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friend Dr. Bill Branch brought back from the World War and which I used to tell m:lny years ago. Transports were carrying American soldiers over the storm-swept Atlantic to (so we thought then) "Save the World for Democracy." A colored company was negotiating the crossing and had met with very, very rough weather. Nearly the entire company was seasick. A buck private who had been up on deck rushed down to his seasick buddy below, and shouted: w. P. JOHNSON BACK FROM NORTH

"Mose, come up on deck, boy! I wants to show you sumpin."

"\ilhut?" groaned the seasick one.

"A big whale," said his comrade, "an' right close to de boat."

"Listen, boy," said the sick soldier. "I ain't comin' up on deck to see no whale, see? An' lemme tell you sumpin else, Niggah ! Don't you call me ergin ontil you can show me a Post Oak tree."

W. P. "White Pine" Johnson, manag'er of Anglo California f,umber Co., Los Angeles, attended the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association in Oakland, October 26 and 27. Earlier in the week he called on a number of California Pine mills in the klamath Falls district. Ife was accompanied bv Mrs. Tohnson on the trip.