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Doughs Fir-Lumber produced by 302 mills in the Doug,las fir region of Oregon, Warhington, and British Columbia during the first 11 weeks of 1930 war about 1O per cent below the output of theae same mills for thc comparable period of last year, according to reports received from thete millc bv the West Coast Lumbermen's Asrociation. This group of mills operated during the ll-week period of 193O at 43 per cent below capacity.
I Orders reported by 212 mills for the weeh ending March 15 decreared approximately 7,(X)Qfr)O feet under new burinesc received in the week ending March 8. Production increasbd during the week, being about 3,OOO'O0O feet above the output for the previous week. Reports from these mills show that orders received from the rail trade d'uring the past four weeks have been steady. Domestic cargo orders have fuctuated and were about T'OOOr(XX) feet less during the week ending March 15 than in the preceding week. Export ordere showed an increase for the week, being about 3rOO0r000 feet above thoee reported for the previous week.
Production, orders and rhipments at these 212 mills for the week ending March 15 were reported to tfie Association as follows: Production 184,3971778 feet; Orders l$7r44l,687 feet; Shiprnents 153,816,64O feet. Details of tihe orders and shipments as reported by these mills follows: Orders-Rail 65,033,450 feet ; Domestic Cargo 46,761, 1O3 feet; Export 341160,444 feet; Locd 11,496,69O feet. Ship-strts-f,ail 69,9851955 feet; Domestic Cargo 4812611226 feet; Export 241072,769 feet; Local 111496,69O feet.
There ir no change in the California market, the demand oontinues light and prices remain about the same. The cotmtry yarde as well as the city yards ar€ carrying light rtockr. Unsold stocks at San Pedro on March 26 totaled
9r521,(X)0 feet. 41 veuelr in the Cdifornia rerice are laid up which is a larger numbcr than urual for thir time of the yeaf and one vesrel is operating off-shore.
Redwood-The California Redwood Acrocietion for the week ending March 15 reported prod'uctio,n from 15 mills aa 7r752rW0 feet, shipmentr 612211000 fect and orderE 61156,O0O feet. The demand ir showing tome improvement and prices continue steady. Stocks at the millg are reported es about normal for thir reaaon of the year.
California White and Sugar Pine-For. ttre week ending March 15, the California White and Sugar Pine A^uociation reported'production from 17 milb as 612731000 feet, ehipmenti 1318321000 feet and orders 12,615,000 feet. Orderc and rhipments continue far in advance of production. Pricer are firrn.
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The relationship of shiprnentr and orderr to production for the first eleven weekr of 193O ending March 15, bared on reportr from the regional associations to the National Lumber Manufacturers Arcocietiod, is as followr:
Wect Coart Lumbermen'r Acsociatiqa-prs{qction 1r615,575 M feet; Shipments 1,517,953 M feet; Orden 1r574,909 M feet.
California White and Sugar Pine Areocialisa-plqdustion 76,783 M feet; Shipments 207,128 M feet; Orders 212,372 M feet.
,California Redwood l6366iatiq1-Production 85;919 M feet; Shiprnents 73,183 M feet; Orders 78,113 M feet.
Southern Pine Asroci6liel-pl6rduction 655r332.M feA ; Shipmenta 609,000 M feet; Orders 643,818 M feet.
Total Hardwoodr-Production 467,433 M feet; Shipments 382,118 M feet; Orderr 394,244 M feet.
A series of educational talks on the various species of wood, to be sponsored by Hoo Hoo Club No. 9, was proposed by A. C. Horner, manag'er of the western division of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, at the regular monthly meeting of the club, held at the Elks Club, San Francis'co, March 27.
Mr. Horner said he believed such a series would bring out a large attendance of lumbermen, and that retailers of the San Francisco Bay district and the Peninsula would, in his opinion, welcome the opportunity to hear and to
have their salesmen hear the merits of the various woods discussed by men well fitted to do so by their training and experrence, He promised to try to get Chester Hogue, nationally known engineer of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and one of the greatest living authorities on Douglas Fir, Western Hemlock, Spru,ce and Red Cedar as speaker for the first meeting. If this can be arranged Mr. Hogue will speak at a dinner to be held at the Elks Club, San Francisco, Friday evening, April ll, at 6 p.m., when all lumbermen will be welcome.
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"Times are hard," says the Lumber Industry. "No one is buying lumber."
True enough, but how many are selling lumber? And selling is not done by waiting for someone to buy. Mill output sold to Dealers is actually not sold at all. It is not sold until it is consumed and paid for. In the Dealer's hands it is still in transit to market.
Dealer and Mill man are partners in production and distribution. It is the Mill Man's job to provide material to meet modern merchandising requirements and the Dealer's job to sell it to the consumer. He must sell ideas and the desire for improvement as well as material.
As long as a building remains in need of repair and as long as there are houses without modern built-in utilities and conveniences there is a lumber market. A systematic canvass offering practical suggestions is bound to yield profitable returns. The building owner who makes a small improvement today is often stimulated thereby to larger projects tomorrow.
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By JackDionne
They are giving building material away in California. Never since time began could a builder secure his raw materials for construciion purposes, as cheaply as he can today. If lumber were bringing 100 per cent more laid down oq the job than it is bringing in California today, it would still be cheap. It's just plain murder, that's all. And the other materials, such as brick, cement, etc.' are likewise a gift in most of the statc.
Speaking of cement. The lumber dealer recently got a "break" in Northern California. North of the line the lumber dealer's dog has been kicked around always by the cement mandfacturers. They considered and respected him not at,all in their merchandisir\g plans. They never "played" with the lumber dealer. He was just an unnecessary evil that they had to put up with, but would not'co-operate with, nor allow a chance to make a decent profit,on the cement sales (which every dealer has to sell in his line of business whether he wants to or not). *
For the first time some of the Northern California cement mangfacturers have entered upon a policy of recognizing the lunrber dealer, coopenating with him, and giving him a chance to make a little something on his cement sales. So the dealer has a little something to be thanlful for. Credit for the change goes to Arthur Shelby' Vice President and Gengral Manager of Calaveras. One of the other Northern companies has e4tered upon the dealer plan also. Perhaps the germ will sPread.
rt would be idle to say ln"l .*1" truck delivery of lumber in California had not come to stay. Everyone knows it has. Its service.gtving possibilities are unlimited. To be able to get exactly what you want at short notice, is a service. And it is a service that is worth money. If you get something better than you were accustomed to, and something that costs the other fellow more to furnish, you should pay for it. The man who furnishes it should collect for that added service and expense. Isn't it a regrettable thing that taken as a whole this newly developing service thing is only being used to further cut the price of lumber? Instead of being used to RAISE the price, which would be the sane and practical thing to do because MORE is being furnished, it looks like the truck deliveries are working the other way. T i""l be the climate !
Everyorle doesn't give away lumber, however, even in these times, and under these conditions. I have seen considerable common lumber sold in Southern California in the last month at prices from 50 to 75 per cent higher than you could buy the same grade for at San Pedro. The answer? It was kiln dried lumber, and it asked and got the price from dry lumber builders.
Doq't believe I ever saw the time when all the lumbermen I meet are thinking so seriously about their business. It's all they talk about regardless of who, what, or where they are. It sur.prises me, the number of experienced, successful, clear-thinking men who have asked me of late"Don't you think this is a passing industry?" Some of the outstanding men of the industry-manufacturers I'm talking about-South and West-have asked me that question, seriously and dolefully.
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Yes, I think it is. But not the way they mean. I think it's a buck-passing industry. And I think it always has been. I'm afraid it always will be. But I'm still hopeful. The lumber industry has not kept up with the Big Parade of Modern Progress, to be sure, and for that reason we see every day something else used where boards always used to be found. "How do you think business is going to be?" has always been the slogan of this industry. "What shall we do to make business good," as a substitute slogan, would have prevented the constant slipping toward the rear that has been so noticeable. ***
Reminds me of the railroad operative who wired division headquarters"'$1usk on Crawford Hill without sand." The Supe wired back-"What are you doing on Crawford Hill without sand?" And the answer came promptly back' 'lslipping, fool, slipping." I wouldn't call the lumber industry a passing industry, really. I'd call it a slipping industry. Slipping back steadily from notch to notch in its march toward the rear. Nothing fundamental about it. Nothing essential. Just the inevitable result of rut-riding, following always the line of least resistance. ***
Wish it were possible to tell some of the things I have learned of late concerning some of the most interesting investigations of a certain big lumber manufacturing firm. For several years this firm has spent a barrel of money. They employed a whole gang of chemists, engineers, scientists. To do what? To do what this sad lumber manufacturing industry of ours should have been doing constantly -cooperatively-for the past twenty yrars. To find out new uses for WOOD. To discot'er new uses for low grade stock, for bark, for fiber, etc. To see what can be done with wood and wood fiber far and apart from the ordinary channels that everyone knows, and that proht no one.
And, while their investr*.,i""" are still comparatively in their infancy, they already know that they can make scores of products, for hundreds of uses, that have never before entered the realms of wood use. Suppose sqne. great central agency of thri lumber industry had been conducting
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such experiments for the past twenty years? Believe me, this would be no passiqg, or slipping industry. Instead, the trade promotion work of the industry has frorn its incep tion been entirely surface effort, sticking to the same old channels, superficial and impractical in their direction and application. To deny it is ridiculous. When I see what this one firm has done i4 the past couple of years, and consider what the lumber industry might have done in the past decade or so-f could cry at the uselessness of the present situation, and at the supineness of the industry. Some of these days you'll know*what this is all about.
Over in Mississippi a group of lumbermen got an idea several years ago. They began grinding up and defiberizing their wood waste, bark and all, and pressing it into big boards, boards of any width, lfiickness, length, all clear, without defects. Their plan has met with wonderful success. The whole world is using their products. It is but a single demonstration of what could be done with woodwhat could have been done years and year ago with waste, and low grade materials. And it is only one of dozens of just as practical and just as successful things that could be done with wood had the brains of the industry-for it is and has always been an industry made up of intelligent and loveable men-been turned in that direction long, long ago. For Masonite has not even scratched the surface of new wood possibilities.
Such developments are coming apace in the next few
J. H. Kurth and his son, E. L. Kurth, of Lufkin, Tex., are visitors in Los Angeles. They are very famous lumber manufacturers in Texas. The elder Kurth is the president and founder of the Angelina County Lumber Company, manufacturers of Long Leaf Pine, and one of the few remaining Texas firms with long life ahead of their mill. E. L. Kurth, the son, probably possesses more varied and active lumber interests than any other man in Texas, being actively interested in half a dozen milling concerns, as well as other lumber enterprises.
years. 'Unfortunatelv modernism comes too late for worlds of lumbermen, whose lack of trees brings lack of further interest. But to the lumber industry of the future it will mean everything. We aren't always going to pay $15 freight on $5 worth of lumber, as is being done in many cases as this article is written. It never was intended. We will take that low grade lumber, and that refuse, and mix them with some brains and experience, and make things of great usefulness. The list of things that wood is going to be used for-in other forms than lumber-in the next few years, would strain the belief of the most credulousWatch and see.
Many interesting changes in the ordinary building affairs of the day are already upon us. No longer, to secure a plastered wall, do we splash loose plaster upon that wall. We simply take huge sheets of plaster, perfect in surface and much more durable and practical than mason-l,aid plaster, and nail them to the wall, quickly, easily, econornically. If we wanted a sheeted wall in the old days, we took sixinch strips of lumber and built up the wall sheeting ot these snmll units. Already the day is at hand when we take big sheets of wood and cover the wall quickly, easily, economically, and attractively. We will cover walls and other spaces with beautifully grained plywood, all ready.for quick application to the surface. Wonderful woode4 walls of the future will eclipse even the cabinet-made walls of oldtime banks, and will cost no more than ordinary walls of the past.
Chas. Garrison, of the Two Rock Commercial Co. Two Rock, was a recent business visitor to San Francisco. While there he attended the exhibition baseball game between the Missions and the Pittsburgh Pirates, played on the afternoon of March 19.
Andrew lVlcNair, of the McKinnon-McNair Lumber Co., St. Helena, was in San Francisco March 18 and 19 on a business trip.
Celebrating his twenty.fifth year in business at the corner of Green and Vernon streets, Pasadena, Calif., W. L. Leishman, president of the Crown City Manufacturing Co., recently gave a dinner at the Hotel Huntington to a fiw oi his old friends. Participating with him on this occasion was his son, Lathrop K. Leishman, assistant manager of the company.
_ Apong th.ose present were: llenry Patten, patten & Davies Lumber Co.; E. C. Parker, Paiten & Davies Lum- ber Co.; Harry Mcleod, Hammond Lumber Co.: A. T. Todhunter, Hammond Lumber Co.; C. G. Lvnch.'L. W. Blinn_Lumber Co.; Leslie G. Lynch, L. W. Biinn 'Lumber Co.; E. A. Nicholson, Pacific Door & Sash Co.; Frank Curran, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; Robert Raphael, Southern California Hardwood &_ Manufacturing Co.; Henry Treff, Southern California Hardwood & Manufacturing Co.i R"tpt lm_lroff, Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill C?., urd Howard Coorpender, Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mifl Co.
After dinner reminiscences of the past-twenty-five years were related and the future uses gf. wood and wood !rod_ ucts were discussed.
A meeting of the employees of the Valley Lumber Company., Fresno, was held March 15 to discuss Douglas fir grading _r_u_les. A. A. Kayser, California Grade Supervisor for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, explained the Association rule book No. 9 and interpreted the grading practice.
.The West Coast Lumbermen's Association had one of the outstanding exhibits at the Oil Equipment and Engineering E xposition, held in Los Angelis March 16 to 23. It was a 136-foot standard, all-wood derrick, with Samson posts, walking beams and other structural timbers, built according to the plan of the lo-foot model devised and designed by engineers of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association as a result of trade extension research.
The California Land Show held in Los Angeles from \!1rch 8 to 23, demonstrated something truly unique and different in the way of decorations; the entire floor-was an exact replica of a Redwood forest.
The bark for the artificial trees was supplied by The Paqifi.6 -T,umber Company, and came from-timber-especially felled in Humbolt County to supply the exhibit.
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Co-ordination with other branches of the industry was the keynote of the sixth annual convention of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association held at the Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte, Calif., March 2l and 22.
Decision to co-operate with the Millwork Institute of California in. their program of trade promotion, and to give financial support to this program, after addresses were heard from Arthur W. Bernhauer of Fresno. president of the Institute, and L,ester G. Sterett, manager of the Institute's Servf\e Bureau, was one of the features of thc meeting.
The conve\rtion went on record as being in favor of co-
operation wi increase the' Roger president; C. q. was elected vi Smith Co., Ltd. treasurer of the
retail lumber yards as part of the program to e of hardwoods.
Co., San Diego, called the meeting to order at 10:15 a.m. Secretary-Treasurer C. R. Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., Los Angeles, read the minutes'of the last annual meeting, which were approved. Mr. Taenzer also read the treasurer's report, which was adopted.
President Sullivan, addressing the convention, gave it as his opinion that the two principal problems confronting the hardwood industry are elimination of waste in the costs of distribution, and promotion of a greater per capita consumption.
"Solution'of these problems," he said, "requires co-ordination among all branches of the industry so that a practical workable plan may be evolved which will give all concerned an adequate return on capital invested, and which will enable progress to be maintained in the effort to secure a fair proportion of the consumer's dollar."
He stated that it rvill be necessary in future for the manufacturer to give more thought and study to the problem of how he can best serve the eight to ten million people of the Pacific Coast territories.
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C. R. Taenzer, Los Angeles; W. T. pco, and Jerry Sullivan. Jr., San Diego. s chosen as the convention citv for
Elrich-Harrison Co., Seattle, was elected White, White Brothers, San Francisco. -president, and Norman Sawers, J. Fyfe Vancouver. B. C.. was elected secretarvsociation for the coming year., The following were elected directors: J. Fyfe Smith, Vancouver, B. E. E. Hall, Portland, Ore.; Geo. H. Brown, Oakland; White, San Franc Victoria, B. C., 1931.
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"Co-operation of the retailer with the wholesaler and manufacturer in a well-directed trade prombtion campaign is also necessary," said the president. He concluded by expressing appreciation of the fact that Arthur W. Bernhauer, president, and Lester G. Sterett, manager of the Service
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ERE is lumber so marked that you and your customers may know at once it is thoroughly kiln-dried and properly seasoned. Thi.r trade-mark oppedrs only on hiln-ilried lumber. It is the positive guide to dryness as well as qualitv.
Let ur quote on your rcquirements.
Manufacturers of Kiln-Dried Old Growth Yellow Fir and Southerrr Yellow Pine. And Miners of Coal.
The dates for the hearings in the Philippine Mahogany case before the Federal Trade Commission, scheduled to start on the coast some time in April, have not'yet been definitely set.
The Philippine adherents are much enthttsed over their plans of defense in these hearings, and feel that the situation will be immensely different from the previous ones, and that this time some of the true facts concerning Philippine will be cleveloped, and many of the false statements developing during the last hearings rvill be controverted. The Philippine people feel that the findings of the Commission in the previous case were based on opinions .of chiefly eastern users to whom the wood was nett', and who had undoubtedly received much badly graded lumber.
Here are some of the statements made by the Federal Trade Commission in lts previous decision against Philippine, which will be torn to tatters in the coming hearings.
1. "Luan and tanguile are taken out of the cabinet wood market because of the great prevalence of worm holes, which constitute very serious defects inall Philippine woods."
That statement is plain and unvarnished ignorance. .Worm holes are defects in Philippine grading rules, just as they are in all other cabinet lvoods (see Page 38, National Hardwood Lumber Association grading rules), the chief difference between the worm holes in good Philippine Mahogany and that in the other cabinet woods is that the worm holes in the older Mahoganies are pin holes, and in Philippine they are needle holes, much smaller. It is likewise an easily provable fact that the Philippine woods !mported into California runs amazingly heavy to absolutely clear and flawless wood, without worm holes or other defects. You can go to the docks and see great piles of Philippine as clear and sound as wood can be. The very opposite is the truth, regarding statement No. 1.
2. "They cannot be used in the construction of lamps as they finish too badly."
Philippine lamps will be shown at the hearings to prove how utterly ridiculous is that statement. There isn't, as a matter of fact, a shade of backing for such a statement, as
W. H. "Bill" Woods of the Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned March 20 lrom a two weeks' business trip to the Northwest. He visited the company's sawmill at Marshfield, and spent a few days in Seattle and Portland.
anybne who knows the wonderful finish and lustre and staying qualities of Philippine well -understands.
3. "They are too soft to be used in flooring."
Isn't that a wonderful statement? With many Philippine woods in use that rank among the hardest of all known hardwoods, and absolutely naturally adapted for flooring manufacture. These woods will be shown the Commission at the hearing.
4. "They are not susceptible to the finish required by piano manufdcturers on the exposed surface of the pianos, and cannot be used for such a purpose."
Every sort of evidence, demonstration, documents from pianp manufacturers, etc., will be used to show the folly of these words. ' It is true that in the early days of Philippine use this opinion was prevalent, but since that time the finishing of the better Philippine woods has become a fine art, and they take as fine and lasting a piano finish as any manufacturer could desire.
5. "Where used in furniture the finish at'times finally sinks into the worm holes.'n
This is based on the previous erroneous conclusion thac all Philippine is wormy, whereas, as previously stated, you can get greater quantities of Philippine entirely free from worm holes than you can of almost any other cabinet wood. Clear and sound Mahogany is to be had in shiploads.
The above are just a few of the things thai appeared in the previous decision that have no foundation on actual fact, and will be attacked by demonstration and incontrovertible proof. The fact that there are 4I big and important buildings in the Los Angeles district trimmed entirely in Philippine Mahogany, will be shown, and the success of the trim for this use will be demonstrated.
That Philippine Mahogany is Sweitenia, the Philippine interests'will not contbnd. They know it isn't. But that it is the most useful, the most versatile, the most practical, and the most varied and beautiful wood imported into the United States. they are prepared to contend, and to contend that the people shall not be deprived of the service of these rvonderful woods because of a jealous trade fight.
J. A. Lingaas, sales manager of the Portland Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of Douglas Fir plywood, spent a few days in San Francisco recently, on business for his firm.
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Bureau of the Millwork Institute of California. had taken the time to come there to help them work out their problems.
T-eRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, delivered an address on "Hardwood Interiors" for which he was warmly applauded, and which appears in full in another part of this issue.
Arthur W. Bernhauer, Fresno, president of the Millwork Institute of California, spoke on "Co-operation in the Lumber Indust-ry." lle said that a common sickness-sleeping sickness affects both the millwork and hardwood branches of the industry, and that it is up to them to wake up, "The whole problem, as I see it, is to increase the per capita consumption of lumber. Co-ordination of the various branches
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Hp invited careful inspection of a Door Book, containing 50 original drawings of artistic front doors. The book to be.printed from these drawings will be given to every architect in California. Mr. Sterett also passed around cbpies of the "Accredited Standards for Architectural Woodwoik." the new edition of which is now ready for distribution, and closed his talk by expressing appreciation of the assistance rendered by the trade journals in giving generous publicity to the Millwork Institute's trade promotion program
C. .H. -White, White Brothers, San Francisco, compli- mented the two previous speakers for their fine talks, ind recommended financial support of the Millwork Institute's. trade promotion program by the association.
Henry Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, said
of the industry is necessary to bring this about, but the biggest part of the work will have to be done by the millworkman and the lumber retailer," said Mr. Bernhauer.
The speaker made a comparison beiween the rnethods used by the lumber and woodworking industries, which have put their whole efforts in selling on a price basis, and the steel and plumbing industries, which offer their prodircts on a basis of superiority, and bv salesmanship often sell the consumer by convincing him that they have a superior product.
Mr. Bernhauer then gave a brief summary of what the Millwork Institute of California had accomplished in the six years of its existence, and what they hoped to accomplish with their trade promotion program, on which they are now spending $10@ a month, and in which they are trying to inteqest other branches of the industry.
"There is. a distinct tendency back to wood," Mr. Bernhauer said. "We have made this the slogan of the Millwork Institute of California. Let us make thousands sav this and repeat it. We hope to see the various branches of the industry co-ordinated to promote increased use of wood, and we expect to extend our program rapidly."
Lester G. Sterett, manager of the Service Bureau of the Institute, outlined the Institute's trade promotion program. He said they are specializing on covering the architectural field first, as the architect influences 90 per cent of all building, and undoubtedly sets the trend for practically all build- ing. He stated that their aim is to make it easier for the architect to specify millwork, which naturally includes a great deal of hardwood. Their program calls for personal contact with the architects, which after all merely matches the activities of other competing industries in'this respect.
the Hardwood dealers of California should give both financial and_moral support to the Institute's- program, and sugg_eSted they appoint a committee to work closely with them. He also said this annual meeting had ofiered more food for thought than any previous annual.
D. J. Cahill, Western Hardrvood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, said there should be little question about the advisability of giving financial support to the program.
President Jerry Sullivan, Jr,, appointed a committee consisting of the past presidents to bring in a report as to how they could best join in furthering this work. Committee was as follows: C. H. White, chairman; J. E. Higgins, Jr., D. J. Cahill, LeRoy H. Stanton, and J. Fyfe Smith.
Kenneth Smith, secretary-manager of the Lumber Dealers' Association of Los Angeles, talked on the subject of 'Co-operation With Retail Lumber Yards," in place of Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbetmen's Association, who was unable to be present.
Mr. Smith eulogized Mr. Lake's work in organizing the retailers into groups in many districts where they had not previously been organized, and in influencing the groups to co-operate with wholesalers and manufacturers. The State Association wishes its. members to be regarded as a sales outlet for hardwoods, and is ready to co-operate with the wholesalers. "Wholesalers can increase their business bv educating retailers, especially the country yards, regarding the various hardwoods," said the speaker, "and the best way to start is by giving the retaileis' salesmen some real information."
Considerable discussion followed on this subiect. Those who participated included M.'W. "Bill" Davis, Davis Hard-
wood Co., San Fancisco; G. C. Gearhart, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Jerry Sullivan, Jr., San Diego; B. W. Byrne, Western Hardrvood Co,, Los Angeles; W. E. Cooper and C. M. Cooper, \\'. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Friday Afternoon
The association's annual golf tournament rvas played on Friday afternoon on the famous Del Monte course. Frank J. Connolly, Western Hardrvood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, won the cup presented for the first prize winner, and Henry Kirchmann, Kirchmann Hardwood Co., San Francisco, rvas runner-up, also winning a cup.
Friday Evening
The annual banquet rvas held on Friday evening in the Copper Cup Room. J. E. "Ted" Higgins, Jr., was toastmaster.
John G. Donovan, chairman of the executive board of the State Association of Architects, was the principal speaker. His subiect was "The Use of Interior Woods from the Architects' Viewpoint." Mr. Donovan said that architects would be glad to receive information from the hardwood men regarding the various grades and their uses, the various finishes, etc. He advised them to gather all the data they have available and present it to the architects in such shape that they can understand each other.
C. H. White, Henry Srvafford and Jerry Sullivan, Jr., also gave brief talks.
Entertainment was presented by two popular singers from Station KFRC, Miss Jessie Douglas and Miss Weber. Song Leader "Hutch" Hutchins also helped out the musical program by directing a few chorus numbers.
Following the banquet two moving picture films r,vere shown in the Auditorium. One of these depicted logging and milling of Mahogany, shown by the court-esy of ttrJ Otls Manufacturing Co., Nerv Orleans. The other showed Teak logging, and was loaned by the Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles.
Saturday Morning
President Jerry Sullivan, Jr., called the meeting to order. Walter G. Scrim, president of the Philippine Mahogany Association, Los Angeles, told the history of the formation of the association, half the expense of which is paid by the mills, and asked the hardwood dealers of the Pacific Coast to give serious consideration to joining in an advertising campaign to further the sale of Philippine hardwoods after the matter of the name is settled. Mr. Scrim also asked
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Flomer A. Warde Vins Low Gross Prize. A. Ingvoldstad Vinner of Low Net Pize.
The lumbermen's golf tournament, sponsored by the Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club, brought out a big field of golfers on Friday afternoon, March 21. The tournament was held at the Fox Hills Country Club, Culver City.
I{omer A. Warde, Southern California Hardwood & Manufacturing Co., Los Angeles, rvas the winner of the low gross prize-the Frank Curran Cup-with a score of 76. As this is the second time that Mr. Warde has rvon the cup, he becomes the permanent owner of the trophy. A. Ingvolstad, Lennox Lumber & Supply Co., Inglewood, with a net score of 70 was the winner of "The California Lumber.Merchant" cup.
The winners of the flight events vvere as follows: First Flight-first prize, Scott Boyd; second prize, Bob Osgood. Second Flight-first prize, Walter Best; second prize, Frank Burnaby. Third Flight-first prize, Percy Youst; second prize, Ed. Houghton; third prize, E. Steffensen. Fourth Flight-first prize, L. R. Leonard; second prize, Curtis Merryman.
Sixty-five sat down to dinner in the club house at 6:30 p.m. Following the dinner, Harry V. llanson awarded the prizes to the winners. The committee in charge of the arrangements included: Harry V. Hanson, Chairman; Don
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The following played in the tournament:
R. H. Loveday, C. M. Holmes, D. D. McCallum, Scott Boyd, Francis Boyd, Don Philips, lfarry lfanson, George Nicholson, Walter Riley, A. Ingvoldstad, Ralph J. Fell, Glenn Fogelman, R. M. Mack, E. A. Roush, H. B. Wiscomb, Ed. Houghton, F. P. Baugh, C. F. Reeder, Emil Swanson, Clint Laughlin, Paul Masters, Art Penberthy, "Pick" Maule, Jim Prentice, Ed. Seward, Ralph Clark, Walter Buss, Henry Pries, Ray Cope, Leo Rosenberg, Byron Cartwright, Walter Best, H. O. ,Warde, L. R. Leonard, L. A. Beckstrom, Cliff Bergstrom, Percy Dixon, Bert Maule, "Friday" Freeland, W. J. Harris,lJohn Olson, W. B. Wickersham, J. H. Holmes, H. H. Watkins, Harvey Bowles, Ed. Culnan, Jack Thomas, Tom Dant, Curtis Merryman, Earl Jameson, Al E. Hollivet, C. A. Suiter, Bill Vanderwood, W. B. Koehler, G. W. McCausland, Paul Hill, Frank Burnaby, George Lockwood, Frank Harris, Chas. Lyons, ESteffensen, R. A. Emison, D. E.r Liggett, Max Landram, Walter Spicer, R. F, Martin, Lloyd Cole, Percy Youst, AC.'Fforner, J. C. McCune, Gene DeArmond, A. B. McAlpine, Herman Rosenbeig, W. R. Lindsay, "Cappy" Slade, Homer Burnaby, Bob-Osgood.and J. E. Martin.
R. S. "Bob" Osgood, Wheeler-Osgoqd Co., was elected president of the Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club at a meeting held at the Commercial Club, Los Angeles, on Thursday noon, March 13. C. S. Estes, Los AngeleS Wholesale Lrrmber Association, was elected vice-president and J. E. Martin, "The California Lumber Merchant," was elected secretary-tfeasurer.
A. A. Frost, San Diego, member of the Supreme Nine, was the guest of the club and gave .an interestlrlg talk on Hoo Hoo plans for the coming year. E. D' Tennant of Los Angeles also addressed the meeting.
Carl D. Shufelt, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., was recommended by the club for vicegerent snark for the Los Angeles district and u'as appointed by Arcanoper Frost.
The next meeting of the club will be held during the month of April.
Patrick O'Connor, pioneer lumberman and vice-president of the Donovan Lumber Co., Aberdeen, Wash., died at Aberdeen on March 11, after an illness of less than a week. He was 76 years of age.
Mr. O'Connor was a business associate of William Donovan, Sr., for the past thirty-eight years, and prior to their coming to the Pacific Coast twentv-fi.ve years ago, they operated the Donovan & O'Connor Lumber Co. at Menominee, Mich. In 1904, both Mr. O'Connor and Mr. Donovan came to Metropolitan, Calif., where they were engaged in the Redwood lumber business. In 1910, they went to Aberdeen, \Arash., where they formed the Donovan Lumber Co. The Donovan Lumber Co. now operates two mills at Aberdeen, and several years ago thev acquired the Donovan-Corkery Logging Co.
Mr. O'Connor was known to almost every lumberman in the industry. He took a great interest in the operating end of the business and lvas recognized as a mill and machinery expert. He was credited with several inventions of importance to the lumber industry.
He is survived by two sons, W. F. O'Connor of Aberdeen, who is superintepdent of the Donovan Lumber Co. Mill No. 1, and Frank J. O'Connor of San Francisco, in charge of the Donovan Lumber Co. interests in California, and also president of the Pacific Coast Ship Owners' Association. A daughter, Mrs. F. X. St. Peter of Menominee, Mich., also survives. Funeral services were held at Aberdeen on March 13.
E. A. Goodrich, manager of the Los Angeles office of the Union Lumber Company, has returned from a short business trip to San Francisco.
Carl R. Moore of Neighbor Lumber Yard, Oakland, and Mrs. Moore are receiving congratulations on the birth of a fine boy on March 13.
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the opinion of the dealers as to whether it would lead to better co-operation between mills and dealers if the Philip- pine Mahogany Association office was moved from New York to the Pacific Coast.
Discussion on these matters was joined in by Ray Barto, Cadwallader-Gibson'Co., Inc., Los-Angeies; LeRoy Stanton, Los Angeles; Roger Sands, Erlich-Harrison Co., Seat-
ments_.were supposed to have been made by a San Francisco "authority," it was recommended that -the San Francisco Hardwood Club should also write a letter of protest.
C. H. White, chairman of the committee on co-ordination with the Millwork Institute of California, reported that his committee recommended support by the California members of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association of the Institute's trade promotion program, to the ex!eq! 9f $1200, half of this amount to be paid in April and half in October. The recommendation was passed unanimously.
A resolution was passed on the motion of J. Fyfe Smith, expressing sympathy with the National Hardwood Lumber Association in the loss by death of their secretary, Frank Fish, and a copy of the resolution was ordered sent to his family.
D. J. Cahill, chairman of the Nominations Committee, made his report. A vote of thanks to the officers for the efficient way in which the convention was conducted, was passed, and the convention adjourned.
The attendance included the following:
George H. Brown, G. H. Brown Hardwood Co.. Oakland
B. E. Bryan, Strable Hardwood Co. .. .....Oakland
C. R. Taenzer, American Hardwood Co. Los Angeles
Roy Barto, Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc. Los Angeles
tle; D. J. Cahill, Los Anggles; Henry Kirchmann, San Francisco; C. H. White, San Francisco, and G. C. Gearhart, Los Angeles.
On the motion of Mr. White the convention went on record as being behind the Philippine Mahogany Association 100 per cent with their moral support, and recommended that each group take up separately the question of finaricial support.
C. H. White. director of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, reported on some matters discussed at the last annual meeting of that body. He said he would like to see the Pacific Coast dealers attend the next annual convention in a body, to be held in Toronto, September 11 and 12.
Homer Maris, H. B. Maris Panel Co., San Francisco, made a report on conditions in the Fir panel business.
J. Fyfe Smith, Vancouver, B. C., made a report on the uses of Australian Hardwoods in Canada.
E. E. Hall, Portland, reported on business conditions in his territory, and P. R. Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, discussed matters pertaining to distribution.
Telegrams were read from the following who regretted their inability to be present: Geo. N. Lamb, secretlry of the American Walnut Manufacturers' Association; L. S. Beale, secretary of the National Hardrvood Lumber Association, and Harry Hanson, California Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles.
It was decided to hold the next convention in Victoria. B. C., late in April or early in May, 1931.
The following resolution regarding co-operation with retail yards was passed: Resolved, that it is the sense of this convention that we are prepared to co-operate with retail lumber yards in territories where the yards are organized and are therefore in position to.co-operate with us. -
It was decided to write to the University of Oregon taking exception to statements made in a rec-ent bulleiin published by them which are detrimental to Philippine tiardwoods, and which are manifestly untrue. As these state-
W. E. Cooper, \M. E. Cooper Lumber Co. Los Angeles
C. M. Cooper, W. E. Copper Lumber Cp. Los Angeles
Grover C. Gearhart, Hanimond Lumber Co. Los Angeles
LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son Los Angeles
Henry Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son Los Angeles
.8. S. Beless, E. J. Stanton & Son .....Los Angeles
D. J. Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co.. Los Angeles
B. W. Byrne, Western Hardwood Lbr. Co. Los Angeles
Frank J. Connolly, Western Hdwd. Lbr. Co., Los Angeles
S. M. Thomas, Secy. So. Calif. Hardwood Lbr. Dealers' Credit Association .....Los Angeles
W. G. Salter, Secy., Flr. Jobbers' Association. Los Angeles
Kenneth Smith, Secy-Mgr. Lumber Dealers' Association of Los Angeles Los Angeles
L. G. Sterett, Millwork Institute of California.Los Angeles
P. R. Kahn, Forsyth Hardwood Co. San Franiisco
Henry Kirchman, Kirchman Hardwood Co.. San Francis'co
C. H. White, White Brothers San Francisco
J. E. Higgins, Jr., J. E. Higgins Lbr. Co.....San Francisco
Homer B. Maris, H. B. Maris Panel Co......S"{r Francisco
M. W. Davis, Davis Hardwood Co. ... San Francisco
E. A. Hutchins, San Francisco Hardrvood Club .. . San Francisco
J. Fyfe Smith, J. Fyfe Smith Co., Ltd.....Vancouver, B. C.
J. W. Sumrall, J. J. Matthervs Hardrvood Lumber Co. Seattle
Roger Sands, Erlich-Harrison Co. ....Seattle
R. C. Anderson, General Plywood Co. .. ....Seattle
E. E. Hall, Emerson Hardwood Co. . ....Portland
Jerry Sullivan, Jr., Sullivan Hardwood Lumber Co..... San Diego
Arthur W. Bernhauer, President, Millwork Institute of California Fresno
H. Sewall Morton of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, vicegerent snark of the Golden Gate District, announces that he expects a crowd of at least 150 to sit down to dinner at the Alhens Athletic Club on Monday evening, April 14, on the occasion of the Hoo Hoo dinner and Concatenation, for which preparations are now being made.
Dinner witt be at 6:09 p.m. Mr. Morton stresses the fact that there will be no tedious waiting after dinner, as the entertainment program will be put on during the meal, and the Concat, at which some surprise stunts will be put on, will be staged immediately after dinner is over. He also wishes to make it clear --that there will be no speakers.
A total of 25 Kittens is expected. Paul Overend, vicegerent snark of the Monterey district, who is co-operating with the Golden Gate district in this concatenation, hopes to bring a number of Kittens from the Peninsula and Coast Counties territories.
United Lumber Yards, Inc., with headquarters at Modesto, have bought the yard of the Ripon Lumber Co., and will consolidate this with their own yard at that point.
Burton W. Adams, general sales manager ering Lumber Co., San Francisco, resigned efiective March 1st, and is now devoting his the affairs of the Adams Lumber Co.
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L. P. Keith, field engineer for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association with headquarters at Chicago, recently spent a week in Los Angeles during which time he contacted the oil engineers at the Oil Equipment and Engineering Exposition held here. Mr. Keith is a member of the committee on wooden derrick standards of the American Petroleum Institute and has been covering the oil industry in the mid-continent field to stimulate the use of Douglas fir in oil derricks.
D. P. Larsen, comptroller for the McCloud River Lumber Company, Minneapolis, Minn., recently spent a few days in Los Angeles on business and pleasure. Mr. Larson went from Los Angeles to McCloud, Cal., for a short visit before returning to his headquarters.
R. A. Clark, sales manager of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash., stopped in Los Angeles a few days on his way home from a trip to Honolulu.
D. S. Painter, assistant to the general mana€er of the Fruit Growers', Supply Co., San Francisco, recently traveled from Los Angeles to San Fran'cisco by the air route on board a TAT-Maddux air liner leaving Los Angeles at 4:30 p.m.
Mr. Painter flies just as often as he can save time by doing so, but this was his first experience of night flying, and he says he enjoyed it very much.
T. B. "Ted" Lawrence of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, Los Angeles, is spending. three weeks in the Northwest visiting the various mills in that district.
W. R. Spalding, of the W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia, was in San Francisco recently on a business trip.
L. S. Turnbull, Southern California and Arizona representative for the McCloud River Lumber Company, has returned from a week's business trip to Arizona.
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Frank Connolly, the frolicsome representative of the Western Hardwood Lumber Company of Los Angeles, and lfenry Kirchmann, the Philippine kid, won the firsl and s.econd cups, respectively. They'deserved them for the "numerousness" of their strokes.
_ B"y Anderson, the virile Viking from Seattle, beat John l. Donovan, the careful Celt, three down. John had to deliver an architectural address to the Convention after the game and undoubtedly his thoughts on this interfered with his thoughts on golf. If John hid knorvn that Ted Higgins was going to make such a long introductory speech, undoubtedly in an attempt to steal John's stuff, and thus relieve him of a lot of rvork, he might have played a better game'
- Rollicking Roy Stanton from Los Angeles sprained his back making a shot out of the rough in the thiid hole, but at that he shot the best golf in,his career. He defeated the same Norse champion mentioned above, Ray Anderson, three down on the first nine holes and halved the second nine'
Tiny Grover Gearhart of the Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, lost eleven balls on one hole at Pebble Beach, but at that, he played*his usual game.
In the foursome of the Millwork Institute versus the Hardwood Dealers, Arthur Bernhauer and Lester Sterett representing the Accredited Standards of Architectural Woodwork, defeated George H. B. B. Brown of the G. H. Brown Hardwood Company of Oakland and Ernest Hutchins, Secretary of the San Francisco Hardwood Club, three yp. Sgorge_ and Hutch may know a lot about other games, but although they play golf a great deal of the time, they are no match for the Fresno fire-eaters.
- R-oy Barto, the Mayor of Manila, looking like a college freshman, started out with two balls on the Pebble Beadh course and finished with three. *
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An unusual man has just been named to head an unusual San Francisco institution.
The man is Louis C. Stewart, lumberman, and the institution is "The Family," that unique club which is just- a little difierent from anv other similar otganization in the world. Stewart will not be "president" of "The Family," but will be "Father," and among his "children" will be many of San Francisco's most important citizens'
It's an honor to be elected a member of "The Family," and a positive guarantee a man is a-regular fellow-so figur. out what liind of a lad Louis Stewart must be to be named to head the club.
An extraordinary chap, this Stewart. "Ivoe" his friends call him, for no godd reisott at all, and there are few'men i" the world who-have more friends than this "Ivoe" Stewart. He has that quality in him which makes men and *o-.tt lay down their money to see-a-nd hear Chevalier' It sounds "iittl. efieminate to call it "charm," but there's no other word for it.
Stewart makes his living by cutting down trees' He's vice president of one of llie !!gges.t lumber companies on the Pacific. Coast, and all his life he's been in that business' And what-do you think his hobbY is?
Planting trees !
Stewart plants trees like some men collect old masters or buY va.htt. He loves trees, and perhaps, in his innermost tnina, fie figu.es that somehow he's rep.ayinS nature. by planting the-things he destroys to make his bread and butter.
Stewart is a member of the board of directors of the Olympic Club, and he is really the father and guiding e.tt;r.ti of that club's Lakeside golf courses' Stewart -prac- licallv built those courses, designed them, ahd every day is striving to make the place more beautiful.
And he knows everv tree on that course by its first name ! Of course, he ought'to, as he supervised -the-planting of ..r.ty ott", and th-ere are literally thousands of 'em'
A little while ago one of the Olympic Club gardeners went to Stewart. A tig tree alongside one of the tees was devouring all the moislure and keeping the sun from the tee, and making it almost impossible to grow grass'
"I think perhaps we'd better cut that tree down, Mr' Stewart," suggesfed the gardener. .stewart all but passed on to anothei world in an apoplectic fit.
The very idea of anyone even- suggesting .that one of his trees be cut down almost gave him heart failure' After the storm had subsided the gardener went back to the diffrcult task of trying to make-,gras grow in the shadow of that tree.
A round of golf with Stewart is like strolling througlt Golden Gate Pirk with "IJncle John" Mcl-aren' There is
very little golf played. It's mostly gardening. He usually plays on S-undays-with his friend, Harold -Br-ayton, :!ock L.otet, whom Slewart is succeeding as head of "The Family."
"He plays the whole course with a niblick," explained Brayton. "-He walks two steps and then digs out weeds with the;iblick. And after batting at weeds all day he wonders what's wrong with his golf swing !"
An extraoidinary chip? Yes. he's all of that. Get him to tell you about liis sister down in King City some time.
Although Stewart probably never gave it a serious thought, Le's building 1 colossal monument to himself out therJ at Lakeside. For long after other men are dust and bones those beautiful treeJ will be there to bring a stab of pleasure to men's hearts, and perh-aps recall the smile and voice of the man who put them there.
There's little chance that San Francisco and his friends will ever forget "Ivoe" Stewart.
A most casual surveY of the present and future possibilities of increased hardwood sales always reveals' more or less serious loss of market to "substitute" materials.
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Taken in the aggregate, this loss has certainly been a serious one but it can be combated and certain ground regained.
The lumber industry as one of the oldest and most basic of any in our land has-not been awake'to the modern methods of merchandising used by other industries during the Dast several years. The uety fact that it is an industry of such large pioportions, so widespread, so competitive, and so unot!.tti"ed as a merchandising group, .has.brought about th-e condition which we now face. It has been the belief of almost the entire lumber business that everyone knew all about all kinds of lumber and that if he wanted any he would buy it. They have rvaited for demand to show itself and then have battled viciously among themselves for the carcass. Very little has been done in the past to create demand for lumber. Very little e.ducation is to the variety, utility and economy o{ lumber has been olaced before the Public.
' On the other hand a large list of commodities and materials has been continually cultivating public approval in a very intensive campaign.- Many of these -matiri"als are rePres6nted by associitions desi-gned to exploit the market in a most efficient manner. Chief among these materials might be mentioned steel and other metals, plaster, stucco, tile", linoleum, comPosition floors and roofing rnaterials' Ste;l is today a serious competitor of the lumber industry in such itemi as sash, doors, interior trim, house framing, furniture, and even golf club shafts.
It is true that ceriain materials enjoy an advantage over wood under present building codes, but part, -at least, of this has been gained by lobbying which could have been prevented by m-ore alertness on the part of lumber interests.
Another share has been lost to the increasing demand for more and improved types of building fixtures, bFt the fact still remains that attractive advertising and the American custom of trying anything once has cost our industry more than we can well afford to lose.
A noble attempt to combat this condition is norv in progress under the auspices of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. Publicity of educational matter is appearing in many national publications. Personal representatives are stationed in all large cities to aid architects in writing specifications, to defend lumber interests against unjust legislation, to advise on termite control, and to assist in any other way possible. Pamphlets are being distributed regarding wood floors, frame houses and other subjects of interest and value to the users of lumber. In addition much work is being done by the various hardwood manufacturers' associations. Oak, Walnut, Gum, Birch and other woods all have their literature available to the public and expert advice for the trade.
With all this assistance from the various associations which have lately sprung to actioi'r, there still remains much to be done by everyone in the industry to place its products and advantages before the public in a manner comparable to what has been accomplished for competitive merchandise.
Certain of the new materials which have encroached on the market formerly occupied by lumber products alone will enjoy a brief popularity due to novelty but if their further progress is debated by proper education and publicity on behalf of the lumber product it can be halted. Lumber has many advantages over most of its competitors and if properly defended can hold its own.
The one particular phase of this shrinking market which has attracted our attention in Los Angeles is the tendency to use very little if any hardwood interior finish in residence buildings. The elimination of rvood finis-h can probably be attributed largely to the popularity of the Splnish type house. The contractor welcomed the innovation as
a reduction in labor cost, if not in material cost, of the finished job. The plaster and stucco people have done their utmost to keep the ball rolling. A certain amount of the public's acceptance of this work has been due to its novelty and faddish desire for the simple lines of the art modern.
That this movement arvay from wood finish has been carried to extremes, is not dififrcult to prove. There are several jobs we have noted rvhere practiially the only exposed woodwork, aside from the floors, u'as ceiling beams of common Fir or Redwood. One contractor hal gone so far as to-us-e a piece of 1x4 O.P. flooring set on edge, tongue to the sub-floor, nailed to the studding, as a base. The pi-aster was dressed down flush with this fiooring, using the g'roove as a key; -no base shoe, no casing, no piiture moulding, in the entire house.
The thin edge of novelty in this r,vork has b-egun to wear down, however, and the reaction has startedl The uninteresting sameness of interiors so finished is apparent to anyone making an inspection of these houses. - The chill and formal effect of all plaster certainly does nbt produce the cheery and friendly atmosphere desiied in a horne. Even the lavish use of furniture, rugs and draperies still leaves thc. room lacking that atmosphere of dignity and charm which hardwood trim or paneling can easily iupply.
Wood, as the universal building material throughout the ages, has had more of a backgrou-nd of friendly aisociation than any other material. For the architect's use and inspira- tion it has preserved more of the beauty of detail and^ line of the masterpieces of ancient craftsmin than any other medium. _Tgd"y the beauty of texture and figure in wood, its adaptability to detail rvork and the varietv- of finishes ii offers makes it the architects' best medium oi expression.
There is in the public mind a great amount of friendly appreciation for fine woods. The long association of wood as a dependable and artistic material of the utmost utilitv has earned it a large share of good will.
With these facts in mind, I believe that now is a verv opportune time to create and cultivate a revival of intereJt in hardwood interior finish and paneling. The real desire and demand already exists, but it need=s to be awakened and. quickengd by proper education and publicity. In line with these ideas we have prepared samples and exhibits of hardwood trim and paneling, hnished in-difitjrent styles and shades to show the- possibilities of our products. Althougtr we have attempted to make our collection quite complele we have-been_especially interested in developing attraitive results from low grade hardwoods in order t-o keep the cost within reach of the average builder. Some of the woods P.ejt adapted to this work ari Needle Wormy philippine, Wormy Chestnut, Wormy Oak, Common fualnut.'and Sqolty White Pine. The results, especially in the antique finishes, are very attractive and'have creited widespread interest. .The pre.sent popularity of period furniture and lo.me destgn rs hetprng to create a demand for paneling of thrs nature,
Our confidence in the general appreciation of this work has been considerably strengthenid during the past two years by-observing- several ipartment buildings and'resi_ dences lvhere paneling has been used in livins 6om. dinine room, library or den. The popularity of the"hardwood finl rsh was universal. The buildings rented or sold easily and at a profit ryhigtr made the slighi additional cost of the pan_ eling a profitable investment.
We feel certain that. a more g'eneral public understand_ ing of the costs and advantages-of hardwood interior trim and paneling would result in ln early recovery of a market which has been suffering for some time. This understand_ ing_ can come only through co-operation of the dealers wiih architects, owners and builders- in an intelligent and heip_ ful program of education and publicity.
Generations from no* a *Perfection" Brand Oak flmr will still rc' tain its beauty. You can depad upon "Psfectio." In modcm plants operated by sLillcd lumbcm, only the finest oak is selected. Afta proper seasoning anrl kilndrying, it is pofatly milled and matcbed o that it lays srmoth and stays smmtb. It is graded anil handled so €rcfully that upo anival anywhere it is always in perfct condition. kading lumber dealers gladly feature this nationally advertised brand.
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The young man'was askirig for his citizenship papers' and he answered the questions correctly until the Judge asked:
"\ll/ho is the President of the United States?"
"Al Smith" came the prompt reply.
"What makes you think Mr. Smith is President?" asked the Judge.
Clarence G. Blagen, president of the Grays Harbor Lumber Co., Hoquiam, Wash., and vice-president of the Portland Spruce Mills Co., Portland, Ore., was a recent visitor to San Fran'cisco.
H. A. Libbey, of The Little River Redwood Co., Crannell, has returned from a two months' business trip to the Eastern States.
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"Well", said the applicant, "All I know is that before the election the Republican orators told us that if Al Smith was elected we should have a general panic in the country; that prices in Wall Street would drbp; that the farmens would all go broke; and that there would be more liquor than ever. All these things have happened so I suppose Al Smith must be the President of the United State6'1.
W. R. Ripley, vice-president and treasurer of The Wheeler Osgood Co., Tacoma, recently spent a few days in San Francis'co. Mr. Ripley made the trip by automobile, and was accompanied by Mr. Ripley
H. E. HORROCKS VISITS CALIFORNIA
H. E. Iforrocks, general manager of the West Coast Wood Preserving Companies, Seattle, recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business..
The Fir-Tex Insulating Board Company is rushing c,ompletion of its big manufacturing plant at St. Helens,- Oregon, and will have same in full operation some time in the coming June. The plant is magnificently' situgted for manufaciuring purposes on the banks of the Columbia River, whence itwill receive by water its raw materials from mills along the river.
They will manufacture building board out of wood waste, and th-e plant r,r'ill have a capacity of 75,000,000 feet annually. The company is incorporated for $2,5@,000.
Arthur Millington is visiting in San Francisco, enjoying a vacation. ln I92O he was one of the swimming champions San Francisco sent to the Olympic games. Today he is a successful lumberman in Honolulu. He formerly held three national swimming records.
Fire destroyed the No. 2 mill of the Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Co. lt Snoqualmie Falls, Wash., March 3. with an estimated loss of $250,000. The mill which cut 125,000 feet a day of cedar and.hemlock will be rebuilt immediately. -
Roy Fetterly, head filer, who was so badly injured when he attempted to jump to safety, after he was unable to get down the stairs, died a few minutes after reaching the hospital.
Construction Industries Credit Bureau, operated as a new deoartment ofthe San Francisco Association of Credit lMen, for the purpose of giving detailed credit information on those engaged in building trades in the San Francisco district, was opened in San Francisco March 11. The executive committee, composed of leading San Francisco credit men, is as follows:
Frank H. Eichler, American Smelting & Refining Co.' chairman; R. H. O'lf ea, Paraffine Co. ; R. E. Hackett, Johns-Manville, Inc.; C. S. Tripler, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumtrer Co.; C. C. Hill, W. P. Fuller & Co.; O. H. Peterson, Guat'anty Building & Loan Association; D. I. Bosschart, Eng-Skell Co.; O. H. Walker, secretary-manager of the San Francisco Association of Credit Men.
George Kewin Jr., of the United Lumber Yards, Inc., Modesto, recently made a business trip to San Francisco, where he attended the Northern California and Nevada convention of General Electric Company's refrigerating division, held March 17 at the William Taylor Hotel, San Francisco.
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C. M. Cooper of the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was re-elected president; B- E. pryan, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, was re-elected vice-president, and Grover C. Gearhart, lfammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected secretary-treasurer, of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Flooring Dealers' Association, at their annual convention held at the Hotel Del Monte, Del Monte, California, March 20.
R. H. Every of New York addressed the meeting on general business conditions from the manufactuiers' stlandpolnt.
The afternoon session was opened with the reading of the minutes of the last annual meeting. Discussion on matters arising from the minutes and on various pfoblems of the industry, claimed the attention of the members irntil the adjournment.
President C-M. Cooper presided at both sessions. The convention closed with the holding of a banquet in the Copper Cup Room, which was also attended by members of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association, whose convention was held on the two following diys.
The principal speaker at the banquet was Kenneth Smith, secretary of the Lumber Dealers' Association of Los Angeles, who talked on "Trade Promotion," expressing the belief that the industry has 4ot made the right kind of effort to create new hardwood flooring business, and suggest- ing that the vyholesaler of flooripg.should assume respon- sibility with the manufacturer to help create new busihess by trade promotion effort.
The following were elected .directors: E. E. Hall, Emerson Hardwood Co., Portland, Ore.; Roger Sands, ErlichHarrison Co., Seattle; Henry Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles; C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco; J. E. Higgins, Jr., J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco; F. J. Connolly, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles i Jerry Sullivan, Jr., Sullivan Hardwood Co., San Diego, and Geo. H. Brown, G. H. Brown Hardwood Lumber Co.. Oakland.
The morning session was mainly taken up with reports from members regarding conditions in the hardwood flooring industry in the various coast cities. Members representing the following cities,were heard from : Seattle, Vancouver, B. C., Portland, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.
D. J. Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, agreed with Mr. Smith that the problems of the industry must be worked on co-operatively. "The individual can no lbnger 'go it alone,"' said Mr. Cahill, who cited the case of a group of grocery wholesalers who were forced to co-operate with retailers and with each other for protection against chain store competition.
R. H. Every of New York, who was the guest of the association for the evening, also spoke briefly.
President C. M. Cooper acted as toastmaster, and E. A. "IIutch" Hutchins, San Francisco Hardwood Club, led the gathering in community singing.
It is apparent also that there is a prime'need for co-operation between planing mills, retail lumber yards, architects and hardwood dealers. If we can build this co-ordination we will have a for.ce that. will be hard to stop.
There is a very distinct trend back towaqls wood interiors. Let us take full advantage of this. We can makb a good start by stating this fact to our personal friends.
That building and loan associations have become the nation's greatest home-building agencies is indicated by the fact that during the last ten years 4,21I,W homes have been financed in the residential field". A total of approximately 600,000 homes will be built on building loan funds during 1930.
With $8,620,000,000 of assets the home-building record of .the associations of the country is as follows, according to a survey made by A. S. Hubbard, manager of the United States Building and Loan Association San Francisco office:
These figures speak for themselves, but in addition there is more to be considered than mere housing of so many millions of people, the survey said. It is eJtimated thit approximately one-half of the cost of a home goes out for labor of one sort or another. Liteially speaking, therefore, billions of dollars have gone out during the past five years to workmen and artisans who have helped to construct these homes. The only way in which this could be done was through the building loan and savings method of financing, which enables millions of men and women to own homes who would not be able to do so under any other known method of financing. The prosperity of the country has been held up largely through the construction industry, 5O per cent of which have been financed by these institutions. the survey stated.
E. H. Meyer, of Portland, Ore., vi,ce-president of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., left San Francisco March 26 after attending a three-day conference at the company's home office. The follorving executives were also in attendance at the conferen,ce: James W. Thompson, g'eneral manager of Puget Sound operations, Ludlow, Wash.; Paul E. Freydig, manager of the logging department, Seattle; Clyde W. Osborne, sales manager of the creosoting department, Portland; John Olson, manag'er of the Los Angeles office; A. A. Gay, manager of the St. Helens mill, and H. Luderman, Pacific Northwest manager of the McCormick Steamship Co., Portland.
"Business. is Business" the Big Man said, But it's something that's more, far more; For it makes sweet gardens of deserts dead, And cities it built now roar. Where once the deer and the grey wolf ran From the pioneer;s swift advance; Business is magic that toils for man; Business is True Romance".
"And those who make it a ruthless fight, Have only themselves to blame, If they feel no whit of the keen delight In plalng the bigger game; The game that calls on the heart and head, The best of man's strength and nerve; 'Business is business'the Big Man said, 'And that business is to serve"'.
Customer: "Wouldn't you take off something for cash," Salesgirl: "Sir !"
It is easy to fool'yourself. It is more'difficult to fool the people you work for.
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Harrington Emerson, the well known industrial engineer and linguist told me that the best way to learn a foreign language is to have a love affair with a girl who speaks only that language. Now Czech is not a language that appeals to me. I know it would not add materially to my happines. But to be taught Czech, or any other language, by one of the beautiful girls one sees everywhere on the streets of Prague-that is something suggestive of Paradise.-Dreier.
Artist: "See that picture. I painted it, and a million wouldn't buy it".
Custorner: "Right ! And f'm one of the million".
IQueer thing, isn't it, about this Aladdin's lamp which we call the mind? The more it is used, the more power it possesses. And of all the wonders it creates there ars none greater or more wonderful than ideas formed for the benefit of othss. What a man may think, a man may make.-(Backbone).
During the past hundred years human life over great areas of the world's surface has been changed more radieally in its social habits than in six thousand years, perhaps, of previous history. And it rather looks as though during the next fifty years or less there will be even greater changes-more startling-more tremendous.-Pfilip Gibbs.
An aged Scotchman was on his deathbed. His parish clergyman urged upon him the necessity of preparing for the future life, and spoke of the near approach of the time when he would have to appear before the "King of Terrors". "Weel, weel", replied the old Scot, t'an' what for should I be afraid to meet the King of Terrors? Hae I no lived with the Queen o' them for the last thirty years?"
f Courtesy is the one medium of exchange whicb is ac{ cepted at par by the best people of every country on the globe. It is sentiment clothed in reasonable and business,like expression-the embellishment that adds tone and harmony to matter of fact routine-the oil which lubricates the machine of commercial good fellowship and promotes the smooth running of the many units of an organization. Courtesy radiates a spirit of good feeling that we are not working entirely for what we get out of the work in the material way-but the pleasure of polite transaction and friendly association as welL (King's Courier).
"Mose, how would you like to take a ride in an airplane?"
"Nossuh. Ah stays on de terrah firmah, and de mo' de firmah, de less de terrah".
The first Hoo Hoo concatenation staged on Mexican soil in many years was held at Algadones, Mexico, on March 8. The concatenation was an open air affair and five Kittens were initiated. E. L. Simpkins, vicegerent snark of the Yuma District, was in charge of the concatenation' The obligation was given by Jas. J. McFall of Phoenix. H. A. Wark, vicegerent snark of the San Diego district, assisted N. H. Huey, Arizona state counselor, in giving the secret work.
Among those who attended the concatenation were E. L. Cooper, Los Angeles; P. I. Merithew., Los Angeles;-B. R. Juliin, Los Angeles; F. D. Park, La Mesa, Calif.; Er W. Pool, Phoenix; E. H. Wheat, Phoenix; R. W. Dalton, Phoenix; Jas. J. McFall, Phoenix; Geo. T. Saunders, Calexico; H. A. Wirk, San Diego, and N. H. Huey, Phoenix.
A Hoo Hoo Club for Yuma r.vas organized and E. L. Simpkins u'as elected president. L. H' DeMund was elected first vice-president, H. {. Rademaker, second vice-president, and Charles J. Killen, secretary-treasurer' '
One of the most outstanding golf games played on the Del Monte course during the convention of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealerst Association was the one played between Bob Kahn of the Forsyth Hardwood Co., San Francisco, and Henry Kirchmann of the Kirchmann Hardwood Co., also of the City by the Golden Gate.
By the terms of this remarkable game played on Friday morning the loser had to drink trvo glasses of sauerkraut juice. Bob won, and Henry drank his sauerkraut juice like i man, but challenged Bob to play another 18 holes in the afternoon with double stakes, the loser to drink the four glass.es of the tasty beverage during thd banquet in the evenlng.
Henry won the afternoon game, and to prove that Eorsyth Hardwood Co. always carries out its contracts Bob drank the four glasses at the banquet. This was done so quietly that only his immediate neighbors saw him do it, and a clamor arose demanding that Bob carry out the terms of the wager. Four more glasses of the sparkling beverage were brought, and Bob tossed thern off with a smlle, saying, "I only drank the first four to see if I could do it.r'
Pacific Box Factory of San Francisco, one of the oldest manufacturers of wooden boxes in the state, recently acquired the Mercantile Box Factory of Oakland and San Francisco, and the Superior Box Factory of Alameda. The merger will be known as the Pacific Box Corporation, Ltd., and r,r'ill be capitalized at $600,000.
The new company will have a capacity of 3,000,000 board feet of lumber a month, and rvill be the largest of its kind in the West. The officers of the new company are: President, Walter G. Hyman; vice-president, Arthur B. Cahill; second vice-president and production manager, William H. Pierce; secretary, Louis Beedy.
M. Tohnson of the firm of lumbdrmen, Eugene, C)re., Francisco.
Johnson & Johnson, wholesale was a recent visitor to San
The Millwo.k trr.titut" of California has just published a new book-Accredited Standards-copies of which have already been distributed to the membeiship and whi,ch is des.igned to create an authoritative standard governing materials, construction .and workmanship for millwork products and their certification as Architectural Millwork.
The book measures 9 inches wide by 12 inches high and contains 64 pages. It is handsomely bound and attiactive in appearance. The book is beautifully illustrated, 12 pages being devoted to half tone illustrations of Architeitural Woodwork which show the charm that can be obtained through artistic millwork.
H. T. Didesch, managing director of the Millwork Institute of .California, in the foreword states that the publica- tion is intended to serve a dual purpose.
"First, to create an authoritative and eminent standard of quality for all classifications of millwork defining minimum essentials as to proper materials, sound construction_ and uniformly good workmanship.
"Secondly,__to inaug-urate and mainiain a definite guar- anty or certification of products manufactured in conf-orm- ity with the requiremenls of the established standards."
The A,ccredited Standards as presented embody the results of extensive research by a special committee of millwork technologists appointed by ihe Millwork Institute of California. Their context has 6een reviewed bv sub-com-
Mason B. Kline, sales engineer, IJnion Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a business trip covering most of the state of Arizona during the past month. N, H. Huey, phoenix, Arizona, representative for the Union Lumber Co., a.ccompanied Mr. Kline over some of the territorv but clue to the death of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Jessica -Jones Mc9I.*, Mr. Huey was compelled to stay in phoenix. Art Ninemire, Mr. Hudy's reprisentati,re, aiso spent some time with Mr. Kline calling on the trade.
mittees embracing in their personnel some thirty firms. The work may therefore be aocepted with the confidence that it is thoroughly practical and representative of the best practices in the industry.
Among the subje'cts ,covered in the book are: Interior Finish; Interior Jambs; Interior Jamb and Trim Assemblies; Cabinetwork, Paneling, etc. ; Standardized Cabinets and Built-In Fixtures; Stairwork; Doors; Windows and Sash; Blinds and Shutters; Streens and Screen Doors: Exterior Finish; Exterior Frames; Miscellaneous Exterior Millwork; Glass and Glazing, (U. S. Government Master Specifications); Certification Documents; Recommended Form of Millwork Specificatio4, and Care and Finishing of Woodwork.
Managing Director Didesch ,urges that the section concerning the certification of products and jobs be given special consideration as they not only present reproduition of the various Certification documents but alio ,contain what_is probably the.first published outline by the industry of a Recommended Form of Millwork Specification.
Accredited Standards is one of th€ most constructive pieces of work ever undertaken by any indrrstry and will no doubt be so recognized by the woodworking industry throughout the country. It splendidly reflects the progress being made by this branch of the lumber industry jndiads great prestige to the Millwork Institute of Calif'ornia.
A. L. Hoover, Los Angeles wholesaler, has returned from a short business-trip to San Francisco. Mr. Hoover repre- sents The Pacific Lumb_er Company and the Wendling- Nathan Co. in Southern California.
Paul E. Overend, northern field representative of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, returned to San Francisco Mar'ch 22 lrom a business trip to Los Angeles.
The Angelus Aero Corporation, located at the Los Angeles Metropolitan Airport, Van Nuys, is owned and operated by two prominent Los Angeles lumbermen, Bob Osgood of the Wheeler, Osgood Company, and Lindsay Gillis, who is associated with the Sugar Pine Lumber Companv, Fresno and the Yosemite Lumber Company, Madera, and also president of the Santa Monica Land & Water Company, developers of the Huntington Palisades.
The company is specializing in flying instruction and has
The accompanying illustration shows the four Higby brothers of Dudly, Idaho, winners of first and second placgs in the empire championship sawing contest, held at the R. K. O. Theater in Spokane, February 24 to 27. Ed, and Jay Higby, on the left of the picture, defeated Herman and Ernest Graf, clipping two cuts from a l9tfu-inch yellow pine
an active force of seven flyers and service men. During the sixteen months of operation they have had no injuries to any student or anyone connected with the organization.
The Angelus Aero Corporation are the distributors for the Aeromarine Klemm low wing monoplanes and also for Standard Oil Products. In addition to this, it is the Pacific Coast headquarters for Le Blond aircraft engines and parts, having a crew of factory trained men.
The picture above shows four of the "Klemms". (This is the type of plane which was recently purchased by Mrs. Ann Morrow Lindbergh.) The company has besides these planes a "T. P. Swallow" and a Buhl airsedan which enables them to furnish air transportation or any other kind of air work at any time.
log in 44 and 4,/5 seconds. Myron and Harold Higby, after dropping their saw between cuts, finished second, their time being 53 and 1/5 seconds. The Graf brothers finished third in the time of 63 seconds. All three teams in the finals pulled Simonds cross-cut saws.
The Gold Soot Hoo Hoo Club No. 72 of Phoenix held its regular meeting at Phoenix on March 22.
There will be a Hoo Hoci concatenation at Tucson on April 19. Leslie McBride, vicegerent snark of the Tuscon district, will be in charge.
A concatenation will be held in Douglas, or across the border, in Mexico, in May when the Lumbermen's Club ot Arizona hold their annual meeting at Douglas.
Considerable progress in the trade promotion activities of the Institute was reported by President Arthur Bernhauer, and L. G. Sterett, manager of the Service Bureau, at the tri-annual meeting of the Millwork Institute of California held at the Hotel Californian, Fresno, Friday, March 28.
The slogan of the Institute, "There's a Distinct Trend Back to 'Wood," was heard several times in the course of the various talks, and the idea was expressed that the repetition of this slogan by all of the members, their employees,
In summarizing the activities of the Institute in the six years of its existence Mr. Bernhauer said not the least accomplishment was the development of good feeling and friendship among millmen of the State, and stated that he is convinced that if 100 progressive millmen put their efforts behind the Institute's program they can change the status of the industry in 12 months.
"We are now on the threshold of success. Talk wood. Think wood. Support the trade extension program, and cash in on the monev that has already been soent. and the efiorts that have be6n made," he contluded. ^
Managing Director H. T. Didesch in his report said the publication of the Accredited Standards represented more progress than anything else they had done. He assured members that there had been very definite progress made by the Institute, rvarned them against discouragement, and assured them that what is now required is patience and willingness to stick to the job.
Mr. Didesch read the treasurer's report, in the absence of Treasurer E. A. Nicholson of Los Angeles. This report shows noteworthy progress, he said.
The managing director then proceeded to give the recommendations of the board of directors.
H. T. Didesck, Managing Directorand their friends, would have a very favorable effect on the increase in the use of wood for interiors.
A most important feature of the meeting was the detailed explanation of the Accredited Standards by Managing Director Didesch.
Thursday Session
The board of directors met at luncheon at noon on March 27, and remained in session during the afternoon.
Friday Morning
President Arthur W. Bernhauer, Fresno Planing Mill, Fresno, opened the convention with an inspiring talk on the purposes of the Institute's trade promotion program, which has as its aim the creation of new business. He suggested that executives might devote some of their time to trade promotion work, and stressed the necessity of establishing confidence by producing woodwork of guaranteed quality at a fair price. 'He advised making the most of their slogan, "There is a distinct trend back to wood."
The board recommended that the Institute be incorporated, and on a motion by E. J. Nutting, Herring & Nutting, San Francisco, it was decided to have the local groups pass on this matter.
The board approved everything pertaining to thb Accredited Standards. and fixed the price of the book at $5. Approximately 800 architects' offices will receive a free copy, and many of these will be delivered personally by L. G. Sterett. Standards will be in architects' hands by April 15, at which date they will go into effect, and the Certification program will then be enforced.
It was recommended by the board that a copy of the Standards be placed in all architects'clubs throughout the State, and all State, County and Government architects will receive a copy.
They also recommended that classes for explanation of the Standards be held for all salesmen and estimators who contact buyers.
It was decided that Mr. Didesch confer with the research department of the University of California on the matter of having this department investigate how the Millwork Sales Dollar is made up for the year 1930.
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f lH-f, door turns on its hinges many times a day. It shuts in and it shuts out. I It is set between the outside world and the dear household in the home. It shuts out the noise, the dust and the clamor of the street. It ihuts out the rough speech, the enmities, the selfishness of the striving crowd. It shuts in peace, love, gentleness, security and all the atmosphere which makes a home. The husband goes ou( through the door in the morning into the rt'.shing, busy world and carries in his heart a sense of security for his household behind his closed door. At night he comes back, wearied with the day's toil and care, assured that within the door are welcome, rest and love. The strife and cares of the world are left on the outside of his door, and within he is at home in quiet content in the midst of his loved ones. The children and the adults go through the door to school or to business, and at night, leaving the whirl of affairs and people, come back again with certain confidence that within the door is home. No wonder that John Howard Payne, that homeless wanderer in many lands, sang with a vast pathos-
"Home, horne, sweet, sweet home! Be it eaer so hurnble, there's no place lihe home."
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Chairman E. J. Nutting, of the membership committee, reported only one new member and three reinstatements since the last meeting, but was optimistic for the future.
On the invitation of W. L. Leishman of Pasadena, it was decided to hold the next meeting at the Hotel Huntington, Pasadena, late in July or early in August.
Friday Afternoon
Mr. Bernhauer presided, and called on J. Gazzam MacKenzie, of the Libby-Owens Glass Company, San Francisco, for a talk on "Tiade Promotion.'r '
L. G. Sterett, manager of the Service Bureau of the Institute, delivered an address on the me'chanics of the Trade Promotion Program. His record of what has been accomplished in the contacting of architects all over the state, and in obtaining the moral and financial support of other lumber associations show that Mr. Sterett has delivered a tremendous lot of well-directed activity since the start of this campaign last August.
Harry Gaetjen, Empire Planing Mill, San Francisco, past president of the fnstitute, reviewed the Accredited Standards, which he described as "something to be proud of, and well worth waiting for." He made a stirring plea for the support of the full program of the Institute by everv mem-. Der.
Mr. Didesch then devoted considerable time to a careful explanation of the main points of the Accredited Standards.
F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, and director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, addressed the meeting on "The Benefits of Group Organization", giving specific cases of the successful working of the "Allotment" or "Chicago" plan of organization.
Herb.'Weyler, Boyd Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara spoke on value of photographs of interiors in trade promotion work, and expressed appreciation of the reprocluctions 'of fine wood interiors oublished from time to time in "The California Lumber 1\llerchant". and "Western Woodworker",
W. A."Bill" Sampson, suggested that their salesmen might be asked to pass an examination which would enable them to talk intelligently on their products, giving them some su,ch standing as "realtors" in the real estate business.
The meeting concluded with a discussion on "Overcoming Steel Sash Competition".
A banquet was held in the evening, at which the members enjoyed some high class musical entertainment. Those who stayed over until Saturday enjoyed a game of golf on some of the good Fresno courses, and some enjoyed sightseeing trips into the mountains.
By a vote of 39 to 38, the United States Senate placed a duty of $1.50 a thousand feet on lumber of fir, spruce, hemlock and larch on March 20. A tariff of $2.00 was rejected by the Senate on February 27 by a vote ol 39 to 34.
Lloyd B. Neill, who formerly was in the lumber business ai Greeley, Colorado, has bought a lumber yard site at La Mesa, Calif. Constru'ction work on the office building and sheds commenced on March 17. The yard will be
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