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Earl Birmingham

Elected President Of California Redwood Association

San Francisco, November 1l-The new president of the California Redwood Association, announced here today, is Earl Birmingham, president of the Hammond Lumber Company. The vice president for the coming year is Russelt H. Ells, president of the Willits Redwood Products Company. Sherman A. Bishop was re-elected executive vice president and Selwyn J. Sharp was again elected secretarytreasurer.

The new board of directors and their alternates is Earl B. Birmingham, alternate H. E. Bailey, of Hammond Lumber Company; Russell H. Ells, alternate J. H. Robinson, Willits Redwood Products Company; F. V. Holmes, alternate C. W. Fender, Jr,, Holmes Eureka Lumber Company; F. C. Kilpatrick, alternate Robert L. Turner, Rockport Redwood Company; A. S. Murphy, alternate Kenneth Smith, The Pacific Lumber Company.

The new directors and alternates were elected at the annual meeting of the California Redwood Association's stockholders, and this new board has chosen the nerv officers to serve for the coming year.

R. R. Macartney Elected President

Washington, D.C., Nov. 14-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association today elected Ralph R. N{acartney as president and John B. Veach as chairman of the board of directors for 1953.

Macartney, manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, at Klamath Falls, Ore., served as first vice president of NLMA during the past twelve months. Veach, president of the Hardwood Corporation of America, Asheville, N. C.. was president of NLM A in 1952

J.R. Bemis, president of the Ozan Lumber Company, Prescott, Ark., was named first vice president of NLMA, succeeding Macartney.

The new' officers were elected at the conclusion of NLMA's 1952 annual meeting Nov. 1l-14, in Washington, D. C.

Pi Bliss of the Anderson-Hanson Company, Studio Cit)', spent a few days in Sacramento where he called on the Winton Lumber Sales Company. He was accompanied by his wife, Connie.

Christmas Pudding

Take some human nature as you find it, The commonest variety will do; Put a little graciousness behind it, Add a lump of charity or two.

Squeeze injust a drop of moderation, Half as much frugality or less; Add some very fine consideration, Strain off all of poverty's distress,

Pour some milk of human kindness in it, Put in all the happiness you can; Stir it up with laughter every minute, Season with goodwill toward every man.

Set it on the fire of heart's affections, Leave it till the jolly bubbles rise; Sprinkle it with kisses for confection, Sweeten with a look of loving eyes.

Flavor it with children's merry chatter, Frost it with the snow of wintry dells; Place it on a holly-garnished platter, Serve it with the song of Christmas bells.

The Tongue

Not the tongue in your shoe, nor the tongue in the lowly qragon, but the tongue in your mouth is the thing I want to talk about. The human tongue starts more trouble than friends or finance can stop. It is the tool that can do more harrn in a day than you can correct in many years. Lincoln said littlc, and Grant less; Washingion talked only when necessar)', and Coolidge was as silent as a steam calliope with a broken boiler. The more men talk, the less time they have to think, and the less time others have to think. If you are a great talker, you are not a great thinker. Listen to yourself and get your own weights and measures.-The Silent Partner.

Tolstoi on Men

"Men are like rivers; the water is the same in each, and alike in a-ll; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm."

Colored Trouble

"Why, hey dere Prunella, how you comin' dese days?.

"I'se jes' tollable pol'y, thankee. I'se had de scarlet fe_ vah, de pink eye, an' de yallah jandis. f'se had a reg,lar rainbow o' troubles."

The Everglcrdes

Don't fool yourself by thinking that Florida is only a playground for tourists. Just one section, the Everglades, is larger than the combined areas of Connecticut, Delalyare, and New Jersey.

Much of the four and a half million acres is rich, organic muck, capable of producing a crop in sixty days. In the first half of the twentieth century mofe than fifty million dollars has been spent on drainage of the Everglades alone.

One section of it will not be developed into farm lands. The Everglades National Park will be kept as a wilderness, a refuge for birds and animals. Development throws nature out of balance and causes many living things to disappear. In half a day"you can go from the luxury hotels of Palm Beach and Miami to the wildest rough country, where there are only a handful of humans within hundreds of miles. Thousands of acres are still unsurveyed.-"The Vagabond.':

Describing A Mcrple

Away back in the year 1663, one Robert Boyle wrote the following description of the Maple tree:

"There is in some parts of New York a kind of tree whose juice that weeps out of its incisions, if it be permitted slowly to exhale away the excess moisture, doth congeal into a sweet and saccharine substance, and the like was confirmed to me by the agent to the great and populous colony of Massachusetts."

Blase Perhcrps

Mama Owl: "I'm worried about Junior."

Papa Owl: "What's the trouble?"

Mama Owl: "IIe doesn't seem to give a hoot about anything."

II You Stcnd Very Still

By Patience Strong, London.

If you stand very still in the heart of a wood, You will hear many wonderful thingsThe snap of a twig and the wind in the trees, And the whir of invisible wings.

If you stand very stillin the turmoil of life, And you wait for the voice from within, Yorr'Il be led down the ways of wisdom and peace, In a mad world of chaos and din.

If you stand very still, and you hold to your faith, You will get all the help that you ask; You will draw from the Silence the things that you need, Hope and Courage and Strength for your task.