Tour Trade Association

The trade association is the sole means by which the industry it serves can become active as a unit in time of need; it is the sole means by which uniform ways of doing business, such as methods, rates, rules, grades, etc., vital to every industry, can be arrived at; it is the best means through which the coordinated thought of the industry can be expressed; it is the sole means by which the government, in time of stress, can call upon an industry. It is a vital part and parcel of the industry.

Without lumber associations, for instance, there would be no lumber industry, in the real sense of the word. The man who fails to belong to his rightful association is neglecting a definite and genuine duty toward his industry, because it is only through the work of the association that the things vital to the well-being of the industry as a whole can be handled; and every man should do his share in the common cause.

The lumber industry is playing a leading role in forwarding good management of forest lands, in interesting others in growing trees, and in maintaining our forests in sound productive condition. In many places in the United States the trees being cut for lumber have been grown during the lives of the men who are cutting them. Many areas are supplying their second, third and fourth crops of trees.

An $ditorial

The old-fashioned saw said: "God helps those who help themselves." But industry has discovered a newer, better, broader business philosophy: "God helps those who help each other." The understanding that the well-being of the whole is paramount to that of the individual, and that the intelligent community interest really brings bigger and better returns than specific self-interest, is what the association idea consists of.

Association conventions have become of great and real importance. Men get together for the purpose of not only exchanging good fellowship, but IDEAS, understanding that those things that have helped others, can help you. So they get together at their conventions and carry home thoughts and ideas and plans and suggestions that they can use for themselves. The cooperative spirit is the redeeming spirit of this age.

A knot hole reduces strength probably even less than a tight intergrown knot. This is due to the fact that the fibers of a knot are at a right angle to the general direction of fibers of the tree and, therefore, contribute little strength; the lesser distortion of grain around a knot hole than around a knot intergrown with fibers of the wood more than offsets what strength the knot would give.

Under The Holly

Under the holly with Polly, With PollS bewitching and shy; A glint of warm gold, in her tresses, A hint of blue dream in her eye. A fig for the night and its storming, Some music, and laughter, and folly, We'll lift a blythe tune

When it's summer and JuneUnder the holly with PoUy.

Modesty

When every pool in &len was a mirror, That unto Eve her dainty charms proclaimed, She went undraped without a single fear or Thought that she had need to be ashamed.

'Twas only when she'd eaten of the apple, That she became inclined to be a prude, And found that evermore she'd have to grapple, With the much-debated problem of the nude.

Thereafter she devoted her attention, Her time and dl her money to her clothes, And that was the beginning of convention, And modesty as well, so f suppose.

Reactions come about in fashions recent, Now the girls conceal so little from the men, That it would seem in name of all that's decent, Someone should pass the apples round again.

Our Flcrg

"!t/hite is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands."-Charles Sumner.

Sherills In De Skv

You bless us, please sah, eben if we's doin' wrong tonight, Kase den we'll need de blessin' more'n ef we's doin' right; An'let de blessin' stay wid us untel we comes to die, An'goes to keep our Christmas, wid dem sheriffs in de sky.

-frwin Russell.

Christmcs

Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas tonight, Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine, Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine; Ch'ristmas, where snow peaks stand solemn and white.

-Phillips Brooks.

This Deserves neprinting

On Christmas night a little three-year-old girl was saying her prayers at her mother's knee, and she ended the prayer thus: "Thank yor4 God, for all the nice presents I got, and I certainly hope your son Jesus had a happy birthday."

An Engrlish Explcncrtion

An Englishman, trying to get a friend over ttre longdistance telephone, was having difficulty making the operator understand the name of the party, which was John Ealing. The central got the John part, dl right, but couldn't get the last name, so the Englishman explained: '3E-?s for'erbert; A-wot horses eat; I-where you goes when you dies; Hor ingine, them things in front of trains; N-what lays eggs; G-for gor-blime. Now, 'ave you got it?"

Once A Yecrr

What though upon his ho4ry head, Have fallen many a winter's snow, His wreath is still as green and red As 'twas a thousand years ago.

For what has he to do with care?

His wassail bowl and old armchair, Are ever standing ready there, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Miller.

-Thomas

lbe Roqd To Success

The road to success is over the rough hill of difficulty. The path to prosperity is through the swamps of sacrifice.

If you have decided that you are going to detour, going to duck the regular route and reach your ambitious goal without honest service and the hardest kind of hard work -pinch yourself, boy; you're dreaming.

College Stuff

Parson George Washington Lincoln had graduated from a university of high standing, and had learned the Harvard way of speaking. So, when he preached his first official sermon, he said: "Brethren ,unless you repent, in a measure, and become converted, as it were, you will, I regret to state, be damned."

The Lcst Lap

They sat alone in the moonlight, She smoothed his troubled brow, "My past's been fastr'r she said at last, "But I'm on my last lap nbw."

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ARGATA REDWOOD GO.

In commemorcrtion of the birth of the Golileon Prophet, mcry 'we, in the lumber industry, reiterote our resolve to exemplify the Golden Rule in cll our business trcrrscrdions.

TH'S 'S THE ONI.Y ROAD fO PEACE

STRABX.E HARDWOOD GO.

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