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After its recent breathtaking rise and fall, the Douglas fir lumber market was stabilizing, Crow's Lumber Market News Service reported for the period ending Nov. 6 and predicted price variations were likely to be minor. Long length Std & Btr dimension was one of the most difficult items to obtain.

Shipments of 117,506,461 feet were 7.1/o over production at 148 mills reporting (14t) operating) to the West Coast Lumbermens' Assn. in the week ending Nov. 1; orders were 9.1/o below. T,he weekly av€rage of Douglas fir region sawmill production in October was 165,645,00O b.f., reported the WCLA; orders averaged 136,488,000 and ship,ments 163,419,000 b.f. Shipments of 88,302,00O feet were 0.4/o above production at 115 mills reporting to the Western Pine Association in the week ending Nov. 1; orders were 9.2/o below but ,increased 7.8/o over the previous week Redwood mills hummed in September to reach 45,372,0W b.f. production at the

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There is no room for sadness when we see a cheery smile, It always has the same good look, it's never out of style; It nerves us on to try again when failure makes us blue, The dimples of encouragement are good for me and you; It pays a higher interest, for it is merely lentIt's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.

There was once " ,"rl"r l"nJ-", " "","r"rt;::, l, doggerel rhymes. He could and did make them up on the spur of the moment, on any subject that came to hand. One evening he had just finished milking when he slipped on the kitchen foor where his wife had just finished mopping, and his pails of milk went in all directions, while he sat down "plunk" on the floor. Without even rising, he was heard to remark:

"There I go-pell-mell'

Two pails of milk all shot to hell; Ain't I told you times before Not to mop that gol-dang floor?"

It is said that when William Jennings Bryan asked for the hand of the daughter of John Baird, he quoted from Proverbs: "Whosoever findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor, of the ":tU..

Baird was a Bible student himself and he replied by quoting Paul, who said: "While he that marryeth doeth well, he that marryeth not, doeth better." But Bryan won the argument by contending that the opinion of Solomon was the more valuable of the two because Paul never married and therefore knew nothing about it; Solomon with his thousand wives was the g*reatest of all authorities.

Emile Fourget wrote: The law should be loved a little, because it is felt to be just; feared a little, because it is severe; hated a little, because it is to a certain degree out of sympathy with the prevalent temper of the day; and respected because it is felt;" O: " necessity.

Speaking of advertising with a point to it, a farmer ran the following ad in his local newspaper:' "Anyone found near my chicken house at night will be found there still the next morning." And he had them print STILL in capital letters'

The unabashed buck private was a witness in court, and when asked what his rank was, he answered: "I'm the best buck private in this man's army." His wife was present at the hearing,-and when she got him alone she jumped on him about making that boastful remark. "Aren't you ashamed of yourself ?" she asked. "What else could I say?" he asked. "I was under oath, wasn't I?"

BY JACK DIONNE

Randolph Churchill said during World War II that a British soldier is a better fighter than a German soldier because the Britisher fights with a laugh, while the German fights with a scowl. Same way with our boys. World War One was the background and subject for more funny stories than any other event in history. It was different with World War Two, which produced a sad lack of good jokes. ***

Oscar Wilde said: "He that can look on the loveliness of the world and share its sorrow, and realize something of the wonders of both, is in immediate contact with divine things, and has got as near to God's secret as anyone can get."

General Douglas MacArthur once declared that if a student of warfare had no other textbooks available than a description of the warfare waged some seven hundred years ago by the Tartar chieftain Ghengis Khan, he would have sufficient for all purposes.*

Ghengis Khan conquered the greatest territory ever lvon by mortal man, and what is more, he held it all until he died at an advanced age. It is claimed for him that much of the important strategy used by the most modern armies of this century was originated by the mighty Tartar. **:i

No man, not even the Prime Minister, is allowed to READ a speech in the British Parliament. Wonderful rule. If a man doesn't know a subject well enough to talk it without a script, he should not even try.

I often pass a gracious tree

Whose name I can't identify, But still I bow in courtesy, It waves a bough in kind reply.

"I do not know your name, O tree, Are you a hemlock or a pine? But why should that embarrass me? Quite probably you don't know mine."

John Milton wrote, ""1 oiro*rreely magnifies what has been done nobly, and fears not to declare what might be done better, gives the best covenant of his fidelity." ***

Ben Franklin once asked this pointed question: "If men are so wicked WITH religion, what would they be without it?"

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A Buddhist prayer: "Never will I seek or receive private individual salvation-never enter into final peace alone; but forever and everywhere will I live and strive for the universal redemption of every creature throughout the world. Until all are delivered, never will I leave the world of sin, sorrow and struggle, but will remain where I am."