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SPR.INGTIME ! Likewise, spning-fever time ! wag has said that spring fever is when the iron blood turns to lead in your feet.

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Why do I stand when the moon is high, With arms outstretched to a starless sk5l, And raise my voice in a wordless cry

When the moon stares back

And the clouds drift by?

Why do I do it?

I'm nuts ! That's why !

Some upon to decide which associated industry had made the in your most outstanding achievement in association work during f938. They decided that the medal had been earned by the cement industry for developing a cheaper priced product for building farm-to-market roads. So from one direction the cement industry gets a kick in the slats at \^Iashington, and from the other a nice bouquet.

Spring brings the baseball season, too, and the air is full of hits, and balls, and bases, and umpires. Which reminds us of the rhyme:

"He may have been safe as you stater" says Bill' "But I called him out, and he's out until ft's snowin' in Hell, and there's sand in the sea; That's the kind of an ump I am," said he.

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Or maybe you prefer this one: Seated one day in a restaurant, f was weary and ill at ease, Eating a strange concoction, Called "chicken croquettes and peas."

Or, mayhap, this one suits your spring rhyming taste: It's.no trick, my dearie, to act gay and cheerie, When sales and collections are swell;

But I kneel at the shrine

Of the guy who won't whine

When the market is going to Hll.

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The rPortland Cement Industry is either very good or very bad in Government eyes, depending on which deparG ment you ask. Right now the Federal Trade Commission has the industry on the carpet charging price fixing. Testimony is being taken. And right in the midst of it Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce and chum of President Roosevelt, pins the brightest kind of a shiny medal on the chest of that same Portland Cement Industry. Harry is Chairman of the Awards Committee of American Trade Association Executives, and that Committee was called rk:F*

I heard this one the other day, and loved it. "A thinking man," said a thinking man, "is just a BUNDLE OF BORROWINGS from the impressive people who have touched his life." And the bigger the man, the greater the borrowings. The difierence is that big men cheerfully admit their wholesale borrowings, while the small counterfeiters always lay claim to originalitY.

Much war talk now. lt"rr, out of Washington. Yet no one has theatened us. Twenty-two years ago we entered upon a European war. We loaned the Allies eleven billions of dollars, that they never repaid. We spent twentytwo billions of dollars on our own war efforts. We left tens of thousands of our precious boys dead on the bloody fields of France, 'where poppies grow." And other thousands of our boys who fell but did not die, live in torment in our veterans hospitals today. We have eleven million unemployed men in this country, and owe fifty billions of dollaars. And we're deliberately sticking our nose into that European muddle again.

We've gone.into an" "n"** up food" business again. In Louisiana the sugar planters are plowing under 38'5fl) acres of growing sugar cane' two to three feet high' and worth three and on*half million dollars. They must do the plowing to get their benefit payments from the Government. Thousands of men who raise, harvest, refine, and otherwise help make the sugar crop, will miss the work on those many acres. Yet the United States produces far less sugar than it consumes.

I wish I had the facts and figures at my disposal right now that would enable me to intelligently discuss the subject of market values of standing commercial timber in the United States today. I venture the assertion that it would make a very, very interesting story. It would be filled with surprises; evex shocks. Because some of the figures and facts I have stumbled upon recently have knocked my preconceived ideas of timber values completely cockeyed.

The interest of timber and mill men in every part of the country is naturally considerably centered on Southerrr Yellow Pine, and the amazing development of secondgrowth supply for Southern mills that had expected to long ago be cut out and gone. I believe I told in this column about the Western mill man who asked me this question: "fs it tnre that this Short Leaf Yellow Pine grows so rapidly that the Southern mill men go out after every heavy rain and cut a brand new crop of trees?', I told him that that was an exaggeration; that it really took several months to grow sawlogs of ordinary size, and that stringer logs even took longer. But there WAS a germ of truth in his guestion.

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Many interested lumbermen, particularly on the pacific Coast, have asked me about this apparently new crop of Yellow Pine, and what the truth of the matter is. Well, the truth is that when the forests of the South stood tall and thick and looked as though they would last forever, it seemed that human ingenuity concentrated to bring about their rapid destruction. But when they began to grow thin and the remaining trees were getting easy to count, and the average quality grew lower, a great change began to take place. The mills began to slow up, to make thetr lumber with more care, to try and get something out of eviry log in the matter of quality, to protect the young trees, to stamp out fires where they formerly started them, to use logging equipment and logging practices that served to protect the young trees and give them a chance to gro% in fact to do a hundred wise things that they had nerren thought of in the days when the trees grew in such countless numbers. And so, in recent years, the South has viewerl with utter amazement the speed with which these young Short Leaf Yellow Pine trees grew and re-grew when given a chance. And many, many mills that thought they were through ten years ago, now go right along, and figure on continuing to do so, some for years, others indefinitely. And so it will be in every timbered region, no doubt, as the virgin forests disappear. The South is particularly blessed in having a climate where trees grow rapidly the year around; and in owning a species of commercial trees that lend themselves to very rapid growth.

Many changes came to the manufacture and preparation for market of the timber that came from these new forests. In the old days only the big sawmills were equipped to make bright, attractive-looking lumber. They had kilns; ago in the West; and he would probably have a little they dipped their lumber to prevent discoloration if it was money left' air dried. In the last few years a perfectly revolutionary I based that statement on the fact that I have frimds