. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. T was the week before Christmas and as Chalmers Reddick, president of the Reddiek Lumber & Woodworking Co., looked out of the window into the snow- covered streets, there was a glow in his heart that had not been there a year ago. He could not help contrasting his present position with that in which he had found himself then. The office, to all outward appearances, was the same, but inside there was ample evi- dence that it was not the same. Tucked a
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1921. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. T was the week before Christmas and as Chalmers Reddick, president of the Reddiek Lumber & Woodworking Co., looked out of the window into the snow- covered streets, there was a glow in his heart that had not been there a year ago. He could not help contrasting his present position with that in which he had found himself then. The office, to all outward appearances, was the same, but inside there was ample evi- dence that it was not the same. Tucked away in the safe were certain books containing figures which helped to make the difference. A year ago Chalmers Reddick had been ready to quit. To-night as he sat in the comfortable office waiting for his brother, his thoughts of a year ago kept recurring in his mind. He was not averse to contemplation in the light of altered conditions. First rising to throw some pine blocks in the stove, he re-seated himself in his tilting chair at his desk, and, swinging around to face the fire, he mentally turned the cal- endar back a year. It all came back to him—how he sat in the office ponder- ing over his two unsuccessful years, trying to operate a retail lumber yard, his bitterness toward his fellow townsmen when he recalled the way they had treated him. He had spent thirty- five years among them as boy and man, and had always had reason to believe that they did not dislike him, but it was apparent from the balance sheet he had just been studying that they did not permit their personal likes to influence them in placing orders for lumber. For some unknown reason the people of Kenton and the farmers of the surrounding district had not been generous to the Chalmers Reddick Lumber Co. with their business. Generous 1 No, far from it; in fact, they had been most conservative. Chalmers Reddick would have dealt liberally with any man Avho could have told him why his lumber yard was slighted
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