PAUI The Fable of the Lumberu.,olues

by Robert E. Mabaffay, Adoertising and Promotion Manager, lYest Coast Lumbermenl s Association

Lutnberzpolaes zuere a.t one time th,e strongest and most pozuerful and. most rcspected, group of beasts in the forest. They ate tke best food, slept in. the best caaes, and, when th.ey zaished to lie in the sun, ,tto one dared molest them.

Th,e other animals-the steelephants and .the qlumilions and, the cltemicrsqfuyss-yssented this state of affairs, but there wasn't much they could d.o about it.

So uthile the lumberzaol-,,,es dined the other animals rernained outside tlte circle. Btrt they looked. at the food, witk a great deal of interest, their eyes glo'*^ing.

trI/ith m,atters goi,nq along so zitell, the lumbenuolaes fell presentl_t to squabbling alnong thernselztes. Th.ey forgot that no one is perfect. They forgot .that togdher-despite their indiztid,uql shortcomings-they had dominuted, the forest.

They began lo zarangle over who would hazte zphich morsel of food and wkich cave and zahich patch of sunlight.

They grezu critical of earh other. It zads noticed that one of the lum,berzuolztes had a coat that zuas shorter and not quite so thick as the others, although this had not seemed. important before. He zaas d,ri,ven azuay.

Another of the lwmberwolves ho.d, lost tzuo teeth when he bit dozln on. a colored stone, th.inking i.t was a stray piece of tenderloi.n. He rnade an od,d, noise wh,en he ate. Tzuo of his former friends decided this was intolerable. During the follozu-