RODUCIS WEEK 2l

Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce

Furniture Manufacturers Association of Southern California

Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association

Southern California Association of Cabinet Manufacturers

Southern California Door lnstitute

Southern California Lumber Seasoning Association

Southern California Plywood Association

Southern California Retail Lumber Association

Western Wood Preserving 0perators Association

Wholesale Lumbermen's Association of Southern California

Woodwork Institute of California

American lnstitute of Timber Construction

California Redwood Association

Douglas Fir Plywood Association lmported Hardwood Plywood Association, lnc. lnternational Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo

National Lumber Manufacturers Association

National Wood Council

Philippine Mahogany Association, Inc.

West Coast Lumbermens Association

Western Pine Association

Western Red Cedar Association

National Plywood Distributors Association

Hardwood Flooring Council of Southern California

National Oak Flooring Mfrs. Association

"It is well to remember that if we but stumble, there is no lend-lease or Marshall plan for*us."-James I'. Byrnes.

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants, and ethical infants."General Omar Bradle)r. * * *

When General Frank J. Howley was diector of the office of military government for the American sector of Berlin, he was quoted as saying: "Russians are liars and swindlers. There is no truth in them, and the sooner we realize that fact, and accept it, the better off we will be. They believe that truth changes from day to day. For them there is no such thing as an eternal truth.' *

An American visitor in Germany asked a German how they distinguish between an optimist and a pessimist in that country now. "It's very simple," was the reply. "The optimists are learning English. The pessimists learn Russian."

The average girl would rather have beauty than brains, if it was a choice between the two, knowing that the average man can see much betterthan*he can think.

Napoleon used to say when asking about a new general"has he the luck?" He didn't mean was the man just lucky, but did he have that indefinable touch of genius to do the unexpected and the unpredictableat the critical moment.

A friend of mine comes up with a suggestion that he believes would settle the Berlin situation in a hurry. He wants to send General E,isenhower to E,urpoe as chief of all Nato forces, and General Douglas MacArthur to Russia as American Ambassador. He thinks that if the fat little peasant who controls Russia right nor,v were to take one look into the eyes of MacArthur it would cause him to shrink into his proper size at the contrast even he would understand. And that other mighty soldier at the head of Nato would bring fright to the small men facing him. Seems like quite an idea. Couldn't be arranged, of course, but wouldn't it be a pip?

Statistics are said to show that the American nation spends at least nine billions of dollars annually for intoxicating liquors. But if you want to keep your mental equilibrium don't try to figure the total cost of drinking and drunkenness in terms of crime, accident, and human suffering.

BY JACK DIONNE

Honesty.is a relative quality. Your parents may have thought poker playing for money was wrong. Howev-er they probably c-quld no nothing to keep you from trying to fill a straight. What they were responsible for, how-evei, is how you. try to fill it-from the top or bottom of the deck. The apple never falls far from the tiee.

If you are inclined to wonder whether a story or joke is new or old, you might recall the opinion expressed by the great Doctor Johnson, of England, who said that "if a ltory is good, it is unlikely to be niw, and if it's new it's unlikely to be good."

The following story has appeared in this column before, but it seems that this might be a wise time to repeat it. In the middle of June, 1787, the Constitutional Convention had almost completely bogged down in the midst of its mighty deliberations. Confusion was general. So on the morning of June 16th, Benjamin Franklin addressed himself to George Washington as follows: "Mr. President, the small progress we have made after four or five weeks of close attention and continual reasoning with each other, is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of human understanding. In this situation of this assembly, trying as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when pesented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto thought of applying humbly to the Father of Lights to improve our underst"ldt"**t ,(

"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of the truth that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can arise without His aid? We have been assured. Sir. in the sacred writings that'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it' ; and I also believe that without His concurrent aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. **{<

I beg leave to move that hereafter prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business." The motion carried.

Ncw cnd rdiring oficcrr conruh with prcsidcnt of Philippinc [umbcr Producer:' Asrociolion. From lcft: Horry J. Jordon, Jordon Pocifrc Compony, San Froncisco, retiring presidcnt of Pl[A; W. A. Howc, Mohogony Importing Compcny, Soulh Posodeno, ncw PMA pre:ident; Antonio de lcr Alos, prcsidcnt of Philippine Lumbcr Producerr' Arsociotion, Inc., ond honored guerl ol meeting; ond Robcrt S. Osgood, R. 3. Osgood, Inc., Lor Angclor, ncwly clectcd vice prcridcnt of PMA.