one of the best little newspapers published in America-The Journal-Courier. Its plant is next door to your General Office building. 'Tis not necessary to take our word for it, for circulation counts. George W. Stout is editor and also one of the cleverest paragraphers in the whole country. His latest wise crack runs like this: "A man who anticipated that his wife was figuring on giving him some handkerchiefs for Christmas told her not to do it, for his nose 'did not choose to run in 1928","

New Year resolutions are more easily broken than made, but we who labor in the work of making the interiors look brighter should not fail to at all times strongly resolve within ourselves, and unalterably "stick" to it, to stick all paper on a wall, such paper the product of union workers. There's simply no getting away from the fact that mills producing as fine papers as are demanded to be hung by discriminating customers are made in union mills, and by good union men who stand heroically on the deck of that staunch little ship which has weathered many storms and squalls, and known to us as the United Wallpaper Crafts of North America. See announcement of the union mills on this page.

Have you read and pondered over the editorial in the December PAINTER AND DECORATOR, "In the Service of Others"? Just want to remind the membership that a closer study of the Constitution and a warmer regard for the welfare of "others" will go a mighty long way to minimize misunderstandings which can, with a better knowledge of our laws, keep down a whale of a lot of unnecessary friction, where it may otherwise unfortunately exist.

Nearly 25,000 London school children began to wear glasses in the last year.

Over the whole of the Thames Valley in England 1,464,000,000 tons of rain fell in September.

Ireland's new postal cards are printed in both English and Irish.

You Finish WallsWhy not finish floors at

greater profit?

Floor finishing is easy work now! The Clarke Vacuum Portable Sander made it so. Like hundreds of other painters, you can make actually $25 to $75 a day! Get this business you should have -with all the work you can handle.

The CLARKE is different! This is positively so-its correct operating speed whisks away the varnish from old floors, and gives them a new, clean, glistening surface. No varnish-removers,

no neutralizers-the CLARKE does it all. 300 to 800 square feet of old flooring made new in a day! At 8c to 15c a square foot it runs into big money that you are not now getting. And nearly every bit of it is clear profit, too! The CLARKE is carried to the job with one hand. It runs off any light socket-no big power bills or special wiring. It's absolutely dustless in operation. Very little hand-scraping because it works in the small places-the hallways, closets, etc.

It's not at all like the old time sanders big, machines-heavy to run and operate. No need to puff and strain, work and worry with the CLARKE-it's as easy to run as a vacuum cleaner.

You make more profits because it is built to be used in connec

tion with your work and problems. Investigate at once! Hundreds of painters get these profits. Why don't you. Write now!

Clarke Sanding Machine Co. Dept. E-21 3819 Cortland St., Chicago, Ill. For Eleven Years Originators and Manufacturers of Portable Sanding Machines

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Great Lakes W. P. Co., Decatur, Ill
Becker, Smith & Page, Inc., Philadelphia, Pa.
M. H. Birge & Sons, Buffalo, N. Y.
Gledhill W. P. Co., Cohoes, N. Y.

Chicago Wall Paper Mfg. Co., Steubenville, O.
Robert Graves Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Robert Griffin Co., Jersey City, N. J.
Commercial W. P. Co., Chicago, Ill.
Saratoga Wall Paper Co., Saratoga, N. Y.
Barnes Wall Paper Co., York, Pa.

These firms are fair to Organized Labor.

Thomas Strahan Co., Chelsea, Mass.
York Card & Paper Co., York, Pa.

York Card & Paper Co., Chicago Branch.

York Wall Paper Co., York, Pa.

The Gilbert W. P. Co., York, Pa.

Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Ill.

Furlong Wall Paper Mills, Philadelphia, Pa.

Henry Bosch Co., Chicago, Ill.

Robert F. Hobbs, Inc., Beverly, N. J. George J. Hunken Co., Inc., Brooklyn, N. Y. Demand their Papers from all Dealers.

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Volume XLII

Number One

When making purchases of products advertised in our official journal, be sure to impress on the salesman that you are GIVING PREFERENCE TO ADVERTISERS IN THE PAINTER AND DECORATOR.

ADVERTISING-Correspondence relating to advertising should be addressed to A. S. Murphy, Advertising Representative, Colonial Trust Building, Philadelphia, Pa.

The publisher reserves the right to reject or cancel advertising contracts at any time.

The Painter and Decorator, published at Lafayette, Ind., is the official journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America and the only publication issued under the auspices of that organization.

A. S. Murphy is the only agency or person authorized to solicit advertising for the official journal of the Brotherhood. Local Unions and District Councils publishing programs, semiannuals, annuals, or souvenir publications of any description should refrain from designating them as "Official Journal of the Brotherhood," either upon the publication itself or on their advertising contract forms or stationery.

Matter for publication in The Painter and Decorator must be in this office by the 14th of the month previous to the month of issue.

Correspondents will please write on one side of the paper only. We are not responsible for views, expressed by correspondents. Address all mail matter to Clarence E. Swick, Editor, Painters and Decorators Bldg., Lafayette, Ind.

Entered as second-class matter July 14, 1905, at the postoffice at Lafayette, Ind., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

Accepted for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, act of October 3, 1917, authorized August 2nd, 1918.

It is really not only amusing but gives one clusions, so frequently reached without "rhyme the close-up on the human side of arbitrary con

A Long, Long Trail A-Winding

or reason", when one hears the oral gyrations of the improperly informed, untrammeled and unwise exponents of a class of "knowitalls" who read in the paper's headlines reading something like this: "Building Tradesmen Contend for $1.50 per Hour" and then hastily without any forethought or delving properly into the subject, immediately jump to unwarranted conclusions and begin to blow their "bazoos" about workmen being paid an exorbitant wage.

The type of men who think in such terms surely must have a pipe line to Captains of Industry or Bootleggers, else they would not give voice to such unwise and unjustified statements. It is a long journey indeed for men of sordid intellect and unfair attitude to get it under their skin that when a building trades mechanic is fortunate enough to reach a wage of say $1.50 per hour, it isn't a question of working 2400 hours in a year which the average traducer of organized workers would have one believe.

It is a fact, well known to those who understand the existence of many lean seasons, that even counting the busy periods, a man will not get eight months of steady work and therefore under present cost of living he is not beginning to receive, as the average goes, really a saving wage. It is nothing less than the human element plus a quality of enterprise which is dominant in every red-blooded American to understand that the evolution in human aspirations make the normal man have greater ambitions for the rearing of his family into more useful citizenship, and to accomplish this laudible purpose, education is a factor of supreme importance and to provide such, earnings in keeping with these requirements, must be in evidence.

As has been repeatedly stated in the columns of this Journal, where decent living wages were paid, better conditions have always resulted, and the further fact remains in evidence, that increasingly substantial conditions follow in the path, though there has been a long, long trail a-winding.

A college student whom we knew some years ago had a very fond and doting aunt, who was happily endowed with much of the coin of the

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realm but who, withal, took scrupulous care to see that the Foreign Missions received tithe worthy of her financial ability. Seemingly more to please this aunt than a real interest in the cause of christianizing the foreigners, the young man took an interest in the work in which his fond aunt gave so much of her time and money.

Anyway, Christmas was in the offing and the young student was far more punctual with his letters to his beloved aunt than at previous periods, perhaps having an eye to the fact that the good woman would be impressed and, as a consequence, remember him generously at Christmas. The Sunday preceding Christmas young friend attended a meeting of the Foreign Missionary Society at the local church which he attended, not failing upon his return to his room to write the aunt and elaborate upon the occurrences which took place at the meeting. This naturally pleased the aunt.

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Christmas presents began to show up, and among them there appeared no envelope bearing an expected check from the aunt, but a package was received and upon opening it, a very fine edition of the Bible was taken out and upon the fly leaf a most affectionate inscription was in evidence. This was the limit, and in disgust and disappointment the student flung the Bible on the table-and there the incident seemed closed.

Shortly after the holidays the aunt came on a visit to the young man. Noting no particular warmth of greeting, auntie began to interrogate her nephew as to how he had enjoyed himself with the little financial token which she had sent and, upon being told that there was no financial token received from her, the information was given that she had placed a new one hundred dollar bill within the Bible feeling sure that from the tenor of the letters previously received from her nephew, he would of course discover the money-which he had not-and walking over to the table the good woman picked up the dust-ladened Bible and there in the beginning of the Chapter of Genesis, was a hundred dollar bill. The look of chagrin upon the fellow's face can be well imagined.

Now, we wonder, if there are not a whole heap of good intentioned members of this International Brotherhood who would find riches greater than a hundred dollar bill incorporated within the pages of our Constitution-the book of laws and made for the welfare of our members did they but frequently read and profit by its contents.

As the public press reported, immediately upon reaching the City of Mexico, Lindbergh got into telephonic communication with his mother, who lives in Detroit, and it is stated that they picked up this much of an intended personal talk of son to mother. Answering his mother's evident eagerness as to his safety while in the air, the wonderful fellow merely said, "Oh, shucks, there was nothing that I worried about in the flight," or words to that effect.

Lindbergh has without any doubt proved himself the greatest unofficial Ambassador of Good Will that the world has ever known, and the influence of this glorious young man can not be anything but an inspiration to a great percentage of youthful Americans who aspire to follow the path of rightful conduct.

Let us not forget that Lindbergh's father, who was a member of Congress from Minnesota for ten years, was made of the stuff which admitted of no misunderstanding of his attitude. He was an out-and-out friend and advocate of organized labor, and as such could not be coerced, cajoled or bullied into receding one iota from his militant attitude in defending the rights of organized workers.

Like father, is the son in respect to doing his own careful thinking as well as acting upon the conclusions which he makes, but not before careful study. No haphazard guesser is Charley Lindbergh. Emulating the axiom of Davy Crockett, the wonderful young man seems always "sure that he's right, and then goes ahead." The world has never known in its history a young man, comparable with Col. Lindbergh.