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lots worse places in hot weather. There ARE plenty of cool places within the borders of Texas, and plenty of natural things that would make even an avowed Californian jealous. There are places in the mountains of West Texas where you can find cool weather even in the hottest summer, and copious quantities of the most beautiful spring water you ever drank or bathed in; and there is gorgeous scenery to be had as well. Right in the City of Austin, the Capitol of Texas, there is a natural swimming pool belonging to the city that Los Angeles would give anything it possesses to own. And so, likewise, would any other big city. Out of the living rock gushes the clearest, coldest water you ever saw, fowing twelve months in the year in such copious quantities as to form a fine river below the pool. Here in a green valley the City of Austin constructed this municipal pool below these springs, one hundred feet wide, seven hundred feet long, varied as to depth so that all sizes and ages may bathe and swim. The spring water flows eternally through this great pool; there is no need to change water, to cleanse the pool, or to use chemicals of any sort. The entire pool changes every few minutes; disease fro,rn group bathing is unknown, and an army may swim and bathe.

Springs of that sort are to be found in innumerable

places in West Texas, where in time sutruner resorts will spring up. Several places on the Old Spanish Trail from San Antonio to El Paso the tourist may stop and watch veritable geysers of cold, sweet water gushing eternally from the ground. The weather in Texas is indeed warm in the summer; yet compared with Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, and numerous other cities of the North and Middle West, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Austin are cool summer resorts. If you don't believe it, try it. I have driven North from Houston to the Great Lakes on several occasions, and gasped with the heat even on Lake Michigan and Lake Superior; have found continual heat on several weeks' trip much greater than the heat I left behind in Texas.

No, Abilene isn't ,""4" "*lr" ,o, climate. But then, neither is Pasadena, or Sacramento, or Bakersfield. The advantages the latter three places have, of course, is that people there can quickly get to Santa Barbara, or some other cool coast country. And that is what makes California the world's garden spot to live in. If you don't find what you want in one California spot, you CAN some place else. Which is why some of these days there will be fifteen million happy people living in California, and no power on earth can prevent it.

HOW BETTER COULD YOU SPEND YOUR TIME?

The only awkward feature of your publications, The CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT and The GULF COAST LUMBERMAN, is that they are so interesting that they pre-empt my time on the day of the week on which they arrive.

Your "Vagabond Editorials" should be syndicated for general circulation, for they are a tonic for anaemic thinking in the business world generally as well as in the lumber business.

R. W. EMERSON, Executive Secretary, National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau, Washington, D. C.

BACK FROM ARIZONA-CALIFOTRNIA TOUR

Jack lvey, field representative for the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, has returned to headquarters from an extended tour of California and Arizona.

After attending the convention of the Arizona retailers at Phoenix on May 7 and 8, he put on a series of meetings at Phoenix, Miami, Pres,cott and other points, where he showed the Bureau's talking picture, "The Home of the Wooden Soldiers."

Mr. Ivey also called on the lumber dealers and building inspectors in Yuma, Tucson, Globe, Flagstafi and Jerome. He left Los Angeles on May 18 on his way north, and held meetings in Bakersfield, Fresno and Sacramento'