CARVTD ORNAMENTS

Especially For WOOD MANTELS, INTERIOR WOOD.WORK AND WALL DECORATIONS

Manufactured in wood fibre and composirion marerial. \7e have many thousand parrerns in the various arr periods of designs.

Our compositions and wood fibre carvings are exact reproductions of artistically hand carved wood parterns.

7ll7 Essl Firestone Blvd.

DOWNEY, Colif. 243 TOpcz l-6701 SPruce 3-2292 P.O. Box

"SERVICE is our poromount stock-in-trqde"

Catalogs Aaailable ec BrelN EXECUTIVE," says one friend of mine in Chicago, trAH "is one who has the ability to plan, o.ganize, tealh, Ags.K delegate, inspire, and secure maximum results through skillful leadership." And, they might add, who does most of his work on an overtime basis. * *

Letting well enough alone is a fine proverb for a man without ambition, but a drag-anchor on one who wants to gbt ahead. Nothing is well enough if you are capable of doing better. There is an old Spanish proverb that says: o'I will enjoy the little I have while the fool is hunting for more.'l The ambitious man turns that around and says: "While the fool is enjoying the little he has, I will hunt for more." The way to hunt for-moie is to utilize your time and ability without stint. *

Walter Lippman was at his best when he wrote: "W'here all think alike, no one thinks very m;ch." *

And the great bard, Homer, when asked for the definition of man, replied: "MAN t: O* ANIMAL* THAT WRITES."

According to written history, his disciple Tzu-lu once asked Confucius: "What makes a gentleman?" And the great Chinese teacher replied: "A gentleman has nine aims: to see clearly; to understand what he hearsl to be warm in mannerl dignified in bearing; faithful in speech; keen at work; to ask when in doubt; in anger to think of difficulties; and in sight of gain, to think ofright."

Some day I am going to prepare and preach a sermon on the subject of HELPFULNESS. Truly it is the most dazzling star in

BY JACK DIONNE

the firmament of human characteristics. Helpful people are God's most gracious contributions to society, A man may possess no great gifts of mentality, money, or influence, but if he be HELPFUL he stands shoulder-high above the gifted, and the rich, and the powerful who lack that matchless spiritual inclination. The grandest thing on earth is a helpful human; and the saddest parody of humanity is he who has gifts, the money, or the power to help, but lacks the willingness, the understanding, or whatever the consciousness may be that says 16 a huuran-"BE HELPFUL."

Remember th"r" f""t.", ",; t"u"nJ. with no experience in cotton created the cotton gin; an army officer was the father of photography; the electric motor was developed by a book-binder; the typewriter was developed by a farmer I the pneumatic tire was created by a doctor; the typesetting machine was the idea of a grocer; and numerous other great blessings that have come to industry and to the world in general were from the minds and hands of amateurs along those particular lines.

Edmund Burke, " *r"1, n'gHJt*"r, of""rroth". day, said that a thinking man's best motto for life is o'Nitor in Adversum," meaning, to make one's way with effort. Such an opinion from a man of surpassing talent might well be a warning to those ordinary humans who incline to the belief that the world owes every man a living whether he deserves it and earns it, or not.

One unconn""t"d "lo.lng tto,ittr "Ciildr"n should be taught the facts of life," says a newspaper headline. Yes, indeed. How otherwise can they understand what the movies they see are all about?