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(Continued from Page 6) have never tried it, and to refresh the memories of those who have, there is no harder work on earth than trying to make the rounds of a huge exposition when it is hot. It will get you down faster than any other effort I am acquainted with. I went to the Chicago show, intending to stay a week. I lasted exactly a day and a half, and then I played out, in spite of the fact that I am a stout walker. It wasn't very hot. Just fairly so. But the heat and the walking together played me out.

You might go to the New York Fair and find some cool weather. But the chances are that you wouldn't, Grover Whalen to the contrary notwithstanding. When it gets hot in New York you think you are in the lower left-hand corner of Hades, without a fan. But in San Francisco, where the big Western fair is being held, the Lord Himself did one of the finest jobs in all the earth's creation, of natural air-conditioning. It is always cool in San Francisco. It was twenty-odd years ago that I made my first visit to that city. I wore a summer silk suit out from Texas to Los Angeles, and found it O. K. there. I caught a night train and got ofi in the morning in San Francisco. I had been warned, but laughed up my sleeve. I soon dis. covered that what they say about San Francisco is true. It IS cool, delightfully cool, if you are looking for cold air and dressed to enjoy it. I stayed in a hotel several days until warm clothes arrived, and then started out, properly garbed with wool suit and light overcoat, to see the sights.

The San Francisco Fair, as all of you know, is located out in the middle of San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland. It covers an island" that was built right there in the water for the purpose of holding this fair. From either shore the mile and one-half long island exposition shines and shimmers, and beckons like an elf-land. You get to it either by the great new Oakland-San Francisco bridge, or by numerous ferry boats. It is cool over there. It is cool mornings, cool afternoons and cool evenings. The eternal question of visitors to most expositions, namely, "flow can I stand this heat?" doesn't go at San Francisco. You'll be cool. If you do not dress properly, you'll be cold. All the heat that your poor body has been soaking up since summer started, will be thoroughly eliminated in a single day at San Francisco. A friend of mine from Dallas ',vent to the San Francisco Fair last week. He said to me' "I'm going to just settle down in San Francisco until I get thoroughly cooled off."

I wonder if I've made it clear that my advice to the hot and tired person who wonders which World's Fair to go to fot his vacation is, "Go 'West, young man.f' Ilorace Greeley's admonition is as sane this summer as it ever was. And, to those who decide to see them both, aided by the low rates for this purpose created b/ the railroads, I would say: "See San Francisco first." fn that way you are certain to see them both. Because you will get thoroughly cool and rested in San Francisco. and can start for the East with renewed spirits. But if you try the New York Fair first, and hit hot weather, you'll probably never have energy enough to get to San Francisco. fnstead, it will take you a month to get rested, after you get home.

Low Cubic Foot Costs of Small Homes Indicated

Washington, June 28,-The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just completed a detailed cost analysis of eight lowcost Demonstration lfomes erected in the latter part of 1938 at Fairway Hills, Maryland, the "Laboratory Community" of the National Small Homes Demonstration.

The study reveals that these one- and two-story houses, ranging in accommodation from three to seven rooms, were erected at cubic foot costs for labor and material onlv, of from 19.7 to 27.8 cents.

Individual unit costs range from $228O to $3500, not includi.ng land, contractor's profit or development of grounds.

The study brings to light the interesting fact that as unit costs for houses are reduced, the balance between labor and materials is broken, in that materials greatly exceed labor. About 35/o', of the money s:pent in this experimental constructio.n went for labor at the site, while 65% is consumed in the purchase of materials.

In the eight Demonstration Homes about $11,000 was spent for carpentry, including $4,000 for labor and $7,000 for materials. Of the $7,000 for materials the cost of lumber and millwork accounted for $5.000. Material and installation costs o.n kitchen cabinets, general hardware and insulation were included in carpentry.

About 11,00O man-hours of labor at the site were reported. Carpenters and carpenters'helpers put in 4,40o hours; painters, 1,700 hours; and there were 2,4OO hours of common labor.

It is estimated that the material orders resulted in 16,000 or 17,000 man-hours off the site, in fabrication, transportation, office and sales and similar operations. This is in the ratio of about lf man-hours of off-site labor for each manhour of labor on the site.

United States Lumber and Log Exports Show Gain

Exports of United States lumber and logs in the first four months of 1939 increased 9 percent over the amount exported in the corresponding period of 1938, according to the Forest Products Division, Department of Commerce. Hardwood and softwood lumber and logs exported in the first quarter of 1939 totalled 362,@7,m board feet valued at $13,321,502.

Total sawed material accounted for 308,359,000 board feet in the first quarter of t939, and represented a five percent gai.n over the corresponding figures for 1938. Logs and hewn timber exported this year totalled 53,738,000 board feet, or 39 percent more than was exported in the first four months of 1938.

In the sawn softwood group, Douglas Fir, of which 114,537,000 board feet were exported in the first quarter of 1939, represented more than half the total sawn softwood exported. I.n the hardwood group, oak was the chief species exported, with a total of 51,315,000 board feet.