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60th Annual Hoo-Hoo Convention at Miami Beach
Robert J. StalkerElected Snark oI Universe
Another bright page in Hoo-Hoo history was written at Miami Beach, Florida, October 7-8-9-10, 1951. It is the report of the 6oth annual convention of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo rvhich rvill stand out as one of the best. The record shows registration of better than 400, rvith delegates from all parts of the country and Canada, a splendid program devoted to the business of Hoo-Hoo and an exceptional concat.
The New Supreme Nine
Robert J. Stalker, 36918 of Quincy, Massachusetts, a member of the Supreme Nine for the past two years, was elected Snark of the lJniverse. Six of the members of the Supreme Nine rve:'e retained. Three new men were elected, namely:
Jurisdiction I, George Soltis, 47587, Supreme Junior Hoo-Hoo; Jurisdiction II, Ernst Hammerschmidt, 43385, Supreme Bojum; Jurisdiction VI, Carl Gavotto, 36385, Supreme Hoo-Hoo.
The others on the board are: Jurisdiction III, Arthur H. Geiger, 44882, Supreme Gurdon; Jurisdiction IV, Harry B. Weiss, 797D, Supreme Senior Hoo-Hoo; Jurisdiction V, Martin McDonald, 27358, Supreme Arcanoper; Jurisdiction VII, Clifford Schorling, 45533, Supreme Jabberwock; Jurisdiction VIII, John B. Egan, 452M, Supreme Scrivenoter: Jurisdiction L\, John H. I)olcater, 37372, Supreme Custocatian.
Lynn Boyd Elected President-Denver 1952
At a special meeting of the newly elected Supreme Ninc, the Board of Councillors, Ofificers of the Corporation, werD elected as provided in the by-larvs. Theretiring Snark, Lynn Boyd, 3666, was elected president. Other offrcers elected u'ere llarry F. Partridge, 1983, vice president ancl Edwin F. Fischer, 41901 , treasurer. Ed Fischer, the nerv treasurer, takes the place of treasurer W. X,I. "Doc" Wattson, 32720, who passed away in June, 1951. Secretary Ben F. Springer, 34%5, was continued in office.
Denver, Colorado, was selected as the convention city for 1952 and Minneapolis received a nod for 1953. The exact dates of these coriventions u'ill be determined later.
Hoo-Hoo Progress Reported
The reports of the National Officers on the splendid progress of Hoo-Hoo sparked the enthusiasm of the convention. The secretary reported an all-time high of 10,216 activt: members with 95 active Hoo-Hoo Clubs carrying on in every part of the country. The report of the treasurer indicated a sound financial condition and the intelligent conservative administration of the affairs of the order.
The reports of delegates on the activities of the clubs represented, indicated Hoo-Hoo progress in every part of the country. The Educational and Social programs of the clubs sho.ived that the fundamentals of the order, namely, the promotion of good fellowship and the championing of all rvorthy causes, both in the industry and in the community, rl'ere constructively effective.
The report that Hoo-Hoo was being reactivated in Canada as evidenced ,n Vancouver. B. C.. r'here a new clrtb r,vas re,cently organized and already shows tremendous growth was received with applause. The delegates from Canada assured the members that progress will continue.
Education and Wood Promotion
Cooperation with all Industry Educational Programs, and the Promotion of Forest Products were major activities on the Hoo-Hoo agenda throughout the year, both on the national and local level. The reports of the standing committees covering these two projects received the serious consideration of the convention.
The chairrnan of the Hoo-Hoo Educational Committee, W. C. Bell, -{5306, managing director of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association, reported on the work of the industry in sponsoring and promoting educational programs.
The report of Russell M. Eagle, 35506, chairman of the Wood Promotion Committee, past president of the Texas Lumber Manufacturers Association, stressed the importance of telling the story of wood, pointing out that wood has withstood the test of time. He said: "If each of us in this room would take only one hour a week during the next year-set aside that one hour totell the story of woodat the end of the year that story would be known throughout the land. Let me exhort you, therefore, to speak up for wood, to revie'r,'l'' its story and then tell others horn'wood has withstood the test of time."
In the absence of the two men, these reports on Education and Promotion were read by Gene Ebersole, 46193, executive manager of the Texas Lumbermens Association of Texas, and Charles Greef, 48435, president of the Amarillo Hoo-Hoo Club No. 8, respectively.
Changes in By-Laws Adopted
Important changes in by-laws .rvere unanimously adopted. They provide that the Snark of the Universe shall be chairman of the board of directors, namely, the Supreme Nine, and shall represent the entire country. A new office, namely, Supreme Hoo-Hoo, takes the place of Snark on the Nine as head of one of the nine Jurisdictions of Hoo-Hoo. The Snark votes only in the case of a tie.
In the matter of collection of dues, a penalty of $2.00 will be assessed to members whose dues have not been paid by January 9 of each current Hoo-Hoo year. The reinstatement fee has been raised from $2.00 to $3.00 so that reinstatemen+. plus current dues, is norv established at $5.99.
Convention Resolutions
Committees appointed at the convention submitted constructive suggestions. Among these was the recommendation that all Hoo-Hoo Clubs observe Hoo-Hoo Day, September 9, and that the Hoo-Hoo convention be held as soon as possible after September 9, as may prove practical, with the recommendation that new officers of local clubs attend thc convention. Regional meetings and/or meetings of regional officers tr\rere recommended, to be held priclr to the national convention.
The Concat
Forty Kittens were initiated at the convention concai (Continued on Page 46)
A Pessirnist Talks oI Women
'Women are what men marry. They have two legs, two hands, and sometimes two husbands, but never more than one idea.
Like Turkish cigarettes, women are all made of the same material. The only difference is that some are a little better disguised than others.
Generally speaking, women may be divided into three classes: Wives, widows, and old maids. An old maid is a rnass of obstinacy, surrounded by suspicion. Wives are divided into three classes: prizes, surprises, and consolation prizes.
Making a wifeout of a woman is one of the highest plastic arts known to civilization. It requires science, sculpture, common sense, faith, hope, and charity, especially charity.
It is a psychological marvel that a big, strong, honest-togosh man will marry alittle, weak, wishy-washy mouselike woman, and seem to be happy.
If you flatter a woman, it makes her unbearable. If you don't, you bore her to death. If you permit her to make love to you she gets tired of you in the end, and if you don't she gets tired of you in the beginning.
If you believe her in everything, you soon cease to interest her. If you argue with her in everything, you soon cease to charm her. If you believe all she tells you she thinks you are a fool, and if you don't she thinks you are a cynic.
If you wear gay colors and spats and a startling tie, she won't go out with you; but if you wear a conservative grey suit and a gentle hat, she goes out with you and stares all evening at some man in gay colors, and spats, and a startling tie.
If you join her in all her parties and approve of her smoking and drinking she swears you are driving her to the devil. If you don't approve of her smoking and drinking and urge her to give up her gay parties, she vows that you are driving her to the devil. The same either way.
If you are the henpecked type, she doubts whether you have brains. But if you are a modern, advanced, and independent man, she doubts if you have a heart.
If you are silln she longs for a bright mate; and if you are brilliant and intellectual she longs fo4 a playboy.
If you are popular with other women she is jealous; and if you are not, she hesitates to marry a wallflower.
Darn all women, anyhow!
Weeping crnd Lcughter
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A DiplomcrticReply
A man had promised his wife a riding horse for her birthday, and he was looking over a number of handsome horses that were being offered for sale at a riding academy. One horse he liked the looks of very much, but he noticed that the owner handled the animal with excessive caution. So he said to him:
"Do you think this would be a suitable horse for a woman?"
And the owner, who was a fairly honest man, said: ,'Well, I think a woman could handle this horse, all right; but I'll say this-I wouldn't like to be married to the woman that could."
To Gcrgc
Your splendid bodS like a straight, tall reed, With lithe, long limbs that taper from the thighs, The sea-flame slumbering in your half-veiled eyes, Your fowing hair, from cincture free, Like undulant willows drooping o'er a streamAwake in me an all-consuming fire, Like beauty glimmering through a youth's young dream, You come to rouse in me all man's desire.
But yet I will not kiss your hand, Nor cool my lips beneath your shadowed hair, Though all grace finds in you an avatar; Upon a brambled mountainside I stand, Yearning o'er intervening darkness, where A figure beckons, aureoled with a star.
-Paul Cliff Kitchen
TheRecson
The youngster held out his nickel, and said to the candy man, "I want an all day sucker."
The man handed him one, and the kid looked at it as though not entirely pleased with what he saw.
"Not as big as they used to be," he suggested.
"Nope," said the man, "the days are getting shorter."
Whcrt Educction Mecns
Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know.
ft means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
It is not teaching the youth the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers, and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic into roguery, and their literature into lust.
It means, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls.
It is a painful, continual, and difficult work to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, but above all-by example.-John Ruskin.
