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over a puddle for a queen to walk on, but just every-day neighborly courtesy-the courtesy that is made up of kindly little acts that bring happiness to others, and makes you happy,too." * * r.

John Muir, the famous naturalist said: "Wilderness is a necessity. Mountain peaks and reservations are useful, not only as fountains for timber and irrigating fivers, but as fountains for life." * :F rF

Plutarch tells a most remarkable story about a famous man's infatuation for a tree. He says that the great King Xerxes halted his army of seventeen-hundred-thousand men, to admire a Plane tree. He was so impressed by the loveliness of the tree that Plutarch says he "doted on it." More than that, he took off his richest garments and put them on the tree, and in addition he took from his greatest generals and from his concubines their jewels and bracelets, their rich clothes and their gold, and with them bedecked this tree. He seemed to lose all interest in the battle he was then preparing for, in fact, he lost the battle because of the delay the tree caused him.

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Charlotte Cushman wrote of the "eternal drama": "To me it sdems as if when God conceived the world, that was poetry; He formed it, and that was sculpture; He varied and colored it, and that was painting I and then, crowning all, He peopled it with living things, and that was the grand, divine, eternal drama."

The word "sabotage" is from the French. The French word for shoe is "sabot." In 1912 there was a great railway strike in France, and the strikers cut the shoes holding the railroad lines. So they called cutting the railway shoes "sabotage." Or so the story goes. {<**

Some modern philosopher has said: "Do not make poverty too interesting, too appealing, too rewarding, too honorable. Do not put a premium on continuance in being poor." In other words, we somehow today are giving a lot of reward to those who do not seem to be anxious to take care of themselves. :N. * *

Speaking of our Constitutional rights, Thomas Jefferson uttered these wise words: "It would be dangerous delusion (Continued on Page 38)

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South Boy Lumber GomPqnY lo Move lnto New Plclnt In October

According to Harold M. Frodsham, -president of South Bav Lumber Company, Hawthorne, California, the new whblesale distributins-yard of the redwood concern, just I/z miles from the -pr-esent location in Hawthorne, will bi:1eady for occupancy next month. Work of preparing the 16-acre-facility, ahd the erection of steel buildings- f9r the mill and lumLer storag'e, is progressing on schedule and the general office building will be completed early in October.

Dave Lashley, well-known Southern California lumber executive, has been appointed general sales manager and will expand the sales staff along with th_e op.erations department, to meet the heavy demand for South Bay products. Lashley has been identified in wholesale lumber sales