Plans and Progress What Busy California Lumber Here and There Folks Are Talking About

L. M. ROSENBERG RETURNS FROM LONG MOTOR

Mr. I-eo M. Rosenberg, President of the Hipolito Screen and Sash Company, Los Angeles, has returned ,from a several tl.rousand mile motor trip through the n,orthern part of the state. Mr. Rosenberg, with Mrs. Rosenberg were away from I-os Angeles about two weeks, making their main stay at l-ake 'fahoe, and taking ,in, during the trip, many more of the interesting points in the northern part of the state.

Joe Rolando Away For Two Weeks

Mr. Joseph Rolando, popular sales representartve of the Hart-Wood I-umber Company, Los Angeles, is enjoying a two weeks trip through the northern part of the coast.

Mr. Rolando will stop at the companys San Francisco offices, and will also call at various of their mill connections.

W. H. WOODARD IN NORTH

Mr. W. H. (Bill) Woodard, well known wholesaler, connected with Alvin C. Hamer, in Los Angeles, is making a trip to the northwest, combining a business trip with his vacation.

Mr. Woodard will call on various of the mills in the northwest, and wi[ make a visit with his father, who operates the Westport Lumber Company, at Westport, and also the Silver Falls Timber Company, at Silverton.

Hart Makes Flying Trip To Home Town

Phil B. Hart, managing editor of THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT, left Los Angeles on the morning of August 30th, to make a ten days trip to his former home in Lancaster, Ohio. He will return September 9th or 10th.

Texas Sash And Door Man Visits Los Angeles

Mr. M. N. Davidson, proprietor of the Houston Sash and Door Company, Houston, Texas, has been a visitor in Los Angeles for the past month.

Mr. Davidson will return to llouston about September 1 st.

Los ANGrr$"5*r"""Kr"r LEAVE FoR

Twenty four sash and door and mill owners of Iros Angeles and vicinity left on a special car, on the night of August 18th, bound for the Woodworking Congress to be held at Portland, August 22nd to 26th.

The following are making the trip from Los Angeles: H. P. Dixon, J.A. Farnsworth, W. L. Leishman, C. L. Edinger, M. A. Imhoff, E. R. Maule, O. A. Topham, P. J. McDonald, C. E. Loyd, T. R. Merrell, E. A. Mcholson, R. H. Lane, L. R. McKesson, C. A. Knowles, F. J. Theriot, B. H. Hayes, L. E. Gates, Sam Hayward, C. L. Miller, Robt. Osgood, Wrir. A. Liggins, E. B. Johnson, James L. Clynick, Jerome C. Gripper.

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ROUGH'-GREEI{ or K. D. YEttOW FIR CLEARS

(Continued from Page 16) salns h6rns, therefore, assuming the cost of buitciing to be the same as it was three years ago, would be $4,COJ instea<i of $3,000.

"Do you realize that if it were not for the lot profiteer, that if lots could be secured ,at the same price as three years ag'o, all of the workmen could be paid twlce the wages they were paid, which would add $6OO to the iabor bill, and 2oo/o, ad.ditional profit could be paid t<, tire buiiding material p2n-62king an incre,ase of $380-or a total increase of $980, and the owner would still have $20 left from a completed home tltat would have cost no more than he must pay because of the lot profiteer.

"Mind you. I am not advocating higher wages or higher profits--building costs are high enough, and too high; I am only pointing out where the chief increase ir.r cost lies. I would also call attention to this fact: labor produces buildings, material men produce materials from which buildings are made; WHAT DOES THE LO'f SPECULATOR PRODUCE?

"This is THE menace to our social and industrial progress. It is the disease that will finally kill our prosperity. This enormous increase in speculative land vaiues thai must be paid in the end by wealth producers-by which I mean workmen, me'rchants, and manufacturers-not only effects the cost of our homes, but it effects the capital cost of our factories and our stores. It adds enormously to the rent merchants must pay, increases their selling prices, and to an undreanred of degree enters into the irigir cost of living, as well as the high cost of building.

"Lot profiteers, who employ no labor and proriuce no wealth, are reaping fortunes. These fortunes are almost wholly unearned, and must colre out of the .productive activities of our people, either directly out of wages and profits of capital, or indirectly out of high prr,ces to the consumer.

"We are having an anrazing industrial expanslon; but our land speculatclrs are running ahead of it so fast that d.isaster is mu'ch .cl,oser than most of our people tealize.

"If we had the good sense,to realize that the heavy burden of taxation that now falls on industry, and that ultimately adds to the price to be paid'by the consumer, were transferred to the lot speculator by increasing the tax on the value of his lot, it would not be s,o easy for him to pyramid prices so out of proportion to the real value."

They Read It In Washington

The last issue of the "Western Retail Lum,berman," the snappy monthly bulletin issued to the members of the Western Retail Lumbernrens Association, contained a reprint of Mr. Dionnes last editorial, "SEE THE DEALER FIRST."