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The nags came thundering down the stretch, So wet each needed a rudder, Chirped a guy at the wicketAs he cashed in his ticket"A guy's best friend is his MUDDER.,'

-Anon.

Perhaps the above ,rryrrlu ;J, a fittle too tight-hearted to head the Vags in serious times like these, and you'd prefer something more on the philosophical side, such as: f sometimes think I'd rather cron' And be a rooster, than to roost And be a crow. But I dunno. A rooster he can roost, also, Which don't seem fair when crows can't crow. Which may help some. But I dunno.

Anon.

And then, of course, ,rrJ" l""Jthe prize fighter who was so clumsy that whenever he tried shadow borCing, the shadow won.

And the story goes ,fr" t"Jral about the traveling man who came home unexpectedly one night and found the veteran actor in his home. "What are you doing in my home?" demanded the angry husband. .'Believe it or not,', replied the old actor, "I'm waiting for vaudeville to come back." :t**

Which reminds rne of the broken-down actor who stopped a prosperous friend on the street and solicited the loan of five dollars. The friend pulled out a five dollar bill, but before he handed it to the borrower, he asked, ..When are you going to pay this back?" "Look!" exclaimed the bum, sadly. "f ain't even got the money yet, and already you're haunting me."

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IIow our national perspective changes in a few decades! The other day I was reading some brilliant newspaper editorials written in the "gay nineties," by a Southern editor. It was during the administration of Grover CleveIand. The pencil-pusher's wrath almost seared the paper on which it was printed as he castigated Cleveland for the acts of his administration. And do you know what that editor was so wrathy about? Why, the Cleveland admin- istration, he said, was about to bankrupt the country. It had increased the national debt ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS. Get it? That's pop corn money nowadays. r can't help wonderr"u ;":cln"r"r Sherman woutd have said had he, like myself, been in Los Angeles a few weeks ago when that famous fall heat wave came along. Some wag remarked that it got so hot in his home there that the refrigerator came into the living room and turned on the electric fan. He was exaggerating; there are no electric fans in Los Angeles. rF>f+

Probably no famous remark in the history of America is more generally known or has beerr more frequently quoted than General William Tecumseh Sherman's description of war. His declaration that ',War is Hell', is known to one and all. But few people know when or where it was said. ft was at :rn annual convention of the G.A.R. held August 11, 1880, at Columbus, Ohio, that the famous utterance was made. Said General Sherman: "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, war is Hell ! You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror !"

Those words should n"r" "U*U meaning at the present time, when war wings the world. Of course General Sherman made another remark that has been frequently quoted that I am not so enthusiastically in favor of. He returned from a summer trip to Texas, and made the remark: .,If I oiryned Texas and Hell f'd rent Texas and live in Hell." He stole that remark. General Sherman was a scholarly fellow, and well read. Once he stumbled onto a statement made by Erasmus, famous scholar and author of the 15th century, who wrote: "ff I owned a monastery and Hell I'd rent the monastery and live in Hell." Sherman just changed monastery to Texas.

The history of lumber is the history of a lot of useful and interesting pioneering. Take Southern Gum, for instance, now a universally respected and valued wood, possessing various useful characteristics. The pioneers in the lumbering South saw great possibilities in Southern Gum

IF they could just discover some means of drying it successfully. But in its early phases this wood was positively devilish in its habits of twisting, turning, bending, and warping, because they didn't know how. They used to fairly tear their hair fighting the Gum problern. It required many years of patient experimentation to learn the practically perfect methods by which Southern Gum is now dried fat, sound, straight, and useful in every way.

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The early pioneers also had lots of fun with this splendid but then unruly wood. I could relate scores of stories that they used to tell twenty to thirty years ago on that subject, but far and away the best one is Frank Bonner's story. Frank is a big, white-thatched, smiling, retired Texas lumber manufacturer, who helped make lumber history for much more than a generation. He tells this story about Southern Gum, the truth of which I will leave to him. He had a big planing mill in Ffouston about 35 years ago, in which they mostly manufactured Pine and Cypress lumber into millwork. A sawmill man at Dayton, forty miles east of Houston, induced him to buy a car of Southern Gum lumber, just to try it out. The mill man recommended it highly.

So Frank bought the car and had it piled in regulation fashion on block foundatiotrs in the back end of his big lumber yard. Then he proceeded to forget dl about it. Several weeks later it was recalled to his attention so he decided to go out in the yard and see for himself how it was drying out. To his amazement he found the foundation blocks were bare. But all about them there were deep markings on the ground as though a lot of huge wagons had passed that way. The tracks all led east, so he followed them. "And do you know what I found?" asked Frank. f gave up. "Well, Sir," he said, "every one of those Gum boards had rolled up into the shape of a big hoop, and was rolling back along the road to Da5rton, where it came from." That will give you an idea of the problems the old Gum users had to face; and the kind of stories we used to tell "in the old days." ***

Lumbermen are essentially creatures of habit. Many years ago I heard a serious thinking sawmill man address a big manufacturers convention, his subject being the foolish habits and customs of lumber manufacturers, of unexplainable origin and doubtful wisdom. I recall that he talked particularly about the elevated tramways found in most big mills the country over; big wooden runways built on high stilts, traversing the lumber yards, and connecting the various units of the plant. "Why do we build them up in the air, instead.of on the ground?" he asked. And the crowd looked at him and at one another, and no one could think of an answer. ft costs a lot to build these big elevated roadways, and a lot more to keep them up. Plank roads on the ground are cheap, and economical to upkeep. But get this: while no man in that audience could tell who started the high tramway fad, not one spoke a word in defense of them as compared with the economical tram on the ground, JUST AS MANY MILLS USE HIGH TRAMS IN THAT REGION NOW AS THEY DID THEN.

Which undoubtedl, nr;", ,J-.,r,irrg, but Im not sure what.

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