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PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE OF THE LUMBER INDUSTRY OF THE SOUTH

BY THE HON. W. H. SULLIVAN

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Mayor of Bogalusa, Louisiana

N considering the present status and future of the lumber industry of the Southland it is necessary to bear in mind a little of the history of the Southern lumber industry.

The inherent wealth of the South was, until comparatively a few years ago, little realized by the people throughout the United States. It has a wealth in its climate, its rainfall, its soil for agricultural purposes, its mineral reservoirs, and its vast forests of hard and soft wood-largely Southern pine.

Prior to 1861 the manufacture of lumber and timber from the great forests of the South was largely a local enterprise. Only the large-size timber was removed from the land closely adjacent to streams, and floated down to a few small mills along tide water. The output of these mills being used largely in the local markets, very little was moved either for export or to the large consuming markets in the North.

The products of the forests of the South have now reached and have become necessities in all the lumber-consuming territory of the North, East, Canada, and the markets of the world-they are the product of thousands of sawmills, and it is estimated that in 1912 there were in operation 14,217 sawmills in the States from Virginia to Texas, inclusive. It is estimated that of

throughout the United States in 1917 14,500,000,000 feet was Southern pine, and this amount does not include other soft woods and hardwoods manufactured in the South. It can therefore be seen that there has been a great and rapid growth of the lumber industry of the South during a comparatively few years.

There have been marked improvements in the manufacture of lumber, with the view of utilizing all of the tree possible and keeping down the waste to a minimum. In the early days of the Southern pine industry it was customary simply to produce from the log the largest piece of timber possible, the slabs and side boards being burned. This, however, is no longer true of the industry to-day, as it has been found that with the increasing demand not only have the side cuts a value, but moldings, laths, box shooks, and crates are produced from what was formerly wasted.

It was the lumber industry of to-day, largely in the South, that rushed to the aid of our Government in its war programme and furnished material in the space of a few months for the housing of our Army, the building of our wooden fleet, and the supplying of the necessary lumber for the powder plants, docks, wharves, warehouses, and other construction work which was so

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Present Status and Future of the Lumber Industry of the South (Continued)

vital to us in the past great emergency, and it can be said that through the fine organizations of the Southern lumber industry no time was lost in the Government's war activities on account of the need for lumber.

Our industry has been the predominating factor in the building of numerous towns and cities throughout this territory. It is only necessary to visit Bogalusa, Louisiana, where is located the largest sawmill in the world, with a daily capacity of one million feet, to secure an idea of the great activities and constructive work of our industry. In 1906, where stood a virgin pine forest, there is to-day a city of over sixteen thousand people, enjoying all the comforts and advantages of cities of similar size in other communities which have ripened with age in their development.

The lumbermen of the South, realizing to the fullest extent their duties to the individual, the State, and the Nation, are taking a vital interest in the land from which they are removing the forests. They are placing such land as is suitable for agricultural purposes on the market at a very nominal price, and in many instances at their own expense are developing large areas of their cut-over land, establishing experimental farms to determine the best. methods of stock raising and farming, and are co-operating to the fullest extent with the Government's Department of Agriculture in working out the problems of the future of the cut-over land areas, and it is safe to predict that in the space of a few years the cut-over lands of the lumber industry of the South will be yielding good homes, employment, and revenue to the agricultural people of the Nation.

There is also another new industry that is being developed from the forest resources of the Southland, namely, the manufacture of paper. As a further means of forest conservation and the saving of waste, there have been erected large mills, the pulp for which is made from what was formerly sawmill and woods waste. Not only is it now unnecessary for the lumbermen to destroy the waste from their lumber

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forests the tops, branches, and other material which was formerly without value. This new industry in the South will make the "Lumber Cities" permanent, for the land which is not suitable for agriculture can be reforested with quick growth short-leaf pine, so that the source of sup ply from which pulp can be produced will be to all intents and purposes perpetual.

The future of the lumber industry of the South is one of magnitude, for it will play a prominent part in the building of American homes, which idea is now being fostered and promoted by our Government as one of the vital factors in making the American people home-loving, peace-loving, and contented citizens. It also has its responsibilities in the furnishing of lumber and timber for the rebuilding of the devastated portions of Europe and the supplying of the necessary wood for the industrial expansion in Mexico and the South American countries.

The lumbermen of the South fully realize their responsibilities to their industry and to the Nation, and are striving at all times to protect and develop their people who are depending upon the manufacture of lumber for a livelihood, and the Southland, which has given to the Nation such a

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BY THE WAY

Rear-Admiral Sims recently paid a friendly tribute to the firemen and stokers of the merchant marine who bravely stuck to their arduous and dangerous work while the German submarines were running amuck. He concluded: "Next time you are aboard a liner and see a greasy member of the fire-room force slip up on deck for a breath of fresh air, touch your hat to him."

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A woman came up to the paying teller's window at the First National Bank the other day, so the Portland (Oregon) Express says, with a check for fifty dollars which she wished to cash. The teller glanced at the check, and, fingering his greenbacks, asked in his pleasantest tones : "What denomination, madam ?" "what "Lutheran," replied the woman; are you?"

Lodgings in Paris are hard to get and command a premium. A cartoon in " Pêle Mêle" represents a boulevardier, hat in hand, approaching an old and extremely unattractive janitress with this proposition: "See here, Mme. la Concierge, if you get me a room, I'll give you two hundred francs, and, besides, a Christmas present "But, of five hundred francs, andM'sieur, I have received from another applicant an offer of marriage if I get lodgings for him!"

The ignorance of some elements of the rising generation as to the Bible is often deplored; but occasionally the young men of to-day display an aptness of comment on Scriptural subjects that is gratifying. Here is an example quoted by a subscriber: The young artilleryman had said that Germany was a bully and a coward and carried her defeat in her make-up. The Biblical commentator instanced, as proof of this, Goliath in full armor parading up and down and cursing the Israelites, while the "young and inexperienced David slew him with a smooth stone from the brook. To this the artilleryman rejoined: "Don't believe for a moment that David was ignorant or inexperienced. He knew perfectly the value of the projectile. with a He knew that armor and ' a spear shaft like a weaver's beam' were clumsy and useless offensives against well-selected and well-aimed projectiles !"

"Now, Willie," said the teacher, as re""what is the meanported in "Blighty," ing of the word transparent ?" Willie: "Something you can see through." "Right. Now give an example." "A ladder."

The clergyman who has humor and a knowledge of human nature sometimes finds it better to fall in with rough talk rather than to give a soft answer. Such was the case with the bishop, as reported in an English paper, who asked a miner why he never went to church. "Why, you see, sir, it's like this," was the reply; "the fust time I went to church they threw water in my face, and the second time they tied me to a woman I've had to keep ever since." The bishop smiled grimly." And the third time you go," he said, "they'll throw dirt on you."

Apropos of that form of the drama soaking whose action largely consists in “ 'em one," the Long Island City "Star says: "Now that Charlie Chaplin is married, just think what may happen when the bride essays her first custard pie!"

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try in the war. His name was originally Rosenbaum. An English paper, learning this fact, accused him of being a German. His parents, however, were Russian, though their name, Rosenbaum, had a Germanic coloring. The case came into the courts and the editor had to acknowledge his mistake and publicly apologize. It is unsafe to jump to conclusions about a man's nationality from the sound of his name, as the following paragraph also shows.

An Associated Press correspondent, R. C. Long, gives in a recent book a graphic description of the famous Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, "the Bastille of Petrograd," once used to imprison revolutionists, later to intern aristocrats. One of the prisoners he interviewed was General Rennenkampf, who was associated with General Samsonoff in. the disastrous battle of Tannenberg. Asked what his offenses were, Rennenkampf answered, "Samsonoff's defeat and my own German name." But his Teutonic sympathies were perhaps shown in this bitter remark: "I am told that the cause of Russia's defeat is that three-quarters of her officers are Germans; the real cause is that three-quarters of them are Russians."

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Makaroff, the former Russian Minister of the Interior, was also a prisoner in the grim Fortress, and made a curious comment on the situation, as reported by Mr. Long: "He denounced the Revolution and prophesied that it would perish at the hands of extreme Democracy. The Government of the Czar,' he said, was wholly vicious; but I supported it as a patriotic man, and did nothing to aggravate its badness. I was honestly convinced that all possible Russian governments must be bad.' Prison and Terror, he affirmed, had been the only means respectively of keeping order and of correcting despotism, since Tartar days; and they would continue so to the end." A British tourist in devastated France is pictured in "Punch as being "floored by the educated Chinese head of a force of laborers doing reconstruction work. The dialogue follows:

British visitor (using pidgin English to supposed laborer): "John Chinaman likee muchee dlessee allee samee English soldier."

Chinaman: "Well, sir, I don't concern myself much about uniform. Actually I'm a journalist and only came here for the experience." The ups and downs of auction sales were interestingly shown in Paris lately, when two designs for ceilings by the Venetian artist Tiepolo were sold for $8,200; they had been bought by a dealer within recent years for $30. A Corot, "The Forum Seen from the Gardens of the Farnese Palace," brought $11,400; at the Corot sale in 1875 it went for $520.

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