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Economists agree ttrat if we were forced into the Euro_ pean war, what with our present mountainous public debt, we would soon be turning out printing press money. personally f prefer the San F'rancisco brand of money instead. You lay down a ten dollar bill in San Francisco to pay for a four bit purchasg and you get back nine big, round, heavy silver dollars and a big.silver hatf dollar in change. Every time. Not just sometimes. I've never found anyone who knew why. r The best guess is that the stufi is so heavy you will try and spend it as soon as possible, thus speeding up the cash circulation.

The way they like their money in San Francisco is well told in the following rhyme:

"Oh, give me a big silver dollar, To throrr on the bar with a bang, A dollar that's creasedWill do for the EastBut we want our money to clang.r'

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Van Dyke says: '.The real test of character is joy. What you rejoice in, that you love; and what you love, that you become like."

And tten, of course, there was the country voter who refused to vote for the city candidate because he sounded the '{T" in often. *ri*

"Youtre drunk " remarked Jones to Smith. .,Sure,rr said Smith. "I've been drunk for three days; yesterday, today, and tomorrow.tt

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As between Stalin and Hitler (that's like choosing be_ tween a pestilence and a famine), I'll take Stalin. Why? He keeps his mouth shut. Someone counted and found that in a recent statement to Poland Hitler used the personal pronoun "I" 87 times. Caesar wrote a whole volume of books about his wars and never used that word once.

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The world has a lot of modern Caesars who might well take a lesson from Julius.

George Washington was of the Caesar school of thought. Thomas Jefferson used to say that \lt/ashington almost never made a speech and only on the most momentous subject, and he considered ten minutes ample time to discuss the merits of even such subjects.

,F {. ,8 fn Elgin, Illinois, O. F. Patterson, Superintendent of Public Schools, has a worthy .,Keep-out-of-war" idea. He has instructed all Elgin school teachers to impress constantly on their pupils that it is their duty as Americans not to take sides in Europe's war, not to hate anyone, and to think first and only of otrr country's welfare. Mr. patterson remarks: "America,s patt in the world today IS TO SHOW THAT A MAN CAN LIVE IN PEACE."

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A friend writes in for some facts and figures on ..the future of the lumber industry.', Now, THERE,S a simple request ! I don't believe I could be hired to attempt to thoroughly discuss that subject. It,s too big an assignment for me, and f have learned by bitter experience that the power of prophecy was not given me. f could ofrer a few scattering remarks on the subject, but I doubt if you could call it "facts and figures." I used to think that the day would come when there would be no more cornrnercial lumber industry in this country, because it appeared that the forests would be no more. On that particular point I have been delighted to revise my opinions. We will always have plenty of commercial lumber in this country. probably as much as the nation requires.

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My original opinion was a natural one. When I was a kid the great White Pine (Pinus Stobus) forests of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota were freely studded with sawmills converting them into lumber, and that territory was the wodd's lumber center. Those mighty forests

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(Continued from Page 6) melted before the saw and ax with astonishing rapidity, and there was no re-growth, and so far as I know there is none NOW in those states. The lumber business swung South and West. And in those new localities no more effort or thought was given to replacing the falling trees than there had been in the l-ake States. There seemed no reason to doubt that eventually the Sotrth and West would end up like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-denuded lands. our old ideas on .n" ,lo:]..1r ,"tor.r,ation were correct in their way. If you cut down a forest completely, giving no thought to anything but getting out all the logs as quickly and economically as possible, and forgetting future forests completely, it WILL take so long to re-grow a new forest there that no one could afford it. But there crept into the consciousness of timber owners a new idea-a wise and practical thought. They call it "selective logging." Selective logging simply means that you do NOT chop down the entire forest and forget the land it grew on. Instead you go carefully into that forest and mark for cutting the older and larger trees, leaving the younger and immature trees down to a certain size, to keep on growing. You must necessarily r*v.iss;perhaps entirely chang+your logging methods and equipment, so that you can get out the marked timber without damaging the young future forests. credit Bert Bryan, r, :;.:, with a novel and original idea. As a rule the vacation season in the lumber business in California spreads itself over the entire sutnmer, disrupting and interfering with the smooth progress o'f business to some extent. At the recent annual convention of the Pacific Coast Wholesale Hardwood Distributors Association at San Francisco, Mr. Bryan made a suggestion that henceforth the first two weeks in July be set aside for vacation time, that all salesmen take their vacations then, and the warehouse forces be split, hatf the first week and half the second week. The suggestion was so well received that it was incorporated into a resolution, and unanimously adopted. It is an idea that the lumber industry generally might well adopt. Let there be one official "fat" spot in the summer, and that at a lonr tide period, and the rest of the summer the industry be on the job.

But a change came. ,, "":" lo gr"a,r"tty (and nothing is so definite and so irresistible as the gradual) that I almost missed its advent, even though all my days have been spent watching lumber and its adventures. In the old days it was conunon practice to remark that individuals could not practically re-grow commercial forests-it took too long and would bankrupt anyone who attempted it. There was here and there a voice crying in the wilderness that it COULD be done; but such voices got little heed.

Next, and equally ,rr*:";, jo,. -rr. now protect that land from fire. And, with the older trees removed the remaining timber growth will be greatly accelerated. You will find with many species of commercial woods you can almost stand there and watch those young trees grow. Many people practicing selective logging in various parts of the country, who have taken the trouble to caliper and measure certain acres of the young trees, have been surprised beyond ur€asure at the rapidity of young tree growth. This varies a great deal as to species and location, but is true in a certain degree of a very large portion of the commercial forests of the country.

We know now for certain that we will always have a generous supply of Yellow Pine (Short Leaf Yellow Pine is the fastest growing of all commercial woods), Douglas Fir, White Fir, Ponderosa Pine, California Redwood, and some of the fast-growing hardwoods. I do not claim this list to be complete. I am just talking from what I know. Probably other Western woods will be perpetuated commercially. I will appreciate advice on the.subject for future discussions of this sort. In the Inland Empire where there are still great stands of White Pine, forests may be perpetuated in comrnercial guantities. f am not in a position to state. All Government timber is logged and cut with the idea of using up mature timber, and letting young timber grow, so that all National forests may be preserved and perpetuated.

The future of the l"-b; r*"*rrt Well, r have atready drawn the definite conclusion that we will always have a generous supply of a variety of commercial lumber from many parts of the country. I will hazard, just one more prediction. The history of the lumber industry for the thirty years f have been watching it, has been a history of heartaches. Continual ups and downs with at least five DOWN years for every LfP year. I hazard the guess that the next thirty years will bring to the followers of the lumber industry more consistent and dependable prosperity than has the last thirty. It may be the irony of fate that the second crop of commercial timber will bring to its owners more profit than the big, original forests which, in the beginning looked like they would bring a harvest of gold. But, as the parlance of the street has it-"Life's like that."