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Build Now or .Wait?".
Iiy I. S. Iv)tjt, in CoitJitry ,mUmaa
It would be a safe but that grand-1
father thought quite u lot about it
and did conMiiorublo worrying be
fore ho tililt the big red barn, and
that grandmother found several oc
casions lo remark thai it was won
der to her how a man could figure
out that ho ought to build a big red
barn when his wife didn't have uny
wheie near enough pantry shelves
or even an inside pump.
But it was a noble red barn, with
hand-hewed frame of white oak
timbers hunk-d up from the creek
bottoms and mortised and pinned to
gether. Outside, the barn was fin
ished with twelve-inch white-pine
boards sixteen feet long hardly a
knot showing. Th-i floor was of
neavy oa p.unK ant- mo sn.ng
were of while cedar from Wisconsin
When the fra.no went u I sun-
had a "hoe," and later
must liave been a barn
on there',
dance and !
II1ISKII1.. Willi fcUIS IllUHJlULiaii
mixed in wilh Hio --est. ,., ,, ... wlllln to ! I"'1'113. A,,a na "'s ue0" nl''lS
As the bun, got down, to bn.Hu. Tt tl7e mnors i ;ls ,0 the a"'omU r 8,U'h ,B,,d' 0"d
Vlth the stock in tK-ir stalls, the ' ,n the , U CO"U3 abM" "..
surrey honsed a.onide the o- ."uUl cut , into t,n good-
cat wagon and tho buckboard. and . A e nandg w0 si-:sl t8,c-
tlie loft full of hay, no doubt Bran,-!VaBed the remnan's, after a big1 Some of that country la fit foi
father luaveJ him a siKli or relief, tt aI1( lnal0 them into tho Na- i fa,1ninK or gra.inK i ipht non . In the
thought how lucky he was, won-1 ,,', ForuiU. Most of the National IonK ru"- '"llU! a 101 of 11 ,vi" bp
dered how hi couM manage to get 1 j-orL.t!1 lir0 nck in tho Western I" ofitubly worked in agrieulluro, but
the bills paid without stalling on j mo,lin,lill3 bt,',.;d broad, bells of will be a long run. How mttcl
f tho mortgage, at ti'n. 3 regiftted liis . ltll.. nu.n(l(i thrher nnd t here ' money and how many men would it
H'WIU 111 UlUIWIllf,, ..ill IIILMIJ fcUU LU I
wondering if it wasn't about time to
slrtipc.up for anothri" barn or so.
l'erhaps ho comnromiscd witll
grandmother on a i-;v hay slu'd and
the InsUle pump.
When tho red barn wtis built I
suppose wages wen about a dollar
a day. Mnybe the boss carpenter
got two dollars. Tho cak frame and
floors wero cut locally and cost only
the waxes that wen' into them.
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Jlo rost of rnnstrnrtHin iii-rcjicnfl
between 1002 and 1V14 by about 20
per c-.-nt and sine then has in-
creased at least 25 per cen't, so one
tal of -5G or oO psr tVnt, so one can
can get a line on prospective present
piopecth e Pj wt?nt j money to buy timber alul then bond-
naii to the JWuu"',.cd the timi,or to buy more timber.
3 any such figure . t wor- bonded,
Costa by addin
quoted. Of course
are only averages and cannot well
be accurate tor evei-v different com
bination. In Hpiio of the ve y great Increas
es in construction cost, it is likely
that one can buy nore for the prico
of a buuhel of cor.-i or beans
wheat right now than he could ten
VHJivs li.irlf" likf nrini'h
more than'
. m. .ikpt wa? shot to nieces.
lie can ipii j curs r.ji;cy. inure aiei ...
other things to figure on bsjdes !bondwl 1I,i,ls 1,ad tof ep on
tho total bill in dollars. For in
ttanee; a shed which keeps ?100
worth of mathine-y out of the
weather is a more valuablo shed
than the one which protects only
?'J00 worth of machinery. It may
be the same old slwd and the same
old machinery, but lm't the state
Uivnt atJovo trhe?
Figure It out on a .ilo. A 90-ton
lig coit ::oujn it
f4u0. That's a :
4 and new
costs
per cent in-
i nnk ! hili' lint fii'iirn It
out on the b..sis of L'hica'-'o produce;
(luoUitioiis for 1D14 and 1D1D -and
it looks liki- this
Value of kajin Produce.
Jan. 1!'14 Jan.. If 10
Vli-at ?0;S9 $ 2.25
Corn ;5 1.41
Hogs ...... S.00 1S.0Q
'Uf !t.2 5 20.01'
Ain.mni it' 1'rodnrr io IlllV Silo
.I.-in. 1!t1t Jan 1 M ft
' Wheat :io7 1u 7S bu
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hear of the
284 bu.
2000 lbs
2222 lbs
"Lumber
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Trust?" Sure. Kverybody has.
Well, there isn't my. The Bureau
of Corporations and .the Department
of Justice turned iho lumber Indus
try Inside out and found a lot of us
tonishiiv; thinps, but no "trust." It
was found that timbor supplies weie
even more limited than anybody sus
pected; that there w;ft a very great
concent) at ion in the ownership of
Umbcriamls which had the mi kings
of monopoly, but no general control
of lumber prices.
We have gotten ourselves Into
rather a jack pot. Until about twen-
fiye ag0 nCarly everybody
hri. t,. ,,, lllMt V(1 " llGh
1 l? ' ea. V'".. f.-.1...!"1?
we gave away niillious of acres of it
to the . transcontinental railroads,
koIiI minimis nf nciw innrn fnr
i ii. 1.1 n.
fore hard to get at or Use until at-
irr 11,0 i.rlv..to timber is gone.
Pretty soon wc are going to be ex ja11" S"-'ar ''. '""1 tllus kooi pace
ceedingly glad we l.uve thoso Na-iw"" tho lumbermen? A whole lot
tional Koret, and a few years from!0' tll!,t cut-ovtr land will pay out.
now the kids will not be able to un-!""l Pay out woll. a; raising timber
drstand why we ukl not get mor !'"'" will not pay out raising an
of them 'while the.o was time. ' lothor crop save, of tourso, tho por-
, , . , , ennial sucker crop harvested by tht
It s a fool sort of a jam wo arc
in. but it s real enough. With tint- !lanu 1",a,K-
iber easy to get and tho price going
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Then canto the panic and pricked tho, today ripe and In logs at tho saw
i bubble. - People had Veen dealing in ' mills, they would no- keep tho sawi
! timber iho way they deal In oi' going more than sixteen seconds
they simply had to have money to over boforo to get tho invurted reg--pay
their interest. The only way tc'ions going again, ami aha looks to ur
mali'o the property pay that interest I Tor a lot of that lumber. Our lum
money was to build a piill nnd cut bermen rejoice in tho prospect o"
and sell lumber. So everybody was- getting all their mills to worl"
rioiiK? it. and things were lovely un- again. If they do, that brings us
. itil 1007. All over the country con -
U-,.t:- ct.r.ri Thf lnmlipr mar-
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I lr ft ft-Ms" K lfll IO nieces. Din me
dling lumber to a falling market.
The bottom fell risht out of things. at alf but is planning to Bpend mil
In 1912 I saw perfect fir flooring j iions in getting some as quickly an
luntber offered on tne docks for $12 jpgu. France had a lot of care
n thousand feet! ! fully hand-made forests, and if 1
Our Forests Shamefully ltutchered. ; i,a,in't uoen for those forests prob
Taxes' always go up rapidly In a ably the Germans would have been
timber country, b-anse lumbering , in I'jirls long ftgo. The foresUi
goes ovi?r a region fast and later de- (: topp d them, but' there Isn't much
velotiment comes slowly. So for a'uft of the Tresis today. Iiy the
long time timber Is about all there
is to tax.
11 ut the faster the timber
1 i rut. the lesi there is lert to tax
and so the tax rate j'.mps. Moon it
t gets up to the point where the tim-
b(r ownei must c.u issxer, so na ui
keep taxes from confiscating his
property. The faster he cuts, tji-?
less there is left to tax and the fas -
ter the rate goes up.
riesidsj taxes. nnl interest on In-
vestment, came fires which it cost a
lot of money to fight and. which
! w?J'-d
iother.
one hives lii! -jilt aftur an-
A -1
upiex Aicazar.
TWO RANGES IN ONE
The Duplex Alofizar Range )n rns Oil' jhh.I Ciml (r wovd),
( illuT sci;iijitcly 011 lmlli ;it.tiic (-'iiimc liinc'. Jl' yoii urt: usiiiLT one (
tli' did t ylr i( c-ni.kiii sto (,-s, riiilit llicro in-an j . ft n 1 1 i t - lor a
saving of lali(r, a savin ' la fuel aii'l a saving in tuvl.
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f )isinc(I ('ui--r. ;nly. faitlii'nl. cITii-icnt, .crvic,) itii
tm h sj'lmnlid ;qincaraiiic,,it i.s n.'tsy .(( keep . i.;in. '
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IUa!!y a Rang That You Will be'Prcud to Po::wX
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Hardware
MEMBER BF'THlg ASSOCIAg!ED
P Now wo do not r.ted t shed any
'tears o$or the sad plight of the lum
berrnun. LuSiberprkes have b-n
lowland for years and ears we have
had the benefit. Vvt now wo need
jfo look sharp n uui wn account.
For the lumberman, with prices
down, has been forced to butcher
his foveas shamefully, taking only
the best parts of t'n best trees and
leaving the rest for the fW'es. lie
has been forced to work our forests
as a miner does hi3 mine taking!
whatever promised seme profit and
caving in the rest, regaidless.
Don't blamo the lumbermen; they
can't do unythlng olae the way things
stuck up. And still, with less thau
a generation of timbor left in Amer
ica, our forests arj being stripped
at a rate of round 200,000 acres a
day. '
Tim bo. mining leaves what? AVhy !
cut-over land, of course. And, what
,sort of land is that? "A picture of
: desolaUon calculated to discount
rJLs iG no-" vs Ure SeV
lhe "bt p'onc.. bas the bet
: retary of the Interior in his last re-
the
I idea if you look at some of the pic
!turos. of former Kuropean foreste
Ishattered by artillery fire," ho ex-
;Ulltu t0 lko Rol"K t'""!8 llt tllf
" oS 200,000 acres a day, year in
i Nobody is doing much of anything
about tneyo tbinen. If nil tile fife;
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iber. Everywhere building ha3 beer
pnetty much stopped for four years
I Kurope needs more lumber thar
! that much closer to the ragged enO
of no lumber at all.
hint' utifl Hart s.imn u-nni c. Jm-
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!USed ,,,ost of lll0m for duep Parks-
Todiy she hasn't .micli of any wood
time Gentian) nets setled !p with
France, there will 'dj a hole in Uic
prize r.erman fores: uiso nana-
mnde, which a century will hardlj
;nu up again
For years -past aboul
nail or an ine iui:iJer useu in uu
world ha been cut in the Un'ted
Slates.
; Last summer the Vr Industrie;
Iloaid fixed the price of most lum-
her. Southern yellow pine was fixed
at a base price of S28 a thousand,
feet, f. o. b. mill, lo get that price
unnm items were lif tod high ns
!$,"ifi and some as low as 515. Tho
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LA HiA'NDI()IM:(lOt. SUNDAY.
tiverago of all radA and siaes, "the
entire mill Qutput, was supposed to
figure out about $2$ u thousand.
Probably the mills had nev-r gotten
suchprlces before, but they claimed
the base should kave been $;10 at
least. The Federal Trade Commis
sion replied thtrf Southern pine pro
ducers were profiteering, having
muAo 17 por cent In 1017 agiwinst
live per itent on lnvesttivnt the year
befoi'e. The lumbermen retorted
that five per cent is less than a liv
ing profit, nnd that. noboMy could
profiteer on an average of the two
years. Consldertn; mat tho cost or
manufaclure at one of tha best mills
rose from $13.07 In 1913 to $21.34
in 1918, it would sem that there is
rgom for argument.
Tho city consumer often has paid
$1.50 a bushol wha.a potatoes 'were
selling on tho farm for 50 cents,
and, with the farmer, - wondered
why. Just so, many a farmer has
paid $35 a thousand fur lumber
which the mills wv:tq glad to sell for
?18. Where does the difference go?
Freight and tho n iddlemen, of
course. It Is oasler to check through'
and find out about lumber costs
than In tho case ni farm products.
The liureau of Cci poratlons, tho
Federal Tradj Commission, the Wat
Industries Hoard and tho Forest
Servlco have checkoi back and forth
until tho whole situation is plain
enough and pretty much beyond
question. Of recent ears the lum
bermen have been ar.xious to bo in
vestigated, just as are farmers when
the fair prico of milk or wheat Is in
qiif?stlon.
Follow Your Best Hunch,'
There are souio brand-new things
in tho lumber world, uild tho new
est of them is Crado-marked stock,
eviery board and scanting branded.
Why not?
And thero Is the "ready-cut"
house too. Thai's very recent. A
carpenter, sawing up and fitting to
gether a plto of lumber to make a
new building, naturally has to wiiL'r
some.
Resides that, tho carpenter'
time, whllo he does .lie sawing, must
bo paid for, ni-d thai probably costs
more "than tho waste lumber. And
then thero is the piobubility that
the job suddenly gul-i tied up while
somebody makes a unrry-up. trip to
town to get sometl ing previously
forgotten. Tho readv-cut building
saves a lot of thoso troubles.
A big buyer can get betto: ptlcns
than a small one. It tan make sure
that tho cheapest satisfactory lum
ber Is used for each part of tho
building. It can know that the
lumber Is properly Pear.oi:e;l and
ready for use. It i3 no end of a
worry saver to be able to get lumber
and nails and shingles and paint und
glass and everything "U 1" a bunch
and to know what the cost Is going to
be right from 'the jump-off. If you
have to pay a little more freight on
a ready-cut house. ou dont have to
pay uny freight at vl on whul the
carpenter would waste on tho other
kind. .
But there ere disadvantages about
tho ii-ady-ctit , conduction too. You
have to unload tho cars promptly.
Tli'n you must lay lhe material out
at the building site, eo that you can
find what you waat when yon want
it. It's easy to locate the sills, at
last, under all the shingles and most
of tbt sheathirg. -M.d flooring and
casing needs to ! good and dry
when it go-s in- A Rw hours In
the damp may menu open "joints all
over the new hou.
I Besides ' these posilMllilefl, you
ihnve a more o - less limited choice of
plans .jfid iimtoiinW. and one does
..ans?
0 tnt
PP8I '
M'AY '2.1, J!)19
like to have a nev place fixed 41 p ac
cording "ts his oath natter. The
rapid gftjwth o& the ready-cut firms
indicates that, lotjj cf poiJ are
finding V10 disadvantages .of such
building teas than, the advantages.
It is sure that tho nw method Is
here to sUiy tflid it ts certainly well"
worth flmfing out bout. .
So build now or wait. Go over
th entire proposltbni In a Scientific
manner and' then follow your best
hunch, us usu-al. Figue on labor
and crop prospects. Balance land
values against the murtgtigo. Look
longingly at the days that are past
and remember thu .your gramf-
fathor probably did the same thing.
If your place really needs the im
provement and you jan see your way
to paying for It, chances uro you will
be sorry If you .wait. But ,t( you
build, prepare, yourself for n period
of strain and mental anguish.
Cbc Booktuopm
There bus- b(wn ail I) iiusijul dd
numd at tho library for booka on
bouae plans and arcbltuchiro. Not
ull tho books coutnlu . pructlcul
plans, but nearly nil bavo nsofiil
sui-'cslions for the prospoetlvn
Inithlor. Tbb back numbers of the
"HoiiKO lloautlfnl" nnd the "Crafts
man" are also on file.
"Tho Livable House" by Aynmr
Kinbury, shows illustrations of var
ious correct styles of architecture.,
with t ext ou materials, stylus, etc.
Two pamphlets or inlorust are
published by tho l.ndles' Homo
Journal, entitled "Journal riuimn
lows," and "Journil llousos." They
also publish "What you should
know w-lien building a liltlo.hoiiso,"
by C. E. White, Jr..
"Uoniestlc nieliltc-ctare," by Itol).
Inson, is by an Oregon author.
Tho National Lumber Manufac
turers association ulro issues
pampb'ts on various types, of farm
buildlncs, sftcb as "Grain Storauo
HuildlnKs," "Iinploment Khods,"
"lee-houses," "Dairy and (icnorul
Pui'Posd Uarn" "
Hooks on intori.ir decoration am
"Tho Now Interior," by Adlur, 'Thu
Furnishlnt! of a Modest Homo," b)
Danluls, "interior Decoration," bj
1'art.ons. "Art nnd Kconomy in
lloinu Decornllon," by rriustiuan,
"Inlorlor Docoratlon for thu .Bmall
Home," by Uolfo.
A Kicat nuiiiber cf books, rnaga-
Try This- ,
on: Your Piano
. In 'Kimiincr hot, when sitlcwalks steam, and our desiri; is
liKUt! ice cream, and ennies t lie rny.1 man, heasjly hnite, witli
tnick'and shovel COAL and chute, and wakes us J'nuu our hh'SS
ed dreani of lemonade and. more ICM cream; our jiassions rise,
our one desiiv, to chuck that; -'OAIj man in the lire.. Jhito!
ani
1 comes old
storms, hleak and cold, assails in vain our. home, complete with
every comfort comes with heal ; our eyo swells Wo are immune
WKViLLKl) OL Ii COAI'i JJIN UI' IN JUNE.
. wi; ; i;i:ni8IK'i jii: .m.i'sic .
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ziuesail other materials wero ex
amined by th arf class of thn
Nef;iiborhood cTub under tho dlrec
tion'oT Mrs. K. V. Mobsman, in pre
paring tho entertainment recently
fiven at tho high school. This thor
ough research work rq wired many
more v-tlumos than tho few wftich
are hejM UsUd, that may be of gen
eral Interest:
Arihitcturo Lethaby.
Architecture and the Allied Artfl
Btooltv t '
The- Subtanco' of Cothif Cram"
Only Gooa Custom
Tailoring Can Pro
duce that Assured
Sense of Being
Well Dressed
irhvine your suit mads to order,
from a pattern that you sslect, la
tha most caiisfrctory way for any
man who Is particular about the
clothes he wears. Ono of our
custom made suits will b far
more economical because It will
"hold Its shape and style as long
as you euro to wear It It's tho
liner hand workmanship and unseen
parts that give thig result, as well aa
the liner materials We' guoranteo
thtt materials ws well as the fit and
style.
You'll be glad to havo some; one of
our attractive new patterns in worst
cd casoimcre or cheviots. Possibly
you will want to select one of the
zephyr-weight hot weather two-piece
styles. They are Very modish and
pleuulng. We can plense you in prico
as well as in style and pattern.
Let your next purchase bo made to
your measure. You will find it
vuBtly more sausbictory.
Wilson Bros. Tailors
H-ii comes I )(veinlier s sleet and our desire .
Jack ! lust, heartless, hold,
CHORUS
. Everybody Join
For WOOD and COAL in winter,
I;'l'N( '1 1 ViH, he in line; . .
We waul l-VNCII for our I CM MAN
J11 tly uood 'old .Siiuiiiier time.
Editorial, Classified, Sports.
NUMBKU 203
Some Fronch ephedra Is Lon
don lftmes.
Cathedrals of France WIIbod.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartrog
Hni?. Adams.
C hurclies and Castles of Mediae
val France Luruefl.
During July and August the li
brary will not be op'en on Sundays,
Butter Wrappers printed at the
Observer office.
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