Extension Course

Draws Good Attendance

Prol essor Emanuel Fritz

Three meetings of the University of California Extension Course on "'Wood and Its Properties," which started October 13, have been held with an average attendance of.22. Thirty lumbermen are signed up for the course which is being given by Professor Emanuel Fritz, associate profes' sor of Forestry, University of California. The class meets every Thursday evening from 7 :3O to 8:30 p. m. in room 34, Giannini Hall, University of California campus, Berkeley.

The course deals with the structure of wood: microscopic units-pitch, heartwood, sapwood bark, annual rings, medullary rays; microscopic elements-cells, their characteristics and arrangement; the annual ring-its make-up, significance in figure, properties, and uses of wood. Physical properties of wood: weight, specific gravity, moisture content; influence of moisture on wood. Mechanical properties of wood. Factors affecting the strength of wood. Chemical properties of wood. Seasoning of wood (in general), air drying, kiln drying. Deterioration of wood and its control, insects, fungi. Principal uses of wood, limitations of wood. favorable attributes, substitutes.

Experiments Prove Forest Fires Cause Erosion

The surface runoff following rain or snow from soils bared by fire or over grazing is from 5 to 50 times the amount, under the same precipitation, as that from similar soils covered by shrubs or trees, according to experiments carried on in southern California by the California Forest Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest Service. The amount of soil picked up and carried off as erosion from bare soils is from 50 to 1,000 times as much as from soils rvhich are covered by plant growth.

72% oJ ldaho Wage-Earners Are in Lumber Industry

Washington, October 15.-The lumber and timber industry (sawmill and logging operations) is so important in the industrial life of Idaho that nearly 72 per cent of the number of wage earners in the state and 72 per cent of all wages paid are in this industry. Out of the state's 15,648 wage earners in 19?9, 11,2n were employed in the sawmill and logging establishments; $16,051,86O was paid in wages in these establishments and $33,886402 was the value of products reported, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association finds from a state study of census reports.

Idaho now leads all states in production of white pine, cutting 39 per cent of the total produced in the country. Next in importance in the state's lumber production is Ponderosa pine. Douglas fir, white fir and larch are cut in considerable quantities and some cedar and spruce.

The year 1925 was the peak year in lumber production in Idaho, according to U. S. Census Bureau reports, IJAA,110,000 feet being reported by 145 mills. ln l9D, the production was 198,791,000 feet as reported by 135 mills, and in 1930, 840,409,000 feet produced by 123 mills. Of the 1930 production six mills each cutting 50,000,000 feet or more, produced 53.7 per cent of the total output;12 mills cutting 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 feet each, produced 35.7 per cent of the total. Medium sized and small mills produced less than 11 per cent.

Of lumber sales by the mills, nearly 47 per cent were made through wholesalers or branch wholesale houses; 25.6 per cent were to retailers and, 12.4 per cent direct to manufacturers in wood-consuming industries.

Idaho has more publicly owned forest land than aqy other state, according to the U. S. Forest Service, leading even California by a narrow margin.

Lumber production in Idaho and Montana, according to preliminary reports of large mills to the U. S. Census Bureau, was 37 per cent less in 1931 than in 193O.

B. R. JULIAN VTSTTS LAS VEGAS

ARE YOU A SALESMAN?

A salesman is a fellow with a smile upon his face And a word of cheery greeting as he goes from place to place.

He devotes his time and effort from an early morning start To meeting folks and telling what is nearest to his heart. He lives a life of service and he gains a host of friends, For he's never actuated by base and selfish ends.

Each day he calls on people with the only thought in mind, Of the good that he is doing for the prospects he can find. He raises living standards with the things he has to show, As he calls the folks' attention to the things that they should know.

He never stoops to offer any piece of merchandisg That will not perform a service, consistent with its price. He meets his competition with a friendly, kindly word, And he never speaks with malice of the things that he has heard.

He is sure the thing he's selling brings a lasting benefit Far greater than the profit that he makes in selling it. fle's secure in his conviction that his effort is worth while, So he buckles in each morning with an everlasting smile. Bringing work to men in factories whose families depend, On the daily sales production of their genial, happy friend.

-Ben

Allen, in Forbes Weekly.

Truth Unwanted

When you endeavor to tell your age the truth it does not want and refuses to hear, you are considered by all the cowards in creation a shocking fellow, guilty of atrocious taste.-Hesketh Pearson.

LINCOLN'S NAGGING WIFE

If Abraham Lincoln's home life had been happier it is possible he would never have become President of the United States. His quick-tempered, social-climbing, nagging, tactless wife created such conditions at home that he was eager to be away from it as much as possible. He spent his time traveling about the state. Thus he became icquainted with the wants and needs of the p€ople and tlrey learned to know him and trust him. Later, when he needed tteir votes, they gave them. If Lincoln's home life had b€en attractive to him, he would have done his loafing with his wife and children. Again we have widence of the working of the law of compensation.Thomas Dreier.

HE WOULDN'T TAKE IT

A young salesman of the most aggressive type had managed to meet socially one bf Hollywood's motion picture magnates, and after dinner waded right in to try and sell hirn some of his stock, which he dignified by the name of securities. The old fellow finally held up his hand to stop the flow of praise for the stock that rolled from the young man's lips, and said:

"Vait a minute, willya? Vait a minute. Let me say someting. I'll dell you vat I'll do. I vill esk my lawyer if he should advise me to buy some of dis stbck. And I vill give you my vord dot if he edvises me dot I should buy some of it-vell den he shouldn't be my lawyer no more."

Time

One may lose and regain a friend; one may lose and regain money; opportunity ignored may come again; but time lost is lost forever. A minute is the biggest little thing there is. Save it. Use it. There is nothing more valuable, nothing that should be more appreciated. Next in importance to being on time is being ahead of time. It may mean a moment wasted, but being behind time may lose an hour, a day, a week, a month, or a year.-Allan F. Wright.

It Happened In Kansas

Ernest Woods of Kansas City vouches for the trut{r of this story. Dr. Grant Robbins, a well known and popular white Methodist minister who has performed many wedding ceremonies, volunteered to officiate at a wedding of some good colored folks he knew. After the knot was tied several embarrassing moments followed with everybody remaining stationary. Finally one dusky maiden, seeing the questioning look on t'he preachey's face, whispered: "Dey's waitin' fo' you to ltiss de bride, Pahsun."

Ihe Real Stuff

It's the bumps you get, and the jolts you get, And the shocks that your courage stands, The hours of sorrow and vain regret, The prize that escapes your hands, That test your mettle and prove your worth; It isn't the blows you deal, But the blows you take on this good old carth That shows if your stuff is real.

Lumber Next to Oil in Texas

Washington, Oct. 4.-After petroleum refining, the lumber and timber industry leads all manufacturing industries in Texas in number of wage earners and is third in amount of wages paid, according to a study of the lumber industry which'the National Lumber Manufacturers Association is making in various states. Number of wage earners in the last census report was given as 16,387 in the lumber and timber industry; wages paid amounted to $13,915,100 and value of products was $44,506,136.

Texas was the third state in lumber production in IXJ7, its peak year, ranking after Washington and Louisiana. Its '673 sawmills reported output of.2,2D,5X),000 feet that year. In l9D Texas was the seventh state in lumber production, 1,451,90,000 feet being reported by 397 mills. In 1930, Texas was again seventh, 285 mills reporting 1,0/5,262,W feet. Twelve mills in 1930 each cut over 25,000,000 feet, or 36 per cent of the total production. Mills cutting between 10,000,000 and 25,000,000 feet each, produced 4O per cent of the total. Output of smaller mills accounts for the remaining 24 per cent.

Of the 1930 production, 888,681,000 feet or 85 per cent of the total was of softwoods. This was nearly all Southern pine, Texas being fourth in production of that species, following Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Hardwood production in 1930 was 15 per cent of the total, principal species being oak, gum and tupelo.

Per capita consumption of lumber in Texas in 1930 was 160 feet, compared with 205 feet in Louisiana and 190 feet in the United States. Of Texas' consumption of 945,22t,000 feet, 56 per cent was produced within the state and 43 per cent came from other states, principally from Louisiana. A small quantity was imported. Texas consumed from 55 to 60 per cent of its own production in 1930 and shipped about 8 per cent to Illinois, 6 per cent to Missouri, and 4 per cent to Michigan.

The sales by the sawmills of Texas which, in the recent Census Bureau report fior l9D, were given as 976,934,M feet, valued at $30,173,000, were largely direct to retailers, 43 per cent of all mill sales being thus distributed. This is the largest proportion of any state and compares with 15 per cent for the country as a whole. About 33 per cent of the mill sales were to wholesalers; 11 per cent direct to rvood-consuming manufacturers; 6 per cent to railroads and 6 per cent were local sales.

Capital Retailers Hear Talk on Trade Promotion

Retail lumber dealers of Sacramento meet informally at dinner every Thursday evening, and while their association is not functioning at present these dealers are carrying on some very effective trade promotion work among the architects and contractors of the capital city.

At their dinner meeting on October 13 the dealers were addressed by A. C. Horner, manager of the 'Western office of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, who told them what the National Association is doing along trade promotion lines.

Paul Freydig Again Heads Logging Congress

Paul Freydig, of Seattle, logging manager for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, was re-elected president of the Pacific Logging Congress at the 23rd annual meeting of the congress held in Tacoma, October 19,20 and. 2I.

A. Whisnant, Portland, was re-elected secretary, and the following were added to the board of directors: J. W. Forrester, Coos Bay Lumber Co., Marshfield, Ore.; Roland McDonald, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Vail, Wash.; Norman Boles, Shevlin-Nixon Co., Bend, Ore., and George L. Drake, Simpson Logging Co., Shelton, Wash.

J. J. Donovan of Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash., a former president of the congress, tryas ele,cted a life member of the organization.

Portland was chosen for the 24th annual session next yeat.

Lumber Shippers Justified in Demanding Wood Box Cars

Washington, Oct. 24.---The growing tendency of lumber manufacturers to insist on wood-walled and roofed box cars for lumber shipments is strongly indorsed by Walter F. Shaw, trade extension manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. While such insistence is a proper measure for lumber shippers to promote the use of their own products, Mr. Shaw says that it is fully justified by the superior protection given by wood cars to their contents. Steel roofs are frequently leaky.

A case in point is that of a well-known Portland company, which ordered an all-wood car for a certain shipment of lumber. It received, instead, two steel cars from which to choose. They were refused because of leaky roofs, but the company had finally to accept a car which had to be sent to the shop for repairs before it could be used. This delay caused the railway company to send its car service agent (who also represents the car service division of the American Railway Association) to explain to the manufacturer that it would be appreciated by the company if he would not insist on a car with a wood roof, as the railway company had practically no cars of that sort available. The lumber company took the position that the admission of lack of wood cars was conclusive proof that the railways were not giving due regard to the merits of and need for the building of more wood cars.

While pressure of lumber shippers for the provision of wood cars may be regarded as the use of their patronage of railways as an influence in evoking return patronage of lumber, Mr. Shaw insists that the demand for wood cars is supported by the facts of their superior service. Moreover, as there is conclusive evidence that steel producers successfully specify steel cars for their products, it is not considered offensively arbitrary for lumber manufacturers and fabricators to look out for the interests of their commoditv in a similar manner.

Sob Songs

Seated one day at the radio, Enjoying an hour of ease, I fished for entertainment My state of mind to please. 'And soon a throbbing tenor Earth's airy spaces spanned, And sobbed, and crooned, and burbled, And gurgled, "Hold my hand."

Perturbed, somewhat embarrassed, I cried, "can such things be? What sentimental Tommy Is singing thus to me?"

With ill concealed impatience I twirled the dial again, When lo, "I'll call you sugar," Mourn'ed an impassioned swain.

f know not why they're singing With such lugubrity, A bright and lilting love song Would make a hit with me. And many times I wonder, As sob songs moan around, If all these love lorn laddies Are sappy as they sound.

In dreams I see them standing, A rather usual throng, Tall men and short, fat men and lean, Each crooning mushy songs. The uninspiring chorus Drools on throughout the land, "Baby, I'll call you sugar, Oh, Sweetie, hold my hand !"

MERRIAM CONNER.

Heavy Fire Damage in Oregon

Much damage was done in the Cochran, Ore., district by the recent forest fires, which were the worst that have occurred in western Oregon in many years.

Only the railroad station was saved in the sawmill town of Cochran. The Cochran mill owned by C. H. Wheeler burned a few months ago. The Blue Lake camp of the C. H. Wheeler interests was destroyed.

The logging camp and machinery of a logging incline belonging to the West Oregon Lumber Co., of Linnton, Ore., were destroyed, and a camp of the Westwood Lumber Co. was partially destroyed.

The Wheeler company sufiered the loss also of many bridges and trestles on its logging road. The Southern Pacific Company lost a number of bridges, and so much track was damaged that railroad service was discontinued. An accurate estimate of the damage has not been made.