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mainly, where lumbering started as one standard activity of the old 

 New England stock, and still continues so in large measure. My 

 own uncles, in fact, were lumbermen, and I can remember being in 

 their camps before stoves were used, when the fire for warmth and 

 cooking was in the middle of the camp under a big smoke hole, while 

 the berth and living space were under the eaves. Then, too, lumbering 

 in New England remains yet on a moderate scale and is largely 

 worked, or was a few years ago, by native and provincial labor. 

 Democracy was certainly a feature there, however. It was also in 

 the Lake States when »lumbering was the great and characteristic 

 industry, and to my knowledge the same is true in large measure in 

 the Northwest today. 



The conditions of the life no doubt have much to do with that. 

 When men face cold, rough living, and hard labor together, less ele- 

 mental things count for less in comparison, and man gets to man 

 in the primeval, direct fashion. At any rate I possess that feeling 

 about lumbering. I prize it, and I want to give you a recent and 

 prominent illustration. 



Last winter, 'as a matter of mental improvement, I read a book 

 called "The Job, the Man, the Boss." This book is supposed to be 

 up to the minute in the way of scientific management and business 

 organization. One thing in it particularly stuck in my mind — what 

 v/as described as the last reliance of a manager in getting his work 

 .done. With pay suitably arranged, conditions of work looked after, 

 selection of. men made according to adaptability, and all the other 

 schemes of modern management employed, there still would arise 

 situations of unusual difficulty, sharp pinches to get over, which the 

 scheme could not undertake certainly to provide for. And the book 

 said that at these times the best reliance, a thing that would some- 

 times do the work when all else failed, 'was the personal liking of the 

 men for the manager. 



That, I suppose, is good doctrine in a scientific way; I am willing 

 at any rate to take the book for it. Soon after I read it I was 

 reminded of the matter in another connection. It was at a meeting 

 of the Forestry Club of the University of Washington at which the 

 chief address was made by Mr. George S. Long, manager of the 

 Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. Mr. Long holds a big executive 

 position now, but he grew up in the lumber business of Wisconsin 

 and worked through every part of it. His main theme that evening 



