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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER 1. lumber Will MUCH NECKWEAR jack Have io vr Hustle Lumbermen Must Turn Out Ten Billion More Feet Year to Meet Demand or . n Home puildmo m mm rtioto m ttffiHWMH Mi "M- - Bttt r-'- I 1 by M0FiWOODUf(DWOO0 will have to hustle! That Is the publicly expressed opinion among the experts in every line of business connected with building. They say among other things: That the demand for homes in the United States is nation-wide- . That 800,000 homes should have been built at the normal rate in the last two years and that only 50,000 were actually built, leaving a short 4 age that is estimated at fully 700,000 homes. That from 500,000 to 550,000 homes must be now built yearly to make up the shortage and to get back to the normal rate. That 50,000,000 feet of lumber, board measure, will have to be cut yearly, instead of 40,000,000 feet, which is the normal rate. That an increase in the lumber output of feet a year will certainly make the' lumberjack hustle. The experts do not agree as to figures in all cases. But It is evident that the shortage In homes is very large. At the recent real estate convention in Atlantic City inadequate housing facilities were reported from all parts of the country and the shortage in homes was put at R. LUMBERJACK 1,000,000. Again, it should be remembered that the ordinary demands of manufacturers for lumber are also to be met. That the demand of devastated Europe for lumber will undoubtedly stimulate export from this country. While all the lumberjacks of the country will have to hustle, It looks as If the biggest activity will be demanded from the lumberjacks of the Pacific const, jvh.epg most of the lumber comes nowadays.'"' from The pictures show scenes in Idaho and Wash' Ingion. The mountain lumber camp is 4,000 feet lip In northern Idaho and there Js still snow on the ground in June. The trainjoad of logs Is on , a narrow-gaug- e road In the Idaho pine forests near Fernwood, The three magnificent yellow uies are In a logging region near Spokane. Tel-lopine is the principal source of lumber in eastern Washington, The normal production of 'yellow pine Is about 16,000,000,000 feet (board measure) a year. It Is figured that this output will have to be Increased to about 20,000,000,000 feet. Some of the white pine trees near Spokane are five feet in diameter and 175 feet high. The largest white pine belt left in the United States is in northern Idaho. Some of the largest and sawmills in the country are in this district. Washiogton-Idah- o This housing problem is a big one so big that it may lead to action by the federal government. The department of labor, in announcing in January that 500,000 new dwelling houses were needed, had this to say: "Two billion dollars, available for loans to home builders, would go far in providing the necessary capital for the building of these dwellings. Securities of a value approximating are held by the constitutent organizations in the United States League of Building and Loan Labor - conditions, manufacturing, Associations. and social needs clearly indicate the desirability of an immediate acceleration of building activities throughout the country. "By making available capital necessary to building, a tentative plan may materialize In u national system of 'home loan banks.' The plan contemplates the creation of a bank In each federal reserve district, similar to the land banks created under the federal farm loan act, with which a local building and loan association could "deposit collateral, receiving in exchange home loan bonds." The announcement has been made in Washington by Louis K. Sherman, president of the United States Housing corporation, that the land In various cities which was to have been utilized by the government in its war emergency building program Is to be sold to home seekers for the erection of private houses. The conditions governing the sale of such property are that there Is a real demand for houses In the community and that the construction of homes will be started immediately following the sale. The lots are to be sold publicly. Complete sets of plans, prepared by architects for the housing corporation, will be furnished with the various lots. Orosvenor Atterbury has some Interesting ' ..nlngs to say on this problem. He is known as He Is an architect of international reputation. a member of the board of directors of the Housing association, chairman of the wartime housing committee, member of the National City Planning Institute, member of the French Council of Architects and Engineers on the problem of reconstruction in the devastated regions and a member of the New York tenement house commission. For 15 years, under various appropriations, beginning with the Henry Phlpps enterprises and then with the Russell Sage foundation, he has spent a large part of his time In research work and experiments in the possibilities of quantity production of the small house suitable for worklngmen. These practical studies and demonstrations have Involved the expenditure of two or three hundred thousand Collars. He says among other things: "We will make no substantial progress toward the solution of tho industrial housing problem until we apply to the production of the small d $2,000,-000,00- 0 al " house the same principles of standardization, machine, factory and quantity production that are employed by afl other great industries, "Most experts agree that the real, crux of the industrial housing problem lies not in land cost, taxes or interest rates, but In the house itself the cot of construction. The Investment in building is anywhere from three to ten times the cost of the land, and is therefore the dominant Item and the most potent factor in the entire problem. It is all very well to eliminate the waste Id the other factors waste of time, labor or material but if the productivity of human labor and capital in construction can be increased would be a real step toward the soluthe le.-u-lt tion of the difficulty and the benefits of such an economy would accrue to all parties Involved. house will come event"That the 'ready-madually is evident from the progress made. The first experimental building designed to demonstrate the principle of standardization and factory production was successfully erected in 1909. Since then the work of demonstration and development has proceeded, with the general result always pointing, in my judgment, to the soundness of the principles and tlipir ultimate success. "The help we need ought to come from a government research department established for that purpose. This department' would have to bear the same relation to housing, which is commodity, that the department of agriculture bears to wheat or the bureau of mines to minerals. In other words, the housing of the Industrial army is as Important in peace as that of the munition workers in war times or the fighting units themselves. And for these purposes the government spent hundreds of millions of dollars and established a special department. It is a fair question whether the Importance of the problem today does not justify the establishment of a permanent bureau of housing." "What effect will this increased activity of the lumberjack have on our lumber supply?" Is an important question. The exportation of American lumber on the scale likely to result from the European demand for material will, unless accompanied by provision for regrowth, seriously deplete the supplies needed by home industries and Impose hardships on the consuming public here, Is the view of Henry S. Graves, chief of the United States forest serve' ice. The department of agriculture has Issued a wood-usin- g pamphlet by Colonel Graves warning the and all interested lumbermen the Industries, in home supplies of forest products or foreign trade In them, that the question of lumber exports cannot safely be left to the care of Itself. The situation Is especially critical, he points out, with certain of our highest grade woods, such as ash, oak, hickory, yellow poplar and black walnut, which are the support of important Industries, and with southern yellow pine, of which the main bulk of supply is approaching exhaustion and which is likely to be exported In large quandemands. tities to meet Tho situation, Colonel Graves holds, is one of "Most of the leading Inominous possibilities. he says, "whether the of world," dustrial nations upon Imports or and wooded dependent lightly are and taking steps to wooded exporters, heavily safeguard and develop their timber resources. The United States alone appears to be content to build up a great export trade without considering, the ultimate effect upon domestic timber resources and their capacity In the future to supply the home market." Sound public policy does not, however, necesof exports. sarily demand the discouragement nfter-the-w- "The United States, standing second among the countries of the world in forest area and producr lng more than half of the sawed lumber, should play a more Important part In the export .trade of the world than it does now. With proper safeguards in the way of maintaining the raw materials, a strong export trade should be encouraged. But the gains which we may make In the markets of the world can be kept only in so far as they are based on a permanent supply of timber. If they are to be based merely on a cut southern pine, which, as in the case of will not supply eVen our domestic needs for more than' the next ten or fifteen years, we shall soon be crowded out of the foreign markets by countries which base their export trade on a continuous resource." J Europe's emergency need for lumber, above its consumption In normal times, Is put at aDoui 7,000,000,000 feet of lumber a year for the near future, a conservative estimate; and her own forests have been depleted by the war. Europe, however, needs cheap lumber above all, and our product will not be attractive for the to principal needs of reconstruction, according Colonel Graves. Nevertheless, the world situation in lumber, he says,, offers "an undoubted opportunity for a permanent export trade from this country of proportions that would seem to be limited only by our own powers to sustain the production of saw material.". Senator Sherman presented to the senate the other day a memorial from the Illinois legislature, which was In part as follows: industries not de"Whereas the wood-usin- g forest local uncertain supplies have upon pending become centered to a very large extent In the thickly populated districts east of the Mississippi river and are drawing their supplies from the remaining forests in the eastern states, the gulf states and the states adjacent to the Great Lakes. A large number of such Industries are located in the state of Illinois, with the city of Chicago the center of a very large and important group. Chicago has for many years been the chief lumber distribution point of the United States and the greatest point of lumber distribution in the world. These important Industries, including the manufacture of railway cars, boxes, sashes and doors, farm machinery, furniture, pianos, vehicles, and many other articles, are now threatened by the exhaustion of the forests from which their supnow face the necesplies have been drawn. They timber' the Pacific coast from of bringing sity to the cost. To added with heavy freight charges the same Pacific coast supply the country must look for lumber for general construction purposes. The transportation system of the country must add to its present burdens the transcontinental of lumber, a shipment of very large quantities a which freight rate high bulky product upon consumer. greatly increases the cost to tne general assembly "Resolved, That the Fifty-firs- t of the state of Illinois urges the attention of the States president and the congress of the United to the present timber situation and recommends formulated such a that, without delay, there be as will Insur the national program of forestry the Industrie? by required timber supplies future of the country. As an example of what should be to the wise done, this general assembly points course of the republic of France In so managing conIts forests for more than a century that they tributed substantially to the winning of the great war. "It is further urged that the federal governIn ment, acting Independently or action looking towarc' with the states, Inaugurate such measure of public control of the remnlnlnr bodies of orlglnnl timber as will make sure that their supplies will be available as needed by th Industries. "It Is furthermore urged that comprehensive plans be put Into effect.for restorip the forest lands which are nonrlcuItural li on cut-ovIn the eastern states, In the stnto character bordering tha Great Lakes, and In the South, lr order that timber supplies from these reglonr may bo available to the established Industries of the central and eastern states." Women seem to have become much addicted to wearing neckpieces of many kinds. A little journey through shops and departments that carry neckwear reveals such a world of it and such a variety of It that there must be a great demand for all kinds of neckwear. Many of the pieces are intended to replace summer furs. These include scarfs made of plushes, ostrich boas, ostrich capes and capes of marabout feathers or marabout finished with ostrich fringe. This ostrich fringe, which appears like marabout in black, white and natural color, is used in borders and bands in scarfs of gold and sliver tissue. Some of the new plushes used for scarfs do not attempt a close imitation of fur but suggest the most poplar summer furs, as ermine and broadtail and moleskin. Besides these there are some handsome satin scarfs and capes trimmed with narrow bands of real fur, shown with hats to match like the smart affair that is shown at the right of the two figures above. Rich silk tassels and silk embroidered motifs put this in a class with the handsomest furs. Both ostrich and marabout make beautiful capes In the style of that shown at the right of the picture. Nearly all of these are in the natural taupe color of the feathers, but in capes and boas there Is often a mixture of white and natural flues. Ruffs made of malines in very full plaits and ruffs made of loops of wide satin ribbon are among old acquaintances that find themselves returned to favor, now that everything in neckwear proves to be of interest. They are not at all difficult to make, the plaits or loops are simply stitched on to a band that lies about the neck, and they fasten with ties of narrow satin ribbon. Small chokers and other small neckpieces in furs appear to have displaced larger neckpieces and capes for summer wear and narrow scarfs of satin, finished at the ends with fringe, prove themselves a chic novelty on women who know how to wear them well. A Bodice of Ribbon. bodice made entirely of ribbon The is a feature of midsummer dance frocks combined with skirts of either net, both silk and cotton; organdie, voile, lace and georgette. 'ALL DAY' DRESSES h dresses, to be worn in re-place of suits in and out of doors, 1 ceived a great boost during the war. When tailors became scarce and the work of making street clothes went into the hands of dressmakers In Paris, e " dress begun to the replace suits. With the approval of Paris upon it, this style of street dress made great headway in America and appears to have established itself. The dress, as It is called, appears, together with new suits, In the early showings of fall styles, sometimes having much the appearance of a suit and sometimes wholly different from one. These two types are shown together In the picture above. These dresses are made up in the same quiet colors and of the same materials as suits, although colors, cover a wider range than are usually presented In suits, and there is more latitude In the matter of decorations. The dress at the left of the picture simulates a suit so closely that it Is misleading. It will Interest the girl who mufi; soon be outfitted for college, because It Is a youthful model that will see her through the fall without a wrap and prove comfortable In cold weather with the aid of a coat. One-piec- e one-piec- all-da- y "all-day- it has' the appearance of a suit with skirt and short box coat belted In. But the coat turns out to be only a bodice, with fronts lengthened below the narrow belt and disappearing nt the sides under a seam In the skirt. It has a satin vest, prettily embroidered, and a few very large bone buttons emphasize its novel features. They are set along the side seams In which the jacket fronts lose themselves and on the odd lapels Into which the collar lengthens. Wool velotir is an ideal material for a dress of this kind. The girl. who aspires to look tall and slender should consider the long lines and simple composition of the dress at the right. The picture portrays It with so much fidelity that there Is nothing that needs to be said about It. An underskirt of silk, with border of cloth, has the effect of a separate skirt, but the dress Is, above nil things, convenient to put on, nnd this skirt Is merely the lower part of a foundation that supports the dress. Any of the familiar and "eliable Wool suitings will serve to make these dresses. nil-da- y |