Pacific Lumber Company Surveying Field For New Insulation Made of Redwood

The Pacific I-umber Company, oI San Francisco, has its sales forces at the present time engaged in making' a survey of the field for a new insulating product made of Redwood bark, which they will have in production in a very short time, and which will be called Barkrvood.

large number of possible practical proclucts from Redwood outside of lumber.

The Barliwood plant has been under construction for some time, and the executive department is tremendously interested in this Barkwood product. They state that it will be under the price of cork as an insulator, yet will have from 15 to 18 per cent better thero-conductivity than cork. It will be furnished from their plant in any thickness desired lrom tl inch to 4 inches, and will be cut to any desired sizes as to width and length, thus shipped ready to

It is a well known fact that the Pacific Lumber Company have employed a corps of trained engineers and scientists at their plant at Scotia, California, for the past several years, developing new uses for Redwood. Barkwood is one of the chief ideas developed, although it is understood that these research men have produced from their efforts a very use iry manufacturing industries.

Congratulations, "Cappy" Tom A. McCann Club

F. M. "Cappy" Slade, S. E. Slade Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has been the recipient of congratulations from his many lumbermen friends during the past few weeks when he became the proud father of a baby boy, Fielder Montgomery Slade, who arrived on Thanksgiving Day. He reports that Mrs. Slade and the youngster are getting along veiy ni'cely. In commenting on the new arrival, "Cappy" states: "I opine that the California football team is in for a bad beating by Stanford in 1950."

The Tom A. I\{cCann Hoo Hoo Club, of McCloud, Calif., held their annual dinner for the ladies on Monday evening, December l, at McCloud. Following the dinner, the gathering attended a theatre party where they heard the Four Marx Brothers in their latest talkie, "Animal Crackers." Milt Gerlicher, president of the Tom A. McCann Hoo Hoo Club, and Bill Ponto, vicegerent snark of the Shasta district, rvere in charge of the arrangements.

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IS rT TRUE THAT E6% OF US ARE POOR?

Most of us find comfort in the thought that we are the richest nation on the globe. But no less an authority than ex-Secretary of Labor James J. Davis wrote a letter in which he said, "No country ,can be considered Utopian where 86/o ot its people are poor."

Then comes the Federal Trade Commission with figures that reveal I per cent of the people owning 59 per cent of our country's wealth; 13 per cent owning 90 per cent; and 87 per cent trying to be happy with l0 per cent. The average wage for the country is $1,280 per year, which no one will call real wealth in the face of the cost of living.

flowever, in spite of all these somewhat depressing figures, rye can turn back to the Davis letter and read: "It is true that the real wage of the American worker is twice as high as that of a worker in London, three times as high as that of a worker in Paris, and more than four times as high as that of a worker in Brussels, Rome, or Madrid."

Must we find our comfort therefore in the thought that while 86 per cent of our people are poor, they are from two to four'times better off than their fellow workers in Europe? Or. is it true, as President Hoover indicated in a speech, that we are closer than any nation has ever beetr to the abolishment of poverty?

(From The Vagabond.)

Foggy

"London is the foggiest plscc in tbc world."

"Oh, no, it's not. I've been in a placc foggrcr thpn tl{tt

"Where was that?"

"I don't know where it wal, it war so fogyS

Baconian Philosophy

"If a man write little, he hae nccd of a grcat mooory; if he confer little he has need of a prcscot wit; end if hc tc.d [ttle he has need of much cunning to !.qn to InOw *trt he doth not."

ADVERTISING ON.TRIAL?

A few people havc recently rqnerlcd that advcrtiring ia on trial. Nothing ir farthcr frorn thc truth" Unlcrs rthc world is to slip bactwaril toward anothcr darL agc, rnlcrr machines are to bc scrappcd and tbc inhabitrrt! of thir globe rcturn to buggies and candlc light, advcrtising will bc used in tte future, as it has bccn in thc past, to EaLG SGo want more and work hardcr to glt it

Flatterer

Doctor-"You cerrtainly havc actrtc appcodidtis.' Fair Patient-"Oh, Doctor, you f8ttcr mG.'

Roosevelt Said

"Americans learn only from catastrolftc aad nC froo lcl: perience." Wonder if he was torcecdtg rGccot Go+ob lnd present conditions?

Tight

First Scotch \l/oman-"Is your husband sti4glP ; Second Scotch \l/6s11111-"Is hG? Evcry timc hc tal:l r ni,ckle out of his pocket thc Indian btinb at thc tgbt"

DR. NICHOLAS UURRAY BI':TLER SAIII-

"A great many mcn would bc bettcr cducatcd if went to school less and telldcd to.busincs morc.-

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