P. l /. CHANTTAND AND AssocrArEs

AXminster 5296

5140 Crenshqw Blvd. Los Angeles 43, Cclilornicr

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Since 1922 in Soutbern Calilornia Stocks on hcrnd crt loccl hcrrbor lor fast service to decrlers We speciclize in products oI ,vlooRE tylttt & IUMBER co., BANDoN, oREGON ond lons Timbers CAPE ARAGO tUmBER CO., ErYlPlRE, OREGON Dougtos Fir Quick MlIl Shipment ,rExperience Coantf' port Ortord Cedar

BEL.AIR,

Today's 0utslrnding Combination lloor

Ofters fhese teofuress

IAORE TIGHT AND AIR.

EASY WASHING.

POS|T|VE WTNDOW LOCK.

Con be opened only from within.

DOOR mode from selected Kiln-Dried lumber.

WINDOW SASH-rust-resisto nt sleel.

SCREEN-Aluminum, bronze or plostic.

Available lor Delivery Out ol Stock

BEL-AIR DOOR CO.

317 South Polm Avenue, Alhqmbra, Cqlifornia

Phone CUmberlqnd 3-3731

Cooprn.llonclN firmrrn Co.

Americon Bonk Bldg., Porlland 5, Oregon

Phone BEocon 2124 Teletype PD4il

Purveyors of Forest Products to Cqliforniq Retqilers

FIR-SPRUCE_HE'YIIOCK

CEDAR-PINE-PLYWOOD

Representing

Frost Hqrdwood Floors, Inc. in the

Socromenlo qnd Sqn Jooquin Volleys

FRO9TBRAND FLOORING

OAK-PECAN-BEECH

Calif onia Rc pret ent at iacs-

WII.FRED T. COOPER I.BR. CO.

234 E. Golorado St. PASADENA I

Phonc RYon l-7531

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The Glory ol Wcshingrton

To lead a people in revolution wisely and successfully, without ambition and without crime, demands indeed lofty genius and unbending virtue. But to build their State amid the angry conflict of passion and prejudice, to lrcacefully inaugurate a complete and satisfactory governmentthis is the very greatest service that a man can render to mankind. But this is also the glory of Washington.

With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, he selected at once for the three highest stations the three chief Americans. Hamilton was the head, Jefferson was the heart, and John Jay the conscience of his administration. Washington's just and serene ascendency was the lambent flame in which these beneficent power were fused; and nothing else than that ascendency could have ridden the whirlwind and directed the storm that burst around him. Party spirit blazed into fury. John Jay was hung in effigy; Hamilton was stoned: insurrection raised its head in the West. Washington himself was denounced. But the great soul was undismayed.

Without a beacon, without a chart, but with unwavering eye and steady hand, he guided his country safe through darkness and through storm. He held his steadfast way like the sun across the firmament, giving life and hedth and strength to the new nationi and, upon a searching survey of his administration there is no great act which his country would annul; no word spoken, no line written, no deed done by him which justice would reverse, or wisdom deplore.-George William Curtis.

lltlithout Preiudice

Some folks minds are as open as that of the woman who was heard to remark as she started for a political meeting, "I am not prejudiced at all. I am going with a perfectly open and unbiased mind to listen to what, I am convinced, is pure rubbish."

Justice

"Justice," said Ben Franklin, "is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang, as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war, is only a GREAT GANG."

A Good Gun

Two old mountaineers were sitting on the porch, and one was cleaning his rifle. It was old and old-fashioned, and the friend was inclined to smile at it.

"Don't make the mistake of scorning lhis here old gun," said the owner, as he rubbed it fondly. "This gun has killed more game than any other gun on this whole mountain-side. And, what's more, it's got me two big, strong soninlaws."

The Fool

The royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayer!"

The jester doffed his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court before, They could not see the bitter smile, Behind the painted green hc wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee Upon the Monarch's silken stool; His pleading voice arose: "Oh, Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool!

"No pity, Lord, could change the heart. From red with wrong, to white as wool, The rod must heal the sin: but Lord Be merciful to me, a fool !

"'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; 'Tis by our follies that so long, We hold the earth from heaven away!

"These clumsy feet still in the mire, Go crushing blossoms without end; These hard, well-meaning hands we thrust Among the heartstrings of a friend.

"The ill-timed truth we might have kept; Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung? The word we had no sense to sayWho knows how grandly it had rung?

"Our faults no tenderness should ash

The chastening stripes must cleanse them dl; But for our blunders-oh, in shame Before the eyes of heaven we fall

"Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will; but Thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool !"

The room was hushed. In silence rose The King, and sought his gardens cool; And walked apart, and murmured low..BE MERCIFUL TO ME, A FOOL !"

-Edward Rowland

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