Vagabond Editorials

from Page 6) ple. There is a gas station for each 72 motor vehicles. And gas stations are still going in on numerous corners in every section of the country, while the number of lumber yards is not increasing. There is nothing to indicate that the saturation point has been feached in the gas station business.

That's because we are increasing the sale of motor cars, and increasing the opportunity for using them. In the United States last year we built 92,000,000,000 worth of new roads-just to run motor cars on. Of the 34,200,000 motor cars Listed in the whole world last year, 22,000,000 were in the United'States. We imported Zl0 foreign cars last year, and exported 11015,000

Which means,that they will be busy building more gas filling stations in other parts of the world also. Well, it takes some lumber to build gas stations, regardless of what type they are, so this is continual business for the lumber folks.

I heard quite a famous high brow economist the other day deriding tJris era of super salesmanship that this country is going through. He interpreted sal,esmanship, as we view it today, to mean inducing gullible people to exchange their cash and credit for things they do not need, do not want, and can't afford.

That is somewhat true in most lines of endeavor. It is the opposite of true in the lumber industry. Many of our great and growing industries undoubtedly over-sell. When the automobile man induces the fellow with a perfectly good car to trade it in on a newer and shinier one, he is creating useless waste. But when th'e retail lumberman induces the home owner to spend two hundred dollars on a new living room floor, a new plate'glass mirror door for a bedroom, and a built-in boolrrase for the bare wal,led living room, he is creating something good and constructive. The auto man overdoes it, and the lumberman underdoes it.

Tariff Conferees Agree to $1 Lumber Companies Softwood Lumber Duty Consolidate

House and Senate conferees on the tariff bill agree'on a rate of $l per thousand board feet to be placed on dressed Fir, Spruce, Pine. Hemlock and Lar,ch lumber, on May 2t, in spite of the recent. defeat on the House floor of a levy of 75 cents on these softwoods.

The House group would not accept that part of the Senate's lumber amendment applying the dutl to railroad ties and telephone poles of all kinds of wood, and this section was eliminated.

/ noy BARTo oN ANNUAL INSPEcTIoN TRIP To PHILIPPINES

Ro-y Barto, president of the Cadwallader-Gibson Co.. Inc., Los Angeles, is on a trip to the Philippine Islands for his annual tour of inspection of the company's operations. He made the trip on the Dollar Steamihip Linis' transPacific liner President Jefferson. He sailed from San Francisco on Friday afternoon, May 9.

The Weaver Lumber Co., Ltd., Los Angeles, and the T. A. Bennington Hardwood Flooring Co., Maywood, have consolidated and will operate as the T. A. Bennington Commercial Co. 'Ilhe officers of the new company are: Ollie A. Topham, president; T. A. Bennington, vice-president, and H. O. Russell, secretary-treasurer. E. J. Thompson is in charge of sales, and Paul Thompson will act as service manager. The T. A. Bennington Commercial Co. will occupy the offices and yard of the former Weaver Lumber Co.. Ltd.. which is located at 164O East Florence avenue. Los Angeles.

Walter Scrim Returns From Northwest

Walter Scrim, Findlay Millar Timber Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a business trip to the Northwest, which included stops at Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B. C. Mr. Scrim plans to leave on an eastern business trip around the first of June.