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A broad gauge railroad, The Bucksport & Elk River Railroad, taps the large tracks of virgin timber owned by this pioneer of the Redwood industry and it is a wonderful sight to see the trains arrive at the log pond, loaded with logs, many of which have been "halved or quartered" in the woods because of their immense size. Timber owned by this company assures the continuation for many years of its present daily production.
Visitors to this plant are immediately impressed with the conscientious care exercised by the employees both in mairufacturing the product and in its preparation for shipment. This fact can readily be appreciated when it is considered that of the present active mill plant employees many have loyally served this company for more than 25 years. That record of itself is evidence of the cooperation that exists between employer and employee in this organization-cooperation of a kind that has helped to make possible the building up of this business and the maintenance of the uniformly high grades that have been identified with this operation since its inception.
The present head of the company, Henry M. Hink, who has been associated with Dolbeer & Carson Lumber
Company since 1910, succeeded the late J. M. Carson as president.
The general sales office is in the Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco. Harry G. Hood, assistant in the sales department, has been with the company since 1925, as has R. E. Seward, the sales representative in the Los Angeles territory. The San Diego Lumber Company is the representative in that market.
V. M. Kemble, San Francisco, is secretary of the company.
E. J. (Joe) Stewart is general superintendent at Eureka with 44 years of service to his credit.
Alden Ball, assistant superintendent at Eureka, looks after shipments. E. J. (Abe) Abrahamson is planing mill superintendent. Sam Davis has charge of dry kiln operations.
Watt Hibler is general superintendent of logging and railroad operati,ons.
B. M. Bullock is Eureka office manager and vice-president of the company.
Ellsworth La Boyteaux, grandson of the late J. M. Carson, and formerly connected with the company at Eureka, is at present serving in the armed forces.
"'We do not need more material development; we need more spiritual development. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more of the things that are seen; we need more of the things that are unseen. There is in the people themselves the power to put forth great men. There is in the soul of the nation a reserve for responding to the call of high ideals, to nobility of action, which has never been put forth."
-Calvin Coolidge.
Splendid words. The taciturn Coolidge had a thinking capacity-well illustrated by the above quotationthat will give him high rank when the permanent history of these times is written. He had little music; but splendid thoughts.
I often wonder as I read a dozen scattered newspapers a day, lots of good magazines, and listen to my radio, why in these times that "try men's souls" we hear so little real eloquence either in the spoken or written word on the subject of pure patriotism, love of country. Has that ever impressed you? ***
There is no lack of speakers and writers. fn fact, there is a profusion of both. They speak well. They write well. But they are practically mute-or so it impresses meon a subject on which during every previous American emergency there was terrific emphasis. f speak of real old-fashioned eloquence on the subject of American sentimentalism, love of home, love of country.
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Our thoughtful and patriotic citizens today speak and write voluminously. But their attack is largely concrete, rather than emotional. They speak of production figures and accomplishments; of conditions at home and abroad; of the horrors that would follow defeat; of the great need of funds to finance the war effort and our allies; of home and foreign economics; of politics; they plead with us to support our brave boys in uniform. They do all these things and more. But practically all of their pleadings and arguments are calm, logical, mechanical if you will. There are few heart throbs discernible.
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You would think that in such times as these there would arise among our people another Daniel Webster (or a dozen such, so great is the need). For fifty years that great orator made it his sacred business in every public utterance never to resume his seat until he had fired at least a few verbal rockets into the skies on the subject of patriotism, of love of country, of home, of Old Glory. No logical pleadings ever. His were the emotional outpourings of a patriotic heart and soul concerning the land and people he loved, the country and fag he adored; its greatness; the grandeur of its mission; its promise of hope to the people of all the world. To spread such gospel was not just the pastime of his idle moments; it was the serious business of his life. From his eighteenth to his seventieth year he made innumerable public addresses; and from no one of them did he ever omit a bit of tremendous flagwaving.
He quoted no statisticl, *r**U to no vital facts or figures on these occasions. Statistics are matters of the mind. True patriotic eloquence is of the heart. It has no more to do with figures, with concrete facts, or with dire forebodings, than the throbbing song of the mockingbird, singing to its mate at dawn of a spring day. To Webster the love of country was something that filled his heart to overflowing, and he launched a priceless and unfaltering tribute to "the land of the free" with no more staging, preparation, manuscript or mechanics than does the softthroated mockingbird. Could any man have a finer mis-
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