August 8, 1933, at the Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, Carl Schrieber, N. W. Mutual Fire Insurance Association, Charles E. Atwood, North American Paint & Chemical Co., and H. W. Brown, The Celotex Company, were admitted to membership. The meeting was addressed by Past Department Commander Dan E. Hogan, and Mr. Bernard of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.

The next meeting of the Post will be held at the Mayfair Hotel on September 12. Mayor Shaw of Los Angeles will be a guest of the Post on that evening and will address the meeting.

Heffron-Hendriclcs

Miss Mae Hendricks became the bride of Joe Hefiron on Sunday, August 20. The couple flew by United Air Lines plane from San Francisco to Reno, where the ceremony rvas perfor.med. Miss Hendri,cks has for the past 12 years been seceretary to Larue J. Woodson of Nicolai Door Sales Company, San Francisco.