Vagabond Editorials

(Continued from Page 6) we heartily .g3.u -itti ori, nlr"nu, Carl Crow, that the admission of that "test cargo" of Russian lumber into the United States recently, was just another proof that when it comes to really doing something, this is a nation of pitiful jelly-fish. All we have been able to get our wishywashy ofhcials to do so far is to pass a rule against convict-made lumber. Up in Canada they simply passed a rule and said that Russian lumber CANNOT COME IN: neither can Russian pulp, pulpwood, and other products whose reception would hurt Canadian producers. ***

Yet we must honor them for it. And in honoring them we expiess the sincere wish that they won't always have to hold the old umbrella over the fellow who won't help, but will some day derive the returns they deserve from their efforts to help the industry.

We never knelt very humbly at the shrine of Theodore Roosevelt, but there are plenty of times when we wish that he might be alive and President always. There was the only man who has been in authority in Washington in gen-

PORTLANDLUMBERMAN VISITS S. F. BAY DISTRICT

L. J. Wentworth, well known Portland lumberman, manager of the Portland office of the Douglas Fir Exploitation & Export Co., was a recent visitor to San Francisco. He made his headquarters at the company's San Francisco office, and attended his daughter's graduation at the University oI California.

Floyd Dernier Calls On Trade

Floyd Dernier, Lumbermen's Service Association, Los Angeles, spent several days calling ontheretail lumber trade in the San Francisco Bay district, Sacramento a.nd San Joaquin Valleys during the month of May.

erations who had abdominal fortitude to judge a thing on its merits and do it because it was right. All we've had in Washington since we can remember is a conglomeraton of spineless buck-passers, duty dodgers, and technicality lovers, who couldn't do a brave and definite thing any more than they could jump over the moon. To expect the suffering lumber industfy-or any other needy group of Americans-toget a helping hand from such mollycoddles is simply hoping for a return of the day of miracles.

The Millwork Institute or*a.lrrorrria holds its semi-annual convention in Los Angeles on June 12th. There should be a genuine gathering of the clans. Good work is being done by the Millwork Institute. It justifies more faith and more following. And there is no industry in California today that needs organization more for both defense and offense, than does the millwork business. With its back to the wall, this business is fighting for life. And a concerted fight is the only kind that can hope to win. Individually, men and firms are powerless in the face of such conditions as prevail.

C. B.LEIGH VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

C. B. Leigh, technical field man for the Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., is spending a month in the San Francisco Bay district looking into the possibilities for increasing the use of Douglas fir plywood for concrete forms and wall board. Heis making his headquarters at the office of C. W. Buckner, 557 Market St., San Francisco, Northern California representative of Harbor Plywood Corporation.

Redwood Field Manvisits Arizona

W. L. Hook, field engineer of ttre California Redwood A\sociation, returned recently from a trip to Arizona where he conferred with engineers of the State highway department,