tD MARTIN Rementbers

f recall with particular interest the great changes that took place in the lfoo-Hoo organizations in California.

Members with long memories will recall that away back before LUMBER MERCHANT days, Hoo-Hoo was young and uncouth, and was waiting for the California branches to come along and bring with it dignity and decorum to the Order. In my earlier days I had seen Hoo-Hoo Concats in other parts of the world that were not noted for their superiority of operations.

Then I saw with great interest Concatenations in Califor- nia that filled me with amazement. The rituals were carried through with all the dignity and decorum of the most dignified organizations in the land. I actually saw Concatenations where the members of the nine knew their lines by heart. and recited them without reference to book or text.

The improvement in Hoo-Hoo ethics may have been considerably responsible for the rapid development of the Order in the State. Anyway, the name Hoo-Hoo became honored and respected and, as the lighter side of the lumber industry, it helped the entire industry to burgeon and bloom.

The Order employed the services of one of the finest orators in the nation, Parson Peter A. Simpkin, who was Supreme Chaplain for several years and until the time of his death. He did much for Hoo-Hoo and for the lumber industry generally.

And so in California, lumber came to be Hoo-Hoo, and Hoo-Hoo came to be lumber, in the public mind.

-ED MARTIN

NRTDA Now Offering Members 'Complete Estimoting Kif '

A nerv estimating kit, rvhich enables a retail lumber dealer to quote a complete price on a hottse or major modernization job, has been offered to meml>ers of its federated associations by tl're National Retail Lumber Dealers Association. The kit, u'hich is named the "Nltl-l)A Ccimplete Estimating Kit," includes an instruction guide rvhich makes it "an easily understood self-teaching course in estimating for dealers' employes," accorcling to the association's announcement.

In addition to the instruction guide, the kit contains five Dealer Operating Guide chaltters on Estimating, a nes' 8page pamphlet entitled "Supplement to Unit Cost Estimating," three sheets clf house plans used to illustrate the estimatir.rg principles, a pad of Materials Take-otf Forms for use in stuclying the course, and a supply oi Complete Job l:stimiite Forms used in preparing estimates for cttstolrlers.

The Supplement provides additional data needed to estimate the complete cost of a job, including labor, overhead, dealer's profit, and every other item of cost.

The ir.rstmction guide contains a cletailed explanzrtion of horv the kit is used, together n'ith questions and answers "that nill enable anyone-\\-hether experienced or a lleginner-to understand and start using the plan promptly," accordinq to the announcenlent, l'hicl.r states that the guide spells out each and every step in ABC languzrge r'vith the result tl'rat no meetings or personal instruction are needed.

The price of the kit is $35.