Attend NRLDA Annual Meeting Nov. 8-11 in San Francisco

See Alcatraz !

See the Golden Gate !

Attend the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association Annual Meeting November 8-11, Hotel Fairmont, in San Francisco.

Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf, Telegraph Hill-Here we come !

You'll be able to see the Sequoias, the Redwood forest; the Cyclotron where the Atom Bomb began, and some of the results of its use at the Bikini bomb test.

There are hundreds of other things for your wife and family to see in San Francisco-while you attend the meetings of your Natiirnal Association, its directors, its committees; its cocktail party; suppers, luncheons, and other get-togethers of a less informal nature.

Your National Association's meeting in San Francisco will emphasize stimulating ideas that will bring better business to you.

How the distribution industry is playing a major part in the development of comfort, convenience and plenty for all Americans will be emphasized and documented in this meeting.

Your National Association is developing information on the role of the distributor in modern life and in maintenance of modern home life. This pattern of information will point out:

1. How the distribution industry serves to make possible increased production and the orderly flow of materials u'hich makes possible lower costs;

2. How the distribution industry makes it possible for the peopie of this country to enjoy a multitude of products not usually enjoyed by people of other countries;

3. How the distribution industry makes it possible for people to have the things they want when they want thern rather than to accept whatever happens to be available or handy;

4. How the distribution industry in construction actually solves a major organizational problem by making locally available at all times the thousands of unrelated parts that make up structures ranging from kennels and houses to grocery stores and school buildings;

5. How the specialized knowledge of the distributor in the building industry is essential to the preservation of materials and how the delivery of these materials on a time schedule eliminates loss through damage, or weather or waste.

Legislative problems affecting your industry are not .li- minishing-they are increasing and because the social planners have been successful in recent months these problems are even more dangerous.

What are you going to do to combat political housing (public housing) in your community? Are you going to make the public housers in your town prove the need for political housing-or are you going to hasten the end of private enterprise (your business) by joining the clamor for government-owned projects in your town?

What effect will new Wage-Hour proposals have on your business; increases in rates of pay in manufacturing will affect your customers: what effect will proposed labor legislation have on your future; how has the new public housing bill which has just become law paved the way for a multitude of new proposals affecting housing and construction and particularly distribution-are among the major subjects to be discussed at this meeting.

What has the Department of Agriculture's present graiu storage program to do with your businiss ? Can you cap! talize on this ?

How are dealer-manufacturer relations being maintained so that the best materials and the best servi,ce can be provided your customers?

You have public relations-but are they good or bad ? Public relations programs are being developed to help you rvith your local problems-to put you in the forefront of community life in your town.

These are only samples of the important matters afiecting your business that will be discussed by your Board of Directors at the National meeting in San Francisco, November 8-11.

Tentative schedule of meetings is as follows:

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, November 6,7 and &committee meetings; Tuesday, November &-Secretaries of Federated Associations; Wednesday, November 9-full day meeting of board and dealers-ladies luncheon; Thursday, November lG--board of directors meeting to 1 o'clock -buffet supper and dancing; November ll-board of directors meeting.

Plan to attend your National meeting. Make your reservation now so that you can be sure of accommodations at your industry meeting.

Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 8) us to stick away in a sock. Part of them should be used for keeping this business good. The best things of life don't just happen. You have to help make them happen. ***

Let every man, and every firm, and every association dc its duty ! There's a giant job to be done-today. Let's "arise" and build.