The California Lumber Merchant - February 1933

Here's the Whole Picture

No wonder McCormickts Serv-

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These demand quick delivery of a variety of items.

Dontt sacrifice profits emergency purchase of Iines. Paul Bunyan wants to know how we can meet prosperity if we don't go round that corner ourselves.

Remodelling jobs can be developed. Sell the idea as a good investment at present price Ievel and to create employment.

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THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT J*kDionne, fu*tbl*

Subrcription Pricc, f2.ll0 pcr Ycar Singlc Copicr, 25 ccntr cach.

How Lumber Looks

New business at the lumber mills of the country during the week ended J"r.u"ry 14 increased 24 per cent over the previous week (containing the New Year holiday) and production increased 22 per cent, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the opemtions of.767 leading hardwood and softwood mills. The previoul week's Seport rras from 787 mills. For the week ended J.tto"ty 14, production toteled 89r647r0fi) feet' which was lE per cent ofl capacity. New business amounted to l0Er4E3rq)0 feet or T2 pet cent of capacity, compared with 17 per cent the week before.

All associatione teported new business in excess of productiont the aggregate for softwoods bei'g 20 per cent above output and for hardwoods 35 pet cent above.

Stocks at the mills on January !4, were the equivalent of 99 dayst average production of the reporting mills, compared to l3l days'average production on January 16 1912.

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A total oL 252 mills reporting to the Vest Coast Lumbermen's Association for t{re week ended January 14 opetated at 2O.7 pet cent of capacity, as compared to 1.7.8 pet cent of capacity for t{re previous week. Dudng the week 170 of thcse plants were reported as down and 82 as operating.

17E mills reporting to the Association for the same week pro. duced. 47,4E6r359 f.eet or 21.6 per cent of their weekly capacity. Current new business of these mills was 5lrl54r48i5 f.eet ot 7.7 Per cent over production. New export business received during the week was 5r331r(X)0 feet more, new domestic cargo otders were 1r0:10r0(X) feet under, and new rail business increased 3r863rq)0 feet as compared with the previous weekts business.

fnventories, as reported by l3O mills, are 19.1 per cent less than at this time last year. ***rf{.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended January t4 reported new business for 107 mills as 24r5E0r00O feet, ship-

S. F. HAS GOOD WEEK

Building contracts totaling $1,687,840 were awarded in San Francisco during the week ended January 15. These included the Veterans' Hospital at Fort Miley, $898,810; the addition to the San Francisco post office, $625,530, and a $115,000 extension to Pier 35.

ments 1816521000 feet, and production 21r395pfi) feet. Orders were 15 per cent above production and 32 pet cent above shipments. Shipments were 13 per cent belon' production.

The Vestern Pine Association for tfie week reported new business for 1O4 mills as l9r778,NO feet, shipments 16667r(n0 feet, and production l2r2OOrOOO Leet. Order vcr:e 612 prct cent above production and 19 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 37 pet cent above production.

371 hardwoqd mills repoted for the same week new busi. ness aE llrl2TrffiO feet, or 35 per cent above ptoductionn and shipments as l3r452r0o0 feet, or 63 per cent above production. Production was E,262,OOO feet.

Thc California Redwood Association for the month of December, 1932, tepofied orders received from 11 mills as 11r. 858'OOO feet, ordets on hand 2lJ;$OrWO feet, shipments 9r. 56,0r(X)O feet, and production 10r965rfi)0 feet.

Details of orders and shipments for the month were as fol. lows: Orders Received-Northern California 7rl94r0/N feti Southern California trr24,OOO feet; Vestern 4Er(XX) fea; Eastern 2r5E0,(X)0 feet; Foreign 7L2,OOO f.eet. Shipments-Northern California 4r588,0fi) feet; Southern California 1,341,(XX) feet; Vestern 891000 feet; Eastern 217541010/0 feet; Foreign 1r., l8Erfl[ feet.

Unsold stocks on the public docts at San Pedro totaled 5r. 67lrGo feet on January 25 as compared to 5r979rWO feet t{re previous tterlk. 44 lumber vessels in the California service were operating on January 2l;63 vessels were laid up. Cargo arrivals at San Pedrc for the week ended January 21 totded 4r730r0{li0 feet which included 6 cargoes of Douglas Fig carrying ,19301000 feeti and 2 cargoa of Redwood with 8(X),(XX) feet. The California volume was low during the paet fifteen days due to some extent to the heavy rains. Mill prices are firm.

USED MACHINERY FOR SALE

Attention is directed to an advertisement on another page of this issue by Pope & Talbot of San Francisco, offering planers and matchers, a 250 h.p. Corliss engind, two boilers and other planing mill machinery for sale at their mill, Third and King Streets, San Francisco.

New Bill tVill Help Buildins Exhibit To Show Rare \(/oods

Governor Rolph signed Assembly BilI 297, an urgellcy measure enabling California building and loan associations to become members of the re'cently created Federal Home Loan Bank system, on Janaary 2I'

The bill passed both houses of the Legislature by unanimous vote and became effective immediately.

The Governor urged the legislature to pass the bill as an urgen,cy measure in the following statement:

"The Federal Home Loan Bank is organized and ready to functio4, but has been unable to make its funds available because the laws of this State do not permit building and loan associations to become members of the bank. Amendment to our act will enable the bank, through the agency of building and loan associations, to help relieve the distress created by the present lack of mortgage money.

"Member associations; by exercising their borrowing privileges, will secure new funds f'or remodeling and legitimate home financing on a long-time monthly repayment basis.

"A revival of residential construction will bring about employment to thousands of persons in this State."

First 1933 Tri-Annual Meeting

The first 1933 tri-annual meeting of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers, Pacific Division, will be held at the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, Calif., on February 15 and 16, 1933.

Woods from all parts of the world, including some species very rarely seen in this country, together with unusual specimens of the better known varieties, will be shown in a special exhibit to be held in the Architects Building Material Exhibit, Los Angeles, from February 1 to February 15, 1933. The exhibition will include woods from Africa, Burma, Indo-China, Brazil and other countries. A maple log from Michigan that contains practically every grain figuration that has ever been known in maple will also be on display. Of special interest will be a flitch of teak veneer from the hull of a ship that has seen ocean service for over a hundred years. Displays of wood inlays, both in the unfinished wood as well as the finished product ready for use, will be shown. The public is invited to attend the exhibit.

R. McMillan

W. R. McMillan, Eastern sales manager of the Hammond Lumber Company, died in Chicago, January 24, after an illness lasting more than six weeks.

Mr. McMillan, who was 67 years of age' was born in Scotland, and was one of the best known lumbermen in the United States. He was in the employ of the Hammond Lumber Company for 30 years' and opened the Chicago office early in 1925.

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Vagabond Editoriafs

Bv JacL Dionne

Now we're going to devote this entire Vagabond department for this issue to a discussion of one single subjectPANICS.

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A "depression" talk? Not on your life! An optimistic tdk. For I have discovered-and I believe I can convince YOU-that in a brief review of the history of panics there is to be found comfort and hope at this moment. For history, "the long memory of the human race," answers in unmistakable and undeniable terrns many of the hypothetical questions that fear and travail bring continually to the average human mentality these days; and history bids us hoPe'

On every hand we hear the questions asked, ,,Will this depression ever end?" and "Has the world ever been through such times as these before?" I think f can easily convince you that this panic WILL end, and in all probability very soon; and that this depression we are now going through compares with some of the depressions of the past as a summer thunder storm compares with the mightiest hurricane. I want you to know that these great panics and depressions have been the lot of man since civilization began-and long before; that they occur in the past two hundred years of our national history with rhythmic regularity, apparently being part and parcel of the price that mankind pays for this thing we call civilization. We have always had panics. In my judgment, we always will have. The only difference between this present panic and the panics of the past is that we have lost more money in terms of DOLLARS than ever before, simply because we had more dollars to lose. But from a standpoint of the percentage of people affected, the seriousness of their panic-created damage, and the broken morale of the people, the long memory of man tells us that, in the words of Al Jolson-"we ain't seen nuthin' yet."

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And not only do I propose to convince you of these two things; but I likewise hope to convince you that as far back as we can reasonably trace them, great and momentous developments of and for humanity have been the aftermaths of panics of the past; portentious forward thrusts of progress and improvement have been the step-children of these timgs of great distress. Numerous of the great-

est boons that have come to mankind have been the immediate products of panics.

I yield to the ..*n.".rJn nrrl, n*" to break the chain of the story I want to tell, and furnish you facts and figures to prove the first two assertions I have made, while they are uppermost in your minds. Read the following quotation. ft was written by a very keen observer of conditions in,.the United States during a previous panic. He says: "Suspicion, fear, and misfortune have taken possession of the people. Had I not been aware of the cause I should have imagined that the plague-was raging. Not a smile on one countenance among the crowd who pass and repass; hurried steps; careworn faces; rapid exchanges of salutation, or hasty communication of ruin before the sun goes down. Here two or three are gathered together on one side, whispering or watching that they are not overheard; there a solitary, with his arms folded and his hat slouched, brooding over departed affluence. Mechanics thrown out of employment are pacing up and down with the air of famished wolves. Canals, railroads, and all public works have been discontinued." ***

Have you noticed any such conditions during this present panic? Hardly. That was written by an English author, Captain Marryat, who visited New York during the height of the panic of 1837, and wrote back to England of what he saw. And do you know that in that great panic EVERY BANK IN THE COUNTRY CLOSED ITS DOORS, WHILE SIX STATES REPUDIATED THEIR PUBLIC DEBTS, AND CONGRESS PASSED A GENERAL BANKRUPTCY LAW TO SAVE DIS. TRESSED DEBTORS? Sure! That happened in the panic of 1837. Now THERE was a panic ! But the panic of 1837-so amazingly pictured by Marryat-passed away, and a high tide of prosperity followed; and so also did the terrible panic of 1819, with the same succeeding rise of the tide. And so have all the others. And so will this one.

Yes, friends, we've n"U "r"t-" panics than this one before. Plenty of them. And we took those panics of earlier days much less philosophically than we are taking this one. The why and wherefore of THAT fact is itself fit subject for an extended discussion, and has no place here.

And right here, let's get rid of the bugaboo about talking of "panic" and "depression." We are in the middle of our fourth year of this trouble, and we have gone through many phases of it. For a long time everyone kept advising us "Don't talk depression." We tried to lull ourselves into a feeling of false security by dodging the issue. That would have been all right for scaring away shadows, but this thing we are in is a death grapple which won't be downed in any such inglorious fashion. A friend of mine tried that system of just ignoring the depression, never admitting it, never mentioning it. He said that pretty soon his checks began coming back marked, "No funds." He kept up his theory of ignoring conditions, and went on his way serenely. But when his checks began coming back marked "No bank" he saw that the time had come to change his system. Now we've come to understand that "Don't talk depression" is an absurdity. We've got to recognize it. We've got to look it squarely in the eye. An attitude of supine acquiescence and surrender is the fuel that feeds the depression. Drifting with the current only takes us over the falls. So let's get on with this depression talk, and get what comfort and hope we can from it.

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So very frequently in these lean days, when men get to discussing the one and only thing you hear discussed nowadays, namely-the depression and its duration-someone cries aloud for "a Moses to lead us out of the wilderness." You've all heard it, and read it. And it really isn't a Moses we need, at all. Another Joseph is what we want. For in all this world's history we have no record of a human who knew anything about panics and depressions and what to do about them, with one exception, and he was Joseph, the son of Jacob. We have no record of any other man who could diagnose a depression even after it was over, and he had all of its attendant manifestations to go by. We have been going through panics and depressions since the earliest dawn of history, but have produced no other human wise enough to determine definitely the cause of any of them. Joseph alone saw one coming, and made the necessary preparations to receive it, not only for himself and his family, but for his entire nation.

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Genesis tells us of the Pharaoh, or Emperor, of Egypt, who had a dream that none of his seers and wise men could explain. He dreamed that he stood on the bank of a river and saw seven fat cattle come up out of the river. They were followed by seven other cattle, horrible in their leanness and emaciation, who ate up the seven fat cattle. Joseph deciphered the dream for him, and likewise told him what to do about the situation. He said that the dream meant that Egypt would have seven fat years of prosperity and plenty, that would be followed by seven lean years

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When are stow Sales

TURN0VER Counts Most

o Check up the various stocks you carry and ygtr will find materials that are hard to sell and otherc a:hat are easy to sell.

What is this dilference, Turnover?

o Turnooer-the big facor in successful selling and, in m(xlt cases, the difference between profit and loss-rests on these supports:

o fst - Quality and Yaluc

-A reliable product made by a conscientious manufacturer, giving quality and full valuc to the ucer.

a Znd - Adt:ertising- Aggressive and consistent to develop an fnformed Public.

a Srd - Public Demand.

-Products people know, trust

and ask for naturally move L"&s-1ffis is lcas sales resistance.

Celotex Insulating Cane Board fulfills all these requirements. Celotex-for sheathingfor plaster basFfor repairing and remodelingfor farm buildings-for vacation homes and wayside marketsall these uses and many otherc to help you makc money.

Celotex has the call. Celotex is easier to sell. When saleg are slow, turnover counb mqtt.

. The Celotex Company, 919 North Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

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that would eat up what the seven fat years had created, and he advised Pharaoh to appoint a wise rnan to take charge of the situation and make due preparation during the fat years for the needs of the lean years. Being a smart man, Pharaoh gave Joseph the job. During the seven fat years Joseph seized one-fifth of all that the land produced, and hoarded it in huge granaries and warehouses. And when the seven years of famine came, so well had Joseph husbanded the resources of the country, that he had enough food and supplies on hand to supply the entire nationand other people as well-through the seven years of famine.

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It would be a pretty story if we could let it go at that. But unfortunately Joseph and his Master preyed on the people as those who get a corner on necessities always do. First they sold the people supplies until their money was gone. Then they made them trade in their cattle and horses and other possessions for food. Then came their lands and their homes and other possessions. And finally he made them sell themselves to Pharaoh in exchange for food. Some little profiteer, this Joseph was ! When the seven lean years ended Pharaoh owned all the money, all the land, all the stock, and all the people.

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Boy, what Joseph would have done to the stock market if he had returned to the earth again seven years preceding this present panic! He could have started in l9?2 with a ten dollar bill; bought and pyramided for seven years; then began selling short in the fall of 1929 ! And he'd have the entire country today right where he and Pharaoh had Egypt when THAT depression ended!

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Yes, we've been having depressions as far back as history reaches; but there never was but one Joseph. Close students of history tell us that humanity has been going through depressions and panics since time began. The Chinese, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Romans, and the people of medieval Europe, all knew these visitations. Yet even in retrospect, with all the facts before us, all the wise men of the earth disagree as to what causes panics, and therefore we go from one of these bedevilments to another, blissfully ignorant of what made the others, and so totally unprepared to anticipate and guard against the next.

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Many historians believe that the fall of the Roman Empire was the result of a long-continued depression in the third century of the Christian era. Other historians sug-

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gest that the two hundred years of the crusades of the middle ages were brought aLout by periods of depression. Soldiering was the great profession of those days, and finding both over-production and unemployment in that line of business, the fighting men went abroad and fought the barbarian through a succession of generations. The very founding of America was very certainly the result of 'desperate depressions in Europe. What Woodrow Wilson called "the swarming of the English" into other lands was caused by the hard necessity of poverty. Colonial expansion was the cure for unemployment that England devised. The American colonies were one of the major results.. *'F*

Sir Thomas More, early in the Sixteenth Century, writes of the numerous husbandmen compelled to sell their homes "and depart away, poor innocent wretches, goods, men, women; husbands, wives, fatherlcss children, widows, woeful mothers and their young babes, out of their known and accustomed houies, finding no place to rest in. And when they have wandered abroad what can they do but steal, or go about begging? And then also they be cast in prison as vagabonds, because they go about and work not, whom no man will set to work." Sounds something like 1933, except that we don't put folks in jail for debt or enforced unemployment any more.

Fifty years later in 157;,; *u ,n Humphrey Gilbert, of England, suggesting: "\trfe might inhabit some part of these Contreyes (America) and settle there these needy people of our country which now trouble the Commonwealth and through want here at home are enforced to commit outrageous ofrenses whereby they are daily consumed by the gallows." Then, early i4 the Seventeenth Century, when the first settlement in Virginia had becn efrected and an outlet for the English unemployed created, a Spanish ambassador wrote: "Their principal reason for colonizing these parts is to give an outlet to so many, wretched idle people as they have in England." From now until 1630 the conditions in England were desperately depressed, and the people turned to the colonization of America as their only resort. Thus a great depression undoubtedly brought about the colonization of the future United States, making this nation the direct result and offspring ofagreatpanic.

The first. strictly American panic was about 1675' and was a tobacco panic. Tobacco had come into great demand, the price was high and the market active' and there \pas a huge develoPment and'investmerrt in tobacco plan-

tations. The tobacco boom exploded with a dull thud, and tobacco became a drug on the rnarket. So, naturally, did tobacco raising properties, and mortgages on such properties. It was.then that Nathaniel Bacon led his revolt against British authorities whom he blamed for the panic. He captured the seat of government at Jamestown. He lost his life and his enterprise died. There were other depressions in this country during the colonial period, the most notable one being in 1764.

ln 1764 there came a huge depression both in this country and abroad, and it may be well said that the severity of this depression did much to hasten the corning of the Revolutionary War. Here is another great lesson from panics. Business in this country was in a state of collapse. Unemployment was general, and there was tragedy abroad in the land. It was this time that England chose to impose new and. increased taxes on the people of our colonies. That is always a mistak+a dangerous mistake. It proved to be so in this case. When everyone was in difficulty, and everyone was hard up, was a poor time to put the tax screws on tighter. But England did so, and we spilled her tea in Boston Harbor, and then went about the business of whipping her armies, and setting up our own little fonn of government. So not only the colonization of this country was caused by a panic, but the Revolution itself 1ryas. the direct offspring of another. +,F*

One very important fact in our own history that few of us realize is that we had a regular war-time boom during the Revolutionary War. While Washington and his forces were having the very Devil of a time, the folks at home were looking at more cash than they had ever heard of be-

fore. It was like the times we enjoyed in l9l7 and 1918. The British and French both brought war chests over and dumped their silver and gold, and we issued our own Continental paper money. Everyone paid their debts, prices soared, there were jobs for everyone, and the goose hung high. The minute the war ended this all flopped, and we had a real panic. In this great collapse America reached the very depths of financial and economic despair. And out of that great panic came the American Constitution. So, from a panic, was born one of the greatest forward steps in human history, one of the greatest progressive acts of all time. :1.

'And now came one of our greatest and worst panics, that of 1819. During the Napoleonic Wars there had developed a great land boom in America-our first. Large areas were bought on credit, and pretentious towns were laid out. It was our first broad effort at what we have come to call "sub-dividing." It crashed in 1819, and the whole structure fell. Prices of everything dropped from 5O to Z0 per cent. Factories stopped, merchants failed, unemployment was everywhere, and wretchedness was the condition of the majority. The banks became the owners of every sort of property by foreclosure. The national bank in Cincinnati became known as "The Monster" because it became the owner of almost all the property in that city and territory.. Nothing like it was ever known before-or since. But out of that panic came progress and development. Up to that tirne every state had its debtors laws, and its debtors prisons. These were all abolished during the 1gl9 panic. Up to that time land in tlrc West was sold and allotted only in great areas. The reduction in the size of

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land allotments was now made, and poor men could, for the first time, buy their farms in small areas of 80 acres, at reasonable prices.

r have already tora yo,l J ; Panic of 1832, probably the most desperate panic we have known. They called that the canal panic. For transportation had become the order of the day, and the nation went wildly into canal building for water transportation of freight. They built them here, there, and everywhere. And they reached the height of their canal building just as the railroads began their rise to power. Everything fopped. It was this panic that Captain Marryat described, as previously quoted. The distress of. 1929 sinks into insignificance compared with such times as these, with every bank closed, the states themselves repudiating their debts, and unemployment everywhere.

Now comes a great period of prosperity for most of twenty years. Then, in 1857 came the first of the two great railroad panics. To tell the story of 1857 it is only needed to quote an editorial from Harper's Weekly in October of that year. "It is a gloomy moment in history. Not for many years-not in the lifetime of most men who read this paper-has there been so much grave and deep apprehension; never has the future seemed so incalculable as at this time. In our country there is universal-commercial prostration and panic, and thousands of our poorest citizens are turned out against the approaching winter without employment and without the prospect of it. Of our own troubles no man can see the end. They are, fortunately, as yet mainly commercial; and if we are only to lose rnoney, and by painful poverty to be taught wisdom-the wisdom of honor, of faith, of sympathy and charity-no man need seriously to despair. And yet the very haste to be rich, which is the occasion of this widespread calamity, has also tended to destroy the moral forces with which we are to resist and subdue the calamity." Wise words, indeed, but forgotten, f fear, before the next visitation of depression.

The next great panic, a*, ., lrrr, -"" the second great railroad panic. The nation went wild on its railroad construction. Roads were built recklessly in all directions, many of them going where there was neither freight nor passengers to be hauled. This was more like the present panic than any other. ft came just eight and one-half years after the close of the Civil War. ft started in Gerrnany,

spread all over Europe, and then to the United States. The failure of Jay Cooke & Company, the great railroad builders, was one of the most dramatic incidents in the commercial history of this country. Railroad construction stopped and all employment incidental to railroad building and operation was prostrated. Despite an abundant harvest, starvation became general. The country became overrun with mobs. Bloody encounters between mobs and officers were frequent. The rnilitia was often used to preserve order. Murder, rape, and incendiarism was the commonest in our history. This lasted neady five years.

Temporary suspension of railroad construction created towns and cities at these terminals, contributing largely to the upbuilding of the great \ll/est, and remained as centers of civilization and of commerce when the panic ended and the railroads went on. The centralized efforts of humanity in its Westward swing was thus frequently determined, not by selection, but by the hazards of the panic, and new history thus made in the West.

The next great panic came in 1893. It lasted between four and five years, as did that of 1873 and 1832. Not as savage as the depression of '73, but much like it, and like the present depression. With an abundance of everything that goes to make life worth living, there came tremendous industrial and commercial prostration, general unemployment, and untold misery. But the passage of the Gold Act of 1900 was a direct result of what we learned during the depression of the nineties; and the lessons we learned in the short depression of 1907 produced far-reaching changes in the institution of banlring, resulting in the Federal Reserve Act seven years later. From these panics, as from all the other, good selms to come in a variety of important ways. From them we can trace the processes by which progress has been made possible, injustice has been lessened, and ideals aroused.

Grave and complete disagreement as to the cause of panics has always existed-exists today. Many great panics have closely followed great wars, and men have been inclined to attribute the panic to the war. But three of the worst panics had no possible war connection, nambly, lg3?, 1857, and 1893, while the panics of. l?64,1786, 1819, lg73, and the small depression of l92l go into the war category. Politicians always blame every panic on the party in power. Financial systems are blamed by a world of students, who, however, thoroughly disagree in their details.

My personal opinion-which, of course, is worth nothing' thus making it exactly equal in value to any and every other-would go back to that previously quoted editorial from Harper's Weekly written in 1857, and accept THAT version, that "the very haste to be rich is the occasion of this widespread calamity." The haste to be rich develops ' tremendous over-expansion, and the panic is the immediate result of the effort to collect the bad debts created everywhere by this expansion program. Certain it is that top-heavy debts followed by uncertainty, are a definite sign at the beginning of all modern panics. Most ancient and medieval panics can be traced in their origin to human misfortune; modern panics to human greed and folly.

Now for the time limit of panics. It is likely that ancient panics and depressions sometimes lasted from one to three hundred years. But in the last one hundred years the three most terrible panics, those of L837,.L873, and 1893, each lasted between four and five years, while the panic of 1929 is now going through its fourth year. Lesser panics have been shorter lived, such as 1819, 1857' and 1907.

That the panic we are now going through will develop in its ending great progressive and forward thrusts for the human race as all other great panics have done, I have not the slightest doubt. That it will teach us a lesson about how to dodge future panics, however, I do very seriously doubt. These visitations come in such cycles of time that seldom does the same generation of business men suffer two great depressions. We, who are fighting our way through the gloom of this depression will learn lessons never to be forgotten; but the next generation who will meet the conditions of the next panic, will profit little by our experiences of the present. ***

But I have taken hope and cheer and comfort from the things I have attempted to tell you in these pages, to-wit, that this panic is NOT the worst we have known, nor the longest; that, judging by the life of other great panics, this one should have about run its course; that we don't know what causes panics, so we don't know how to cure them, and the panic will just naturally end some of these days like all the others did; and that from every great depression comes developments of huge consequence and helpfulness to the human race, that makes the world a better place to live in. ***

So, the next time some guy comes up to you and says"Bo/, isn't this the dad-gummest awfullest panic that the world sygi ssqrf"-you give him the razzberry and say"Listen, feller, it's a good thing you weren't around in 1819, or 1837, or 1873 ! Now THERE were really some PANICS !''

, of thc rapid Progtcss C-ancc Struc' beCAUSe tural Insulation is making because an ever-increasing number of alert architccts and builders are demanding this attractivc' scrviccablc structural insulation, here are somc questions you will bc asked about.

The Aduantages of Canec Structural Insulation

a What is Canec? Canec is a rigid, structural insulation I 66*rl "*li;b{e in standard building sizes and in thicknesses of full /2 rnchr tA inch and one inch. No lamin' ations ot layers are present in any of these thicknesses. Other Canec products are lat'h for Plaster base, tile, and indus' trial and roof insulation.

(t Vhat is the Canec dual surfacB? Canec has two dis' ZJ Eil-ilI.""-o"" side satin-smooth, the other a bur' lap texture. Both surfaces are attractive in their natural color, but may be easily and economically decorated.

O How strong is Canec?

\, breaking strength. This

Canec has high tensile and strength has been obtained without sacrificing maximum insulation values. Canec Yz inch board weighs on the average only 650 pounds per thousand square feet.

A Vill Canec stand up? Canec will last indefnitely. It

attacked by vermin.

E Vhat about the price? Despite its improved features, J ffithan ordinary structural insula' tion board. ^lU CaiFli"aucts come well packed in bun' dles of convenient size. Ample warehouse stocks are main' tained in. principal Coast cities for service in carloads to dealers.

NOTE TO WIDE.AWAKE DEALERS

There are still a few Canec dealerrhipa availablc. We ruggert that you imnediately write to ur rc that we c.n have one of our reprerentative! sae you if you are interected in what ic, without doub't, the best all-around structural ingulation board on tte martet. lfete are the high lightt of the Canec Dirtribution Policy: 1. No over' crowding of territoriec. 2. Saler to relectcd dealerr in carloadr. ,. Retail pricer maintained by relected dealetr with feir proft for picL' up dealerc" 4. Intcnrive raler promotion which bringr actual pro* pectr to dealerc. 5. Locel edvcrtiring. 6. Eficient 6cld pereonnel.

HAWAIIAN CANE PRODUCTS, LTD.

215 Market Street, San Francisco, California

MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jae Dioruv

Age not guaranteed-,some I have told fot 2o yearc-some les{r A Matter of Exit

The colored church at the cross-road was a onc-room affair with one method of entrance and exit, a double front door.

The tallest darkey in the congregation had given up the ghost. He was about Seven feet long, and the longest coffin the local colored undertaker had in stock was only a six-footer. So they just sort of used forcc and jack-knifed the legs of the corpse down so that they could get them into the coffin, and then they screwed the lid of the coffin on, while two heavy darkies held it down by main force.

The funeral was in the church. The edifice was filled with the mourners. The service ended and the procession was about to start down the aisle with the coffin when the wailing widow demanded to be allowed one last look at the dear departed husband. There being no way out of it, they loosened the screws at the head of the coffin. And

when their grip was released the pressure of thc jack-knifed long legs fairly pushed the head of the corpse up through the opening. Pandemonium broke loose, and with oD€ ilGcord the congregation broke for the outer air. When the scare was over one colored woman said to another:

"You know, Mandy, a man whut uses de kinda talk dat preachah of ouahs uses ain't got no right to be wearin' de cloth o'Gawd."

"Why, whut did de preachah say?', inquired the other.

"Did'n you heah him?" asked the first.

"Nuh uh," said the second. ,.Whut did hc say?"

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"Well, when dat co'pse riz up, dat preachah runned right ovah me an' sevrul othah ladies, an' as he went thu' Ah head him say-

E. W. Cummings With Oakland State Ass'n Signs Up More Firm Members

E. W. Cummings has resigned his position as superintendent with the Alpine Mill & Manufacturing Co. at Stockton, Calif., and is now connected with the Concealo Fixture Co., fnc., of Oakland in the capacity of superintendent and assistant manager. He was formerly associated with the millwork industry in Southern California for many years, and before going to Stockton was located in Los Angeles where he had charge of sales for the Watertite Casement Hardware Co. Mr. Cummings is the inventor of the Watertite casement hardware.

Meet at San Bernardino

A meeting of the lumbermen of San Bernardino and Riverside counties was held Thursday evening, January 19, at the Cafe Madrid, San Bernardino. Following dinner, there was a business session at which there was a discussion as to the possibility of having a lumber exhibit at the San Bernardino Orange Show that will be held in February. The meeting was well attended. Chas. C. Adams, Chas. C. Adams Lumber Company, San Bernardino, presided at the meeting.

The California Retail Lumbermen's Association announces that the following firms have taken out memberships in the Association: Sterling Lumber Co., Chico; Sterling Lumber Co., Folsom; Sterling Lumber Co., Hollister; Sterling Lumber Co., Morgan Hill; Sterling Lumber Co., Redding; Yancey Lumber Co., Crows Landing; yancey Lumber Co., Patterson; Gustine Lumber Co., Gustine; Auburn Lumber Co., Colfax; Nevada County Lumber Co,, Nevada City; Truckee-Tahoe Lumber Co., Lake Tahoe.

This makes a total of thirty-one yards that have become affiliated with the state organi zation during the past month ; in our issue of January 15 we published a list of 20 yards who recently joined the Association. With the exception of two yards that are located in Southern Californii, all the new members are in Northern California. The Association reports that the Sterling Lum'ber Co. now have 14 memberships in the Association, and the Diamond Match Co. 23 memberships.

A. C. PENBERTHY VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

A. C. Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency, Los Angeles, was a San Francisco visitor during the month of January where he spent a few days on business.

.DAMN A CHU'CH WID ONLY ONE DO"'

AN OPEN LETTER

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How Dealers Can Profit Tremendously by This ldea:

What Mr. Knipp has said applies with double fotce to Flintkote dol"r*" because they havc twic€ the incentive to leave their desks and get out into the field and scll.

With Flintkotc Asphalt Emulsion, the dealcr has an exdusive product that he can sell AT A PROFIT. How much easier it is to sell goods today when you havc

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Flintkote has such a product in Asphalt Emulsion. It has tnemcndous selling advantages, and it dways shows the dealer a PROFIT on every sale. Invectigate the sclling advantages of the Flintkote line of roofings and roofing products. It will pay yout

a QQNoveltyts-hut il BeaI SelIinS Advantage thart wilf o inerease R,oll R,oofing Business!

Red Seal Openers were developed and adopted as the standard method of packaging roll roofing by Pioneer for two lmportant reasons:

FIRST-To effect a saving in time and marerial for the user of roll roofing.

SECOND-To give YOU an exclusive sales advanrage that would bring yorr lnore business on roll roofing.

Dealers who have gotten behind this feature of Pioneer Roll Roofing, talked it, displayed it-have found that it actually does bring them more business.

Try it for 30 days. Make it a point during February to call the attention of every customer to this new advantage in opening roll roofing. You'll find them asking for it every time they order.

R'ed- SeaL Opennrs crl,dt ynu and your cudtomers rwthing-thc, co.fi is brtu, W Pioneer.

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Trce Falls on Office Building East B.y Hoo Hoo Club

A spruce tree, l0O feet in height and 3 feet in diameter, weighted down rvith snorv and decayed below the ground was blown over by the rvind, falling on the office building of the Nevada County Lumber Company, Nevada City, Calif., shortly before one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 18.

Fred Conner, manager of the company, was home at lunch at the time but Miss Georgia Donnelly, the company's bookkeeper, rvas sitting in the front office when the tree crashed down over the inner office where she had been working only a short time before. The treq smashed the roof structure, but was stopped by the studding and rafters, and the interior of the office was little damaged. The actual damage to the building was less than $5@.

Mr. Conner on his arrival at the office had the tree sawed, relieving the building of the tremendous weight. As a result of the accident Miss Donnelly who was in a very nervous condition u'as taken home. The sturdy construction of the building prevented it from being further damaged, and after'vierving the wreckage, Mr. Conner stated: "Those pioneers rvho built this house were honest builders."

Coachcs See Redwood Movies

Stanford athletic coaches had the pleasure at a meeting of their association, on the evening of January 16 of seeing motion pictures of the Redwood operations of The Pacific Lumber Company. Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of the company, exhibited the pictures and told the story of the various steps in the manufacture of Redwood lumber from the tree to the car.

The pictures were shown on the invitation of President Harry 'Wolters, baseball coach, who managed and playecl on the baseball team of the Hammond Lumber Company. Samoa, several years ago.

Stays With Rcdwood

His many friends among the retail lumbermen of California will be interested to hear that Max E. Cook, farmstead engineer, who was rvith the California Redwood Association for the past eight years in charge of their Redwood Fann Structures Bureau, has not deserted the Redwood industry. He is now associated rvith The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco.

The close attention paid by a large gathering of East Ilay lumbermen to a serious talk by Earl Warren, district attorney for Alameda County, at.the club's monthly dinner meeting held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, January 16, indicated that the lumbermen take a real interest in the problems of the district attorney's office. The speaker's suggestions in the course of his talk regarding the prevention of crime also aroused much interest.

Earle Johnson, of Livermore, the club's president, occupied the chair, and opened the meeting by congratulating the committee responsible for filling the Christmas kegs for distribution to needy families on their fine work. Gordon Pierce, chairman of the committee reported that 24O kegs had been filled and distributed.

Larue 'Woodson, entertainment committee chairman, announced that his committee is planning a monster gettogether meeting to be held in the spring. He predicted it rvould be, in the language of the ballyhoo man, a "stupendous spectacle", and invited cooperation.

The president welcomed as out of town visitors, Ed Case, Vallejo Lumber Co., Vallejo, and A.. G. Zahnd, Livermore Luniber Co., Livermore, and congratulated Al Kendall, the club's oldest member, who passed his 84th birthday, January 7, and whose Hoo Hoo number is 4124.

Splendid music was furnished by a boys' orchestra under the leadership of Jim Livingston.

Russell Kelley

Russell Kelley, aged six years and l0 months, passed' arvay in the Children's Hospital, Oakland, on the morning of January 16, follorving an operation performed on Christmas Day.

Little Russell rvas born in San Francisco, and was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kelley. He is also survived by a sister, Barbara, aged four.

Mr. Kelley has been associated with the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, for the past 18 years.

Appointed Yard Manager

R. J. Fell has been appointed manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Banning, Calif., succeeding Earl D. Evans who recently resigned. Mr. Fell formerly made his home in San Bernardino where he was connected rvith the retail lumber business for a long period.

Sing a song of wall board, a pocket full of tacks; what a wealth of closets, shelves, partitions, boxes, racks. Doesn't need a carpenter nor plans nor mathematics. Easy work for anyone to renovate the attics. Put it on the ceiling; put it on the wall. Nail it. Paint it. Easy, ain't it? 'Tisn't work at all.

Buginess Statistics for December

Chicago, Jan. 1S.-Business troubles reported to the Lumbermen's Blue Book during the month of December show a material increase in the number of bankruptcies, with other troubles approximately in the same proportion as a year ago.

Following the trend of actual lumber orders placed, there has been a slight decrease in the number of requests for special credit reports.

A comparative report for December 1932 and l93l is as follows:

t932

32 Bankruptcies

8 Receiverships

7 Assignments

5 Extensions

4 Composition settlements

4 Creditors Committees Appointed

r93l

21 Bankruptcies

18 Receiverships

6 Assignments

7 Extensions

3 Composition settlenients

5 Creditors Committees Appointed

Prayer

By DEE ESSLEY

O Lawd give thy Lumbermen this morning de eyes of de Eagle and de Wisdom of de Owl; Connect his Soul to figure Lumber Honest; Telephone him in de Central skies to join his Trade Association ; Luminate his Soul to get a price; Pizen his Mind from Chizeling; Turpentine his Salesmen; Grease his lips to Merchandise; close his tongue with a sledge hammer from knocking his competitors' materials; Fill him full of fairness; Lectrify his Brain with de Lightnin' of L,ow Volume; Fill him Plum full of de Dynamite of Co-operation; Noint him all over with a Square deal to All; And set him on Fire. Amen.

HOTEL WILTSHINE

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IN THE GRIP OF FEAR

THE LAW

The law should be loved a little because it is felt to be just; feared a little, because it is severe; hated a little because it is to a certain degree out of sympathy with the prevalent temper of the day; but respected because it is felt to be a necessity.-Fourget.

TAXATION

George

"The world is in the grip of a white-faced fear. One of the most outstanding and surprising features of modern civilization-the safest and most comfortable civilization svsl knq\ rn-is a nervous, forboding fear that holds it in thralldom. This fear has seized all classes of people-the high and the low, the educated and the ignorant, the old and the young. It is as if a swarm of fears had been let loose upon us, like an Egyptian plague. There are many kinds of fears; fears of ourselves, of others, of the past, the present, and the future, of sickness, of death, of poverty; fears without reason and without end."-Dr.

Truett.

BETTER STILL

"Do you give a guarantee with this bottle of hair restorer?"

"Guarantee, Hell ! We give a brush and comb !"

JUST IN TIME

A Scotchman came upon an automobile overturned at a railroad crossing. Beside it lay a groaning, injured man.

"Quick, get a doctor," he moaned.

('Did the train hit you?" asked the Scotchman.

t'Yes. For God's sake hurry and get a doctor."

"Has the claim agent been here yet?"

"No. Please hurry and get a doctor."

"Move over a wee bit, Laddie," said the Sotchman.

"Why?" asked the injured man.

"So I can lie down beside you," said the Scot.

MADE STARS

If there isn't any star within your skyPretend it's there !

Why, a make-believe one swinging white and high Is just as fair !

If you'll put it where you'll see it every night, Just where the sky's particularly brightYour star is sure to guide your steps aright.

If there isn't any sunshine in your dayWhy, put some in!

If you've never tried to make your sun that way, Oh, do begin !

This sunshine-making's hard, but you won't mind, Keep on, and when it's done you're apt to find, The home-made brand's the very nicest kind.

The average citizen-the man of small lsseulggs-rnu5f know where he stands and what he faces. Property cannot sustain the ever-increasing drain. Business, big or little, cannot stand it. The man in the street must take seriously the truism that the power to tax is the power to confiscate. He must realize that we are nearing-if in some cases we have not already reached-the point where confiscation already has begun. For almost two decades our Governrnents-national, state, and local-have been expending more than they could afford.-John W. Davis.

FOURTEEN MISTAKES

1. To attempt to set your own standards of right and wrong and expect everybody to conform to them.

2. To try to measure the enjoyment of others by your own.

3. To expect uniformity of opinion in this world.

4. To look for judgment and experience in youth.

5. To endeavor to mould all dispositions alike.

6. Not to yield in unimportant trifes.

7, To look for perfection in our own actions.

8. To worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied.

9. Not to alleviate, if we can, all that needs alleviation.

10. Not to make allowances for the weakness of others.

11. To consider anything impossible which we ourselves cannot perform.

12. To believe only what the finite mind can grasp.

13. To live as if the moment, the time, the day were so important that it would live forever.

14. To estimate people by some outside quality, for it is that within which makes the man.

REAL DEPRESSION

"I believe your village is very healthy, is it not?"

"It is the healthiest spot on earth."

"Yet your cemetery is quite full."

"Yep, those are the graves of doctors and undertakers who died of broken hearts."

To Study Merchandbing and Distdbution Methods

Washington, D. C., Jan. 1S.-President John W. Blodgett of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, has appointed the original eight members of the Committee to consider the merchandising and distributing methods of the lumber industry, authorized at the annual meeting of the directors in Chicago, December 15 and 16.

These members are: Geo. W. Dulany, Jr.; Fred K. Weyerhaeuser; C. A. Bruce; Robert Hixon; C. R. McPherson; Raymond B. White; Frank Adams; Ralph J. Hines.

Mr. Blodgett was designated by the directors to act as honorary chairman of the committee, but he has appointed Mr. Hines, who initiated the idea of having such a committee, as active chairman. According to the resolution creating the committee the eight appointed members may later add seven other members.

In notifying each member of his appointment Mr. Blodgett said:

"ft is necessary for me to press upon you the vital importance of the subject matter contained in the resolution. As a matter of fact, it is and has been for a long time my firm conviction that until the merchandising and distributing methods of the lumber industry were radically changed we cannot hope to stabilize our industry."

Mr. Hines is expected to call the committee together some time this month.

First Lumber Cargoes Reach Port of Stockton

The first lumber shipments by water to arrive at the Port of Stockton will be on the steamer Daisy Gray, carrying half a shipload of lumber for Wendling-Nathan Co. of San Ftancis,co, expected to arrive at Stockton February 2, and on the McCormick Steamship Company's steamer Peter Helms, expected to arrive February 9 with general cargo and lumber for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

The lumber from both these ships will be distributed partly in Stockton and partly by truck to a number of Valley points.

Will Hear About Snakes

Dr. W. W. Cross of Oakland will be the speaker of the evening at the next monthly dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 to be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, February 13 at 6:09 p.m.

Larue Woodson, entertainment committee chairman, says the doctor's talk will be a most interesting one, entitled: "Venomous Snakes of the World", and it will be illustrated with slides showing closeups of the.dangerous reptiles.

Music will be provided by an orchestra from the Oakland Industrial Home for the Blind.

All lumbermen are welcomed at these get-together meetings. Dinner price is 85 ,cents a plate.

CALIFORNIA

Wholcsale Lumber Association

San Francirco Office: 260 Cdifonia St

F. J. Otonnor, Prcr. ud Gcn. Mgr. - Phonc GArfiold 56lS

Lor Angeler Office: Petroleura Secrritier Bldg.

M. S. Lopcr, Dirtrict Mrnrgcr - Phonc PRorpcct 27lXl

MEMBERS

W. R. ChubcrliD & Cc ........................!lu Fnndro ud t oe Allclcr

Go Bay Lmbcr Co. ,,....,.Su Fnncfuco tDd Ld An3clcr

Dmm Lubcr Co .........,S4n Fnncirrc end Lc Anrdol

Eagtcn & lVertcn L'-ber Co........,.............Port|,ud ud Sen Fnncbco

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Alvin N. bftrcr ........ ........!trn Frudrco

MrcDoald & Harrington ...,.Sa1 Fnncirco.ld Lo. Anldcr

A. F. Mrhmy Lunbcr Co. ."...Su Fnncfrco

Chu R. McGmlck Lmbcr Cq ..,...........,!h! Frucirco ud Ld ADscL.

t1/. J. M-lligu & Co. ..,..,..,. .llea FmLo

Chula Neln Co. ......,...... Su Fmis ud Id eafrfcr

Pamim Lubcr Co .........,SuFnncf*o

Sute Fc Lumbcr Co. ......,....Su Frudrco

Suddon & CbrLteuor ,.,....,!h! Fmciro ud La erfaor

Wcadli4-Natf,u Cc ........,..............,.,,Sen FnrcLco dd Ld A4dr

R. O. llrilm & Sm .......,.. Sal Frucirco

E. K. Wod Lmbcr Co. .....SuFnndro.Dd|.dAnrrlr

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Blc&Lltcoro Lubcr Millr .,.Lor A4lclc.

Brookr Lubcr Co ,.,,........ ..It ArSoLr

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E. L Rcttz Copary ....'.....'.'Lc Aryrlo

Tam Lmbcr Salcr A3ency ........Tuom4 ud Lor Antclcl

Trohy Lunbc Cq .,.........., ...LdA!t.h.

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Polcon Lumbcr a Shingle Co. Hoquien, Vefr.

Andenon a Middl*on Lunbcr Co. Abctdcco, Vr&.

Prcuty Lumber & Box Comprny lTarrcnton, Orcaon

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Good Hotel Regional Secretaries and Managers

When a friend says: "It's a good hotel", the recommendation ,covers just about all the questions that mi$ht be asked. Many lumbermen who visit San Francisco frequently have made that remark about the Hotel Wiltshire, whose advertisement appears on another page of this issue.

to be on N. L. M. A. Directorate

Washington, Jan. ll.-One of the significant amendments to the By-Laws of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, made at its Directors' meeting in December, will make eligible to the Board of Directors the Secretaries and Managers of the affiliated associations of lumber manufacturers. Wilson Compton, in personally submitting recommendation for this provision and urging its approval asked: "'What men in the industry are in fact capable of making more constructive contribution to the planning, guiding and carrying out of the national industry policies and activities than men like Mason, -Greeley, Berckes, Swan and Townsend. This provision would, it is true, change a policy of a quarter century in the Association. But it is a justifiable and desirable change." The favorable response of industry leaders was indicated in the unanimous approval of this arrangement.

Uninn Square, San Francisco, Showing Location ol Hotd Viltshire

The hotel is situated at 3,10 Stockton Street, San Francisco, just off Union Square. The building is strictly fireproof. Every room has both tub and shower, and the rates, which are most reasonable, include free garage.

McCormick President Res|gns

Following :a meeting of the board of directors of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., and the McCormick Steamship Co., in San Francisco, January 16, it was announced that Sidney M. Hauptman had resigned as president of the two companies. , i ; Offi."r. of the two companies elected were as Ioilo*", George A. Pope, ,chairman of the board; A. G. Harms, first ;vice president; C. E. Helms, vice president, and James S. Brown, secretary and treasurer.

Charles L. Wheeler was re-elected vice president and general manager of the McCormick steamship Co.

Work on Yolo Bridge Proceedg at Fast Pace

Worlt is proceeding at a fast pace on the widening of the causeway across the Yolo bypass on the State Highway. The contractors claim some new records in bridge iconstruction of this type, one of which is setting in place 'in one day LL2,34l feet of structural Redwood, and another ,the driving of 138 Redwood piles in a day.

. More than 5,500,000 feet of structural Redwood and 150,i000 lineal feet of Redwood piling will be used in the job. The Hammond Lumber Co. took the order for the material and apportioned it among several other Redwood'mills.

Among other revisions in the By-Laws to conform rvith the new plan of organization approved at the Executive Committee meeting in November was change in the Standing Committees of the Association by which a Committee on Building Codes represents the National Association activities whereas other functions of the National Lumber trade extension are now taken over by the American Forest Products Industries, Inc. The Advisory Tax Committee is changed to the Committee on Taxation and Tariffs. Mer: ger was effected of the Economic Research Committee with that on Statistics and Accounting, under the name Committee on Economics and hldustry Planning.

Transfer Yard Managers

D. A. Hicks, formerly manager of the Lumber & Supply Company yard at Firebaugh, Calif., has been transferr€d to the company's yard at Dos Palos, Calif., where he will act as manager. V. B. Pyke, who has been manager of the Dos Palos yard for the past two years, has been transferred to the management of the company's yard at Los Banos, Calif.

John Nolan

John Nolan, father of Albert J. Nolan, Western sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco; died in San Francisco, January 16.

Mr. Nolan, who was 73, was a native of Ireland, and was superintendent of Calvary Cemetery, San Francisco, up to the time of the fire in 1906, and was later superintendent of the Holy Cross Cemetery until his retirernent 10 years ago. He was also survived by i,nother son, Thomas M. Nolan, and two daughters, Miss Eleanor Nolan and Mrs. Charlotte Ford.

TOURS REDWOOD MILLS

C. H. Griffen, general manager of the California Redwood Association, returned to San Francisco, january 13 from a trip on which he visited the member mills of the Association.

Charles P. Curran

Lumberman and Businesr

Leader Dies Suddenly

Charles P. Curran, prominent Southern California retail lumberman, pioneer business man and civic worker of Pomona, Calif., passed away suddenly at his home in Pomona shortly before noon on Friday, January 20, frorn a heart attack. Prior to his death, he had suffered from a cold for a few days from which he was recuperating. He was 69 years of age.

Mr. Curran was born in Dixon, Ill., on May 4, 1863. He came to California forty years ago, and for the past thirty years he resided in Pomona where he established the retail lumber business of Curran Bros.. Inc.. of which he was president until his death. He was also president of the Home Builders' Loan Association of Pomona. and a director of the First National Bank of Pomona, Pomona Pump Company, and the Pomona Valley Community Hospital.

F'or the past ten years he served as president of the Los Angeles County Fair, having been elected to this position in 1922, and retained the office until he expired. He always took an active interest in lumber affairs and was a director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. He was a member of the Elks, Knights of Pythias, and the Rotary Club.

He is survived by his rvidow; two sons, Phillip J. Curran and Gerald V. Curran, rvho were associated with their father in the lumber business; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Zella Taut of Pomona, and a stepson, Raymond Ager of Pasadena; two brothers, Frank Curran, manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. yard at Los Angeles, and James Curran, of the Bakersfield Sandstone Brick Co.. Bakersfield. and a sister. Mrs. John McGrath, of Polo, Ill.

Funeral services were held at Pomona, Tuesday morning, January 24, and a large representation of Southern California lumbermen were in attendance.

Four Cement Companies Will Merge

Announcement rvas recently made in San Francisco that four leading cement companies in Northern California will form a merger, and that negotiations for the consolidation have been tentatively completed. The merger rvill create a new $20,000,000 corporation. Headquarters will be in San Francisco.

The four companies are Santa Cruz Cement Co., Pacific Portland Cement Co., Calaveras Cement Co., and Yosemite Portland Cement Co., all of which have their head offices in San Francisco.

Forest Products Industries Show

Decline in Wage Earners

Washington, Jan. 15.-The forest products group of industries (as classified by the Census Bureau) which held fourth place in 1929 in number of wage-earners in the list of fifteen big manufacturing industry groups, dropped to fifth place in l93l and from fifth to seventh place in amount of wages paid, according to an analysis of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The forest products industries show greater decline in number of wage-earners and in wages paid than do any other of the fifteen groups. In 1929, this group reported 876,383 wage-earners; in 1931, 512,21I, a loss of 42 per cent. In 1929, it paid $939,382,973 in wages; in 1931, fi444,757,474, a loss of 53 per cent.

Number of Wage-Earners

The four manufacturing groups which exceeded forest products in number of wage-earners in 1931 were "food and kindred products", "textiles and their products", "machinery" and "iron and steel and their products". These showed loss in number of wage-earners of 14 per cent, 18 per cent, 37 per cent and 32 per,cent, respectively, as compared with t9D.

Of the 15 groups, seven lost from 12 to l8 per cent in number of wage-earners in 1931 as compared with 1929; six from 32 to 37 per cent. Forest products lost 42 per cent; railroad repair shops, 22 per cent. The food, leather, and printing and publishing groups showed smallest losses; forest products, machinery, and transportation equipment, the greatest, as compared with 19D.

Wages Paid

In wages paid, forest products in 1931, reported loss of 53 per cent as compared with 1929; the machinery group, loss of 52 per cent; transportation equipment, loss of 50 per cent. The food, printing, and petroleum and coal groups dropped only 16 to 2O per cent. The other nine groups lost from 26 to 49 per cent from their 1929 records.

In value of products, the forest products group is ninth on the list in 1931 with $1,669,6@,334. This is 54 per cent below similar figure in 1929, when the rank of the group among the fifteen rvas also ninth in this value.

Elected State Asg'n Director

W. F. Hayward, Pacific Manufacturing Calif., has been elected a director of the Lumbermen's Association. He succeeds Hubbard of San Tose.

Co., Santa Clara, California Retail the late A. L.

Buys Aberdeen Plant

Hendricks & Nelson Plywood Co. re,cently purchased the holdings of the Consolidated Plywood Co., Aberdeen, Wash. They are using spruce, fir, alder and cottonwood in the manufacture of box sides, tops, veneer and furniture lumber.

Charles P. Curran

I , ln submrttrp$ thrs pteasrrg nome plan or modernlzecl [nE!rsh desrgn Foryo,r. constderatron you cannot help but admrre [he many pracbrcil teaL,rres rncluded in b"bh [t'. extenor a Floor plan arranqements and rn addrtron the"r"e rs suffircrent space rn attrc For t-o or more r00m.'.

Lumbermen's

Outlines Obiectives of the New Plan of Industry Organization

Following is a letter to the lumber press from Wilson Compton in which he outlines the present status and objectives of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

"In the public a'ccounts of the formation, effective January 1st, of the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., to handle the national lumber and timber products promotion work and other activities, there have appeared, especially in the Daily Press, certain statements which were not authentic, were not authorized by the office of the American Forest Products Industries, and are subject to misconstruction.

The American Forest Products Industries, Inc., as its name implies, and as was plainly stated in the authorized public account, is an industry association, or an association of industries.

"Its primary functions are three :

First: To conduct a national lumber and timber products promotion campaign, including activities in research, engineering and mer'chandising.

Second: To give the forest products industries the permanent means of collective self-representation in public and industry matters.

Third: To seek the efficient correlation of the associated activities of the various primary forest products industries, including timber owners, producers and distributors of lumber and timber products.

"The American Forest Produ'cts Industries, Inc., is not now engaged, nor does it expect itself to be engaged, in the fabrication of lumber, especially into small homes, nor in the financing of home building. It is, however, engaged, and will probably so 'continue, in the effort to secure the establishment through affiliated or cooperating agencies of the means of accomplishing these two purposes. By its formally authorized organization plan, it will seek within the group of forcst products industries the establishment of companies, or groups of companies, which will furnish small houses in complete units, partially or completely fabricated, and distributed through licensed retail lumber dealers.

"As indicated in the authorized public statement of its organization and objectives, it expects, in ,cooperation with home finance agen'cies, supplemented by the expe,cted facilities of the Home Loan Bank system, to make available low cost financing of low cost small homes. This, of course, will be done through existing agen'cies for home finance, or through such additional agen,cies as may from time to time be developed, and not directly by the American Forest Products Industries, Inc.

"Much and perhaps most of the service which this new organization will give to the forest produt-ts industries depends not on what it may itself do directly, but upon what it may be instrumental in stimulating and enabling indi-

vidual mannfacturers and distributors, or logical groups of rnanufacturers and distributors, to do in their orrr'n behalf, for the purpose ol capitalizing the results of organized industry resear,ch and promotion. These developrnents will take time. The important fact is that the industry has now adopted a forward looking plan into which the industry will gradually grow, as its conditions and facilities will permit, in place of a backward plan which, by reason of modern and competitive conditions, the industry was gradually growing out of.

"This new plan, widely considered during the recent months among the leading lumber and timber products industries in all regions and formally Spproved within the last month and effective January 1st, is essentially in three. parts :

First: The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, which will continue as heretofore the national lumber industry activities and representation, not including promotion and research.

Second: American Forest Products Industries. Inc., the functions of which are stated above.

Third: The Wood Research Trust, Inc., an authorized project not yet undertaken and not expected to be undertaken until the plans with respect to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and the American Forest Products Industries, Inc., have been more completely established. Its activities when undertaken will be solely in fundamental wood products ' research.

"The first of these three is expected to have as heretofore the general support of timber owners and lumber manufacturers, preferably through affiliated regional associations, at a rate of dues of. Il cents per M feet on shipments.

"The second is expected eventually to have the support of those timber owners, and manufacturers of lumber, timber and wood products, also exporters and distributors, either individually or through affiliated organizations, who are substantially interested in the protection and extension of markets.

"The third activity when established is expected to have the financial support only of a,comparatively small number of substantial timber owners and manufacturers interested in the possibilities of permanent operation and interested in research as a means of extending the profitable income sources of timber conversion.

"For economy, and to make each dollar count for the most, the administration of these activities will of course be unified.

"Because of the widespread interest evident throughout the lumber trade and the wood-using industries in the present status and the objectives of the new plan of indtrstry organization, we wish you to have these facts.

Redwood Arr'n. Hold Annual Meeting

L. C. Hammond

Re-elect ed. Pr esid. ent

L. C. Hammond, vice president and general manager of the Hammond Lumber Co., was re-elected president of the California Redwood Association at the annual meeting of this organization held in San Francisco, January 24.

A. S. Murphy, executive president of The Pacific Lumber Co., was re-elected vice president, and the following in addition to the officers named, were re-elected directors: ' Otis R. Johnson, Union Lumber Co.; Fred V. Holmes, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., and Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.

C. H. Griffen, Jr., was re-elected general manager, and J. W. Williams secretary.

The executive committee was appointed as follows: H. P. Plummer, IJnion Lumber Co.; Herb Klass, The Pacific Lumber Co., and Geo. W. Gorman, Hammond Lumber Co.

Joins Western Pine Arr'n.

Tahoe Sugar Pine Lumber Co., which recently completed its new sawmill at Graniteville, Calif., has become a member of the Western Pine Association.

Emmett L. Marsh is president of this company, which has offices in the Monadnock Building, San Francisco. The company expects to start operation in the early spring and will cut about 10,000,000 feet, mostly sugar pine, this season. Their planing mill will be located at Emigrant Gap, about 20 miles from the mill, and will be built in March.

L. V. Graham Resigns

L. V. Graham, g'eneral sales manager Lumber Co., has resigned. Mr. Graham nounced his future plans.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

PLANERS and MATCHERS

1 American No. 77, d'x15" with profile, 8 knives.

1 American No. 77, d'x19" without profiler S knives.

1 Voods Timber Planer, 24"x9O".

2rO H.P. Corliss Engine.

I B. & W. Boiler, 150 H.P., 150 lbs. steam.

1 63 Tube Boiler, 4"xl6"r 1oo H.P., 125lbs. steam.

2 Vorthington Pumps, S7ater Fleater and Smoke Stack. And other planing mill machinery.

POPE & TALBOT

Mill, 3rd and King Sts.

GArfield s500 San Francisco

of the Pickering has not yet an-

\(/estern Pine Annual

The annual meeting of the will be held in Portland. Ore., Western Pine Association March 16 and 17.

RECOVERS FROM FLU

C. E. Helms, vice president, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his desk January 26 after an absence of several days, due to an attack of flu.

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EXECUTIVE-MANAGER

Lumberman open for a position with progressive lumber company rvhere responsibility and initiative are essential. Fifteen years practical experience in the logging, manufacturing, wholesale and retail ends of the business. At present employed, and for the past ten years have been manager and in ,charge of sales of a large wholesale and retail yard in California. Will go any place and would consider position in the Orient, Central or South American countries. Address Box C-47O, California Lumber Merchant.

YARD MANAGER

For small Southern California manager in Southern California. California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED yard with experience as Address Box C-471. care

S. M. HAUPTMAN IN HOSPITAL

Sidney M. Hauptman, who resigned recently as president of the Chas. R. McCormi'ck Lumber Co., San Francisco, is suffering from illness and is at present in the Mills Hospital, San Mateo.

REDWOOD SALESMAN VISITS S. F.

Frank H. Campbell, of the Eastern sales organization of. The Pacific Lumber Company, is spending two weeks in San Francisco, visiting the company's home office. He made the trip from his Chicago headquarters to the Coast by automobile and was a,ccompanied by Mrs. Campbell.

FIRE DAMAGES HARDWOOD YARD

Several sheds containing stocks of hardwood lumber at the yard of E.J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, were destroyed by a fire that started shortly after midnight on the morning of January 24. The company reports they still have ample stocks of hardwoods on hand and that business will go o11 as usual.

LUMBER SAITESMAN IN HOSPITAL

Geo. W. Robinson, formerly salesman in the San Joaquin Valley for the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., recently entered the U. S. Veterans Hospital, Livermore, for treatment. George will be glad to receive visits from his friends any afternoon in,cluding Sunday from three to five.

T. B. LAWRENCE VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

T. B. Larvrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a recent San Fran,cisco visitor where he spent a few days on business. Mrs. Lawrence accompanied him on the trip.

WANTED

Redwood or White Pine connection for Ohio territory requiring full and exclusive time. Have been exclusive Cypress salesman in Ohio many years for large Cypress manufacturer. For obvious reasons would. prefer change from Cypress to Redwood or White Pine. Address Box C-469, The California Lumber Mer,chant.

POSITION WANTED

As Manager, Branch Manager, General Manager, or Salesman, by married man in his forties, thoroughly experienced in all branches of the lumber business. Has been general manager for years and now finds himself in the market for a position due to a consolidation. Address Box C-467, The California Lumber Merchant.

WANTS OFFICE POSITION

Young man with several years' lumber experience in Los Angeles office wants position. Expert stenographer and typist and familiar with all kinds of office work. Can furnish refeiences. 26 years of age. Address Box G463, care California Lumber Merchant.

W. R. CHAMBERLIN VISITS LOS ANGELES

W. R. Chamberlin, president of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, returned'January 23 f.rom a 10-day visit to the company's Los Angeles office.

BACK FROM BUSINESS TRIP

A. S. Murphy, executive president of The Pacific ber Company, San Francisco, has returned from a business visit to Arizona and Los Angeles.

LUMBER STEAMER AGROUND

Lumweek's

The steamer Tiverton of San Francisco, owned by the Hammond Lumber Company went aground at Eureka January 20, and was believed by her owners as likely to be a total loss. The Tiverton was a 336-ton ship built at Hoquiam, Wash., in 1906.

A. C. HORNE,R VISITS ARIZONA

A. C. Horner, San Fran,cisco, manager of the Western office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, returned January 13 from a 1O day trip to Arizona. He went to Tucson at the request of the retail lumber dealers of that city to investigate some adverse legislation which had been proposed. As a result of his conference with the dealers the proposed changes in the building code were made in a manner satisfactory to all con,cerned.

Mr. Horner also met with the retailers in Phoenix for a continuation of the discussion of building code problems and other proposed legislation.

A MANSION OR A COTTAGE FROM THESE SIMPLE PIECES

(A) JoistHeaders. (B) Stud Plates or Sills. (C) Rafter Plate-Half Round. (D) Floor and Ceiling Joists. (E) Studs. (F)'Window and Door Header. (G) Gable and DormerStuds. (H) Rafters.

(I) Hip Jack Rafters. (J) Valley Jack Rafters. (K) Bridging.

(Lr) Fire Stop-Square End.

(L2) Fire Stop-Mitered. (M) Fillet. (N) Square End Board Stock. (O) Diagonal End Sheathing.

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B. Almost limitless number of pitches and spans with nine rafter lengths.

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