Reviewing Past Twelve Months History In California Hoo-Hoo Activities

California continued to lead the country during the past twelve months, viewed from a standpoint of Hoo-Hoo activities, just as it has done for ,many years past.

The spirit of Hoo-Hoo has not dimmed, and the interest in Hoo-Hoo appears to increase, rather than diminish, with the passing of time. If Arkansas was the birthplace of the famous Concatenated Order, surely California has been its cradle and its strongest rallying ground.

During the ,past year the increase in Hoo-Hoo numbers in California has been far less than the record set in various previous years. But that is as it should be. No longer is there a concerted effort to get in members, but the effort is si'mply to seiure quality, rather than quantity in membership, and to bring into the Order only those who will adcl to the quality of the membership, and to whom membership will bring reward.

The chief aim of California Hoo-Hoo now is to keep up the WORK of the order, and make it a consistent vehicle for the promotion of health, happiness, and cooperation among the lumbermen, to the end that the industry may prosper and be respected, and the public be the better served.

In the old days Hoo-Hoo only met at Concatenations and Annuals. Today Hoo-Hoo meets regularly and continually, creating and improving social relationship and friendly understanding between lumbermen, and keeping the fol'lowers of the industry together in the strong bonds of service and of friendship and mutual understanding.

There have been twelve Concatenations held in California since the last Birthday Issue, the last one being the June Con-Cat in San Francisco. This made the fourth Con-Cat in the Bay District. There were two in the citrus belt of Southern California, two at San Diego, one in Los Angeles, two in the San Joaquin Valley, and one at McCloud.

McCloud is the only new club, being enthusastically organized by that greatest of organizers and leaders, The Parson himself.

McCloud led the ,list of big Con-Cats, with 39 kittens. Los Angeles came next with 30, and Robert Dollar night at San Francisco was third with 25.

The total number of new kittens taken in during the year was 179 and the total number of reinstatements was 29.

Los Angeles and San Francisco each held a big dinner dance during the winter. Los Angeles held three golf tournaments. Los Angeles held a monster Christmas party eqtertaining over three hundred orphan children. Oakland held a big Christmas Jinx. The San Joaquin, San Francisco, dnd Los Angeles Clubs observed Forest Week u'ith special progfams.

,Only one drawback to the year's history. A whole lot of ,California Hoo-Hoo are delinquents in their annual dues to the Order, according to the report of the Supreme Secretary, Henry fsherwood.

PAY YOUR HOO-HOO DUES AT ONCE AND ,LET'S HELP KEEP CALIFORNIA AT THE VERY PINNACLE OF THE HOO-HOO HEA,P. DO IT NOW!