Hoover Talks on Home and Busineqs

(From Herbert Hoover's speech of acceptance of the Republican nomination for President.)

Home

"Ilome ownership has grown. While during this period the number of families has increased by about 2,300,000, we have built more than 3,500,000 new and better homes. In this short time we have equipped nearly nine million more homes with electricity, and through it drudgery has been liftedfrom the lives of women" The barriers of time and distance have been swept away and life made freer and larger by the installation of six million more telephones, seven million radio sets, and the service of an addition3l fourteen million automobiles. Our cities are growing magnificent with beautiful buildings, parks and playgrounds. Our countryside has been knit together with splendid roads."

Duties Of Business

"With the growth and increasing complexities of our economic life the relations of government and business are multiplying daily. They are yearly more dependent upon each other. Where it is help:ful and nelessary this relation should be encouraged. Beyond this it should not go. It is the duty of government to avoid regulation as long as equal opportunity to all citizens is not invaded and public rights violated. GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT ENGAGE IN BUSINESS IN COMPETITION \^/ITH ITS CITI-

LUMBERMAN HEADS OLDEST NON-PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE IN CALIFORNIA

Charles Moorehead, manager of the Irwin Lumber Co', Escalon, is president of the Don Pedro Baseball- If1gu", the oldest nbn-professional league in the state of California. The leagui is nine years old, and Charlie has been its president for-the past four years, during which period it has made rapid progress.

The leagui is coriposed of teams from the towns of Escalon, Tra"cy, Gustine, Manteca, Turloc! and Modesto. The Gustine teim won the pennant for the first half of thet 1928 season, and after the game on August 5, with four games to go, the Escalon. Minteca and Gustine teams were tied for the championshiP.

Charlie has been -interested in the Escalon team for a numter of years, and has guided them through many tough sesslons.

Another lumberman, Al Banchio' manager of the Gustine Lumber Co., is interested in the league in the capacity of shortstop for the Gustine team. It is re-ported that Al is the best shortstop in the league, and a few of the scouts have been looking him over; however,-it is- stated on good authority that he rvill stick with lumber business, as the Gustine'Lumber Co. has made rapid strides under his management.-Charlie and Al are not exactly rivals in the lumber business. but when it comes to baseball, it is said that the sky is the limit.

DESCHUTES PINE E;1?T"l$ LIVE LITTLE

One of the livest and peppiest house orgals th-a-t comes t" tfr. editorial desk of Tlie California Lumber Merchant ir.-fi.*"tt"t.s Pine Echoes, published *9n1hly by*the ii.rof.t-S.""1on Lumber Company, at Bend, Oregon' Paul

ZENS. Such actions extinguish the enterprise and initiative which has been the glory of America and whictr has been the root of its pre-eminence among the nations of the earth. On the other hand, it is the dttty of business to conduct itself so that government regulation or government competition is unnecessary.

"Business is practical, but it is founded upon faittrfaith among our people in the integrity of business men, and faith that it will receive fair play from the government. It is the duty of government to maintain that faith. Our whole business system would break down in a day if there was not a high sense of moral responsibility in our business world. The whole practice and ethics of business have made great strides of improvement in the last quarter of a century, large- ly due to the effort of business and the professions themselves. ONE OF THE MOST HELPFUL SIGNS OF RECENT YEARS IS THE STRONGER GROWTH OF ASSOCIATIONS OF WORKERS, FARMERS, BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEN WITH A DESIRE TO CURE THEIR OWN ABUSES AND A PURPOSE TO SERVE PUBLIC INTEREST. Many problems can be solved through co-operation between government and these self-governing associations to improve methods and practices. When business cures its own abuses it is true selfgovernment which comprises more than political institutions."

Hosmer isthe editor. Associate Editors are listed on the mast head as "Everybody Else". The aim of the paper, accordiirg to that same mast head, is "Humo! and the promotion of good feeling". The purpose stated is "To give it". The desire, as further stated, is "To remain with Brooks-Scanlon". Plenty of wit and humor, intermingled with interesting business things, fill each issue. It is very much worth while.

FREDERICK O. PERKINS AND THEO. KNAPPEN VISIT CALIFORNIA FOR N.L.M.A.

Frederick O. Perkins, of New York, and Theo. Knappen, of Washington, were recent distinguished visitors in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Mr. Per:kins is an official of the J. Walter Thompson Company, of Nerv York, said to be the rvorld's largest advertising company, and will have charge of the account of the National l.umber Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Knappen is a trade extension executive with the National. Both gentlemen attended the joint meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and the West Coast Lumbermen's Association at Tacoma, and .came through California on their way back east, making several stops, which included Portland, Klamath Falls, Bend and Northern California points. Mr. Perkins is making an investigation of lumber making, selling, using and thinking' on the Pacific Coast, for use in their advertising campaign for the National. He states that his concern has a group of men scattered through the country digging up facts from the lumber industry for use in this campaign, and he expressed the hope that the trade promotion work would go forward faster than ever before under the stimulus of the awakening of the industry to its great needs.