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Fredonia Drive, Hollywoodr decorated this Berbecue Room wall. The room is in Clear Redwood, natural finish. Mr. Obzina sayo: t'One might think I would prefer to wotk with oak, the popular wood in my native Vienna. But no--such woods are unresponsive to freatment Redwood tespondsl lends itself-yes' it helps me to bring out elfects which I could hot hope to achieve on other woods.tt
Incorlnrated under thc laws of Califomir J. C. Dimne, Pree. and Trcas.; J. E. Madfn, Vlce-Prcr; A. C. Merrynani Jr, Secy. ' Publiahed thc lrt ud l5th of each Ddrth at 31t-r9-20 Cotnt Building, rU W"rt Skth Str.Gt, Lc Angslcr, Cal., Telcphmc, VAndikc l5t5 Entcred ac Scond-clus Eatter S.ptemb6" ?5, l'9Zl- at the Pctorfrie at Lor Angllcr, Callfomia, u&r Act of March !, lt?!.
Douglas Fir-A total of 322 mills reporting to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended February 27, opetated at 23.3 per cent of capacity, as compared to 25.5 per cent of capacity for the previous week and 39.1 per cent for the same week last year. During t{re week of February 20, 185 of these plants were reported as down and, 137 as operating. Those operating reported production as 45.9 per cent of their group capacity.
Productioq shipments and orders reported to the Association by 214 iderrtical mills for the week ended February 27 werc as follows: Production 56r290r52t feet; shipments 6816081379 feet; orders 6416241973 f.eet. Cunent new business was 14.8 per cent over production, but totaled 3r0OO'OOO feet less than the footage received the previous week. These mills reported production 6,000,000 feet less than tte week before. For the eighteenth successive week orders were in excess of production, the longest continuous period in at least ten yearc in which orders were reported in greater volume than production. The preent better relationship between orders and production is due to the extremely low production since late in October.
Details of orders and shipmerrts at these mills for the week follow: Orders-Rail 2O,tO5rO27 feet; Domestic Cargo 26,290rO84 feet; Export l2r700r$t, feet; Local 513291029 f.eet. Shipment*Rail 20r340rt97 feet; Domestic Cargo 2913281706 f.eeti Export 131610,647 feet; Local 5,329,O29 f.eet.
Inventories as reported by 144 mills were decreased 9r0O0r0O0 feet during the week ended Februaty 27, and are 15.7 per cent less than at this time last*/ear.
fn t{re California market, wholesalers report that the volume of,business in the metropolitan areas has shown improvement during the past two weeks, while in the outlying districts the demand continues light. The new coatswise freight rates are on a firm basis, which means that cargo lumber prices have advanced accordingly. Mill prices on new business are reported firm. Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro on
B. W. Lakin, general manager of The McCloud River Lumber Company, McCloud, Calif., was a recent Southern California visitor where he spent two weeks at Santa Monica. Mrs. Lakin accomDanied him on the trip.
A. C. Horner, manag'er of the Western office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, announces the removal of their western office from the Call Building to 45 Second street, San Francisco.
March 9 totaled 617721000 feet. Cargo arivals at San Pedro for the week ended March 5 totaled tr547r000 feet, the lowest tecotded for some time, and included four cargoes of Douglao fir carrying 3r347rOOO feet, and one cargo of redwood with 2001000 feet. On March 3, 66 lumber vecsels in tte California service were laid up .ur compared with 64 f.or the previous week; 47 vessels were operating on March 3, including the Missoula, which is in the intercoastal sewice.
No impottant change in the lumber movement was indiceted for the week ended February 27 in reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associations covering the operations of 695 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Production at tfiese mills totaled 100r059rq)0 feet, with orders exceeding this figure by 44 per cent and shipments exceeding it by 48 per cent. The reported cut and order and shipment relations to it are in line with ratios that have obtained for some weeks past. A week eadier 716 mills repoted orders 36 p* cent above and shipments 40 per cent above I production of 110,475'fi)0 feet.
The Southern Pine Association for the week ended February 27 rcpotted, new business from 125 mills as 291274r@0 feet' shipments 28r497rOOO feet, and production 1919511000 feet. Orders wete 47 per cent above production and 3 per cent above shipments. Shipmenc were 43 per cent above production.
The Western Pine Association reported new business from 126 mills as 37r517,OO0 feet, shipments ,tr235r00/0 feet, and production 1014311000 feet. Orders wete 221 per cent above production and 7 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 199 per cent above production.
218 hardwood mills for the same week reported new businese as 13r(D6,000 feet, or 15 per cent above production. Shipments wete l4r9O4rO0O feet, or 31 per eent above production. Production was L1,345,OOO feet.
Fire, probably started from a passerby's cigarette, damaged the yard of the San Francisco Lumber Co., foot of Taylor street, San Francisco, and some nearby buildings to the extent of $75,00o, early in the morning of March 7.
Dean Cook, sales manag'er of the Madera Sugar Pine Co., Madera, Calif., has returned from a business trip calling on the trade in the Middle Western states. While en route to the mill, he spent a few days in the Los Angeles territory.
W. T. BLACK San Frrnclrco Covcrr Northcn Cdlf. and Padfic Ncthwc*The house situation is a good index to the ebb and flow. In a very short time Los Angeles is due to discover that it hasn't houses enough to cover the folks. Then a madhouse building will begin. Itwill not end until there are houses enough to accommodate a good part of the population of the earth. If a cat showed as little sense as the average investor, she would claw her eyes out every time she saw a dog that frightened her-so she wouldn't have to look at the dog.-Harry Carr in L. A. Times.
The Burlingame Lumber Co. has moved to its new location on the highrvay at Millbrae, rvhich is just a short distance north of the old location. E. E. Phillips is the ovvner and manager.
Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, has bought the yard of the Morgan Hill Lumber Co., and consolidated this with their own yard at that point. M. P. "Skipper" Hale rvill continue in charge of the consolidated yard.
Canec, the new structural'insulation, shortly to be marketed by Hawaiian Cane Products, Ltd., is being intro; duced this month to California lumber dealers. "Milt" Cruse and Jerry Brennen, veteran insulation salesmen, have been assigned to the California territory by Wm. L. Rawn, general sales manager of the Canec organization. E. D. Griffith has been assigned to demonstrate Canec to Northern California architects and engineers.
The $2,500,0@ insulation board plant of Hawaiian Cane Products. Ltd., at Hilo, Hawaii, has an annual capacity of 100,C00,00O square feet and is expected to be in commercial production by the end of March.
Theb. H. Davies & Co.. Ltd.. with offices at 215 Market street, San Francisco, are managing agents of the new project, the capital stock of which is completely subscribed by sugar, commercial and transportation interests of the Hawaiian Islands. The interests include Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., established in 1894; American Factors, Ltd., established in 1918; C. Brewer & Co., established in 1826; Castle & Cooke, Ltd., established in 1851, and Theo. H. Davies & Co., Ltd., established in 1845. Walter F. Dillingham, president of the Oahu Railway & Land Company, heads a group of leading commercial and financial interests of Honolulu who have participated with the sugar producers in making the project a reality.
George B. Cone, sales manager of Fruit Growers' Supply Co., San Francisco, is expected to return March 23 lrom a business trip to the Eastern States and Eastern Canada.
By Jack Dionne
I believe in capital punishment for murder, rape, and highway robbery. But for the crime of kidnaping I believe in something considerably more severe. We should publish in all public places the following instructions to capturers of kidnapers: "When you capture a kidnaper, find a stout post; tie the kidnaper securely to said post; pile dry wood and other inflammables about both post and kidnaper; saturate well with kerosene, gasoline, or both; light a match to same; then go places." Perform this little operation a few times and these ghouls from the lower left-hand corner of. Hell will slow up a whole lot.
Democracies are great things in a whole lot of ways. But they move slowly and indefinitely when it comes to emergencies. They run heavy to law, and light to justice; heavy to delay, and light to action. Old Porfirio Diaz used to have a Government in Mexico that could and did DO things. He believed in quick and certain justice. A desperate criminal was treated as such. He was quickly, de. cisively, and permanently removed. They didn't spend a fortune trying to overcome the technicalities of fool laws and the wiles of shyster lawyers in order to accomplish a necessary purpose. tney* y"l him out.
Porfirio believed in "relativity" also. Not the Einstein kind, however; the Diaz kind. A formidable gangster in Diaz's time was not only immediately and effectually removed, but his family likewise disappeared. Diaz figured -with the Scriptur+that since an evil tree cannot bring forth good fruit, evil fruit must be the sign of an evil tree; so, when he found it necessary to cut off an evil limb from a tree, he just took his little hatchet and removed the entire tree. Our most learned and accredited students of criminology today urlanimously agree that eradication of criminality must go back to the source, just as the clean-. ing of a stream must start with its source. We're just a little slow. Diaz understood-and practiced-that philosophy of criminology for two generations.
In this country today we need some of the Diaz law enforcement and crirne prevention tonic-and we need it bad. Our criminal element and our criminal individuals are as well known as the local court house. The terrorists are all marked. The master law-evaders are all located. Think what Diaz would do under such conditions, if he were here, and running his old-time form of government ! In the fewest days all these gentry-and their hangers-on and their henchmen and their kin-folks-would have disap-
peared. Think of the crime that would be prevented; the lives that would be saved; the hellaciousness that would be cut off at the very source; ttie feeling of safety and security that would ensue. Of course we can't accomplish anything of the sort-we seem to be drifting in the opposite direction-but honest, wouldn't it be a grand and glorious feeling?
what sad, sad r"-. "rJuo" ,"1" papers these days. For instance, I just read the following in the Associated Press dispatches: "The farm loan board is nearing a crisis in its short, turbulent life." Now wouldn't it be too bad if that particular patient failed to get well? Not a dry eye in the house ! ,f**
Not long ago, to illustrate where business is coming from when the tide swings backward, I told in this column a story from Scott's Lady of the Lake. Personally I thought it was good. My opinion was vindicated the other day when B. C. Forbes, writing his daily editorial on business conditions on the financial page of all the Flearst chain of newspapers, quoted that editorial, and printed it in black face type. ***
The most elastic thing on earth is the housing demand. I know a family with three married children. Three years ago the parents occupied their old horne; one of the married daughters occupied her own house, partly paid for; the other two married children lived in rented apartments. When the depression settled down, two of the children joined forces under one roof, and gave up an apartment. A little later the other moved in with the old folks. Today those four families are all under the old folks' roof, and have given up three habitations of pre.depression days. Within ninety days after we begin definitely climbing the hill again, that family will again be occupying four domiciles. And you can find innumerable such cases in every locality. Today we have an over-supply, apparently, of living quarters. But three months of rising prosperity will find us painfully short. * r d<
A small town in the state of Washington lost its one and only bank, and stagnation of finances ensued. Then the City fathers got together and authorized an issue of their own currency, which they created by printing the financial denominations on pieces of thin wood veneer manufactured in that town. The experiment is said to
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*ffir With the sale of Palco Bark on the up,and,up ffilffi4 for countless ffi .'Sl insulating purposes the old $ O S has gone out for a portable model-,about roo pounds (zoxz zxz6 inches). Theold O"t" ffi,m CIID required all hands and the cook; the new bale is a neat one .rn ff package. -.Handy on the job, too. tr-#! It can be hoisted J) trtF'-without disaster.
-we told you, with pardonable enthusiasm, that you could get *uniformly good posts every shipment from PALCO. You still can!
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be working well. But they don't use the old slang phrase -"p6n't take any wooden money." They take all they canget'
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And the fellow who slices the logs into the veneer which is to be so co,ined, murrnurs to himself as he watches his output: "That runs into money fast."
These are times ,ot"r,*trrlirrlr" ""ro"i"tions. like individuals and corporations, fight for existence. The various lumber associations are catching unshirted Hades. The retail associations are particularly hard hit. Not only have the closing and combining of yards everywhere cut down their numbers, but financial straits make it so easy for others to say-"1ye must drop out for this year." ***
Let's hang onto these associations, rnen ! We need 'em ! And the minute things get definitely prosperous again, we'll need 'em worse than ever. There is just one thought for us all to hold in this matter. For the organizations themselves-economy, retrenchment, reduced overhead. increased zeal. For the members-a determination to stick to the old ship through this stonn. You CAN do it. Associations take a long time and a lot of effort to build up. They are easily torn down. And once down, the re-building is a greater job than the first building. So keep them up. Individually we are pygmies-the sport of all the winds that blow. Collectively, we speak coherently, convincingly, intelligently !
lently thumb my nose at the prophet. For one thing I am sure of. There is no flat "bottom" to this depression. It goes down until it starts going up. And it will be on the way up for some little time before we are certain of it. It will be like a rubber ball that is dropped. When it hits the floor it will bounce.
There are optimistic signs in evidence now. The banks have quit closing. Numerous banks that have closed are opening up. The anti-hoarding campaign is making a definite impression. The campaign to find and create employment is showing its effects. The pall of fear that hung over the railroads has been lifted by the knowledge that the Government Refinance Corporation will see that they get their bond-interest money. Perhaps we have bounced. One thing is certain. We are either still going down, or we are already going up.
An eminent financier ;a: lor,*,"rrtion of bankers the other day: "You must either start lending money, or at least act as though you were willing to lend money," if you want to get this depression*over.
The Wisconsin
Association at its recent meeting in Milwaukee staged a hit in the shape of a boxing match. The two boxers were attractive girls, Miss Lumber in white, and Miss Depression in black. Need I say that Miss Lumb* yr:O"f out Miss Depression?
Years ago, when my hair grew thick, Don Montgomery, red-hot secretary of the Wisconsin association, used to invite and urge me every year to come to their February meeting and hit the platform. I invariably sent the same answer: "Not in February, my friend, it's too blankety blank cold." Then o,ne summer, it was eleven years ago, he wrote: "We're going to organize a retail lumber association in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan; come and help; it won't be too cold; I dare you." So I went; and the association we organized is still going.
Whenever I hear or read one of these prognostications to the effect that "the depression in business is now on bottom and we can hope soon for signs of improvement", I si-
The hardwood lumber industry is watching with intense interest developments at the Ford auto plant. If Henry gets to really making as many cais as it is reported he is going to make, itwill have an amazingly strengthening effect on the hardwood trade. The present Ford uses nearly 200 feet of hardwood lumber. If the new Ford is the big hit that is predicted, and sells as cheap as is being reported (Will Rogers writing from Detroit said Henry was going to sell "an eight for the price of a four and a four for the price of a baby carriage"), a huge quantity of hardwood lumber is going to be needed.
Something new under the sun.A creosote plant in Texas has discovered-and proven-that aluminum paint can be used to paint creosoted wood, and will stay put, preserve its color and condition, etc. They have a creosoted pole painted over with aluminum paint that has stood out in the weather now for three years,. and still looks like a solid aluminum pole. The black has never come through. This, needless to say, is a big discovery. There are many places where creosoted wood might be used where the creosoted surface is objectionable. A covering of aluminum makes it attractive and acceptable, and just as practical-ierhaps more so-than without the aluminum. A great invention, this aluminum paint. They are using it for nearly as many new purposed as they are cellophane.
And speaking of cellophane, it is-as you know-a product of du Pont. And du Pont has 1,300 people in its 'research department-engineers, chemists, etc.-seeking new things for the world to buy from du Pont. They make cellophane out of cotton. What, I wonder, would these 1,300 people do for the lumber industry if they were .seeking facts and truths and innovations and ideas along LUMBER lines, instead of the ones they follow?
Personally r am conv;i ;". the collective lumber industry should never again tryto spend a single thin dime for advertising to the consurner until they have searched for and found new things, and new uses, and new ideas to promote. To keep on talking "just lumber" when the rest of the world talks of new, useful, attractive things that the consumer is just greedy to possess-is sheerest folly; hopeless and useless waste of money.
A smart lumber ,""""rl"a,irur*."ru something to me the other day that hit me. He said: "We ought to get up a big pot of money when this depression is over, and then go to someone with a big trained force of research engineers and experts, and say to them-'find us new uses for wood, and when you find them, bring them to us, and we have the cash to pay you for them."' I think there is a big idea there. I don't believe the lumber industry is ever going to create for itself anything like the research department that the needs and possibilities justify. We would most likely end up with a bunch of ballyhoo artists,
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The average scientific-r";.* who creates something still has to find a market for it, and finding the market is generally beyond his ability, for he is a scientist. But if we will hang up a big bag of cash before these scientific eyes, and pay cash on the barrel head for the valuable ideas developed, we can buy wisdom galore. The money the lumber industry has wasted in the last ten years trying hopelessly to advertise lumber to the consumer, with nothing tangible or desirable or novel with which to engage the public attention, would induce a thousand savants to get out their research equipment ind their test tubes, and work 18 hours a day to produce. We could probably dig up one hundred good sales ideas a year in that fashion.
J. C. Nason, Nason Lumber Company, who has been operating yards at Yuba City and Tudor, Calif., has sold his interests to the Union Lumber Company, of Marysville, Calif. Isador Cheim, manager of the Union Lumber Company yard at Marysville, will also be manager of the yard at Yuba City. The yard at Tudor will be discontinued. Mr. Nason has not announced his plans for the future.
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The third annual meeting of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club was held at the American Legion Hall, Hollister, Friday evening, February 26.
President George N. Ley presided, and W. A. Bales of Hollister, chairman of the arrang'ements committee, welcomed the visitors.
Secretary-Manager M. D. Bishop announced the newly elected officers for 1932. These were all re-elected and are as follows: President, George N. Ley; vice-president, Arthur Hayward; treasurer, J. H. Kirk; secretary-manager, M. D. Bishop.
George Wood, Wood Bros. Co., Santa Cruz, presented the report of the roofing committee of the California Lumbermen's Council, of which he is chairman.
The report of the millwork committee of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club was given by T. A. Work, Jr., T. A. Work Lumber Co., Monterey, chairman of the committee.
J. H. Kirk, S. P. Milling Co., San Luis Obispo, presented the report of the cement committee.
W.H. Enlow, Hammond Lumber Co., Watsonville, spoke on "The Hardwood Flooring Situation."
"How the Association Looks to the Small Yard Owner", was the topic discussed by J.E. Norton, Norton-Phelps Lumber Co.. Twin Lakes.
F. G. Duttle, Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, talked on "Association Activities in Northern California."
"Outlook for the Building l\{aterial Merchants f.or 1932" was discussed by J. F. Kallam, Central Supply Co., Watsonville.
Frank Haller, Sterling Lumber Co., Hollister, took as his subject, "How to Squeeze a Profit Out of a Two Man Yard."
Vice-President Arthur Hayward talked on "'What Procedure Should Lumber and Building Material Dealers Pursue if They Would Realize a Profit in 1932?"
"What King of Medicine Does the Lumber and Building Material Business Need," was discussed by George A. Good, G. A. Good Lumber Co., Pacific Grove.
D. C. Essley, manager of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, outlined the progress of the State Association.
Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, gzve one of his inspirational talks, which was much enjoyed by the gathering.
In appreciation of Mr. Ley's splendid services as president of the club during the past three years he was presented with two handsome pieces of sealskin luggage, a Gladstone hand trunk and a handbag, both bearing his initials.
William M. Cady, one of the old guard of the yellow pine industry, passed away Sunday, Mar,ch 6, at his home in Pasadena, California. He was 58 years old and had been living in California since his reiirement from the lumber industry a few years ago. He had been in ill health for some time past.
Will Cady was regarded as one of the geniuses of the Southern Pine mill industry. When he first engaged in lumber manufacture, it was not along the usual lines. He left the beaten path-turned specialist-incorporated new ideas in his operaticins-and proved their value by the success of his business.
One, and the principal one, of these then nerv ideas, r,vas to cut long leaf into nothing but dimension and timber, making boards only where the proper trimming of the log necessitated it. "The Best of the Log for the Best of Dimension" became the slogan which Jdentified quality dimension and'timber stock with the Cadv mills.
Speed in manufacturing was synonymous with the Cady operations. He built two big mills in Louisiana. one after another. They cut logs faster than yellow pine logs were ever cut before in any mill of equal size.
Mr. Cady was born in Crowley, La. Much of his early life was spent in and around lumber mills. It was thirtytwo years ago that he started his Louisiana mill operations. He was then scarcely known except in his immediate home surroundings. But it took only three years for him to rise to a place where he occupied a commanding position in the yellow pine manufacturing world.
It u'as at McNary, La., a station on the old Iron Mountain, thirty miles south of Alexandria, that Mr. Cady built his first mill. The place was a wilderness surrounded by great forests of long-bodied virgin yellow pine, Securin! financial backing from men of means to whom he sold thE vision of profitable investment-and who, incidentally, were sold on the ability and talents of Mr. Cady-he organized the W. M. Cady Lumber Company and bought 10,000 acres of the long leaf pine.
The mill was of unusual construction for the South. The equipment was regular West Coast weight ,the heaviest ever used for cutting Southern yellow pine, only circular equipment being used. And then another mill was built at the same place. It was larger than the first, had twice as much machinery, but equipped in the same manner. A new company was formed, the McNary Lumber Company. They bought 18,000 acres of the same pine forest. Then the Cady Company bought 10,000 acres more. And the two mills, standing side by side, cut logs at a rate of speed that was breath-taking.
They cut no inch lumber except what the turn of the log forced them to cut, graded nothing higher than Number One .stock, all the "uppers" going into their common lumber. It was a unique policy, never put into practice before. It permitted cutting at great speed, their mills being equipped with this idea in view, using only circulars and heavy gang.
The two Cady operations became the second largest producer of yellow pine in the entire South, being iurpassed at that time only by the Great Southern Lumber Company at Bogalusa, La. They were turning over to the Iron Mountain Railroad some 4O cars of lumber and timber every day of the week except Sundays-a total of 600,000 feet a day.
It was "Cady Quality", and it was so sold and advertised-for Mr. Cady was a great believer in advertising-
his argument was that he had a worthwhile product, that there was little use in making better stock if quality buyers. were not to be informed of the fact. So he told the trade,. and sold them.
Early in 1924, the McNary plants cut their last log. In anticipation of that event, Mr. Cady turned his eyes Westward to Arizona. At the town of Cooley was a great white pine operation, the Apache Lumber Company, with one and a half billion feet of timber owned bv the United States, a 72-mile rail line and complete logging equipment. This property the Cady interests acquired at a consideration of $3,000,000. The plant was one of the finest in the country, with every modern equipment for saw-milling.
And when the last lvhistle blew in their Louisiana plant, Mr. Cady with his associates and selling organization, moved to Arizona, ready to carry on with the manufacture of "Cady Quality" lumber. They took over the new properties December l, 1923. Mr. Cady took with hirrr two well known Southern lumber boys, Herbert F. Adey as general manager; Sam Eaton, sales manager; both of whom occupied similar posts in Louisiana.
Several years ago, Mr. Cady disposed of his lumber interests and retired to his home in Pasadena where he has since been living with his wife, who survives him, as do two children, William M. Cady, Jr., and Mrs. Chris Baconn both of Los Angeles.
Mr. Cady in the business field was energetic, aggressive, forward-looking; but in his private and social contacts. he was of a retiring disposition; he was generous, kindly, slow to make friends, but firm in his friendships. Charles H. Burns, one of his early business associates, now at Pineville, La., who was one of the first to learn of. Mr. Cadv's passing,_expresses the thought of all who knew Mr. Cady well: "Ffe was a wonderful friend to me, and to thousands of others. A mighty good man has gone."
At the Wilmar yard of the C. E. Williams Lumber Co., a new building 6Ox120 feet has'been erected as an office and display room. The building has a street frontage of 120 feet and gives the company excellent facilities to exhibit their finished lumber products and building materials. The Wilmar plant is also equipped with a mill, lumber sheds for their finished lumber products and building materials, cement shed, and garage.
The C. E. Williams Lumber Co. is operated by C. E. Williams. and his son, C. E. Williams, Jr. who is manager of their Wilmar yard. The main yard and plant is located at Azusa, Calif.
The Twohy Lumber Company, Los Angeles, announce the change of their office from 729 to 628 Petroleum Securities Bldg.
The Susanville mill of the Fruit Growers Supply Co. started up Malg! 7 on a three days a week, eighi hours basis, and the Hilt plant started on the same basis March 14. The company's principal idea in starting the mills is to give some employment to their crews.
In his article, "Moses is Here", rvhich appeared in a recent issue of The Cali{ornia Lumber Merchant. Sam T. Hayward, vice president of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, said:
"Harry Lake is a man of whom we all should be proud. We should honor him for rvhat he is and thank him for what he has done for all of us.I have something to suggest. The finest watch that mere monev can buy with the inscriotion in the back, 'To the finest lumberman of us all.' I think Harry would be proud of such a watch but prouder still of the sentiment that went with it. I am attaching to this article as it goes in a check made to'California Lumber Merchant' marked 'Lake Appreciation Fund.' Come, join the parade. Send in your check if Harry has ever done anything for you."
With his article, Mr. Hayward enclosed a check for $25.00, and to date a number of lumbermen have responded to his suggestion-the list would be too long to print.If you want to be included in this expression of appreciation to Mr. Lake, send in your check to this office at once as the fund will close at an early date.
Two new primitive areas in the national forests o{ California have just been created by Chief Forester R. Y. Stuart, Washington, D. C., according to a statement by S. B. Show, U. S. regional forester. These are the Devil Canyon-Bear Canyon primitive area embracing 56 square m,iles and including the entire drainage basins of Devil, Bear and Chileno Canyons in the Angeles National Forest; and the San Rafael primitive area of 117 square miles located on the main crest of the San Rafael range in the Santa Barbara National Forest. The Devil Canyon-Bear Canvon area covers the mountainous country in tire vicinity of Mt. Islip, with elevations reaching over 8,000 feet. fhe S"rt Rafael area includes Bald Mountain and Big Pine Mountain, which reach over 6,800 feet elevation.
Both of these areas are accessible only by trail and, according to Forest Service policy, will be-preserved in their present wild state. No roads will be constructed and no permanent structures will be allowed except those necessary for protection and administration of the national forests by the Forest Service.
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My good friend Carl Crow would have us believe that the effort to prornote the use of unlform and standard methods of grading and marking lumber for the California market, and the grade-marking of same, is responsible for present unhealthful conditions in the lumber business in this state. Carl says this campaign is what "messed" up the California situation
Well, if all the rest o{ the lumber markets were not in at least as bad a "mess" as California, there might at least be room for debate. But, since the California situation, unlovely though it undoubtedly is, is better than the average situation throughout the rest of the country, throwing the blame for lack of prosperity in the California trade upon a thoughtful effort of straight-shooting and thinking rnen, is highly untenable.
One would think that until the uniform grading and standard specifications effort came along, everything in the California lumber trade was hunky-dory, and the goose hung high. Looking back over the past decade DOES; indeed, make retrospect look rosy. But that applies to all the world, and not just to California. Who wouldn't like to trade today's situation for that of a few years back? But placing the onus of present conditions, in California or elsewhere, upon some particular phase of the industry, is the same school of thought that blames the local administration of city government in some particular town, for the world panic we have been going through.
The proveable fact is that we HAVE had a "mess" in the lumber situation in California-have had it alwaysand THAT very definite nxess is what the sponsors of the campaign to introduce into the California lumber trade the same definite and intelligent standards of grades and specifications that the rest of the country use' are trying to correct. It was that mess that made California the dumping grounds of the Pacific Northwest for decade after decade. It was that mess that made the California market more wildly undependable and unreliable than that of any other part of the lumber using world. It was that mess that kept the California lurnber market fying up and down eternally like a window shutter in a gale of wind. It was that mess that left the lumber industry of California with .fewer known quantities and more continual chaos than ever existed elsewhere.
' There never has been and is not today any question at issue of the QUALITY of lumber shipped into California. The QUALITY of a piece of lumber is inherent in the
fiber itself. What the proponents of standardized grades and specifications are seeking is intelligent and understandable UNIFORMITY of manufacture and grading of lumber; and they suggest that when lumber has been so rnanufactured and graded it shall be plainly marked so that all concerned may identify it for what it really IS.
The lumber industry ", " -n"" has agreed that lumber should be uniformly and exactly graded to eliminate the innumerable vexations that followed the industry in earlier days. In the beginning there were few lumber grades, and those were considerably vague. The demands of industry brought about the separation and distinguishment of grades, so that lumber might be intelligently bought, sold, and used. These progressive changes took place everywhere except in California. Up to two years ago Caliiornia was sticking to her old timey standards; her few and vague grades and specifications; her countless unknown quantities and their attendant evils; her few periods of profit making, and long stretches of low price eras.
ft was the Government of the United States itself that called the entire lumber industry to Washington and suggested to it that it was high time to inject a few known quantities into the lumber business; that uniform methods of manufacturing, grading, etc., be agreed upon, and then accepted by the industry, in order that the consumer, and all others concerned, might have definite and understandable measuring sticks for identifying lumber. It was from this origin that the standardizing and grade-rnarHng. movement originated.
And that initial effort found California, from a standpoint oI lumber grades and specifications, to be in about the same position that the remainder of the industry was thirty years before; just a few primitive grades, and few reliable known quantities. And the standardizing and grade.marking movement-when it came to Californiacame to a territory that needed it sorely.
The lumber industry of California has seen fewer and shorter periods of lumber prosperity than any other part of the country, and the fact that it was a great cargo dumping ground unquestionably is the answer to the questionwhy? Lumber fired straight from the saw to the boat, and from the dock to the trade, with a minimum of preparation, separation, and frequently unsold, is always going to be low priced lumber, regardless of its quality. It wiU
never make much profit for anybody en route to its final destination. And, when demand is slow, it will always sell cheap. It always HAS. That's the history of California lumber.
The lumber industry in California is a sick horse; no one will deny that. But it is NOT as sick as the average of the lunr,ber industry the country over, because California is not as sick as the average of the rest of the country. But grademarking and standardized uniform manufacturing and grading has nothing whatever to do with conditions HERE-any more than elsewhere. And, when this cruel war is over, the intelligent efforts of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and of the organized lumbermen of California to bring order out of chaos, and give to California lumber understandable grades and specifications just as they exist elsewhere-and as the Government of the United States has both requested and demanded-will bring good fruit.ft can't help it. The intent, the purpose,.and the effort is high-minded and constructive.
Washington, March 1.-A group of seven additional western red cedar mills have notified the National Lumber Manufacturers Association that they intend to participate in national trade extension activities and will accordingly sign subscription contracts. This group includes five mills in Washington and two in British Columbia engaged principally in the production of rvestern red cedar.
At the same time, Trade Extension Manager Walter F. Shaw announced renewal of the subscription of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company, with offices at Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The new west coast group includes: Bratlie Brothers Mill Co., Ridgefield, Washington; Capilano Timber Company, Vancou.ver, British Columbia; Hammond Cedar Company, Ltd., Westminster, British Columbia; John McMaster Shingle Company, Seattle, Washington; E. C. Miller Cedar Lumber Company, Aberdeen, Washington; Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Co., Seattle, Wash.; Whatcomb Falls Mill Company, Bellingham, Washington.
The first of a series of monthly. golf tournaments for lumbermen and building material men of Southern California was held at the Hacienda Country Club, near Whittier, on Thursday afternoon, February 25. D. E. Liggett, Liggett Lumber Company, Santa Ana, was the low gross winner, and C. C. Barr, Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, had the second low gross score. Notices are to be mailed out on all future g'ames which will probably be held on the third Thursday of each month at the various clubs throughout the Southland.
The following took part in the tournament: F. P. Baugh, Tom Walker, D. G. McDougal, G. O. Fogelman, D. E. Liggett, Wm. Dempwolf, C. C. Barr, Wm. Godshall, Art Kelly, Robert Holden, A. Corcoran, E. Steffensen, Ross Hostetler, Lester Isbell, Robert Browne and N. E. Lentz.
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Douglas Fir Region of V/ashington and Oregon
By West Coost Lumbermen's Association(\(ith a comparison o[ the Association Survey Totals of 1930 and 1929)
Prepared February 15, 1932
Charles H. Grifien, Jr, recendy appointed general manager of the California Redwood Asoociation, with headquarters in San Francisco, was born in Clinton, Mo., in 1887, and came with his family to California when he was four years old.
Ffe was raised in Los Angeles, where he attended public school and high school. He attended. the University of Southern California f9r 9ne_ year_, and completed his education as a mining engineer at the (Jniversity of California, in Berkeley.
After five years' experience in the mining businesc all over dhe wester.n Statec, he came to a decision to enter the lumber businesc, and in 1915 went to wor& for Frank Graver Saeh, Door & Mill Co. in Los Angelee. It ie interesting to note here that his father, C. H. Grifien, Sr., was first employed by the Willamette Lumber Co., Loc Angelea, in 1891, after coming to California, and is now in the retail lumber busine$ in Artesia, Calif., having completed 61 years in the business.
Mr. Grifien left his first position to become associated with the Flayward Lumber & fnvestment Co., and was identified for the next few yeare with this frrr'g branchec at Rivetside and Rialto, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz.
When the Ffomer T. Flayward Lumber Co. was organized in 1919, he left Yuma to tqfte charge of the new 6rm's Paso Robles yard, and later managed the Santa Cruz yard. For the past six years he has been superintendent of this company's chain of yards.
Early in his careet in the lumber business Mr. Grilfen began to take a keen interest in association work, and his ability for and enthusiasm in this work were quictly recognized by his appointment ac a director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Aooociation. He has been a director of this association for almost the entire peried since its organization. I{e was president of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Aesociation in 1923, and hac given freely of his time and energy to helping to work out the problemc of both his local association and the State association. fn the course of this work he has made many friends and no enemies that he knows of, and it hac beerr said of him that he personally knows more retail lumbermen in California than any other individual.
Mr. Grif,en married Catharine Hayward, daughter of Flomer T. Hayward, of South Pasadena, in 1913, and they have one son, Charles, 17, now in hic last year in high school.
FIe is a Rotarian, having been precident two years ago of the Santa Cruz Rotary Club. He is a member of the Elts Lodge, and a member of Pasatiempo Country Club, Santa Cruz. Lumbermen golfers will be interested in the information that his handicap is 5.
In his new position his main job wiII be to develop new markets for Redwood and to controvert some of the misinformation that has gone out about wood. He bringc to thia work much Valuable tnowledge gained from 17 yeat{ close study of the problemc of tte retail dealer, tnowledge that will be of the greatest acsistance to him in market extension work for the manufacturecs.
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A decidedly clever writer using only the signature, "The Onlooker", (but whose identity we stoutly suspect because of the very quality of his production), hits so directly and interestingly at present conditions-not of business but of home building-that his remarks in the current issue of The Mississippi Valley Lumberman, are well worthy o{ quotation. In the beginning he tells us to:
"Consider some of the many things that are being offered in the 1932 automobile automatic ride control . silent gear selector free wheeling hydraulic brakes centrifuse brake drums double action shock absorbers all steel bodies wizard control . automatic clutch double-girder truss frames floating power . . squeak-proof springs . effortless steerinC . . shatterless glass automatic clutch silent-second easy-shift transmission higher speeds more cylinders . . air cleaners and intake silencers oil temperature regulators . . and so on ad infinitum !
"At higher prices ? No ! At the lowest prices in the history of the industry. You can get better cars now for $1,000 than you formerly got for $3,000 ahd up.
"And behind these miraculous transportation units is powerful advertising-fine display rooms-intelligent salesmanship-convenient financing-and ACTION !
"But that isn't all there is to the story !
"Research departments and laboratories are working day and night planning the cars of 1933, 1934, and 1935.
"Now let us take a look at the lumber yard and see what joys are in store for the home buyer of 1932.
"IIere we promptly encounter the most amazing situation that prevails in any industry and one that readily accounts for the shocking conditions which are wiping out cash reserves, capital stock and all the money that can be borrowed in an efiort to keep unseaworthy crafts afloat .in a tornado of the severest competition ever known to mankind.
"So far as the average lumber dealer is concerned there is no 1932 home. It's just the same sort of a thing that has been foisted upon the public for generations-inefficient, costly beyond reason, uncomfortable-possessing practically none of the functions that homes are supposed to possess.
"-Whose fault is it ?
"The lumber dealer blames it onto the contractor. The contractor says his customer 'doesn't know what he (or she) wants.'
"The contractor knows about as much about what a home should be as a Missouri mule does about Henry Ford's new eight-cylinder car. And if you are inclined to
doubt that statement all you've got to do is to examine almost any of the contraptions that have been built during the past few years and see what's happening to them.
'lWhile the development of the automobile goes forward by leaps and bounds the development of homes goes backward until the average man can no longer afford to build one or is afraid to trv. Too many of his friends have been disappointed.
"In a few years cars have trebled in value and decreased in price. During the saine period homes have decreased in value and doubled in price.
"If the lumber industry is going to continue to put its fate in the hands of ignorant, incompetent and.even downright dishonest contractors and carpenters, then the lumber industry is broke.
"On the other hand, if the lumber industry shows the public how to build a complete home for $4,800, it will increase the biggest residential building year we have ever known by @ per cent, according to our best authorities on the subject. Ifit can produce a $3,600 home it will double the high volume rolled up in that memorable year that brought prosperity to so many industries.
"'When building insulation was made available for homes there was introduced an element which completely changed home construction practices. Twenty years later the lumber industry hadn't found it out !
"'Where it was once necessary to try and obtain strength and warmth with lap-siding, building paper, sheathing, lath and plaster, the arrival of insulation meant that the warmth factor could now become something real and could be taken care of in an entirely different manner. A home could be made as heat and cold proof as a refrigerator box. In other words, the heat loss lvould be so small in winter that it could easily be replaced by a simple heating unitprobably electricity-if homes were properly built.
"But the carpenter-contractor, and even the architect, muffed the ball entirely. Very few homes are properly insulated today. Heating costs are appalling and summer discomforts a disgrace to the men who planned and built the home.
"Now comes a new element which is the direct result of insulation-air conditioning. The greatest race in the history of the heating and ventilating industry is to produce machines which automatically heat, cool and humidify the home. Several are almost ready to be announced. Naturally an air conditioned home is beyond the mental capacity of the average carpenter and many contractors, which means that he is rapidly nearing extinction if he hopes to continue to operate in the future as he has in the
and hammer, on the job for its existence.
"Everylvhere you go-everything you direction of the development of a nerv efficient, as eco.nomical to operate, as finance, as the automobile.
read points in the home-a home as easy to buy and
"It may be steel, synthetic materials, lumber or what have you. Lumber has the best chances so far as materials are concerned, but the poorest so far as progressiveness is concerned. It is still thinking in terms of 2x4s and boards. To assume that all these homes will look alike is absurd. Why should they? They will be produced from sections which can be quickly put together into millions of different forms.
"The man who buys one will not be required to agree to spend his lifetime paying for it' Each component part rvill NOT be sold by a separate distributing organization and co-ordinated by an incompetent carpenter by hand labor on the job. Costs will be more than cut in twoprobably in three.
"Big business has its eye on the small home marketa market wide open for someone to take it-not a leg to stand on so far as a single factor in efficiency, economy' comfort or cost is concerned.
"And if lumber allows its last big market to get away there is only one answer-
"Good-bve to lumber !"
British Columbia loggers are asking the government for a reduction of 50 cents per M. bd ft. in timber royalties, states a report from Trade Commissioner E. G. Babbitt at Vancouver to the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce. A delegation of loggers have visited the Minister of Lands for this purpose.
The delegation is said to have described the situation in the B. C. lumbering industry at present as acute in that while there is a shortage of logs and plenty of business offering, loggers cannot produce at the prices quoted. The delegation has asked for action by the government to give relief to the industry by any means in its power, suggesting royalty cuts as temporary aid.
Independent logging companies and 1og buying mills are nearly at a standstill due to this condition, the delegation reported, while concurrently good orders are being turned away, as production at present costs cannot meet the prices quoted.
The delegation is said to have discussed every phase of the situation with the Minister of Lands and touched informally on a suggestion that the loggers put their facilities at the disposal of the government for creation of lvork under unemployment relief. Ol 27,W men normally employed in the industry, only about 10,000 are now at work.
!.obert H. Byles has been appointed general manager
merly logging superintendent of both 'these companies' fornia Retail Lumbermen's Association, at the Hotel cali- succeeds James clifford' who died recently' fornian, Fresno. on Saturclay afternoon, February 2O, Har.ry
At a meeting of the state board of directors of the Cali-
Auburn, wis re-elected vice president of the Northern District, ancl Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, The Lennox Lum_ber & SqpplI Company, Inglewood, rvas re-elected vice president of the Southern District. Ross Calif., has been purchased !y l't. E. Joslin, who has taken Blanchard, Blanchard Lu,mber Co., North Hollywood, u'as over active charge of the business. Mr. Joslin has been re-elected treasurer. treasurer of the Woodhead Lumber Company, Los An-'
The following directors were present: F. Dean Prescott, geles, for the past several years and will still retain his Francis Boyd. Earl Johnson, Roy H. Meyer, E. T. Robie, interest in that company. Mead Clark, Ira Brink, Henry Adams, S. E. Dalton, Paul A. Ingvoldstad, the former owner of the Lennox LumN{. P. Merner. C. G. Bird, A. L. Hubbard, W. A. Bales, Ar- ber & Supply Company, is also engaged in the lumber thur Hayrvard, Elmore King, Ralph Duncan, A. _|. Stoner, business in St. Paul, Minn., ry_hgt.. he plans to return in Paul Hjllingby, Chas. P. Curran, Ross Blanchard, Fled the near future and devote all his time to his interests Chapin and H.'A. Lake. there.
One and all desire to express their appreciation for the cordial welcome extended to this Agency since opening the office in Los Angeles, and most sincere thanks foc orders teceived. All Lumbermen are cordially invited to use our ofHce facilities when in the city.
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CALIFORNIA REPR.ESENTATIVE
It was a gory looking darkey that they brought into the police hospital for fixing up. He looked as though he rnright have had an unsuccessful encounter with a threshing machine, or a war t4nk. And, as he prepared to dress the nigger's wounds, the doctor asked him how it happened. He was most willing to talk.
'Ah'll tell you, Doctuh," he said between groans; ..h'it wuz disaway. Ah'm walkin' up de street 'bout a half houah ago an' h'its rainin' hahd an' plenty cole at de same time. As Ah goes by Mandy's house Ah sees huh standin' out on de po'ch. An' she holles t' me an, says, .Mose, come on heah, boy, outa dat cole rain ! Doan you know
you lak t' git nuemonie?' So Ah goes in de house wid Mandy, an' Mandy sets down on mah lap, an' jes' den de do' open an' heah comes a big six foot fo inch nigguh. An' Ah says t' Mandy, Ah says, 'Whoevah is dis big boy?' An' Mandy say t' me, 'Dat's mah husband., Well, Suh, Ah gits busy givin' him all de signs Ah knowed. Ah gives him de sign o' de cullud Masons ! Ah gives him de sign o' de Odd Fellows! Ah gives him de Woodman o' de Worl'l Ah gives him de Knights o' de Mystic Sea! An' finally Ah gives him {e Ku Klux an'de Knights o' Columbus ! But you know, Doctuh, h'it didn't do no good ! DAT JUS' WUZN'T NO LODGE NrccUH !'
The national forests of California have returned to the State and counties a total of $4,311,456, to and including the fiscal year 1931, in lieu of taxes on government owned lands within the national forests. This represents 25 per cent of the gross revenues derived by the U. S. Forest Service from the sale and use of resources within the national forests. An additional $1,6D,161, or ten per cent of the revenues, has been spent in cooperation with the State and counties for construction and improvement of trails and secondary roads within the forestl, not including coooerative assistance on forest highways which are part of the State highway system. This mak6s a total sum of $5,94O,617 returned to California by the Forest Service. This is the largest return received by any State, the second largest being Oregon, rvhich has reCeived a total of $3,784,861. The average annual return to California from the national forests, including all road work, recreation facilities and indirect benefits. exceeds bv $346.00O the annual taxable value of government landl administered by the Forest Service.
Southern California lumbermen will hold their annual spring golf tournament and dinner at the Hollywood Coun- try Club, Hollywood, Calif., on Friday, March 18. All lumbermen are invited to attend. The- prizes include the 'lFlank Burnaby" cup for the low gross ivinner, and ..The California Lumber Merchant" cqp for the low net score: Prizes will also be awarded to the first and second winners in four flight events. The tournament will start at 12:3O p.m. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.
The_arrangements committee appointed by the Los Ang9l9g Hoq Hoo includes: Harry Hanson, chairman; Don Philips, Kenneth Smith and Ed. Martin.
Ed. Middleton; superintendent of Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., recently made a business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles, where he conferred with his company's California sales agents, W. R. Chamberlin & Co.
Chicago, Ill., March 7.-Over five thousand individuals have already deposited in excess of $8,000,000 bonds with the Bondholders' Committee for The Long-Bell Lumber Company first mortgage 6 per cent bonds, it was announced today. This represents forty per cent of the total of $20,200,000 bonds outstanding.
"There has been a remarkable outpouring of public sentiment expressing confidence in officials of The Long-Bell Lumber Company being able to meet successfully the financial problems now confronting the company," Harry Smyth, secretary of the Bondholders' Committee, said. "At the same time, there has been considerable criticism directed against the few bondholders who rushed into court as quickly as they did and applied for a receiver-which action has proved to be in sharp contrast to the attitude of some 5250 individuals who have deposited over $8,000,000 of bonds with the committee out of a total issue of $20,200,000 outstanding.
"It is indicated from this response on behalf of the bondholders that the company is making prog'ress in obtaining the relief which Mr. Long, chairman of the company, requested in his letter of January 11, when he suggested that a Bondholders' Committee be formed to obtain deposit of the bonds and provide in this way for concerted and constructive action on the part of the bondholders in meeting the problem before them, cooperating with the company as far as possible."
Arrangements are progressing for the 4oth Annual Convention of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association to be held at the Ambassador Hotel, Atlantic City, April 13-14. Secretary W. W. Schupner states that the program this year will be restricted to practical subjects of current interest to the wholesale lumber industry and that the meeting will be largely a forum along the same lines as last year, which proved to be a popular method, eliminating outside speakers, and encouraging the members to talk frankly on their everyday problems. "What can the wholesaler do to help the retailer sell more lumber", will be the general theme of the meeting. A session will be devoted to the consideration of lumber credits, which in these days is a live topic. Reduced railroad rates have been granted and a good attendance of all branches of the industry is looked for and will result in a threecornered exchange of ideas.
Washington, March 1.-The new "Business Getting Manual," designed to enable dealers and contracting painters to cooperate in a practical way with fellow business men in allied lines of business, has been revised from the preliminary mimeographed form, and is now being ofrered by the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau,22OI New York avenue, N.W., Washington, D. C., in the form of a sixteen-page printed pamphlet, which has just come from the press.
Single copies of the manual are free, but orders in quanties will be charged for at two cents each, to cover cdbt and handling.
(fn the final analycir the real value of eny structure ir estimated on its usefulne$ based on the present and the future.
There iga cpecific grade of Redwood for cvery uee. Vhere duability ir the prime roquioite an "all hcarttt grade of Califomia Redwood ehould be insistcd upon.tt
The first 1932 tri-annual meeting of the Pacific Coast division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers was held at the Hotel Sir Francis Drake, San Francisco, on February 25 and 26.
In opening the meeting the chairman, J.M. White, Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corp., reviewed briefly existing conditions in the lumber and box industry, and congratulated members upon the relatively high standing of the industry on the Pacific Coast in comparison with other lumber markets. Lumbermen of the Pacific Coast, Mr. White stated,'are realizing more and more, as time goes on, the value of the shook industry as an outlet for lumber and are anxious to do their part in helping maintain and develop that outlet. He referred to conditions in other markets and urged continued cooperation on the part of Pacific Coast manufacturers to the end that further wasteful and destructive competition might be eliminated. He emphasized the obligation of manufacturers to their employees, and to the residents of towns dependent upon the activities of the lumber industry for their welfare. Industries engaging in destructive competition, Mr. White said, must inevitably pass on some of their losses to their workers in the form of reduced wages and unemployment.
R. H. Morehouse, secretary of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers, reviewed briefly the work which the national headquarters of the association has been doing in promoting the wider use of wooden containers. He referred to recent developments in cannery cases, as well as in containers for paints, boots and shoes, automobiles and automobile parts, and other commodities. He also referred to other activities of the association in maintaining contact u'ith the Arnerican Railway Association, Consolidated Classification Committee, Bureau of Standards, National Committee on Wood Utilization, etc. Mr. Morehouse pointed out a number of encouraging results achieved by the association in its efforts to re-establish the wooden box as a container for commodities which to some extent have been shipped in substitute containers, and urged members to continue the trade promotion work which they have been carrying on on the Pacific Coast for some years past.
Follorving reports by the membership and second-hand container committees, the grading rules and specification committee through its chairman, C. A. Webster, Stockton Box Co., outlined the work the committee has been doing in formulating grading rules for the Association, and stated that these rules will be ready for publication in the near future.
Chairman White. who is also a member of the Box Com:mittee of the Western Pine Association, reported concerning the annual meeting of that association which was held at Portland during the previous lr'eek, and stated that he, together with R. L. Ferral and David T. Mason, had been :named as a committee representing the Western Pine As:sociation to convey to the Pacific Coast division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers the information that the lumber manufacturers who are members of the Western Pine Association, realizing that the shook industry represents one of their most important markets, are desirous of helping box manufacturers in every way possible in their association activities. The Western Pine Association, Mr. White said, is desirous of fulfilling its
obligation to the shook industry, and wishes to be advised in r,r.hat way it can be of most help. Mr. White and Mr. Ferral summarized the discussion which had taken place at the Portland meeting concerning this matter, and indicated that while no definite plan had been formulated, the question of organizing a Boi Bureau of the Western Pine Association had been discussed, and it had been suggested that the Wooden Box Trade Promotion of the entire Pacific Coast might be centered in that bureau, which would maintain contact 'ivith the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers' headquarters in Chicago. The ensuing discussion indicated that many members of the Pacific Coast division did not look favorably upon such a plan, as they considered that same rvould tend to lessen the effectiveness of Dresent association activities. without any compensating ad'vantages. It was thought that more good could be accomplished by several regional divisions of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers. David T. Mason, manager of the Western Pine Association, reiterated what had already been stated by Mr. White and Mr. Ferral, and emphasized the desirability of bringing into line in support of box trade promotion, the entire lumber industry of the Pacific Coast. He stated that the Box Committee of the Western Pine Association had not formulated any plan, but rather looked to the Pacific Coast division to suggest the method which in their opinion would be best calculated to achieve the desired results.
W. G. Hyman, Pacific Box Corp., Ltd., in behalf of the Pacific Coast division, thanked the committee for their offer of assistance, and stated that in view of the situation he felt it was incumbent upon the Pacific Coast division to offer suggestions to the Western Pine Association as to how they might cooperate and assist in the activities of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers. As a result of this discussion, a resolution was introduced by C. A. Webster, Stockton Box Co., seconded by Herman Paine, Southern California Box Co., as follows:
RESOLVED, that it is the sense of this meeting that the lumber and shook manufacturers who are members of the Western Pine Association, and who are desirous of supporting the activities of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers can best accomplish this purpose by organizing a regional division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers to be called the Inland Empire Division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers, or any other suitable name, rvith headquarters at Spokane or Portland, to function as a regional division of the Association and to cooperate with the Pacific Coast division of this Association in matters rvhich mutually concern them; and also to cooperate with all other divisions of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers in matters of national scope.
An amendment to this resolution was proposed by W. S. Johnson, Associated Lumber & Box Co., as follows:
THAT, until such time as the new division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers is formed by the shook manufacturers of the Northwest and Inland Empire, said shook manufacturers be invited and encouraged to become members of the Pacific Coast division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufatturers.
The amended resolution was unanimously adopted.
Other subjects discussed included: trade practices; grade-marking; obtaining and using statistical information to balance supply and demand; advantages of adopting a uniform system of cost accounting; freight sur-charges; duties on packing materials going into Mexico; association cooperation with shippers; and establishing new uses for shook.
W. G. Kahman, Shevlin Pine Sales Company, introduced the subject of, a proposed sales tax which is now being considered by Congress, and which he stated would in all probability be included in fhe tax legislation passed at this session. Mr. Kahman thought it would be advisable for shook manufacturers to anticipate possible legislation of this nature, and arrange for a uniform clause to be embodied in all future contracts and orders providing for disposition of such a tax in the event that it is imposed.
W. S. Johnson suggested a rubber stamp, and the secretary was directed to canvass the membership and obtain the opinions of individual members as to the wording of such a clause in contracts and orders.
W. G. Hyman suggested that in formulating such a clause as was here discussed. it should be borne in mind that the sales tax might be imposed upon lumber at its source, and that such a contingency should be provided for by shook manufacturers in the event that the tax is passed on to them by being added to the selling price of their raw material.
The chairman thereupon appointed a committee consisting of W. S. Johnson, A. W. Pinger and J. W. Rodgers to take charge of the drafting of a proper stamp to be used in connection with future orders and contracts.
Mr. W. C. Strong, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., described experiments which his firm has been conducting in connection with a new style of potato crate in l5-lb. and 25-lb. sizes. He explained the construction of these crates, which are stitched, and are so constructed that the covers are inter-changeable, and pointed out that the weight of the 15-lb. crate is only a little over one pound, and of the 25-lb. crate slightly more than trvo pounds.
An interesting and instructive discussion of the California fruit, nut and vegetable standardization act as same qpplies to fruit and vegetable containers was led by H. W. Poulsen, assistant chief of the bureau of fruit and vegetable standardization of the California State Department of Agriculture. Mr. Poulsen outlined the changes that have been made in the ,act at the past two sessions of the state legislature, and covered briefly the court decisions that have been handed down where suits were brought attacking the constitutionality of the act. He referled to the efforts of the department to standardize lettuce crates, and explained he difficulty of limiting the number of sizes of such containers due to the difference in size of lettuce
heads obtained in different producing areas. He pointed out that in order to overcome this difficulty, and still re- 'strain the tendency,of some shippers to increase the number of styles of lettuce containers, the department fixed upon the plan of requiring the inside dimensions of containers not conforming to the standards fixed by the department, to be printed on the outside of the container.
It was brought out during this discussion that the Western Grorvers Protective Association, comprising the most important vegetable shippers of California and Arizona, are at present dealing with this problem and endeavoring as speedily as possible to fix upon a limited number of standard containers for their various products.
L. F. Coggins, California-Oregon Box & Lumber Company, Ashland, Ore., addressed the gathering in connection with anti-trust laws, and explained that Senator Steiwer of Oregon has introduced a bill in Congr,ess pro- viding for the appointment of a commission to itudy-the present anti-trust laws in relation to natural-resource industries, and for the suspension of such laws insofar as they apply to natural-resource industries pending the commission's report. Mr. Coggins urged the membels to communicate with their representatives in Congress, and the senators. from their districts, requesting their support of this bill.It was pointed out that the Western Pine Association has requested its members to take similar action. The secretary of the Pacific Coast division was instructed to furnish the members with particulars of Senator Steiwer's bill, in order that they might communicate with their senators and representatives at once.
_ R. L. Ferral, McCloud River Lumber Company, vice chairman of the executive committee, presided over the business session on Friday which r,r'as open'only to members of the Association. Resolutions pasJed at tie meeting on- Thursday were ratified, and the-following committe"e officers were elected to serve for the year l93I:
Executive Committee: R.L. Ferral. McCloud River _Lgmb_er C_ompany, McCloud; A.W. Pinger, California Pine Box Distributors, San Francisco; W. e. Hyman, pacific Box _Corp., Ltd., San Francisco; W. S. Johnson, Associated Lumber & Box Co., San Francisco; Herman Paine, Southern California Box Co., Los Angeles; J. W. Rodgers, Western Box Shook Distributors, San Franlisco; and J. M. White, Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corp., Weed.
Gra.{ing Rul:s and Sp_ecification Committee: C. H. Dag- gett, Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore.; W. C. Stroni, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore.; C. A. Webster, Stockton Box Co., Stockton; C. F. Setzer, R. L. Ferral, J. M. White and J. W. Rodgers.
The next meeting will be held in June in Los Angeles.
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(This will is authentic. It was written on scraps of paper by an inmate of the Chicago Poorhouse, a brokedown, but sweet tempered old man. It was so beautiful that the Chicago Bar Association had it probated to give it legal life).
I, Charles Lounsbury, being of sound mind and disposing memory, do hereby make and publish this, my last will and testament, in order as justly as may be to distribute my interest in the world among succeeding men.
I give to good fathers and mothers, in trust for their children, all good little words of praise and encouragement, and all quaint pet names and endearments, and I charge said parents to use them justly and generously, as the needs of their children may require.
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the term of their childhood, all and every, the fowers of the fields, and the blossoms of the woods, with the right to play arnong them freely according to the customs of children, warning them at the same time against thistles and thorns. And I devise to children the banks of the brooks, the golden sands beneath the waters thereof, the odors of the willows that dip therein, and the white clouds that float high over the giant trees. And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand ways, and the night and the moon and the train of the milky way to wonder at, but subject nevertheless to the rights hereinafter given to lerrers.
I devise to boys jointly all the useful idle fields and commons where ball may be played; all pleasant waters where one rnay swim; all snow-clad hills where one may coast; and all streams and ponds where one may fish, or where, when grim winter comes, one may skate; to have and to hold the same for the period of boyhood. And all meadows with the clovers and butterflies thereof, the woods and their appurtenances, the squirrels and birds, the echoes and strange noises, and all distant places which may be visited, together with the adventures there found. And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night, with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindrance, and without any incumbrance of care.
To lovers, I devise their imaginary world with whatever they may need-as the stars of the sky, the red roses by the wall, the bloom of the hawthorne, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.
To young men jointly, I devise and bequeath all boisterous, inspiring sports of rivalry, and I give to them the disdain of weakness and undaunted confidence in their own strength, though they are rude. I give to them the power to make lasting friendships, and of possessing compan-
ions, and to them exclusively I give all merry songs and brave choruses, to sing with lusty voices.
And to those whg are no longer children or youths or lovers, I leave memory, and I bequeath to them the volumes of the poems of Burns and Shakespeare and of other poets, if there be others, to the end that they may live over old days again, freely and fully, without tithe or diminution.
To our loved ones with snowy crowns, I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their childrenrt until they fall asleep.
I'II build me a house-well, I don't know of what, For it isn't much money the money I've got, But I'll build rne a house, if its roof is of thatch, With a rock for a doorstep, a thong for a latch. Yes, I'll build me a housg build a house of my own, And of logs or of lumber, of brick or of stone, For I want me a house, be it plaster or pine, And it doesn't much matter, as long as it's mine.
I'll build me a house-well, perhaps on a hill, Or below in a hollow, if heaven so will, But I'll build me a house, on the highland or low, For the wife and the kids and a chicken or so. Oh, I'll build me a house, for a man's not a man Who some sort of way cannot figure or plan To build him a housg be it mighty or small. For the size of the house doesn't matter at all.
I'll build me a house, I'm determined on that; I'm tired of your tenement, sick of your flat. I'll build me a house, and it mayn't be grand, But I'll own the gateway and I'll own the land, I'll build me a house, for a bird builds a nest, And a dog has a place he can hide from the rest, There is some sort of a hole that is home to a mouse, And I may be as poor-but I'll build me a house !
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A mill woiker who had had a finger snipped off in a woodworking machine that morning, came back in the afternoon with his hand all bound up, to talk to the boss about it.
"IIow did it happen?" asked the foreman.
"'Well," said the young man; "I started the machine like this, threw down the gauge like that, then as the board came through I reached for it like this-damn ! There goes another l"
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fornia Lumber Merchant a sheaf of bills showing items of lumber and millwork sold by San Francisco and Redwood City lumber de?lers in Auguit, -1865. These were discovered
among'the family records of a friend of his, and he thought that these echoes of bygone days in the lumber business trix;^:Jfti:T,.fr.[
Mr. Jefferson remarked that while the prices of 1865 did not differ very much from present day prices he noticed
that most of the business was done for cash, and that all of the bills were marked paid.
One bill dated August 21, 1865, shows that Wetherbee and Cook, wholesale and retail lumber dealers in foreign and domestic lumber, with a yard at 2l and 23 California street, and pier at 2l Stewart street, San Francisco, sold to S. Bean, 1000 feet of surfaced lumber and 90 feet of stepping at $32 per M for cash.
The same buyer bought from Bror.r'n & Wells, stair builders, 415 Mission street, San Francisco, a flight of stairs at $55, and he purchased from the Steam Mills of S. S. Culverwell, D Fremont street, San Francisco, manufacturer of sash, doors, frames and shutters, 658 feet of mouldings at a total price of $14.13.
A bill of shelf hardware sold by H. Rosenkrans & Co., hardrn'are dealers, 135 Montgomery street, on August 21, 1865, shows prices generally above those of today.
Redwood boards at $20 per M, Redwood scantling at $22.50 and Oregon Pine at $25 per M, appear on the bill of Hanson & Co., lumber dealers, Redwood City, on August 1, 1865.
All of these bills are marked, "Payable in U. S. Gold Coin or the equivalent. Terms Cash." Hanson & Company's bill also contains a notice to the efiect that "Whin -by
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Washington, Feb. 24.-The headquarters offices of the buildins atiic rboms,-buildin! cabins, ind camps, National Lumber Manufacturers Association on March 1 chickeihouses, milk houses, E"rns' were moved from the present location, 7OZ Transportation Get in line now. Send todav for full particulars of Bu-ilding, to 1337 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. The move Celotex Insulation merchantlisiog s"rii.". will effect a reduction of approximately one-half in the Association's rental expense. -The nerv-location was for- The Celotex Company,-?19-_N. MichiganAvenue, me.rly the home and office of one of the cit1,'s leading phy Chicago' Illinois. Salei distributors thrbuglout the sicians, but is now along one of the main irteries oF luJi- wotld. In Canada: Alexander Muray &Co., Ltd., ness development and w-ithin a few blocks of the Associa- Montreal. tion's.present offices.' The_private building, which will be
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Washington, March lO.-There may be some argument, and apparently there is, as to the availability of money for home building or home modernizing, but certainly there is no questioning the fact that norv is the economical time to build or remodel. Such is the information that has been afforded a large group of Senators, repeatedly and repeatedly- by gne specialist after another throughout recent w-e^eks. These men, bankers, building and loan association offrcers, insurance men, most of thim executives in the country's most influential monetary institutions or repre- senting state and other sectional groups of such institutions have appeared to give testimony-before a sub-committee of the powerful Senate Committee on Banking and Currency which is considering the bill to create a naiional mortgage discounting institution to be known as the Federal Home Loan Bank.
The Mr. Average Citizen who wants to knorv what his banker or other credit source really thinks about building or remodeling at this time should listen in on some of these hearings. Whenever the question is raised the answer is a strongly affirmative "y.r," that now is the time to spend on the home.
"I answ-er your question, Senator, by saying, certainlya most affirmative certainly," replied one witness. "My institution has helped thousands to own their homes, and through all of our years of operation I have never seen a more favorable opportunity for creating home values. The young man who wants a home, or the family that needs home_repairs is cgazy not to take advantage oi the present incredibly low cost of materials. We know home -values, we know material costs, rve have observed business cvcles and we say that for those rvho can obtain the funds oi the credit, this is the smart time for them to invest in their home."
The question of whether this is or is not the time to build is incidental to the main issues raised at the hearings as to whether there is a need for new mortgage money and whether the proposed bill is the proper vviy-of producing it. Some bankers and insurance men are oppbsing thE present bill. Nevertheless, they agree that this is the time to build or improve. Building and loan, homestead and similar associations, lumber and other building materials groups and those who have dealt more intimately with the home building problem, including the Presideni's Conference on lfome Building and Home Ownership, generally favor the bill. Their records indicate there lsin acute shortage of available mortgage money for home building and home owning purposes. They also say that now is the time to build or remodel and urge that the Home Loan Bank will make this possible for thousands of families.
Carrol W. Smith, vice-president of Western Plywoods Co., Martinez, who was seriously iniured in an automobile accident on the Redwood Highrivay-last December, is still in the hospital in San Francisco.
A. C. Horner of the western office of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, San Fran,cisco, returned March 14 from a two rveeks' trip. in the course of which he attended the convention of the Utah Lumber Dealers' Association in Salt Lake City, March 4 and 5. He also visited Las Vegas, Nev., Los Angeles, San Diego, and Encinitas in ,connection with building ,code work.
NOT WOOD ALCOHOL, despite its origin. Ethyl or grain alcohol, the alcoholic basis of wines or beer, may now be made from wood in commercial quantity and quality, we are told by The Industrial Bulletin of Arthur D. Little, Inc., (Cambridge, Mass.).
Alcohol was made from cellulose, the material of woody fiber, over a century ago, but despite continued endeavor by chemists, no process capable of commercial development has been discovered until recently. Nor,r' we have it, according to The Bulletin. We are told:
"One hundred and thirteen years ago the celebrated French chemist, Braconnot, astonished the members of the French Academy by exhibiting samples of fermentable sugar and alcohol which he had made through the action of sulfuric acid upon linen rags.
"The disclosure did not appreciably raise the m:irket value of old shirts, but Braconnot pointed out that it did reveal a method of making grain alcohol from wood. This Arnould succeeded in doing in 1854.
"Ever since that time there has been an almost continuous series of efforts to develop the method into a process capable of commercial operation at a profit.
"None of these, however, succeeded in permanently establishing themselves, although shortly before the war the du Ponts built a plant at Georgetown, South Carolina, which operated successfully for several years under the Ewen ct Tomlinson patents, producing ethyl alcohol of the highest grade from Southern pine-wood waste. During the same period another and larger plant was constructed at Fullerton, Louisiana, by Standard Alcohol Company, to operate the same process. Although yields of tol gallons of exceptionally high quality ethyl alcohol were secured per ton of wood waste, as contrasted with only Zfi gallons from a bushel of corn, operation proved unprofitable chiefly because a sufficient supply of wood waste to permit operation at anything like capacity could not be secured from the only near-by sawmill.
"A new and evidently far more efficient method is now disclosed by two English chemists. Auden and.Joshua, in the issue of The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry (London). It has the advantage of permitting continuous rather than batch operation, as formerly, and yields of alcohol as high as 35-4O gallons per long ton of dry wood are reported. If these can be substantiated in large-scale operations, the way would seem to be open for the production of alcohol at low prices and in vast amount. and a new source of income madi available to the languishing lumber industry.
"The principle underlying all these processes is that under the action of heat and pressure in the presence of acid a large proportion of the material of the wood is diverted into fermentable sugars, which, when extracted, yield a solution very similar to molasses, and which is subsequent- ly fermented and distilled in the manner usual with molasses itself. The product should not be confounded with wood alcohol, since it is identical with the potable spirit produced from grain."
W. L. Aisthorpe, o{ the Aisthorpe Lumber Co.. Chico, recently spent a felv days in San Francisco on business. Mr. Aisthorpe is one of the most progressive dealers in Northern California, and he is assisted in the running of the yard by his two sons, Harry and Fred. He reports that considerable home building is being held up in his locality by inability to obtain loans.
The Insulite Company is contributing to the return of merchandising confidence in the building materials industry during the present year by strong campaigns in all departments of its organization through the medium of a concerted drive to bring about a rejuvenation of building and remodeling. Within the past thirty days representatives of the executive ofiflces have completed a six thousand mile tour of company branch offices. At these meetings conducted by Tom V. Sawyer, sales manager, R. E. Sherer, assistant sales manager, and Richard P. Dodds, advertising and salbs promotion manag'er, the entire merchandising plan for the year 1932 was introduced to the assembled. branch sales groups.
Retaining every featurb of it5 100 per cent retail lumber dealer merchandising policy which in 1931 enabled the company to increabe'its volume of sales over 193O, the 1932 program calls for increased advertising,' increased sales promotion activity, new display material at the point of sale, an outstanding visualized merchandising presentation containing 34 lineal feet of dealer helps, and the announcement of four new Insulite products.
In introducing its trew display at the point of sale, the company has made available to the dealer the Insulite electric clock and the Insulite man. The electric clock. twenty- five year guaranteed, is enclosed within a solid Americin black walnut case. The clock, which is 15 inches square, carries a timely sales message which has been silk-screened on its dial, by the fade-proof silk-screen process, to prevent fading. The Insulite man, made of. fi inch Insulite, has its right arm extended so that it may be placed in a position pointing directly toward the clock, and it, too, carries a "Build Now" message.
The four nerv Insulite products to be manufactured by the company are a 5/16 inch dual-surface Wallboard, Fireproof Wallboard, Super-Lath and Hardboard. Each of the eighteen Insulite products is manufactured at the company's mills at International Falls, Minn., and Karhula, Finland.
Al Nolan, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, has returned from a trip to Arizona, where he spent a few weeks calling on the trade. Before returning to San Francisco, he spent several days in Los Angeles calling on the dealers and conferring with Gus Hoover, the company's Southern California representative.
The Evans Products Company, Ltd., who recently purchased the plant of the Yellow Cedar Products, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C., are now installing two Moore Reversible Cross Circulation double track single ended kilns 14 feet wide by 4O feet long. The fans will be mounted on a longitudinal shaft in the roof of the kiln buildings instead of underneath the stock loads as is the usual practice. The dry kiln buildings are being constructed of 6x6 T& G cedar crib.
The Evans Products Company are manufacturers of battery separators, having plants in the United States at Palatka, Florida; Jackson and Meridian, Mississippi ; York, Alabama; Detroit, Howard City and Brighton, Michigan; South Bend, Indiana; Marshfield and Cedar Point, Oregon. At their Marshfield operation the Evans Products Company have a modern battery'of seventeen of Moore's Reversible Cross Circulation kilns which are used to dry their entire output of sliced battery separator stock. These separators are marketed under the trade name of "Epco". Shipments of trattery separators are also. made to foreign countries, including England, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Australia, and South America.
The new operation at Vancouver, B. C., marks the entry of the Evans Products Company in Canada.and is under the management of M.. J. H. Hailey and Mr. Ralph Cole. The order for dry kilns and dry kiln buildings was awarded to the Cawston Dry Kiln Company, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C., who represent the Moore Dry Kiln Company in Canada. It is understood that the new dry kilns will be ready for operation the early part of March;
Western Cattle Markets & News, official publication of the Western. Cattle Marketing Associgtion, is publishing a series of news articles supplied by Max E. Cook, head of the Redwood Farm Structures Bureau, San F{ancisco. The articles deal with the various farm structures recornmended by the BLreau, and each article carries an announcement that free plans are available to readers on application.
Floyd Dernier, Lumberrnenls Srcrvice Association, l.os Angeles, is on a two weeks' trip calling on the retail dealres in the Coast Counties,. Sacramento.and San Joaquin Valleys, and San Francisco Bay tirritories.
Your order gets the same. .courteous, , individual attention from our organization urhethet .it be large or small. rX/e consider this an essential part of our service.
Our Motto: Less-Db 'More"
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(Editoriol lrom Four L Lumber News)
That the lumber industry is somewhat behind the times, t_o pyt it most mildly, was made painfully clear by W. C. Geddes, chairman of the research-commiitee of the Western Pine association, at the recent meeting of the group. In the matter of research work alone, Mr. Geddes pointed out, the du Pont interests employ 1300 persons; the General Electric has 950; the Aluminum Company of America has 18O; the Johns-Manville Company, which manufactures a roofing that has cut deeply into shingle sales, has 200, and Celotex has 26 men finding new uses for that product.
The great lumber associations, covering the natibn from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf and Mexico, employ a total of two research technicians and one assist- ant. These three men, mind you, are ALL that are employed in this work by the lumber associations of the entire country.
As though this were not indictment enough, David Mason, manager of the Pine association, piled up what he rightly termed "more embarrassment." He reported that
D. S. Painter, general manager of the lumber division of the Fruit Growers' Supply Co., recently made two air trips to Los Angeles. The last one was on March 7, when he left his own office in San Francisco at 11:4O a.m.. flew by the Varney Air Lines noon plane to Glendale, and arrived at his.company's Los Angeles office at 2:30 p.m. The actual air trip occupied only two hours.
Mr. Painter travels more by air than any lumberman on the Pacific Coast, and his relord of more- than lOO hours in the air in commercial planes puts him in the top class for air travel.
compared with the five cents per thousand feet cut, proposed as an assessment to advertise western pine products, the drug and toilet articles business was spending $4 for advertising; chemicals, $1.22; food products, $1.14; hardware, 95 cents; clothing, 74 cents; and paper and paper products, 52 cents. The production footage, or mileage, of the macaroni industrv has not been estimated but the Macaroni Association-last year spent $109,00O for advertising alone.
These figures, together with the numbers of research workers given above, would indicate r,r'hy we battle halitosis; watch for pink tooth brush; buy food packed in paper boxes; live in a stucco house roofed with composition material; sit on an aluminum chair to write on a steel desk; and eat miles and miles of macaroni.
However, there will always be a demand for wood no matter how little it is advertised nor how little lumbermen know about it. The crossroads store philosophers will always want to whittle.
T. B. Lawrence and D. R. Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, were San Francisco visitors around the first of the month on a business trip.
Arthur Twohy, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, who underu'ent an operation at the Monte Sano Hospital, Los Angeles, the early part of February, is back at his desk agaln.
Dinner and Entertainment
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, r9r2
Hollywood Counry Club (f2S50 Ventura Blvd.)
Hollywood, California
OPEN TO ALL LUMBERMEN
EVENTS
Frank Burnabv cup (c6, a;;;;;;;;;;;t-;Gi.y* ;d;il;i;; Tl:"futt"'nia
Four Flight Events-Fitst and Second Prizes EXPENSES
Lumbet Merchant cup
Come to first tee with .13.00. Lunches and ,caddies to be paid by playet direct. Those playing but not staying for dinner will be refunded f1.00. Those not playing but staying for dinnlr will pay $2.OO. Get ihere eatly, l2zod "tloct if poesible.
Lunch will be served at the Club Ffouse. Dinner at 6:30 P. M. Sharp.
Appointed by Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club Harry Ffanson, Chairman Don Philips - Kenneth Smith
Ed Martin
Outlining the features in the proposed reform in trust deeds which will appear as an initiative measure on the ballot at the election in November, Leslie H. Kranz, Los Angeles, member of the executive committee, Citizens' Trust Deed Reform League, has addressed a letter to Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, and also requested an opportunity to address an Assiciation meeting to discuss the movement.
In his letter, Mr. Kranz says:
"It is the belief of our committee that banks and legitimate mortgage companies will be definitely benefited by the reform in the long run.
"Thirty-five states get along nicely without such a thing as a trust deed with a sale clause but without an equity of redemotion. Even in California while the trust deed has existed for many years, its general use as a substitute for a mortgage is a development of very recent years. Formerly it was used only as a junior encumbrance. Its recent lvidespread use has been forced by a certain type of mortgage companies and their bank affiliates. The trust deed has been characterized by our California supreme court as a 'freak and anomaly in our law.'It can only be abolished by legislation.
"The two outstanding features of the proposed reform are :
"1. Abolition of the 'sale clause' in deeds of trust, thereby compelling them to be foreclosed through court action.
"2. The creation of an equity of reclemption with a twelve months period of redemption, the same as now exists in the case of a mortgage.
"The effect of these two changes is to eliminate all distinctions (except as to form) between a mortgage and a trust deed.
"The proposed reform will benefit lumber dealers and all others engaged in thc building business, in the following respects:
"1. The fake trust deed filed for record solely for the fraudulent purpose of wiping out mechanics' liens will become an impossibility. Since all encumbrances on real property will have to be foreclosed in court, and will be subject to the scrutiny of the court, and since the burden of proof as to consideration will be on the holder (as it now is with a mortgage), the present abuse of the trust deed by'rvhich mechanics' liens are wiped out to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, will come to an end. At present, even where a lumber dealer is reasonablv certain that a trust deed ahead of his lien is r,t'ithout consideration, or that it has been placed of record with fraudulent intent, his only remedy is to seek an injunction. He must carry the burden of proof and before the injunction is granted he must put up a bond. This is not always possible to obtain.
"2. By creating an equity o{ redemption in the case of trust deeds the lumber clealer holding a mechanics' lien will have the right to redemption for twelve months after foreclosure, same as he now has in the case of mortgage foreclosure, instead of as now happens, having the trust deed foreclosure wipe out his mechanics' lien instantly and completely, sometimes ever.r n'ithout notice. The owner himself, likewise having a right to redeem, will in many cases, save his property and pay off the mechanics' liens. The junior encumbrances rvill likewise have the right to redeem.
"Among the advantages of the proposed reform to the general public are the f.ollowing:
"I. Millions of dollars worth of homes are taken arvay from home owners each year through the foreclosure of trust deeds. This is often without notice to the owner or junior encumbrancers, and neither the owner nor junior encumbrancers have any equity of redemption or right to redeem. A mere temporary misfortune or illness may, and often does deprive a home owner of his home. If the proposed reform is enacted into legislation, foreclosure can only take place after notice and after giving the owner his day in court. By re-establishing the right of redemption, thousands of homes will be saved each year, thereby stabilizing general prosperity.
"2. A present vicious and unjustifiable practice that is altogether too common in the case of trust deed foreclosure, is for the holder or beneficiary, to bid a very low amount at the sale, and then take a deficiency judgment against the maker of the trust deed note (usually the owner) for the balance, thereby making it almost impossible for the owner to get on his financial feet again. He loses his home and then has to pay a large portion of the debt in addition. This crying abuse is possible only because there is no equity of redemption. With the re-establishment of the right to redeem, the one foreclosure will have to bid the fair and reasonable value of the property because the right to redeem will be at the price determined by the bid.
u3. The cost of foreclosure, being subject to the approval of the court, will, after the proposed reform, be less than the arbitrary schedule of fees now being charged by the title companies. The fees now being charged by attorneys at law for mortgage foreclosures are on the average, actually much less than the fees being charged by the title companies for trust deed foreclosures."
The 33rd annual round-table meeting of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers will be held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, on April 14 and 15, 1932.
Subjects of vital interest to the wooden box, crate and lumber industries will be discussed and everyone interested in the welfare of these industries is invited to attend the meeting on the first day, which will open at 10 a.m., April 14. The meeting on April 15 will be open to members of the association only.
Some of the reasons why band resaws crack and a practical way by which filers having trouble with resaws cracking can largely prevent this difficulty is clearly and brieflJ' covered in Blue Print No. B-zC06, published by Simonds Saw and Steel Company, of Fitchburg, Mass. A copy of the blue print will be sent free to any filer writing for it. The information on the blue orint is the work of Elmer E. Davis, well known band salr,' expert, and is the result of his years of experience handling problems of this nature.
Ed. Seward, Dolbeer-Carson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, is gaining nation-wide prominence as a "hole-in-one" golfer. In our issue of February 1 we published an article stating that he now has the distinction of being the "hole-inone" golf champion of the Hollywood (Calif.) Country Club, and for the third time performed this feat on the Hollywood course on January 2, 1932. As a result of this article, he'says that he has got a big "kick" out of the many communications that have reached him from various sections of the country. Below we are quoting a letter he received from R. N. McArthur, of The lJpson Company, Lockport, N. Y., which.pleased him very much.
"I was just reading THE CA'LIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT and came across the interesting write-up about the 'hole-in-one' you made for the third time.
"Being an enthusiastic golfer, I naturally was interested and certainly read it over longingly.
Itt^t certainly is a mighty fine record, Mr. Seward, and as for me, I'm still shooting at my first one.
"Please accept my hearty congratulations and sincere good wishes."
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