Public Shows lntercst Tribute Paid to Indian Service

Hardwood Display Forester

A joint permanent exhibit of the various kinds of hardrvood in a prominent place in each large city would be a good investment for the local hardwood dealers, judging by the great interest being shown by the public in an exhibit of hardwoods in the window of the main office of the Pacific States Savings & Loan Company at 745 Market Street, San Francisco.

This exhibit is made possible through the courtesy of the Davis Hardwood Company, of 350 Bay Street, San Francis'co. Hardwood samples shown include white oak, Tennessee Cedar, maple, hickory, ash, quartered figured gum, and quartered oak, all United States woods; English holly wood, Philippine norra, Philippine camagon, Australian ironbark, Siam teak, Dutch East Indies ebony, and Chinese birch.

Veneers shown include Black walnut crotch, quarter sawed figured gum, quarter sawed oak, American walnut, Oriental walnut from New Zealand, Hawaiian koa, Philippine avodino, Central American stripe mahogany and Australian blackwood.

Large Douglas Fir panels and samples of fu-inch Fir plywood are also exhibited.

Special interest seemed to be taken in two policemen's nightsticks in the 'center of the display. One of these is made of balsa wood and the other of lignum vitae, the lightest and heaviest woods known. The first weighs one ounce and the other 14 ounces.

Also featured in this window is a display of balsa wood, contributed by Ramon de Ycaza, 461 Market Street, San Francisco. Balsa wood on the average weighs from six to nine pounds per cubic foot, but some weighs as little as two pounds a cubic foot. Balsa trees grow to 12 inches diameter in three years' and reach three feet in diameter rvhen full grown. The wood is largely used in making motion pictures, as it is entirely free from echoes and vibrations.

Washington, May 27.-lay P. Kinney, Director of Forestry in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, was accorded the almost unique honor of re-election as chairman of the Washington Section of the Society of American Foresters, at the monthly meeting at the Cosmos Club, Thursday evening. William Dayton was elected secretary-treasurer and E. A' Fivaz of the Agricultural Department was chosen vice-chairman.

In nominating Mr. Kinney for re-election, L. F. Kneipp, Assistant forester, U. S. Forest Service, said:

In selecting a man to be head of our Section, I assume that the qualities we would most desire him to possess would be vision, idealism, intelligence and 'courage. The vision to see the full potentialities of forestry for social service; the idealism to desire to attain through the forests the greatest possible contribution to human happiness and progress; the intelligence to plan creatively and constructively, to translate his vision and i<ieals into realities' and the courage to go forward toward his objective despite all obstacles and difiiculties that beset his path.

It was brought out in other remarks that Mr' Kinney has been in the servi'ce of the Department of the Interior for 27 yearc, of which 23 have been in the work of its Indian Forest Service. He was graduated from Cornell in 1902 and later received its degree of Master of Forestry and that of Bachelor of Laws frcm the National University in Washington. Kinney is the author of the only books published on American forest law,viz., "Development of Forest Law in America", and "Elements of American Timber Law"; he is the author of many forestry articles in forestry and popular magazines.

Tribute was paid to IVIr. Kinney's progressive administration of the Indian forests as at once practical and'constructive, combining conservation with maximum utility'

LUMBERMEN'S PICNIC

cAr,lFonNrA nETATL tUltDEnilEN'S (Southern Division)

Assogiation

BROOKSIDE PARK-SecIionA-PASADENA, CALIF.

PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE ALL KINDS OF GAMES AND SPORTS

Baseball - Tug-of-War - Fat Men's Race - l,adies' Nail Driving Contest

Rinning Races for Men, Ladies and Children, etc.

Excellent Prizes

Ice Cream and coffee Free (Bring Your Own Cups)

All Lumbermen, including all branches of the industry, their families and ' triends are invited to attend