Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 6) gave A few years ago The National Lumber Manufacturers

Time and experienge convinces us that the man with the small brain almost invariably has a big mouth; and that the man with a soul so small that it rattles round loose inside a peanut shell, is always niaking a terrible fuss about saving it. r* * rl.

And now we read in a lumber journal about a new type of wooden bridge that looks exactly like steel. And the steel people furnish a lot of stuff finished to look exactly like wood. Truly, we mortals are never satisfied with our own gifts, but always trying to ape those the Lord the other fellow.

A big corporation with thousands of employes has had great success in promoting within its own organization a "Coin Your ldeas" campaign, offering piemiums to ernployes who furnish or suggest ideas that they can use in their business. Wouldn't it be a grand and glorious thing if the lumber industry of the country could develop such a campaign? Lack of new ideas has made the lumber industry the most changeless thing since the Sphinx was modeled and set in the African desert.

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