L. A. Hoo Hoo Shaping Plans For Christmas Party

The committee appointed by President Bobbie Byrne, of the Los Angeles HooHoo Club, to arrange a monster Christmas Party, for the orphan children, is hard at work.

Thirteen men are giving a great amount of time and energy in working out the details of .the party, and it promises to be a highly successful affair.

Plans call for the entertainment of 6OO children, all of them orphans, living in institutions, in Los Angeles.

The party starts at 9 A. M., December 23rd, with an auto caravan taking the children for a long ride, ending at the Elite Cafe, where luncheon will be served. An elaborate program is being prepared, and gifts for each child will be provided.

The aftair is being financed through the sale of tickets, to lumbermen of Southern California, at $1.00 each. Each ticket provides a day of pleasure for one child.

Floyd Dernier, 407 Fay Building, Los Angeles, is General Chairman of arrangements. His telephone is TUcker 4839, and he positively will not turn down any money that is volunteered to him, to go towards making the party bigger and better.

Bruce Burlingame Proud Father

Bruce L. Burlingame, Los Angeles agent for the Santa Fe Lumber Company, is wearing the smile that won't come off.

Girl. born November 17th.

Tax Reform in California Stimulates Reforestation

The intimate relation between reiorestation and taxation is shown by the effect on the lumber industry of the adoption by California at the recent election of an amendment to the Constitution relieving growing trees from taxation, says the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. As soon as it was certain that the voters had adopted this amendment, Mr. D. H. Steinmetz, vice-president of the Pickering Lumber Company, announced the inauguration of a sustained yield system of cutting on that Company's lands. Mr. Steinmetz stated the Company's position as follows:

"I have issued orders to our logging crews to leave every tree of 20 inches and under standing. Heretofore we have cut down to 12 inches. Besides this we have entered negotiations for the purchase of 960 acres of cut-over lands adjoining our property on which we will start a reforestation program under our forest engineer J. V. Wulff, as soon as the purchase is made. This land was cut over twelve years ago and since that time has lain idle, the country has been without taxes and that land has not been productive. Amendment No. 22 means that other lands such as this tract, cut over years ago and still non-productive, will be given over to reforestation work by the large pine producers. The Sugar Pine Lumber Co., of Fresno, has already voiced its plan to obtain a forest engineer for reforestation work."

The lumber industry all over the United States is exhibiting satisfaction with the action taken by California and the similar course decided upon by the electors of Louisiana and Minnesota.

Concat at Fresno

_ The newly appointed Vicegerent Snark of the Fresno District, W. P. Johnson, with his new Nine, conducted the first Concatenation of the new Hoo Hoo vear at Fresno on the night of November 13th.

. It was a splendidly conducted affair, the new officers go1lS through their work like veterans, initiating the fourtJen Kittens that were on hand for the ceremoniesl

The Concatenation was preceded bya dinner, attended by a lar_ge number of the San Joaquin Valley members, Parson Simpkin and Past Snark of the Universe Frank Trower of San Francisco.

Snark Johnson states that the Fresno Nine has been requested to journey to Standard to conduct a Concatenation, initiating a number of Pickering Lumber Company employees that have filed applications.-

The Kittens at the Fresno afiair were:

R. K. Blasingame.

C. A. McCraw.

S. D. Luke.

L. W. Bowhay.

C. S. I(ofoid.

M. E. Carter.

L. C. Adams.

B. R. Nofziger.

G. B. Nathews.

S. J. Felles.

H. O. Smith.

G. M. Cobb.

A. T. Mathews.

J. A. Clothier.

There $'ere two reinstatements, George C, Woods and Cail W. Krumbholtz.