Lumber Association Plans Hawaiian Convention

Announcement has been made bv the Lumber Association of Southern California that, through action of its Board of Directors, a business convention, will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, beginning Saturday, February 3, through the following Sunday, February 10.

Tentative plans are now being made by Association president Terry Mullin and Executive vice president Paul Hollenbeck. It is stated that invitations to attend the

Hawaiian meet are being extended to all members of Southern California, Northern California and Western Associations, including the new wholesale division of lumbermen of Southern California.

Look for further news of this promising business convention in upcoming issues of CLM. This could well be one of the greafest events in the history of the participating Associations, and will no doubt create a big interest.

There's an old saying to the effect that whiskey improves with age. What it means is that the older a licker-drinker gets, the more he likes if

The Indian who was not interested in trying to get rich so he wouldn't have to work because he never had worked anyway, is matched by the philosophy of the colored brother watching a baseball game for the first time, who remarked: "Hit sho look lak a foolish game t'me. A lotta men runnin dey legs off aroun a field, an fo what ? Jest tryin to get back to whah dey is befor dey stahts; das all."

The power of prayer ,J"0,1,,,.11y a highly controversial subject, and many will agree with the opinion of the colored preacher who said: "Ah notices dat when I ax de Lawd to send me a turkey I don't get it; but when I axes de Lawd to send me out aftah a turkey, I gets it."

The only difference Ol,*i" J .ot urra a grave is the depth, so the old saw says. It is to the fearless who won't be held down and cannot be restrained that the lvorld owes all its forward forgings. Moses was of that type ; so was Jesus, and Buddha, and Confucius, and Socrates, and Galileo, and Cromwell, and Isaac Newton, and Roger Bacon, and George Washington, and Abe Lincoln, and Columbus, -and many of recent history such as Burbank, Edison, Henry Ford, and others.

Oh Lord, please give us a sense of humor in these trying times. Help us to meet our daily trials smilingly. For truly a sense of humor is the front and rear bumper, the shock absorbers on the motor car of life. Without humor we might shake to pieces. * * ,<

It was the great thinker, Thomas Carlisle, rvho wrote: "Give us, Oh God, the man who sings at his work. Be his occupation what it may, he is the equal of any of those who follow the same pursuit in sullen silence. He will do more in the same time, he will do it better, and he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue when he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony rvhen they revolve in their spheres."

BY JACK DIONNE

Distinguishing between the good and the bad man in wondrous fashion. William Sarovan makes one of his characters say (in "The Human C6medy") "The good man will seek to take the pain out of things; the evil man rvill drive pain deeper into things." \iv hai a wonderful measuring stick that would be to put upon world leaders of today. Driving pain deeper into things, and into the people of the world, seems to be the ambition of the Godless men who hog the headlines.

Shakespeare had it all over other writers like a circus tent over a sardine can, but when it came to prophecy he wasn't so hot. Witness the fact that in "Antony and Cleopatra" he wrote: "The time of universal peace is near." Perhaps it depends upon what he meant by "near."

Men of unbeautiful features can take satisfaction in recalling the historic fact that the greatest men in American history have often been the plainest of the plain. Lincoln was one of the homeliest men in history. Washington (don't let those pictures on the schoolroom wall fool you) was a rugged, plain featured man. Jefferson was a very homely red head, with one shoulder lower than the other. So was Ben Franklin, and Patrick Henry, and Henry Clay, and the list can go on and on. The handsomest great man in our history was probably Robert tr. Lee. Yet he was that manly and impressive type well exemplified today by General Douglas MacArthur. Both had that type of manly looks that is described in thoroughbred horses as "the look of the eagle."

Famous sayings: Nlark Twain was author of the famous remark that "difference of opinion is what makes horse races." Bob Fitzsimmons, weight 155 and about to fight for the championship against a 3@ pound warrior, handed dorvn the immortal remark that "the bigger they are the harder they fall." Napoleon once remarked that "God seems to favor the army with tl,e biggest cannon." Frank Leahey, famous football coach at Notre Dame, was quoted as saying that "prayers work better when the players are big." Cromwell gave posterity something to chew on when he told his men to "put your trust in God but keep your powder dry." And W. C. Fields left to posterity these two bits of advice : "Never smarten up a chump," and "never give a sucker an even break."