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Smqller Ccpocity Boom Loqder Avoiloble for Pockoged Lumber

Jesse C. Fowler has developed and built the new Model SD-22 F'owler Loader specifically for the purpose of loading 2'x2' packages of lumber weighing not over one ton through 6' wide freight-car doorways. The new Model SD-22 makes it possible to load 40' boxcars equipped with a 6' wide doorway from one side of the car only. It can be used on any lift truck with at least 8,000 pounds of capacity to lift lumber packages weighing not over one ton each.

This Model SD-22 Fowler Loader differs from the original larger models in that it is pivoted at the front of the base and is able to swing 45 degrees each side of center. It is equipped with a set of stops and metal block to be placed in them when it is desired to transport the load pointing straight forward of the lift truck. Then when the lift truck enters the car this block can be pulled ont and the boom is free to swivel 45 degrees on each side. The boom extends 10 feet forward of the front of the forks and consists of a 5" diameter extra heavy pipe boom with a swivel plate on a telescoping tube at the front similar to the large model.

NIr. Fowler reports that he loads a 40' car in about two lrours with the Model SD-22, using two men and a lift truck clriver. This is for 2'x2' packages 16' long.

The Fowler Loader Model SD-22 is priced at 9950.00 f.o.b. Prescott, Arizona, and is distributed exclusively by the Signode Steel Strapping Company, 2600 North Western Ave., Chicago 47, Illinois.

Thomas Industries, Inc., has moved into its new Los Angeles warehouse. Firm's "Moe Light" equipment is sold !1 many retail lumberyards, reports L. A. Plant Manager Nicholas Condos. A. O. Grotenhuis is west coast salesmanager,

Nopoleon

His dispatches were filled with the wordsSuccess, Riches, Glory, Fame-these were the talismanic words of Napoleon, and yet there is in all the tragic story of man no sadder failure. Even in the days of his power he was called "the great unloved." Though master of the world-save only one little island lying in the fog of the North Atlantic"that wart on the nose of Europe," as he persisted in calling England; though master of the world his friends could only affirm: "Napoleon, grand, gloomy and peculiar, sits upon his throne a sculptured hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own ambition."

' Made dizzy by his own power' drunken with his own success, he attempts to stride the world like a Colossus. And in an evil hour, more by his own failure than through the strength of his foes, he falters and fails, as power always does and always will, for it is certain' sooner or later, to encounter a greater Power' -wm. Day Simonds.

How Fqr to Avolon?

How far is it to Avalon?

That shining place of dreams,

Where care and sorrow trouble not,

Where morning casts its beams

Forever down on friendlY lands, Where children play in happy bands.

So far it seems to those who toil

In brutal haunts of greed;

So far to those who strive and sweat

In poverty and need;

And yet their eyes oft look uPon

The shining heights of Avalon.

For faith can build a road that'leads

From penury and night, And hope can glimPse the Palaces Of fairy realms of light, And love canfindfate cannot barWhere Avalon and beautY are. -T.

C. Clark.

illark Hod to Stond

Once while on a lecture tour, Mark Twain arrived at a small town and visited the barber shop in the hotel. The barber, while waiting on the famous humorist, remarked that Mark Twain was speaking in town that night but that the visitor would have to stand if he wished to attend the lecture, because all the seats had been sold.

t'Remarkable coincidence," said Mark. "I've gone to hear him speak several times, and always I had to stand while he spoke."

Chemical Specifications of That Little-known Element .

Woman

Symbol: Wo (or sometimes "Wow !")

Accepted Atomic Weight: 120

Physical Properties: Boils at nothing and freezes at any minute. Melts when treated properly. Very bitter if not well used.

Occurrence: Found wherever man exists.

Chemical Property: Possesses great affrnity for gold, silver, platinum and precious stones. Violent reactions if left alone. Turns green when placed beside a better-looking specimen.

IJses: Highly ornamental, useful as a tonic in acceleration of low spirits and as an equalizer in distribution of wealth. Probably the most effective income-reducing agent known.

Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands ! (Courtesy of The Kaiser Builder. By R. E. Whitson, Jr.,'Kyanite Minin'g Corp., iullen, Va., and Engineering and Mining Journal.)

Thoughr qnd Action

"See to it that the world of action and the world of thought are no longer two divided hostile camps. Build up the imagination of the boy of decision, and the will power of the dreamer, so that in the future men of thought will have the nerve to lead the way they have shown, and men of action will have the vision to imagine the consequences of their decisions."

-Max of Baden.

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Customer: "I haven't found a bite of ham in this sandwich."

Waiter: "Try another bite."

Customer (taking a bite): "Nope, none yet."

Waiter: "Doggone! You must have gone right by it."

Glqdstone's Good Advice

Wm. E. Gladstone, England's grand old man, gave the following advice to a class of law students:

"Be assured that every one of you has his place and vocation on this earth, and that it rests with himself to find it. Do not believe those who too lightly say, 'Nothing succeeds like success.' Effort, gentlemenhonest, manful, humble effort-succeeds by its reflected action, especially in youth, which, indeed, too easily and too early not seldom serves, like winning the first throw of the dice, to blind and stupify. Get knowledge, all you can; and the more you get, the more you breathe upon its nearer heights the invigorating air, and enjoy the widening views, the more you will know and feel how small is the elevation you have reached in comparison with those immeasurable that yet remain unscaled. Be thorough in all you do, and remember that while ignorance may often be innocent, pretension is always despicable."

Modern Kitchens Top list of 'Mosl Wqnted' lmprovemenls

The wood kitchen business offers a bright future for able, aggressive specialists because modern kitchens are among the features most wanted by home owners, students werE told at the second annual training school for kitchen specialists, held at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich.

Fifty-eight persons from 16 states, an increase of more than 35/o over the enrollment for the 1957 school, attended. The school was conducted by Michigan State's Continuing Education Service in cooperation with the National Insti-tute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets. It consisted of a two-week basic course from Aug. 17 to Aug. 29 and a one-week advanced course which ended Aug.22.

Arthur A. Hood, Chicago, chairman of the board of American Lumberman magazine, who lectured on Creative Kit- chen Selling, cited returns from a questionnaire distributed to 80,000 persons by the Home Improvement Council. With 55.2% expressing a need for kitchen cabinets, the market for cabinets was shown to be greater than for any other product category handled by retail lumber dealers.

Certificates of completion of the 27-subject basic course and the l7-subject advanced curriculum were awarded in "graduation" luncheons by Institute Manager Fred F. Montiegel and Clayton Wells, Michigan State conference coordinator. Basic course registrants underwent a comprehensive final examination which, along with class participation and cooperation, formed the basis for rankings. In the "top ten" were: Lewis J. Gutowski, kitchen specialist with Morgan Millwork Co., Wilmington Del., and Robert M. Sieren, salesman, Rock Island Lumber Co., Davenport, Iowa. Wood kitchen dealers and distributors predominated in the two courses with 31 trainees. Of these, 14 represented lumber dealers.