Random Editorial Ramblings

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Mr. Carr poses in his column as a liberal critic, while fanatically intolerant of the opinionp of others. He would have others respect his opinions, yet repudiates by the thunders of silence an accurate and honest statement of dissent, courteously offered.* fs that fair play?

He keeps hammering away at a lot of hard-working, business-troubled mbn, whose pathway has been and is today anything but a road of roses. Humarl service is a dominant and outstanding factor in their business. Their industry confers an almost indispensable service to man- kind. Yet he continues to attack them with a blind vigor that would be amusing were it not so unfair, so untruthiul, so prejudiced, and so hurtful ,,(

There are numerous-almost innumerable-sound, loyal, and satisfactory reasons for the cutting of trees to serve mankind. There is not room for them here. Just take one picture. Let Mr. Carr, or any other tree-cutting critic, answer it'

Here isa county covered with trees. It has only one forrn of wealth-trees. It has only one basis of taxaiiontrees. ft has only one foundation for civilization, for homes, schools, churches, etc.-trees. Men live and move and have their being, and build their homes, and raise their families, and build progress and prosperity only on one foundationTREES. NOT on trees that stand in their beauty and their majesty on the hillside, their mighty timbs reaching toward the sky, their shadow a halo upon the earth, their branches a home for birds, their leaves the playmates of the winds and breezes ! Not at all ! But on the COMMERCIAL value of the trees, all these things must rest. These trees are valuable only because they can be CUT DOWN. you can't tax shade and beauty andsentiment.

Into this county-there are many such in California you know-comes the sentiment of Mr. Carr, let us say. Cutting trees is murder, men are told. So the cutting of trees

Walter Kelly Onvacation

J. Walter Kelly, sales manager of the Chas. R. McCor_ mick .Lumber Co., San Francisco, has just returned to his desk from a two u'eeks'vacation spent on the Russian ni".r-.

BILL HAM-ILToN BA;I.AT DESK

Bill Hamilton of the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Company, I-os Angeles, recently returned from a two weeks, .,r"c"tidn 3l R"* Creek Lodge, which is located in the high Sierras. Mrs. Hamilton accompanied him on the trip and"both members of t_he family give a very favorable report of the fish- ing conditions at this location.

is forbidden,let us assume. WHAT BECOMES OF THAT COUNTY? What becomes of its people, their homes, their schools, their churches, their civilizatiorl? What becomes of them? It isn't an idle question. A great part of the State of California is in exactly that po.sition. Answer the question before you cry "murderer" I Tree covered territories where tree cutting is forbidden won't even produce the sorriest crops. ft can be but one thingt-WILDERNESS.

What's the answer? You can have people, and civilization-or you can have trees. Which will it be, humans ortrees?

ft is true that some of these trees have stood for thousands ofyears. And what good have they done? What service have they rendered? What benefits have they conferred? Today they are performing a great service. They will for all time to come. We will always have Redwood trees in California-always. And we will always be cutting Redwood trees in Cdifornia-always.

They speak of the Golden State, and yet tfie forests of California have already produced more than twice as much wealth as have the mines, and while the mines are about gone, the forests are practically untouched, and new ones are growing, growing, growing into trees that will form a basis for continued service to mankind, and continued foundation for Californi" ptotl,"tl,y.*

Mr. Carr once painted in his column a word picture of what he thought a tree cutter must be like. ft was a revolting suggestion. May we be pardoned for a suggestion to the Los Angeles'Times? Just a coat of arms for the head of The Lancer column. How would this be? A fat columnist, Rampant; an admiring wodd, Regardant; a prostrate lumberman, Suppliant; and the motto,-"To Hell with the people-let's save the trees." We charge nothing for the suggestion.

W. R. CHAMBERLIN TAKES AIRTRIP

W. R. Chamberlin, Los Angeles, president of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., recently traveled by airplane from San Diego to Los Angeles, and reports having thoroughly enjoyed the trip, which was his first air journey.

' BACK FRoM NoRTHwEsr

R. Frederickson, shingle expert and specialty salesman for the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a business and pleasure trip to Seattle and VanJouver, B.C. While in t'he latter ci[y he visited the staining plant of the Creo-Dipt Company, Inc.

Firm that started, during gold rush sees rna,ny buying changes

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