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Two men, sighting at the same time, can see to the top in one day if they have real good eyesight and there are no clouds.
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New business boo&ed at the lumber mills made further gains dudng the weck ended March 3, 1934, exceeding the tecotd of any wek of the previotrs three months; shipmenrc wete the highest since September; production was slighdy l6wer than the previous two weeks according to r€ports to 6e National Lumber Manufacturers Association from the regional associations. 11329 Amedcan mills fo'r the week reported production as 173,887,O00 feet; shipments L9O,949rOOO feet, and orders 2O7,471,NO feet.
565 mills reporting to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended March 3 gave new business as 98r 7681725 feet against a production of E9r986,019 feet and ship. ments of 9116681002 f.eet. Shipments were over production by l.9Vo and, current sales were over the output by 5.lVo. Orders bookod 4*i"g the week were (wer thc freviou week by 1-5r500,000 feet or l8.7qo.
The Veetern Pine Associatiotr for the same week reported otdeto from 136 mills as 44,6191000 feet; shipments ,T.O4OrOOO feet, and production 27,677rNO f.et. Orders were over pr(> ductio-n by 6116, and shipments were over productior by 73.EVo. Ordem were over rftnf"lo by 20.a/s.
The California Redwood Association for the week ended Match 3 reported production from lE mills as 6r100r(XX) feet, shipments 7r634r00iJ feet, and new business 6,910,0fi) feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week wete 30r954r0fi) feet. Ten identical mills reported production 89 per cent greater and
R. P. "Ijncle Bert" Fuller and associates have announced the purchase of the Home Lumber Company at Manteca, Calif., by the Diamond Match Company. .tUncle Bert,, has been connected with the retail lumber business for the past 51 years and says that he is going to take a long vacation. He started in the retail lumber business at Exeter and Fairmont, Nebraska, in 1883, and has been interested in the business there ever since, althoirgh for a number of years only as a stockholder in connection with his other interests. He will continue to make his home at Manteca.
The W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, are opening a retail lumber store at 136 West Main Street, Alhambra, Calif, Bert Beless will manage the sisre,
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197 hardwood mills give new busines for the wec& ended March 3 as 27r558r0fi) feet, ot 22 p* cent above production, and shipments were 23454rOOO feet, or 3 per cent above production. Production was 22r681rfi)0 feet.
-Reflecting the inctease in building permits during the mqrth of February, California retailers rcfort that busincsc is better. February building permits in many cities throughout the state -show large increases over the sarne month last year. Retail lumber code prices have gone into efrec., and the'new cargo freight rates from the Northwest to California ports have also beetr affected.
Unsold stocks on dre public doc-lrs at Loo Angeleo harbor totaled 34trOOO feet on March 5. Cargo arrivals at Los Angoles harbor for the weeL ended March 5 totaled 7,643rW-fa, which included 10 cargoes of Fir carrying 710401000 feet, and 2 catgoes of Redwood with 6O3,00O feet. 6O vecsels rrEre operating in the coastwise lumber service on March 5; 42 vessels were laid up.
The beauty of the hand made inlaid pictures of wood in its natural colors being distributed by Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, has to be seen to be fully realized. Wood from all parts of the world is used in the making of these hand made inlays. This is carefully selected for both color and grain to get the beautiful efiects desired.
There was a large demand for the pictures in the Christmas season, and as a result of {or,mer sal.es a steady demand has developed. The pictures are available in eleven subjects at moderate cost, and many lumbermen have availed themselves of the opportunity of having a real wood picture in their offices, and others have used them for gifts to their friends.
H. W. Cole, president of the California Redwood Association, and executive officer of the Redwood Division of the Lumber Code Authority, was back at his office in San Francisco March 5, after an absence of six weeks, five of which were spent in Washington, where he attended a meeting of the Lumber Code Authority.
From the forests come giant Redwoodsunwieldy logs. Economists term the next step giving forrn utility. The Palco people who work and live in this true "Land of the Giants" call it sawing logs into lumber. A lot of that sort of thing goes on in Scotia.
This glimpse of link number two in a chain that serves you begins to paint a picture. An idea begins to form. It is the fact that "to have and to hold" the confidence of the retail lumber merchant requires more than a calling card, a price list and an order book.-Much more.
I don't know just who the guilty party is in this airmail debacle, but I can tell you who is taking a Hell of a licking as a result of it; AMERICAN BUSINESS. As usual it's the innocent bystander that gets hurt the worst.
There must have o""rr lo,l",ii'g "*rouy smelly about the thing to precipitate the action taken. But we'd had it a long time. Business foundations had firmly constructed upon its service. And, it seems to an ignbrant country boy as though we might have let it continue a little while until we could have found something to take its place, instead of kicking the roof down on all our heads.
Judging from rvhat I read and hear everyone has now been nominated for "the forgotten man" by some business speaker or writer except the man who collects the interest. If you discover some way to forget HIM, call me up at rn'exPense 'fi 'r 'F
Every time I listen to General Hugh Johnson make a speech I think of the famous story they used to tell about Teddy Roosevelt during his lifetime. They said Teddy died and went to Heaven, and immediately gave St. Peter orders for the creation of a great heavenly vocal chorus. "Stand ten thousand first tenors on the right, and ten thousand second tenors in the center, and ten thousand baritones on the left wing," he told St. Peter. "And who will sing bass?" inquired St. Peter. "I," said the redoubtable Teddy; "IWILL SING BASS."
Some men are chiseler",-"": .l-" "r. just smart traders. A retail lumber friend of mine sends me the story of the smart guy who went into a meat market and asked for a cut of steak. The butcher sliced and weighed it. The price was 25 cents. The buyer said he didn't need that much. So the butcher cut it exactly in half and offered him one-half for 15 cents. The fellow reached over and picked up the other half. "Pardner," he said, with conviction, "this ten-cent piece will be a-plenty for me."
If we may judge from what we hear, the business population of the United States today is divided into two general classes: those who are chiseling in one fashion or another; and those who are determined not to let them get away with it much longer before taking a hand.
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With few exceptions, everyone connected with the lum-
ber industry admits-yea ! proclaims-that the Lumber Code has been of unquestionable benefit to the industry, that it came at a time when something had to be done to save lumber, that we couldn't havi gotten by without its protective agency, etc., etc., etc., BUT-and Oh ! Those buts ! They are almost innumerable. Everyone can tell you something that's wrong, some way the thing doesn't fit.
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The reason for all of which is that she's about the hardest horse to fit a Code harness to that anyone ever saw. It's nobody's fault, and nobody is responsible for it. (I'rn not talking about the various varieties of chiseling, now, I'm talking about fundamentals.) And regardless of what they do about it, or how hard they try to make the harness fit, it can never be anything but a makeshift on account of the very nature of the industry. And, when you pile on top of that the fact that the followers of the industry are just weak humans trying their best to get along, and grinding their own axes as best they may, you account for the rest of the murmuring you hear.
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Carl Crow is thundering in the Northwest against what he considers the threatened destruction of the Western wholesaler, who sells and has always sold the products of the big majority of Western rnills. Carl tells his story in no uncertain terms.
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The wholesaler generally doesn't like the looks of things. He can show you where detours are being built around him, leaving him well out of the picture. And, outspoken wholesalers are heard to murmur that they are going to eat, and may have to do a little detouring themselves to get their lumber to the hands of consumers. ft wouldn't be difficult.
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"What is a wholesaler," and who has a right to get the 8 per cent wholesale discount, is a question that is making universal trouble and agitation. Wholesalers whisper that plenty of big retailers are getting the discount, thus cutting out the professional wholesaler. And, the retailer who suspects that his competitor is getting such a discount by reason of a wholesale set-up, feels he is getting the worst of it.
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The mill classification brings up innumerable complaints -from both sides. It would require a volume to print the
stories that are going around about little mill troubles and big mill troubles, etc., etc.
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My wise friend, Ray Saberson, Merchandising Counsel for Weyerhaeuser, utters an impressive truth worth repeating many times when he warns the lumber industry that the Lumber Code has great good in it, but that it won't make a good lumberman out of a poor lumberman any more than the Marquis of Queensbury Rules will make a good boxer out of a bad one. *
He further reminds the trade that the Code says your price cutting competitor cannot sell below cost, but it doesn't say he has to make a profit. Therefore he can be just about as dangerous as he ever was; and he also may find devious new ways of making you trouble; and therefore again the good retailer had better get to merchandising his goods as his best protection. *rF*
The Federal Trade Commission serves notice on all concerned that since the courts have decided in its favor in the so-called "California White Pine" case, it will enforce to the letter that mandate. Makers of California Ponderosa Pine must not call their product "white." The botanist has been upheld, and his nomenclatures (names to you) will be enforced upon the merchants of wood. Yet the prod-
uct has been known exclusively as "California White Pine" for two generations.
Funny thing this l"-b": O""tr*r" ! Just a few years ago the Federal Trade Cornmission ordered the sellers of Philippine hardwoods in this country to quit calling certain of their cabinet woods "Philippine Mahogany." The Philippine proponents thumbed their noses at the F.T.C. and went to battle.
They did not claim or maintain that their beautiful Philippine cabinet woods were botanically Mahogany. But they insisted that they had from the first been called "Philippine Mahogany," that the trade knew them as such, that there was no attempt to defraud or deceive anyone, and that their rich, red cabinet woods were entitled to be called what they had always been called.
The F.T.C. contended that only woods of the species Swietenia and the family Meliaceae could be called Mahogany. The Philippine woods did not claim such pedigree. But the courts upheld their right to call their woods Philippine Mahogany. And, so it stands today.
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Pinus Ponderosa, when grown in California, has long been known to the trade as "California White Pine." It is admittedly a Pine. In rnany instances the wood will be found much whiter in color than products of trees that are botanically "true" white Pines; but under the law today it cannot be advertised or sold as "White Pine." The fact that it is white and Pine has nothing to do with the matter.
Get it? Mahogany ,n"JaJ" lo. "r"trn to be botanically Mahogany can be sold as Mahogany. But a wood that IS Pine, and may be white as snow in color, cannot be called white Pine. Ho! Hum!
\ltlhat's to become of the lumber industry if trade names are to give way before botanical designations? In California the common wooden building material is universally known as "Oregon Pine." It has always been called that. But what they call Oregon Pine in California is plain Douglas Fir everywhere else. And, botanically Douglas Fir is NOT a Fir at all-it's a Larch. So this Pine is a Fir, and this Fir is a Larch-and what are we going to do about it? ***
But let's stop talking lumber. Let's talk about other things-the neur "rassling" racket, for instance. It was Barnum who created immortality when he said-"There's a sucker born every minute." He must have been thinking of the present-day crop of fans who throng the arenas to shout wildly at these funny wrestling matches. A veteran wrestling and boxing referee writing in a current magazine calls attention to the obviousness of the quackery that is being continually practiced in these so-called wrestling "contests." For instance, one of the tricks that delights the fans is for one wrestler to pick up the other, hold him high above his head, whirl him around some, and throw him like a sack of sand. This authority calls attention to the fact that no wrestler ever lived big enough and strong enough to do that to any trained athlete, even though he might be only a lightweight. The thing is a gymnastic feat, and he who is lifted has to help a whole lot to make the thing possible. But the fans shout themselves hoarse at the spectacle. ***
Hackenschmidt, the strongest man that ever entered an American wrestling ring, tried in vain to pick up a lightweight wrestler and throw him from him. He found it utterly impossible. Today the arenas are thronged with wild-eyed fans, watching the "bad boys" of the game abuse
each other. The pantomime, the groans and grunts, the savage blows, the horrible grimaces, the apparent ferocity, the fights between performer and referee, all the evidences of the actor's rather than the wrestler's art, fill the souls of the gullible with enthusiasm. If genuine, artistic, clever wrestling were resorted to, the fans would shout their disapproval, and walk out. They demand to be faked.
Speaking of fakes, another rich American girl is going to marry another European "Prince." In those little old European countries a "Prince" was any man who used a handkerchief and wore shoes. And, the poor, silly little American morons who have purchased such titles have paid terrific prices for them. Some day we'll have laws against that sort of quackery.
Two hoodlums tried to kidnap a man in California. They didn't succeed in getting him. A California jury has sentenced them to be hanged for the effort. Give California credit. There is one state where the kidnaping racket is over for all time.
All the officers of the Western Pine Association were reelected at the annual meeting of the board of directors of the Association held in San Francisco, February 27 and ?-8.
The officers are: R. R. Macartney, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., president; J. P. McGoldrick, McGoldrick Lumber Co., Spokane, Wash., first vice-president; George W. York, George E. Breese Lumber Co., Albuquerque, N. M., second vice-president; C. L. Isted, Shevlin-Hixon Co., Bend, Ore., treasurer, and David T. Mason, Portland, Ore., manager.
The meeting was open to all persons in the Western Pine Division, and there was a large attendance.
Other business before the meeting included amendment of articles of incorporation and amendment of byJaws.
Considerable time was devoted to discussion of Code matters, particularly Article X of the Lumber Code, dealing with sustained production and conservation of forest resources.
W. F. Baird, general sales manager, Michigan California Lumber Co., Camino, Calif., was recently in San Francisco on a business trip, and has just left for a six weeks' tour of the Middle West and East to visit the company's sales connections. Mr. Baird said that industrial buying throughout the country has improved, and he looks for further improve,ment with the opening of spring.
Announcement is made by Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, that E. G. "Dave" Davis has been transferred to Los Angeles to work the territory from Santa Barbara to San Diego under the direction of C. M. Freeland of the Los Angeles office.
Mr. Davis has been 11 years in the service of the company, which includes experience in the San Francisco office and in the yard formerly operated in San Diego. For several years past he has been covering the Sacramento Valley and Sonoma Valley territories, and at one time worked the Coast Counties territory.
D. Norman Cords, who has been assistant to Jas. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson, district sales manager, in the San Francisco office, will succeed Mr. Davis in the Sacramento Valley and Sonoma Valley territories. Ray Canady will succeed Mr. Cords as assistant to Mr. Atkinson.
Charlie Wilson, who has been assisting Clyde Osborne, manager of the creosoting department in Portland, has been transferred to the San Francisco office.
Humphrey-Farrar Lumber Co., Berkeley, celebrated the first anniversary of their opening March 1, with a dinner to which they invited their friends in the wholesale lumber and building material business.
Clement Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, general chairman of committees for the organization of the second annual Reveille of Northern California Lumbermen. sponsored by the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, announces appointment of the various committees, and asks all Northern California lumbermen to note that the Reveille will be held in the Oakland Hotel, Oakland, on Friday evening, April 2O, and, the golf tournament on Saturday, April 21. The committees are as follows: General Committee-Clement Fraser (chairman), C. I. Gilbert, H. S. Morton, G. F. Bonnington, L. J. Woodson, B. E. Bryan, M. R. Grant, John H. Tyson, Thos. L. Hubbard, Elmore W. King, Ralph P. Duncan, Chas. T. Lund, Jos. H. Kirk, Chas. G. Bird, E. T. Robie, Russell Stevens, Earle E. Johnson.
Entertainment Committee-H. S. Morton (chairman), Earle E. Johnson, Henry M. Hink.
Golf Committee-G. F. Bonnington (chairman), Henry M. Hink, C. I. Speer, L. J. Woodson.
Publicity Committee-L. J. Woodson (chairman), H. S. Morton, G. F. Bonnington, B. E. Bryan, M. R. Grant. Banquet Committee-C. I. Gilbert (chairman), B. E. Bryan, ,H. S. Morton.
Program, Posters & Ticket Committee-B. E. Bryan (chairman), H. S. Morton, G. F. Bonnington.
Ticket Sales Committee-M. R. Grant (chairman), H. S. Morton, G. F. Bonnington, L. J. Woodson, B. E. Bryan, Forrest K. Peil.
Carl R. Moore, 6O4 Underwood Building', San Francisco, is the general secretary-treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. James McElroy of San Jose left February 26 f.or a trip to Mexico City. Mr. McElroy is a partner in the retail lumber firm of McElroy & Cheim, San Jose.
Provisions for the Markins of Lumber and Timber Products Approved by the Lumber Code Authority ond Proposed to the Adminstration Pursuant to the Requirements ofArticle XVI of the Lumber and Timber Products Code
Pursuant to Article XVI, paragraph (b) and (c) of the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, approved by the President, August 19,1933, the applicant industries respectfully submit to the President the following "provisions, including proposed rules and regulations, necessary to effectuate the requirements of the Article," namely, "to undertake to adopt, apply and enforce branding or marking of lumber and timber products." The provisions of Article XVI, paragraph (b), with respect to the inclusion of a certificate of the originating shipper in all shipments, except water-borne, showing the quantity, grade and species thereof, have already been made efiective in Section 6 (f) of the Rules of Fair Trade Practice, Schedule B of the Lumber Code. The applicant industries respectfully recommend that when approved by the President, these provisions, rules and regulations be designated Section -and made a part of Schedule B-Rules of Fair Trade Practice for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, and become effective 30 days thereafter.
Section-Marking of Lumber and Timber
(a) All lumber and timber products, except those enumerated in paragraph (b) hereof, but including doors, sold and shipped for use within the continental United States shall hereafter be branded or marked (except that unavoidable mechanical skips may be allowed) by the manufacturer or producer thd:reof, or by his agent, with an association grade-mark and trade-mark as provided in paragraph (c) hereof, which marks shall plainly indicate: (1) species, as provided in paragraph (d) hereot; (2) standard grade, as provided in paragraph (e) hereof; (3) whether of standard or sub-standard dimensions, as provided in paragraph (f) hereof; (4) wirether 'seasoned or unseaboned, as provided in paragraph (g) hereof; and no such brands or marks shall be obliterated or removed, except as may be required after official association reinspection and then only by the official association inspector. These marks shall be placed on each piece shipped, except where the Division permits the marking of bundles in certain items, in which case the marks shall be applied to each bundle.
(b) Factory and shop lumber are specifically excepted from the provisions of this Section; railroad and car material, when accompanied by an association certificate of inspection or when inspected by a railroad inspector, is likewise excepted. Each Division shall have the authority to prescribe and enforce the marking of all green lumber to indicate standard grade; failing which no green lumber in that Division shall be so marked.
(c) The term "association grade-marks and trade-marks" as used in paragraph (a) of this Section shall be construed to include marks or symbols denoting:
l.-Nameof lumber manufacturers' association under whose published rules the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped.
2.-Name of standard grade under said manufacturers' association rules, or other recognized grade approved by the Division, including the grade quality and such additional characteristics of the grade as may be required.
3.-Manufacturers' name or number or trade-mark, to identify the mill or company from which the shipment is made.
4.-Names of species, as officially adopted for that purpose by the lumber manufacturers' association under whose rules the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped.
5.-Seasoning, conforming to the seasoning standards adopted or recognized by the manufacturers' association under whose rules the lumber is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped.
6.-Standard dimensions, except wh en specifically marked "sub-standard size."
7.-Compliance with all provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act and of the Lumber Code Authority.
(d) For the purpose of compliance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (1) of this section, the symbols to be branded or marked on each piece (or each bundle) of lumber and timber to denote its species shall consist of the symbols or marks officially adopted by the lumber manufacturers' association under whose rules the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped, provided that said marks shall be such as to enable the consuming public to readily identify the species. The species mark may be omitted in the discretion of any manufacturers in grades which admit mixed species.
(e) For the purpose of compliance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (2) of this section, the symbols to be branded or marked on each piece (or each bundle) of lumber and timber to denote its grade shall consist of the symbols or marks officially adopted and published for the grade in question by the lumber manufacturers' association under whose rules'the species is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped, and no mark shall be used indicating any grade which grade is not described in the published grading rules applying thereto, or specifically approved by the manufacturers' association concerned. No grade-mark shall be placed on lumber of mixed grades, other than the two highest recognized grades for the species in question. When lumber is sold and shipped on a non-standard specification which cannot be described by a grade-name, it shall be marked "non-standard".
(f) For the purpose of compliance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (3) of this section, standard dimensions shall be construed to mean rough and/ot finished sizes, thicknesses andfor widths equal to or greater than the corresponding sizes for the product in question, prescribed in the American Lumber Standards for softwood lumber and timber, published by the U. S. Bureau of Standards in the current edition of Simplified Practice Recommendations R-16, or for hardwood lumber published
by the Central Committee on Lumber Standards, July 1, 1926, and in the current rules of hardwood manufacturers' associations covering the species and items in question. All lumber and timber products marked with an association trade mark shall be construed to be "standard size" as described in this paragraph; all lumber and timber products of dimensions smaller than these shall be considered "substandard size" and be so marked.
(S) I" accordance with the provisions of paragraph (a) sub-item (4) of this section, seasoned lumber and timber products shall be construed to mean lumber and timber products which conform to the seaso'ning standards adopted or recognized by the manufacturers' association under whose rules the lumber is manufactured, graded, sold and shipped. All such lumber and timber products shall be considered "seasoned" and be so marked. All lumber and timber products not conforming to said seasoning standards shall be considered "unseasoned" and be so marked, ifit is so prescribed by the Division.
(h) The products of persons who have presented acceptable evidence to the designated agency of a Division, showing that their products or facilities make grade-marking impractical and that no unfair competition will result from their exemption from these rules and regulations, and who are determined by the said agency to be persons entitled to this relief, may, with the approval of the Lumber Code Authority, be sold and shipped without regard to the requirements of this section.
(i) The Lumber Code Authority shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to secure effective enforcement and assure equitable application of the provisions of this section; the Divisions shall, with the approval of the Authoritv, promulgate similar rules and regulations.
There is rejoicing in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mulligan, San Francisco, over the arrival of a son on March 1.
Mr. Mulligan is president ofW. J. Mulligan & Co., wholesale lumber dealers.
Hardwood flooring for the floors of the new building of the famous San Francisco Bohemian Club, now under construction, is being supplied through J. E. Higgins Lumber Company, San Francisco.
Smith Lumber Company, San Francisco, is supplying the lumber, and Lannon Bros. Manufacturing Company, Oakland, is furnishing the millwork.
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So say hundreds of Califomia retail lumber. men. ftts a fact-there aae many eervice advantages and facilities available only through the McCormick Lumbet Company which your McCosnick salesman is glad to tell you about. Itts money in your pocket to get better acquainted with that fellow.
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The colored woman had just retained the highbrow lawyer to handle her case in a suit she was bringing for breach-of-promise against a well-to-do local colored doctor.
"Is you certain dis doctuh done promised to marry you, Liza?" asked the attorney.
"Yes, Suh, he suttingly did, plenty times," she declared with emphasis.
"Ifave you got the proof in black an' white?" he wanted to know.
Her face fell.
"Nossuh," she answered, "jes BLACK."
George W. Gorman, Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco; Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. W. Hexberg, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco; C. E. De Camp, Caspar Lumber Co., San Francisco, and Herb Klass, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, left March 12 to attend the price correlation meeting in Portland, March 14.
In addition to the Redwood Division representatives this meeting will be attended by representatives of the West Coast Division, Soutl?ern Pine Division, Northern Pine Division, and Western Pine Division.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 26.---The National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority will hold its next meeting at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, beginning March 19,1934.
The principal business of the session will be to determine production of lumber and timber products for the second quarter of. 1934, and to allocate quotas of this production to the various divisions and subdivisions of the industry.
Those within and without the industry who wish to bring other business to the attention of the committee must notify the oflice of the Lumber Code Authority in Washington on or before March 14, at which time the docket of business will be closed.
Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority (Northern California) members met at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, March 2. Ralph P. Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, chairman, presided. Matters pertaining to the operation of the Code were discussed.
Washington, Mar. 3.-National Recovery Administrator
Hugh S. Johnson today announced approval of the regulations for assessment of expenses and award of insignia under the retail lumber code and allied trades. The conditions of the approval are that the Code Authority, within 90 days study its financial requirements for the purpose of informing the Administrator in detail the requirements of the assessment and the amount.
As approved each member of the trade is to pay a quarterly assessment on January 1, April 1, July I and'October 1, amounting to five-tenths of one per cent of the total amount of sales of lumber, lumber products, building materials and building specialties made during the quarterly period. Revision may be made with the consent of the Administrator according to the necessities, but the amount is not to exceed the percentage named. Funds advanced by members for the initiation and administration of the code are to be credited against assessments.
Each member who shall have paid the assessment levied and who shall have agreed in writing to abide by the code is entitled to receive the code insignia.
A better than average attendance heard a talk on "Organized Crime" by Earl Warren, District Attorney of Alameda County, at the regular monthly dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, February 26.
Professor Emanuel Fritz gave a l5-minute talk on "Termites." This proved so interesting that President C. I. Gilbert asked him to talk again on this subject at the next meeting. In the short time at his disposal the professor told members how to find termites, and what to do when they found them.
It was decided to hold the big 1934 Northern California Lumbermen's Reveille at the Oakland Hotel. Friday evening, April 20.
Frank J. O'Connor, who has been president and general manager of the California Wholesale Lumber Association since its formation, resigned recently as general manager in order to devote his full time to his own business as manager of the San Francisco office of the Donovan Lumber Company.
When accepting Mr. O'Connor's resignation it was the unanimous request of the members that he would continue as president of the Association.
S. M. Hauptman was appointed to succeed Mr. O'Connor as general manager, effective March 9. Mr. Hauptman was formerly president of the Chas. R. McCor,mick Lumber Company, and was one of the founders of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.
The Association offices have been at 2@ California Street, San Francisco, but these will be moved to a new location which
W. R. Chamberlin, presiderrt, W. R. Chamberlin & Co., was back in his office March 12 after spending a week in Los Angeles.
A. C. Aherns, sales manager, Clover Valley Lumber Co., Loyalton, is on a two months' sales trip to the East and Middle West.
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C. Arthur Bruce, who has been Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority since its organization, orally tendered his resignation on February 14 and confirmed it in a letter dated February 18. The vacancy will not be filled until after the meeting of the National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority now scheduled for March 19. Mr. Bruce's letter of resignation, addressed to John D. Tennant, Chairman of the Lumber Code Authority, follows:
"I hereby confirm my resignation as Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority which was verbally tendered you on February 14th.
"The fact that you informed me on that date that the National Recovery Administration had indicated to you that such action on my part would be desirable is the only reason I care to give for my action.
"As the Executive Officer is the spokesman for the industry and the official contact with Government, any other action on my part might mean that the industry would be handicapped in its relations with the National Recovery Administration. This I desire to avoid.
"However, from certain information that has come to me and also certain other members of the Authority, I can not help but believe that political pressure has been exerted but the exact knowledge in this respect I do not have, nor do I think you have. This leads me to say, however, that while it is well known that I am a Republican and ran on the Republican ticket for Governor of Tennessee in the fall of 1930, I have been l0o/o with the President and General Hugh Johnson in their constructive plans for the rehabilitation of industry and the nationJhrough the N.I.R.A.
"fn closing I reiterate my belief in our Lumber Code as a means of self-government and express the hope to continue to give it support in other ways than through service as Executive Officer."
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Lloyd Cole, assistant sales manag'er, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, spent a few days at the head office in San Francisco, on his way back from visits to the company's sawmills at Sa.moa, Calif., Mill City, Ore., and Garibaldi. Ore.
Mr. Cole also attended the dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club, held in Oakland, February 26.
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That characteristic knock-one rap, a slight pause, three and one, another pause, and then two short-meant one of the boys, not a bell-hop nor a maid. I called "Come in" and then remembered that it was one of those automatically locking hotel doors that couldn't be opened from the outside except with a key. So I got up from the desk where I was writing some post-cards to the kids back home and opened the door to jolly old Jerry Anderson.
You know Jerry, I guess. Everybody that has anything to do with the lumber industry knows or should knorv Jerry Anderson. He's a sort of king-fish among the lumbermen of his state and a rather outstanding figure in the industry the whole country over. He's a su,ccessful business man, of course-unless a man is su,ccessful, he's not likely to become a leader in any industry. Ife's as shrewd as they make 'em, square as the day is long, a careful buyer of both merchandise and service, and his genial personality combined with his natural ability makes him a salesman supreme. It's not to be wondered at that he does more business in his community than five or six competitors put together.
Jerry has always been a strong advocate of insurance developed by an industry for its own protection. That's why he has always carried his insurance with the Associated Lumber Mutuals. It's his idea-and it's thoroughly logical both in theory and in practice-that lumbermen who know the needs of the business and who combine that knowledge rvith insurance experience, can develop a more complete and adequate protection for other lumbermen than the best insurance men in the world who do not have that inside contact with the industry. He naturally expects a more sympathetic understanding of the policy-holders' needs both before and after the experience of loss. And he doesn't overlook for a minute the dividends which represent such a substantial saving in insurance cost. It has been my fortune to handle this insurance for him as representative of all the Associated Lumber Mutual Companies.
As I opened the door, Jerry's voice boomed out-
"Hello, young fellow. When I asked the clerk whether Tom Guthrie was registered, I knew what the answer would be."
"Absolutely, Jerry. Mighty glad to see you. I felt sure you'd be in sometime this afternoon too. In fact, I rather expected to have you join me for some entertainment this evening that I don't get back home in California."
"If I didn't know you, Tom, I'd say that sounded queer and I'd be leery of signing up without knowing all the particulars."
"Perfectly safe, Jerry. You can tell your wife all about it when you get home."
"All right, Tom. Count me in. What's it all about?"
"ft's the fastest and wildest of all games and I'll confess that I am completely nuts about it. I never come down
here or go anywhere else where they play, that I don't see a game."
"Doesn't sound like ping-pong nor jbckstraws. What is it?"
"Hockey. And after youtve seen a agree with me about its being fast and
tiddhdy-winks nor game, if you don't furious, I'll eat my hat."
"Hockey? Heard about it but have never seen a game. It's a sort of a glorified shinny, isn't it?"
r'!s5-and glorified is the word. We had some of the rudiments of the game back in those kid days when the creek was lrozen over so that we could take our sticks and bat a tin can around the ice. Between the periods, I can. shut my eyes and live again these shinny days of long ago. Those days have gone forever, so far as I am concerned, but I do get a thrill out of the real thing that you'll see tonight."
"Shinny was a lot of fun, wasn't it? Gosh, the skinned shins and the barked knuckles that I used to have."
"Same here, Jerry-but it was all in the game."
So it all came about that, after a good dinner together, Jerry and I set out for the hockey arena where two of the outstanding teams in one of the Professional Leagues were scheduled to play. The crowds were already beginning to gather and I imagine there were over five thousand people in the building when we took our seats.
"Well, hockey seems to be a good business, at least," remarked Jerry.
"ft is," said L "There will be over ten thousand people here tonight, maybe fifteen thousand, and that does mean good business. You will be surprised to know that star hockey players measure up very well with baseball players when it comes to the way they are s,couted and the salaries paid. I have heard that some of the top-notch players get as much as $40,000.00 or $50,000.00 a year and they pay good salaries all down the line. To my notion, they earn them."
"Great Scott! That is really big business, isn't it? How's come we don't hear more about it back where we come from ?"
"I suppose because we haven't started to play it there. It isn't as universal a game as baseball, but it has gotten to, be almost as big a game in the cities in which it is played. Its popularity is growing rapidly. We'll be having hockey games back in our country before many years."
It's not my purpose to tell you about the game. It must be seen to be appreciated. Besides, I imagine that a lot of the data about face-offs, zones, fouls, penalties, etc. would be like so much Greek to the most of you. Sufiice it to sa1' that before the game was much more than under way, Jerry was ready to agree with me about its being wild and fast. The puck flew from one end of the ring to the other, back and forth from side to side, the players sweeping and dash-
ing here and there, passing, carrying, and shooting for the goal cage. The defending players of course dashed about just as madly, endeavoring to block or stop the puck with their feet, their skates or their sticks, and even with their hands and bodies when the puck got into the air, until they succeeded in taking the puck themselves and immediately went on the offensive in a drive to shoot it into the goal cage of their opponents. Both offensive and defensive play was spectacular in the extreme.
The ,crowd which had grown to nearly fifteen thousand, as I had predicted, were wild with enthusiasm, and every grand rush and every spe,ctacular defense of a goal brought shrieks of excited approval. Jerry and I were just as frenzied as anyone else, even though we were not at all concerned over who won the game. The thing that we enjoyed was the speed and the action, and there was plenty of both.
As we walked back to the hotel, Jerry said-
"Tom, that was one of the greatest games I ever saw in my life. I think I'll be as nutty about hockey as you are. If anyone craves action, I'll certainly recommend a hockey game. Whew ! I'll be seeing that puck shooting back and forth in my dreams, and I will be hearing the crack of the sticks and the click of the skates all night long. But, whether I sleep or not, I wouldn't have missed it for anything."
"Well, it's all wonderful, Jerry, but the thing that fascinates me most is the marvelous defensive work of the goal-keepers. He's on the job every minute to stop that puck with his stick, his feet, his skates, his hands and his body-anything to keep that pu,ck from getting past him into the goal cage. Reverting to shop talk, the goal-keeper seems to me to be a real personification of a wide-awake lumberman intent upon protecting his plant from fire. Fire tries in every possible way to score a goal. It passes, it carries, it sneaks, and it shoots, and you've simply got to be on your toes every minute. You've got to block those attacks with every defensive means at your,command. You can't afford to leave a single opening unguarded. You must be on guard every minute against smokers, with matches and cigarettes; against trespassers; again rubbish, dried grass, shavings and sparks; against spontaneous combustion from oily rags and waste; against defective heating pipes or flues; against twisted wires and worn insulation; against carelessness with gasoline, paint, etc. ; and
against all those other kinds of carelessness that contribute to the start or the spread of a fire."
"That's a mighty good comparison, Tom. If every man employed in a lumber plant were on his toes against fire as the goal-keeper is against that puck, we wouldn't have many fires."
"And that would mean fewer losses for our Companies to pay."
"And eventually, of course, lower insurance rates and higher dividends."
"Sure. That would all logically follow. You can get some idea as to the possibilities from the fact that over seventy-five per cent of all fires are absolutely preventable. They are the goals that fire registers, because we weren't on the job."
"What we need are goal-keepers. Count on me, Tom, to be a goal-keeper in our plant and I am going to try to make a goal-keeper out of every man on our payroll."
"Our best protection against fire is an invincible defense. Goal-keepers all, will do it."
A total of 11,8O1,873 feet of lumber moved through the Port of Stockton in 1933, and it is predicted by port authorities that there will be a large increase in the volume of lumber shipments in 1934. Of this total inbound shipments amounted to9,156,19 feet, and outbound shipments to the Atlantic seaboard were 2,645,674 f.eet.
The recent $900,000 bond election carried in Stockton by nine to one. The port improvements to be financed by this issue include the construction of three warehouses, four wharves, transit sheds, and a slip to raise the port's berthing capacity from three to seven ships at one time.
W. J. Mulligan, president of W. J. Mulligan & Co., San Francisco, largest shippers of Pacific Coast lumber to the Argentine, gave a talk recently to the executive committee of the San Francisco Foreign Trade Association on conditions in the Argentine, particularly with regard to exchange and blocked funds.
The policeman's son $ras learning music. "How many beats are there to the bar in this piece of music, Dad?" he asked the old man.
"Fancy asking a policeman a question like that," chimed in the boy's mother. "If you asked your daddy how many bars there are to the beat, he might be able to give you an intelligent answer."
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I say that the magnet foats in space by the power of God. The magnet repels another magnet by the power of God.-Dr. W. R. Whitney.
A contemporary has rightly said that the only deeply religious people of our largely materialistic age are the earnest men of science.-Albert Einstein.
They who have worshipped at one shrine alone, The shrine of truth, they who have long assailed The ancient altars where old faiths prevailed, Begin to sense that Truth and God are one, And grow more humble now, more reverent. For science, challenging the Infinite, Descries, beyond the farthest star, a light That leads to worship and to wonderment.
Let doubts bedim the minds of lesser men Who cannot find God in the books and creedsThese research men derive Him from His deeds; Let earth-bound ones, their eyes upon the sod, Broadcast today the cry, "There is no God"The scientists discover God again.
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.Burke.
Lady Customer: "I should like to know why the potatoes at the top of that sack I bought from you a day or so ago were so much bigger than the potatoes at the bottom of that sack."
Grocer: "Lady, that's easily explained. You see this variety of potato grows so fast that by the time a sackful is dug the last ones are about twice as big as the first ones that come out of the ground."
A man's value in his own organization is determined by his ability to carry a slight over-load once in a while and be able to meet the unusual situations that arise.
Milk.
Milk and bread.
Milk, eggs, bread and spinach.
Oatmeal, bread and butter, green apples, and all-day suckers.
fce cream sodas and hot dogs.
Minute steak, fried potatoes, cofree and apple pie.
Bouillon, roast duck, scalloped potatoes, creamed broccoli, fruit salad, divinity fudge, demi-tasse.
Pate de foie gras, wiener schnitzel, potatoes Parisienne, egg plant a I'opera, demi-tasse and Roquefort cheese.
Soft-boiled eggs, toast and milk.
Crackers and milk.
Milk.
The best method a man can use for strengthening his own judgment is to exercise it.
The first meeting of the newly organized San Francisco Lumbermen's Club was held in San Francisco March 6. Twenty-one members were represented at the meeting, and five others joined later, leaving only three yards to make the menrbership 100 per cent.
M. A. Harris, of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., was elected president, and Wm. Chatham, Loop Lumber Co., was elected vice-president. D.'P. Munthe was elected secretary and Jos. Rolando, Rolando Lumber Co., treasurer. The office of the club is at 400 Brannan Street, San Francisco.
The membership is as follows: Acme Lumber Co., Allen & Dettman Lumber Co., Christenson Lumber Co., H. J. De Vries, Grace Lumber Co., Greater City Lumber Co., Hobbs, Wall & Co., Howes Lumber Co., J. H. Kruse, Leonard Lumber Co., Loop Lumber Co., J. H. McCallum, C. E. Reinhart & Co., Rolando Lumber Co., Roth-Maier Lumber Co., San Francisco Lumber Co., H.H. Smith, Smith Lumber Co., Spring Valley Lumber Yard, A. L. Stockton Lumber Co., Sudden Lumber Co., Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Swift & Co., H. S. Thomson, Inc., Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., West Coast Lumber Co.
"Asked to comment on present conditions in San Francisco, Mr. Harris, president of the new organization, said: "There seems to be an optimistic feeling in San Francisco. While there is not a great deal of building being done, there is a definite increase in the volume of repairing and replacement in the residential area. Purchases by industrial plants are definitely on the upgrade, which reflects a general iniprovement in business conditions.
"Dealers feel that priceS are too high in some instances, but they realize that these must be coordinated with the manufacturers' prices.
"Distribution policy as enunciated in Washington has not been definitely passed on as yet, and there is, therefore, more or.less confusion as to the line that should be drawn between wholesalers' and retailers' natural trade."
Frank O'Connor, general manager, California Wholesale Lumber Association, San Francisco; L. C. Stewart, vice president, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, and M. L. "Duke" Euphrat, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, returned March 5 from attending the meeting of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association committee on Minimum Prices and Trade Practices.
*Included in Los Angeles totals.
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Barg Lmbcr Cmpaly
16 Califonia St.,................'..GArficld 57lt
Chanberlln & Co., W. R.'
tth Floc, Fifc Bldg. '...........DOutI..5,|7t
Dolbecr & Cano Imbcr Co.,
?i!0 Merchutc Erchangc 81dg......'SUttcr 7l5t
Hrnnond Lubcr Co.
lrr Sre St....'...............DOurlu ltt|
Hdno Eunka Lubcr Cc'
1305 Fiuciat Catcr Bldg. .......GArfic8 ftzf
LooD Lumbcr Cmpany' Ft. of rath SL ....................MArtct ttll
Lor-BelI lmbcr Sds Corpntlon'
123 Marlct Stnct ...............GArficH ft3t
Multlru & Cc' W. J'
$! Mottomery St ..,..'...'.'..GArfield a!|C
LUMBER
McCmick, Cbar. R-, Lunbcr Co, ,||l Martgt Strret ............. .,..DOuglal 2561
Mm Mill & Lunbcr Go, 525 Mukct Strct .,............,..Exbroo& [?it
Pacific Lubcr Co. ThG r0O Buh StFGt ..................GArficld lltl
Rcd Riv* Imbcr Ca, il5 Moadnc|: Blds. .............GArfic1d !&z
tlarta Fc Lrnbcr Co., ll Califonir Stret .,......,......KErny lt7l
Schafcr Bro. Imbcr & Shinglc Co., l20t .Fife Bl&. .....................SUttcr l7l
Sud&n & Christen ont trO Sanroc Strut ...............GArfidd A{
LUIIBER
Hill & Mcton' Irc. DcnLo St Whrrl ..,...........ANdffi IOL
T. P. Hogan Co. -- eJ i- Att- istn""tl........'i...Gt:rccrt $lr
LUMBER
Boolctavar Bumr Imbcr Gct
LUMBER
Union Luba Cc, CrcLc BuiftliDS ..Sutt r aUl
Vu Andalc-Hmir Lmber Cc, Inc., Fifrh & Bro Stccts..........G^rn.|d tO
Weadling-Na6ra Co., lll Martet Strrct ..................SUttrr 5!.'
Weycrheeucr Salcr Co, r,! Caltrmlr Srnct ...,..........GAridd loTr
Ziel & Cc, rC Cdifnll.r St ..................EXbrmL 5l|r
SAIIH AND D(X)RS
Nicolai Dor ltds Co. ilrs rtrh Sb.ct ....................Mldil ?tza
CREOSOTED POLESI_PILTNG-TIES
McCmick, Chu. R" Lunbcr Go, ,lll Mrkct Strct .,........,,.....DOuthr t5a1
PANEI.S
Elliott Brt Srler Co' fW Bn&rrl
HARDWOODS
Sb.blc Hudwod C4, $lt Ftrrt Stnct ...,...'.......TEnlcbar 56tl
LUMBER
PrrGc Lubcr Co, Thc
Cbrnbcr ot Cmcm Btdg......PRorrcct |Zlf
Chrnbcrlla & Co.. W. R-
tlt WG.t Ninth SL '.............'TUcLs I'Bl
Dolbccr & Cerro Lunbcr Co.'
rl2t Shclt 8u1et............ ......VAdilar ttittz
Hohcr Eurrlc LuEb6 Co-'
?ts-A Ar6lt cb Blds. ............MUtu.! ?l6c
Hemmd Ltnba Cc'
20fa Sc Alanedr St. ......'......PRcpcct il?f
Hovcr, A. L, ?cc Sc h Brca Arc. ........'.......YOrk tf$
Larene-Phlltp. Lunbcr Co.'
Cl3 Pctrelm Scuritie'r Bldg....PRo.Dcct lQt
Loos-Bcll Lunber Sd6 Caemto'
?2f Pekdm lhcurtticr Bldg....PRo.EGct t{|t
l|cCcmid(, Chu R- Lubcr Co,
7l? }V- M. Gerlad Bldg............TRinity 52|r
}lulltel & Co. W. J., ll7 Wct tth St. ..................V4ndika llll
?lC So. t- Bru Ava...............'..YOrL U$
Patta-Bliu lmbcr Co.,
5Zr E. 5th SL ..,.........,.,.....VAnd|LcZla
Rca, Jrck, tOl PGtrcbu Ssrtdcl Blds....PRaFct S
Red Rlvcr Lubcr Co, 702 E. Shrld ..,AXridrp t07r
Santa Fc lrnb.r CG'
3[ Fh&.t l Cate Btdr..,.......TRidty $2f
Schafa Bn. Lubcr & ShlnsL CG'
aA Petrolcuo Smritir:c Bld5...,PRocpect 3l?t
Sudden & Chrirtcnso'
tB Patrolm Scoritia Bl&....,PRcrcct lfll
Uaion Lunbcr Co-
lau Mort$Sc Bldt. ,.............TRir|ty 22tA
\lrendling-Netbu Co, ?f SG Lr Bncr Avc. .................Yffi ff0t
l\fcycrh*urcr Salcr Co., tlt Pctolcu Sccrrfti4 Bl&....PRo:oact 55tf
HARDWOODS
Coofcr, W. E, Lrnbcr Gc, 2OE E. rith SL ..................PRo.D.ct 5Ul
H.hhond Lrubc Co. l|fa Sq Alucdr SL.............PRo.D.ct tUl
Irtrrhlb, C. J. tlZl WIrtriro Bhrd. ,............EXDo.td6 llit
Stutoo, E. J., & So, a60 Eut !t& Strut .............AXril3clllr
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Hrhhohd Lunbcr Ca, 2010 Sc Atucda SL.......,.....PRorpcct ?l?f
KeLl, JDo. W. & So+ l$2 So. Mym 3L ............,....ANrc|u lo7l
Rcd Rlvcr Lunbcr Co. ?U E. Sbun ..AXrldrtir
PANET.S
Cdirani! Pr!.I I Voer Cc, t55 So. Abncdr'lL ................TR|dty f,
Most of those who have rushed into print with criticisms of lumber prices during the last few months seem to have the mistaken view that a comparison of markets should be based upon the distress prices quoted during the low point of the depression. An impression seems to prevail in some quarters that just because lumber manufacturers were in a position where they had to lose from $5 a thousand upward in order to keep their plants operative,.their workers employed, and their fixed charges paid-such as, in some producing states, almost confiscatory taxes on standing timber-they should be willing-and able-to continue indefinitely selling at prices below cost.
The real reason why lumber prices apparently increased so rapidly in 1933 was because there had been such a precipitous drop in 1932 and, the years preceding. A glance at the price index figures of the Department of Labor's Bureau of Statistics will prove this. With 100 representing prices in 1926,lumber dropped to 55.5 in August, 1932. The figure f.or 1932 as a rvhole was 58.5. The price index for all building materials combined for that year was 71.4. Lumber at 58.5, was almost solely responsible for this low average of 71.4, as other materials remained at relatively high levels. Brick and tile had dropped only to 77.3, cement to 77.2, while structural steel demanded and maintained a level of 80.9.
Despite the advances in lumber prices during 1933, it remained the stepchild of the building material field, insofar as price was concerned. Although the general average rose to 77.O, with brick and tile at 79.2, cement at 86.1, structural steel rebounding to 83.1, lumber increased only to 7O.7.
The situation for lumber manufacturers was aggravated by the fact that they had not enjoyed the fat years previous to the depression, as had those in other building material industries, for the indices covering the years between 1926 and 1930 show a constant decrease in price with practically no decrease in cost of manufacture. By 1931 the average selling price of Southern yellow pine, which is fairly indicative of the industry as a whole, had fallen to $18.35, with the out-of-pocket cost of production at an average of $23.03 -a loss oI nearly five dollars on each thousand feet of lumber produced. With no further appreciable decrease in costs, selling prices in 1932 dropped to an average of $14.68 for the year, with a low of $13.88 in July.
During January of 1933 the average mill price of Southern Pine, again typical of the industry as a whole, dropped to the ruinous figure of $13.55. These price movements set the economic stage for the change which inevitably follows a concerted movement by buyers to force commodity price levels down, for the enforced cessation of operations by large numbers of manufacturers reduced stocks to a
point which, with the business flurry of the second quarter of 1933, caused prices to improve. But they did not improve to a point which would stop loss; depletion of the capital assets of those who endeavored to operate continued.
Then came the lumber code, which forced manufacturers to increase many wage rates from the depression lows of as much as m%, with a general average increase of. 45.27/o in the hourly rate of pay, and a raise of. 64.8/o in the average weekly amount of lowest wages paid. These percentages are based on a comparison of September, the first full month after approval of the Lumber Code, with Juln the last full month prior to approval. Was it to be supposed that manufacturers who were losing money at the time the code was put into effect could pay these increased costs and remain in business without receiving some increase in the price of their products?
But in demanding an increase, lumbermen did not by any means ask for full protection. It was felt that by continuing a slight loss they could pay code wages, pay the increased costs incurred by their obligation to the President to inaugurate and practice conservation and sustained yield of forest resources, in the hope that the improvement in business in 1934 would eventually put their operations on at least an even keel. This is shown by the manner in which the various branches of the industry presented minimum cost-protection prices, subsequently approved by the Lumber Code Authority. Sales under these prices during the closing months of 1933, together with the spontaneous increase in the second quarter of that year, pulled the average for Southern pine up to only $19.21, while the average cost had leaped ro $27.16. It is true that the low average price of $19.21 includes all of the year, with the low prices prevailing during the opening months, but this is also true of the average cost.
Sticking to Southern pine as an illustration, we find that, in spite of the price increases during 1933, lumber manufacturers are still losing money, for the average cost-protection prices for this species, approved by the Lumber Code Authority at its February meeting, absorb only $25.67 of the average cost. This cost figure, after deducting certain items which must be expended but which nevertheless are prohibited by the code from being included in costprotection schedules, is $25.98.
An increase in volume of business sufficient to materially reduce overhead costs per thousand feet, is the only thing which will enable the industry to stop loss and to pay the increased costs of forest operations soon to be made man. datory.
That the lumber industry has leaned backward in its endeavor to deal fairly with the consuming public is also
shown by a comparison of price trends in species other than Southern pine. In spite of the increases in cost made necessary by the code, .wholesale prices of Douglas fir and hemlock have advanced only 3.9/o since code approval. Maple flooring has gone up only 9.1/o, oak flooring 4.9/o, Western pine 14.9/o, and Southern cypress an almost unnoticeable nine-tenths of L/o.
'The foregoing applies to r,vholesale or f.o.b. mill prices. The NRA has prescribed a pricing formula for those subject to the retail lumber code under the terms of which they must add to the cost-protection price and the freight a portion of their cost of selling and administration. This varies from 18 to 25 per cent, according to the difference in these costs in various trading areas. The cost of handling and delivery, varying from $4.8O to $6.00 a thousand, according to labor zones, are then added to determine the minirnum retail selling price.
While it is a fairly well-known fact that inability to obtain proper financing has kept thousands of prospective low-cost home builders from starting construction, the claim has been made that the price of lumber has discouraged building. That this is untrue is readily shown, for the public is indeed willing and anxious to buy lumber at today's prices whenever it can find the funds to pay for it.
The New York Times' Analyst index of general business activity stood at 63.1 in January, 1933, with the figure for lumber at 40.7. Although the general figure had advanced only to 69.8 by December of that year, lumber had gone to 56.0. The fact that a desire on the part of lumber manufacturers to lose less money had not discouraged public patronage is shown in reports of new business made to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. which serves as the statistical agency of the Lumber Code Authority. Orders received at the mills during the first week of this year, ending January 6, were greater than during any of the four preceding weeks. There was a further increase during the week ending January 13, and an increase of. 26/o over that week in the week ending January 20, followed by another slight increase in the last week of the month. A moderate recession during the first two weeks of February was offset by a marked increase in the week ending February 17, w;th a maintenance of the improved level during the week ending February 24.
But less prosaic illustrations of the desire on the part
of the public to buy lumber at today's prices are not hard to find. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association recently sent a questionnaire to retail lumbermen all over the country, and a mass of replies, received from 883 counties in € states show that there are over 300,000 prospective small residence owners, possessed of a lot or some cash or both, who are waiting only for adequate financing to begin building. Also awaiting moderate and conservative financial aid are projects involving 256,W farm buildings and 35,000 small business structures-not to mention remodeling and repair jobs without number.
Seventy-three per cent of those reporting declare that no first mortgage money is to be had in their trade territories, while L8/o report a limited amount available for loans varying from N/o to fi/o of a conservative appraisal. Only 6/o, however, report ready availability of adequate first mortgage funds, while a meagre eight-tenths of one per cent find it possible to get second mortgage loans from dealer-managed companies. Dealers in I24 counties report no active lending institutions of any nature. The value of the jobs varies from $50o to $11,000.
Governmental confirmation of this desire to build and remodel comes from the farm housing survey recently begun by the Civil Works Administration, which intends to cover 30O counties. The first two reports just made public are those covering Beaver County, Okla., and Rockingham County, Va., and they are extremely interesting if for no other reason than showing the marked similarity of building hope on the part of farmers in those widely-separated localities. In any event, both indicate that the present prices of lumber have in no way dampened their ardor for its well-known benefits. In the Virginia County, where 3,346 houses were surveyed, complete replacements were needed f.or 517 interior walls and ceilings, 319 exterior walls, 319 floors, 264 doors and windows, and 261 roofs, with about the same number of houses needing corresponding repairs. Additional rooms needed included 227 bedrooms, 162 dining rooms, 118 storage rooms for produce, 63 workrooms, and 58 porches. In answer to a question as to what would be done if $500 were available, 684 farmers would repair and replace interior walls, ceilings and floors, 589 would do the same for exterior walls, 333 wanted porches, 231 roofs, and 447 would provide additional rooms. In the Oklahoma county 1825 houses were surveyed.
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Proposed Amendment:
(") 1. A wholesaler is a person actively and continuously engaged in buying lumber and timber products ancl selling and distributing the same exclusively to recognized wholesale trade, who maintains a sales organization for this purpose, assumes credit risks and such other obligations as are incident to the transportation and distribution of lumber and timber products and at least 6O per cent of whose sales in dollar volume of such products is to other than to his owners, stockholders, ofifrcers, partners, affiliated firms, subsidiaries or parties directly or indirectly financially interested.
(c) 2. A wholesale assembling and distributing yard is one maintaining adequate and permanent handling facilities; owned or leased and operated by itself; carrying a comprehensive assortment of lumber and timber products and selling exclusively to recognized wholesale trade; which maintains a sales organization for this purpose, assumes credit risks and such other obligations as are incident to the transportation and distribution of such products and at least 6O per cent of whose sales in dollar volume in such products is to others than to its owners, stockholders, officers, partners, affiliated firms, subsidiaries or parties directly or indirectly financially interested.
(c) 3. An intercoastal wholesale lumber assembling and distributing yard on the Atlantic coast is one maintaining adequate and permanent handling facilities; owned or leased and operated by itself ; carrying a comprehensive assortment of the products of the West Coast Logging & Lumber Division and selling exclusively to other recognized wholesale trade; which maintains a sales organization for this purpose, assumes credit risks and such other obligations as are incident to the transportation and distribution of such products and at least 6O per cent of whose sales in dollar volume of such products is to other than to its owners, stockholders, offrcers, partners, affiliated firms, subsidiaries or parties directly or indirectly financially interested. Any nranufacturer or wholesaler who places lumber and timber products of the West Coast Logging & Lumber Division on any dock, land, shed, warehouse or other place on the Atlantic coast for storage and/or distribution, shall in the sale of such products be subject to the provisions of this Subdivision governing sales out of distributing yards.
Proposed Amendment:
(r) 1. Recognized wholesale trade for softwoods is defined as follows: A sale of lumber and timber products in carload quantities or more (1) to wholesalers and retail trumber dealers, (2) to Departments of United States Government and to or for United States Government river and harbor work, (3) to and for railroads, (4) for shipyards, underground work in mines, docks, dams and bridges, (5) to industrials for remanufacturing or shipping purposes; in less than carload quantities (1) to retail lumber dealers, wholesalers or manufacturers of woodwork for resale, and (2) assembling and distributing yards shall sell softwood lumber to other recognized wholesale carload trade at not less than retail minimum prices but shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of the Retail Lumber Code. (r) 2. Recognized wholesale trade for hardwoods is defined as follows: A sale of hardwood lumber (1) to wholesalers and retail lumber dealers, (2) to Departments of United States Government and to or for United States Government river and harbor work, (3) to and for rail-
roads, (4) for shipyards, underground work in mines, docks, dams and bridges, (5) to industrials for remanufacturing or shipping purposes.
3. Nothing in the foregoing definitions of "recognized wholesale trade" shall apply to logs, poles, piling or railroad ties.
Proposed Amendment:
(r) Except for retail sales at the mill, a manufacturer shall also be classed as a wholesaler as defined herein.
SECTION 2
Proposed Amendment:
(aa) A retailer may qualify as a wholesaler and be allowed up to the maximum wholesale discount on such portion of his sales of lumber and timber products as are made by direct mill shipment in carload quantities or more to Department of United States Government and to or for United States Government river and harbor work. He may also qualify as a wholesaler and be allowed up to onehalf the maximum wholesale discount on such portion of his sales of lumber and timber products as are made by direct mill shipment in carload quantities or more to other recognized wholesale trade except to other retailers and to his owners, stockholders, officers, partners, affiliated firms, subsidiaries, or parties directly or indirectly financially interested.
Proposed Amendment:
("") Add for Oak Flooring Division. A retailer who stocks and distributes oak flooring may qualify as a wholesaler and be allowed up to the maximum wholesale discount on such portion of his sales of said product as are made to recognized wholesale trade for hardwoods to other than to his owners, stockholders, officers, partners, affiliated firms, subsidiaries or parties directly or indirectly financially interested, except that sales to other retailers on which a wholesale discount is allowed must be made to retailers beyond the corporate limits of the city in which said distributor is located. The Divison may require from said r.etailer such reports as it deems necessary to establish qualifications under this definition.
Proposed Amendment:
(aa) Add for Maple, Beech and Birch Flooring Division. A retailer who stocks and distributes maple, beech and birch flooring may qualify as a wholesaler and be allowed up to the maximum wholesale discount on such portion of his sales of said products as are made to recognized wholesale trade for hardwoods to other than to his owners, stockholders, officers, partners, affiliated firms, subsidiaries or parties directly or indirectly financially interested. The Division may require from said retailer such reports as it deems necessary to establish qualifications under this definition.
Proposed Amendment:
(aaa) Distributors who claim discounts and commissions for the sale of lumber and timber products must qualify under the definitions for distributors established by the Division or Subdivison agency having jurisdiction over the product sold.
Proposed Amendment:
(b) As a condition of the grant of wholesale discounts, a retailer qualifying as a wholesaler shall not rebate or allow any part of said discount to any customer, or sell or offer to sell any item of lumber or timber products under the minimum prices established as provided in this Code; and he shall conform to all provisions of this Code, as they apply to him in the sale and distribution of each species.
San Francisco, March 9.-Recognition of the Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference and its established water freight rate on lumber and/or lumber products from points in Oregon and Washilgton to all ports in California was made definite this week by ruling of the Lumber Code Authority and Administrator I{ugh S. Johnson.
The ruling as published in Lumber Code Authority Bulletin No. 79 is that the Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference rate of freight on lumber and/or lumber products be the ocean carriage factor to be added to the mill cost protection prices on all water shipments into California. However, shippers on Columbia River and North thereof may absorb not to exceed $1.00 per thousand feet of the Conference rate of freight and shippers South of Columbia River may absorb not to exceed $1.50 per thousand feet of the prescribed rate of water freight. These absorptions, however, are only permissive on Select Common and lower grades of lumber.
Under this ruling shippers and receivers of lumber are assured of an established and stabilized rate of water freight that will be uniformly used by all steamship lines transporting lumber.
The Pacific Coastwise Lumber Conference was organized February l9th, 1932, having among its twenty members all of the major companies engaged in coastwise shipping and is the first organization on the Coast to stabilize water freight rates on lumber.
The Diamond Match Company recently purchased the yards of the Home Lumber Co. and Nason Lumber Co. in Manteca. The deal was completed February 26, and the company will continue to operate both yards which will be managed by A. H. Vieth, who was transferred from the Marysville yard.
A. M. Smart, who was with the Hayward Lumber Co., and its successor, the Nason Lumber Co., for the past 9 years, and Joe Christensen, who has been with the Home Lumber Co. for 16 years, will remain with The Diamond Match Company.
This makes the 48th yard to be operated in Northern California by The Diamond Match Co. Ira E. Brink, superintendent of retail yards for the company, with headquarters in Chico, spent several days in Manteca, completing arrangements for taking over the two yards.
Termites and Termite Control, the report of the Termite Investrgatior-rs Committee, a discussion of the biology of termites and an account of termites in the United States, Mexico, the Canal Zone, the West Indies, and the Philippine Islands rvith recommendations of prevention and control, has been published by The IJniversity of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. The book contains 768 pages, 182 figures and illustrations in text. The price is $5 per copy.
The report is the result of several years' intensive study and research made possible through the cooperation of the Termite Investigations Committee and the l-Iniversity of California. The editorial board includes Professor Charles A. Kofoid, editor-in-chief ; Professor S. L. Light; Professor Merle Randall; Professor W. B. Herms; A. C. I{orner, and Earl E. Bowe. Any profits resulting from the sale of the book will be used for further termite investigative work.
E. L. (Ed) Green, superintendent of the Union Lumber Company plant at Fort Bragg, Calif., is receiving congratulations from his many friends on the arrival of a baby daughter, born at Fort Bragg, on March 2, 1934. Mt.. Green and the new arrival are doing nicely.
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R. O. Wilson, of R. O. Wilson & Son, San Francisco, selling agents for Moore Mill & Lumber Co., who recently spent two weeks in the hospital, and is now convalescing at home, expects to be back at his office about March 20.
L. O. Taylor, vice president of the Shevlin Pine Sales Co., Minneapolis, Minn., was a recent visitor at the Shevlin-Hixon Co., Bend, Ore., and McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Calif,, mills. He was also a caller at the Shevlin Pine Sales Company's office at Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480, Care California Lumber Merchant.
Retail Lumberman seeks conne,ction as manager or assistant, expert accountant, years of experience in all branches of retail lumber and building materials. Have managed one-man yards, also larger lst class plants with planing mill and sash and door department. Open for any position to start. Address Box C-501 California Lumber Merchant.
A position by young man of good habits, experieuced itt yard and office work both retail and rvholesale lumber bttsiness. Can run bookkeeping and billing machine, also l.ras bank experience. Will go anywhere. References given. Address C-505, The California Lumber Merchant.
Warehouse equipped complete for handling of lumber and lumber products. 80x135 feet, double frontage, on Santa Fe Siding. Desks, safe and office space included. Apply Roy E. Harrington, care California Moulding Co., 1306 West 58th Street, Los Angeles.
Well recommended with many years' experience in yard management, selling and plan estimating, desires responsible position with reputable firm. Address Box C-503, care California Lumber Merchant.
Young man wants position with retail or wholesale luml>er firm. Yard, office and sales experience. Will appreciate an interview. Address Box C-504, care California Lumber Merchant.
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Complete replacement was deemed necessary for 475 roofs, 336 interior u'alls and ceilings, and 342 floors. The same was true of doors and windows in 349 houqes, and of exterior walls in 218. Corresponding repairs were needed in about double these numbers. Additional space to the extent of 77 front or side porches, 479 bedrooms and 103 workrooms, is needed. As to what they would do with $500, 234 would repair interior walls, floors and ceilings, 206 would do the same for exterior walls, t79 lor roofs, and 192 would add additional rooms.
That the lumber industry is aware of the desire of the public for its products, and is confident that credit facilities will be made available during the year, is shown by its desire to maintain adequate stocks, for the National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority has authorized production during the first quarter of 1934 at a rate which, if maintained throughout the twelve months, will mean twenty billion feet for the year, as against thirteen billion for 1933 and ten billion lor 1932.
Through its recenlty enacted provisions for the grade marking of its products the industry has enabled even the buyer who is totally unfamiliar with lumber or timber products to purchase his requirements with an absolute certainty of getting exactly what he orders. By its undertakings with respect to conservation and sustained yield of forest resources the industry has arranged to perpetuate the services it performs for its customers. There is little question but that they will be glad to pay the moderate prices now being asked for lumber and timber products.
The Hammond Lumber Company Los Angeles organization held a golf tournament at the Lakewood Golf Course, Long Beach, Calif., Saturday afternoon, March 3, 1934. Fifty-two took part in the tournament which included members of the Los Angeles office force, company salesmen and invited guests. A. H. Hoel, Claremont Lumber Co., Claremont, was the low gross winner, and "Vic" Burch, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, had the low net score. Edward Cowan, one of the company's sales representatives, arranged for the tournament.
J. E. Neighbor, bookkeeper for H. J. DeVries, cisco, who has been in the hospital, where he an operation, expects to be back at work soon.
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Members of the Western fnstitute of Trade Secretaries held a meeting at the Athens Athleitc Club, Oakland, March 5. Details of the Retail Lumber Code formed the principal subject for discussion.
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