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Trade Extension Body

Washington, September 30.-Carl L. Hamilton, Vice President and General Manager of the General Timber Service, Inc., of the various Weyerhaeuser forest industry companies, St. Paul, has accepted the chairmanship of the Trade Extension Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The National Lumber I\fanufacturers Association is a federation of all the great regional lumber manufacturers issociations of the United States and in addition its trade extension department includes by direct membership several hundred of the leading lumber manufacturers of the country. These concerns are actively engaged through the ttade extension department in one of the greatest trade group cooperative enterprises of the time.

Mr. Hamilton has taken an important part for the past five years in all the promotion enterprises of the National I-umber Manufacturers Association, having been during that period a member of the publicity and trade promotion committees. He is a graduate of the Forestry School of the lJniversity of Minnesota and spent a year in the tropics getting out ties and tunnel timbers for an American contractor who was building a railroad for the Costa Rican government. Subsequently he scaled logs for a year and a half in the timber country of West Virginia. Later he spent three years in the cedar pole business and then joined the White Pine Bureau at St. Paul in 1915. When the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products Cgmpany was organizecl in l9l7 Mr. TIamilton was made its secretary and general manager. This organization is now superseded by the General Timber Service, Inc.

Mr. Hamilton has a reputation in the lumber world as a resourceful and successful advertising and merchandising director. He is credited with having to a large extent formulated the long-time merchandising policies of the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products and General Timber Service. The achievement for which he is perhaps best knorvn to the lumbermen.of the United States is the conception and successful development of the idea of "4-Square" lumber products, which is described as having taken lumber out of the class of undistinguished bulk products and made it a quality, packaged line of grade-marked and trademarked goods.

Ode To The Draughtsmen

When wars are waged And battles gauged By balance of sheer might. Then he's the best Who stands the test As fiercest in the fight.

They crown the scamp Who proves the champ Of that destructive horde. And praise the man The most, who can Best wield his gory sword. But none of these Can cut much cheese With him who draws a plan To build a shed To lay the head Of ox, or hen, or man.

I'd not go far To sing of war Of battle's wild array. I sing the men Of rule and pen Who plan our homes today. ITZELL

When your wife finds a letter in your pocket you forgot to mail. But man ! That ain't nothing to what happenq when she finds one you forgot to burn.

" y o ur -o*,"r- i,,-rll:::"ffi,: t-n"u the undertaker to the absent citizen; "shall we cremate or bury?"

And he wired back: "Bury AND cremate, take no chances."

Losing Interest

"Jerry isn't doing very well with his business, is he?"

"Naw. He keeps foolin' around with his lumber yard so much he don't half tend to his fillin' station?"

ELBERT HUBBARD SAID:

A recipe for perpetual ignorance is to be salisfied with your opinions and content with your lrrowledge.

Tolerance

The rnost lovable quality which any human can possess is tolerance. Tolerance is the vision that enables us to see things from another personfs point of view. It is the generosity that concedes to others the right to their own opinion and their own peculiarities. It is the bigness that enables us to let other people be happy in their own way.

A Pine Cone

(This beautiful sonnet is from a book of sonnets written and published by Mary E. Bulkley on her seventy-fifth birthday. She had never written poetry before. The book is entitled "Speaking at Seventy.")

A pine cone is a plummet which the tree

Points to the earth, wherein its strong roots lie,

A retrospect and pregnant prophecy

Of days to come, whan boughs shall brush the sky.

From the cone's'tip, uncurled the spirals twine

And widen out in ever-gracious sweep

Of long, far-reaching yet returning line

To catch the great stars in an upward leap.

So, looking back to that primeval slime

Whence faint life sprang, I trace a widening curve rwo girrs in the i:,TT#:):: tarking things over.

"You say," said one, "that he doesn*t know how to kiss?"

"Oh, no," said the second; "I said he DIDN'T know how to kiss."

Up to that surge, whose lines in coming time

May reach to splendid planets, and not swerve

To break the lengthening line of life-to-be,

A line which gathers in eternity.