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MANT'FACTT'NENS, PRODUCENS

AI\D DISTRIBI'TOBS

BASIC BT'II.DING MATERIATS

BLIUE DIAMOND PRODUCTS Quality

PORTTAIVD CEMENT

ROCK, SAND & TRUCK.MIXED CONCNEIE

REINFORCING STEET AND MESH

GYPSUI\4 PRODUCTS

PIASTER, LATH, WAITBOARD

NAII.S, WINE, STUCCO MESH METAL IATH AND PTASTMING ACCESSORIES

ROOFING

ASPHALTIC, STEEL AII'MINT'M INSULATION

PAPER, BUII.DING AIYD CT'RING

IJME, IIME PUTIT AND COTORED STUCCO FUIT UNE OF OTHEN BUII.DING ESSEI,ITLAIS

Hardwood Reservoirs

(Continued from Page 14) you an excerpt from a letter written by one of our large automobile manufacturing plants. It is typical of many which we have received. I quote, "We do not maintain large stocks of this material and are unable to anticipate species and thicknesses which may be required. Were we to endeavor to purchase direct from producer, much time would be lost, inasmuch as no one producer can supply all the species, and we have, for a nutnber of years, been dependent upon Wholesale Distributing Yards to supply our demands," end of quote.

It is nothing exceptional for industrial users, shipyards, or Government dgencies, to send their representatives to these yards to familiarize themselves with a certain kind or grade of lumber, or make actual working comparisons, with several different kinds.

When the demand for lumber is great, when many items are difficult to loqate, when anyone can sell a desirable item (and even many undesirable items) these Distribution Yards, these Hardwood Reservoirs become of even greater importance to the Industry, from the standpoint of holding its expanding markets. Not only do they continue to "sing the praises of lumber" to the consuming markets, and to'help them in a proper selection, but they advise them and instruct them in the selection of substitutes for immediately unavailable items, and fill in the gap between consumer necessity requirements, and mill shipments. No better example of such service can be found than that pertormed ,by the Wholesale Distribution Yards during the war. Despite the magnificent job done by our sawmills, and all other branches of the industry, the reservoir of hardwood stocks in the Distribution Yards were of tremendous value to the various consuming Government Agencies, on emergency requirements, and completion of schedules. In 1945 one agency of the Government alone procured over 51 million feet of badly needed material from 54 of these yards. Many an industrial operation or schedule was saved from a shutdown by the temporary assistance from such yards when heavy shipping schedules and transportation difficulties caused unavoidable delays in rnill shipments.

Under such conditions dryness of lumber also becomes of critical concern to the users of this material. Some mills, handicapped by labor or equipment problems, burdened by an over demand for their product, have no choice but to ship their lumber green. This, however, mav not be to the satisfaction of many of our lumber users. Under these conditions, and at the present time, the Distribution Yard cannot offer a complete solution but certainly they do help and do perform an additional service. In their reservoir of material they do have lumber that has been on sticks for various lengths of time, and in most instances a limited quantity at least of air dried, if not kiln clried stock. Here again the customer can at least come and see the material, make his own decision, and we have retained his good will.

Today, although the 'ivar has been over for trvo years, the demand for hardr,vood lumber remains high. Uses have been found for wood that we did not dream could exist until developed under a war-time necessity. We have regained markets lvhich, a few years ago, we feared might be lost and have added to these. new markets which can still be expanded. We must hold these new markets and rve cannot hold them against competitive lines unless we can, through production, and orderly distribution, supply our consuming trade rvith the kind of lumber best suited for their purpose, in the quantities required, and with a visible supply of the'many grades and species at hand when needed. The men who operate Distribution Yards think that they can continue to make a substantial contribution towards this. They cannot operate efficiently, efficiently for the industry as a whole, without the cooperation of the sawmill operators. They cannot complete the job efficiently .ivithout the continued efiorts and cooperation with the thousands of retailers in this country.

The drain on the reservoirs has been excessive in recent years. The supply in many industrial centers has been, and still is, dangerously lorv. Every time an established customer or potential user is turned away, rr'e run the chance of losing a customer for the hardl,vood industry. It is too easy to disregard this under existing conditions. Without the maintenance and efficient operation of our Hardwood Reservoirs, throughout the country, we would be at a disadvantage both in a buyers and a sellers market. These yards are numerically small but, nevertheless, a most vital part of the Hardwood Lumber Industry. Probably no other grotlp in the industry is as close to the users of hardr,voods as are the Distribution Yards and their salesmen. They are fully aware of their responsibility to you and oroud of their contribution.

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A Chcrpecu Is Tops

A man when he's happy will celebrate, A dog will go chasing a cat, A rooster will crow and a whale will blow. But a woman will buy a hat.

A man in his sorrow will turn to drink, A tire when punctured goes flat, A preacher will pray and a horse will neigh, But a woman will buy a hat.

A man when he's idle finds mischief to do, A child turns into a brat, An owl's a galoot who don't give a hoot, But a woman exchanges the. hat.

-Merle Bevnon.

Jefferson on Lawyers

\ ft tne present Congress errs in too much talking, how \ pan it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send a Vrundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour. That a hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together, ought not to be expected.-Thomas Jefferson.

Men qnd Gods

Diodorous says that the Thebans considered themselves the inventors of divine worship. Be that as it may, the author of the religious idea is lost in the impenetrable mazes of antiquity. No matter how far back we explore a faith, we find that it had predecessors.. As Lewis Browne says-"Wherever there is a man, there seems likely to be a god; where there is human life, there is also faith. Yes, as far back as we search they find in nearly every faith: a story of creation; a messiah, often of virgin birth, and frequently he is put to death; a flood that covers the earth; and most of the'other familiar fundamentals of our present day faiths. There is nothing new about them. The essence of the Golden Rule was old before Christianty was even dreamed of."

Missed You

On a rainy day recently, a lady in a mink coat boarded { a Madison Avenue bus. "I don't suppose I've ridden on a lbus in two years," she said to the conductor as she paid her \|are. "f usually ride in my own car."

\ "You don't know how we'vs missed you," said the conducto,r, icily.

Other Worlds

and when he to go in search of her, he was astonished at t t number of fields of many theorists who have persuaded themselves that beyond this field or little globe of earth there lie no other worlds-simply because he has not seen them.-Spinoza.

that beyond his fields there happened to lose a cow and

Ambitions

f have led a good life, full of peace and quiet, I shall have an old age, full of rum and riot; I have been a good boy, wed to peace and study, I shall have an old age, ribald, coarse and bloody. I have been a nice boy and done what was expected, I shall be an old bum, loved but unrespected.

Where?

Where are you now?

I miss your smile

When morn's first light is bursting

Through the green branches of the casement tree. To hear your voice

My lonely ear is thirsting

Beside the moonlit sea; Vain are my longings, my repinings vain, Dreams only give you to my arms again. Where are you now?

-D. M. Moir.

Who's Crazy

Patient: "Why stick me in the room with that crazy guy?"

Doctor: "The hospital is crowded. fs he troublesome?"

Patient: "I'll say. Just keeps looking around saying, 'No lions, no tigers, no elephants'-and all the time the room's full of them."

Tcrct I r

Tact is the ability to give a peLs6 a shot in the arm without letting him feel the needle.

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