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Simpson Redwood Ncrmes Don Philips, Jr.

Socql Regionol Soles Supervisor

Don I'hilips, Jr. (lef t), rvho joinecl the sales sta1l of Simpson Iteclwoocl Company in Los Angeles last N ay, has l>een named regional sales supervisor for thc rvh,rlcsalc nrarrufactrrrirrg concern and u,ill l-rar.e charge of redu.ood sales in Sotrthern California, Arizona, Neu' Nfexico, trl Paso, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, according to General Sales N{anager Dave Davis. Offices of the regional area lvill continue to be maintained at 9015 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, it rvas salo.

Don Philips, Jr. rvas raised in the lumber business. Following his basic training in a local lumber yard operation in L940, he joined his dad in the sales department of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, prior to service in the Navy during World War II. Follou'ing his discharge from the Navy in 1946, he rejoined Don Philips, Sr. in the wholesale firm until last spring, u,hen he became identihed with the Simpson organization in the redrvood sales department.

Don attended the University of Southern California school of business administration, is a member of Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Ciub 2, the Lumbern"ren's Post of American Legion and the Beverly Hills Club. Coning from a family of lumber folks, he enjoys a fine education in u'ood production and sales.

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Percenloges

Mary had a bathing suit, It was ligh.t and airy, Five fercent was bathing suit, And ninety-five was Mary.

Silence

That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says there is not only an art but an eloquence in it.-Hannah More.

High-Priced Milk correcl Spelling

' A wealthy man boight and operated a farm as a side Years ago during a discussion in a New York promoter's tine. A friend droppedln to see him, and he suggested a office,thenameof aoncefamousfighterwasmentioned. He aiint. was Battling Nelson. An argument arose as to how he : "What will it be," asked the amateur farmer, "milk or spelled his name, with one or two t's. A bet was made, so a champagne? They cost me about the same." wire was sent to Nekbn asking him to decide the matter. The reply came right back:

"Corr""t spellin! is Batling Nelson." And the wire was

'Wrote Franz Liszt: Mypiano is to me what his boat is signed: "Battling Nelson'" to the seaman, what his horse is to the Arab; nan more, it has been til now my eye, my speech; my life. Its strings t*" t"" have vibrated under my passions, and its yielding keys have I love to see a little path, obeyed my every caprice. Perhaps the secret tie which holds Half-trodden through the grass ; me so closely to it is a delusion; but I hold the piano very

It makes me think of friendly folk high. Who, unassuming, pass-

In my view it takes the first place in the hierarchy of in- Intent upon some little act strurnents; it is the oftenest used, and the widest spread. Of simpL kindliness. In the circumference of its seven octaves it embraces the I love to see a little path, whole circumference of an orchestra; and a man's ten fin- Half-trodden through the grass. gers are enough to render the harmonies which in an orchestra are only brought out by the combination of hundreds of musicians.

Unfif for Jury

We can give broken chords like the harp, long sustained A juryman asked the judge to.excuse him from serving. notes like the wind, staccati and a thousand passages which He said: before it seemed only possible to produce on th,is or that "Judge, f owe a man some money, and he is leaving town instrument. The piano has on the one side the capacity of today to be gone for a year. f want to go find him and pay assimilation; the capacity of taking into itself the life of all him what I owe before he leaves." instruments; on the other it has its own life, its own growth, Said the Judge: "You're excused. I wouldn't want as big its individual development. It is a microcosm a liar as you on my jury."

My highest ambition is to leave to piano players after me some useful instructions, the footprints of attained advance, in fact, a work which may some day provide a worthy wit- ness of the labor and study of my youth.

Beliefs of the Old Ghinese

Several thousand years ago, some long forgotten thinker

I remember the greedy dog in La Fontaine, which let the in Ch'ina wrote the following profession of faith: juicy bone fall from its mouth in order to grasp a shadow. I believe in the deep blue sky and the shining water; I Let me gnaw in peace at niy bone. The hour will come, per- can see through the clouds, and am not afraid of the waves haps all too soon, in which I shall lose myself and hunt of the sea. after a monstrous, intangible shadow.

I believe in the loving friendship given by the flowers D.t""*d il:J:: trees; outwardlv thev die' but in the heart thev live

A certain business man went into bankruptcy, and when Little paths through the green woods I love, and the his assets were canvassed a fine automobile he was driving sound of the leaves on the ground, or a nut falling, or even was mysteriously missing. As soon as he cleared the court, a falling twig. i. however, 1he car reatrrpeared in his garage. One of his cred- I believe.that the days that are to come already feel the wonder of the days that have passed, and will permit the i,i' ''itot" took him to task.

'",',, "Tell me," he demanded, "how does it happen that you, wonder to endure and increase. ijl ' a bankrupt, are ridihg around in a fine automobile?" I believe in and love my belief in and my love for all those ,.,:i "I wenl through the bankruptcy court," was the reply, things, and most of all, I believe in and love the source of ,11: , t'birt the auto went around." my belief anil my love.