Eighth Annual Shingle Con$ress

Between four and five hundred Red Cedar Shingle manufacturers from Oregon, Washington and British Columbia attended the eighth annual shingle congress at Seattle on December 11 and 12 lor a discussion of the problems of the shingie industry, among rvhich simplification and standardization of grades, as urged by Secretary Hoover were about the most important.

A. J. Morley of Aberdeen, president of the Shingle Branch of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association presided over the opening session of the congress. Chairman Morley reviewed briefly the year's work of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau and thanked the manufacturers for the support they had given the organization in its campaign to tell the builders of the nation the truth about red cedar shingles, and to combat the insidious propaganda against wooden shingles, and to oppose state laws and city ordinances forbidding the use of these for roofing.

John Dower, a director of the National Retail Lumber Association, read replies to a questionnaire sent out by his association asking what difficulties 'ivere met in retailing. Mr. Dower summarized the recommendations of the retailers as follows: 1. That grades be uniform from all mills. 2. Grades should be as represented. 3. Prices should be uniform with as little fluctuation as possible. 4. Shingles should not be over kiln dried. 5. That new American Standards and grade names be adopted. 6. That cost of stained shingles should be lowered if possible. 7.