The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club

By E. S. McBride, President

The Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club needs no introduction to the readers of The California Lumber l\[erchant. We are just a bunch of fellor,r' lumbermen who get together once a month during the luncheon hour, when we discuss the problems confronting us, finding that they are much more easily solved or adjusted in such an hour of fellowship.

The closing meeting of 1925 was commemorated by the presentation of a diamond Shriners Emblem to our retiring President, L. H. Chapman, and also a gift to our Secretary, C. D. LeMasters, tokens of appreciation for the many and valued services rendered throughout the year, making it one of the most enjoyable and instructive years in the history of the Club.

The first three meetings of this year were given over almost entirely to the discussion of grade marking, rvith the result that this is now very generally understood not only by members of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club but by many of the other Clubs as well. It is during such discussions as these that the spirit of cooperation and goodwill fostered by our Club is Cvinced to iuch a degreJ that we feel we are one large family rvorking for the general good, not for lumbermen alone but for all those with r,r'hom we come in contact.

At our May meeting our yard foremen accepted an invitation to be present and listen to a talk given by a Standard Oil representative on "Service." It was then we learned that lumber as well as oil may be used as a lubricant in promoting that "smooth" personality know as "Service with a Smile."

On June 19th members of the Club with their families enjoyed a picnic at Del Paso Park, where rve forgot there was such a thing as a lumber-yard office and romped with the rest of the kids, and tho "Ma" had cautioned us not to eat more than one piece of every kind, we did that very thing and then declared a vacation of two months in which tcl get back to normal ready for our Fall Program. At this time several important committees will begin to function after the preparation of their problems during the spring months.

To make radical changes in the policies or methods of functioning of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Clttb uiould seem folly after reviewing the success which has been attained in the past, so it may be said that we shall go forward pursuing the same policies as laid down by past administrations, profiting by mistakes made, ever alert to new responsibilities and looking to the welfare of individual members as well as the industry as a whole.