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495 mitlE reporting to the West Coaet Lumbermen's Association for the week ended February 17 gave new business as 7216161515 feet against a production of 871579,055 feet and shipments of 692621789 feet. Shipments were undeg production by 2O.9 per cent and curent sales were under the cut by 17.1 per cent. Orders booked during the week by this group of mills wene over the preceding week by 61700'000 feet or l0.2percent.
The Vestern Pine Association for the week ended February 10 reported new businese from 127 mills as 33r435rNO f.eet; shipments, 3q903r0q) feet; and production, 2l'65O'0O0 feet Shipments wete 43 per c€nt above production, and orders 54 per cent above productiol ald t* ne; .."a above shipments.
The California Redwood Association for the same week reported productio.n from 16 mills as 5'901'000 feet; shipmentst 611641000 feet; and new business, 5r773rOOO f.eet. Orders on hand at the end of the week were 271336ro00 f.et. Eleven identical mills reported producion 78 per cent greater and new businesc 90 per cent greater than for the same week last
346 hardwood mills for the week ended February 10 gave
The directors of the Southern California Code Administrative Authority met at Los Angeles on Monday, February 19. All directors were present. The date for the filing of retail price lists was set at the meeting. All retail lumber dealers must file their individual price lists on or before March 3, and will become effective March 5. Terms and conditions of sale became effective on.Februarv 2l in the Southern California Division.
Leonard C. Hammond, vice president and general manager o{ the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, left February 22 for an extended business trip.
Mr. Hammond is traveling by automobile. He made his first stop in Los Angeles and is continuing through Texas to New Orleans. Before his return he will visit all the company's Eastern sales offices and sales connections, and expects to be gone about two months.
new business ae 2lrOTOrO0O feet, or .4 per cent below production, and shipments as l8r111r(XX) feet, or 14 pet cent below production. Production was 21rI50r(XX) feet.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor totaled 5381000 feet on February 19. Ca,rgo ardvals at Loc Angeles harbor for the week ended February 19 totaled 5r273r(X)0 fea, which included 9 cargoes of Fit carrying 5'06.+'(X)0 feet and one cargo of Redwood with 209rfi)O feet 62 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on February 19; 42 vessels were laid up.
The California lumber situation shows litde change. The volume of business is low although the retail yards report that their sales have made some improvement during the past few weeks. Retail lumber prices under the Code became Lfiective in Northern Califomia on February 15, and will go into effect in Southern California on Match 5.
A hearing on the proposed amendment to the Termite ordinance which became effective February 8 was held before the Los Angeles Building and Safety Commission on Monday afternoon, February 26. The proposed amendment provides that the creosoted treatment shall not be required if the wood rests on a non-corrodable metal termite shield installed on top of the foundation or if No. 1 Heart Common of Cedar, Cypress or Redwood are used in underpinning or foundation construction. The Commission will take the matter uo for further advisement.
Frederic S. Palmer, manager of the Pine department of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, left February 1 for a business trip to the eastern states.
Santa Fe Lumber Company was recently appointed by Kesterson Lumber Corporation, Klamath Falls, Ore., exclusive distributor of its No. 2 and better Common and No. 2 Shop and better grades of California Ponderosa Pine.
,Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., and T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., of Los Angeles, attended a meeting of the Trade Practice Committee of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, at Portland, 6-Oregon, on Tuesday, February 27.
William Rufus Spalding, owner of the W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., with headquarters in Visalia, Calif., died in the Kawea hospital, Visalia, February tl after an illness of five weeks.
Mr. Spalding, one of the most prominent figures in the retail lumber industry in California, and a man highly esteemed by his fellow lumbermen and by all who knew him, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, June 23, 1859. He came to California with his parents when he was 10 years old, and settled in San Francisco.
His first business venture was a printing shop in Berkeley, but soon after this he entered the lumber business in Truckee. He moved to Visalia in 1899, entered the lumber business there and remained there up to the time of his death. His company had yards in Porterville, Exeter, Lindsay, Tulare, Woodlake and Strathmore. The main office and yard was in Visalia.
Mr. Spalding was a member of the Visalia Royal Arch Masons and Visalia Commandery of the Knights Templar, and the Shrine, Islam Temple, San Francisco.
He is survived by his r,r'idow, Mrs. Caroline A. Spalding and a brother, Dr. Otis B. Spalding of the United States Naval hospital.
H. M. Rhodes, president and manager of the Salt Lake Mill Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, was a Los Angeles visitor during the month of February.
Retail dealers of Division No. 2 (Northern California) were notified on February 5 by Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority, Inc., San Francisco, to file with the Code Authority by February 15 their individual price lists, with terms and conditions of sale. The notice stated that these prices become effective February 15.
The selling and overhead expense on lumber for Northern California has been fixed at 25 per cent of the cost at the yard plus a handling and delivery cost of $6 for cities over 500,000 population, 5.6O for cities of 75,W to 500,00O, and $5.20 for cities under 75,000 population.
Mode mark-up on building material is 45 per cent, 44 per cent and 42 per cent on the same population basis.
Henry M. Hink, sales manager, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his desk February 19 from a lo-day business trip to Los Angeles and San Diego.
J. A. Rankin, general manager, Hammond & Little River Redwood Co., Samoa, Calif., recently spent a few days at the head office in San Francisco.
Consideration o[ the insulating valua, durability, tire resistance,low shrinkage and ease o[working of Colifornia Redwood led to its speciFicotion for roof sheothing for the enormous United States Novy dirisible hongor ot Sunnyvale, Colifornia
I've said lots of unkind things about the banker in this column in the past few years, but I'll have to admit the fellow has my genuine sympathy. Right now he is catching fits every day in reports from Washington. It is stated on every hand that he has fallen down on his job, that he refuses to extend credit such as banks have always done and urere created to do, and that he is blocking the wheels of progress.
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But ask any banker and he'll tell you that the bank examiners are tightening the strings of credit every day more than they have done since the depression started; that the banks are made to call loans and throw out collateral right now, that they consider good, and have considered good for a long time.
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Every banker you talk to can furnish you instances to prove these declarations. A banker friend told me the other day of the examiner picking a note from his note file, and suggesting that he try to collect it as he (the examiner) did not believe it was any good. "You're sure that's your opinion, are you?" asked the banker. "f am," said the bank examiner. So the banker showed him that the maker of the note had twice the amount of the note on deposit in cash at that very moment.
Another banker told me of a new loan he had made. The examiner looked it over. "Why did you make this loan?" he asked. "Because that rnan is good for it," replied the banker. "The best indication of that will be to make him pay it," replied the examiner. "I suggest you call it."
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And so on. You could write books of bible size of the things you hear. But what occurs to me is that it would be very simple for the bankers to get the thing straightened out. Why don't the American Bankers Association say to Mr. Roosevelt: "Mr. President, we are being assailed on one hand for failing to extend proper credit to worthy people and industry, and on the other hand the bank examiners refuse to permit us to extend such credit. You tell us what to do about it, and we'll do it." I think they'd get a prompt answer. There's an Ethiopian in the fence somewhere. Let's see who, and where? It ought to be easy to clear up.
The chief criticism I have of the banker right now is
that he fails utterly to publicly state his position. He forgets that "silence gives consent." While he is being assailed, he fails to talk back. If he is being unjustly condemned, it's his own fault for not throwing some light on the situation. Why he doesn't speak up, and tell his own story, and take the public into his confidence in these public matters, is more than I can understand. ***
He is doing the old ostrich trick of sticking his head in the sand, and it won't help at all. It will just get him sunburned in the wrong place. What he needs to do is follow the philosophy of the Rev. Sam Jones and "get his fodder down where the cattle can reach it." Either he is in a worth-while business that is trying to play its part in the recovery effort-or he isn't. If he is, he should say so. What the banker needs most is to talk back some to his critics.
The time has come when the smartest man in every bank should be the public relations man. Every bank should take its smartest employe and make him the public relations manlwith power to act. Banks that haven't any smart men in their personnel, should hire a smart man for their public relations activities. This applies to big banks and small banks, city banks and country banks. There is too big a question mark after the word bank, in the public mind. Answer the question-aloud ! **d.
I talked to another bankers' convention the other day, and they gave me a great hearing. I told them, among othef things, that the greatest help they could render right now in improving business conditions would be to use their influence to get the depositors in their banks whose scared money is piling higher and higher, to take some of it out of the seclusion of the bank vaults, and put it to work where it will employ human beings. Put it into decent mortgages, on decent homes, for decent people. And, f told them that such mortgages were ten times better investments than government bonds, and they ought to tell their people so; and that when all the idle money in their banks went back to honorable employment, the depression would be automatically over.
It surprised me hpw fully every banker I talked with afterwards, agreed with what I had said. There isn't a small town banker anywhere who cannot furnish right now
a long list of worthy people who are willing and anxious to build themselves homes whenever they can get just normal financial assistance in so doing. They told me so. And, the retail lumber dealer everywhere tells the same story. The dividing line between a building boom and building lethargy today is the simple need of decent financial assistance.
Mind you, I don't think the banks can loan the money to build homes with. They cannot tie up their cash in any such long-time fashion. But, as the financial and business advisors of their clients, they CAN tell the owners of idle money that this is the time to put it to work.
And, the gravest charge I bring against the bankers I have checked on during the past year is that they have evidently been giving exactly the opposite advice. When a depositor came to them and said, "I am thinking of taking my money and investing it," the banker raised his hands in holy horror, and said, "Not yet; it wouldn't be $rise." And, when a man came to them and said, ,.I am thinking of taking money and building," they cried, ,,Don't build !" There can be no doubt but that this has been the general attitude of the banks.
There can likewis" o" :r.u"lo. orr, that such an attitude and such advice has served to prolong and intensify the depression. And, depression will last just as long as we play the game an.a -1t. * *
f sent a wire to my friend Jesse H. Jones the other day and told him that this country is ready to get well; and that all that is needed to push it across the border line between depression and returned prosperity is a little intelligent help. I suggested that if the government will
furnish a market for perfectly good building paper, we will all wake up within three months' time and wonder where the depression has *o.".
We could take the same amount of money that we have been spending for CWA this winter, and invest it in new building paper, and put men to work as fast as CWA drops them. It would be REAL work. And, it would last a long time. And, by the time the building drive was over the threads of industry and of commerce would have woven a carpet of genuine prosperity; and we would be on our way. ***
Every day now someone rises up and declares that the Recovery Act is not constitutional. Well, who said it was? My understanding is that it has the same basis of constitutionality that drafting and conscription of men and materials has in time of war. As an emergency in time of national peril the Constitution may be set aside temporarily. Thus it is with the Recovery Act. It is an emergency measure for a limited period of time.
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Of course, when they get to talking about its PERMANENCY-that's something else again. I irnagine we'd have to make guite several changes in the Bill of Rights and other portions of the Constitution to make the invasion of private property rights PERMANENT. I believe that when Mr. Roosevelt speaks of the p€rmanency of some of these philosophies, he means the permanence of the underlying principles involved.
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'Personally, I think minimum wages and maximum wgrking hours are a blessing, and, if it could be arranged without putting business at the mercy of politics I would be
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delighted to see those things incorporated into our permanent ways of doing business. But, unfortunately Governmental control rnust in the long run mean political control. And, to place the reins that today direct industry and commerce into the wanton hands of the politician would be unthinkable. The biggest racket the world has yet known would be mild by comparison. For which reason I cling to the belief that when this depression ends and this emergency passes, we will go back to running our afrairs once again in the manner and means privileged to us by the Constitution. Some of the present philosophies may continue. But, the rule will end.
History offers abundant testimony that great and momentous developments for and of humanity have invariably been the aftermaths of the panics and depressions of the past; portentous forward thrusts of progress and improvement have been the step-children of these times of great distress. Numerous of the greatest boons that have come to humanity have been the direct and immediate products of panics. Yes, historX bids*us*hope.
So, let us now believe that blqssings will follow this present depression that will atone and compensate in some measure for the grief and sorrow that has attended it. And, perhaps a bigger and better understanding and practice of the brotherhood of man will be the chiefest of these that we may look forward to. We are demonstrating today as never before in the history of this scarred old world that we believe we ARE our brothers' keeper. Those who HAVE are sharing with those who HAVE NOT as never before in history. And, I believe that the passing of the financial cloud will leave the spirit which now prevails so deeply imbedded in our hearts and consciousness, that fellowship will continue when good times return, and the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God will be more definitely a part of our entire existence than we ever dreamed of before.
Frequently of late men with axes to grind tell us in impressive terms that this is the worst depression in history. Pardon me if I very stoutly doubt that statement. For several years now I have been'devouring whatever reliable testimony has come my lvay concerning the history of the world as it has been affected by panics and depressions. True, we have had more people job-less than ever before; we have lost more money than ever before; we owe more money than ever before. But, let us not forget that there are more people to be job-less than ever before, but
that the unemployed have NOT sufiered as in previous depressions; that we lost more money simply because we were doing business with bigger figures than at any previous time; and we owe more for the same reason.
Read the history of any past depression and see if the signs of mirth and happiness you see all about you today -and for years past-were ever known in those times. Read descriptions of the days of 1819, 1832, 1852, 1823, and 1893. Then look about you today. Thousands upon thousands of theatres filled to overflowing, and people waiting in line for the chance to pay exorbitant prices to be entertained. Almost countless millions of dollars paid in the past seaSon to see amateur football games. Boxing matches, wrestling matches patronized as never before in history. Cafes without number selling food to people too carefree to cook their own. Race tracks jammed by masses of people fighting for a chance to lose their cash. Luxuries of all kinds gobbled up at high prices, cosmetics alone taking a toll of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Look out into the street and estimate the cost of our national joy-ride. You're watching our .,depressed" people burn up three billion dollars worth of gasoline and oil a year, as they go about seeing the sights. Figure the annual motor car investment and depreciation ! We are stunned at Mr. Roosevelt's estimate of our national debt. Yet our auto bill would pay it in full very quicky. Our luxury expense account would wipe it out in a few years, interest and all. And, I'm talking about our luxury bill of TODAY-not some time past. you can go on into volumes listing signs that point not to poverty. you'll find nothing of the kind in the past great depressions. At least we can say that this one is different.
Just finished reading a very unsual book; ,.Sunny Meadows," written by my Iriend Thomas Dreier, of Melvin Village, New Hampshire, whose delightful writings I have often quoted in these columns. He lives on a wonderful farm, in a restful, and soul-building *oodetr home, and the book is just peaceful ramblings in the fields, and woods, and over the hills of that lovely New England country. It is a restful and delightful vacation just to ramble with Toin in this book. In the back of the book is a beautiful picture of their farm house, built of hewn timbers held together by wooden pegs, and brand new and lovely after 150 years of service. The book is published by The Stratford Company, Boston, Mass., and costs two dollars.
To all persons, individuals, firrns, partnerships, cbrporations, associations, trusts, trustees and receivers engaged in the manufacture of lumber and timber products, including manufacturers of logs, poles and piling; sawn lumber and products of planing mills operated in conjunction with sawmills; shingles; woodwork (millwork) including products of planing mills operating in conjunction with retail lumber yards; hardwood flooring; veneers; plywood; kiln dried hardwood dimension; lath; sawed boxes, shook and crates; plywood, veneer and wirebound packages and containers; and additional timber products as enumerated in Schedule "A" of the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries as approved by the President on August 19, 1933, and amendments thereto:
TAKE NOTICE THAT the following Administrative Order was issued by the National Recovery Administration under date of Februarv 12. 1934:
"By virtue of the authority vested in me as Administrator for Industrial Recovery, I hereby prescribe the following rules and regtlations which I deem necessary and advisable to carry out the purposes and intent of the Executive Order of the President, dated February 8, 1934t with reference to the posting and display of the terms and provisions of Codes of Fair Competition:
"1. Every person subject to any Code of Fair Competition shall, within thirty (30) days from the date hereof, the effective date of such Code, or the date upon which he becomes subject thereto, whichever is latest unless he has previously so registered, register the full name of his enterprise together with a statement of the number of shops, establishments or separate units thereof and their location, with the Code Authority of the Trade or Industry of which he is a member. Every such person who may open for business an additional shop, establishment or separate unit after such registration shall, - within thirty (30) days after such opening, register the same in like manner.
"2. Upon registration, or as soon thereafter as is possible. each such person shall be furnished with official copies of provisions of any Code of Fair Competition to which he is subject relating to hours of labor, rates of pay and other conditions of employment. Such official copies of such provisions will contain directions for filing complaints of violations of such provisions.. Such official copies, with such directions, shall be kept conspicuously posted at all times by such person in each shop, establishment or separate unit of his enterprise to the extent necessary to make them freely accessible to all employees.
'03. Whenever any modification of or exemption or exception from any Code of Fair Competition permits any such person to pay lower wages or work his employees longer hours or establish conditions of employment less favorable to his employees than those prescribed by the provisions contained in such official copies of Code provisions, the Code Authority. on the request of such person, will furnish him with certified copies of such modification, exemption or exception in sufficient number for posting alongside of such official copies of Code provisions.
"4. No such person subject to a Code of Fair Competiton shall display or furnish any incorrect copies of such provisions, directions, modifications, exemptions or exceptions.
"5. A person subject to more than one Code, when official copies have been so furnished shall so post such copies of such provisions of every Code to which he is subject.
"6. Nothing in these rules and regulations shall relicve anyone from complying with any provisions of any Codes relating to posting, displaying or furnishing copies of Codes or of provisions of Codes.
HUGH S. JOHNSON Administrator for Industrial Recovery"Washington, D. C.
February 12,1934
You are hereby directed to register your enterprise with the administrative agency of the Lumber Code Authority having jurisdiction over your Division or Subdivison, as required under the above Administrative Order.
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Nothing hurts an old colored man or woman more than inability to remember their "white folks." In fact the average old darkey will go to great extremes before admitting any such fault of memory, and many a one has got him or herself in deep tangles of lying, trying to keep from an admission of forgetfulness.
A woman f know recently went back to her childhood home in Mobile, Alabama, and there met up with a very old colored man who used to work around their place when she was a little girl. She spoke to the old darkey
and saw that he did not recognize her, so she said:
"You don't remernber me, do you Uncle Mose?"
He looked at her long and hard out of those old eyes, but she could see that he wasn't making the grade. He couldn't place her, and felt greatly embarrassed at the fact.
"Ah'm tellin' you de truf, Missy," he said; "Ah don' seem to zackly diso'ganize you, but Ah'll say dis-you' face do look sim'lar."
The Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, Wash., announces the appointment of William W. Woodbridge of Seattle as Manager of Promotion. For the past eighteen years, Mr. Woodbridge has been advertising manager of the West Coast Lumberman.
Mr. Woodbridge came to the Pacific Northwest in 1906 follorving the completion of his studies at the College of Will.am and I\Iary in Virginia. After spending several years in the state of Washington where he was connectecl rvith the lumber and shingle industry, he became associated with the advertising business as manager of the Detroit, Mich., office of a large eastern advertising firm.
He return€d to the West Coast in 1916 to become advertising manager for the West Coast Lumberman, rvhich position he held until his recent appointment with the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau. He will take over his new duties at once.
Ben C. Phillips, Northern California salesman for Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Francisco, was the principal speaker before the Ki'ivanis Club of Salinas, Calif., February 9. He spoke at the invitation of Joe Rogers, manager of the Sterling Lumber Co., Salinas, and took as his subject "Mine-sweeping in the North Sea."
Mr. Phillips speaks with authority on this subject, having been a lieutenant in the United States Navy at the time of the World War, when he gained considerable firsthand experience in mine-sweeping. He has given this talk by request before a large number of service clubs all over Northern California.
Max Cook, San Francisco, agricultural engineer, and O. G. "Red" Grimes, Southern California sales representative, for The Pacific Lumber Company, have, just completed a month's trip calling on the Southern' California retail lumber dealers introducing the company's prefabricated products, Palco Redwood Sectional Septic Tanks and Palco Redwood Sectional Poultry Feeders, to insure statewide distribution.
Betrv,een 50 and 60 retail dealers r'vere added to the company's statewide list.
Palco products are sold exclusively through the retail lumber dealers. Through cooperation with the supply and feed houses, plumbers, contractors, etc., the dealers are also increasing their sales for the Sectional Septic Tanks and Sectional Poultry Feeders. With an initial sale of these products, the dealers are serviced with miniature or models of the Sectional Septic Tanks and Sectional Poultry Feeders for display and demonstration purposes together with suitable literature which assists the dealers in developing inquiries and making sales.
Charles T. Gartin will cover the Northern California territory for Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., starting March 1, it is announced by Floyd W. Elliott, manager of the company's San Francisco office.
N{r. Gartin is r,r'ell known, particularly in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys. lle was formerly with the California Cedar Products Co., Stockton, as salesman, and has recently been with the Maris Plywood Co., San Francisco. He is a son of James ,U. Gartin, president and manager of Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto.
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T. P. Hogan Co., Oakland, is now specializing in supplying full mill bids throughout the N,orthern California territory through the retail yards.
This service is welcomed by yards whose mills are shut down for lack of sufficient rvork, and by yards which have not the facilities for doing the work. The yards have only to supply the plans and specifications. The T. P. Hogan Co. with its big Oakland plant, modern in every particular, is equipped to give fast service on this class of work.
They have already supplied a large number of fine buildings and high class residences' in difierent parts of Northern California through the local yards, which welcome this new source of profit.
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The volume of this work has necessitated the enlargement of the planing mill department, which is in charge of R. D. Laphan. I. T. (Ike) Leitner and Merrill.Sutton are' his able assistants. Geo. B. Eidemiller is the salesman who covers the Northern California territory, and J. R. Anderson is superintendent of the mill.
"We invite the yards of Northern California to take advantage of this service", Mr. Laphan says, "and we are eager to cooperate with them to the fullest extent."
Announcement is made by Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation of the appointment of Fred J. Crosier, 341 Western Pacific Building, 1031 South Broadway, Los Angeles, as sales representative in the Southern California and Arizona territory. Mr. Crosier will handle this territory under the supervision of Larue Woodson, of San Francisco, who is in charge of sales for the Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation in California, Arizona and Nevada'
Congratulations are being received by Mr. and Mrs' Homer Derr, J. M. Derr Lumber Co', Elk Grove, on the arrival of a son, their first, on February 5.
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Recendy the voters of a middle western town were asked to exPress their preference for materials to be used in a bridge. Of the votes castr 96Vo favored wood.
Dontt forget trhat for Sustained Strength and Dependable Durability' you can't beat NOYO Brand Redwood.
Did you write for the booklet, "The Care of Your Roof"? It is worth reading.
that a coating of Asphalt Emulsion . . srATrc coATrNG . will add many years to the service you may expect from your roof.
The Engineering Experiment station of rowa state college conducted service and laboratory tests on roofing over a period of years and found that an asphalt coating added considerably to the useful life of roofing. (See Bulletin No. 109 rowa state college).
And the tests that have been made since then all over the counry . under many conditions . . . on all kinds of roofs . . under all climates . have borne out those scientific findings and further have proved that Asphalt Emulsion . . srATrc coATING . is THE dependable roof coating.
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Appeals, proposals involving the creation of new Divisions and Subdivisions, other code amendments, trade promotion, conservation and sustained yield of forests, grademarking and branding of lumber, prevention of the erection of new millp, cost protection prices, and the question of export markets were among the important matters which engaged the attention of the Lumber Code Authority at its recent session in Washington.
A decision by the Authority donated all lumber needed for the new buildings at Warm Springs, Ga., as a birthday gift to President Roosevelt. The Authority adopted an amendment to the Code to be submitted to the N.R.A. which will authorize the assessment by the Authority of additional code fees of not to exceed 5c per thousand, or its equivalent, for national trade promotional Purposes.
'The Atrthority voted to sustain the appeal of the Hardwood Coordinating Committee, and also directed that a committee be appointed to study this broad question of exports. The Hardwood Coordinating Committee appealed from a decision of the National Control Committee which exempted 50 per cent of all lumber cut for export from production control.
The Authority voted to grant the appeal of the M & M Woodworking Company, Portland, Ore., with which was associated in the appeal three other large Douglas fir door manufacturers of the Northwest, who asked that lumber purchased by them for manufacture into doors for export be exempted from minimum cost protection prices.
The Authority adopted basic forestry rules for all commercial timber lands subject to the Lumber Code. Divisional rules and regulations must be submitted by April 1, and their administration is to begin June 1. The future marking of lumber and timber products to indicate plainly the grade, size, species, source of manufacture and whether seasoned or unseasoned was provided for by action of the Authority, which voted to submit to the Administration provisions governing this undertaking on the part of the industry as a rvhole. The proposal to prevent the erection of new mills and the addition of new productive capacity came up on the petition of the Hardwood Division. The Authority resolved by a vote of 14 to 11 to recommend to the N.R.A. an amendment to the Code which would check the building of nerv sawmills.
Upon its application the production quota of the Plywood Package Division which had been set at 100 million feet for the first quarter of 1934 was reduced, to 70 million ' surface square feet of plywood and cleats. The Executive Officer was directed to subnrit to the Administrator an amendment to Schedule A which would more clearly define the eligible persons who might apply for allotments to the Mahogany Subdivision. The Maple Flooring Division was given a 10 million foot increase for the first quarter of 1934.
Minimum cost protection was extended to export sales of products of the Maple Flooring Division and the Southern and Appalachian Hardwood Subdivision. Cost protection was also extended to Subdivisions of the Wooden Package Division. Existing cost protection schedules were revised and corrected, most changes being of a minor nature, except in the case of the Oak Flooring Division, which increased its prices about 5 per cent.
The Southern Pine Division introduced new freight formulas designed to remove inequalities in price caused by distance from or proximity to the Division's chief markets. In order to provide in the future for proper coordination of prices, Chairman Tennant stated, a standing committee on Price Coordination would be established, made up of representatives of each Division who would elect their own Chairman; this committee will meet one week in advance of the meeting of the Lumber Code Authority and cost protection price schedules will not be submitted to the Cost and Protection Committee of the Authority until approved by the Price Coordinating Committee. A comrnittee to devise a form for cost questionnaires was appointed'
Thus far in the session the Authority has refused to consider any reductions in existing wage scaleq. Upon receipt of a telegram from the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, requesting that wages in the Northwest be increased, the Authority wired the organization that it would grant a hearing to any of its members who wish to appear in favor of such a change in the wage schedule.
The Authority approved amendments which would add California to the jurisdiction of the Douglas Fir Subdivision. An agreement between several Subdivisions of the Wooden Package Division and the Southern Rotary Cut Lumber Division settling disputed questions of jurisdiction, was approved. The County of San Francisco was added to the jurisdiction of the Redwood Division. All sessions of the Authority, except during a vote, have been open to the public.
Officers elected by the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yard Association, Inc., at a meeting recently held in Washington, D. C., were as follows: D. Carlysle MacLea, Baltimore, president; Theodore Fathauer, Chicago, first vipe-president; Henry Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, second vice-president; J. Jackson Kidd, Jr., Baltimore, secretary-treasurer.
Included in the directors elected were: C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, and D. J. Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
John Homer Plunkett, one of the country's outstanding figures in the asphalt roofing industry, died suddenly from a heart attack at his home in New York City early Friday morning, February 16, 1934. His passing was a great shock to his many friends on the Pacific Coast where he resided for many years.
At the time of his death, Mr. Plunkett was President of The Flintkote Company, whose headquarters are in New York, as well as Chairman of the Board and General Manager of the Pioneer-Flintkote Company (formerly the Pioneer Paper Company) of Los Angeles.
His early business career started with the Pioneer Paper Company. For many years he acted as their district sales representative in the San Francisco and Northwest territory. In 7923, he was transferred to the company's Los Angeles office as director of sales, and in 7926 became general manager of that organization. About five years ago the Pioneer Paper Company became associated with The Flintkote Company, and a year and a half ago Mr. Plunkett was elected President of that company at which time he went to New York City to make his headquarters, but he still retained his active interest in the Pioneer Paper Company. The first of the year, the Pioneer Paper Company and The Flintkote Company were consolidated, at which time the name of the Los Angeles concern was changed to the Pioneer-Flintkote Company.
Mr. Plunkett was progressive, possessed rare executive ability, and contributed greatly to the upbuilding of the asphalt roofing industry in the West. He was a tireless worker, and his ,counsel was frequently sought. He was popular and held in very high esteem by his many friends. While living in New York City he still continued to maintain his home at Beverly Hills, Calif., and kept in close contact with business conditions on the Pacific Coast making periodic trips to the company's Los Angeles offices.
Mr. Plunkett was a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, and was widely known in Masonic circles on the Pacific Coast.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Esther M. Plunkett, and two children, John, 7, and Faith,2. Funeral services were held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Church, New York City, Sunday afternoon, February 18.
Only in broken dreams and partial light has the sun of Liberty yet beamed among men, yet all progress has she called forth,
Liberty came to a race crouching under Egyptian whips, and led them forth from the House of Bondage. She hardened them in the desert and rnade of them a race of conquerors. The free spirit of the Mosaic law took their thinkers up to a height where they beheld the unity of God, and inspired their poets with strains that yet phrase the highest exaltations of thought.
Liberty dawned on the Phoenician coast and ships passed the Pillars of Hercules to plow the unknown sea.
She broke in partial light on Greece, and marble grew to shapes of ideal beauty, words became the instruments .of subtlest thought, and against the scanty militia of all free cities the countless hosts of the Great King broke like surges against a rock.
She cast her beams on the four-acre farms of Italian husbandmen, and born of her strength a power came forth that conquered the world.
She glinted frorn the shields of German warriors, and Augustus wept his legions.
Out of the night that followed her eclipse, her slanting rays fell again on free cities, and a lost learning revived, modern civilization began, a new world was unveiled; and as Liberty grew, so grew art, wealth, power, knowledge, and refinement.
In the history of every nation we may read the same truth. It was the strength born of Magna Charta that won Crecy and Agincourt. It was the revival of Liberty from the despotism of the Tudors that glorified the Elizabethan Age. ft was the spirit that brought a crowned tyrant to the block that planted here the seed of a mighty tree. It was the energy of ancient freedom that, the moment it had gained unity, made Spain the mightiest power in the world, only to fall to the lowest depths of weakness when tyranny succeeded Liberty.
See, in France, all intellectual vigor dying under the tyranny of the seventeenth century to revive in splendor as Liberty awoke in the eighteenth, and on the enfranchisement of the French peasants in the great revolution, basing the wonderful strength that has in our time laughed at disaster.
What Liberty shall do for the nation that fully accepts and loyally cherishes her, the wondrous inventions which are the marked features of this century, give us but a hint.
Given a government with a big surplus and a big majority and a uteak opposition, and you would debauch a committee of archangels.-Sir John A. Macdonald.
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"Dearest, I will wait for you until even the farmers are satisfi ed."-Burdette Brevities.
Some woman in Greensburg was granted a divorce after testifying that her husband dropped snakes down her back. It's getting so a married rnan can't have any fun any more.
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Softly the rain slants in From the south, with fragrance blown, From crystal, over the roofs. And I wonder if the rain Falls softly there todayOn the old barn staunch through the years, With its drowsy mow of hay.
Softly the rain-I hear The pigeons under the eaves Once more, and the sound of dreams Rich as the stir of leaves, Patterned with lifted light Spring's banners under the plain Beyond that roof, though it sags With years-and softly, the rain.
-G. W. Dresbach."And has she made him a good wife?"
"I don't know about that. But she's sure making him a good husband."
"To be right in every argument," said Ho Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "would make a man unpopular, with no friends willing to converse with him."
The Union Lumber Company of San Francisco has announced the appointment of Mason E. Kline as manager of the company's Southern California operations, efiective March 1. I\{r. Kline will have complete charge of all sales in Southern Caiifornia and Arizona, and he and his family will reside in Los Angeles.
A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Mr. Kline has long been recognized as one of the outstanding technical authorities of the lumber industry, with wide experience in Southern Pine, Douglas Fir and Redwood. For some time he was intimately associated with the fine veneer and panel industry as general sales manager for the Louisville Veneer Mills, one of the oldest manufacturers in this field. In addition, he devoted over ten years to specializing in all branches of wood preservation, serving in every section of the United States.
For years Mr. Kline has been employed by the Union Lumber Company as a technical authority for Redwood, and in his position as sales engineer for the company was of great assistance to the industry in the development and introduction of the structural grades of Redwood. This very successful program was one of the pre-eminent merchandising campaigns of recent years.
Officials of the company feel that in bringing Mr. Kline's sales and technical experience, and broad lumber knowledge, to Southern California, they are in position to give this important territory the service it so well deserves.
Peter Schafer, president, and his son John, in charge of the company's logging operations, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. of Montesano, Wash., were recent visitors at the company's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. They were en route to the mill following a trip to the Atlantic coast.
E. J. Calloway, president of Wheeler Osgood Sales Corporation, Tacoma, recently visited San Francisco and Los Angeles on a combined business and pleasure trip. Mr. Callo.way traveled both ways on Gra'ce line steamers.
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Washington, D. C., Feb. 11.-While the first quarter of 1934 promises a large demand for lumber in certain fields' according to the Lumber Survey Committee of'the U' S. Timber Conservation Board, lumber stocks are still 2.6 billion feet too large. This opinion is set forth in a statement which has been submitted to the Department of Commerce. Conservative adjustment of produ'ction is therefore recommended.
The report dwells on the importance of cultivating the export market and of active promotion of the lumber trade at home. Substantial recovery of the lumber industry will not be attained it says, until farm purchasing power increases and private building is actively resumed. While Iumber consumption increased during 1933, as compared .rith 1932, production ran slightly ahead of it.
Inventory reduction is emphasized as a means of strengthening the ability of the lumber industry to operate under the conditions imposed by the Lumber Code.
The Lumber Survey Committee appointed on July 9, 1931, consists of Thomas E. Holden, Vice President, F. W. Dodge Company, New York; M. W. Stark, Economist, Chicago, Ill.; Calvin Fentress, Chairman of the Board, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago, Ill.; Dr. Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association; and Axel H. Oxholm, Chief, Forest Products Division, Department of Commerce. This Committee serves voluntarily in cooperation with the work of the Timber Conservation Board in its study of the economic situation in the forest products industries.
The Lumber Survey Committee makes the following findings and recommendations:
1. The total national lumber stocks are in aggregate surplus by approximately 2.6 billion feet. Although the first quarter of 1934 promises continuation of a large demand for lumber, in view of public works requirements, the launching of a nation-wide drive to revive home building, and steadily increasing purchasing power along a wide front, private building and farm construction which norrnally represent a large proportion of lumber demand, are not yet in substantial recovery. Conservative planning and output, therefore, are again indicated as desirable.
2. It has been repeatedly urged by industry leaders that trade promotion efforts are essential along with production control and planning. Most of the critical code problems are due to inadequate volume of demand. Increased sales efforts on the part of American exporters may restore in part at least the loss in the lumber export trade, which in 1933, is estimated to have been 60 per cent below that oi 1928. The last few months of 1933 show advances in lumber exports over the earlier part of the year and over 1932, the rise, however, being due to amelioration of world economic conditions and the exchange situation rather than to efforts on the part of the American lumber industry. Not only is there a large potential market for
lumber in the export field but in domestic lines lumber manufacturers will be out-stripped by their many alert competitors unless more attention is paid to research and promotion.
3. Information on shortages and surpluses in lumber stocks is still fragmentary. Reports show shortages in rnany items but generally a surplus in shop and factory grades.and, in some regions, in box items. Further analysis of reports is shown on page 10. Exchanges of stocks by manufacturers in order to avoid unnecessary accumulations should be continued.
4. The general advance in prices at the lumber mills which had been much moderated during the past quarter has ceased. The Bureau of Labor Statistics.shows for lumber the greatest proportionate increase over a year ago, of any major building material; just as it had also shown the greatest proportionate decline during the precedirig three years. Comparison with 1926, for example, indicates that the general lumber price level has regained most of the heavy losses of the past few years, while at the same time the average costs have been greatly increased under drastic code provisions.
5. Cooperation of lumber manufacturers with the Forest Service and Census Bureau is urged in the efiort of these bureaus to secure lumber statistical information. The nation-wide surveys of lumber consumption in construction and the wood-using industries, recommended in our last report, is now under way at the Forest Service. Due to curtailed funds the Census Bureau is handicapped in its canvass for lumber production figures for 1933 which will continue its yearly series begun 3O years ago. A large part of this handicap will be removed if lumber manufacturers will respond promptly to the Census schedules sent out in January. Without these basic figures, the statistical work under code authorities is necessarily incomplete'
6. The Timber Conservation Board should make, or cause to be made, further periodic surveys and reports on current and prospective lumber demand and supply, with suitable recommendations.
W. W. Peed of the Los Gatos Lumber Co., Los Gatos, recently in San Francisco on a business trip, said he looks for a steady improvement in the retail lumber business from now on. Mr. Peed was formerly manager of the Monterev Bav Redwood Co.
Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, district sales manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk February 24 after spending two weeks with two of the company's salesmen, calling on as many yards as time permitted. He spent a week traveling with Jerry Stutz in the San Joaquin Valley, and a week with E. G"Dave" Davis in the Sacramento Valley.
Washington, February 9.-The Lumber Code Authority, in session here, today adopted what is virtually the primary reforestation law for all commer,cial timber lands subject to the ,code governing the lumber and timber products industries. Broad basic rules governing forest operations, looking to the maintenance of forests through sustained yield practice, were written into a forestry code and added to the Lumber Code as Supplement C. This forestry code is as binding on the forest industries in respect of rnaintaining their forests in a reproductive condition as the provisions relating to allocation of produ,ction, cost protection, minimum wages and maximum hours, or anything else in the code, are in their respective fields.
When the supplement is approved by President Roosevelt it becomes in eflect the federal law of the forests.
Foresters and lumbermen alike pointed out today that, as with so many other projects under President Roosevelt, what has been for. generations a subject of harmless conversation or academic dissertation has become a reality enforcible by the authority of the Government of the United States.
Ofti.cers of the Lumber Code Authority calculate that the new law of the forest will apply at once to about 250 million acres of land owned by industrial and timber holding companies. The low will also apply, it is believed, to that portion of the 125 million acres of farm timberlands which are commercially utilized. The total forest area of the United States is put at something over 500 million acres, but about 180 million acres are in national and state forests or some other form of public domain. As most of the publicly owned forests are already under forestry administration, it may be roughly generalized-according to lumber,code officers-that the United States n,ow becomes one of those ,countries whose forests are entirely under conservative utilization.
Foresters say that much more needs to be done in order fully to realize the ideal of sustained yield set by the Lumber Code, but they are delighted with such widespread positive progress toward reforestation and look for further refinements of forestry practice as the forest industries become accustomed to lumbering and logging under the nerv regulations. The basic rules for the country as a whole are as follows:
1. Protection of standing timber and young trees from fire and other destructive forces.
2. Prevention of damage to young trees during logging operations.
3. Provision for replanting the cleared land after logging, if sufficient advan,ce growth .is not already present.
4. To leave, where feasible, some portion of the merchantable timber as a basis for growth and the next timber crop.
5. Partial cutting or selective logging shall be the general standard of forest practice.
A premium for the practice of sustained yield lumbering
under these rules is awarded in the form of a 10 per cent increase in quotas of production.
The general rules are to be adapted to the requirements of terrain and climate in each regional division or subdivision under the code. These adaptations must be filed with the Code Authorify by April 1Sth and practice of them will be obligatory upon all persons sdbject to the Code, not later than June 1, 1934.
Washington, Feb. 15.-One year and one day after his inauguration, President Roosevelt will address what probably will be the greatest gathering of leaders of industry and trade in the country's history-the conference of Code Authorities and trade association committees scheduled to be held in Washington March 5 to March 8.
Invitations to participate in the conference to determine practical measures to meet problems which have arisen in actual code operation, have been forwarded by National Recovery Administrator ,Hugh S. Johnson to nearly 7000 members of the Authorities created under approved Codes and also to the trade association code committees representing those industries whose proposed Codes, having been considered in public hearings, are now awaiting formal approval.
A total of. 278 Codes covering approximately 9O per cent of all industry and trade have been approved to date and another 353, most of them for relatively small industries, on which public hearings have been held, are in course of preparation for final approval.
In his call for the conference, the opening sessions of which are to be held in Constitution Hall, General Johnson outlined the major purposes to include "the consideration in public sessions of the possibilities of increasing employment; protections against destructive competiton and against excessive prices and monopolistic tendencies; the elimination of inequalities and inconsistencies in codes; the position of small enterprises; and the vast problem of code administration and the organization of industry for selfgovernment."
In his invitations to the conference, General Johnson not only requested the submission before February 20 of "such questions, or suggestions, which, in your judgment, may improve the policy or procedure of the National Recovery Administration" but he also urged participants to come prepared to discuss details of the effect of the codes on their particular industries.
Following the opening session on March 5 to be addressed by the President and General Johnson, the general conference will be divided into several public group meetings to be followed by group conferences of Code Authorities and Code Committees with the Administration and a final general conference of selected delegates of each Code Authority and Committee with the Administrator.
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E. C. Mead, Scotia. Calif.Albert A. Schafer, vice-president of the Schafer Bros. Mill & Shingle Co., Montesano, Wash., has retumed to the Northwest after spending a week in California where he visitecl the companv's offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Harry J. Graham of Los Angeles, director of sales on the Pacific Coast for the Pioneer-Flintkote Company, has returned from a business trip to Portland and Seattle. His trip was shortened, being called back to Los Angeles by the death of John .H. Plunkett, general manager of the company, who died in New York City on February 16.
B. W. Lakin, general manager of the McCloud River
I-umber Co., McCloud, Calif., and a member of the Lumber Code Authority, has returned from Washington, D. C., where he attended the recent Lumber Code Authority hearings. On his way back to the mill, he stopped over for a few days in Los Angeles and San Francisco where he visited the offices of the Shevlin Pine Sales Co.
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John Moore, secretary and treasurer of Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Bandon, Ore., was a recent visitor to the company's San Francisco office. Mr. Moore was accompanied by Mrs. Moore and his youngest daughter.
Clyde Osborne, manag'er of the creosoting department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Portland, visited the home office in San Francisco on his way home from attending the convention of the American Wood Preservers Asscciation, held recently in Houston, Tex.
Homestead Lumber Co., Sacramento, has completed the construction of a new offi'ce and display room. They have put in a 'complete line of hardware, garden utensils, etc.
J. E. Morley and A. E. Nelson are the owners of Homestead Lumber Co.
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(a) Supplementing Article X, and based upon the recommendations of the Conference held pursuant thereto, the following supplements provide for the initiation and administration of measures necessary for the conservation and sustained production of forest resources, by the industries within each Division, in cooperation wth the appropriate State and Federal Authorities, it being recognized that the extent to which these undertakings of the industry are capable of successful accomplishment is dependent upon the extent and character of public cooperation in each state.
(b) Each Division and each Subdivision having jurisdiction over forest utilization operations shall establish or designate an agency or agencies to formulate and from time to time to revise rules of forest practice, and to exercise general supervision over the application and enforcement thereof in the operations of the persons of the respective Divisions and Subdivisions. Such agencies shall have as non-voting, advisory members one representative of each of the State and Federal organizations which have definite responsibility under State and Federal laws for forestry or forest protection practice within the several Divisions and Subdivisions. Each Division and each Subdivison shall provide such technical and other qualified personnel as may be required to furnish necessary information to aid agencies and persons, to inspect the forest operations of said persons, to enforce such rules of forest practice, and otherwise to carry out the purposes of this article, under the said general supervision of said agencies. On or before April 15, 1934, each such agency shall formulate such rules of forest practice and shall submit them through the appropriate channels to the Authority for its approval. After such approval the Authority shall publish separately for each Division and Subdivision approved forest practice rules, which, on and after June I, 1934, shall be obligatory for all persons subject to the juriSdiction of th'e said Divisions and Subdivisions, respectively. Upon application by a Division or Subdivision, or upon its own initiative to secure compliance with this article and equal application thereof within and between the several Divisions and Subdivisions, the Authority may am'end such rules of forest practice; such amendments shall be published by the Authority and shall be effective 30 days after the date of such publication.
(c) Said rules of forest practice, to insure the conservation and sustained production of forest resources, shall include practicable measures to be taken by the operators to safeguard timber and young growing stock from injury by fire and other destructive forces, to prevent damage to young trees during logging operations, to provide for restocking the land after logging if sufficient advanee growth is not already present, and where feasible to leave some portion of merchantable timber (usually the less mature trees) as a basis for growth and the next timber croP. Said rules of forest practice shall be adequate to secure
the purposes of this article, and in a practical way in accordance with conditions existing in the respective Divisions and Subdivisions shall secure application of the following principles:
1. Fire protection during and immediately following logging is an indispensable condition for forest regrowth. Responsibility for adequate provision for control of fires during or immediately following logging operations rests upon the individual operator if he is in any way the cause of such fires. Each operator shall be definitely responsible for taking practical measures of fire control. Such measures shall, to the extent necessary to provide adequate protection, include slash and snag disposal, rules as to use'of fire by employees including smoking in the woods, equipment of logging locomotives and engines with adequate devices for preventing fires, having available upon call crews properly equipped to fight fires, closing operations during exceptionally dry periods, and other precautionary measures. Where a general fire protection system is in effect, each operator shall correlate his protection system with the general system, but such general system shall not replace the protection system of such operator, nor shall it relieve him of responsibility for protecting his own property to the extent that he has created the hazard. He shall not be considered to be responsible for fire caused by public carelessness or by inadequate public protection.
2. To the end that protection against fire and other destructive forces may be rapidly extended to all forest areas that require protection, said agencies shall endeavor to secure action on the part of all operating forest land owners in the direction of cooperating with public organizations in systematic fire prevention and suppression and such protective action as may be practicable for protection against insects and diseases. Such agencies shall also"seek to secure such cooperation on the part of non-operating forest land owners.
3. As much as practicable of the advance growing stock upon the land in the form of young trees of valuable species below merchantable size shall be preserved during logging operations and left without injury for future growth. Each operator shall require his woods employees to exercise conscious care to reduce damage to advance growth to the minimum practicable.
4. To secure natural reproduction, which will usually be obtained where partial cutting is practiced, there shall be left on the logged areas, where economic and other conditions permit, a sufficient number of trees of desirable species to yield a commercial cut at reasonable intervals. Under certain conditions, instead of partial cutting, the leaving of seed trees or groups of seed trees on or adjacent to logged areas may be sufficient to insure the required regrowth on the logged areas. If there is an insufficient reserve stand. or if conditions are otherwise ad-
verse and the prospects of securing natural reseeding are uncertain, planting may be desirable.
5. To the extent practicable, partial cutting or selective logging shall be the general standard for local measures of forest practice.
Said agencies shall without delay, making use of existing information, undertake to determine by regions or by forest types, the extent to which merchantable sizes of trees may wisely be left as part of the forest growing stock. Upon satisfactory determination of such conditions said agencies shall promptly establish standards of practice looking to the attainment of this objective.
In certain regions or forest types, and under certain conditions, which do not justify partial cutting or selective logging, other methods shall be allowed.
Three rules of forest practice shall also apply to persons whose operations are in timber held under "lease" or "timber cutting rights" existing prior to the date of the President's approval of these supplements to Article X. provided that due consideration shall be given to the ownership equities involved in order to avoid causing such persons unreasonable hardship by requiring the leaving of trees of merchantable sizes.
6. In order to provide flexibility, each operator shall be encouraged to communicate to his agency the methods which he proposes as best suited in his individual operation to achieve the declared objectives of conservation and sustained production of forest resources, and if such proposed methods are determined by said afJency to equal or excel the regional or type standard methods, they shall be
approved in lieu thereof. This in effect permits modification of regional or type standards upon submission and approval of specific individual management plans.
7. Said agencies shall, each within its own jurisdiction, investigate the feasibility of and shall actively encourage the application of sustained yield forest management wherever feasible. Sustained yield forest management is defined as management of specific forest lands, under single ownership or cooperative control within an economic unit under definite management plan which limits timber cutting to the capacity of such forest lands, under existing methods of management, as determined from existing growing stock and gror,r'th, to provide without interruption or substantial reduction raw material for industry and community support.
8. This Article with its supplements, the rules of forest practice and any other rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto, being adopted in order to give. effect in the public intere,st to the declared purposes of the Article, may be enforced only by the United States through its appropriate enforcement agencies or officers. Nothing contained in this article and its supplements, or in the rules of forest practice or in any other rule or regulation adopted pursuant thereto, shall be construed to enlarge, increase, change or effect the legal duty, liability or responsibility of any person subject to the jurisdiction of this code to any other person, firm or corporation, whether or not the latter is subject to the jurisdiction of this Code, or to give to any such person, firm or corporation any right of action against any person subject to the jurisdiction of this code which would not have existed if this Article had not been adopted.
(d) The Authority shall issue interpretations and shali promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the enforcement of this Article, to prevent evasion and to secure equitable application thereof.
Amend Article VIII (k) by adding the following:
"Pursuant to the foregoing each eligible person who makes application to be recognized as securing his raw material supply from forest lands under his ownership or control which are manag'ed on a sustained yield basis, and who secures from his Division or Subdivision agency provided for in Article X (b) a certificate showing that he is in good faith conducting his operation upon such basis, shall have his production allotments, as determined without the benefit of this paragtaph, increased by 10 per cent. If only part of his raw material supply comes from such sustained yield operation, his increased allotment shall be that proportion of 10 per cent which the volume of his raw material coming from such sustained yield operation is of his total volume. Sustained yield forest management is defined in Article X (c) 7. The additional production allotments provided for in this paragraph shall come from the total national production quotas.
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Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for Address Box C-480, Care California Lumber Mer-
Retail Lumberman seeks connection as manager or assistant, expert accountant, years of experience in all branches of retail lumber and building materials. Have managed one-man yards, also larger lst class plants with planing mill and sash and door department. Open for any position to start. Address Box C-501 California Lumber Merchant.
Warehouse equipped complete for handling of Iumber and lumber products. 8Ox135 feet, double frontage, on Santa Fe Siding. Desks, safe and office space included. Apply Roy E. Harrington, care California Moulding Co., 1306 West 58th Street, Los Angeles.
Well recommended with many years' experience in yard management, selling and plan estimating, desires responsible position with reputable firm. Address Box C-503, care California Lumber Merchant.
Washington, Feb. 20.-An orcler by National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson grantir.rg rate relief to petitioning groups of Pacific Coast lumber shippers tvas announced today.
The order, dated February 19 and effective February 22, modified certain rate schedules and rate-making rules, heretofore promulgated by the Lumber Code Authority, in a way to meet complaints against those rates made by various West Coast lumber and lumber-shipping interests. A public hearing on those complaints was conducted in Washington by Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge January 9-13. Many witnesses appeared and voluminous testimony was taken. General Johnson's order is based upon Deputy Selfridge's report thoroughly analyzing this rr.rass of evidence, and accompanied by an elaborate study of the rate-structure factors involved, made by NRA's Research and Planning Division.
The appeal, which was against "Bulletin No. 32" and against Paragraph Three of the Rules and Regulations of "Bulletin Forty-five" of the Lumber Code Authoritv was made by: the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Association; certain Washington and Oregon shippers to California; California Wholesale Lumber Association; Merced Lumber Company (California) ; Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference.
The genesis of the situation was about this: A "Bulletin No. 14" issued by the Lumber Code Authority provided that lumber shipped by rail from Oregon and Washington should be priced at points of delivery by adding to the f.o.b. mill minimum prices the 1egal1y established rate of freight to be applied to the weight of the lumber itern as indicated therein. "Bulletin No. 32", in effect, suspended these provisions and prescribed that when sales are made on a delivered basis there shall be added to the minimum
mill price the actual cost of transportation of the individual shipper, and also that sales to California by rail shall in no case be at a lower minimum price than sales of the same item by water.
General Johnson's order cancels "Bulletin 32" and substitutes for it and for Paragraph 3 of Bulletin 45 (which was a kindred rule to that of Bulletin 32) fifteen typewritten pages of rules and rates for the West Coast lumber shipments in question. What they do is to define destination points affected, provide methods of calculating delivered prices for water and rail shipments and for the necessary absorptions and deductions, establish minimum transportation rates to destination (including the cost of moving from ship's tackle and loading on carriers.)
General Johnson's order says that " on the basis of the showing made at the hearings justice requires that said applications be granted."
The principle involved, as summarized by Deputy Selfridge, is that " in order to maintain free and fair competion between shippers to common competitive markets, it is necessary that partial absorptions of published established transportation costs, whether by rail or by water, be permitted so that the trade and the consuming public may be assured of fair and stabilized prices at points of delivery to prevent ruinous and unfair competition."
NRA Codes of Fair Competition approved under the National Industrial Recovery Act are being compiled in bound volumes and can be purchased through the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at a pri,ce of $1.50 per volume.
A new window display, in tune with business recovery, made in ten colors of real paint, with thirteen color effect, is being offered on a cooperative purchase basis by the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau, 2201 New York Avenue, N. W., Washington, D. C., for 1934. The display is especially designed to promote the sale of paint, hardware, seeds, lumber and building materials, and to increase employment.
The new design is identified as "No. 29," and is approximately 33 inches high by 44 inches wide, with three panels, one panel emphasizing interior painting and varnishing and. furniture refinishing, while the large center panel shows a house being painted while an addition is being built, emphasizing modernizing of property, as w'ell as repainting. A man digging in the yard emphasizes gardening, while the third panel represents a giant painter, with brush and paint in hand, surveying the scene of activity. The display carries the admonitions to
"Clean
and reminds the prospective customer that "the longer you wait the more it will cost!"
The display is in very brilliant colors, die-cut and packed in individual cartons for mailing and shipping. It has a space 3/z inches by 13 inches for special imprinting, in the sky of the design. This new display is offered for no profit, but at prices intended to cover only the Bureau's cost and handling. The price is ffl.10 each up to 100 displays; $1.41 each in lots of from 100 to )00 displays; fl1.40 each in lots of )00 or more displays, carriage charges collect. The prices include individual shipping cartons for each display.
A special illustrated circular in colors, fully describing and pricing the display may be had upon requesr to the National Clean Up and Paint LJp Campaign Bureau, 2201 New York Avenue, N. \7., Washington, D. C.
