policy, why not cut the fare on single men in the hope 

 that they may marry a wife who will make them ride 

 in a Pullman ? In other words, what the railroads lose 

 in hauling your logs, they make up hauling rny cord- 

 wood, in order that they may stick some other fellow 

 for hauling his lumber. It seems perfectly fair as far 

 as the railroad is concerned and yet there seems to be 

 something funny about it, too. 



Two cars are loaded at the same place with spruce 

 wood and both bound for the same destination. 

 "What's in a name?" Listen and you will find out 

 Apparently those two carloads of wood are exactly the 

 same until one of them is named pulpwood and the 

 other cordwood. Then the difference is even more ap- 

 parent than the similarity was a minute before. The 

 pulpw r ood costs you ten dollars freight and the cord- 

 wood sixteen. Forty thousand pounds of the pulpwood 

 makes a carload, while the cordwood has to weigh 

 forty-eight thousand in spite of the fact it very likely 

 is a physical impossibility to get that much on the car. 

 If there had been a third car of the same stuff labeled 

 "logs," the difference would have been even more 

 wonderful. When the agent has handed you those 

 three freight bills, you go right out and look at the 

 stuff again and wonder how you could ever have 

 thought they looked alike. Three 8-ft. cuts from the 

 same tree separated on those three cars and the meas- 

 erly little topcut on the cordwood car is paying a high- 

 er rate than the fat butt log almost twice his size. No- 

 body wants the railroads to haul at a loss, but there is 

 neither rhyme nor reason in this discrimination against 

 cordwood. 



