lmpressive Picture of Long-Bell Norobles

Here is an impressive picture of three notables in the history of the Long-Bell Lumber Company. It was taken in the offices of the company at Kansas City, Mo., when John D. Leland recently succeeded retiring J. M. White as president of that famous lumber manufacturing concern.

The picture shows Mr. White congratulating Mr. Leland on his ner,v office, as they stand in front of a magnificent painting of the late R. A. Long that has hung for many years on the office walls. Mr. Long, as all lumbermet.r know, r,vas the founder of the company that bears his name FIe u'as a famous optimist. During the very depths of the depression in the early tl-rirties, he wrote to the publisher of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT: ,.ThC darkest night the world has ever seen did not put out the star:s."

A history of the new president was printecl recently in these columns. The third man in the picture, J. M. White' spent most of his life in the sawmill and timber business in California. In 1906 he started rvorking for the Weed Lumber Company at Weed, California, and in 1918 he rvas made general manager of that plant, which position he held for 30 years. The \\reed unit became the Weed Division of the Long-Bell Lumlter Company when it rvas taken over by the corporation, and in 1947 Mr. White was elected a director and vice-president of the company. In 1948 he rvas elected president, with offices at Longview, Washington. The nerv president, Mr. Leland, also lives at Longviern''