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Fool's Houses that have been building on Fool's Hill, will have to fall. The house-cleaning that must precede our national reaction toward sane and safe and normal, things, is not pleasant to contemplate. But you can put it down in the book that the whipping most worthwhile industries and lines of business have been taking of late, is attritbutable directly to the fact that the nation had gone gambling mad. So pray and work as best you individually can for the rapid return of normalcy. And, if you're playing the out of it. Only ultimate trouble lies market yourself, get in that direction.

The happiness and welfare of this nation is rooted in economic health, and normal conditions of industry. It can never be either created or sustained by fictitious inflations of values. On industry, invention, science, and normal distribution, we must build our foundations. The men who design, build, invent, or raise something better than we have known, are the men we should honor. A padlock on the stock exchange doors would help a l,ot.

I Every business that has anything to sell should do some sort of advertising. Every business man knows why his is a good firm to trade with, to buy from. You have thoughts concetrning your own business that you would like your trade to know about. But how can your customers and prospective customers know what you are thinking about your business, unless you tell them? You know your policies. You know the features of your product. Yotr know what your service is. But your prospects only know what you tell thern.

The tallest flag pole in the world stands at Kew Gar-

dens, London. It came from British Columbia, and is a Fir stick. It is 2t4 feet high. The University. of British Columbia, at Vancouver, B. C., has a new Fir flag pole that' is 204 feet high. A flag pole was shown at the Toronto National Exhibition, in Toronto, Canada, that was 186 feet high, 36 inches in diameter at the butt, 10 inches at the top, and weighed 25,000 pounds. It also was a British columbia Fir' :r :F !ft

If the timbered regions of Mexico were located somewhere under some safe and stable government, you would see wonderful activity in lumber production. There is something like 150 billion feet of Pine timber on the West coast of Mexico, alone, not to mention the great forests of Northern, and of far Southern Mexico. But lots of changes will have to take place in Mexico before that de velopment will ever be attempted on a large scale. By the time you get raided a few times, and robbed a few dozen, the prospects for successful operation lose most of their brightness. Yet there is lots of magnificent timber down there, that would find a grand market in this country. It ranges from resinous and harsh fibred Pines, to big softwood trees that are much like Sugar Pine. **

The other day they feted the world's most useful, man -Mr. Edison. Nothing the world could possibly do would begin to demonstrate its unlimited obligation to that marvelous human. The next most useful man died several years ago, Mr. Burbank, the plant wizard. Both rank high among the greatest givers to and doers for humanity, in the world's history. It is an honor to have lived on earth at the same time with those two great souls.

Because of a steadilY increasing wood for training and education in ment of Engineering Extension of College has developed a home studY and tumber" which is to be offere hich offered to interested persons throughout the countrY demand by rvorkers in this field, the Departthe Pennsylvania State course entitled "Wood

The- course is designed to acquaint the studen't with the various trees used in industry, where they grow, their structure and characteristics, and horv they are cut into material. Some of the topics directly considered are classes of trees, parts of a tree, sap movements, waste products, chemistiy of wood, density, shrinking, swelling, warping, and decay. Lumber classification and .gradin-g, manufacture and sizing are taken up with industrial applications.

The textbook "Wood and Lumber" by A. C. Newell' thrqe pamphlets by Professor G. H. Resides, trventy-six, of ,Hough's mounts of the more common woods and a pbcket lens for microscopic work are furnished the student.

"More than $100,000, in back taxes is saved to California building-loan associations by an abatement of the documentary stamp tax, notices of which have just been mailj_d by the Internal Revenue Bureau," according to J. M. Abbott, president of the California Building-Loan League. "l\fore important is the large saving which will be effected in futnre taxes. The documentary stamp tax was on a basis of five cents for each one hundred dollar investment cer,tificate."

The ruling written by R. M. Estes, Deputy Commissioner, is as follows:

"The tax was assessed with respect to 'investment cert'ificates'. It has been held that such certificates issued by building and loan associations in the State of California are not subject to documentary stamp tax."

The favorable solution of this problem is considered an important achievement by the State League which has actively opposed the measure for sometime.