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highest and lowest price named. It is doubtful if a veneer factory, 

 no matter horr well equipped and how well located for the purchase 

 of low-priced logs, could by any possible chance produce at a profit 

 this large panel stock at the minimum price named, and save its bacon. 

 Cost-accounting in the veneer business is apparently still in its 

 infancv. 



Forest Service Analysis of Values 



The Forest Service report covering ;x record of wliolcsale prices on 

 hardwoods based on actual sales during July, August and September, 

 1910, has just been issued. As an example of the government service 

 deductions, the average prices received for plain white oak, firsts and 

 seconds, are herewith appended: .Boston, $.57.50; New York, $52; 

 Philadelphia, $52.25; Norfolk, $45.50; Pittsburg, $52.25; Buffalo, 

 $53; Cincinnati, $47; Memphis, .$43; St. Louis, $45.75; Chicago, 

 $48.50; Kansas City, $47; New Orleans, .$45; Minneapolis, $50.50. 



Necessity of Organiza- 

 tion to Forest Fire 

 Protection 



The officials of the United 

 States Department of Agricul- 

 ture believe that a lesson that 

 will finally be drawn from the 

 trying experience of the present 

 season's disastrous forest fires is 

 the manifest need of organization 

 among private owners of timber 

 to safeguard their lioldiugs. It is 

 pointed out that already in the 

 Northwest, both on the Pacific 

 coast and in Montana and Idaho, 

 timber land owners have formed 

 themselves into an association 

 which assesses the members on 

 an acreage basis for the cost of 

 maintaining a regular patrol and 

 fire-fighting organization. Only 

 by getting together can private 

 owners assure themselves protec- 

 tion, as fire is no respecter of 

 boundary lines, and the man who 

 undertakes to keep it out of his 

 own timber will also be obliged 

 to keep it out of his neighbor's. 

 Wherever possible, the govern- 

 ment forest ofiicers cooperated 

 ■with the ofScers put onto the 

 field by associations and indi- 

 viduals, so that the employees of 



the government and those of private owners are counted practically 

 as a unit in fighting a common enemy. 



This cooperation is advantageous to all parties at interest, as 

 protection of the national forests necessarily carries with it a good 

 deal of protection of adjoining or interior holdings. The government 

 officials allege that if private owners would shoulder a reasonable 

 share of the burden the public would gain both through more general 

 conservation and through relief from the necessity of paying for the 

 protection of private timber in order to protect its own. 



It is to be hoped that organizations for the protection of forest 

 areas and for the fighting of timber fires will multiply, as it seems, 

 based on the experience of Germany, that the tremendous loss of life 

 and property that has prevailed during the last year is absolutely 

 unwarranted if proper precautions are taken. 



WORK 



Labor is discovered to be the great, 

 the grand conqueror, enriching and build- 

 ing up nations more sure than the proud- 

 est battles. 



— Channing. 



* • * 



What is there that is illustrious that is 

 not also attended by labor? 



— Cicero. 



* • • 



The gods sell everything good for labor. 



— Epicharmus. 



* * * 



Genius begins great works ; labor alone 

 finishes them. 



—Jouberl. 



* * » 



Toil and pleasure, in their natures op- 

 posite, are yet linked together in a kind of 

 necessary connecti n. 



— Livy. 



» * > 



Labor is the divine law of our exis- 

 tence; repose is desertion and suicide. 



— (Maiiini. 



Good Housekeeping in Lumbering 



The value of system ;uid tidiness in lumber oj.erat ions does not 

 receive the attention its importance deserves at the hands of a good 

 many operators. It i's with pleasure that the Becord gives space to 

 the following analysis of this subject issued by V. S. Epperson & Co., 



"of the Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance of Kansas City, Mo. It is 

 well worth perusal. 



"Among ihp attribute? that more than others distinguish the human 

 family from the lower orders of animal creation, order, tidiness and 

 love of things generally above the merely prosaic and sordid, are 

 foremost. So when the oracle says that these things reduced to every- 

 day practice are sources of profit as well as a solace to the souls of 

 men, his thesis opens up various collateral branches, each in its way 

 interesting. For instance, the writer of these lines knows of a certain 

 sawmill lumber yard that every day in the year is as immaculately 

 free from disorder and any trace of unsightliness in any form as that 

 of the most fastidious housewife's parlor anywhere. The open spaces 

 everywhere in that yard, large and small, are not only scrupulously 

 innocent of rubbish of every conceivable sort, but they are grass- 

 grown and as smoothly shaven as the velvety lawn of a beautiful 

 suburban home. About that sawmill system and tidiness everywher. 

 arc uppermost. 



"The men in charge of all departments of the premises are trained to- 

 regard any desecration as unpardonable, and each in his place is held 

 responsible for its unbroken integrity. Engines, machinery and every 



operating accessory either shincs 

 or is clean and in its right place 

 Ijumber piles are laid out with 

 reference to convenience; they are 

 run up with something like geo- 

 metrical precision, and literally 

 nowhere is there a thing to offend 

 the eyes or jar the beholder's 

 sence of symmetry, system and 

 conservation. Full piles are over- 

 laid carefully and fastened so as 

 to safeguard them against wind, 

 weather and sun. Not only does 

 the absence of rubbish and all 

 iiiflammable debris lessen the fire 

 insurance rate, but the same 

 general tendency pertaining to 

 the cleanliness described extends 

 to the homes of the employees 

 and their standard of living. 



"As a further sequence the men 

 find in this all-pervading system 

 and cleanliness an inspiration that 

 unconsciously arouses a livelier 

 sense of the comforts and pleas- 

 ures of life. Higher conception.s- 

 of moral responsibility also follow, 

 and instead of the stolidity an.l 

 indifference and incompetency 

 bred by squalor, discomfort, social 

 degeneration and unsanitary con- 

 ditions generally, the men and 

 their families find life worth liv- 

 iving, and loyal, efficient servici- 

 a thing worth striving for. In 

 every such case it logically also 

 follows that intelligent, progres- 

 sive and conscientious servici- 

 commands the recognition it de- 

 serves, and at every point au 

 order of things is set up alike 

 profitable and, pleasurable to all 

 concerned. The particular model 

 under review, while possibly superlative and not in every instance 

 attainable to the same extraordinary extent, affords an example th. 

 helpful, moral and business influences of which can hardly be esti 

 mated. The subject is one fittingly to command attention and arous. 

 tendencies away from the material shiftlessness and moral perversit> 

 occasioned and fostered by either or a combination of these influences 

 Few men can become habituated to the ceaseless presence of bad 

 practices or omissions of any sort and not unconsciously or Involun- 

 tarily become inoculated with them. If the head of affairs Is habituall\- 

 slovenly or suffers that .sort of thing to go on around him, he need not 

 be surprised to see his subordinates following his example. 



"System, considered alone, is a means of conservation and of avert- 

 ing wasted energy, lost motion. It Is doing things on lines involving 

 the shortest cuts, the cutting off of corners and of making every stroke 

 count to the limit. It marks the distinction between confusion ami 

 good order; the one means wasted, the other effective purpose; the one 

 economizes, the other wastes. System, industry, intelligence, candor, 

 cheerfulness and loyalty are some of the essentials of competent man- 

 agement and the best service. The means of attaining to the highest 

 standards of management and service principally, then, consist nf 

 system, good judgment, true-heartcdness and high ideals on the one 

 hand, and appreciation, contentment and w-illing, intelligent loyalty oti 

 the other." 



