Hoo Hoo Activities During The Past Year

By Fred W. Roth Hoo-Hoo State Counsellor for California

Mr. Fred Roth.

"Behind the Scenery," that cartoon in the Saturday Evening Post of June 4th, this year, portraying the auto tourist marveling at the picture of nature's beautiful trees purposely allowed to grow on specific highways, while behind the scenes the lumber baron struts through wasted loggedoff land with all the lust of a gormandizer, is a direct challenge to the lumber fraternity and a damnable prevarication, at least as far as California is concerned. Here is rvhere "lfoo-I{oo" can do its part in righting the distorted minds of these people who do not understand the real service that the lumberman pays to citizenship.

During American Forest Week, so proclaimed by the President of the United States, and the Dominion of Canada, Hoo Hoo in California has endeavored through the press, in addresses by Hoo Hoo members before various service clubs, through the Boy Scouts, over the radio, and before many other audiences to stress on fire protection, to tell how manufactured lumber serves us in all our daily needs, arrd to show that trees mature like any other growing crop which needs to be harvested, and that the lumberman is taking care of posterity by reforestation as an assurance against total depletion notwithstanding the fact that we have millions of acres of trees in National Forests.

Brother Wirt at the Scotia Nurserv told the writer that the two Redwood Nurseries rte .p.trding about $150,000 a year on reforesting Redwood, Port Orford Cedar, Sitka Spruce and Douglas Fir. This is something worthy of advertising by Hoo Hoo for this expenditure, to take care of futnre ages, is voluntary on the part of the Redwood manufacturers.

Not to be outdone, our White and Sugar Pine manufacturers are logging carefully to protect young growth and are making every effort to fight the ravages of forest fires. These woods propagate themselves.

Too bad that our message did not reach the ears of the Curtis Publishing Company at Philadelphia. However, we must leave it to our Hoo-Hoo friends in Pennsvlvania to spread the gospel there that Hoo Hoo and the lumber interests are friends of the forest.

The trip of Snark of the lJniverse, Arthur Hood, through California is now a matter of history. He confided in me that nowhere in his entire trip was he welcomed and entertained as in California.

Our main office is in St. Louis. They give us the skeleton or frame of the organization to work with. What we get out of it is dependent on what we put into it. It is therefore very important that our vice-gerents and club officials shall be leaders and imbued with the spirit of the possibilities of a united lumber industry. I ask you to look over the names of the follorving vice-gerents as an answer to Hoo lloo success in California during the past year:

Butte County District. ..William B. Dean

Mt. Shasta District. Clifford T. Kernohan

San Joaquin Valley District. ....W. P. Johnson

Sacramento Valley District. ..Walter N. Baker

Stanislaus District. R. L. Ustick

Sierra District. ......J. N. Boshoff

San Francisco Bay District.9 ...Robert S. Grant

Los Angeles District. .W. B. Wickersham

San Diego District ...Jerry Sullivan, Sr.

Coast Counties District...........Albert L. Hubbard

San Bernardino District.... ..Harry IJ. Newton

Riverside District. ....J. Wesley Shrimp

Susanville District. ..Wm. C. Graf

Hilt District. . ....A. E. Stonehouse

Quincy District. ....Wm. Stoddard llumboldt County District. ..J. H. Quill

No organization with purely selfish motives can prosper. The Christmas parties by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Hoo Hoo Clubs to orphan children prove the spirit of our order.

As this paper goes to press another epoch in California Hoo Hoo history is set by a big Northern California Concat at Burney Falls. This is one of the beauty spots of Shasta County and a favored recreation ground for tourists. To the boys at Westwood belong the credit for this idea and program; and this article would be amiss without some mention of their activities. During the past year they have taken over the Westwood auditorium in which they are now putting in balconies by altering the roof. This will give them a seating capacity of two thousand people. At this auditorium they sponsor educational programs and furnish entertainment-the revenue from which they use for such purposes as financing children's playgrounds. Their poster- was designed by Bill Laughead, a member of Westwood's Hoo Hoo Club and is printed at lhe Red River Lumber Company's printing plant. The Barbecue at this big Northern California Concat is being held on the Red River Lumber Company's property and the feast provided by them. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Walker take an active interest in Hoo Hoo activities and are loved for their ministration to Westwood's sick and needy.

"We are friends of the Forest. Are you ? Hoo Hoo helps prevent fire."

A review of only a few of our activities shows that not only does Hoo Hoo provide a common meeting ground for friendly play, which after all is important to all lines of industry as an eliminator of friction, but that it also provides (Continued on Page 71.)