An Editorial

Hogon Wholesqle Instolls Automotic Phone Service

Irr orclcr to further irrcrcasc ctlstontcr scrvice. Ilogan Wholesirle Building llateriuls Co. recentlv inst:Llled all atlt()rrrtrtic telcphunc-lutsu'.:ritrg s-r'stent. The neu. systcm non, allou's the lirm to offer 2.1-hour-a-cl :.y, 7dav-a-u'ecl< telephone serr-ice. Customers rvishing to leavc a nlcssagc (or place an orcler) an_r- tirne lLiter hours-or on a Saturdav, Sundal' or holidar', neecl orrll' call I Iogan \\-holcsale's rcgular rrrrnilrer an<1 tl.reir nrcssage u'ill bc :rutorruLtical1-v recor<lccl.

of all becomes the exp.erience of each. By belonging to an association of one-hundred men, his experiences could combine that of all members.

For that is the association idea, the cooperative id,ea. It shows the difference betrveen men and monkeys in one particular ,at least. Men profit by the exp,eriences of others. But not monkeys.

Coos Heod Joins SCRTA

Thc Coos Hea<l Lrrrnlrcr :rrr11 Plyu'ood ('o., l:]crth 135, \\-ilnrir.rgtorr, has joine<l the Southern Caliiorrri:t Iletail I-umlrcr Assn. as un i\ss()ciate nremlrcr. I'hilip B. (lilbert is r.r.ranager of the firm, lvhose officers arc F. \\'i11is Srnith. ('. \\i ylie Smith lrrrci Hon ard ,\. I'age , Coos Bav, Ore., 1)artncrs.

A forest is a crop of trees.

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It took the lumber industry a whole lot of years to get that thought over to the public and the press.

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For years the lumber manufacturers were frequently described as tree murderers, and destroyers of the forests.

But the fact is. tor"r,*irl J*o" of trees, an'd unless t&rey are harvested while healthy and young, and sound in their fiber, their great service to mankind is lost. ,<*t<

Truth will prevail if it is repeated often enough, and today the fact that forests are a great renewable asset no longer has to be argued with intelligent people. ***

This does not mean that all q'ho cut down commercial forests, and make trees into lumber, replace them with young and growin* at"a". * * *

But the replacements of forests has become a mighty industry-the timbered areas of the nation now point with pride to the constantly growing number of manufacturers who will run their mills "from now on."

And the list will "or,tir]r" ir :."* as the efforts of numerous concerns working in that direction find their efforts have proven fruitful, and can claim continuous operation of their manufacturing facilities is assured.

Result: dozens of trr*u.*t tl.rrLr."aorers in various parts of the country now incorporate with pride into their business announcements the fact that they have a continuous supply of timber. * ,< :t

For reasons that would fiU this page if detailed, all trees of commercial value cannot be subjected to efforts at replacement. But with those that can, the industry is doing a continually improving job and has much to be proud of.

"We raise our own trees" is a statement that is now regularly incorporated into the publicity statements of many lumber manufacturers throughout the land.

And scores of them go still further in describing their modern methods of doing business, as they install equipment and methods for securing larger and better percentages of commercial recovery from ttreir trees. Barkers and chippers are two of the machines being installed continually in going mills. {< ,6 *

"We utilize everything but the squeal" the modernizing meat packers announced many years ago. And today scores

BY JACK DIONNE

of lumber makers can claim to utilize almost everything but the sound of those saws in their mills. There is migtrty little wasted wood in a modern mill operation today. And it grows steadily less. * :r +

Even men with the most vivid imaginations a generation ago could hardly have conceived the things that could and would be done with a forest of commercial trees and the end is not yet, for doubtlesb more innovations are coming, newer products will be developed. ,< *

The lumber industry was slow to catch the modernizing trend, but since it started it has done itself proud.

Each species of commerl*r-**u has its own characteristics and likewise its own limitations. Various species lend themselves more readily than others to various kinds of manufacturing and remanufacturing, and therefore are cut, and fitted, and glued, etc., into a greater number of finished products than others. It is frequently a matter of fiber.

Let it simply be said,h"l ";;.rcial woods are now used in a greater variety of ways than ever before. And the trend grows. :8 i< :r

Thomas Dreier, in his fine literary rnagazine, "The Vagabond," recently printed a little essay on "Trees and People" that has much merit and beauty. Written by George M5rers Stephens, it follows:

"When I see a bulldozerman, on a new building site, toppling trees like a small boy trying his new hatchet, it sets me to thinking-

"flow two small elms set out when our little family got its first very own home (twenty short years ago) have grown into a cool canopy to shade the roof and cover our outdoor dining room

"IIow a grove of pines we barely saved breaks t&re north wind so that many a winter day seems like spring in our yard.

"How a little Christmas tree spruce set out from a tub in the living room now rises above our roof-top

"How a couple of apple trees planted in far-off hope now reward us and the neighbor children with red and yellow fruit

"FIow across our street the great dome of an ancient white oak shows proud against the evening sky while its brother next door stands starved and thin after needless grading...

"flow my drive home from hot, treeless streets plunges into forest coolness like entering a different climate.

"Ifow a few trees absorbing the heat to evaporate tons of water a day do more cooling-free-than a thousand-dollar air conditioner.

" 'Dozerman, spare that tree'."

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