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A Reol Surprise
A farmer brought a load of pro-duce to town, sold it at a good price, then decided to surprise his wife, who was always scolding him for wearing such old, wo.rn clothes. So he bought a new suit, shirt, hat and shoes, and stowed the packages under the seat of his car. Half-way home he cam€ to a river. Here he pulled off his old clothes, threw them into the river, and reached under the seat of the car for the new clothes. They were gone. Some town thief had stolen them. Thoughtfully he climbed back into the car and stepped on the starter.
He said: "'Well, I'll surprise her anyway."
The Rewords of Work
Bob Burdette thus wrote to his son:
"My sor5 remernber you have to work. Whether you handle pick or wheelbarrow or a set of books, digging ditches or editing a newspaper, ringing an auction bell or writing funny things, you must work. Don't be afraid of killing yourself by overworking on the sunny side of thirty. Men die sometimes, but it is because they quit at Nine P.M. and don't go home until Two A.M. It's the intervals that kill, my son.
"The work gives you appetite for your meals; it lends solidity to your slumber, it gives you a perfect appreciation of a holiday. There are young men who do not work, but the country is not proud of them. ft does not even know their names; it only speaks of them as old So-and-So's boys. Nobody likes them; the great, busy world does not know they are here.
"So find out what you want to be and do. Take off your coat and make dust in the world. The busier you are, the less harm you are apt to get into; the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter your holidays, and the better satisfied the whole world will be with you."
He let Her Go By
An Oklahoma Indian, who struck oil, bought a big, powerful automobile and drove away after paying cash. The next day he brought it back badly bunged up, a team hauling it in. He said to the auto dealer:
"Drove out big car. Bought gallon whiskey. Took much drinks. Heap big drive. Trees and fences go past fast. Pretty soon saw bridge coming. Turned out to let bridge pass. Bang ! Gimme nuther car."
"And Sholl Not Doubf'
Half-hearted effort usually brings whole-hearted failure, like the devout woman who read in the Bible:
"Whosoever shall say unto this rnountain, 'be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea,' and shall not doubt in his heart, whatsoever he saith shall be done."
So she tried it the next evening on a near-by mountain. And the next morning when she looked out the window and saw the mountain still standing there, she declared:
"Ah ! Just as I thought !"
One for the Record o . SICK TEAVE
(Reprinted, from The Kaiser Build,er)
The following from the Miscellany column of The Manchester Guardian is a letter received from a bricklayer in Barbados by the firm for which he worked i
"Respected Sir,
"'When I got to the building, I found that the hurricane had knocked some bricks off the top. So I rigged up a beam with a pulley at the top of the building and hoisted up a couple of barrels full of bricks. When I had fi-xed the building, there was a lot of bricks left over. I hoisted the barrel back up again and secured the line at the bottom, and then went up and filled the barrel with extra bricks. Then I went to the bottom and cast off the line. Unfortunately, the barrel of bricks was heavier than I was, and before I knew what was happening the barrel started down, jerking me off the ground. I decided to hang on and halfway up I met the barrel coming down and received a severe blow on the shoulder. I then continued to the top,'banging my head against the beam and getting my fingers jammed in the pulley. When the barrel hit the ground it bursted its bottom, allowing all the bricks to spill out. I was now heavier than the barrel and so started down again at lrigh speed. Halfway down, I met the barrel coming up and received injuries to my shins. When I hit the ground I landed on the bricks, getting several painful cuts from the sharp edges.
"At this point I must have lost my presence of mind, because I let go the line. The barrel then came down giving me another heavy blow on the head and putting me in the hospital. I respectfully request sick leave."
Perfecr Golf
Two golfers were passing one another on the fairway. "How are you shooting, old top?" asked one.
"Splendidln" replied the other. 'I had four screaming brassies on the last fairway. How is your game?"
"Great!" said the other. "Four perfect putts on the last green."
Doniel Websfer Soid:
"Human and mortal though we are, we are neverth€less not mere insulated beings, without relation to past or future. Neither the point of time nor the spot on earth in which we physically live bounds our rational and intellectual enjoyments.
"We live in the past by a knowledge of its history, and in the future by hope and anticipation. By ascending to an association with our ancestors; by contemplating their erample and studying their character; by partaking of their sentiments and imbibing their spirit; by accompanying them in their toils; by sympathizing in their sufferings and rejoicing in their successies and triumphs, we rningle our own existence with theirs and seem to belong to their age.
"'We become their contemporaries, live the lives which they lived, endure what they endured, and partake in the rewards which they enjoyed."
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All Wood Construction Used in New Weyerhoeuser Wqrehouse
Washington-An excellent example of econornical. permanent timber construction is the new 40,000-square foot warehouse built by Weyerhaeuser Sales Company for its Louisville, Kentucky, distributing depot, according to Tiqber Engineering Company, engineering affiliate of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Spanning the warehouse are twenty-one 11O-foot borvstring timber trusses. Teco u'edge-fit ring connectors join truss members, and distribute the heavy roof load evenly throughout each member. Economical and sturdy roof framing ii provided by Trip-L-Grip anchors, connecting roof j.oists to truss.es. These efficieni anchors eliminate toe nailing and provide stronger bracing than is possible by conventional methods.
ThE rvarehouse building' was designed to make ttse of mechanical loading equipment, for easy l-randling of lumber stocks and orderi. Cantilevered roof projections extend Z4-feet beyond the wall line on each outside u'all for additional open storage area. Roof trusses, fabricated by the parent organization, Weyerhaeuser Timber Cornpany, Longvierv,-Washington, provide clear post-free interior storage space. The timber trusses are among the largest used for any commercial building in the South.
Other faCilities of the new depot include a 250-foot long lumber shed. Both Teco connectors and Trip-L-Grip anchors were used in the roof and wall framing of this structure.
Copies of "Engineering in Timber" project sheet..illustrating the nerv iacilities, and "Typical Lumber Designs.." listinf over 300 typical timber rooi truss designs, are available f"rom 1319-i8th St., N.W., Washington 6, D.C.
Georgio-Pqcific CorP. Storts R.eseqrch Lqb in Oregon
A central research laboratoiy for Georgia-Pacific Corporation's 2l majot operating f_acilities and forest operaiions will be esiablished at Hillsboro, Ore., announces James L. Buckley, vice-president in charge of development and research.
"We feel great progress will be made in new-products zrnd nerv cheiricalJ from wood fibres in the next few years and our expanded staff and facilities r'vill greatly -assist us in developing them. The Hillsboro laboratory will be the focal point of rEsearch for our manufacturing plants on the West Coast, in the South and East, under the-guidance of Dr. Robert iV. H"tt, director of research," Mr. Buckley said' "The location witl-r its proximity to the Georgia-Pacific general oflices, and its great stands of fir and redwood timber on the West Coast, is ideal."
