Vagabond Editoriafs

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I've been thinking a lot lately about that editorial question of the Chicago Tribune: "Is it not altogether likety that the prosperous future of the lumber industry, as of all others, will lie in the discovery of new applications for wood,.rather than in seeking frantically to retain old or obsolescent uses?" The anBwer is most emphaticallyYES.

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One problem that the soft wood producers of the South have got to solve-andthe termination of the business depression isNOT going to permanently solve it by any means-is new markets for FINISH lumber. The demand for finish had fallen far below the supply long years before the depression came. And it will continue that way until the millsfind new routes for theirclears. Because the USE of finish lumber has been gradually and steadily passing, and THOSE SAME USES are NOT going to return, no matter how prosperous conditions may become. A hundred ordinary uses of finish lumber of fifteen years ago, no longer exist. Finish, or the stock that goes into same, must find new routes, new uses, new markets. ,G {. rf

And finish, being inanimate and not capable of doing its own research work, will have to have human hetp to solve its problem. Human minds and human hands are going to have to be consecrated to the seeking of these