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Pacific Coast Hardwood Flooring Dealers Meet at Del Monte
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.
More Than Four Millions of Homes Finances inTen Years
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.
McCormick Executives Visit San Francisco Office
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.
Every woman wants a Supercedar
Business Is Business
"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"'.
'MISUNDERSTOOD
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.
And it is afrirost impossible to fool the under ypui..;{H..B. Thayer).
LET'S GO THERE
people who work /
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".
The Mind
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).
The Changing Time
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.
Knew Her Well
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?"
Courtesy
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).
Solid Ground
"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".