EGGS to Hatch

In many lumber plants carelessness is laying eggs for fire to hatch. Fire is constantly looking for eggs-rub- bish, waste, smoking, matches, defective construction, etc.-eggs that can quickly be hatched into destroying fires. Some eggs will not hatch, but it doesn't pay to take any chance. Better destroy the eggs and be sure that fire cannot take such toll of carelessness.

Through an efficient fire prevention service, we will help you find and destroy the eggs. However, if fire comes, our companies have the resources and the reputation which gdarantee prompt payment of loss. Through our dividends we provide highest quality protection at lowest cost.

Write any of our companies for sfecial folder "Eggs for Fire to Hatch," anil for further information about the real protection offered under Lumber Mutual Policies.

Make California's Lumber Industry Permanent

ByMr. S, R. Black of the California Forest Protective Association, and the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association

One out of every ten wage earners in California is employed by the lumber industry, the third largest industry itr it,. Slate. Timberland pays o'tter half of all taxes in many mountain counties. Horv long will this condition hold true ? The answer depends upon how long the forests last.At the present rate of cut the forests will last 100 years or more, but it is quite probable that the rate of cut will increase. However, the forests can last forever if given a fair chance to regrow, after being logged or burned over. Timber can be raiJed as a crop just as are farm crops. In fact, timber must be considered a crop if rve are to have- a perpetual supply. As a crop, timbei growing should be givin the saml tonsideration now given other crops in the State.

Growing crops are exempt from taxation in California. The land is annually taxed bn a value proportionate to its market value. The-crop raised is only taxed when held in storage on the first Mohday of March. Proposition No. 22 on thi November ballot places reforesting lands on essentially the same basis as farm lands. The land would be annually taxed at its fair value. The young growing trees would not be taxed till mature, as determined by a public board provided in the amendment. As soon as the trees become mature, which amounts to storage, they would be taxed annually in addition to the annual tax upon the landThe proposed amendment to the Constitution is fair and just io the counties in which the land lies.It should be passed to make possible the growing of second crops of timber by private capital.

It takes 50 to 100 years to grow a crop of timber. If reforesting trees are not treated fairly, it will be impracticalfor private capital to attempt to raise them, because 50 to 100 annual taxes upon the land, plus 50 to 100 annual taxes upon the growing crop, plus 50 to 10O years' cost of fire control and administration, will probably more than equal the value of the crop grown. If private capital cannot carry on large scale reforestation, the lands once cut, or severely burned over, will in time undoubtedly revert to the State or be sold to the Federal Government as has happened in Michigan and other Lake States. The result of such procedure means bankruptcy for the mountain counties, just as Northern Michigan counties have become bankrupt. There remain insufficient assessable values to carry the load of taxes thrown upon them when timberland passed out of private ownership.

Exemption of young forest trees from taxation as Proposed in Proposition No. 22, means in the long run more revenue for the timberland counties, more timber in the State and a perpetual lumber industry in California. It is essential that Proposition No. 22 be passed. Vote YES.

Hoohooclub Provides Forum

Mr. B. W. Lakin, head of the McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud, recently paid Hoo Hoo a fine tribute, in a discussion on the benefits of the order.

McCloud is strictly a company town, just the McCloud River Lumber Company, and for that reason does not, of course, enjoyed the existence of Rotary, Kiwanis, etc.

Mr. Lakin stated that the ordinary activities of any kind of a service club or chamber of commerce were well handled by their Hoo Hoo Club, Number 55, and that the club was generally called upon for all kinds of co-operative action by residents of the city.

This surely answers the question as to the advisability of a Hoo Hoo Club in a 'one-company' town.