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Dear Sir: Your editorial in your last issue (see November, page page four) said something that should have been said a long time ago.

It has always seemed to me that when you go into not only a lumberyard, but to a plumbing and heating, or a hardware store and the like, that the clerks seem to make it difficult on the customer. I know, it's happened to me.

I can't understand why they can't realize that usually the customer is no expert, otherwise he would be in the business himself. I just hope that your retailer-readers will take the gentle hint and start talking about what they sell in a manner that those of us outside the building industry can understand, Sincerely, Arch McCIary, Boston, Oregon.

Gentlemen:

As my enterprise is a large importer of foreign timber, and as there are continuously demand for Calif ornian (sic) products, I am very much interested in your journal.

I should appreciate very much your sending me a copy free of charge so that I can best see whether it will be of use and advantage to me.

Please let me soon have your news.

Very truly yours, Robert G. Bischofi, Agent Und Makler Fur In-Und Auslandische Holzer (importer and exporter of wood), Hamburg 1, Germany.

Gentlemen:

As a life-long believer in conservation I wasn't shocked to see you in the lumber business start your usual selfish propaganda machines when the peo- ple in America who love this beautiful land again tried to preserve it from the greedy hands of the rapacious tree cutters.

What does seem strange is that you always take such a self-righteous attitude. Let me ask you this, sqrely in your lives there must be something more important to you than the God of Profit in whose name you seek to justify this slaughter of beauty?

Think of the future generations. What will they derive more pleasure from, the beauties of an unspoiled forest, or a look at your musty profit ledgers ?

Sincerely Yours, Grace Melroee Walthers, Fbllerton, Calif.