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Read in a newspaper the other day that April Z was the birthday of that very important wooden servant of the hurhan race-the tvooden match. Ever stop to think how much the invention of that small bit of wood changed the very history of man?

It seems that on April 7, t827, an obscure pharmacist named John Walker, who lived in Stockton-on-Tees, England, sold one hundred of what he called "sulphurata Hyperoxygenta Friction" sticks to a friend of his, saying that he had invented them. So the wooden match was one hundred and twenty-five years old on April 7, t952.

These one hundred little articles with the long name ivere small pieces of wood, on the end of which was a compound that burst into flame when struck across a rough, dry surface. Thus ended the centuries of dependence of man on the tinderbox, and flint and steel.

The idea caught on rapid$z as you would naturally sup pose, and it was just eight years later that the first wooden match factory was built and opened for business in the United States. And now Americans consume about 57 million matches with every hour that passes. Not all wooden matches, of course, for the paper match came along in 1892 and took over a large part of the match volume.

You don't hear or ,""u l-.,In loo,ra an. beginning of the match era, and many events of incomparably lesser importance catch the headlines. But the fact remains that very few inventions outside of important medicines, mean more to the average human, than that short sulphur stick with the very long name that John Walker made in L827. It looks like some place or other some fitting and lasting remembrance o{ some sort might justly be created in memory of him. **r< t<**

Ask the average well-read man what was the first steamboat and who built it, and it's a ten to one bet that if he answers at all he will say it was the one that Robert Fulton built. In fact, in most of the lists that history hands us, Fulton's steamboat was one *t *an. great inventions.

But we have read about a book called "Steamboats Come True," written by one James Thomas Flexner a number of years ago, that disagrees very definitely with that opinion. According to a newspaper report on that book, Fulton's Clermont, which rrtn up the Hudson in 1807, was four years later than a steam tug built and operated by William Symington, which was named the Charlotte Dundas, and which made a trip on the Clyde and Forth Canal in 1803.

But there was still an earlier one or two. There was a man named James Rumsey who claimed he operated a boat by steam a year or so earlier than that. But the book is of the opinion that the first boat ever operated by steam ran for fifteeen minutes, back in 1773, at Lyons. What Fulton did was to combine what the others had learned by their experiments, thus making a very practical and useful steamboat. And, of course, all of the early boats were built of wood.

Readers of this journal who write us nurnerous friendly letters and thereby do much to keep up the morale of the organization, usually mention three of our special departments, the "Favorite Story," "Fun, Facts and Filosophy," and the "Vagabond Editorials." *

We looked back through the files the other day to see just when these particular departments and headings started, since it was far too long ago to remember off-hand. We found that the "Favorite Story," and "Fun, Facts and Filosophy," were both born in the same issue, that of March t, t923. So they "... i."tlt thirty years old.

Before that time we used short stories, short poems, bits of philosophy, etc., chiefly for fillers in the back part of the magazine. Beginning March t, 1923, and from that time on, such material, became the makings of the two departments referred to. And very popular departments they seem to have been. ;t<**

For many years previous to December L5, L929, we used the headline "Random Editorial Ramblings" over our chief editorial pages. The inaterial was not unlike our present "Vagabond Editorials," being unrestricted in their selection of subjects, the pages being divided into paragraphs, and short items. ***

The heading "Vagabond Editorials" was no doubt inspired by Thomas Dreier's great little magazine and bundle of original literature, "The Vagabond." In this he deals with any and all subjects that seem interesting to him, and the little "mag" is one of the finest things that can come to the desk of a thinking man. So our "Vagabond Editorials" have likewise been wandering in various directions since December 15, 1929, when they first appeared under that title. **>k

Ran on a printed idea the other day that was terrifically impressive. A man was talking about that first address that General MacArthur made to the Congress in Washington, after his return from Japan. He said that if, after the Gen- eral had made that speech with the impressive quotation about old soldiers never dying, just fading away-if he had made that his swan song and thereafter quit public speaking-that speech would have gone down in history as possibly the champion oration of all time.

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Get the idea? ft casts no refections on other speeches that the General has made since, or is capable of making, all of which are tops in eloquence. But, the thought is that the time, the situation, and that magnificent finale about old soldiers fading a\ray, made the speech sublime. It was like Patrick. Ffenry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death." Such a speech can never be duplicated. It should by rights be a swan song.

This thought has no ,*rrl"ai"., political or otherwise.

Just a slant on that great speech from a strictly oratorical viewpoint. It just means that when a lruln does something so outstanding that there is slight chance of ever invading that same realm again, it seems regrettable from a strictly oratorical point of view, that it was not a sw:ln song; something for all orators to shoot at from then on. Of course, millions of Americans would regr€t to have the General retire from the list of orators. His greirt ability and influence belbng to his country, which is how it should be. Great and loyal men are the world's chief need, and their services to mankind are much more important than hanging up an oratorical record, of course. But if that Congressional speech with its tear-jerking ending had been a swan song, it would have rung a bell in the history of oratory that would have kept ringing forever. All speeches following that "old soldier" speech, must of necessity be oratorical anti-cllma)aes.

Paul Gaboury Starts New !(/holesale Company

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Paul Gaboury, associated .rvith the Gosslin-Harding Lumber Co. for the past four years as buyer and sales manager, announces that he is going into business for himself, and has formed the Golden Gate Lumber Co. The company will confine its sales to the retaii yard trade exclusively.

Paul, a native of Canada, had his start in the lumber business lvith his uncle, the late George Gorman, in 1940. Later he served two years in New Guinea and the Philippines with the U. S. Army Engineers.

His experience gained in many buying trips to Northern California and Oregon sarvmills in the past rvill prove of

Name Chcnged To Rounds Lumber Compcny

Robert L. Turner is joining the Pacific Coast organizations of Ralph M. Roirnds. He will be vice president of the Rockport Redwood Company, Rounds & Kilpatrick Lumber Company and the Rounds Lumber Company, to assist Frank C. Kilpatrick, president.

l\'Ir. Turner is a long-time employee of Rounds & Porter Company in Wichita, Kansas, the parent organization.

N{r. Kilpatrick announces that the name of the Rounds Trading Company (exclusive sales agents for the product of Rockport Redn'ood Company) is now changed to Rounds Lumber Company. There is no change in personnel-D. H. (Lee) I-eBreton continues as sales manager.

Holds Opening oI New Hqrdware Depcrtment

Central Lumber Co., Hanford, Calif., had an opening of its ner,r' hardware department on Saturday, April 12, {rom 10:00 a.m. to 8:@ p.m., which vuas largely attended. Prizes were given away and refreshments l,vere served. S. H. "Steve" Ross is general manager, and C. J. "Corrie" Schaap, is manager of the hardu'are department.

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