Didn't Know the Answer

The lion who learned by experience and was practicing short jumps, was smart, like some men who also learn in that fashion.

There are men, of course, who just won't learn that way, And lions. too.

There was a mean lion who lorded it over all the lesser beasts of the jungle as he prowled about, and made them all admit through fear, that he was indeed the king of beasts. Then he came upon an elephant standing in the shade of a tree. He stalked up to the elephant, snarled, showed his big teeth, and demanded to be told who was the king of beasts.

The elephant wound his trunk around the lion and threw him up in the branches of the tree, from which he came

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tumbling down from limb to limb. He landed on the ground bruised and bleeding, and as he limped away he said to the elephant:

"Well, you don't have to get mad just because you don't know the answer."

For he was a dumb lion who just wouldn't learn. There are men like that. too.

ROBERI RUSHING NAMED GENERAT SATES AAANAGER OF POPE & TAIBOT'S TUMBER PRODUCTS

Appointment <tf ltobert H. llushirrg as gerleral sales manag'er for all Pope ct Talbot lumber oroclucts divisiotrs is arrnounced bv Hillrnan Luerlclemann, Pope & 'Ialbot vice-presiclent ancl gcneral manager. Ilusl-ring 'rvill replace Saxton lJ. I.-errell, rvho resignecl Oct. l.

In liis ne r,v position u,ith the Portlar.rcl headqu:rrters, ltushing rvill coordinate sales activities of the Pope & Talbot lurnber mills in St. Helens and Oakridge, Orcgon. alrd in Port Garlble, \\'ashingtor-r. He rvill als<.r srrperr,ise sales of the collrpany's Particlcboard anrl Flakeboard, as u'ell as prcserr-erl u'ood proclucts an<l greell verleer.

X{r. llrrshing, 45, is a Forestry school graduate fron-r Oregon State College. For the past ten years he has been- sales trrutlag"r for the Giustina JJros Lumber Co. irr E,ugere. Earlier e-rperierrce incluclecl a year as sales rlranager for tl.re C. D. Johnson Lumber Corp., Portland, ln<l one ar.rcl a l'ralf years each :rs iumber buyer with tl.re Sterling Lun.rber Co., Philaclelphia, ancl as lumber inspector for the Soutl-rern Pacific llailroacl.

Itushing has serr,ecl on a number of committees. rts r.nember of the West Coast Lttmbernren's Associatitrn. He crrrrently is chairman of the association's trade uromotioll committee.

\\'ith the appointmerrt ol Mr. Rushing, Pope & Talbot further rrrrifies sales activi ties of the company's e"\panding forest proclucts line. It was over a century ago- in 1849-that Pope & Talbot pioneered lumber ancl shipping operations in the r,t'est. Today, 'ivith two major rnills in Oregon ancl one ir.r \\Iashington, Pope & Talbot rnanrrfactures and markets not only lumber, but all rlanner of preservecl wood proclrrcts, green veneer for plyrvoorl. and its newest D1sd11c1Particleboarcl and Flakeboarcl.