The California Lumber Merchant - February 1940

JackDionne ,Publisher

Vhen you call a Noyo representative you get ACTION. For Noyo is Chief of a bunch of "Good Indians" all in the same "tribe"-all with a single purpose-to keep true "Once a Noyo DealerAlways."

UNION TUMBEN COMPANY

Where Quality Sfarfs

From extensive virgin forests in the region noted for growth of soft, even textured plne, comes the "Pcul Bunycrr" product. Soft Ponderosq crnd Sugcr Pine cut by selective logging. Milled, kilnseqsoned ond remcsrufqctured. under yeqr round production.

Red River ships complete cssortments of industricl crrd building items. Stroight ccrs or mixed cars.

Givesmore YEARAGE" Sells more FOOTAGE

Redwood siding and outside trim make ideal "raiment" for the modern home. Always in style-takes and holds paint longer-keeps its' "schoolgirl complexion." Stands the gaff of sun, rain and time. Palco Redwood Siding, like all Palco Redwood Products, is Redwood at its best. Sell the extra "yearage" of Redwood-replenish your stocks with Palco Redwood.

Spasors of tbe Dnablc Voods Institntc

REDWOOD HEADOUARTERS

Sudden fE Ghristenson

Lunbcr end Shlpplng

7th Floor. Alaska-Commercial Bldg., AGBNTS

Ancdcrn Mill C.o.

Hoquirm Lumber & Shinglc Co.

Hutbct Mill Co.

Withpr Hrtbor Lumber Miltr

LOS ANGELES

6lo Board of Trade Bldg

3lO Sansome Street, San Francisco STEAMERS

Abcd..o, V..h. Ryder Henify Hoquiem, werh. Dorothy Cebilt

Abcrd..a, WuL Jane Chrirtcoron

Ihymond. VerL Charlcr Chrircnro

Brench Oficcr: SEATTLE

National Banl of Commcrcc Bldg.

WATERBORNE SHIPMENTS GAIN

Seattle, January 23, lg40-The Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau today reported. a N.2 per cent gain in waterborne lumber shipments last year compared with 1938, for Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.

Washington shipments aggregated 1,463,563,881 board feet; Oregon's 1,183,267,44O1. British Columbia's 1,W,O52,113, a total of 4,055,883,434 feet.

MOVES TO NEW LOCATION

Glendale Mill Co. has moved to 3053 Treadwell street, Los Angeles. The plant was formerly located in Glendale. George A. Frankel is owner.

Annie Ctrirtcnron

Edwin Chri*cnro[

Catherinc G. Suddcr

Eleanor Chrirccoro

PORTLAND

2OO Hcnry Bldg.

LARUE WOODSON RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST

Larue Woodson, San Francisco, in charge of sales for Wheeler Osgood Sales Corp. in California, Arizona and Nevada, returned January 12 from a week's trip to Tacoma. He reports that the company's mill is running full time on doors and plywood.

WM. M. GUNTON CALIFORNIA VISITOR

Wm. M. Gunton, of Chicago, retired lumberman, is visiting his son, Howard M. Gunton, of MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco. Mr. Gunton has made many trips to the Pacific Coast and has a considerable acquaintance among lumbermen in this area.

OUR ADVERTISERS

FIalI, James L.--------------------

Flammond Redwood Co.------------------

Flarbor Plywood Corporation

Hill & Morton, fnc.----------------

Hobbs Vall Lumber Co..------------------------------- 7

Flogan Lumber Co.------------------

Hoover, A. L.--------------

Insulite Company, The.----------------------------------- t

Janin Lumber Co., Roy M.

Johneon Lumber Corpotation, C. D. ---------- 27

Koehl & Son, fnc., John \ff.---------------------------.29

Kuhl Lumber C,o., Carl }r..------------------

Lamon-Bonnington Company ----------------------- 24

Lawrence'Philipr Lumber Company -------------15

Lumbermentr Ctedit Araociation.------------------- |

Macklanburg.Duncan Co.

Marir Plywood Corporation---

Marshall, Inc., John E.-------------------

Michigan.California Lumber C-o.---------.--------*

Monolith Portland Cement Company.----------*

Moore Dry Kiln Co.--- ---- ---------25

National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Arcociation

I. E. MANTIN McncgbgEditor

W. T. BI.ACT Advertiring

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Bulblen Was Pioneer

A. J. Hetherington Har New Connection in Making

Fir Front Doors

Remodeling of their plant, installation of a new dryer and other improvements, with the increase of their plyr,vood production, has put Buffelen Lumber & Mfg. Co., Tacoma, in fine shape to furnish mixed cars of house doors, front doors and plyu'ood, according to J. Z.(Joe)Todd of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, distributors of Bufielen doors and plyrvood in Northern California.

Mr. Todd recalls the interesting fact that Bufielen Lumber & Mfg. Co. was a pioneer in the production of stock Fir front doors, an important step in the progress of the Fir door industry.

The Buffelen plant is working to capacity and is now employing more men than at any time in the last 10 years.

Western Door & Sash Co. has a complete set of large pictures of Buffelen front doors, rvith description and layout, which they will be glad to send to any dealer on request.

NEW YARD IN LODI

A new retail lumber yard has been opened in Lodi, Calif., by Lodi Lumber Co., Henry Bertsch is manager. Ife was with the old Lodi Lumber Co., which was purchased some years ago by The Diamond Match Co.

LARGEST GOVERNMENT BUILDING

The largest office building in the world devoted to Government uses is the new Interior Department Building in Washington.

A. J. (Red) Hetherington will be associated with J. J. Rea of Los Angeles as of Februarv 1 as salesman calling on the trade in the interests of the A. B. Johnson Lumber Co., agent for the Grays Harbor Lumber Co., lloquiam, Wash., Wilson Bros. & Co., Aberdeen, \Arash., and E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash.; Arcata Redwood Co., Arcata, Calif., and Eclipse Mill Co., Everett, Wash.

A. B. Johnson Lumber Co. operates trvo steamers, "Esther Johnson" and "Davenport," giving trvo weeks' service from Grays Harbor. Mr. Rea is Southern California representative for the above mills.

MADE BUSINESS TRIP

Henry M. Hink, vice-president and sales manager, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned January 22 from a 10-day business trip to Southern California.

CALLS ON SAWMILLS

Jas. E. (Jimmy) Atkinson of Atkinson-Stutz Co., wholesale lumber dealers, San Francisco, is in the Northwest calling on the company's sawmill connections. He will confer with Hal Ewart, Northwest representative, in Portland, and'expects to be back about February 5.

VISITS SOUTHLAND

George Burnett, Burnett Lumber Company, Tulare, spent a few days in Los Angeles last week.

McacEer

Eighth Annual Reveille to be Held in Oakfand Febru ary 12-13

The Eighth Annual Reveille of Central and Northern California Lumbermen, sponsored by East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club No. 39 will be held on Friday, April 12, at H,otel Oakland, Oakland. The annual golf tournament will be held on Saturday, April 13.

Henry M. Hink, vice-president of Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been appointed general chairman.

The following committee chairmen have been named by Mr. Hink: Finance-Tom Branson, Melrose Lumber & Mill Co., Oakland; Entertainment-Lewis A. Godard, Hobbs Wall Lumber Co., San Francisco; GolfE. J. LaFranchi, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland; Publicity- Wm. Chatham, Jr., Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; Banquet-H. "Abe" Lincoln, Jr., Lincoln Lumber, Inc., Oakland; Programs and Posters-Don Coveney, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland; Ticket Sales-A. D. Williamson, Calif'ornia Builders Supply Co., Oakland.

Carl R. Moore is general secretary. The committee chairmen have already chosen their separate committees and all are functioning with the single aim of making this Reveille bigger and better if possible than the seten previous ones.

ON BUSINESS TRIP

Dale Fischer, sales manager of Fischer Lumber Co., Marcola, Ore., was i.n San Francisco and Los Angeles in the early part of January on business for his firm.

Sash and Door \Tholeralerg Hold Golf Tournrment

Wesley Shrimp was the winner of the Earl Galbraith cup for members with a net score oL 73 at the golf tournament of the Wholesale Sash and Door Association of Southern California at the Altadena Golf Club, Pasadena, Thursday afternoon, January 18. The Bill Sampson cup for the guests was won by Kenneth Lynch with a net score of 65.

The low gross score for the day went to M. B' "Spud" Jordan with a 76, the prize being golf balls. Bob Saucke came the closest to the cup on the No. 5 green on the pitch shot from the tee and was awarded a weather coat-his ball landed 65 inches from the cup.

Blind bogey prizes were won by Ed Bauer, Charlie Cheeseman and Carl Sischo.

Dinner was served in the Club House at 7:OO p.m. after which the prizes were awarded by Pick Maule, master of ceremonies. Among the guests introduced were LeRoy Stanton, Joe Tardy, H. J. Barrington, Al Lichtig and Andy Campbell. Orrin Wright, who looks after the finances at the tournaments, was given a big round of applause for the efificient manner in which he handles the job. Card games were enjoyed for the balance of the evening.

This was the eleventh golf tournament sponsored by the Association and it brought out the largest turnout, 46 played golf and 6O were present for dinner. Pick Maule and Marshall Deats acted as chairmen, and Secretary Earl Galbraith was on hand to arrange the foursomes.

Into

my heart a wind that

kills, From yon far country blows, What are those blue-remembered hills?

What farms, what spires are those? That is the Land of Lost Content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went, But cannot go again. -!lgussgr3n.

Cicero said that the sum of all human success is honor. love, obediencg and troops of friends.

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Beggars are always asking for cash or goods-seldom for opportunity. Yet by so asking they catalogue themselves; for opportunity is all a really worth while man wants.

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The wise man sucks the orange of life dty, "o that when Death comes he can say to the Dark Angel: ..ffelp yourself to the leavings ! Whatever was good, I've had !"

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Some wag has said that to get into Heaven you have to be good, and you have to be dead; but to get into society you don't have to be good, and you only have to be dead, mentally.

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Zangwill once remarked that Scotland had produced three terrible commodities; Scotch humor, Scotch religion, and Scotch whiskey. I can't go along with him on that insulting remark to my Scotch friends. I love Scotch stories, which covers the first; I have a lot of friends who love Scotch whiskey, which covers the third; and let me see-Oh, yes; there's stilt that second to be accounted for. !F ,N. {.

And then, of course, there's the messiest thing in the world; a Chinaman trying to eat a pink grapefruit with two chopsticks.

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During the panic of 1893 a Scotchman named. Andrew rnegie approached a group of bankers in an Eastern city and asked for a loan of one million dollars, quick. They were aghast at the nerve of him. "Such a loan is unpre-

tcedented," they said. An{ thq,scot who got $1.20 a week for six l2.hour days the {rsg\ar of his business career, replied, "I am a man whold6es ilnprecedented things." He got the loan.

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Yes, friends, I hate to relate the fact in these social security days, but Andrew Carnegie was a product of the "sweat shops." He got $1.20 a week the first year he worked, but they raised him to $2 a week the second year. And the long hours\and sweat shop conditions so killed his soul that he tivef gr€rte away more money to help mankind than any o{lfer man in the history of the world. Yep, the sweat shops ruined Andy. *{<*

Just about like they did Thomas Edison. Can you name a man who has done more for civilization than Edison? Try to! He got no educ{tiovpr/?i.Jr*ed life as a newsboy, working long hour{ a9l resting short ones. He became the best newsboy bdund Detroit. And he became the greatest inventor of all time; or at least since the time of old John Stonehatchet.

John Stonehatchet lived in the Stone Age, when everyone who tilled the soil broke the ground with a crooked stick. One day some neighbors came along and there was old John with a new invention of his own. He had made an improvised plow outlof a hewn hardwood log, and was breaking an acre a day {y making a wild bull pull it. And the good New Dealers $ tha3dy shook their heads sorrowfully, and said: "Thelb/ad-blamed new inventions will be the death of us; there's too many men unemployed now.tt

I'm no defender of sweat shops. They have no place in civilization. But I AM concerned as to what our next generation will be if the conditions that developed most all of our great men of the past, cease to exist. For history drills inescapably into the mind of every man who reads, THIS fact, that all the really great men who have blessed the world with the results of their lives, started /oungr worked long and hard for little pay, and built themselves big.the hard way. I don't believe we are going to build any Andrew Carnegies, or Thomas Edisons, or Abraham

Lincolns, the easy way. I don't think we're going to do it. And it was building QUALITY the hard way that made this nation what it is. About all you can build the easy way is professional politicians and walking delegates. ***

Every time I hear a roar going up against the Dies Committee which has been investigating un-Americanism in this country, I remember the priceless remark of the late Rev. Sam Jones. Sam said: "When you throw a rock into a pack of hounds, IT'S THE HIT DOG THAT SQUEALS.'1 And if Sam is looking down on this earth today with those keen eyes of his, he will realize that it's the same way yet.

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There are, undoubtedly, various ways to kill a cat. The uncouth guy wants to muss him all up with a club, while the diplomat thinks the best way is to convince the cat that a big dose of chloroform is good for his fleas. When it comes to handling these foreign guys who live in this country but leave their loyalty elsewhere, I must confess that I'm of the cat-and-club type of operators. I'm irl favor of quitting all this monkey business and shipping every single disloyal person to Hell out of this country ! What right have they here? There is no place under the American Flag for disloyalty to the American Constitution ! And on that rock I stand.

We hear and read "o ,rJrr"ti "Jorra national defense these

days, and of the possible dangers of invasion that may be our future lot, that I turn with conviction to a declaration that Abraham Lincoln once made. He was addressing an audience in Illinois many years before the Civil War, when he made this momentous statement. He said that in his opinion, all the combined armies of Europe, even though led by Napoleon, could never make a footprint in the Blue Ridge, or drink from the waters of the Ohio; but that if this nation ever dies'it will be from within, and not from without; it will be suicide and not murder.

I think those fateful -.4, t, i,ir,"orn might well be pondered now. And I recall many years ago hearing the late Senator Joe Bailey, of Texas, one of the most eloquent men that ever lived, quote that statement of Lincoln, and then add: "But I further warn you that if this nation,ever dies, there will be no r€surrection morn; there will be no guardian angel to roll away the rock from our sepulchre door; there will be no Easter Morn for this republic." ***

Try as I will, (and I have been blessed or ctirsed as the case may be with a very vivid imagination) I cannot get up the least bit of a thrill out of possible forceful invasion of this country. But I freely admit that there are things happening INSIDE this country that almost frighten me into a case of screaming meanies.

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Confucius would have said: "All things being equal choose the one with'Oomph' in its service,"

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Let's talk of architecture. Do you know who was the author and founder of the classic type of home architecture in this country? A great man named Thomas Jefferson. He not only wrote the Declaration of Independence and founded the Democratic Party, but architecture was one of his burning hobbies. He it was who built the first massive white houses with classic columns in front. The style spread over Virginia, and then over the South, and later over the nation. And what, pray, is more beautiful than such a house surrounded by plenty of trees and grass? ***

Speaking of home architecture, there is a passage in the Bible that you probably never heard of on that subject, that niight be interesting. Among the instructions the Lord gave to Moses and which he in turn handed to the Israelites as the Mosaic Law, was the following from Deuteronomy, Chapter 22, Yerse 8: "When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence." f offer this to architects., without comment.

The other day Lu"a lrrJ or*o.., present "best seller" books; one that has created a great commotion of late. When I finished I felt like I had been riding through a huge sewer in a leaking boat. It convinced me anew (some popular plays of recent years having first sold me the idea) that in this strange generation in which we are living, any book that is sufiEciently filthy, degenerate, imbecilic, and loaded with crude blasphemy, is certain of success'

A few days ago millions of Americans stopped briefly to pay tribute to the memory of General Robert E. Lee, on the anniversary of his birth, January 18. It is truC that my forebears fought, some bled, and some died, in the Union Army. Yet my unbiased study of the life and character of Robert E. Lee convinces me that he belongs in

the top ranks of the world's truly great. General Grant thought so when he refused Lee' at the end of that great fratricidal strife ended at students of history speak of his almost su character. Strange as it may seem, Robert d Abraham Lincoln remind me a great deal of other. Both had that first and foremost mark of greatness----€ntire lackpf personal ego. Both were liberally endowed with "that slirit that was also in Christ Jesus." Both had such gentleft$s, suct tenderness, such nobility of character, yet such tfimortal courage as is seldom found among mortal men. We honor ourselves when we honor that great genius, Robert Lee. *{<*

I have said that Lincoln and Lee were entirely without egotism. There is an int_gresting study of mankind, right there. In all hisfpty,fo really great man was ever an egotist; and no "g\f was ever truly great. Most of the world's titans died without even suspecting their own immeasurable worth. Even Jesus Christ rebuked His followers when they called Him "good Master," saying, "Call none good save One." Wonder what He would have done had they insisted on calling flim "great"?

Sacramento Valley Hoo-Hoo Will Hold Concatenation and Form Club Feb. 10

Announcement is made by E. S. McBride of Davis Lumber Co., Davis, Calif., Vicegerent Snark for the Sacramento Valley district, that a Hoo-Hoo Concatenation will be held in the Elks Hall, Sacramento, on Saturday afternoon, February 10, at 4 o'clock.

Twenty-five kittens have already been signed up for the initiation ceremony. A large delegation is expected from the San Francisco Bay district, and many old members of the Order from various points in the Valley will be on hand.

Mr. McBride announces further that there will be a dinner in the evening at which Hoo-Hoo Club No. 109 will be organized. The charter for the new club has already been received from Hoo-Hoo headquarters in Minneapolis.

Shevlin Pine Sales Gompany

F.H.A. Housing Shows Incrcase

Washington, Jan. 13.-Federal Housing Administration activities increased about one-third last year over 1938 in new home construction, modernization and total insurance, Administrator Stewart McDonald reported today.

The report showed that 153,496 dwelling units were built under the F. H. A. program, compared with 118,691 the previous year.

Modernization programs were begun for 512,849 old homes at a cost of $233,10O,00O, an increase of 35 per cent over the 52,325 homes and $172,750,000 involved in 1938.

Total home-financing insurance lvritten by the F. H. A. in 1939 amounted to $954,000,000, an increase of 35.5 per cent over the $693,50O,00O written in the previous year.

Mr. McDonald said that about 95 per cent of the new dwelling construction represented single-family units with an average F. H. A. valuation of $5000 or less. Loans on large-scale rental projects amounted to $51,436,625, compared rvith $47,493,15O in 1938.

New Intercoastal Lumber Rates Feb. 15

Rate increases on eastbound intercoastal shipments of lumber, shingles and wood pulp become effective February 15, according to an announcement by Harry S. Brown, chairman bf the Intercoastal Steamship Freight Association. New rates are: Lumber, $15 per 1,00O board feet, a flat $1 increase; shingles, 75 cents per 100 pounds, an increase of 3 cents; woodpulp, 37f cents per 100 pounds, an increase of.2l cents.

Western Retailerc Annual Feb, 22-24

The annual convention of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association and Utah Lumber Dealer's Association will be held at the Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, February 22,23, and 24. The annual Old Guard Dinner will be held Wednesday evening, February 21, and. the business sessions will start Thursday morning, with an address by E. E. LeValley, president of the Western Retail Lumbermen's .Association.

Among the other convention speakers will be Managing Director W. C. Bell; Tom Collins, humorist from Kansas City; Roger Finkbine, Des Moines, Iowa, president, National Retail Lumber Dealers Association; and Ralph W. Carney, Wichita, Kansas, vice-president and sales manager, Coleman Lamp & Stove Co. A splendid entertainment program is being arranged for the ladies attending the convention. The annual dinner dance ivill be held Saturday evening, February 24.

Car Owngrs Far Exceed Home Owners

That there is abundant opportunity for the building industry to expand its activities far beyond present limitations is borne out by the following statistical facts:

Ninety per cent of the families in this country with incomes over $2,00O per year own one or more automobiles, but only 51 per cent of these families own their own homes.

In the income group below the $2,000 a year standard, 60 per cent own automobiles, but orrly 38 per cent own their own homes.

\(/est Coast Lumbermen's Association Holds Annual Meeting In Portland

sources of the industry upon low-cost housing."

Portland, Oregon, January 26, 1940.-"The most important market for lumber during the past two years and the next ten years, in volume and stability, is low-cost housing," Edmund Hayes, president of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association declared today, in opening the afternoon session of the Association's annual meeting at Portland. "What the West Coast lurhber industry would have done in the last two to three Years without this market I cannot venture to guess. The most important thing to be done for lumber is to organize and focus the rethe continuing program of

The morning session of the meeting was restricted to Association business and consideration by the stockholders of i.ndustry problems presented by Chairmen of the Association Committees on Lumber Grades and Inspection, Traffic, and Trade Promotion.

On the afternoon program the features scheduled to follow the President's address were talks on housing by Howard Whipple, vice-president of the Bank of America, San Francisco, and W. C. Bell, managing director of the West' ern Retail Lumbermen's Association and chairman of the Western Homes Foundation, and discussions on foreign trade by J, F. Marias, San Francisco, president of the State Harbor Commission of California, and Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

In the evening a di.nner was tendered by the Association to its stockholders and their guests and to all visiting lumbermen. Speakers at the dinner were Governor Charles A. Sprague of Oregon, E. B. McNaughton, president of the First National Bank of Portland, and John J. Gould, chief engineer of the Golden Gate International Exposition.

The subject of Mr. Hayes' address was "Our Policies, Present and Future." "The most important policy for our Association," he said, "is that of forest conservation and utilization." The industry and its organizations are spending real money on a constructive f'orestry program, Mr. Hayes declared, and to continue it the lumber industry requires markets whereby the bills can be paid. Citing the

losses in West Coast lumber export trade, Mr. Hayes spotlighted housing as the market hope of the industry for the present and future. His address {'ollows, in full:

"It is rather presumptuous for any individual to endeavor to set down his ideas on such a broad subject as this. llowever, with your indulgence I shall make the attempt.

"There are probably no industrial organizations anywhere in the world today which do not have plenty of problems, let alone the nations of which they are an integral part. The lumber industry always has had many complex situations to meet, and today they seem to be pressing on us as never before. It has been and is extremely difficult to formulate and execute policies under such a set of conditions.

"First and foremost, the most important policy for our Association is that of forest conservation and utilization. This is because of our own enlightened self-interest, let alo.ne the tremendous implications of the public relations involved. It is needless to remind you that our standing timber is one of the basic raw materials of the nation. It is more than this in that our forests very materially affect the lives of most of our fellow citizens. Forest fires and insects destroy this resource. The public looks to us as custodians of these forests to carry out a policy of utilization and conservation which will ultimately enhance the wealth and prosperity of the nation.

Starting a number of years back and with considerable impetus during the period of the National Recovery Act, the lumber and logging industries of this region have gone a long way in fire prevention and in leaving sources of seed supply for restocking'cutover lands. Each day larger numbers of operators are giving serious study to placing their holdings under a sustained yield type of management. It is the policy of our Association to further in every way the development of a forestry program that comes to grips with this problem and aids our operators in making practical application of it.

"During the recent Congressional Hearings held in this city o.n a policy for national conservation of our forests, it was shown that a large proportion of the high-grade, merchantable timber in the United States stands in the Pacific Northwest. A very considerable volume of this stand is overripe, and if our people are to get the fullest utilization of this resource it should be harvested as fast as possible in an orderly fashion.

"The consensus of opinion in our Association, cooperating with the Pacific Northwest Loggers Association, seems to be that the i.ndustry is anxious to develop:

1. Further State regulations tending toward a constructive and workable forest policy, based upon methods tested by experience.

2. Increased appropriations under the Clarke-McNary Act for fire protection, which is the very hub of any forestry program.

President Edmund Hcyes eunncrized the problene ol the W€st CoaBt lumber iadustry cnd the work oI lhe Issociotion.

3. A realization on the part of the public and the nation that to make possible a workable forestry program the lumber industry must have markets whereby the bills can be paid.

"Our forestry committee and stafi are giving this subject continuous and concentrated attention. A considerable part of our budget each |ear is spent in this direction and rightfully so. If we wish to endure as an industry, if we are to meet the demands of the nation for a proper handling of the problem, we must give this policy our increasing attention.

"A policy relative to our markets, is, so to speak, the other major activity of our Association. This has many ramifications which I shall endeavor to touch upon.

"Support for low-cost housing in the United States has been the principal objective of our own trade promotion program, together with that of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association which we have quite generously supported. As suggested a few minutes ago, it is not possible to carry on a satisfactory forestry program if our industry lacks maikets and is economically destitute. The most important market for lumber during the past two years and the next ten years, in volume and stability, is lowcost housing. What we would have done in the last two to three years without this market I cannot venture to guess. The most important thing to be done for lumber is to organize and focus the resources of the i,ndustry upon the continuing promotion of low-cost housing. This should include:

l. Demonstration of better designs, cost-savi,ng

method of construction or equipment along the lines successfully developed by the National Small Homes Demonstration. Research should be rprovided, adequate to keep this stream of new designs and ideas in low-cost housing constantly flowing.

2. Cooperation with retail lumber dealers in community home promotion, publicity, home displays, etc., 'along the lines developed by Western Homes Foundation.

A tremendous driving power in organizing, publicizing and leading home building can be created by cooperation of lumber manufacturers with groups of retail dealers, all over the United States-with the purpose of making the retail lumber dealer the leader in home building in his community. This cooperation should be organized, on flexible lines, under the leadership of the particular dealer group. It should bring into play all the resources of the manufacturers, in home demonstrations, publicity, displays of models, etc.,-in accorda.nce with what the responsible dealer groups believe will be most effective in their localities.

New methods of cooperation will constantly be developed. One that should be considered is 50-50 cooperation between manufacturers and dealers in local newspaper advertising-in communities well organized for home promotion and rvith favorable housing and pay roll conditions.

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ANNOUNCEMENT

South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc.

Henry McCleary Timber Co.

Effective February 1,1940, the South Sound Lumbcr Sales, Inc., have been cppointed our exclusiv€ agent3 for McClerry Fir Doorc and Plywood in the Southern Californic market. Prompt service is available for straight or pool crrs. A complete warehouge gtock ol standard items of Doors and Plywood will be maintained at 1610 E. Washington Boulevard.

Henry McCleary Timber Co.

McCl earyt \(/ashington

Effective February 1, 1940, the office of South Sound Lumber Saler, tnc., will be moved to 1610 E. Washington Boulevard. Telephone PRoepect 6183.

George S. Melville

So. Calilornia Rcpresentative

South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc.

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Age not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 years---Some Less

M.ybe Papa Bear \(/as Risht

Once there were three bears, Papa Bear, and Mama Bear, and the Little Bear.

One day Papa Bear sat down in his big armchair to read. But he jumped right up and hollered "Ouch ! There's a tack in that chair !"

That made Mama Bear very curious, so, to make certain that what Papa Bear said was true, she sat down in the big armchair. She, likewise, jumped up and shouted"Ouch ! There IS a tack in that chair !"

JOrNS RED RrVER SALES STAFF

T. A. "Dyke" Dysinger is now with The Red River Lumber Company as outside salesman, working out of their Los Angeles warehouse. His territory is part of Orange County, part of East Los Angeles, and El Monte, Whittier, Arcadia and Monrovia. He formerly sold lumber and millwork in the San Francisco Bay area'

BACK FROM VACATION TRIP

Floyd E,lliott, manag'er of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., and Mrs. Elliott recently returned from a lGday vacation trip made by automobile. They visited Death Valley, Boulder Dam, Roosevelt Dam, Phoenix and Palm Springs. It was their intention to visit Grand Canyon, but they were prevented from doing so by a heavy snowstorm.

ON CENTRAL AMERICAN CRUISE

E. J. (Ed) Pesula of Pesula Lumber Co., Boonville, Calif. is on a cruise to Central American and West Indies points.

Then the Little Bear was very, very curious to discover what it was that made Papa Bear and Mama Bear jump and holler so. So he sat down in the big armchair. And he just sat there and rocked, and smiled, and looked very, very happy.

And then Papa Bear looked at Mama Bear very hard, and said: "What have we got here? ONE OF THE DEAD END KIDS?''

YARD USES VACUUM SWEEPER

Blackman-Anderson Lumber Co., have a good concrete floor in their large main shed at lO25 42nd Avenue, Oakland, and a fine stock of uppers in the shed which has a capacity of 750,000 feet. They keep their floor clean by regular sweeping and in addition go over it and get the dust out of the corners and pockets with a vacuum sweeper. They find that this extra attention keeps their stock bright and clean.

WANTS TO KEEP IN GOOD STANDING

Milford, Nebraska

January 19, Ig40

Kindly credit my account for $2.00 and keep me in good standing. Having real winter here now-32 inches of snow since December 23. Thursday night we had 22 degrees below zero, and last night only 1O degrees below which seemed rather warm. Lumber business at a stand still but coal business good.

Fred H. Yost Yost Bros. Lumber Co.

Dependable Personal Senrice

on every order. We do recogmize our responsibilities towcrd you, our decler foiends.

Oa tla 4ary 2*p

The subject of this brief career sketch, Edwin G. Gallaghsr, is a native of San Francisco. He is the sales representative in Northern California of the Aberdeen Plywood Company, Aberdeen,'Wash., one of the largest producers of Douglas Fir plywood.

Although born in the City by the Golden Gate he was reared in Mendocino County, Calif., attending grammar school in Fort Bragg. He came to Vallejo in 1916 and we.nt to high school there. In 1922 he went north into Washington where he worked in sawmills and logging camps for some time to get some knowledge of the manufacturing end of the lumber business.

Returning to California in the early part of. 1924 he went to work for White Brothers, San Francisco. Here he gained experience in the various departments of the hardwood business and remained with this firm for 13 years, having been purchasing agent for the last three years of that time. He resigned in February, 1937 to become connected with Aberdeen Plywood Company.

In addition to plywood he also sells hardwoods from Southern mills.

Mr. Gallagher was married in 1931 to Miss Dorothy C. Vicin of San Francisco, and they make their home in that city.

He likes the plywood business and is convinced that plywood has a great future. His main hobby is reading and his second choice is baseball.

Seth Butler Adds San Joaquin Territory

Announcement is made by Dant & Russell, Inc., that Seth L. Butler has taken over the San Joaquin Valley territory and is now their exclusive representative in all of California north of the Tehachapi.

M'r. Butler recently returned from a trip to Portland, and last week was accompanied by Thomas Dant of Dant & Russell, Inc., Portland, on a trip over the San Joaquin territory.

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West Coast Annual Meeting

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3. Full exploitation of the "Lowest-Cost Home" and its financing under FHA Title 1, Class 3. This opens up a still wider market for lumber in the housing field. It should be followed up through research, publications featuring effective plans with special emphasis on sound construction; write-ups of successful suburban developments; and cooperative campaigns with dealer groups to whose territory this type of housing is adapted.

The Education of Lumber Salesmen

"Next to the steady promotion of low-cost housing, in fact, as an important part of it, should come the more effective training and stimulation of lumber salesmen-not only salaried employees of manufacturing companies, but lumber wholesalers, commission salesmen, retail lumber dealers and their employees. This all has a vital bearing upon our success in (1) putting the consumer's dollars into home building; and (2) putting the maximum share of those dollars into lumber.

Timber Engineering and Research

"The drive to hold lumber's place in heavy construction must be maintained and intensified, even though the prospective volume is small in relation to home building. The largest markets obtainable for the items of heavy construction are necessary to balance utilization and realization.

"For these lumber markets, the most effective work the industry can do is:

1. To continue the application of the principles of timber engineering through the preparation of standard designs for all types of structures; and

2. To have specific engineering service available for proposed construction of any type-in furnishing designs, arranging for prefabrication, etc.

"Our goal should be to have available the same kind and degree of engineering service that is supplied by competitive materials. This means largely-following through and expanding the engineering service now given by Timber Engineering Company and the trade promotion staffs of the Regional Associations. An important feature is the correlation of available designs for heavy constructionas now done through the auspices of TECO.

"Research in timber engineering must always be kept up by the lumber industry. Of immediate importance is a restudy of mill construction, utilizing all our modern knowledge of timber seasoning, timber joining, ringconnector framing, etc,

"In addition to pressure treatments of timber for greater resistance to decay or combustion, a new field in the application of chemicals to wood, through hygroscopic diffusion, is opening up. This offers significant possibilities as an aid to seasoning, in kiln or air drying, as a means of reducing shrinkage and as a possible technique in combining these features with preservation from decay and greater fire resistance.

"I have endeavored to cover some of the salient matters of policy relative to our domestic markets. The next policy is that covering our foreign markets.

"Foreign trade agreements, preferential duties and wars have burst in, about and over our foreign markets during the past ten years with seemingly one resuft, a constantly shrinking volume. This subject will be exhaustively discussed in these very meetings you are attending; therefore, I will not discuss it at length as I might otherwise do. IIowever, if we are to develop markets broad enough to make possible the utmost utilization of our standing timber and if we are to carry out an adequate fbrest policy, we must regain some of our lost foreign markets.

"The grading of our lumber is an important phase of our market policy. It is absolutely necessary to keep West Coast grades in step with modern market requirements, and protect their standing with the specifier. Few lumber manufacturers realize the importance of this service. In the first place, our inspectors in California, the Midwest and on the Atlantic Coast have constantly protected the market reputation of West Coast lumber by settling complaints, straightening out poor specifications, working with all the specifying agencies, running down fraudulent grade-marking, creating confidence by specifiers and buyers that the Association is an active agency working in the markets for the interest of consumers. I think the general standing and appreciation of West

Lawrenc€-Philips Lurnber Go.

Wholesale

Prompt Shipments by Wcrter or Rail

Irumber Plywood Fir Doors Shingles

Lawrence-Philips Steanrship Go.

Coast lumber and of West Coast lumber grade-marks have been distinctly raised during the past year.

"fn the second place, we are constantly adjusting our product to modern building requirements-so as to maintain a steady flow of West Coast lumber into use. In some cases, we better our grades; in many others, we get the specifier to lower his requirements. The objective is to find a reasonable meeting ground between the lumber manufacturer and the customer. Ifence, last summer, we satisfied the FHA by personal work on the ground that it is unnecessary to impose any drastic moisture content requirements for lumber framing in the three Pacific Coast States. We convinced the FHA that Douglas fir was not getting a fair break in Florida; and they have substantially corrected it.

"On the gther hand, recognizing the predominance of FHA specifications in residential building, our Grading Rules Committee has now adopted a 900 pound stress grade of Douglas fir joists and rafters, 95 per cent of our present No. 2 Dimension. This is the result of months of work with the Forest Products Laboratory and FHA representatives. It is a case of fitting our product to the more technical specifications of the present time. Someone has got to do this for the industry, or lumber will lose out. It is one of the most fundamental services of the Association.

"There are countless other policies and activities of our Association which are vitally important but which time will not permit touching on.

"The work and standing of the West Coast Lumber-

men's Association has immeasurably increased during the past ten years until today it represents 73 per cent of the entire fir industry.

"I wish to take this opportunity of expressing our appreciation to Colonel Greeley and his stafi for their conscientious and never failing efforts to carry into eifect the policies which we formulate. Our Association today is in no small measure a monument to them."

JOHN L. TODD rN ARIZONA

John L. Todd of Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland. and Mrs. Todd left January fr Lor Tucson, Ariz. to spend two months' vacation,

Mr. Todd has made this trip every year for a number of years, and while he goes in for a variety of types of recreation he specializes on golf and usually clips a few strokes off his average.

Asked by a representative of this paper wbat he thought about the prospects for business in 194O, he said he didn't like to do any predicting but that personally he hoped business will be such that the boys would send in lots of orders while he is away.

LUMBER FIRM CHANGES NAME

Tri City Lumber, Company, 625 Camino Real, Hermosa Beach, dissolved as a corporation at the end of its fiscal year 1939, and will continue its business under the name of Learned Lumber Company, a partnership under the same manageme.nt and at the same address.

S. S. DOROTITT PHILIPS_S. S. IOSEPHINE LAWRENCE-€. S. LAWRENCE PHIIJPS

New Fir Plywood Plant Operating

Anacortes Veneer,' Inc. manufacturers of Douglas Fir plywood, recently started operation of their new plant at Anacortes, Wash. H. A. LaPlant is manager. The officers of the company are H. G. Wilson, president; Lyman R. Verhoeff, vice-president, and Theodore Newell, secretarytreasurer. All of the employees are stockholders in the corporation.

The company is a member of the Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Anacortes Plywood Sales Corporation, Anacortes, Wash., F. L. Johnson, president, is handling the sales. The products will be sold under the trade name "Armorbord."

East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club

George Wood, superintendent of Peralta Hospital, Oakland, showed his technicolor film "Behind the Scenes in a Modern Hospital," at the regular dinner meeting of HooHoo Club No. 39, held at Hotel Leamington, Oakland, on Monday evening, January 22. The speaker was introduced by entertainment committee chairman H. "Abe" Lincoln'

Don Coveney, chairman of the Christmas Good Fellowship Fund, gave his report showing that DI "Shares of Happiness" had been subscribed for a total of $437.0O.

President Jim Overcast presided and announced that the eighth annual Reveille of Northern California lumbermen will be held in Oakland on April 12 and. 13, and that Henry M. Hink will be general chairman.

E. S. McBride of Davis, Calif., Vicegerent Snark for Sacramento Valley district, invited members of Club No. 39 to attend the Concatenation to be held in Sacramento on February 10.

New Pabco Roofing Product

Life of certain roofs will be doubled as a result of the invention of a new roofing, according to claims made by the patentees, the Industrial Research Laboratories, Technical Division of The Paraffine Cos., Inc. The new product is Alumi-Shield Roofing, a prepared asphalt roll roofing surf'aced with metallic aluminum.

Years of added service is expected of Alumi-Shield roofing because of its reflective properties. This also gives a plus-value in insulation. The product is the most revolutionary development in the roofing industry in a quarter century, in the opinion of the Industrial Research Laboratories.

A study of the performance of aluminum finishes applied to metals and other surfaces in commercial use convinced Pabco engineers that the reaction of aluminum to intense sunlight and oxidization presented the final step in combatting destructive elements.

Construction of Pabco Alumi-Shield roofing is based on the principles:

1. Asphalt is a permanent substance so long as it is protected from the light of the sun and the oxidizing effects of the atmosphere.

2. Aluminum is impenetrable to light and oxygen.

3. Aluminum will not tarnish when exposed to the air.

John Connolly, Tonopah, Nevada,

Newg Flasheg

owner of the Verdi Lumber Company, was a recent San Francisco visitor.

Guy Smith, Rockport Redrvood a business trip to New York. Co.. San Francisco, is on

Mel Hirsch, Dolan Building Materials Co., Sacramento, spent a feu' days in Los Angeles last month.

J. Harold Peterson, San Diego, was a Los

Peterson Lumber & Finance Co., Angeles visitor on Janaary 26.

Worthing Timber Products, Ltd. Santa Monica, California, has moved mas, Los Angeles.

Inc., formerly at to 853 N. Las Pal-

J. B. Burn, planing mill operator and retail lumberman, has moved ro 4871 San Fernando Road, Los Angeles. He was formerly at 1619 South Alameda Street.

Charles Putman of Colonial San Francisco early last week

I. Cheim, of the Calif., was recently business.

Cedar Co., Seattle, was on Dusrness.

Lumber Company, Marysville, Francisco for a few days on

ln Union in San

T. F. Eckstrom, general manager of Pacific Mutual Door Co. was a recent business visitor to San Francisco and to his company's branch warehouse in Los Angeles.

R. W. "Jack" Dalton of Los Angeles, California sales representative of West Coast Plywood Co., Aberdeen, Wash., rvas in San Francisco last rveek on a business trip.

George Evans, Evans-MacArthur Co., New York City, spent the week of January 15 in Los Angeles. He represents E. J. Stanton & Son and Pacific Wood Products Corporation in the New York territory. He stopped off at Sah Francisco for a few days while enroute to the Northwest.

O. L. Russum, with Shepard & Morse Lumber Co., Boston, now visiting the Pacific Coast, was in San Francisco recently calling on old friends. Hq was a salesman for Charles R. McCormick Lumber Co., in the 1920's, when he covered the Sacramento Vallev territory.

George Meissner, president of Valley Lumber Co. of I-odi, Lodi. Calif., accompanied by Mrs. Meissner, left January 27 f.or Tucson, Ariz. for a month's vacation. Mr. Nleissner took his golf equipment with him and expects to get in a good deal of practice on Tucson courses.

D. J. Young, general manager Corp., Tacoma, visited his firm's uarv 17.

of Wheeler Osgood Sales San Francisco office Tan-

Dealers Cash in on Septic Tank Sales

"Palco Sectional Septic Tanks and Palco Disposal Drain are gaining a decidedly worth while recognition from many Government agencies," said Max E. Cook, director of sales promotion for The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently.

Lumber dealers in the territories concerned have to date supplied over 60O Palco Septic Tanks in varying capacities up to 4,000 gallons to the U. S. Forest Service and National Park Service alone, Mr. Cook said.

A number of these tanks are notv in service on Midrvay Island, having been specified by Army Engineers for the Air Base there.

Tanks are being installed in increasing numbers in Alaska, one installation being as far north as St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Straits, where there is a 3,00O gallon Palco tank serving a nurses' quarters and dispensary in the U. S. Indian Service.

One of the most recent sales of Palco Septic Tanks is that of two straight carloads for the Indian re-settlement project in the Los Angeles watershed in the Owens River Valley, Calif., where some 800 Indians are being moved from sub-marginal lands.

The fact that The Pacific Lumber Company increased its septic tank sales 38 per cent in 1939 over the previous rec-

A typiccl deoler diaplcy. This displcy hqs rold over.200 tcnls oI vqrioug ctrpccities up lo dcte.

ord year is a good i.ndication of the substantial opportunity that exists for lumber dealers to develop some very profitable business in this heretofore neglected field.

t{ATHAN CtlMPAl{Y PIYWOOD

OF OOUGLAS FIR REDWOOD PONDEROSA AND SUGAR PINE CEDAR PRODUCTS POLES & PILING WOLMANIZEO AND CREOSOTEO LUMBER

"Colif. Ponel" is the oldest exclusive Plywood Distributor in the \ifest cnrd is constqntly growing. Such progress ccrn only be mode possible through our policy of ccrrying a well diversified stock crnd rendering on intelligent crnd economicql service to our mcmy Deoler ctrstomers. Our quolity ond service qre "tops" cmd our prices ore competitive. For profits ond reql sqtislqction cqll "Cqlif. Pcrrel" whenever you need plywood.

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TIME TO SPEAK OUT LOUD

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as Truth, and as uncompromising as Justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No ! No ! Tell a man whose house is on nrf to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue hil wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother I q [radually extricate her babe from the fire into which it ha\lkalen-but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest-I will not equivocateI will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.-William Lloyd Garrison.

WHERE MOTHER BELONGS

Lady Politician: "What is home without a mother?"

Male Voice in Audience: "Your baby."

SHEEP BARBERS ON RELIEF

In days of old when nights were cold, It took two feeces frorn the fold

To dress a lady fair.

But in these days ot jazz and bob, A little silkworm does the job With time galore to spare.

DOING THE UNUSUAL

The man who does the usual thing in the usual way is \ buried in a milling herd of humanity. Nothing so lessens competition as originality of endeavor.-Preston M. Nolan.

MAN'S BEST FRIEND

The noblest kind of a dog is a hot-dog, for it not only don't bite the hand that feeds it; it feeds the hand that bites it.

FORWARD OR BACKWARD

He who is silent is forgotten; he who abstains is taken at his word; he who does not advance, falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow greater becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; ttre stationary condition is the beginning of the end.

-Amiel.

TOMORROW HOLDS NO DOUBT FOR ME

I've shut the door on yesterday, its sorrows and mistakes, I've locked within its gloomy walls past failures and heartaches. And now f lnroffre key away to seek another room, and furnish td lyf,h hope and smiles and every spring-time bloom. Nolfsfrt shall enter this abode that has a hint of pain, and n{ther malice nor distrust shall ever therein reign. I've shut the door on yesterday and trhrown away the key, tomorrow holds no doubt for me since I have found today.

YOU GUESS

"My instructor told me I rode as if I were part of the horse."

"Did he tell you which part?"

DELAYED STEAL

Mose: "Boy, whare'd you get dat big razor cut on yo' cheek?"

Sam: "Ah done got dat when ah kissed de bride."

Mose: "But ain't dat de customary thing ter do?"

Sam: "Yeah, but not two mont's after de qreddin'."

UNDER COVER

O, singing bird upon your tree, Your song, your lovely song Is just a trifle over gay, A trifle over strong.

Do you, like me, hold something sad Against your troubled breast, And would you cover it with noise

As I would mine with jest?

-Buena Sowell.

BUT MAINLY, TO THINK

A man's value lies in his ability to think individually and act collectively.-Elbert Hubbard.

SAVING THE SPECS

A Scotsman was leaving on a business trip and he called back as he was going out the door: "Goodbye all, and dinna forget to tak' little Donal's glasses off when he isn't looHng at anything."

Will Carry l7arehouse Stocks of Doors and Plywood

Henry McCleary Timber Company, McCleary, 'Wash., one of the largest and oldest manufacturers of Fir doors and plywood ,in the Pacific Northwest, have announced the appointment of the South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc., as their exclusive representative in the Southern California market effective February l, lg4c..

South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc., have taken over a large rnodern warehouse at 161O East Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, where they will carry a well assorted stock of standard items in Fir doors and plywood for the convenience of their customers,. and prompt service will also be available for straight carlot orders. The Los Angeles office, formerly in the W. M. Garland Bldg., will be moved to the warehouse on February l-the telephone number is PRospect 6183.

South Sound Lumber Sales, Inc., will continue to handle cargo shipments of Fir lumber and Red Cedar shingles into this market. George S. Melville is Southern California representative, and E. L. Nelson is outside salesman. The head offices of the company are in Seattle, Wash.

Lumber Industry Has Fine Display at Oakland Housing Show

One of the outstanding exhibits at the Oakland Housing Exposition, held January N to 28, was the lumber industry exhibit arranged by Wood Products, Inc., and sponsored by the following: Atkinson Mill & Mfg. Co., Oakland; Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; Califor,nia Redwood Association, San Francisco; Clinton Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Hogan Lumber Co., Oakland; La'nnom Bros. Mfg. Co., Oakland; Lincoln Lumber Inc., Oakland; Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda; Matheny Sash & Door Co., Oakland; Oakland Lumber Co., Oakland; Paramount Built-in-Fixture Co., Oakland; Oakland Planing Mill, Oakland; Peerless Built-in-Fixture Co., Berkeley; Piedmont Mill & Lumber Co., Piedmont; San Leandro Mill & Lumber Co., San Leandro; Scammell Lumber Co., Oakland; Smith Lumber Co., Oakland; Tilden Lumber Co.. Berkeley; Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland; Western Pine Association, Portland; E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland; Wood Products, Inc., Oakland; Zenith Mill & Lumber Co.. Oakland.

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'DURO"

Happy 1940 Decade?

By Kenneth Srnith

Secretary-Manager, Lrurnber and Allied Products Institute, Lros Angeles Address Delivered Before

Membership

"I just live from year to year and hope to keep even. If I could get out of the lumber business, I would !"

If you haven't said that, you have heard many others say it. It sums up, unfortunately, the state of mind of a majority of the men who have fought a dismal decade of depression complicated by the astounding ascendency of demagogues and crack-pots.

Reared from childhood and having built a successful business on the old-fashioned virtues of work, thrift and honesty, you have had to take derision and obloquy from hate mongering but high placed theorists who condemn the virtues that builded America and extol the vices of living beyond one's means, working as little as possible or not at all and compromising debts justly due.

BUT, understandable as this attitude of defeatism is, there is no escaping the fact that no business can stand still. If it does not go forward, it will go backward.

The other day Bruce Barton said: "You can be sure of only one thing about tomorrow-IT WILL BE DIFFERENT FROM TODAY." Citing the "safe" investments that have been destroyed by change from what wire rope bridges and tunnels did to ferries, down to the fight of the present moment between cotton, rayon and wool and the fight of all three against "women's stubborn determination" to wear less clothes, he gave as a formula for success: "Look around and see what is being done according to blind routine and ritual: THERE is an opportunity for fortune by introducing CHANGE."

It set me to wondering seriously about how many retail lumbermen, defeated and almost hopeless after years of' little or no profit from volume that in by-gone days brought handsome returns are not in that "according to blind routi.ne and ritual" class that is destined to be engulfed by change-that eternal, unceasing change which is more noticeable today only because the pace has been accelerated in recent years.

A ready-made and frequently encountered explanation is: "We are through. There are no more frontiers. No more free land. No more natural resources to be had for the taking." Superficially true, it is all too readily accepied by the man who is unable or unwilling to think his problem through to face and meet the challenge of CHANGE.

What it means in our business is that we are through making money out of the natural population growth that forced the pace for us while we were housing American farmers, American industry and its workers and now we have to find out how to make money out of the new economy as America shakes itself out of its lethargic drifting toward the totalitariah state and restores the initiative of, entrepreneurs by again dangling lures before their eyes, and resumes the working out of its destiny with the same

Meeting tlanuary 23, 1940

energy, zeal and inventiveness as was expended in the mad rush of building through to the Pacific Ocean and outstripping the entire world in the development of machine production.

And what is going to bring that about? Quitting, drifting, refusing to stick your neck out-waiting for "George"

to do it or for a Messiah to come along and save both of you the trouble?

Just two things can do it. First: Every man of ability up in the collar again in his own business finding out what the impact of change is doing to it and its future and thinking out the way to meet it. Second: Every man exercising again the responsibility of citizenship in America, as well as accepting its privileges, and leading in his own, orbit to the limit of his ability-devoting as a duty a portion of his time (and of his money according to his means) to reestablish thrift, toil and honor as the lodestars of American life and government.

Which gets me down to the question that prompts this talk-

..OR, A HAPPY 1940 DECADE?''

The decade just closing (1940 is of course, actually the last year of the fourth decade) certainly must have convinced the last one of' us that we are not again going to make any real money running lumber yards the way we always have. Selling o.n price to contractors, piling expensive service upon expensive service, over-expansion of plant and equipment has caught up with us. The effort to cushion the impact of excessive capacity to serve upon inadequate demand (great as it has been in comparison with other markets) by working together has been remarkably successful in preserving equities (as witness the experience

Kenneth Smith

in San Francisco, where no such effort was made) but it has not changed the pattern of what is to be.

The retail lumber business is now in various stages of evolution from the original lumber "yard," ofiering only lumber and rendering no service except place utility. Outside of Metropolitan areas it has already become a retail building material business with a further refinement (achieved long since by many born financiers and merchants) into the "building headquarters" of the community, contacting the consumer direct selling the "package" either a home or remodel job and controlling the transaction (without, except rarely, actually becoming the contractor). That trend has been tremendously accelerated since installment selling was made readily available by F. H. A. and is definitely the pattern of things to come for dealers removed from metropolitan centers. The so-called country dealer has always been closer to his trade and a better merchant than his city contemporary, anyway, and has long pioneered direct selling to consumers.

In Metropolitan centers (which is the problem we must analyze) four types of selling and three general types of dealers are emerging as the pattern of the future. There will be, and there is plenty of room for. the ..merchant', just described, operating in a section of the Metropolis (or even on a city-wide scale) but to do so successfully against the speculative builder will require exceptional resourcefulness, selling ability and courage. Those who can do it will be rewarded by a much greater profit per dollar of sales and per dollar of investment than the dealer who elects to become the "wholesaler" type next described.

A group of dealers in every Metropolis will go back (are already doing it, of course) to the original ,,yard" type, ren. dering little service beyond place utility, catering to quan- tity buyers on price with an absolute minimum of sales expense and varding expense. Big plants wlrich have become white elephants, are too unwieldy, or which lack the excep_ tional merchandising minded perso.nnel required to shift over successfully to direct consumer selling, have little choice other than to cut out unprofitable free services, and unprofitable lines of merchandise, reduce overhead to a minimum, eschew detail milling and small complicated ord;, ers, concentrate on lumber sold as bought and as nearly as possible in round lots requiring a very minimum of handling. In other words, running a "wholesale" or ,,warehouse" type of business on the very narrow margin that

always accompanies that type of operation in any staple business.

The third type of dealer (old in large eastern cities) is the building material store in the solidly built up neighborhood, handling everything in a small way, and catering to the maintenance and repair trade.

The fourth seller is already with us (and probably to stay as long as there are unethical producers to supply him) in the shape of the broker selling for direct shipment from the mill to both contractors and industrial users.

There will be a few dealers, of course, who are specialists but they are not a part of the problem we are trying to analyze.

These changes will not come about over night. What I am pointing out is the trend, as f see it. It will be ac_ celerated, or held back, in this market to the degree that men with substantial investments either deliberately re_ vamp their organizations and move as rapidly as they can toward becoming either "merchant" or ,,wholesaler:', or deliberately buck the trend. For instance, the present sitj uation could be very nearly frozen for an indefinite period of time if practically all the substantial investments were minded to submit to the rigid regimentation entailed and use the Unfair Practices Act, because it would then be possible, not to make large profit but to recover the pres_ ent cost of operation. Likewise any individual can freeze his own present method of operation as long as he is willing to work for nothing or take losses.

I know that many of you who have spent a lifetime sell_ ing contractors, and made ntoney at it, will disagree and go right on losing money trying to recover the Z3/o to 25% of gross sales, to which your costs have now mounted by reason of a multiplicity of free services, increased labor and taxes, excessive investment in plant and equipment and wholly unwarranted sales costs. lfowever, when lS/o of the contractors (being those who build 5 or more houses per year) are building 63/o of all the houses, I do not be_ lieve you will be able to compete successfully with the "wholesaler" who can operate at a cost to himself of lSVo or less on gross sales. Nor rvill the small contractor be able to compete successf,ully with the ..merchant,' type of dealer.

Any or all of you can buck the trend. Maybe you can buck it and keep even. That depends upon your resource_ fulness, upon volume available, upon the degree of coopera_ tion between dealers, upon efiort of manufacturers to pro_

mote new business, and upon a lot of other things you can think of as well as I. But no man ever made much profit bucking the tide.

This 1940 decade will witness this market go over to dry framing (largely pre-cut), will see "use name" grades displace the present grading nomenclature and descriptions for construction lumber (if not also for industrial trade), will bring salt seasoned timbers into common use and thereby tremendously increase the market for structural lumber. Laminated construction, not only of heavy members of trusses for which it is already being used, but even laminated house framing will be with you. Airplane manufacturers will be using it again, believe it or not. All of which is added reason why men with substantial investments in our business, who wish to make money, or even in many cases, to survive, must adapt themselves to the pattern of things to come.

It means too that salesmen who are successful will have to really sell, that is, produce business that would not exist except for their effort. I firmly believe that every lumber salesman, however experienced, could profitably invest $28 and a lot of intensive study in "Tested Selling Methods," preparing himself to meet the new competition.

All these changes are going to intensify the need for and usefulness oI your assocation, not only to cushion their impact but to meet the problems from the outside that can only be dealt with adequately by joint action.

You will have not only the continuing problem of securing equal opportunity to sell, establishing and maintaining uniform terms and conditions of sale, which includes continuing the effort to make grade-marking 100/o effective, defense against adverse legislation, City a.nd County builcling ordinances, tax and cartage problems wth the Board of Equalization and Railroad Commission, maintenance of Standard Estimating Practices, which includes issuance of moulding catalogs, price lists, etc., but the need for intensive cost stirdies, for close cooperation in the handling of industrial relations and for trade promotion on a broad scale will be greater than ever before.

With one branch of the Government making a wholly unwarranted attack upon you as monopolists and saying to your customers, in efiect, to withhold building until they force you to get construction costs down, and another branch of your Government for the first time in 150 years urging your prospects to rent instead of striving for home ownership; with apartment house owners aggressively advertising the care free life of the apartment dweller, you will need intelligent and aggressive trade promotion to keep alive the home owning instinct as you have never needed it before. Not only you, but the lumber manufacturer. As a matter of fact, a campaign by yourselves, the Red-

wood, Ponderosa and Fir producers, through a joint agency along the li.nes of the Western Home Foundation, operating so efficiently in the Northwest under the joint sponsorship of the Western Retail Lumbermen's Association and the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, would be a smart investment profitable to every dealer dependent upon the new construction market.

Naturally these changes will come faster if u'e continue to operate under our traditional system of free enterprise. They will come more slowly if we go into another tail spin; or if we should be sucked into war. Gullible as the American masses are, surely we will stay out of this one. I fervently hope we may because war would be practically certain to end our republican form of Government, destroy our cherished liberty, and leave us saddled with a totalitarian Government.

As a matter oI fact .no man among us is wise enough to know now whether we may not already have gone so far along the road toward the totalitarian state that we cannot win our way back. Certainly state sovereignty has largely gone overboard and a rational and realistic facing of the unsolved unemployment and relief problem, the attempts of this Administration to finance production for use and cooperative buying schemes, the accomplished direct competition of government with business in scores of instances, punitive taxation, deficit financing which will certainly, by the increase in the tax burden, deter building in years to come, one-sided labor regulations, regulatio,n of competition and the current drive on profits, which has not only deterred capital investment but practically destroyed pri vate initiative, gives 'pause to the most stout hearted patriot.

Which brings me to to that second thing I said we must do. Devote a definite share of time as a duty to our responsibility as a citizen for leading each in his own orbit and to the extent of his ability. During the past seven years our whole economic system has been shaken by experiments and initiative killed by limitations on the profit motive, which is what makes our system of free enterprise tick. Yet it is only recently that business seems to have wakened to the realization that it must aggressively com. bat it, and that it is just as essential-and possibly even more important-to devote executive talent to public relations as to the problems of the individual busiqess.

You probably saw The National Association of Manufacturers "set of principles" which it put out in December saying that business can only earn back the leadership which the New Deal took away from it by shifting' more responsibility back to business and away from government. This conservative organization not only pointed out that private industry is at the crossroads, that government dic-

tatorship and planned economy mean surrender of freedom-which we all know-but that only business itself can save the private profit system, and check the trend to totalitarianism. That to do it industry and all business men must be realistic, self-examining, unselfish, social minded, community minded. That they must shift the emphasis from attacks upon government, diabolical as its fiscal policies and its attacks upon busi.ness may be, toward seeking self improvement and public cooperation by enlightenment, by producing better products at lower prices, improving worker relationships, giving steadier employment. That it must achieve a better balance of price structures, build up the local community, emphasize the importance of THRIFT and the SOCIAL VALUE of the profits system.

Dr. James W. Fifield, Jr., Minister of First Congregational Church said in his Christmas ad:

"AMERICAN FREEDOM is worth saving. It is not automatically vouchsafed. While attention is being focused upon war a,nd other issues, the church should consistently champion the .cause of freedom which is jeopardized by unsound fiscal policies, confused thinking, dangerous ideologies and world unrest. The social values of recent trends-but only the yalus5-q2n 2nd must be preserved as part of the American tradition.

"FROM THE BEGINNING, AMERICA has built on the ideal of government which provides that the state is servant of its citizens, that all just powers of government arise from consent of the governed, and that government's function is to provide maximum responsibility and maximum freedom to individual citizens. The opposite philosophy has been u,nwelcome in America until recently. It makes citizens the servants of the State. ft advances subtly. Many, with great social zeal, have unknowingly furthered its objectives.

"FREEDOM IN AMERICA needs champions and should find them in churches whose leader taught the sacredness of individuality. Freedom in America needs coordination of its friendly forces, among which business and the church should properly be included.

"BUSINESS, LIKE THE CHURCH, is naturally interested in preservation of basic freedom in this nation. Goodness and Christian ideals run proportionately high among business men. They need no defense, for with all their faults, they have given America within the last decade a new world-high in general economic well-being."

It may fairly be said that Dr. Fifield's last paragraph is

peculiarly applicable to retail lumbermen who have for Zffi years been the business men most closely associated with the building of homes in this nation. I spoke a few moments ago of the advisability of setting out to definitely combat the anti-home owning propaganda and stimulate individual home ownership to promote your trade, but you should :never for a moment overlook the fact in connection with these other things we have just been talking about that it is the home owner who has thus created with his own labor a certain basic social security wich he is unwilling to trade for the untried "Ham & Eggs" schemes who is the real bulwark of liberty, and who with a real stake in the community is your security and the security of every man who is trying to carry on a private business.

You have, indeed, by the very nature of your business not only an unparalleled opportunity but an equivalent responsibility for assuming leadership in the building of, and preserving the security of, the homes of the people of this nation. He who causes a new home to be built makes a greater contribution to the maintenance of liberty in this Nation than a hundred politicians making a hundred speeches on Americanism.

I should like to emphasize what I have been trying to say about the necessity of you gentlemen who own these lumber businesses in Los Angeles TAKING A LONG LOOK AHEAD, planning to make the 194O decade worth while instead of just living through it as so many have the 1930's by quoting Jack Dion,ne talking to another group of lumbermen about each making his community grow by selling his fellow man the IDEA OF BUILDING.

"And you-you modern merchants of building materialyou professional construction authorities-you men here today-YOU ARE THE LEADING CITIZENS OF YOUR TOWNS-potentially now, and actually the moment you GET THE RIGHT IDEA OF YOUR POSITION, YOUR POWERS AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES."

CALL ON RETAIL TRADE

R. U. (Bob) Bronson of the Trio Lumber Co., Eugene, recently spent 10 days in Northern California calling on the yards with salesmen of Gorman Lumber Co., Oakland, which represents his concern in this territory.

ON EASTERN TRIP

Gerald Wetzel, resident sales manager of Shevlin pine Sales Co. at McCloud, Calif., was in San Francisco recently on his way to Chicago and Minneapolis.

I.AMOI| - BONIIITIGTOTI GOMPAIIY

\YHOLESALE LUMBER

16 Calilomic Streel Scur Frrmcisco Telephone GArlield 6881

PORTI.AND OFFICE-PITTOCK BLOCK

OBITUARIES

EUSTACE JOHN TWOHY

Eustace John Twohy, aBe 87, ol Los Angeles, died January 2l at the Monte Sano Hospital as the result of having been struck down by an automobile a few days before. He was born in Toronto, Canada and had been a resident of California for thirty-four years. He followed railroading all his life, retiring eight years ago. He was a Mason and last October was presented with a So-year gold button by his lodge.

Mr. Twohy, the first of his people to leave the sea, was descended on both sides of his family from a long line of British sea captains in both the mercantile marine and the Royal Navy.

, On his seventy-fifth birthday he made a trip to Europe, particularly to visit the English and Scottish branches of his family, among them being his cousin, Sir William Norman, Vice Admiral of the RoYal NavY.

Mr. Twohy had the distinction, rare even in the old days, of having sailed around the world as a passenger in sailing ships.

He is survived by two sons, Arthur E. Twohy, Twohy Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Charles G. Twohy of Riverside. His wife, a sister of E. A. Blocklinger of the Chilq quin Lumber Co. and of the late Rear Admiral G. Blocklinger, died a few years ago.

HARRY C. WOOD

Harry C. Wood, former Los Angeles lumberman, passed away suddenly on December 18 at his home in Glide, Oregon, following a heart attack.

He had been with the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. for fourteen years, starting to work for them at their San Pedro yard, later becoming superintendent of the Los Angeles yard, and then in charge of the Pine departme.nt. Four years ago he resigned his position to take up ranching at Glide, Oregon. Mr. Wood was well known in Southern California lumber circles u,ihere he had many f riends. He was a veteran of the World War.

He is survived by his widow and a brother. Funeral services were held in Portland, Oregon, December 19.

E. J. GRANT

Edwin Joseph Grant, president of the Algoma Lumber Co., passed away at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., January 16, following a short illness. lle was 61 years of age.

Mr. Grant was a native of Pennsylvania and was associated with the Algoma Lumber Company for about thirty years. He rvas president of the company since 1930, and prior to that rvas secretary.

He is survived by his widow, Helen E. Grant; five sons, Frank, Joseph, Michael, Robert and Peter Grant; a sister, Mrs. Kate Pohl, and a brother, Dennison W. Grant.

Funeral services were held from the Wee Kirk o' the Heather, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, January t9.

Shingle Bureau Holds Annual Meeting

With a record-breaking year of hind them, over 20O Northwest production in 1939 beshingle manufacturers,

and laid plans for a nelv year and a new decade of building.

Four outstanding speakers from far-flung sections of the United States attended the meeting, told the assembled lumbermen that the future portends much for the building trades, and complimented the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau on its outstanding promotional work in the past.

Speakers at the conclave included Roger S. Finkbine of Des Moines, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, C. A. Pickett of Houston, secretary of the Lumbermens Association of Texas, Earl E. LeValley of Bellingham, president of the Western Retail Lumbermens Association, and D. M. Botsford of San Francisco, preside.nt of the Botsford, Constantine and Gardner advertising agency.

The following officers lvere re-elected by the trustees: R. M. I,ngram, Aberdeen, Wash., presiclent; paul R. Smith, Seattle, Wash., first vice-president; Charles plant, Vancouver, B.C., second vice-president; W. W. Woodbridge, Seattle, Wash., manager.

A resolution was passed expressing to the various lumber trade papers its sincere thanks for their continued sup_ port and cooperation during the past year.

XOONE REYEN3IILI CROSS CIRCULATION KTLNS

21/o to )O/o notc capacity due to solid edge-to-edge stackrng, Bcttrr quality drying on lor tcmpcraturcc with e fast rcvcnibrc circulation.

Lowcr rtacking corts-jusl solid edge-to-edge stacking in the slmple3t torm,

\(IHEN YOU SELL

!(/HOLESALE and JOBBING LUMBER

SASH & DOORS

MILL V/ORK BUILDING MATERIALS

Booth-Kelly Douglas Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customers the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit guessing about what they're buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.

LUMBER gO

General Sales Oftce: Eugene, Ore. Mills: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.

R. M. Ingrcrm members of the Red Cedar Seattle on January 12 for

W. W. Woodbridge Shingle Bureau, gathered in their 23rd annual convention

MoorcLiln Paint Products for weatherproofing dry Liln and mill roofs. your l. 2. ,.

North Podra4 Orc. Jecloonvillc, Itlocid.

Kiln Buildcrr for Morc Thrn Hetf e C*tturl

t "nBlinn$m"[preo.

California Building Totals For 1939

Thanks Executives and Employes of Lumber and Building Trades

Los Angeles, Calif.

January n,lg4{J.

M.. J. E. Martin, Managing Editor

CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

lO8 W. Sixth Street

Los Angeles, California

My dear Mr. Martin:

Because of your fi.ne cooperation with the Community Chest during the campaign now drawing to a close, I want to thank you personally and to extend to you the appreciation of nearly 18,000 volunteer workers for your interest and support.

The spirit of generosity and understanding for this great humane and civic undertaking has been marked this year, but in no case has it been more manifest than among executives and employes of the building trades and lumber dealers.

We would like to be able to thank each employe and each firm personally, but since that is impossible, we hope, through the columns of your publication, to convey to them our sincere and heartfelt gratitude

Their gifts will mean hope, comfort and courage to thousands of people in trouble and in need this coming year. Their Community Chest subscriptions will provide care for thousands of dependent, sick or crippled children.

Thus, this word of gratitude comes not only from fellow citizens interested in the welfare of our community, but also from those thousands who are less fortunate than we are, and who have no other way to give thanks to goocl neighbors.

Sincerely,

Dr. A. H. Giannini. Campaign Chairman.

s.s. JosEpHrNE LAWRENCE WrLL OPERATE rN ATLANTIC COASTWISE TRADE

S.S. Josephine Lawrence,2372 gross tons, formerly operated by the Lawrence-Philips Steamship Co., Los Angeles, in the coastwise lumber and general cargo trade will take a full cargo of lumber to the North Atlantic and thereafter operate in the Atlantic coastwise trade for six months after arrival. The boat will probably leave the Pacific Coast about the middle of February.

GBAYDS

SASH BATANCE and GIJDE

Showing the pcrtented single instcrlkrtion unit lor double hung windows.

1 The Modern Method ol I \ Pe$ect Window nabrcine, f

Write lor details cord complete decler ret-up

MANUFACTURED BY

Thir airplane view conveyr ronre idea of tfie riza and ertent of our plant-with the largest capacity, namely, 47 M pet hour, of any car-and-cargo mill in Oregon. Cargo and rail rhiprnenr of Soft Old Growth Yellow Douglas Fir and Sitka Spruce. l7eekly railingr to California pore; packaged lumber rtowed cven lengths and widthr.

Stb ll Drcnacl Str Scn Frqacirco Suttor 1365

SKI BI,ANKS Selected Hickory

of Write For Prices

lssues New \(/all Chart for Dealers

Macklanburg - Duncan Company, Oklahoma City, C)kla., manufacturers of Nu-Art Mouldings and Trim, announce completion of a new wall chart for dealers which shows a drawing of each of their 300 mouldings, binding, edging and nosing shapes with each one pictured in end view actual size and detail. Chart also has attached to it, actual samples of the four metals Alacrome, Stainless Steel, Brass and Chromium Plated Brass in which the shapes may be obtained. According to the manufacturers, this chart provides dealers with a convenient, easy method of showing customers the most practical shape (and the metal in which it is furnished) for any requirement. Back of chart shows pictures of many installations of moulding and trim, and gives detailed information as to metals in which shapes are obtainable, stock le.ngths, size and uses of all items. Dealers may obtain this chart, without charge, from Macklanburg-Duncan Co., Oklahoma City, Okla.

t00 Higb SL Ccllcad f,ndovor 180

Appointed Mid-West Representative

Announcement of the appointment of J. F. Parker, veteran Northwest shingle inspection executive, as Mid-West representative of the Pacific Coast Shingle Inspection Bureau, was made recently by W. M. Williams, presidenf.

Mr. Parker will have charge of Red Cedar shingle promotion and fire ordinance work for the Bureau in the Central area, with offices in Chicago. He was formerly on the field staft of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau.

CENTRAL VALLEY HOO-HOO MEET

The Central Valley Hoo-Hoo Club held a dinner meeting at the Divine Gardens, Turlock, Monday evening, lanuary D. James McCormick was the speaker of the evening. There was a large attendance.

DOUGTAS BUII.DING

Cor. Third tmd Spring Streets

Los Angeles

tf you cne thiatring ol ertcblirhiag cl office irr Los Angeles we would welcone the oppodunity oI ehowing you sPace qvail' cble ln tbc Douglcr Buildiag. Bentql rcrtee cre req:oncble. Tbe tocation bct cdvcntcgea. Pcrking spcce is close ond relctively cbeap.

Western Pine Lumber Inspectors Hold Grade Meetins

Spokane, Washington, January 1l-Western Pine Association lumber inspectors, representing more than 25 years of pine experience per man (12 years of which were in the service of the Association), got together in this city during the first week of January for a thorough discussion of pine lumber grades. These meetings serve to emphasize the importance attracted to grading by the Western pine industry to insure close and uniformly graded shipments from member mills.

To reduce even the minor variations of grade inspection due to individual differences of interpretation of the standard grading rules, these helpful discussions among the inspectors are further aided in the Western pine region by the practice of rotating inspectors in their calls on the mills, and in returning to mill duty, every four months, the men on eastern assignments, who handle reinspections and grademarking in consuming territories.

The inspectors shown in the picture (from left to right) are: A. O. Lund, Chief Inspector Vern Johnson, Ray Ballantyne, Thomas A. Sandoe, C. A. Luce, A. E. Johnson, J. W. Stewart, Irving Dunn, August Lindstrom, Reed Pierce, Lee Moffett and Nelson Cole.

REBUILDING ROOFING PLANT

Work started on the rebuilding of the Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Co. plant at Compton, Calif., on January 15. T6e original structures that housed the company were destroyed by fire on November 20. Myers Bros. of Los Angeles are the contractors. Manager Harry J. Graham states that the new plant will be modern in every respect.

NEW PARTNERSHIP IN DOS PALOS

Bob Hume, formerly in the electrical appliance business in Dos Palos, Calif., recently merged his business in a copartnership with Edward Eggleston. They are now operating as the Dos Palos Lumber Co.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RETAIL YARD FOR SALE

70 miles from Los Angeles on main highway in fast growing community. Railroad lease, established trade, clean stock, good equipment. For full particulars address Box C-773, California Lumber Merchant.

WH.OLESALE SALESMAN WANTS POSITION

Experienced wholesale lumber salesman wants position. Has worked in both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay territories and knows the retail trade. Address Box C-787, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARD WANTED

Will pay cash for yard in San Diego or vicinity, or take interest in a good yard. Give full particulars. Address Box C-785, California Lumber Merchant.

RETAIL LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION

Nine years' retail lumber experience in the Los Angeles territory. Estimator, stenographer, bookkeeper, salesman, general office work. 35 years of age, married. Good references. Address Box C-791, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARDS AND HARDWARE STORE FOR SALE

Twelve lumber yards and one hardware store in Arizona and two lumber yards in Southern California. Yards well located and showing good profits. Closing estate. Old established company. Will sell as a unit or separately. Information will be given to financially responsible party disclosing identity. Address Box C-790 California Lumber Merchant.

WANTS POSITION WITH RETAIL YARD

Retail lumberman with several years' experience in Southern California. Familiar with office detail, including outside selling. Married. Reference from last employer. Address Box C-792, California Lumber Merchant.

ROSS LUMBER CARRIER FOR SALE OR RENT

This carrier has never been used in a lumber yard and is like new. Low price. Terms. Wilmott-Murphy Inc., 5707 So. Alameda St., Los Angeles. Phone JEfferson 0934.

WANT TO BUY

Small or medium-sized yards anywhere south of Stockton. Information kept confidential. Write Hayward Lumber & fnvestment CompanY, P. 6. Box 1551, Los Angeles, Calif.

FOR SALE

Small lumber yard and lumber store in Los Angeles area. Yard has been established many years and both have good earning record. Closing estate. Address Box C-789 California Lumber Merchant.

CONNECTION WANTED

Young married man now employed in California Pine mill desires connection with progressive wholesale lumber concern in San Francisco or Los Angeles. Has mill, sales department, and previous wholesale experience. Address Box C-786, California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED

Retail lumberman, 25 years experience, last 10 years in Los Angeles, fully familiar with all ofEce detail, sales, collections and credits, desires position as manager. E:rcellent references. Go anywhere in California. Address Box C-788, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

We have a number of good yards in Southern Cali' fornia for sale. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

BT]YBB9S GT]IDE SAIT FBANOISOO

LUMBER

Atklneon.Stutz ComDany, ll2 Marlst Strot ..............,..CArfrdd f$t

B@t3trvc-M@r bEbc Co.. 525 Mukct Strut ..........,... EXbrek l7l5

Dut & Rursll. Inc., 557 Martct Streat ................GArficld 0292

Dolbcr & Crrm Lubs Go?3e Mcrcbutr Erctrugc BUg.......SUtt6 il56

Gm.ruton e Grc.o, f&l Amy St. ....................Atwater l3O

Hall, Jancr Lrl32 M||L 8k1s.......................Sutt.r 7521

H.hnohd Rcdwood Compuy, al7 Mdtgmlry St. .............DOuSls. :l3EE

Hobbr Wall Luber Co., 350 Jcrrold Avc..... ....Mlrlm 0tl0l

Holua Eur*r Lunbcr Co --- rrrf ffnucfef-C;-t* Sldi. .......GArfr.H 1921

Roy M. Janln Lunbar C,o.. Arthur H. Colc. f6 Calilorair St...GAr6.ld t&70

C. D. Johnroa llnbcr Corporetloa. z6e Calllorala 3trct ...... .......GArhcld t25t

L-eno-Bollnrton Conpany, rr Cdlmr-r - Strc&'... l.'.........C.1r4.U crcr

LI,'MBER

MacDuald & Hminr:ton. Ltd.

16 Calllomh St...................cArfiGld S3gt

Pacific Lumbcr 6.. Tto rco Burh Stret .......,..........GArftctd utr

Popc & Talbot Luber Co., 461 Mukct Stret,..............DOug|ar 2561

Rrd RIvq Imbcr Co.. 315 Monadaoc& Eldg. ............GAr6cfd oezz

Salta Fc Lurnbcr Co-

16 Calilornia Stncit .............8)(br00& z0zl

tlh.vlb Pb. Sd6 Co- lG!0 Monadroct Btd8. .........,Exbrook ?tHl

Suddoa & CbrbtGoe!, 3le Sumr Strct ..GArfcld 2Sla

Uabn f.uabc Co- Cnoclc Dufldtir' ...... .........Sutrc lril

Wudlng-Nath.n Co.. UC MarLGr Strc,t ................SUrt r 5363

E. lg Wood Luubc Cor I Dlum Strut ..................ExbrooL 3ila

Wcyorbaorr Salce Co- l{9 Callfonta Str..t ....,........GArtratd t9?{

LUMBE,R

Gucrttou & Groon. Cth Avouc Pici ..................Htgrt lt4a

Corltu Lrlnbcr Co., 4CZl Tldcw.tr Avc.,.... .Al{dova 1000

Hill & Mrton, hc- Dubo St. Whrrf .......ANdovcr tO?l

Ho3u Lurbc Compuy, hd & Alicc Str..tr ...........Glncdrt 6Sff

Red Rlvcr Lunbcr 6.. 908 Fln Dcid Ccntc Blft.....TWinckr:face

E. Ig Wood hnba Co., Frodrrlct & Kht str. ....,...FRultvatc ouz

LUr|BER

HARDWq)DS AND PANEI.S

Merlr Plywood Grporatlon. 5{e lath Strst ............ M^Arkct 6flt5.67a4

O'Nclll Lunbcr Co- ttb ud Twnrod Str6tr..........MArtct trllt

ltYbltc Brcthc+Fltth ud Brmu Stret.,,.......Sutt.r 1365

sAsH-DOORS-PLyW(X,D

Unitrd Strt.r Plywood C.orporation, ll0 Kus Str.ct ............-..MArkcr l6t2

CREOSOTED LUMBER_P@LEIFPILING-TIES

Amcricu llrnbc e Trrating 6116 Ncw MoatgoE rfr St.. , ...,Suttcr rz5

Baxtcr. J. H. & C.o333 Mutrpoory St. .,...,.......DOugler !tt3

HalL Jmcr L, i03z Mlu3 Bldr. ........sutt.f ?sal

PANET.S-DOORTSASITI-SCRE ENS

Calliomta Bulldcr Supply Co., 700 ctA Avc. ..,.:..................Hkat 6lra

Hogu Lubc CmpuS hd & AIio Srrccrr............Gl.ocurt 6ECl

Wcrtcra Ds & s.rb Cr. Sth & Cyprcar St. .,.........TEmplobutll0

HARDWOODS

Strabh H.rdwood Co537 Flr* Srr..t .....,,.......TEnp|cblr 55tl

Whltr Brorhorr, llc Htgh SEect ................ANdovc l00l

LOS ANGBLDS

Arslo Cdlfonrlr t uobc Ca, 655 Eatt Fhrune Avc. .,......THomwdl 3t{,1

Bumr Lunbc Co-

55a CbrEbG of Cmnre Btdr...PRotD.d Otr

Dut & Ruarcll, Ine,

l5l5 E. Seventh St. TRinity 6?57

Dolbror & Caron Lunrba Co., 9X FtdGIty Btdr. ..........,....vAudi&r t792

Hannood Rcdwood Compmv. ftsf 3o. Bmrdwry ....-....,..,.PRoepcct litS3

Hobbe Wdl Lunbcr Co. 625 Rowm 81dg...... ...,TRinity 50tt

Holno Eurc&a Lumba Cc, ilf-?f2 Archltcctr Bldg. .........Mutud glft

Hwcr, A. L., 5225 Wllrhlrc Blvd. .................Yffi tfef

Roy M. Janln llnbcr Co.. F. rL Oough, U4t Trcmainr....,.,X(>kZ95S

C. D. Johnron Lumbcr Corporation, 66 P.trolcub Sccurltlcr Bldg...PRocprct U65

Lrwru*Phtlipr Lmbcr Co,, GB Pctrcleum Scarlticr Bldg...PRopcct Sf?l

MacDonald & Hmington. Ltd.. 5l? Pctrclcu Smrlticr BIdg...PRo.Fct lfZ7

Paclfic Lunbcr Co- Tbc, 5225 Wllrhtru Blvd. .................YO* tr6S

Patta Bllnn LuDbcr Co.. 5a E. srh Sr .....................vAndttc 2321

Popc & Talbot Lmbcr Co., 601 W. Flfth St. TRtnity 5ztr

Rd Rlvc Lunbcr Co718 E. SlIrn CEntury 290?t l|3l 9o. Broldvay ,, .. .PRotp.ct 08ll

LUMBER

Rgltz, Co- E. l3:t P.tnbun Sccurltiu Bldf...PRorpcct 2369

Su Pcdrc Lubc Co., Sm Pcdrc, lE00A tlrilnlnston Road ......Su Pcdrc 22C0

Sutr Fs Lubcr Co- 3U Flnuclal Cat'cr Bldg. .VArdih. {.|7r

Shcvlln Plnc Satcr Co. ru Pcttolcun lhanritlo Bldg...PRorpcct 00f5

Sudda & Chrlrtoron, 5il Borrd of Tradc Bldg. .......TRinity EEll

Taoma Lubc Salot. a23 PctrcLun Sffltl.. Bldg...PRolpct 116

Unlm Lubc Coq 9a W. M. Garlud Bldg. ........TRinlty z2tz

Wodltn3-Nathu Coo 5zS Wllrhirc Blvd. .................YOrk rr6E

Waet Orcgon Lubcr Co., 'l?7 Petrolou Ssltlcr Bldg..Rlchnond 02Ef

Wilkinon ard Buoy, 316 W. 9th SL ,..................TR|nity l5l3

E. K. Wood lmbc Co.. at0l Sutc Fs Avc. ....,.......JEffaro 3lll

Wcycrhau*r Salcr Co. 020 W. M. Garlmd Bldg. .....Mlc[lgu 6391

CREOfIOTED LUMBER_POIIII_PILINCTIES

Anricrn Lubcr & Tmting Co- folf Eo. Broadwty ,,.,.... .....PRorpcct ,43!3

Butc, J. H. & Co.. COl Wot sth St. ...,,..,......,Mtchisu 6a9l

Bmlng Lurnbc Co- H. zL. 59?t So. Rivcri& Drivc..,.,...JEficm ?l2l

HARDWfi)DS

Anaicu Hardwod Co., 1900 Eut tsrh st. :.,...........pRoryet rzts

Cadwalladr-Gibrn Cl- hq 362t Eut Olymplc Blvd. ......ANr.tu. lU6t

Stanton, E. J., & Sou, 21150 Eut SEtb Strcct .CEntury AZU

Wcrtcm Hardwmd Lmbcr Co., 2014 E. lsth St. .................PRorp.ct Olal

SASH-DOORS-MILLWORT( PANEI.S AND PLYWOOD

Bac;& Pud Compmy, 3rG3l{ E. 3hd St..,.,............ADanr 1225

Callfomia Dm Conpuy. Thc 237-2ll Cutral Avc. .,...,.......TRirlV tll

Callfomia Pancl & Vcnry Co.. 955 So. Alucda SL .............TRtnlty aC?

Cobb Co., T. M5t00 Cetrit Ayc. ..............,ADan lf[?

Eubanl & Son, Inc., L H. (Ingl*ood) l0lC Eut Hradc Park Blvd.....ORo3u &ll||

Kchl, Jno. W. & Son, 652 So. Mycrr SL ...,.........,,ANgclurtltl

Orcgon-Warhington Plywod Co., 3lt W6t Nnrth Strut .,,TRlnlty aal!

Pacific \f,fod Pmducl. Grporation. !6c0 Tybm Strct ... :,. .Al.buy tttl

Paclfic Mutual Dor Co. f600 E. Warhingtm Blvd. ......Pn$Dct $a

Reu Compuy, Geo. E., 235 Slo. Alucda SL.............Mlchtgu rtll

Rcd_-Rlvgr Lgnbc CG, ?02 Q,. Shuro CEnturT Ztotl

Unltcd Statc Plryod lSl. Eert r$h SL

W.$ Co$t Scrcgq Co,

Wcrt Coert Scrco Colras E. 63rd Strxt ,... ..ADu lllt