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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



ters, which, when cousummated, will be 

 of equal benefit to other marljets. 



The committee accepted Mr. Hurlbut's 

 report, and after a general discussion it 

 was decided to admit to membership In 

 the traffic department all who wisHed to 

 enter, whether the.y were members of the 

 National association or not. This action 

 was talveu because there are some large 

 concerns which wish to enter and are not 

 eligible to membership in the association. 



Other matters of minor importance were 

 acted upon and the committee adjourned. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



By the Hood of strilces, liig and little, 

 with which the country is at present being 

 overwhelmed, the fact is being pounded 

 into the heads of worUmen that it takes 

 thorough organization to win, and a union 

 'aas seemingly to meet with a number of 

 reverses before it learns this fact. Tlie 

 first thing a new union generally does is 

 to rush into a strike. If it happens to win, 

 it will, on the slightest provocation, strilce 

 again, regardless of contracts. In a very 

 little while it reaches the end of its rope, 

 meets with disaster and goes to pieces. It 

 is a fact that the oldest, most experienced 

 and most intelligent of the labor organiza- 

 tions have the least trouble with their em- 

 ployers and they very seldom enter upon a 

 strike. 



Hf * « 



We have beeu reading au article by an 

 expert upon the human intellect. He 

 says that man has two kinds of intellect, 

 ■which the ejcpert call "objective" and "sub- 

 jective." The objective intellect reasons 

 and argues and proceeds upon logical lines. 

 The subjective intellect feels, and is 

 called "instinct." Men in whom the sub- 

 jective intellect is strongly developed may 

 be very successful in what they undertake, 

 although being almost destitute of the 

 power of analytical reasoning. Almost every 

 man has felt within himself the conflict of 

 his objective and subjective intellects. He 

 has felt that a certain thing was the cor- 

 rect thing to do, while his reason told him 

 not to do it. The scienti-st states that 

 when a maii or woman has been hypnotized 

 the objective intellect is put to sleep, and 

 the subject is guided and controlled by its 

 subjective intellect and accomplishes some 

 very surprising results. He states that 

 tills matter of the subjective intellect is 

 just beginning to be understood by the 

 scientific world and he expects some good 

 results from experiments and investiga- 

 tions now being made. 

 * * * 

 The Southern Lumberman has an ed- 

 itorial in its last issue on the relation of 

 the corn crop to the lumber trade. It treats 

 of the effect which the coming big crop 

 will have on the demand for lumber from 

 the farmers. Another impoi"tant effect 

 a big crQp of corn will have on the lumber 

 industry is in the relief it will bring to 

 lumber producers in the matter of feed for 



their live stock. The loggers of the Delta 

 country have been paying an eiiuivalent of 

 about $1 a bushel for corn for their feed 

 stuff for a good while, and it has curtailed 

 operations to considerable extent. 



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One thing which will d()Ul)tless strike 

 Surveyor-General Wall in studying the 

 figures of hardwood production in the 

 United States, is that if the National Lum- 

 ber Inspection Bureau could .get to inspect 

 that eight and one-half billion it would be 

 a good thing for the Bureau, bringing it a 

 nice little income of $425,000 a year. 

 * * * 



The Record has never taken the view 

 that a good many have taken in the mat- 

 ter of the trusts— that they threaten to 

 gain such power as to be a serious threat 

 to our political institutions. It has been 

 our opinion that they are more dangerous 

 to the people who invest money in their 

 securities than to anybody or anything 

 else. They are, almost without exception, 

 over-capitalized on the theory that they 

 could establish a monopoly ill their line. 

 This is rapidly being proven an impossi- 

 bility. The establishing ^of independent 

 iron and steel companies since the organi- 

 zation of the United States SteeL Corpo- 

 ration has been phenomenal, and as soon 

 as those independent companies, organized 

 on conservative business principles and 

 equipped with the best and most modern 

 machineiT. are in full operation and dis- 

 tressful times come upon the country, the 

 great United States Steel Corporation, 

 with its millions of watered stock and its 

 number of out-of-date plants, will be un- 

 able to meet the competition and will 

 come down with a crash. That is the only 

 fear we have of the trusts. 



J. Pierpont Morgan will, we believe, 

 prove to be another John Law. 



that the rules should more nearly conform 

 to the customs of the trade during the 

 last 20 years. These men went at the 

 task with a spirit of fairness and with a 

 determination that the rules should be 

 good for both buyer and manufacturer. 

 They succeeded so well that practically no 

 changes were made when the Evansvillo 

 delegation presented them to the state as- 

 sociation for approval. 



And when the Louisville convention of 

 manufacturers adopted rules last June, 

 they adopted the Evansville rules witli 

 practically no change. That Evansville 

 should have this honor is fitting, for she 

 stands to-day as the gi-eatest hardwood 

 market in the greatest hardwood state, 

 C. L. STORKS. 



EVANSVILLE INFLUENCE. 



Evansville. Ind., Aug. 3, 1902. 

 Editor Hardwood Record, Chicago, -111. 



In your last issue much was said of the 

 influence that Indiana had upon the ques- 

 tion of national rules, all of which was 

 true and to the point. Why should she 

 not have such influence? Her hardwood 

 is in every market acknowledged to bo 

 the best. And, while many good hard- 

 wood dealers and mawifacturers from 

 other iMi'ts of Indiana aided witli their 

 votes and influence, it was the lumbermen 

 ot Evansville who formulated the rules on 

 oak that were unanimously passed by the 

 Indiana State association the tenth of last 

 October. 



Representatives from .-ill the concerns 

 here met at the Acme about a year ago 

 and appointed a committee of five of as 

 good lumbermen as ever handled a rule. 

 These men took up the Chicago rules 

 clause by clause from lieginning to end 

 and discussed each carefully and thor- 

 oughy, making changes wherever in their 

 judgment they should be made in order 



A MAGAZINE OF ABBOBICULTTJRE 

 TO BE ESTABLISHED. 



[From Connersville (Ind.) Courier.] 

 Hon. John P. Brown, secretary -treasurer 

 of tlie International Society of Arboricul- 

 ture, has determined to establish a maga- 

 zine to be the organ of the society. It 

 will be published at Connersville, Ind., 

 the first issue being due September 1. Mr. 

 Bi-o-svn will be editor, and B. E. Moore, as- 

 sociate editor and business manager.. The 

 magazine will be made as attractive as 

 choice literature and copious illustrations 

 can make it. Its object, the promotion of 

 tree planting. 



The record of the International Arbori- 

 culture Society, so far, is over one million 

 forest trees planted as a result of Its ef- 

 forts. The movement is gaining strength 

 and momentum every day, and still 

 greater achievements will mark the near 

 future. 



No organized endeavor could be more 

 philanthropic or patriotic. Tlie trees 

 planted now will lienefit future gouera- 

 ti:ins rattier tlian tlie present. Climatic 

 eiinditions will be improved, and a future 

 timber supply insured. Railroad compa- 

 nies and officials especially should inter- 

 est themselves to assist this splendid 

 cause. 



Mr. Brown has proven himself a most 

 potent factor in spreading and buildin.g up 

 a healthful, intelligent sentiment with 

 scientific ti'ee planting as its object. His 

 efforts have covered almost the entiie 

 eountiy, and everywhere he has enlisted 

 the cordial support of progressive aud far- 

 seeing men. His magazine will unques- 

 tionably meet with instant recognition, and 

 under his able direction become the hig!i- 

 est and most eloquent exponent of the sci- 

 ence of ti-ee planting. 



The magazine will be issued monthly, 

 with a subscription pi-ice of $2 per year. 

 But. in the prospectus just issued, the ex- 

 traordinary offer is made to present each 

 paid subscriber with 100 forest trees. 

 Each subscriber will also be enrolled as 

 a member of the society. 



