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Good luck is the gayest of all gay girls, Long in one place she will not stay, Back from your brow she strokes the curls, Kisses you quick, and flies away.

But Madame Bad Luck soberly comes, And stays-no fancy has she for fittingSnatches of true-love songs she hums, And sits by your bed, and brings her knitting.

(John

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A well-known philosopher wrote long ago that all the progress of men and nations is based upon the sacredness of contracts. That was in what we call "the old days." Today there is a powerful government flexing great muscles throughout the world, to which no contract is sacred. Have things changed so much?

"rntellect is invisible ,] arrJ -"1 -no has none."

Schopenhauer.

"If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it is11'1 ss."-Christopher Morley.

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"A creditor is worse than a master, for a master owns only your person; a creditor owns your dignity and can belabor that."-Victor Hugo.

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"Impropriety is the soul of 1vi1."-$s1ns1ss1

"April prepares her green traffic light, and signals'Qs'."-Qftlistopher Morley.

"Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way."-Goldberg. **rl.

"So long as a man imagines that he cannot do a thing, so long is he determined not to do it; and, consequently, so long is it impossible for him to do it."-Spinoza. ***

"Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remission and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus far it may be looked upon as a weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it, and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and dampen our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for such a great pleasure of life."Addison. i.*{.

"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet, and steady, and loyal, and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime-if not asked to lend money."Mark Twain. * {< {.

"A comfortable career of prosperity, if it does not make people honest, at least keeps them so."-Thackeray.

BY JACK DIONNE

Hoo-Hoo Convention Flosh

Duluth, Minn.-Dick Grant of Vancouver, B.C. was elected Snaik of the Universe at the 68th annual convention of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo here, Sept. 13-16. Snark Grant. said to be the first Canadian ever to hold the highest elective office in the lumbermen's fraternity, succeeds New Mexico's Bob Gallagher after one of the most active and successful terms any Snark has ever had.

Californians seen at the convention included Rameses Dave Davis, ex-Snark of the lJniverse, from San Francisco Club 9; Harold Cole, Harvey Koll and D. C. Essley, Los Angeles Cllub 2; Jack Berry, Custocatian on the Supreme 9, from Sacramento Club 109, and Bill Seeley and Lysle Siebert, San Diego Club 3.

It is reported that Harvey Koll was elected to the new Supreme 9 for 1959-60, representing Jurisdiction VI.

The 69th annual convention, in September 1960, was set for Hot Springs, Ark,

"Now blessings light on him that first invented sleep; it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and it is the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike about sleep; it is, that it resembles death; there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep and one in his last sleep."

wrote Thomas ;uff"r"ln r * cervantes'

"I think f knew General Washington intimately and thoroughly. Perhaps the strangest feature of his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed, refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose whatever obstacles opposed. His integrity was most pure, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motives of interest or consanguinity, of friendship or hatred, being able to bias his decision. lle was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good and a greatman...

"His temper was naturally high-toned, but reflection and resolution had obtained a firm and habitual ascendancy over it. If ever, however, it broke its bonds, he was most tremendous in his wrath. His heart was not warm in its affections, but he exactly calculated each man's value and gave him a solid esteem proportioned to it. His person, you know, was fine; his stature exactly what one would wish; his deportment easy, erect and noble; the best horseman bf his age and the most graceful figure that could be seen on horseback. On the whole, his character was, in its mass, perfect; in nothing bad, in few points indifferent, and it may truly be said that never did nature and fortune combine more perfectly to make a man great, and to place him in the same constellation with whatever worthies have merited an everlasting remembrance."

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West Goost Lumbermen's Assn. Meets Wirh Los Angeles lumber Industry

Executives of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association met in Los Angeles, September 10-11, with Southern California lumber executives and building officials for an informal conclave. West Coast mill operators sat in on the sessions at the Statler-Hilton hotel to discuss grading rules ancl production standards in cllrrent Southland construction.

Those in attendance included : Breakfast session, Sept. 10 (Mill men and representa- tives)-H. V. Simpson, It. E. Mahaffay, A. G. Fegles, C. F. Ramstrom-West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau; T. K. May, WCLA; H. W. Murphy and the new Los Angeles representative, Horace Chandler, Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau; L. N. Reichmann, Weyerhaeuser Company; T. A. Deal and the L.A. representative, A. M. Batliner, Long-Bell Lumber division, Intl. Paper Co.; Henry Welch, A..C. Dutton Lumber Corp.; C. J. Fairhurst and the L. A. representative, Mike Walsh, Fairhurst Mill Company; F. Willis Smith and the L. A. reoresentative. P. B. Gilbert. Coos Head Timber Co.; H. R. Halvorsen, Marine Lumber Sales; John Fies, National Lumber Manufacturers Assn. Luncheon session, Sept. 10 (Retail committee on Grades)

-All of the above, and: Orrie W. Hamilton and Erik Flamer, Southern California Retail Lumber Assn.; C. Gil-