The California Lumber Merchant - January 1933

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LOS ANGELES, CAL., JANUARY I, 1933

How Lumber Looks

New business at the lumber mills of the country during the wee& ended December 17, gajlned 9 per cent, as compared with the low record of the previous week, according to teports to t{re National Lumber Manufactures Association from tegional associations covering the operations of 791 leading softwood and hardwood mills. Vhile orders totalled lll,7t7,ow feet, production was E6r347rOOO feet-the low point for the Yeer.

The week's production was only 17 per cent, and new businqs 22 per cent, of capacity, compared with 19 per cent and 2l pet ceng respecti"O, f"*Ot;vio;s week.

The California Redwood Association reports orders received by lf mills for the month of November as 11r056r(XX) feet, orders on hand 1910411000 feet, shipments 1117021000 feet, and producion lO,660r(X)O_ tTt

217 mills reporting to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for tlre week ended December 17 produced 441171,613 f.et or 18.6 per cent of their weekly capacity. Current new business of these mills was 6410171649 Lent or 44.9 1rer cent over

VISITS NORTHWEST

Robt. W. Hunt, San Francisco, district manager for California for the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., is on a trip to the Pacific Northwest. He will visit the company's mills in Longview and Everett, and the Tacoma office. With Mrs. Hunt he will spend Christmas with their daughter in Seattle and will spend some time with other members of the familv in Everett, their old home.

I HEREBY RESOLVE_

production and, 26.9 per cent of their weekly capacity. Shipments for the week were 3711311222 f.eet, or 15.9 per cent under production. Nerv export business received during the week was 60311000 feet more, new domestic cargo orders were llrl2lr(XX) feet over, and new rail business decreased ,16391000 feet as compared with the previous ;".fa *business.

The California volume was low during the past two weelr, due to some extent to the usual seasonal curtailment in business and annual inventory time, but more businecs is looked for after the first of the year. Fir mill prices are holding firm, and the Nonthwest mills report that the log supply is very low. Adantic Coast business is rqrorted better.

Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro totaled 511981000 feet on December 21, a slight increase over the previous week. Cargo arivals at this port amounted to 6r3301000 feet for the week ended December 17, including g cargoes of Fir canying 5r499r0[l0 feet, and 2 cargoes of Redwood with E31rfi)0 feet. 52 vessels in the California lumber service were operating on December 17; 56 vessels were laid up.

LUMBERMEN TAKE WORLD TRIP

Jimmy Wisnom and Jack Wisnom of the Wisnom Lumber Co., San Mateo, left San Francis,co on the president McKinley December 23 for a trip around the world. They will be gone about four months.

Lee Horne will be transferred from the Burlingame yard to the San Mateo yard as superintendent during their absence.

That wherever I ahr on dark days or sunny days; in victory or defeat; in pleasure or in pain; in the morning, noon, or night; when I tell my wife good-bye; when I meet my neighbor; when I p"y my fare; when I speah to my employees; when I say my prayerc; at these times and at all other times, whenever I am man enough, I will smile, Iive, laugh and love.

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ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE VISITS L. A.

Frank J. O'Connor, general manager of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, San Francisco, returned December 16 from a week's stay in Los Angeles on the business of the Association.

ATTENDS NOTRE DAME-U.S.C. GAME

Jirn Dempsey, sales manager, Dempsey Lumber Co., Tacoma, traveled to Los Angeles to attend the Notre Dame-U.S.C. football game, and spent a few days calling on friends in San Francisco on the way home.

ELKS HAVE LUMBERMEN'S NIGHT

Lumbermen's night was observed by the Richmond lodge of Elks, Tuesday, December 20. The program was arranged by a committee of lumbermen headed by Waverley Tildln, of the Tilden Lumber Co.

East B.y Hoo Hoo Club Fill

Christmas Kegs

Announcement of the arrangements for filling Christmas kegs of groceries for distribution to needy families of the East Bay district was made at the regular monthly meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo CIub No. 39 held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, December 12.

Gordon D. Pierce, Boorman Lumber Co., chairman of the comnrittee handling the distribution, and Taylor Sublett, Strable Hardwood Co., talked on this subject.

Earle Johnson, the club's president, presided.

Fine instrumental music was provided by the Hansen Trio, who are lJniversity of California students.

Msgr. Joseph M. Gkason, of St. Francis de SaJles Church, Oakland, the speaker of the evening, delivered a very thoughtful address on "Our Present Problems."

Frank W. Trorver, chairman of the Public Affairs Comrnittee, was asked by the chairman to prepare a resolution of sympathy on the passing of the late A. L. "Al" Hubbard of San Jose, and that a copy be sent to his widow and family.

JOrNS WHOLESALE ASSOCTATTON

Eastern & Western Lumber Co., of Portland, with California ofifices in San Francisco, recently became a member of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.

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V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

The older I grow and the more I see of life, the firmer becomes my conviction that "mine own shall come to me." ' Friends and opportunities cof,ne to me, not because I have struggled to get them, but because f have prepared myself to deserve and receive them. The more I give the world, the more the world gives me. The more worth while I make myself, the better things and better friends I get. My material possessions may have melted like the proverbial snow-ball in the rays of the sun, but my wealth, measured in terms of the REAL tr€asures of life, grows mountain high.

When some wag remarked at the close of 1930 that in 1933 we would all be wishing we had the good year 1930 back again, the witticism tickled us nearly to death, it was qo"-thgroughly funny. And now, in 1933, we realize that the prophet-whoever he was-was the ONLY genuine seer that the depression has developed.

He was unhonored *J Jr":*, but he was either the seventh son of a seventh son-or the Devil himself. Personally, I long ago quit the prophecying business. And I'll do none here.

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I'm inclined to agree with Dr. Compton. And I rise to remark that if Mr. Lumber Business isn't sick enough yet to listen to reason, he's a pretty tough baby.

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Doctor Compton recites the fact that the lumber industry should have been doing things for its own protection and safeguarding for years before the debacle of 1929, but, like many men, refused to listen to reason while still getting by. And he thinks that the future of the industry depends on itself-on how it rneets the changing conditions of the present and immediate future. He says that in ten years the industry will either have practically disappeared, or will have taken the place it rightfully deserves, as "the most universally useful of all the materials of industry." ***

You tell 'em, Doctor ! If you will review these Vagabonds you'll find I've said that same thing several thousand times in the last ten years. And now, look at 'em ! I'm not trying to rub it in now. I never hit a feller when he's down. But one of these days business generally will climb the hill, the wheels will turn, the sun will shine,and people will even build things. It is THEN that the lumber industry will have to decide what it is going to do to demand and deserve its share of the public dollar; and on that decision and its vigorous prosecution, its future will utterly depend. Don't doubt it.

A good friend asked me the other day to write him at * * * once my opinion on imrnediate prospects in the lumber ,,Lumber," says a headline in a contemporary lumber industry. I wrote him right back that I had no opinion. journal; "occupies a splendid statistical position as the He replied that he was certainly sorry to see me so de- year closes." Now if we can just discover some way to pressed over conditions. I told him I wasn't an infidel- exchange that ,,splendid statistical position" for a few just an agnostic. The infidel says "I don't believe." The profit-bearing orders, business will pick up. agnostic says "I don't know." I don't know either. So :r :r *

I've quit predicting' I've made an ass of myself often Twenty-five years ago the lumber industry manufacenough along that line' tured forty-five billion feet of lumber in a single year. rn * t' :* 1928 the production was still about thirty-six billion. In I But I've been reading all the business predictions and 1932 the total will be about ten billion-twenty-two p€tr gpinions I could get my hands on in the past few weeks. cent of the high water mark. And where did this huge My friend, Wilson Compton, of the National Lumber sliding deficit come from? Well, here's one first class Manufacturers Association, says that maybe some good answer: in 1928 webuilt 388,fi)0 homes in this country; in will come to the lumber industry out of this present situa- L929 we built 244,00o; in 1930 we built 125,000; in l93l it tion, because oftentimes a man won't take the medicine he was down to 65,000; and in this year lg3? it wilt probably needs until he gets mighty sick; then he listens to reason. not exceed 35,000. There are other answers that look

something like this one, but this home-building indicator is fully illuminating. ***

Of course, that is why the headlines tell of the "splendid statistical position" of lumber. In 1928, when we built more than one thousand per cent more homes than we did in 1932, building was already off. The ordinary necessities of this country in ordinary times is about 400'000 new homes a year. We are already a million and a half homes short in our normal building operations. Add to that the fact that during these declining years we have not done a normal amount of remodeling and little or no repairing, and you realize that if we ever get money to build with in this country again, there is plenty of building to be done.

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Another interesting movement is being noted nationally today that calls for specific mention. That is the tearing down of countless thousands of old homes TO KEEP FROM PAYING TAXES ON THEM. This is being done everywhere. Old-fashioned houses that bring little or no rent but are subject to heavy taxation are being razed to save the tremendous tax money of today. And that creates another future demand for building material, for, when things change, there will be buildings erected and

improvements made on all that property that is being vacated. The number of buildings being thus destrofed at present is amazing. You will find it going on on every old residence street of every citY. ***

It is just another intelligent effort to meet conditions. It reminds me somewhat of the tremendous number of concerns and individuals in this country today who are taking bankruptcy to get out from under some back-breaking load, such as boom-priced leases on buildings, contracts made on terms that can no longer be fulfilled, etc. There are lots of ways to skin a cat.

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Let's quote another lumber dealer who is trying to diagnose present conditions, and point ways and means out. He is quoted as saying the other day to a lumber convention that "the building industry is now paralyzed because of the famine prevailing in mortgage rnoney." I'm afraid I can't ride with this friend on this opinion. Let us suppose that a dealer found someone who would furnish him the mortgage money, so that he could go ahead and build and sell houses in the good old-fashioned way-what good would it do him? Very little, I fear. To get home building going we've got to have more than a market for mortgage paper. 'We've got to have general conditions that

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Vagabond Editoriafs

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bring to the prospective horne-buyer or builder some assurance of safety. Men have got to have business-safety and job-safety to make them prospective home builders. ***

What we've got to have in this country before we can begin building homes is a general loosening of finances, beginning at the sources of finance, and seeping gradually through all the channels of trade and of business. Banks must begin financing business as in normal times; then business will begin operating more freely, employment will become general, prosperity will reappear-and men will build. Give the business man the assurance of his business success and safety-and he will build. Give the employed man job assurance and income assurance and he will build. We've got to have something besides mortgage money. You can go into any city in this land and buy homes for less than the first mortgage on the property. We've got to loosen our frozen credits-from the foundation.

The most interesting-and perhaps the most intelligent -phophecy regarding business that I have heard of late, was from a leader in the oil industry. He says that the condition in which we find ourselves is more than likely to be to a considerable extent permanent, and that the greatest problem the human race now has to solve is how to Iive happily and prosperously WITH SURPLUSES. He thinks surpluses will be the rule frorn now on; surpluses of most manufactured articles, of agricultural products, etc. We have got to learn to live with them, and still enjoy happiness and prosperity, according to his opinion.

The Secretary of an"

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of the United States pointedly suggested that same thing the other day when he gave an interview to the news agencies generally to the effect that the Government was more than w.lling to loan the money to the banks if the banks would just loan it out again to worthy people. The conclusion drawn from his interview was that the Government was stymied in its efforts to get cash into the frozen veins of business because the Government could only loan the banks, and when they did the money went no farther. Whenever it starts going the rounds like it used to do-things will be O.K. But how are we going to start this needed circulation?

More headlines. One Southern lumberman, discussing the future of the lumber industry, said: "The lumber industry of the South will soon pass into history." Another equally important Southern lumber student says: "The Yellow Pine industry of the South can maintain a production of nine billion feet a year for nineteen more years." So, you see, you can believe whatever you want to. It IS a fact that the depression and its attendant enforced curtailment for want of markets has lengthened the life of the average Yellow Pine mill fully two years, and that scores of mills are still operating that would long have been out of bus.ness with normal productiveness.

Such opinions must be respected when their practical fruits are already in evidence. The oil industry is the only great American industry that is even fairly prosperous, and this in spite of the fact that they are living with at least as great a normal surplus as any other industry; perhaps a greater normal surplus than any other industry. you can close all the other oil fields of the world, and the East Texas field could supply all the petroleum needs of the people of this earth. The Kettleman Hills field in California could probably do the same. Yet, with both these fields and scores of other big fields and innumerable little fields all producing oil, the oil industry prospers. The answer is, of course, the legalized conservation that the thinkers of the petroleum industry have themselves promoted. The conservation authorities can now regulate the production of oil to a point where not a single barrel need be produced that there is not a market for. Isn't that an amazing thing to think of?

I listened with intere.a ""U ,J"n""a the other day while another business leader, a deep thinking man, discussed this matter of living w^th surpluses. He uttered the opinion that every device and every machine that was created that took from the shoulders of the laborer some portion of his sweat and toil, should be a blessing, and NOT a curse, to that laborer. Yet here we find ourselves in an apparent position where the development of those long-lauded "labor-saving" devices have apparently brought the laborer to the verge of chaos. "ff we are one-half as intelligent as we think we are," remarked this gentleman I am now quoting; "we will certainly be able to solve this problem and make this machine-age a blessing rather than a curse to those who labor. If we can't do that, then indeed our boasted civilization is a barren and useless th:'ng."

Certainly we must say Amen to such an enlightened opinion. For years we boasted to the skies every time sorne ingenious person announced some new device to take the place of human labor. We called them blessed' And now they appear to have boomeranged and struck us prostrate. Surely the opinion quoted above is sound, and we will intensify our efforts to the end that mechanically powered things shall take the agony from human shoulders and human souls, and leave peace, and happiness, and leisure in its wake, rather than hunger, and want, and despair. There can be no earthly doubt but that THAT is humanity's big problem for the immediate future.

"This," said Mr. Shakespeare, "is the winter of our discontent.'l Sure ! The FOURTH winter of our discontent, as a matter of fact.

you've naturally g"t ti;a:. to the automobile makers for that good old intestinal fortitude. The grand fight they are making against the paralysis of depression is a magnificent thing to watch. Truly they refuse to take their licking lying down. They have made more improvements in their products in the last year than in the previous ten. And they are out there with such advertising and selling and trade promotion work as would make you think it was a boom period effort you were witnessing. Any man who loves a fighter has got to take his hat off to these automobile boys.

And listen, Mister, ta U"*"'l -"0" any difference who or where or what you are, you can get down on your knees and thank God for the nerve of the auto industry ! Think it over ! Suppose they hadn't taken it this way. Suppose they had run for cover, cut expenses, closed down, laid off the enormous overhead of engineers, etc. What do you suppose would happen to YOU? Do you know how many men are employed in the manufacture of automobiles? In the transportation, sale, distribution, and servicing of automobiles? In the production, distribution, sale, and service of the gas, oil, and other regular supplies of automobiles? In advertising, insuring, financing automobiles? Have you any idea what would happen to this country if THAT industry, with its countless MILLIONS of dependents should collapse-or should vastly retrench? No? Well, don't investigate. The prospect of such a thing w^ll scare you out of your wits. But you can thank God with an earnest heart for the fight the automobile folks are making. If THEY fail, it's back to the farm for all of us, and don't you doubt it !

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The Forgotten Man \ilon't Stay Forgotten

AFORGOTTEN man won't stay forgotten.

1L If he can't get food for himself and starving dependents, he will kick over the traces and take it. Drive a man and his family to desperation, and he begins to ask-and answer-certain fundamental questions:

"Ilaven't I as much right to a living as any other man on the face of the earth? I have! Is it my fault that I can't find work ? It isn't ! If the big fellows who have been running the country fall down on their job, why shouldn't they be kicked out the same as I have been?"

Our statesmen, our financiers, our industrialists, our corporation executives cannot rightly claim they are entirely blameless for the appalling unemployment which engulfed this country and for the woeful lack of pre-arranged plans to cope with it. They gaily, blindly, went ahead, multiplying plants, multiplying production without stopping to ponder the upshot. Simultaneously with unpre.cedented expansion of productive facilities, American industry influenced Congress to heighten trade barriers, in the form df increased tariff schedules.

ORSE still: Little heed was paid to the alarming, portentous fact that, even while the boom was roaring along at maximum speed in 1928-29, unemployment was becoming widespread, a new economic condition. This writer began, early in 1928, to draw attention to this disturbing phenomenon and repeatedly urged America's foremost men of affairs to organize some kind of Institute for Industrial Co-ordination to study the whole unique situation and to evolve ways and means to deal with the terrific unemployment which would inevitably arise when the grossly overdone boom ended.

Here are sentences from one warning:

If industry refuses to lend a hand toward.supporting its human cast-offs, upon whom will or should the burden fall? It cannot fall upon the workers themselves if they have neither work nor employmgnt. In my humble opinion, no more vital question faces America than how to guide our economic evolution (or revolution) so as to take care of those injured, at least temporarily, by it. If industry doesn't tackle the problem, lawmakers will.

Later it was emphasized that:

Our rapidly developing efficiency, our wholesale installation of labor-saving machinery, our expanding utilization of electric power in industry, our creation of huge corporations, our colossal consolidations are all fine and wonderful and desirable-exceot for those thrown out of employment. The co-operation arrd coordination most urgently needed to-day are co-operation and coordination to take care of these individuals and families sacrificed by our industrial and financial .co-operation and co-ordination.

Again:

Until industrial and other_ leaders get together and work earnestty and conscientiousty towards this end (steadier employment), th'e major economic probtem confronting the nation will remain unsolved. Man doesn't exist for industry. Industry exists for rnan.

Nothing worthwhile was done. When the collapse came,

there lvas no plan or program to cope with the resultant unemployment.

Now a serious effort is being made to piovide some work for the ten million or more unemployed. Walter C. Teagle, head of Standard Oil of New Jersey, has been devoting his whole time and inexhaustible energy to inducing employers to spread work over as many wage-earners as possible. Also, Andrew W. Robertson, head of Westinghouse, is leading a movement to stimulate expenditures to improve and renovate all kinds of .plants now that both labor and material costs are low.

Already more than a million idle men and women have been re-employed, at least on part time, by upwards of fi ve thousand,con,cerns.

But many employers and executives have not yet grasped the urgency of the need for sharing work.

This is an appeal-a warning-to them to act forthwith and to act wholeheartedly.

Of course, su.ch action may entail inconvenience. Of course, such action may entail some €ost.

But what would the alternative probably be?

Our unemployed have exhibited tremendous patience, tremendous docility, tremendous self-restraint.

But rve have no right to expect them to remain meekly submissive unless it is demonstrated convincingly to them that the employing classes are doing their utmost to combat unemployment and its harrowing sufferings.

R. TEAGLE, in some of his many addresses to gatherings of employers, aptly declares:

Unemployment puts. upon him who has property or a job the task of caring for him who has not. Each additi,on to iti ranks increases this burden and decreases the numbers who must st oulAii it. Unemployment makes taxes more, and the profits out of *t iJ they must be paid, less.

The time has come for the whole nation to unite in a concerted attack upon enforced idleness. The means are at hand. The share_ the-work nrovement provides ways of adding men and women to the payroll and of avoiding lay-offs.

It is the gulpo-sg of -the movement to provide work, not to take tt -away, and in his reliance upon this, the worker has the added safeguard that as work-sharing thins the ranks of the une-pioyed it cuts down competition for existing jobs.

Our commo-n objective is the restoration of good times. Wages T3\e. uq by far the largest part of the peopti's spending po*".. Dividends,. interest p?yments ind rents have melted l",av tTtJ s"o* in tle spring. As those who still receive salaries and -wages gain confidence, and as the unemployed return to work, pu.ct iiing Tiii expand.

Our ln-employed are not responsible for their idleness. most of them. _They mrlst be provided for-they will be. Ctaiitie.-*lli see to it that their bodies don't starve. we can do more ttt"r ttii for some of them. Make _part-time jobs, one, two, or a h;;dr;a: according to th€.quantity of work you'have to dlvide.' o"" t. t"i tiriii souls starve. Give them a hand up in their struggle to make ends meet. .Somebody, at_ some time, htlped each of fl-s along. i.i- u. repay that obtig-ation by helping the felow who is down. Tt. a;n;; ret htm De the torgotten man.

If work be not shared with the workless, the workless may cause us all to share something worse than de_ pression.-(Forbes Magazine).

Lumber Production Rcaches Lowest Level

Enough figures are available to predicate the prediction that lumber production in the United States for 1932 will total the lowest level in sixty years. It will be approximately 10 billion feet-a level that for many years was considered "normal" for Yellow Pine alone.

The "high" in lumber production was reached 25 years ago when a totd of 45 billion feet was manufactured in one year. In 1925, 1926, L927 and 1928 the total averaged about 36 billion feet. It sank rapidly during the past four years.

Will Lead Orange Chambet oJ Commcrce

John A. Christiansen, manager of the Barr Lumber Company at Orange, Calif., was recently elected president of the Orange Community Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Christiansen has been a resident of Orange for the past eight years, and has always taken an active part in the civic affairs of the community. He succeeds S. V. Mansur as head of the chamber of commerce.

Lumber Business Statistics For November

Chicago, Dec. 14.-The early part of November showed a noticeable decrease in the number of business troubles reported to the Lumbermen's Blue Book, but during the latter part of the month conditions were about the same as in November, 1931. Inquiries for special credit reports, following the trend of lumber orders placed, showed a slight decrease as compared with the same month a yeat ago. The volume of business placed for collection reflects a substantial increase.

The summary for the month of November in each of the years of 1931 and 1932 follows:

Adopts Resolution on Passing o[ A.

L. Hubbard

"At the regular meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Cub No. 39, held at Oakland, Calif., on Decembet 12, 1932, a Committee was appointed to express the sense of loss of the lumber fraternity in general over the sudden passing from this life of our lamented fellow lumberman, A. L. Hubbard, of San Jose, and to convey to his family our deepest sympathy in their hour of great bereavement.

"'Al' Ilubbard was a leader in the industry with which' he was associated all his life. He held the confidence and esteem of all lumbermen with whom he came in contact. He believed in conciliating difierences of opinion and always strove to be fair and just in his dealings with all men.

"We lumbermen also recall 'Al' Hubbard's long record of public service in all the duties and opportunities of citizenship. As member of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Clara County for twenty-eight years, being Chairman for a long period up to the day of his death, and just re-elected to a further term of four years, he devoted himself to the welfare of his community in countless ways.

"Hoo-Hoo, the Lumbermen's Fraternal Order, remembers 'Al' Hubbard's enthusiastic efforts as Vicegerent Snark of the Peninsula District. He was a frequent and always welcome guest at Hoo-Hoo meetings throughout the State. He believed in the ideals and practical benefits of co-operation as exemplified by. the various trade associations in which he took an active interest.

"Lumber circles in California will greatly miss the genial presence and sound judgment of 'Al' Hubbard. East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 desires to record our heartfelt appreciation and lasting remembrance of his many sterling qualities. Therefore, a copy of this statement will be filed in the archives of our Club, a copy sent to 'Al' Hubbard's family and to the Lumber Press."

(Signed) HOO-HOO CLUB No. 39, By Carl R. Moore,

Secretary-Treasurer.

By

Frank W. Trower, Chairman Public Affairs Committee.

Bob Wuest Gets Hole-ln-One

A. R. Wuest, manager of the Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., joined the select company of golfers who have made a hole-in-one, November ?3 on the No. 4 hole of the Grays Harbor Country Club course. Mr. Wuest, who has been playing golf 34 years and whose average scone for 18 holes is in the late 70's and low 80's, used a No. 7 iron to make the 135-yard shot.

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STORIES

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He Finally Got Him on The Spot

The Jew and the Scotchman had been in a speakeasy for two mortal hours talking, each one trying to jockey the other into inviting him to have a drink, and it was like a pair of skilled boxers, was this battle of the wits. The score was about even and neither was showing signs of just breaking down and ordering a drink, when the Scotchman asked:

"Abe, did I tell you about the grand hunting trip I was on Iast week?"

"You did not, Sandy," replied Abe. ,,What did you kill?"

"I came upon the grandest laddie of buck deer I ever saw in my life," said the Scotchman. ..I drew careful aim with my trusty rifle, and fired, and what do you think? I hit him right between the yours."

"You hit him where?" demanded the Jew.

"f hit him right between the yours," declared the Scotch_ man.

The Jew scratched his head and thought.

"What's yours?" he finally asked.

"Whuskey, Abe, and thank ye," said the Scotchman; .,an' what's yours?"

Announce Cargo Rates to Structural Redwood Used in State Stockton Hlghway Bridges

In anticipation of the opening of the port of Stockton to deep water navigation the Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference has announced rates and ,conditions on lumber and/or lumber products from Coos Bay, Columbia and Willamette River, Grays and Willapa Harbors, puget Sound and British Columbia ports (not North of powell River) to the following ports, to-wit:

Shipments to Antioch but not beyond Antioch, as now in effect, minimum for any one port to be not less than 250,000 feet BM, at $4.50 per M ft. BM; and for ports above Antioch to Stockton, but not beyond Stockton, minimum to be not less than 400,000 feet BM, at 50c per M feet BM over Antioch rate.

A. J. MORLEY VTSITS CALTFORNTA

A. J. Morley, manager of the Saginaw Timber Co., Aberdeen, 'Wash., manufacturers of the well known ,,Saginaw Brand" red cedar shingles, was a recent visitor to San Francisco and Los Angeles for a few days, after which he left for the East on a business trip.

CALLS ON ASSOCIATION MEMBERS

David T. Mason, manag'er of the California pine Associ. ation, recently returned to Portland after visiting the Association's California members.

ATTENDS SALES MANAGERS' MEETING

R. F. Pray, sales manager of the Red River Lumber Co.. San Francisco, traveled to and from Spokane by plane to attend the Pine sales managers' conference held there December 7.

Redwood structural grade lumber amounting to 55O,000 feet will be used in the construction of the Kern River bridge, and 120O Redwood piling will be used, half of which will go under the concrete piers and the other half in the approach spans. Frederickson & Watson Construction Co. of Oakland are the contractors, and the Union Lumber Co. is supplying the lumber.

The Pacific Lumber Company is furnishing through the Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Company 250,000 feet of Redwood structural grade lumber to be used in two bridles being constructed over Watkins and Caliente Cre&s. about 50 miles east of Bakersfield.

HUTCHINSON MILL TO BE REBUILT

A. H. Land, president of Feather River pine Mills, Inc., successor corporation to the Hutchinson Lumber Co., Oro_ ville, Calif., announces that this company is now assembling machinery for the purpose of rebuilding the mill destroyed by fire in 1927.

HOMER MARIS VISITS NORTHWEST

llomer B. Maris, of the Maris Plywood Co., San Francisco, returned recently from a visit to the Northwest to confer with the Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash.

LUMBERMAN SETTLES IN BERKELEY

Austin N. Bennett, Nebraska lumberman, formerly of Omaha, Neb., recently came to Berkeley to make his home. It is said that he plans to enter the lumber business again.

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The Lumber Industry in 1933

By \X/ilson Compton Monager, Nationol Lumber Monufacturers Association, and Acting Director, American Forest Products lndustries

As construction goes, so goes the lumber i.raur,.y, p"rticularly the softwoocl branch of it. Hardwoods are also materially dependent upon building, and they are vitallv affected by industrial activity.

A recent survey has inclicatecl that an increase of 20 per cent in residential building in 1933 over 1932 is not an unreasonable expectation. Potential dernand for residential space has been accumulating for a number of years, for it miist"'bb''remembered that residential buikling reachecl its peak not in 1929 but in 1925. In the current year honre blrllding has been tress than 40 per cent of 1931. The indluc'emeht of .low building costs is also to be taken into r..i. ;. con-iideration. Residential buildings may now be erected at costs about equivalent to those of the later'pre-war period.

There are indications that the ordinary channels of building credit are opening up again. and there are the neu' channels created by the Reconstru.ction Finance Corporation and the Home T,oan Bank systern. The practical effects of the latter u'ill appear in 1933.

The Modernization Market

In addition to neu' bui{ding, the renovation and nrodernization movement, rvhich has been growir.rg for several years, has attained great momenturn and it is possible that 1933 will be the period of greatest outlay for such rvork ttrat the country has ever kn.own. Modernization has been the largest single source of lumber demand in the last six months. Repairs and rebuilding are in particular harmonl' with times of enforced economy, and the first tendency of increased purchasing power for housing is in that direction more than for nerv structures.

New building and improvements of old buildings call directly for increased consumption of hardwoocl items and indirectly for furniture.

In the industrial field the furniture industry showed a notable improvement during the autumn months. Autornobile manufacture ranks after furniture as a corlsumer of hardwood lumber. The small volume of procluction in recent months is expected to be followed by increased output in the near future.

Financial Factors

The financial help the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has given to the railroads already has resulted in an

increased demand for lurnber for freight cars and maintenance of way material. Normally more softwood lumber is used in freight car construction than for any other purpose except building, boxes and cratin$. There have been recent substantial orders for cross ties as a result of Reconstruction Finance Corporation assistance. The Corporation,s loans for various self-liquidating projects are stimulating the demand for lumber.

The lumber box and crate industry usually takes from 12 to 15 per cent of the total lumber cut, and is closely linked to the general trade movement. The volume of consumption of fruits and vegetables largely influence the demand for wood boxes and crates. A recent survey showed that there is no present need for increased production of box lumber but that stocks are not large.

The degree of progress of the lumber industry in 1933 rvill be largely determined by rural demand. Farmers and farm communities use, perhaps, 4O per .cent of the entire sofervood output-which in turn is ,over 80 per cent of the national lumber production. The farmers are ordinarily the most extensive wood-using group among the American people. About 90 per cent of farm building's are of lumber construction. The normal annual requirement of the average farm is over 1,500 feet of lumtrer. Rural prosperity would mean. therefore, an annual market for over 9.000,000,000 feet of lumber-a volume equal to three-fourths of the total national lumber used in 1932.

Federation of Forest Industries

The lumber industry, besides sharing in the general adversity, has its own peculiar problems of forest taxation, transportation, charges, foreign competition, forest regeneration, and in economic, marketing and technical research. To meet the general and particular problems the lumber assoCiations are reorganizing and readjugting tfremselves. At the initiative of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association a broad federation of the forest industries is now developing under the name of the American Forest Products Industries. Plans are being laid ahead not only to meet present emergencies, but to equip and to arm the forest products industries for future vigorous rnaintenance of their sectors of the group competition field.

Faith in our country, confidence in ourselves, thoughtfulness for our neighbors, affection for our friends, and fidelity to our tasks, will b"it g us happiness and hopefulness the whole year through.

East B.y Hoo Hoo Meet Jan. 16

The next regular dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 will be held at the Athens Atheltic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, January 16, at 6:09 p.m. As usual a good program will be provided. Dinner is 85 cents per plate. President Earle Johnson hopes there will be a large crowd of lumbermen present for the first meeting of the year. Earl Warren, District Attorney of Alameda County, will be the principal speaker. He will talk on the problems of his office. Music will be provided by an orchestra of five boys, all under 15 years of age.

Lumberman Severely lnjured

H. B. Chadbourne of the Salinas Lumber Co., Salinas, had his left leg severed in an automobile accident on the Pacific Highway between Gonzales and Salinas, December 17. Mr. Chadbourne rvas blinded by lights of approaching automobiles rvith the result that his car hit a guard-rail, breaking three of the 8x8 posts, and the 2x6 guard-rail driven through the radiator, past the engine, severed his left leg. The final amputation was made 2f inches below the knee. The car was completely destroyed by fire, Mr. Chadbourne and his companion being pulled from the wreckage by passing motorists.

Forms New Insulation Company

.{ new building insulation board will be offered the building industry early this spring by The C. E. Stedman Company, Chicago, headed by C. E. Stedman who for several years \l'as vice president in charge of distribution for The Celotex Company.

While complete details have not been announced, Mr. Stedman declares that his company will manufacture and distribute an efficient, all-wood-fiber insulation board that will have several exclusive and outstanding physical characteristics.

Mr. Stedman has been prominent in the affairs of both lumber manufacturing and retail associations and was a mefnber of President Hoover's Building Survey Conference and vi,ce chairman of the National Building Industries Bureau.

Fred \(/. Roblin

Fred W. Roblin, manager of the pine sales department of the Morrill & Sturgeon Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, was instantly killed rvhen he fell nine stories from the window of his office on the 14th floor of the Yeon Building, to the roof of an adjoining building, December 19. He had been in poor health for the past two years.

Mr. Roblin, who was 49 years of age, had held his last position for seven years, and was formerly with the L. B. Menefee Lumber Co., and at one time was a partner in the SarriRoblin Lumber Co. He was a past president of the Portland Lumbermen's Club, and was a prominent Mason. Ife is survived by his rvidow and a son by a former marriage.

WHOLESALE LUMBER-!ffi"o

lY. R. CHAMBIRIIN & C().

California Salec Agcntr for

Defiance Lumber Company

Tacoma, Vash.

Polson Lumber & Shingle Co. Hoquiam, Vach.

Anderson a Middlaon Lumber Co. Abcrdeen, Verh;

Prouty Lumber & Bor ComPanY Varrenton, Oregon

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W. R. Chamberlin, Jr. Stanwood ' Barbara C' Cric&et PhYllir

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San Francisco Ofice: 26O California St.

F. J. O'Connor, Prcr. ind Gcn. Mgr. ' Phoac GArficld 5Ol5 Lor Aqieles Office: Petroleum Securitiec Bldg.

. M. S. Loper, Dirtrict Menagcr ' Phonc PRorpcct 270til MEMBERS

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Eutcn & Westem Lmber Co.... .',..'...,...... ..Portland and Su Frucirco

Hlmod Lubcr Co. ........San Fnncirco and Lc Angclal

J. R, Hanify Co. .'.....'.'." ..San Fnnclgco and Lc Anrelcr

Hrrt-Wood Lubcr Ca .........S- Fmcirco

C. D. Johm Lubcr Co. ....San Franciro ud Lc Angclce

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Pmino Lmber Cc .....""'San Franclro

Suta Fe Lmber Co. .'.....""Su Flands

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WHERE HE GOT HIS TITLE

, When he got home for Christmas he boasted that he had been an All-American end. They investigated and ,found out he was right-that is-all the Americans he played against, ran around his end.

A LITTLE MORE

A little more smile, a little less frown, A little less kicking a guy when he's down; A little more "WE," a little less "I," A little more laugh and a little less cry, A little more fowers on the pathway of life, And fewer on graves at the end of the strife.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BANANA AND SAUSAGE

' "The bananas are great remarkable fruit," writes a Japanese boy in the course of an essay on the banana. "He are constructed in the same architectural style as sausage, difference being skin of sausage are habitually consumed, while it is not advisable to eat wrapping of banana.

"The banana are held aloft while consuming; sausages are usually left in reclining position. Sausage depend for creation on human being or stuffing machine, while banana are Pristine Product of honorable mother nature. In case of sausage both conclusion are attached to other sausage; banana on other hand are attached on one end to stem and opposite termination entirely loose. Finally, banana are strictly of vegetable kingdom, while affiliation of sausage often undecided."

GETTING NOWHERE

Cop: "Madam, didn't you see me hold out my hand?"

Woman at Wheel: "No, sir."

Cop: "And didn't you hear me blow my whistle at you?"

Woman: "No, sir, I didn't."

Cop: "Well, I guess I'll go on home. I don't seem to be getting anywhere on this job."

GUESS AGAIN

fn a fashionable restaurant a new multi-millionaire with no knowledge of French and no desire to expose his ignorance, pointed to a line on the menu, and said to the waiter:

"I'll have some of that."

"Sorryr" said the waiter, "f can't serve you that."

"Why not?"

"Well, sir, the fact is, the band is playing that."

PROGRESS

The progress of the world depends upon the men who walk in the fresh furrows and through the rustling corn; upon those who sow and reap; upon those whose faces are radiant with the glare of furnace fires; upon the delvers in mines, and the workers in shops; upon those who give to the winter air the ringing music of the ax; upon those who battle with the boisterous billows of the sea; upon the inventors and discoverers; upon the brave thinkers.Robert Ingersoll.

CO.OPERATION

Stand off by yourself in your dreaming, And aU of your dreams are vain; No grandeur of soul or spirit, Can man by himself attain.

It is willed we shall dwell as brothers; As brothers then we must toil; We must act with a com.tnon purpose, As we work in a common soil.

And each who would see accomplished The dreams that he's proud to own, Must strive for the goal with his fellows, For no man can do it alone.

A CANDIDATE'S GRIEF

A West Texas candidate for sheriff rnade out his expense account for the campaign as follows:

"Lost four months sleep and 20 days canvassing; lost 1,360 hours sleep thinking about the election, lost 40 acres of corn and a crop of sweet potatoes; lost two front teeth and a lot of hair in a personal combat with an opponent; donated one beef, four shoats, and five sheep to barbecues; gave away two pairs of suspenders, five calico dresses, five dolls'and thirteen baby rattles, kissed 126 babies; kindled 14 kitchen fires; put up eight stoves; cut 14 cords of wood; carried 24 buckets of water; gathered seven wagon loads of corn; pulled 475 bundles of fodder; walked 4,(XX) miles; shook hands 9,O80 times; told 10,000 lies; attended 26 revival meetings; was baptized twice by immersion and once by sprinkling; contributed $50 to foreign missions; made love to 9 grass widows; got dog bit 19 times; and got hell beat out of me at the election.

Ask thc "Handy Man" to Visit

There never was a person in an ordinary town who didn't like to monkey with a saw; perhaps he made a fizzle when he tried to use a chisel, but his hammer work was sure without a flaw. He likes to mend and putter-build a dresser for his daughter, and so long as HE has made it, it is good. And right here in your own city are a lot who have our pity, for they don't limow where to go to get their wood. Ask the "handy man" to visit and inspect your boards exquisite; let him feel the satin texture of your planks. Show him you don't mind the NUMBER-let him buy ONE piece of lumber-and you will get his f,noney and his'thanks.

Enters Insurance Field

Fred Golding is back in Los Angeles from the Malibu, and wishes all his old friends in the lumber business a Happy New Year. As vice-president of A. R. Phillips & Co., industrial insurance brokers and engineers, 1010 Lane Mortgage Building, he states that he is ready to test out his salesmanship against the heavy competition, and claims to have a special red ink eradicator for all his old friends.

As treasurer and director of the Patten-Davis Lumber Co., for many years, and later owner of the Fred Golding Lumber Co., he was widely known in lumber circles. His many friends predict that he will have a successful career in the insurance field.

Open Los Angelcs Offlce

D. G. MacDougall and R .A. Cole, formerly M4nager and Assistant Manager of the Wheeler, Osgood Company of California, have entered the wholesale door and panel business in Los Angeles with an office and warehouse at 2101 East 5lst Street, operating under the name of MacDougall & Cole. They have been appointed exclusive representatives for Southern California of the "Peterbilt" line of doors and panels manufactured by the Peterman Manufacturing Company of Tacoma, Wash. In addition to direct carload shipments from the mill at Tacoma, they will also carry a complete stock of doors and panels at their Los Angeles warehouse. Mr. MacDougall and Mr. Cole have been connected with the door and panel business in Southern California for many years and are widely known to the trade.

BACK FROM SOUTHLAND

Henry M. Hink, sales manager of the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned December 17 flrom a lo-day business trip to Los Angeles and San Diego. While in Los Angeles Mr. Hink attended the Notre DameSouthern California football game.

Millwork Institute Meets at Fresno

The irnportance of carrying on without interruption the work of the Institute was stressed by the board of directors at the annual meeting of the Millwork Institute of California held at the Hotel Californian, Fresno, Saturday, December 17.

Not a single director or rnember showed any inclination to give up the State organizatton, and some of them contributed some splendid ideas for future cooperation.

Outstanding on the program of future activities was the

practicable; and after months of strenuous work on the part of these men, Standard Sash & Door Schedules No. 132 were published in loose leaf form. This loose leaf form of the book has enabled the Committee to conveniently change those pages of the book where experience and criticism have brought to light certain imperfections. The policy of the Committee as regards their desire to receive constructive concrete criticisms in order that Schedules No. 132 may be so improved from time to time, has been generally announced to the industry; and as now set up, such information should rnake for the development of these schedules to an ever increasing accuracy.

Furthermore, under the same system, changes in the prices used for materials or ally other elements afiecting the Schedules may be readily incorporated.

The Institute has fostered their general use throughout the State through organized groups wherever they were functioning, and likewise through direct contact with individual firms. Up to the present time, 1878 copies of Schedules No. 132 have been distributed to firms in California, and the Schedules are in use in every section of the State.

Local Associations

A. V. Bernhauer President

L. G. Sterett Secretary

decision that- the Institute with the cooperation of its local directors should give a great deal of time during the next year to local association problems that have to do with price stability. It is recognized that the State Institute is in the best position to accomplish results in this regard.

Policies were also decided on that will have to do with enlarging the Institute's membership on some sort of basis as to increase the active support of all mills and lumber yards that benefit directly or indirectly by the Institute's service, such as price schedules and the like.

L. G. Sterett, secretary of the Institute, made his annual report, extracts from which follow :

Selling Schedules

Owing to the various price changes on lumber, glass, stock items of doors and sash, etc., which took place subsequent to 1929 when Sash and Door Schedules No. '129 were issued, this publication had a year ago become grossly out of balance and was gqing into disuse. Where there rvas an attempt to s.till cling to it. discounts had become necessarilv numerouS and therefoqg under competition even a semblance of stability had become well nigh impossible to maintain.

A. W. Koehl. Southern Vice-President of the Institute, and who lvas appointed Chairman of the Institute's Schedule Committee one year ago, enlisted the cooperation of as lr1any rnembers of that committee, and some others, as

Although the Directors of the Institute have in the past, felt its work should be divorced more or less from the details of operating local price bureaus, it has been a concern of the state organization to sponsor and formulate, as an outside agency, various local groups, leaving subsequent operation to the local group itself. Inasmuch as the Institute is ,concerned with all angles of the industry's welfare, we must continue to concern ourselves with the price situation. Through the several years, however, local associations in the various parts of the state have come and gone, for reasons well known to yourselves; and unfortunately there have been periods r,vhen the lack of local cooperation has resulted in disastrous competition. Until local interests are amenable to .cooperation, it seems at times impossible to alleviate the situation, although the Institute. is constantly concerned with, and at work endeavoring to promulgate a willingness to cooperate betrveen local firms.

The actual operation of local asso.ciations formed for the purpose of maintaining reasonable price stability, has been an activity in which the Institute participated but indirectly, although as stated the Institute has had a direct interest in formulating and assisting in the maintenance of such groups. To accomplish this, it is necessary to overcome opposing individualism, past animosities which had disintegrated personal confidence and to find one plane upon which confidence can be reasonably expected, considering relative investment, customers, prior volume, territorial relations and market conditions. Sometimes success

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in this field is forestalled by the actions of one single individual, or othertvise by reasons equally familiar perhaps to yourselves.

However, during this last year, in the face of the nrost trying conditions, the Institute has succeeded in fonnulating or assisting in the composition of three local groups in California, which three are stiil maintaining their integrity. Their members are contented with their set-up, and the prices they obtain are in some cases 100 per cent higher than in territories operating on a r,vide open basis.

Membership and Dues

Along with carrying forward the several programs of the .Institute, it has of course been necessary to maintain membership support and interest. The maintenance of our foundation is a first essential to our organization; and our problem in this field has been no different than that of similar associations throughout the ,country. It is impossible to discuss this subject without being immediately mindful of the invaluable services rendered by our President. Arthur Bernhauer. President Bernhauer has shorrldered a great part of this burden and it is but simple justice to concede that the actual continued existence of the Institute is creditable to a great extent to his efforts in, carrying forward that work started ten years ago by such men as Harry Gaetjen and others, in the same determined and forward looking manner. Many times at the sacrifice of his own interests, he has journeyed north and south over the state on behalf of the Institute; and he has supplied an inspirational background, which has been an ever present encouragement to your Secretary.

Trade Extensio,n

Perhaps our most important, and surely our most continuous and least interrupted program for the year, has been Trade Extension. This subject upon which a whole year's work has been concentrated, the essence of which in detail work, is utterly impossible to present in all its phases here without grossly violating your indulgence and patience. We will therefore endeavor to condense it as much hs possible and group the details into general aspects ancl conclusions

Our Trade Extension may be more or less classifiecl three ways:

, First:-Under general Trade Extension we have personally contacted approximately 478 architectural offices located in every section of the state. When making these calls, we presented each archite,ct with a portfolio of Architectural Frame Details, and utilized the opportunity thus afforded to go over the details with the architect, explaining the contents, their proper use, merit, purpose, etc., thus making sure the details had become known to him prior to their being placed in his library or file. We also ascertained at the time whether he had a copy of Accredited Stanrlards for Architectural Woodwork, and whether he hnderstood its use, the Certification Provisions ,etc. On many occasions the architect did not have a copy of the

Standards or else it had not been previously brought to his personal attention, therefore was in non-use.

Other industries are continuously promoting the use of their products-substitutes for wood-among the architects. It is a sure road of industrial degeneracy to sit back as we did for so many years. We have been forced to fight for our place in the building field, whether we want to or not.

Secondly, upon numerous occasions we have worked with architects on specific private jobs and have been successful on such matters as changing specifications in favor of higher grade millwork, su.ch as from Sap Gum to Birch, inclusion of Certification, use of panelling, beams, wood siding and outside trim, as against other materials, use of wood sash and frames as against metal, and on other matters respecting eonstruction, use of woods, etc.

The third phase of our Trade Extension work has had to do with our efforts on behalf of wood products in the Federal Building Program. Since a recent bulletin from our office outlined the work done and the status thereof, I will omit repetition as far as possible. In general, there are either under construction or authorized, 68 post office building projects totalling over $30,000,000. In addition, and heretofore unreported, are projects under the Public Works prog'ram, in which millwork occurs, to be erected at military posts and air depots, that total about ffi000,000. These are located at March Field, Rockwell Field, Hamilton Field, the Presideo and elsewhere.

Our work has been with private architects and with the Department at Washington, under whose supervision these buildings are being erected. Personal calls upon architects concerning the use of wood on these jobs consumed from one to ten or twelve visits each, depending upon varying conditions and requirements. The results of all this work are clearly outlined by the conclusions contained in a previous report.

Cooperation With Northern Manufacturers

At the request of the sash and door jobbers of Southern California, your Secretary last April, spent one week in Portland and Tacoma, meeting with the Northern Door & Plywood Manufacturers. 'We presented a plan of cooperation which has for its purpose the stabilizing of the price of doors and the method of their distribution in California, applicable at that time t'o Southern California only. This plan called for recognition of authorized jobbers of doors and the elimination of manufacturers' warehouses, or other stocks in the territory, and the elimination of poor car shipments.

MiscelLaneous Activities

In addition to the preceding programs of the Institute which I have endeavored to present, there are several additional issues in which our industry is and should continue to be governed. Among these are legislative items affecting the use of our products and the conduct ofour business, such as lien law changes, license law changes, and numerous measures coming up from time to time in local governments pertaining to code regulations.

R. S. Davis

R. S. Davis, traffic manager of the Long-Bell Lumber Company and a director of the company, diecl at his home in Kansas City, Mo., on De'cember 23. He had been ill three weeks and his death was due to pneumonia.

Mr. Davis was born in Pittsbtrrgh, Penna', January 8, 1865. He was edttcated there in the public s'chools after which he entered the railroad bltsiness at Pittsburgh in 1879, starting as a messenger for the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad in their general freight office, and held various clerical positions with the comparly until the latter part of 1882 when he became contracting agent for the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company (now the Erie road) in its general office at Pittsburgh.

In 1884, he became contracting agent for the St. l,ouis & Southwestern Railway; in October, 1887, he became general agent of the road at Cincinnati and on January l, 1891, he became assistant freight agent of the road at St. Louis. On April 1, 1894, he 'was appointed general freight agent of the St. Louis & Southwestern Railroad, in whi'cll position he remained until April 1, 1901. From October 1, lX)2 to July 25, 1903, he was with the Frisco system in Pittsburgh. On August l, 1903, Mr. Davis became traffic manager of The Long-Bell Lumber Cornpany, and on February 7, 1927, he rvas elected a director of the Long-Bell Lumber Company.

Mr. Davis was an ollicer in all the railroads in which the Long-Bell companies were interested. He was vicepresident and general manager of the Sibley, Lake Bisteneau & Southern Railway Company; president and general manager of the Mississippi Eastern Railway Company, and trafiic manager of the Longview, Portland and Northern Railway Company.

He married Miss Eleanor Elliott of Lexington, Ky., April 8, 1891. Mrs. Davis died January 26, 1922. Mr. Davis is survived by tr.r,o daughters, Mrs. Sanford P. Thomson, and Miss Julia L. Davis, both of Kansas City; a son, Robert S. Davis, Jr., of New York City, who is manager of the Institutional Department of Blythe & Company, investment bankers; two grandsons, Sanford Thomson, Jr., and Robert Davis Thomson, and trvo sisters, Miss Alice D. Davis and Miss Mary H. Davis, both of Chautauqua, New York.

Mr. Davis was widely knorvu as a railroad man and was active in church, charitable and civic rvork. He was an elder of the Independence Boulevard Christian Church of Kansas City, and was a member of the Kansas City Club. Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon, Decem' ber 22, at Kansas City.

Tacoma Club Elects Officcrs

G. E. Karlen, of the Karlen-Davis Lumber Co., Tacoma, was electecl president, and Edrvard Gange, of the Gange L,unrber Co., Tacoma, was elected vice president of the Tacoma Lumbermen's Club at the l3th annual banquet of the organization held at the Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma, Wash., Iiriday, December 9.

Ralph l3rindley, of the Wheeler-Osgood Co., was elected secretary-treasurer.

The attendance of nreurbers and gttests numbered about 350.

Major Everett G. Griggs paid a fine tribute to the late John C. Buchanan, first president of the club.

A. K. Martin, of the Pacific National Lumber Co., retiring president, lvas presented with a token of esteem.

W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Seattle. was elected first life member of the club.

Mayor M. G. Tennent lvelcomed the visitors to Tacoma. Governor Roland H. Hartley, and Dr. Henry A. Burd of the University of Washingion also addressed the gathering.

BUYS RETAIL YARD AT LOS BANOS

F. H. Riedle has purchased the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Los Banos, Calif. The Hayward interests have operated a yard at Los Banos since 1926, when this branch yard was established. Mr. Riedle, the new owner, is connected with the contracting business at Los Banos.

The yard rvill be operated under the name of the Builders Lumber Company, and H. E. Carlock will act as manager.

SPENDS VACATION IN CALIFORNIA

William Johnston, sales manager of the Barnet Lumber Co., Ltd., Barnet, B. C., is spending his vacation in California. While in San Francisco he visited a number of friends made in the days when he worked in various Redrvood mills in Humboldt County.

WEYERHAEUSER SALES HEAD VISITS CALIFORNIA

I. N. Tate, general nranag'er of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., St. Paul, Minn., was recently in San Francisco where he conferred with R. W. Hunt, district manager of the company. Mr. Tate left San Francisco December 2l to spend the Christmas holidays in Southern California.

New Pfan of Nationaf Grouping of Lumber fndustry Activities Decid ed Upon

Chicago, December 16.-With strong representation from every softwood and hardwood region, the Directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association unanimously approved in executive session today the recommendation of the Executive Committee o.f the Board, in meeting November 17,1932, that nation-wide support throughout the lumber and timber products industries be se,cured for the advancement of the "General Lumber Industry Service', of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. In fact, the two days consideration brought out the forceful expression of opinion of leading lumbermen in each region, of the inability of the lumber manufacturing industry to function as a unit without the continuation of the general industry services of the Association.

Endorsement was also given to the Executive Committee's approval of prompt development of the promotion programs of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., under whose administration will come all lumber promotion work heretofore conducted by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, except building,codes and ordinances. This latter activity will continue to be an activity of the National Association itself.

The comprehensive plans considered by the Directors provided for creation in due course of a third organization to be known as Wood Research Trust, In,c.

National Association of fnterest to All Lumber Manufacturers

The new plans for lumber manufacturers' organization and functions were presented by Mr. Carl Hamilton, Chairman of the National Lumber Trade Extension Committee. He explained the lack of satisfactory functioning associations in some regions and hen,ce the inability to ,continue the National Association in the simple form of a federation of regional associations financed by the regional associations. To meet this situation, he explained the new plan of financial support for the National Association. He outlined the character of work to be conductecl by it and emphasized that each activity is of a type of vital interest to all lumber manufacturers regardless of regional organization or afiiliation-whether large or small manufacturers and whether of hardwoods or softwoods. These activities were ehumerated as:

1. E,conomics; accounting and planning

2. Governmental relations 3. Conservation and forestry 4. Taxation and tariffs 5. Transportation 6. Trade practices 7. Publicity

9. Wood utilization

10. Standardization

11. Foreign markets

12. Lumbermen's Blue Book.

Trade Promotion Administration

Under the newly created American Forest products In_ dustries, Inc., will come, Mr. Hamilton explained, all na_ tional work involving lumber trade promotion. He called attention to the fact that these servi,ces should be and are available to timber owners, lumber manufacturers. lumber distributors and forest products industries including wood fabricators and lumber-using groups. The service of the American Forest Products Industries will thus be available to all lumber manufacturers who subscribe to the ,,General Lumber Industry Service" and in addition desire specific trade promotion work. He pointed out that the work planned for this new organization of the lumber and forest produ,cts industries will include the lumber trade extension work heretofore conducted through the National Association.

Fundamental Research provided

While it is unlikely that fundamental physical, mechan_ ical and chemical research on wood will be started in 1933, nevertheless the plan, Mr. Hamilton pointed out, provided also for the .creation of a third separate organization to be known as Wood Research Trust, fnc. This will be for those manufacturers who are vitally interested in the con_ du,ct of fundamental research as a means for the permanent maintenance and continuance in use of lumber and timber. The organization will ,comprise lumber manufacturers and wood-using groups banded together in a well planned, co_ ordinated activity of this kind, and be under ownership and control separate from the National Association and the American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

Details of National Association Worked Out

Following this presentation, discussion centered on the eligibility for membership in the National Lumber Manu_ facturers Association, the rate of dues and the method of payment. The conclusion on these questions, it was agreed, should be such as to strengthen existing regional associations; that the National should not otherwise be restricted as to seeking direct aompany support; that membership in the National should be offered without restriction to manufacturers in those regions where no regional organization exists or where the local regional association's rate of dues is such as to preclude the possibility of collective support of the National Association; that the rate of dues for all manufacturers should for the present be the same regardless of regional affiliation; and that National dues should preferably be paid through existing regional associations. Decision on these major questions was incorporated in the following resolutions unanimously adopted.

Membership Eligibility

RESOLVED, that support for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association be solicited from individual manufacturers who are not members of regional associations in su'ch regions as do not have available ,competent regional association facilities, provided the regional associations undertake actively to assist the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in se,curing adequate support of its activities.

Rate of Dues

RESOLVED, that for the present a standard rate ol llc per M be adopted to ,cover support of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association regardless of whether that support come from an individual manufacturer direct or in group support through a regional association; and

RESOLVED FURTHER, that this standard rate be applied to either production or shipments in manner to conform to the established practice within ea,ch of the difierent producing regions; and in the absence of an established practice, to shipments.

Many Ot-her Questions Considered

Having unanimously approved the continuance of aggressive general lumber industry service through the new plan of organization for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and the concentration of national industry trade promotion under the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., the Directors ,corrsidered a number of other important questions,

Lumber Distribution

A resolution by 1\{r. Ralph Hines relating to the industry's entire merchandising problem was approved. It pro-

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Timber Conservation Board

After full discussion the Directors unanimously approved effort on the part of the organized industry to seek the continuance of the U. S. Timber Conservation Board and the National Committee on Wood Utilization. It was brought out that both of these organizations had been of inestimable value to lumber manufacturers and the industry in general, and that at the proper time within the next sixty days a representative group of manufacturers should urge continuance of these two activities by the industry and Federal Government in cooperation, the industries to assure the llecessary financial support.

Tax Legislation

Matters connected rvith present and possible future tax legislation were discussed including Section 115 of the present internal revenue law, and the expected eventual favorable attitude of Congress to imposition of a manufacturers sales tax. Provisions were made for handling both of these matters.

Freight Rates

The future part of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in industry efforts to secure an equitable general reduction of freight rates giving due consideration to varying regional conditions was thoroughly discussed. No action 'was taken pending decision of existing applications before the carriers in the respective regions.

Tariff

Brief discussion of the broad question of the type of tariff

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G. Burton \(/aterman

G. Burton Waterman, treasurer of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, died at the Ross General Hospital December 12, at the age of 57. He had been ill several weeks following a heart attack.

' Mr. Waterman was born in San Francisco, and was first employed by Shreve & Company. He was later identified with the construction of the Fairmont Hotel. He subsequently became auditor for the Spreckels Security Company, in which capacity he toured Siberia during the World War.

About twelve and a half years ago he became affiliated with the Union Lumber Company as treasurer and held this position up to the time of his passing.

He was a director of the Coast National Bank, a member of the Marin Masonic Lodge and a former officer of the Richmond Masonic Lodge. In his younger days he was active in swimming and boxing circles.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Adelaide Waterman, and two daughters, Mrs. I. W. Borda of Ross and Mrs. R. W. Allison of lVillits.

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WANTS POSITION WITH SAWMILL

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National Directors' Meeting

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the united lunlber industry should seek, when tariff legislation is again before Congress, resulted in unanimous action on a resolution calling for appointment of a representative sub-committee to study all phases of the question, discuss it with the regional associations, and.report to the Directors at the Annual Meeting in 1933, or sooner if the situation in Congress requires.

Vacancies on National Board Filled

'fhe four vacancies in the Board of Directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association were filied by the unanimous election of the following:

Carl L. Hamilton, General Timber Service, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.; Ernest L. Kurth, Angelina County Lumber Co., Keltys, Texas; Paul V. Eames, Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Co., Minneapolis, Minn.; Robert Hixon, Chicago, Ill.

Other Matters

Plans in connection with the present wording of the law with respect to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and how those provisions may be applied to the benefit of the lumber industry were stated to the Directors. The Secretary-Manager also reported or, the present status of the cooperation of the natural resource industries in seeking suitable modification of the anti-trust law along the lines of present law respecting agriculture.

George W. Dulaney, Jr., reported on the favorable condition of the Lumbermen's Blue Book and the need of continuance of credit rating service by and for the lumber industry.

Sales Managers Conference

For. two days preceding the Directors' meeting and in one joirrt session with the Directors, twenty-five sales managers representing all groups in the indu.stry met for further discussion of problems conSidered at the first general sales managers conference in April, 1932, and of new matters pertaining to lumber distribution and selling. At the joint session of Directors and Sales Managers Harry T. Kendall,

WANTS OFFICE POSITION

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Chairman of the Sales Managers Conference, presented eight important conclusions and recommendations of the Sales Managers Conference, which were endorsed by the Directors.

The most important recommendation of the sales managers was a statement of terms of sale and sales policies rvhich, if put into effe,ct by the individual manufacturers rvould, it is believed, benefit all branches of the industry and the lumber consumers. The opinion was expressed that before many of the things that need to be done to bring about better conditions within the industry are adlancecl. a firm foundatioh of standardized trade methods and practices must be laid. The conference stated that the voluntary adoption of a uniform statement of terms of sale and sales policies will promote confidence, eliminate hidden competition, stabilize industry methods and practices, assure fair and equitable dealing and give further evidence of the ability of the lumber industry for self-regulation.

Trade Promotion Gets Results

Efforts of the representatives of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and National Lumber Manufactureis Association in California and in Washington, D. C., to obtain approval of the use of creosoted piling for the new San Jose post office have finally been successful, and in .r'iew of the considerable saving that can be made it appears certain creosoted piling will be used instead of competing materials.

INSTITUTE HAS THREE NEW MEMBERS

C. R. Buchanan, secretary, East Bay Lumbermen's Institute, reports that the following Oakland firms have recently joined the Institute: Lamb Lumber Co., Bay City Lumber Co.. and Boulevard Mill & Lumber Co.

RETURNS FROM WORLD TRIP

Ralph Baconf salesman for Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, returned recently from a leisurely trip around the rvorld which occupied six months, and took him to many countries in Europe and Asia and included a visit to the Egyptian Pyramids.

Mr. Bacon was welcomed home at a dinner given in his honor at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, by the staff of the Strable Hardrvood Co., November 26.

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