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J. E. MARTIN Managlng Editor

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April 1, 1932

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT JackDionne,fuilXtw lncomnted ulder thc laws of Cdifomia

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on Applicetion

How Lumber Looks Douglas Fit-322 mills reporting to the Vest Coast Lumber' ments Association for the weck ended March 19 oPerated at 25.5 pet cent of capacity, as compared to 25.0 Per cent of ca'

pacity for the previous week and 41.0 per cent for the same week last year.' During the week of March t2, lE} of these plants were reported as down and 139 as operatingl those opemting reported productiotr as 47.O Per cent of their group capacity.

New busi.tets received by 217 identical mills for the wee& was 1.5 per cent under production and- totaled 6r000r(XX) feet less than the orders of the previous week.

Production was about 2'0-001000 feet- mote than, the week be' fore, and shipments for the week were 7-6 pet cent over-Prduc' tion. This is the first week in the past twenty'one weeks when orders were not in excess of currenl production, the difference being slight.

Pr-od.tc-tion, orders and shipments at these 217 mills for the week ended March 19 were rlported to the Association as fol' lows: production 621418$32 f.eet; orders 61,4741963 feet; shiprnents 67,17 4,244 f ent.

Details of orders and shipments at these mills for the same week follow: Orders-Rail 24r783,s10 feet; Domestic Cargo

24rg3tr25L feet; Export 616641599 feet; I-ocal 5$93r5E3 feet'

Shipmerrts-Reil 24;027,4O2 f.eet;,Domestic Cargo 22r79or179 feet; Expoc !5,26r,080 *.,i tf.t.t,O93,583 feet.

Partly accounted for by an apparent incroase in ptoductiont the ratio of lumber order excess- ovet the cut dropped to about

2O pa cent during the week ended March 19 according to re'

ports to the National Lumber Manufacttrers Associetion from regionat associations covering the opetations of 681 1".{$ haidwood and softwood mi-ils. Froduction of these -'l{l' amounted to 116r515r0fi) feet and shipmerlts exceeded this figue by 26 pet cent A week eatlier 700 mills reported gtdds

39 Wt cetrt above and shipmi:nts 32 per cent above a cut of 1071

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The Southetn Pine Association for t{re week ended Match 19 reported new business fuqn 122 mills as 25r284rOOO fDet, ship' mints 25, 431rOOO feet, and production 24,g8grOOO feet. Ordets were one per cent above pioduction, and one Per ceht below shipments. Shipments were two per cent above production. the \ffestern-Pine Association reported new business fton 127 miLls as 37r829rOO0 feet, shipments 3Er469r0* feeg and production t7rl4l$0o feet. Otdets wete l2l pet cent above production and two per cent below shipments. Shipmetrts were 124 per cent above production.

20b hardwood mills for the same week reported new busi-

ness as l2rSOTrOOO feet, or 14 pe cent above production. Ship' ments were 13,5991000 feet, or 24 pet cent above production.

Production was 10,942,(X)O

1*.; * ' The Cailfornia Redwood Association rePorts for the month

The California lumber situation showed practically no change durine the past two weeks and the dernand is slow. 46 vessels of February orders teceived from 11 mills as l5r209.$OO feet; *"r. Jp.r.tittg in the coastwise lumber trade on March 17, wr+ orders on hand 2018691000 feet, shipments l.2r972r0fl0 feet, and feet. orr" ,rds"l, thl Missoula operating in the intercoastal trade, and production - Details of101616'000 and shipments for tfie month were as fol' at orders public the docks stocks on Unsold laid up.

65 vessels were San Pedro totaled 5rt06roo0 feet on March 2V, as compared lows: Orders-Northern California 6'555'000 feet; Southern S-an California 4,O95,OOO feet; Western 9l'000 feet; Eastetn 3929rarrivals to 51531100 feet the previous week. C-argogr7LgrOOO -at feet, in' 000 feet; Foreign 5t9'OO feet. Shipments-Northern California Pedro for the week ended March 19 totaled cludins ten cargoes of Douglas fir carrying 9r049r00o feet, and 4r8O7r00O feet; Southern California 2r844rOOO feet; Vestern lO3rOOO feet; Eastetn 4rlTOrOOO feet; Foteign 1r048r(XX) feet two ca-rgoes of redwood with 670'000 feet'

H. J. BAILEY VISITS CALIFORNIA H. I. "Bili" Bailey, sales manager of the Saginaw Tirnber C6., Aberdeen, Wash., was a recent visitor to the offi'ces of Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francis'co, agents for the well known "saginaw Brand" shilgles, manufactur-ed by- his firm. Mr. Eaile1' also visited Los Angeles and from there continued on his annual t'ivo months' sales trip to the Southrvestern and Eastern States.

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-C.R. JOHNSON San Francisco, president of the Union R-. Johnson, at the company's was LumUer to*p.tty, -offiLe. a recent visitor He also spent a felv days at Santa Los Angeles

Barhara-and San Diego'

..DON'T FORGET OUR PREDICTION FOR 1932,'' SAYS ARTHUR TWOHY The Twohy Lumber Company, of Los Angeles, in their announcement carcl to the trade advising of the change in address .of their office to 628 Petroleum Securities Building adds the following postscript: "Don't forget our prediction lor 1932. There is going to be a real Thanksgiving Day this year for everyotte and there u'ill be a Santa Claus this year too."

HARRY EASOM ON EUROPEAN TRIP IJarry Easom, San Francisco rvholesale lumtrerman, and Mrs. Easom left San Francisco April 1 for a three months' trip to Europe.

April l, 1932

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Aprit 1, 1932

V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne "God help the poor", says the Chicago Tribune; "the rich can commit suicide."

* If you don't believe that the return of prosperity is at ,k

hand, consider the fact that Woolworth hds just announced that all his stores will sell articles up to 20 cents in price from now on. Their limit has always been ten cents. So get ready for a boorn. Woolworth knows !

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The wbrld's most successful advertising man died recently-William Wrigley. One of his nearest comp6titors as an advertising success passed a few days ago George Eastman. They were much alike in their advertising beliefs. Mr. Eastman made a huge fortune and immoderate success of producing and selling cameras. He believed in continual research and experimental work to improve their product, and continual conservative advertising to sell it. He believed in solid advertising, the conservative, infortnative, stimulating kind. No high-pressure stuff errer. He believed in telling the basic story over and over again. He was persistent. He never stopped-never slowed down.

Jo,r.n.r' lumbe*nanr proJohn Henry Kirby, ,":.; posed recently before the Southern Pine Association convention in New Orleans, that the Government of the United States issue fifty billions of dollars in bonds to be used for helping the millions of unemployed Americans to go back to the soil through the acquiring, improving, and developing of unused lands. He wants the Government to

develop and improve the land, sell it to these people on long terms and low rates of interest, and finance them in improving and working it.

what a magnificena "rl"r.*,o ln" ,"r-" movement such a bond issue would finance ! And what a foundation for substantial and permanent prosperity for this nation would

be thereby created ! One huge and useful result of this depression in any case, is going to be decentralization. People are going back to the farm for the next decade at an

even faster rate than they left it during the past two decades. Laborers without labor; mechanics without machines; barristers without briefs; preachers witho'ut pulpits; and physicians without patients, will go back to the soil, where they will manipulate the turgid udder of a cow, harvest. the succulent roasting ear, and make the industrious potato bug and the villainous boll weavil wish they had chosen other professions.

For the past generation the population has been centralizing in the cities, and forsaking the country. For the uext generation the decentralizing will be going on. Good roads, radio, electric power, and other former luxuries, now belong to the country as well as the city family. We now find that the factories, the homes, the theatres, the churches, the schools, are all in the wrong place. We've got to

scatter them, move them out, give them room to breathe-

and grow-and park.

* * * "f've been rea{ing your Vagabonds and your Fun Facts for years, and I'm curious to know where you get your stuff-what do you read?" is a query I got the other day from a national$ known advertising man. I told him that I range all the way from Bible to buncumbe; from bile to benevolence; from gall to Godliness; from history to hysteria; frorn the heights of ancient logic to the depths of modern slang. I draw the line on only two authors in history; Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. So far my literary appetite can gebut no farther.

Which reminds me that I have recently added another name to my literary (?) hydrophobia list (the list of those I am going to bite whenever I get hydrophobia). The name is Tunney. First name, Gene. One of our great national educational weeklies has been running a series of eulogies OF this Tunney, BY this same Tunney. I got into one of the series careless-like, and stayed to manrel. IIe was, as you probably know, the most unpopular of all the list of heavyweight fight champions. Deservedly so, for a rnultitude of reasons. This series of self-made eulogies adds

one more potent reason. I gather from his own.remarks

that he did not exactly make the world but that he has done practically everything of consequence that has been accomplished since. As a sample of simon-pure ego it establishes an all-time record. He has only one. competitor-likewise a contempo,rary. f do,n't kno's' which is the worst punishment-to READ Tunney, or to HEAR Walter Winchell. Both are just too*awful.

The other day William Gibbs McAdoo traveled from Los Angeles, California, to Houston, Texas, to t'deliver a rnessage". Rock ribbed Democracy turned out eh masse to hear

the "statesman". A multitude raised on the fiery oratory of the South, came to listen. And their guest drew from his pocket a great roll of manuscript, and proceeded to read in dull and monotonous tones, a dull and monotonous screed. Oh shades of Patrick Henry, of Clay, and of Webster ! Witness this spectacle !

April l, 1932

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

I've tried in vain to understand the viewpoint of a man who presents "a message" in such inglorious fashion. If his subject, or his particular presentation of same, is so completely uninteresting that he cannot even rernember it himself, how in the name of all that's good and ho,ly does he expect to impress anyone else with it? His selection of a subject, and his effort to discuss same, should qualify him as an expert in the matter; and then we find this qualified expert unable to remember what it was he had to say in the premises, and reading the text like a child from his first reader.

Speaking of the anti-rrlarlirrl one automo""-p"ign; bile firrn in the middle west reports that it recently sold eleven cars of the same make in a single day, and five of these cars were paid for in cash-WITH GOLD. That meney never came out of any bank.

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Which brings up the subject of banks as well as that of hoarding. There are a lot of people in this country who can't see where it will do any good to take the money they have been hoarding in their old sock and.put in a bank to be hoarded in an old vault. And they are saying soi very freely, and very generally. It's a case of lack of faith all around. The fellow with his cash in a sock would gladly take it down and stick it in a bank if he thought the bank had faith enough in other folks like himself to let them borrow and use it. But he feels that if the money is just to lie idle he might as well keep it at home where he can count it every day or so and make sure it's all there.

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Men who are friendly, who have many friends and who love their friends and sacrifice freely at the altar of friendship--'do NOT commit suicide. I have yet to know or lcrow of a single suicide who was that type. That sort of man, when he finds himself in a corner, finds so much human consolation, sympathy and helpfulness, that he never even considers the "short route". It is the other sort of .fellow, one who has denied himself or has been denied the sacrarnent of friendship, who finds the pill too bitter to swallow, and, when shadows lower, seeks escape through oblivion.

The pages of the daily papers are filled with suicides these depression days-but the man who loves his friends and is loved by them-is not on that list. :k:k*

These are times when the wise man sticks more closely to his friends and to his friendships, than ever before. It means everything to a man who is struggling with adverse conditions, to keep up his morale. And he keeps up his morale by keeping up his spirits. And nothing can do that like the contact with congenial humans. Stick close to those who enthuse you, who inspire you, who amuse and

entertain you ! Stick to people who automatically keep your spirrts high. And deliberately stay away from those whose company leaves you low-spirited or depressed. Dollars may be scarce but there's a lot of fun in the world. Dig some of it out every day, and keep it percolating through your system. Stick to your wholesome, smiling friends.

Make a business of making merry. It pays.

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Vagabond Editorials (Continued irom Page 7)

How lurnber journals fold up ! Once upon a time there were two lumber journals in Chicago, The Timberman, and The Northwestern Lumberman. They combined to make a weekly, The American Lumberman. In those days William Eddy Barns published The St. Louis Lumberman.

Barns died, and his paper was sold. The buyers changed it to "Lumber". They spent a fortune, but couldn't make it pay. Then it became Lumber Manufacturer & Dealer; then it moved to New York as The National Lumberman'

me in solemn tone that "any man who raises the question of direct returns from lumber journal advertising. is a traitor to the profession." Barns gave me his advice more lightheartedly, with that cheerful, familiar grin of his, when he said: "Dionne, why waste mo'ney on circulation when you can sell advertising without it?" Johnson believed in that latter theory, also, and told me so. It is a fact that Johnson operated his Lumber World Review and Barns his St. Louis Lumberman and both sold plenty of advertising at high prices with hardly enough circulation to mentiott.

THOSE men were SALESMEN.

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Speaking of advertising: the Santa Fe Railway has been running advertiserrients in the newspapers in Miami, Florida, telling about the glorious sunshine of California-and hor,r' to get there. "That's*talkin' to him, ain't it fat lady?"

The other day it was co'mbined with The American Lumberman, the latter taking it over. And The American Lumberman announces going to semi-monthly publication' instead of weekly. ,<

Nineteen years ago, on this very date, I started the publication of THE GULF COAST LUMBERMAN. I announced in my opening issue that I was going to' depart from all lumber journal precedent and sell advertising as a valuable commodity and an investment just as it is sold in consumer newspapers and magazines; and create a circulation and reader interest that would make that possible.

That was an absolutely new note in lumber journalism.

Because advertising in lumber journals had always been a sort of necessary evil that the industry felt compelled to assume, and advertising contracts were given to "support" the journals, a sort of back-scratching operation "for the good of the cause". * * * personalities in the lumber two outstanding were There journal field in those days, William Eddy Barns, of St. Louis, and Bolling Arthur Johnson, of Chicago. Barns was one of the most loveable and unforgetable characters this industry has known. Johnson likewise had a large national following. I will never forget the advice each of those two powerful personalities gave me at that time. Johnson took me seriously and ponderously into executive session to tell

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get things going.

:* * :r Some of Ripley's "Believe It Or Not's" are hard to be-

lieve; but the hardest one of all to credit is that a guy with a voice and a "map" like Ripley's would make a talking picture.

Speaking of salesman"nrn, *0" ,ive a thought to the'motion picture industry. What amazing possibilities for good surround that industry, and how successfully it dodges them ! Have you stopped to consider the enormous service to mankind the movies could have been rendering during the past two years of depressed business and consequently depressed mental conditions of the world; and the ab-

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solutely clean miss it has made of that opportunity? With mankind downcast, depressed, fear-ridden, mentally tortured, wouldn't you think there would be brains enough behind the motion picture industry to deliberately prepare and produce a veritable barrage of pictures of a character that would heal and help gloom-ridden mankind? Wouldn't you think there would be outpouring from their studios 6lms that would seek to take men's minds off their troubles for a tirne, and have a tendency to inspire, exhilirate, uplift, amuse, and gladden the human heart?

Wouldn't you think that drab, dispiriting, depressing, sordid, sob-creating themes of human suffering, of crime, murder, lawlessness, cruelty, degeneracy, and other plots that bring mental depression rather than cheer, would have been painstakingly and studiously avoided-boycotted in fact? Even though you realize the meager intelligence behind the motion picture industry, wouldn't you think they would have had that much foresight? Why, it would have been just plain good business, that would have rung loudly on their distressed cash-registers. And did they

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You know, if you are a picture fan, that they did exactly the opposite. From the time the depression started we have seen the movie theatres fairly overrun with pictures of gangsters and still rnore gangsters; we have seen rape, and arson, and murder, and beastly brutality, and sudden death, and sordidness of every shocking sort foist upon the distressed public mind. And when we didn't see outright violence high-lighted, we saw more sob-stuff and teag-pullers than ever before. Smart, these movie folks ! Instead of sending people out of their doors with a grin or a glow, they sent them out with a a"it a shudder. No brains !

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To no other industry did Providence lend the opportu-

nity of helping the public mind through these years of gloom that it ofrered the movies. And none proved so recreant to their stewardship. The movies promise much, but pay little; we must judge them, not by reading their professions, but by observing their practice. Perhaps the

motion picture industry should not be castigated for acts commensurate with its mentality; but the time has come when it should buy some brains; without which foundation no mighty superstructure can ever rise.

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National Forest Campgrounds Have Colorful Names V,isitors to the 1,252 campgrounds in the 18 national forests of California s'ill find that the Forest Service has preserved the names given these spots by the pioneers and the Forty-niners. Among many camp names suggestive of frontier days are Bacon Rind, Bear Heaven, Dog Town, Graveyard, Hell Creek, Hog Pen Springs, Hobo Hot Springs, Murderers Bar, Pie Canyon, Poison Meadow, Toad Wells and Whiskev Creek. Whv such names were applied to the beauty spots of the national forests where now the summer visitors find recreation and rest, is usually unknou'n. Once given, these designations have remained to record some forgotten incident in the early history of the State.

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15th Annual Red Cedar Shingle Congress The 15th annual cong'ress of the Red Cedar Shingle Bnreau was held at the Washington Athletic Club, Seattle, Wash., on Friday, March 17,1932. The congress was well attended, more than one hundred being present, and included a large percentage of the shingle manufactur,ers.

Dale Craft, Royal Shingle Company, Whites, \Mash., was re-elected chairman of the Advisory Board, and G. A. Bergstrom, Pacific Timber Company, Everett, Wash., was re-elected vice-chairman. Arthur Beven was re-elected secretary-manager.

The nominating committee through their chairman, H.

A. LaPlant, recommended that the board of trustees be

cut down to two representatives from each district, three from British Columbia, and one logger. At secretarymanager Beven's suggestion, a logger from British Columbia was added, making a total of 18 members for the 1932 Advisory Board. The new members nominated were: Everett District-P. H. Olwell, Jamison Lumber & Shingle Co., Everett, Wash.; G. A. Bergstrom, Pacific Timber Co., Everett, Wash.

King and Kitsap District-P. R. Smith, M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Co., Seattle, Wash.; Leo Black, Seattle Cedar Lumber & Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash.

Tacoma District-Chas. Ingram, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., Tacoma, 'Wash.; Wm. Reed, Reed Mill Company, Shelton, Wash.

Columbia River District-Tess Schwarz. Crescent

Shingle Co., Kelso, Wash.; H. J. Bratlie, Bratlie Bros.

Mill, Ridgefield, Wash Grays and Willapa Harbor District-L. G. Pauze, Polson Lumber & Shingle Co., Hoqu,iam, Wash.; W. H. Dole, Aloha Lumber Company, Aloha, Wash.

Skagit and Whatcom District-H. D. I-owery, Whatcom Falls Mill Co., Bellingham, Wash.; H. A. LaPlant, Skagit Mill Company, Lyman, Wash..

British Columbia-G. Kidd, Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co., Vancouver, B.C.; Chas. Plant, Bloedel, Stewart & Welch, Vancouver, B.C.; A. L. Hughes, Jos. Chew Shingle Co., Vancouver, B.C. Dale Craft, chairman of the Advisory Board, presided at the business sessions. J. E. Mackie, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, was scheduled to speak on -the program but due to an important meeting scheduled for that morning in Portland, was unable to be present.

Secretary-Manager Bevan read a very interesting paper

by Mr. Mackie. Following a talk by C. J. McGrath, Jamison Lumber & Shingle Co., Kansas City, Mo., there was an open discussion during which various questions were asked Mr. McGrath regarding the shingle situation in his territory.

Mr. Craft read a letter from A. J. (Gus) Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, Calif., in which Mr. Russell stated that the shingle manufacturers had outlined a very progressive campaign and that they should follow it through in its entirety-that it was very constructive and there was no doubt but that it rvould bring results.

At the afternoon session, Mr. Craft gave his annual report which covered briefly the progress made by the Bureau, the adoption of the Bureau of Standards CS 31-31, the application of it to their product and the simplification of the grades and packs. Secretary-Manager Bevan read

his report which was followed by the treasurer's report.

Secretary-Manager Bevan then discussed some of his plans and ideas for the future development of the Bureau in the

interests of the shingle industry.

A sample of inspection was then held, but the order of things was reversed in having the inspection made by a manufacturer instead of by an inspector. A few bundles of the No. 1-16 and 18 inch, No. 2-16 inch, and No. 3-16 inch shingles were inspected.

The following resolutions were adopted: . Whereas: The Division of Trade Standards of the Bureau of Standards has through the establishment of Commercial Standard CS 31-31 immeasurably assisted the Red Cedar Shingle manufacturers in the conduct of their business and thereby helping to re-establish the industry on a firmer, more substantial basis; therefore be it resolved, that the 15th Annual Red Cedar Shingle Congress here assembled express its gratitude and thanks to the Director of the Bureau of Standards for the good oftces of the Division of Trade Standards, and now be it further resolved, that a copy of this resolution be sent to the Secretary of Commerce and all senators and congressmen from the states of Wash,ington and Oregon.

Whereas: There is now before Congress a bill known as th6 Luce-Watson bill to establish a Federal Home Loan Discount Bank, said bill having been referred to the committee on Banking and Currency, and whereas, there is more and more need to stimulate home building as one of the means to lead industry out of its present condition, and whereas, such new home building will create employment not only in the building of homes but in the vast field of industry which furnish the varied materials used in such construction, therefore be it resolved, that the Red Cedar Shingle Industry in the States of Washington and Oregon urge the Congressional delegation from these states to use every effort and insist upon the Luce-'Watson bill be brought to action, and be it further resolved, ,that we. urge our Congressional delegation to actively support and vote for this measure.

Resolved: That the 15th Annual Red Cedar shingle cong'ress, here assembled, extends its appreciation and thanks to all retail lumbermen's associations and other organizations who through constructive suggestion and active cooperation have assisted so materially in establishing the program wh,ich the Red Cedar shingle industry has been striving so earnestly to put into effect, without this assistance so ungrudgingly given progress would have been impossible.

Resolved: That the Red Cedar shingle congress, here assembled, after listening r,vith intense interest to the com-

munication rceived from A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, Calif., that the congress express its appreciation for his tribute and thanks for the constructive advice contained, and further be it resolved, that the secretary be instructed to forward a copy of this resolution

to Mr. Russell.

Resolved: That the Red Cedar shingle congress here assembled express its thanks to the Washington Athletic Club for extending the courtesy of the club to all those

attending the Congress.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 1, 1932

/We Congrotulote you on inouguroting o plon which will develop BUSINESS FOR, THE RETAILER qs well qs for rhe monufqcturer." (one of hundreds of letters from deolers)

20'x80' Ccbh LS l48S'

Llving-room, built-in

kitchelette. bunks, ,.Sleops"

eigiht. Esti-

mated to be built for 0650.

80':19' Cabin lS S{89.

Poraols porch ln Oell.

fonle rtvle, [ving.

92'rl8' Cabin I,S 4592. 8imlrt6, olo looE crbin witb lrorch, irepla,ce, butlt-tr bunks. Estimeteal to be built for 9498.. Additior of bealr6m, titohen adl bathroom caJs bo bullt on l&td. Iaurico U4iBc, A.LA, architect,

tinr6aDolis.

ilresroom, kltcbon' lnr room. r'8leepr" ci:. Ertlmsteil to be

brtlt fot f650.

INCREASE YOUR, PROFITS WITH THESE PLANS AND BOOKLETS ABOUT SHEVLIN PINE ";1I I ete the deolers to sell the oll bored on stock lumberlurbe, ihey hovc on hond." moleriol you hove in your yord This is the keynote of Shevlin ond would like to move.

PLANS: Cobin ptonr or tisred on fhe coupon bclow will bc rupplicd forr 50 copios $2.5O

odvertising. To do this, we hove

Thousonds of consumers ore

BOOKTETS! ,,Los cobins Up ro Dorc,,-o

prepored cobin plons, booklets on log siding, folders on fencing . . . every one designed to interest

writing us for these Plons ond Folders. Be sure you hove ihem

16 poge booklet. Supplicd imprinted with deqlcr's

customers ond help you sell lumber. These Plons ond literoture oim to move lhe stock you

hove in your yord now-eoch Cobin Plon colls for rooftng, flooring, stripping, ship-lop os well os olher dimension lumber. Our Plons for "Fences of Shevlin Pine" ore

,

100 copics $5.0O

nomc ond oddrerc on fronl covcr ond envclopcs oll rccdy to moil.or give out: 50 copies $9.25

yourself. We will supply you with onecopyof eoch FREE. Additionol Quonlities for your trode we will supply ol the Nominol Figures

100

copio $18.00

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Quoted here: *Esiimolcd dl Northcrn Mississippi Volley prices. Ettimoler in olhcr locolities moy vory occording fo locolion, frcight rofes, lobor corts, clc.

50 copier $7.25 100 copies $12.75

Check the coupon below ond moil todoy.

SHEVTIN PINE SALES COMPANY

DISTRICT OFFICES

Erccutivc Ofiiccr, 900 Firri Nofionol{oo Line Bldg., Dept. Bt4

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April l, 1932

Says Exclusion o[ Russian Goods Los Angeles is Third in Building

Under Sec. 307 o[ Tariff Law

for February

is lmpracticable

States during the month of February, 1932, amounted to

Building permits in 583 cities and towns of the United

$45,3?6,719, according to official reports made by S. W. Straus & Co. This figure represents a 6 per cent decline from January, 1932, when the volume for these cities was $48,225,143, as compared rvith a normal seasonal expected

Washington, March. 16.-Secretary of the Treasury Mills informed a delegation of representatives of 84 patriotic and industrial associations and other groups and 38 members of Congress who called on him yesterday morning that Section 307 of the tariff law is virtually unenforceable against Russian products. This section forbids the admission of convict or forced labor made goods into the United

increase of 9.1 per cent. Permits issued during February, 1932, lell 59.4 per cent below the same month in 1931.

Los Angeles ranked third in building among the cities of the country for the month of February. San Francisco was sixth in the list. while Long Beach was fourteenth, and San Jose .twenty-fifth.

The twenty-five cities reporting the largest volume of

States.

As the Treasury Department has hitherto taken the ground that Section 307 was effective, it is expected that an effort will now be made to secure enactment of more effective legislation, such as the Kendall Bill. Moreover, Senator Oddie, who rvas spokesman of the delegation, has introduced in embargo bill that is somewhat different than the one he proposed last year, and lvill press for its adoption. The new bill forbids trade between the United States and any country whose political and economic organization deprives its people of complete individual liberty. ft was pointed out today that at present it is impossible to prove that particular shipments of Russian goods are convict made, although hundreds of thousands of convicts, to say nothing of forced labor, are reported to be engaged in Russian industry. The Kendall bill will shift the burden of proof and impose upon the importer the requirement of proving that his Russian goods are entitled to entry. This is essential because there are no governmental relations between the trvo countries and no facilities for American customs officials to obtain impartial information or independent testimony.

The delegation presented an address to Secretary Mills which took the position that the whole Russian industrial system rests on forced labor, "virtual slavery". The address disclaimed any intention of asking the Treasury Department to express any opinion as to whether it .rvas desirable to admit Russian goods, but simply as to whether Sec. 307 is enforceable. If not, the intention was expressed of amending it so that it would carry out the purpoie Congress had in mind when enacting it.

It is assumed that Secretary Mills will soon address a formal letter to Congress on the subject of the efficacy

permits for February, 1932, as compared with the same month in 1932, are as follows: Feb., 1932 Feb., l93l New York, N. Y. .$ 8,041,680 $26,612,657 Cincinnati, Ohio .

3,475.395 1,797,n5 Los Angeles, Calif.

1,958,26 3,670,782 Cleveland, Ohio r,934,175 2,416,975 Baltimore, Md. ..

1,25r,7n 2,757,M San Francisco, Calif.

1,181,876 l,7L2r57I g7,srg Cambridge, Mass. .

1,051,520 Boston, Mass. .

1,045,674 2,L93,ffi Ft. Wayne, Ind. .

1,036,513 343,554 Washington, D. C. l,oL',6n 5,159,315 Philadelphia, Pa. 1,003,29o r,343,455 Biloxi. Miss. .

935,475 5,400 Chicago, Ill. . .

799,m 7,977,W Long Beach, Calif.

657,39O 355,845 Austin. Texas 636,577 524,MI Memphis, Tenn.

St. Louis, Mo. ..

Detroit, Mich. .

Appleton, Wisc. .

Jacksonville, Fla. Denver. Colo. .

Houston, Texas Oakland, Calif. .

Yonkers, N. Y. San Jose, Calif. .

,TOTALS

of Sec. 307.

Individual Liberty Defined Senator Oddie's bill defines individual liberty as follows: "For the purposes of this Act individual liberty shall

mean the right of the citizen to be free from physical restraint of his person, to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all laivful ways: to live and work rvhere he will: to earn his livelihood bv anv lawful calling; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper, necessary, and essential to his carrying out to a successful conclusion the purposes above mentioned, and enjoyment upon terms of equality with all others in similar circumstances of the privilege of pursuing an ordinary calling or trade, and of acquiring, holding, and selling propertY.t'

No guess-work about this lumber conditioning!

249,3N 1,699,340

2,O21,offi

422,rOO 381,?35

124,570

D2,275

23,9n 509,500 1,327,767 1,000,035

DO,5g7 269,399 263,525

r,795,175

2&,655

177,655

....$n,&4,553

$65,713,660

R. ruLrEN MAKES TRIP TO LAS VEGAS

BY AIRPLANE B. R. Julien, Los Angeles, sales representative for the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., recently completed a business trip to Las Vegas, Nevada, traveling both ways by airplane. He made an inspection of the construction work on the Hoover Dam and reports that they' are making excellent progress on the work, being six months ahead of schedule. The Big Six Companies, Inc., builders of the project, are now employing over 3,000 men, and Boulder City rvhich has a present population of 5000 is a very

/ "

The bright, clean lumber that you got in that l63s sas-lurnlgg that didn't cup, bow, twist, or warp, was dried (99 chances out of a hundred) in MOORE'S REVERSIBLE

CROSS CIRCULATION KILNS

580,970

432,061 427,195

active community. he states.

Remember the tandem bicycle? Back in the old days when a dry kiln was a box with "steam pipes"?

Moore Dry Kiln Company Vorldts largeot manufactur€r8 of dry kilns and equipment

North Pordand, Ote. Jactronville, Florida

April l, 1932

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

National-American \Tholesalers Annual The convention program of the National-American

Wholesale Lumber Association, Atlantic City, April 13-14 is to be a practical affair. Wholesalers will talk about their problems and a feature u'ill be a discussion led by Robert C. Pepper, of the Rice & Lockwood Lumber Company, Springfield, Mass., under the heading "The Wholesaler Goes Modern". This will cover such ideas as the culminating of present trends towards more exclusive arrangel ments; a more active participation with remodelling programs; the possible establishment of definite brands rvhere stock has heretofore been marked promiscuously; the arvakening to the fallacy of volume without profit and being thoroughly alive to new inevitable developments.

This is sure to arouse much interest and provide opportunity for a lvide exchange of views.

With backhaul business from the Atlantic Seaboard now entering so extensively in wide range competition, there is a pronoun.ced interest in the effect of large volume coming from the West Coast through the Panama Canal and none are more keenly alive to this than the intercoastal shippers themselves. Mr. Wells Blanchard of the Blanchard Lumber Company, Boston, will bring out the highlights of this situation by developing a discussion on "The Intercoastal Battlefield". The many angles to be considered at this session alone merit the trip to Atlantic City.

Lumber Credits will be frankly discussed in a series of situations to be brought out by J. A. Currey, of the J. C. Turner Lumber Co.. New York. chairman of the Association's credit department committee. IJnforeseen changes and continued uncertainty account for the seriousness of the credit problem to the lumber wholesaler and with the help of other well known leaders, Mr. Currey's remarks will open a worth while discussion. This will be supplemented by some facts developed by William Lucas of the Eastern Millwork Cost Bureau, who has above completed a survey of last year's results of over l0O scattered retail lumber

\THEN YOU SELL SIRUCTURAT

Booth-Kelly Douglaa Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your customerg the quality of the stock you handle. Buildere quit guessing about what they're buying, and buy where ttrey know what they're getting.

Generd Sder Oficc: Eugcnc, Orc.

Millr: Wcndling, Ore., Springficld, Ore. CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVES

.

Southcrn Crlifonir E. J. Stutor & Soa

2050 E. 3tth Sto Lor An3clcr Ccntral Cllifornir Northcrn C,rlifornir

Gco. W. Robinron

Hitt & Morton, lac.

Dcnniron St. Wherf'

260 rfirilhoit Bldg.,

Stoclrton

OrLlead

"Red" Wood

yards.

A well known retailer is to give his views on what the wholesaler can do to help the retailer move more lumber.

Scys.'

Lumber Manufacturers Association, will cover trade promotion plans. This is in addition to ,committee reports on

value of any rftucture ir ertimatcd on its uscfulness baced on t{rc

costs, all of which will submit important recommendations' Secretary W. W. Schupner states that responses to date indciate a good attendance of members and delegations

preEent and thc future.

(In the final analyais the rcd

W. F. Shaw, Trade Extension Manager of the National

railroads and transportation, legislation and wholesalers'

There is a rpecific grade of Redwood for every use. Vhere durability ic the prime requisite an "all heart" grade of California Rcdwood ohould be insisted

from the manufacturing and retail branches. The Executive Committee expe,cts to make final annourrcement of the program at a later date.

upon.tt

Philippine Lumber Production and Invcntories Philippine sawmill production by 43 mills during December, 1931, amounted to 15,198,000 board feet, compared with 15,422,00O feet in November and 9,539,000 feet in December, 1930, states a report from Trade Commissioner E. D. Hester at Manila to the Lumber Division of the Department of Cornmerce. The Lumber Division understands that these statistics cover approximately 90 per cent of the total Philippine sawmill production.

Mill inventories in December 1931 amounted to 32,951,000 board feet compared with 31,208,000 feet in November and 38,486,000 feet in December 1930.

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LOS ANGELES

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Phone SUtter 6170

Lane Mortgage BIdg. Phone TRinity 2282

MILLS: FORT BRAGG' CALIFORNIA M e ntber C alil ornia Reilzaootl Association

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April l, 1932

MY FAVORITE STORIES Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less

No Service For Him Al Jolson's best story of the season is about a big movie man who built himself a big home in Hollywood, and when

it was all finished and furnished and they had moved in, took a friend up to the place to show it to him. It was marvelously built and decorated and furnished, a perfectly wonderful home, which ,the owner showed with much

pride.

But as he.quietly pushed open one door they came upon the lady of the house, sitting on the lap of a gentleman.

They were so interested in each other that the opening of the door did not rouse'them, and the house o*tet quietly closed the door again, took his guest by the arm, and walked away.

"Let's go down to the kitchen, and make some coffee,', said the host to his visitor.

"But what about that guy in there with your wife in his lap?" inquired the visitor.

"Oh, to Hell with him !" replied the husband. ..Let him make his own coffee".

Announce Completion of Licensed Change in "Th. Lumber Martcet" Contractors Register Publication Schedule

' Carlos W. Huntington, Registrar of Contractors, Sacra-

mento, announces completion of the first official directory of licensed contractors, The volume is priced at $3.50, being printed at cost by the State Printer.

The compilation is set alphabetically and geographically and. so arranged that every contractor and-evJry-line of business, allied with the construction industry, may find easy access to inforrnation most vital to the 23,600 liiensed contractors, their ind.ustry, the lar,v and its modus operandi.

It is the .plan. of the State to issue a complete Licensed ^ Contractors register- twice a year, about eprit t and September 1. As the fiscal year of the department ends o^n June 30 the nerv listings will be compiled during July and August so as to make available for thi trade anolher directory on or about September 1. This action has been taken pf ttt" State in conformance with the provisions of the licensed Contractors act, calling for such expenditnre and sale at cost of this big volume.

SANTA BARBARA LUMBERMAN VISITS SAN FRANCISCO Lucien A. Ganahl, of the Ganahl Lumber Co., Santa Barbara, recently spent a ferv days in the San Francisco

Bav district.

Washington, March 25.-"The Lumber Market". statistical and trade data digest of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, will become a quarterly instead of a monthly publiiation. This ,change in ichedull is regretted, but wa,s found expedient under existing conditioni. Eoi more- than a year past "The Lumber Market" has epitomized and published information and interpretation relating to the lumber market received from 2,000 correspondentsl These reporters are manufactur6rs' salesmen. -retailers. bankers-and building-loan officers, and others having firsi hand information con.cerning lumber demand.

The next regular issue of "The Lumber Market,, will be published June 15. "An effort witl be made", states a notice to contributors, "not to destroy the comparability of the statistics made possible through-the fine cobperatioir of our many. correspondents." Future issues, lilie those of the past, will give the customary reports on the various market factors as well as a forecatt of the future.

BOX MANUFACTURERS HOLD ANNUAL AT

CHICAGO The 33rd annual rneeting of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers rvill .be held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, April 14 and 15.

l5

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 1, 1932

East B.y Hoo Hoo Club

H".r, Pro[. Fritz

,,/ v

Professor Emanuel Fritz, associate professor of Forestry

at the University of California, Berkeley, held the close

attention of the members of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 for an hour and a quarter with a talk on "How Wood Looks Under the Micros,cope", at the regular monthly dinner meeting of the club held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, March 14.

The speaker who is one of the best known members o{ the club, prefaced his talk with a brief description of the Division of Forestry at the University of California, which has 130 students, eight professors, and gives 17 or 18 different courses. These 'courses include one general course and others in silvi.culture, fire protection, logging, milling. wood technology, the effect of water on wood, etc.

Professor Fritz stated that there are more than 100 species of soft and hardwoods of commercial importance grown in the United States. He illustrated his talk vritb drawings and photographs showing the cellular structure of many species of wood magnified up to 2500 times. The professor concluded with an invitation to the lumbermen to submit their technical problems to the university.

President Larue \Moods,on, who presided, read letters from Senators Hiram Johnson and Samuel Shortridge, acknowledging receipt of the club's letter urging passage of the Luce-Watson bill, which proposes the formation of Federal Home Loan Discount Banks. The letters stated that the bill now in committee will soon be reoorted to the Senate.

Clem Fraser, Loop Lumber & Mill Co., Alameda, in discussion of the recent reduction of Hoo Hoo dues to $5.00 a

year, referred to the recommendation submitted to Hoo Hoo Headquarters a year ago by the'club that Hoo Hoo dues should be $5.00 a year, and should be colle'cted by the clubs. which would send a per capita tax to headquarters.

He suggested that Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 should again make this recommendation, as the only logical solution is to have one moderate subscription cover dues to both International Hoo Hoo and the local clubs. The matter was referred to the committee which handled it a year ago and is still in existence.

Gordon D. Pierce, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, was chairman of the day.

Dr. Leo McMahon entertained the gathering with Italian dialect stories, and "Tommy" Tomlinson played piano selections in his best style at intervals during dinner.

President Woodson made an earnest appeal for monthly contributions for a sick and destitute member. A number of those present signed up to ,contribute and a committee consisting of H. Sewall Morton and C. L Gilbert was appointed to solicit further subscriptions.

Do Tou Know That Ve can furnish Redwood Piling' California State Highway Specifications?

Also

Ve sell it to lumber yards at prices which enable tfiem to meet competition.

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you during the spring roof buying season.

Broadcast the news in your territory! Hundreds of your prospects have been waiting for months to roof or re-roof-tell them to ACT

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West Coast Inventories Show

Service Clubs Hear Tallcs bv Former Service Man

Decline Seattle, Wash., March ll.-Final audits of stocks of lumber on hand at all mills-both large and small-in the Douglas fir region by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, disclosed a reduction of the lumber estimated to be in pile at January I, 1932 of 190 million board fdet or a shrinkage of 11.31 per cent from the figure accepted at the year-end by the industry and used by the Lumber Survey Committee' of the Timber Conseivation Board. Thii amount is the equivalent of three weeks' production at the present rate of operation by the industry and places the mills manufacturing Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, Western red cedar and Sitka spruce lumber in a much stronger position ,in relation to their markets.

One of the outstanding problems of the West Coast lumber industry throughout the depression has been to move . its stocks into consumption at a rate which would exceed the volume of production. Following the advice of the Timber Conservation Board last July and again in November, to reduce sawmill stocks, in line with probable low consumption, a majority of the manufacturers in the Douglas fir region have arranged their operating schedules to reduce the volume of lumber on hand regularly. For eighteen consecutive weeks, or since late in November, the volume of lumber shipped has exceeded the total cut, in this region, and inventories as a result, have declined steadily.

Individual mill stocks are badly broken and a large part of the lumber in pilc norv is not suited to the usual run of orders this vear and last. With retail stocks throughout the country extremely low, buying difficulties may be expected if the spring brings the usual spurt in demand.

Mill prices are lower than at any time since 1916 and the industry is operating at from 22 to 23 per cent of capacity. During.the latest week 177 units were reported as down and 145 operating, rvith those running mostly on short schedules. A canvass of the industry in Oregon and Washington shows that over 8O per cent of the tbtal capacity will not exceed a monthly production at the rate of thirty-six hours per week, or three-quarters of one regular shift, between now and July l,1932.

Will Report Government Building Projects to Local Lumber Groups Washington, March 25.-In a letter addressed to secretaries of retail lumber associations and other interested persons the National Lumber Manufacturers Association has offered to report regularly to local lumbermen information 'concerning projected government buildings and construction in their towns or localities. As explained by Trade Extension manager W. F. Shaw, the purpose df these _reports is to enable local groups to strive foi proper use of lumber in such projects.

Not infrequently, the letter states, it is readily possible to secure the assent of the archite,ct to the use o{ wood or

April I, 1932

Ben C. Phillips, sales representative of the Nicolai Door Sales Co., San Franciscq is in demand,as a speaker before various service clubs and other organizations in this territorv. On March 3, he talked to the members of the Rotary Club of Paso Robles at the inviiation of Harold Goodale, of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co. On March 11 he spoke at a meeting in the Masonic Temple, Martinez, on the invitation of C. E. Brown, of the Diamond Match Co. He talked to the American Legion Post of Marin County in Mill Vallev, March 14, at the request of Roy Ibach, of the Mill Valley Lumber Co. Rotarian W. J. Smith, of Smith's Planing Mill, Sebastopol, asked him to talk to Sebastopol Rotary Club, March 18, and on March 22 he was the principal speaker at the meeting of the Lion's Club at Napa, invited by Mr. Allen, of the Napa Lumber Co. Mr. Phillips was Lieutenant, senior grade, in the Navy during the World War, and just after the war was in command of one of the Navy mine sweepers engaged in removing mines from the North Sea. In his talks he gives a vivid des,cription of this hazardous work, and this has proved so interesting that he has received many requests to speak at ,club meetings in Northern California towns and cities.

Soltwood lmports During January According to figures supplied by the Section of Customs Statistics of the Department of Com,merce to the Lumber Division, softwood imports into the United States by species during January 1932 were as follows: Softwood sawed boards, planks, deals and sawed timber, dutiable; in board feet, from Canada: fir 3,828,000; hemlock 125,000; spruce 4,783,0ffi1, pine 2,366,000; from Soviet Russia in Europe: of spruce 2,229,W; from Germany: of spruce 282,ffi; fiom Yugoslavia: of spruce 19,000; from Mexico: of pine 60,000. There were no transactions in larch under this class. Total imports.of this class from Canada were 11,102,000 board feet.

Softwood boards, planks and deals in the rough or planed and dressed on one side, free of duty, in board feet, from Canada: fir 4,506,000; hemlock 341,000; spruce 7,M,000; and pine 3,691,000. There were no transactions in larch under this class. Total imports of this class were 15,892,000 board feet, all from Canada.

Other kinds of softwood sawed boards, planks, deals, and sawed timber excepting that of fir, hemlock, spruce, pine and larch, free of duty, in board feet, from Canada: 1,227,A0O; from Trinidad 3,000.

Total January 1932 imports of softwood sawn and dressed lumber and timber from Canada were 28,311,000 board feet u'hile in January 1931 they amounted to 46,504,000 and for the year 1931 amounted to 671,589,000 feet. Decemper 1931 softwood imports from Canada mounted to 36,754,ffi.

at least to inclusion of provisions for alternate spe,cifi,cations i!. wood, if he is approached before designs are ,completed.

Ninety per cent of the battle is then rvon and it is not necessarry to fight against odds all the way to Washington. tThis proposed additional trade extension activity ls now NEW RETAIL LUMBER YARD only in the sense that it has never before been done on a ,VI general scale. In several 'communities where lumbermen are - William Giles is opening a retail lumber yard at Lennox, organized with a view to carrying on local promotional' Calif., which he will operate under the name of the Giles work of this character the National Association has been of Lumber Company. Mr. Giles, the owner of the new firm, considerable assistance both in the furnishing of information has been connected with the lumber business in Lennox and in participating in the fight for far use of lumber. for the past several years.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Dignifred English When 1nu but/d see that your h ohe refl ects a t t ra c t -

lveness wth room arhanqement eompact artd conven/eflt.

These detat/s are essenfual tfyou are to recerue fu// ua/ue frr the money you nve-s(.

7he e/an"s'are a//so se/f

Ltvr*c Foom 22:O' r l4-Q' ' bro Poorl t'l 0" tz-o"'

ex,o/anatory there s /ttt/e /Cft to de.Fcrtbe. A// that

tttsneeessary for vou to do isrtudv the denera-/ atranaem en t.-th en"th e de t a ils 5f each room, to determtne how you can af;ply them toyour own requlrements-

"frooe.Pr-R*.N0. esse

Plans for this attractive home can be furnished by the

Lumbermen's Service Association Fay Building, Los Angeles

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April l, 1932

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Grade-Marked Lumber Meets Needs

of Purchasing Agents

By Theodore L. Stearns Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles; Colif.

Address delivered lefore the Purchasing Agents' Association of Los Anseles, March 10,1932 In the three states of Washington, Oregon and Califor- gone further to assist the buyers of Douglas fir and has nia and the Province of British Columbia there is a stand idopted the system of grade-marking, which is probably of timber totaling over one trillion board feet. At the the most impoitant step towards bringing about the intellipresent rate of cutting this timber supply will last over 100 gent use of i product ever undertaken by an industry. Theyyears. However, in view of the fact that new timber grows naturally after land has been logged and will attain a sufficient size for commer'cial production within 60 years, it can safely be said that the West Coast is America's permanent lumber supply.

The closeness of this great supply of timber resource is an advantage which Southern California will continue to profit from in the upbuilding of its ,cities and industries, probably to an even greater degree in the future.

California consumed 25 per'cent of the lumber produced on the West Coast. In 1929 when produ,ction in Oregon and Washington totaled ten billion feet, California shipped in by rail and water, two and a half billion feet' In spite of the decline in present volume the ratio shipped to California remains the same. Douglas fir lumber received at Los Angeles harbor during 1931 totaled 513,248,000 feet which iJ10 per cent of the total production of the Douglas fir region of that year. Approximately 15 per cent is shipped in by rail to points in the state and by water to San Francisco bay region. The amount coming into Los Angeles harbor is now down to 20 million feet a month as compared to over ,10,000,000 feet a month last year and over 80,000,000 feet a month during normal times. ' A market which consumes 25 per'cent of the production of such a large industry as the West Coast lumber industry should be the best informed of all markets as to the grades and uses of this Douglas fir lumber. We are fortunate in having a well established manufacturers' association, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, to regulate the grade standards and to furnish the buyer with such complete information as contained in their Numbel9 grading iules book for use in the selection of grades of Douglas fir lumber. The West Coast Lumbermen's Association has

have made certain of the practicability of grade-marking of lumber in this market by setting up a Grades Inspection department in Los Angeles and supervising, at cost' the grading and marking of lumber for any dealer.

- The grade-marking of lumber will put a stop to confusion in iegard to lumber grades and remove any uncertainty regarding grade substitution. It is sponsored by all pro-

gressive producers and distributors and, naturally., is deiired by ,ionsumers, since conscientous grade-marking will guaraniee to the consumer that he is getting the kind and grades for which he pays.

- That grade-marked lirmber has been well received in Los Anglles is shown by the fact that seven leading loan and moitgage companies now require grade-marked lumber in new constru,ition loaned on by them. School buildings, county and city work has taken advantage of th-e protection of grade-marked lumber and architects- and pri iate industrial buyers as well as many public utilities now require manufacturers' association grade-marks on lumber delivered on their work.

As purchasing agents you should , also remember that lvhen asking for bids on grade-marked lumber you are placing dealers on a fair competitive basis, because it would not be possible to secure an order and then without detection substitute one grade for another' Grade-marked lumber does not result in any interference with legitimate competition. The main incentive {or grad_e-marking must come irom the consumers demanding grade-marked lumber for their own protection. A purchase order for Douglas fir srade-mark-ed lumber should read: To be West Coast Lum6ermen's Association grade-marked". or "Must be grademarked in accordance with the Standard Grading and Dressing Rules No. 9 of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association".

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spruce

- cedar sugar pine.\U. E. COOPER LUMBER CO. LOS ANGELES

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Urge Use of Millwork Products in Federal BuiHing Projects The following enumerates Federal Building projects, mostly Post Offices, authorized for California.- They involve an expenditure of nearly $m,000,000.00 mainly for construction, u'ith a l,imited part only designated for the purchase of sites. The expenditure is well distributed

throughout the State LocatTon Amount Alameda .. .... ..$ 75,W Berkeley 190,000 Beverly Hills ;. . . 300,000

Calexico El Centro Glendale

73,000 l4O.00O

455.000

Long Beach .....

570,000 Los Angeles .. ... 5,000,000 to

Marysville IVlerced Modesto Monterey Napa .

Oroville Palo Alto

7,000,000 150,000

Location Amount Petaluma . . .... .$ 165,000 Porterville 150,000 Redlands 170,000 Sacramento 1.300.000 San Ysidro San San

San Pedro Stockton

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105,000

455,000

775,m 575,000

695,000

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195,000 San Francisco.... 3,000,000 180,000 San Francisco.... 3,050,000 1CI,000 Tecate 59,500 145,000 Valleio 185,000 210.000 Visalia 150,000 Watsonville.....

20,000 Ventura 200,000 There projects are in various stages; some are well advanced, others are rvaiting for final appropriation, although construction in all cases has been autliorized.

The Milhvork Institute of California, in cooperation with the Nationa! Lumber Manufacturers Associafion and others, has been following these projects for some months for the purpose of pre-luding -suih specifications that rvould eliminate millwork products. The Treasury Department in Washington, has been provided with full information on the subject, both from the vier,r'point of relative me-rits of products and of interests of the woodworking industries. Private architects to rvhom jobs have beei

assigned have also been contacted.

Providecl wood is specified for in the plans for frames, sa.sh, doors, interior trim, etc., a large amount of money

runagEn SASH & DOORS MILL WORK BUILDING MATERIALS

BOAT STOC K AVAILABLE

rvill be expended for millwork products.

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Fred Burgers Joins Sales Staff o[ Santa Cruz Lumber Co. Fred W. Burgers is now associated with the Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, for rvhich concern he will cover the Coast Counties territory and, the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys from Fresno to Sacramento.

Except for a very short period Mr. Burgers has been in the business of selling Redwood since 1893, when he entered the employ of The Pacific l-umber Co. He remained with Pacific -toi tZ years, when he entered the retail business for a time. For the past ten years he was with the Union Lumber _Company. He is one of the most popular men in the lumber game and has a host of friends-arlong the retailers of Northern California.

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Lee_J. Weaver, and his son, Lee J. Weaver, jr.. have opened a lumber yard at 6422 Compton Ave., Los Angeles, y'he-re they w,ill _handle general line of building mate;ials: Both are well known to the lumber trade in the Los Angeles district u'here they formerly rvere engaged in the

retail lumber business.

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HONEY FROM HYMETTUS Some boys from Athens met some girls one day on Mt.

Ilymettus, And said, "Tho strangers, we should love to love you if you'll let us; We've got some bread and cheese and wine, some honey from Iilymettus, We'll throw an old-time party if you'll aid us and abet us.

And there's one thing we'll guarantee; we'll make yo'u glad you met us.

What's that you say? You have your doubts?

Say ! How much will you bet us?

The girls replied: "Begone young men! Endeavor to forget us !

Eschew your wild and wicked ways ! You'll never, never

'get' us.

For what you plan is wrong, besides, see there on Lykabettos

A storm-cloud stands; we'd spoil our frocks; the rain would surely wet us.

And anyhow, although we're wild to have you love and Pet us-

This horrid war spoils everything let us".

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Lysistrata won't

(Written in fun by Thomas Dreier.)

EVERYBODY'S BOAT Chief Seattle was once building a dug-out canoe. A white "Kabitzer" came along and said, "Chief, I think she's too wide for her length". So the chief narrowed it down.

Another buttinski came along and said, "Chief, the stern's too full". So he cut down the stern. A third helpful pest suggested, "She's a little too deep, chief". So the chie{ hacked away some more. Finally the canoe was finished, but when the chief launched it-it capsized.

Whereupon the chief hauled it back on the beach, found another log and began again. Once again a stranger came along and said, "Chief, I think she'3 too narrow for her length". The chief worked on, paying the man little attention. Then, stopping for a moment, he pointed to the canoe that wouldn't foat and said, "That's everybody's boat over there". Grimly resuming work, he mumbled, "This will be Indian's boat".

MODERN JUSTTCE Visitor in Jail: "What terrible crime has this man com-

mitted?"

Warden: "He didn't commit any crime. He was going down the street a few days ago and happened to see one man shoot another and he's held as a material witness".

Visitor: "And where is the man who committed the murder?"

Warden: t'Oh, he's out on bail".

April 1, 1932

MEAN WHAT YOU SAY Talk is never cheap. If you don't believe it, hire a lawyer.

Take an ass. While he brays he eats no hay, and this costs him his flesh. Take slander. It has cost many a rnan a snug sum and many others their reputation.

Give the average widow enough hotel note paper and she will write herself out of a good engagernent.

The only cheap talker'is the man with little to say, for he soo.n gives himself away.

Man has one tongue and two ears, which is proof that he was made to listen as long as he talks.

The tongue of a blow-hard has a dull razor licked a mile. It cuts and skins but never renders a real service.

What this world wants today is pluggers, not parrots; workers, not wranglers. The old windjammer is out of date.

It's the twin screw tug that comes into harbor wittr the tow.

If you have a red-hot member of your organization, hand him this article, marked, and tell him to pickle his tongue and put his hands to work Silent Partner.

-The

PAYING FOR AN HONEST RECOMMEND "Cap'n, Ah's fixin' to change jobs, and Ah wants.to know kin you gimme a recommendation fo' bein' honest?" asked the waiter of one of the restaurant patrons.

"I think so, Sam", ,replied the gentleman; "you've waited on me a long time, and I feel safe in recommending

you".

"Thank you, Suh," replied the waiter, gratefully; "an'

to show you Ah appreciates you' he'p Ah'll give you a shawt check fo' you' lunch dis noon".

HERE'S AN IDEA The rain it pouredThe sea it roaredThe sky was draped in black; The old ship rolledShe pitched and bowledAnd lost her charted track.

"Oh, dear! Oh, dear!

Sir will it clear?"

Loud wailed a dame o,n deckAs they heaved the lead, The skipper said"It always has, by Heck!"

THAT'S NEWS t'I've Reporter: got a perfect news story".

City Editor: "The man bit the dog, f suppose?"

Reporter: "No. The bull threw the Congressman".

April l, 1932

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Hoo Hoo Reduces Dues---Starts Drive for New Members

HEADQUARTERS

Hoo-Hoo International has reduced its dues to $5 a vear and cancelled all insurance, in a determined move io "roor" the aggressive spirit of the lumber industry and to recruit

for Oregon Pine and Philippine

an army of 25,00O men to go out on the "firing line" for

lumber, it is announced in a letter by B. F. Springer, Snark of the Ijniverse.

Reduction of the dues from $9.99 to $5 a year and cancellation of the insurance on lVlarch 9, were iuthorized by the Supreme Nine, in the belief that the lower dues rate is necessary, under the new conditions facing the industry, to the attainment of a large enrollment for the new program.

At the same time, the cost to new members enrolling in the Order was reduced to a flat charge of $9.99, which- includes dues to September 9, following date of initiation.

The membership fee was on a sliding siale pr,eviously. The

DOORS and

FIR PANELS Including 3-Ply /a" Wallboard

fee for reinstatemnt also has been reduced from $10'to

Selling Dealer Trade

$7.50, rvhich includes dues to September 9 following date

of reinstatement. All members who paid $9.99 duis for the current year, ending September 9, will receive a credit memorandurn for $2.50, which may be applied as part payment of 1933 dues. This refund is given in lieu of the ioirtinuation of the insurance for the six months from March

9 to September 9.

The object of the Supreme Nine in cancelling the insurance, according to Snark Springer, rl'as to eliminate all. lrnnec€ssary features that added to the cost of membership and place the Order in a position of popular appeal to lumbermen. The real work of Hoo-Hoo, tie said,-ii to encourage the spirit of friendship and confidence among lumbermen, and to unite them for effective action along luch lines as education and wood promotion.

"We are confident that every loyal lumberman, realizing the urgent need for team work in the industry, will endorsi . our action. to place Hoo-Hoo in a position to give maximum service to the industry," the Snark said. r.Hoo-Hoo belongs to us-1o the lumbermen. It isn't a private busines.s.operated for profit, but an institution exilting of, for and by men who have a job or an investment at -stake in the lumber industry. All the money paid into the treasu.ry i-n the_ form of- dues goes _for edu&tional and pro*otional rvork that helps our-business and therefore helps us.

It is our Order-let's get behind it strong.,,

EXCLUSIVELY N ICOLAI DOOR SALES CO. OF CALIFORNIA Office and Warehouse go45i rgth St., San Francieco

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\|THOLESALE LUMBER-!1L9'"

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California Sales Agents

"Blu. BooJ<" Business Statistics Chicago, March 5.-Business troubles reported to the Lumbermen's "Blue Book" of Chicago for ihe month of Febr_uary were about on a par with difficulties reported for the same month in 1931 and do not match the inordinate increases noted in January comparisons. In tabulated form

Polson Lumber & Shingle Co. Floquiam, Vash.

Anderson & Middleton Lumber Co. Aberdeen, Wash.

they read.

_1932-2.2_Bankruptcies, 20 Receivers, 2 Assignments, 6 Creditors' Committees Appointed, 5 Extensions, 1 Composition Settlement. _1931-23 Bankruptcies, 21 Receivers, 2 Assignments, 7 Creditors' Committees Appointed, 2 Extensions.

There was a drop of 2l per cent in requests for special c-redit reports, though it is observed this may have- been due to large credit departments delaying annual revision of 'credit files.

Claims placed for collection showed an increase of 52 per cent, but the average amount of claims dropped 20 per cent under the average a year ago. In January the increased claims reached 100 per cent ind the iverage sum exceeded January 1931 by 50 per cent.

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Prouty Lumber & Box Company Varrenton, Oregon

Operating Steamers \V'. R. Chamberlin, Jr. Cricket

LOS ANGELES 56t Chmber of

Cmere

Bldg.

WEstmore 085 PORTLAND, OREG.

Alberr Dock No. 3

Stanwood . Phyllis - Barbara C. Dan F. Ffadon

HEAD OFFICE

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April 1, 1932

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South ern California Lumbermen

Play Golf Harry Graham Wins Low Gross Prize Ed. Seward Low Net Winner

Harry Graham, H. A. Graham Lttmber Co., Long Beach, turned in the low gross score at the Southern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament, held at the Hollywood Country Club on Friday afternoon, March 18, and was awarded "The Franl< Burnaby Cup". Ed. Seward, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was the rvinner of the lolr' net prize, "The California Lumber Merchant Cup".

As this was the second time that they had won these respective cups, they rvere arvarded the permanent possession of the trophies.

The 'ivinners of the Flight Events were as follows: First Flight-first prize, Scott Boyd, Boyd Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara; second prize, Roy Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles. Second Flight-first prize, I-ee Noack, California Cabinet Co., Cttlver City; second prize, D. E. Liggett, Liggett Lumber Co., Santa Ar.ra. Third Flight-first prize, E. Steffensen, Orange County Lumbermen's Club, Santa Ana; second prize, Bill Chantland, Chas.

R. McCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles. Fourth F-light prize, W. R. Wickersham, Chas. R. McCormick

Lumber Co., Los Angeles; second prize, Ted Wright, Washington Veneer Co., Los Angeles.

Dinner was served in the club house at 6:3O P.M. and was well attended. Tack Thomas. Coos Bav Lumber Co..

Los Angeles, acted a-s master of ceremonies- and presented the prizes to the various rvinners. The tournament was sponsored by the Los Angeles IIoo Hoo Club. The arrangements committee included; Harry V. Hanson, chairman, Don Philips, Kenneth Smith and Ed. Martin.

The following played in the tournament: J. Frudden, C. R. Boyer, C. B. Lyons, D. E. Liggett, Bob Holden, H, A. Graham, Gus lloover, E. Steffensen, A. J. Kelly, Bill Vanderwood, Herb Steibel, Francis Boyd, Scott Boyd, A. Ingvoldstad, C. C. Juster, Gene DeArmond, Al Hollivet, Al Koehl, J. H. Prentice, John Olson, J. F. Gehring, Geo. Lounsberry, W. B. Wickersham, Ross Blanchard, Harve;* Bowles, Jack Thomas, Bill Chantland, J. E. Martin, W. A. Godshall, Earl Jameson, V. Cowan, Ted Wright, Lee Noack, Paul Hill, Earl Heber, Roy Stanton, Dick Loveday, D. McCallum, M. B. Jordan, D. Olson, E. E. Seward.

/ PURCHASES YARD AT LOS ANGELES

NEW MANAGER AT REDLANDS YARD R. W. Simpson has been appointed manager of the Hammond Lumber Company yard at Redlands, Calif. Mr. Simpson was formerly rvith the E. K. Woocl Lumber Com-

-first

E. P. Clark has purchased the Dolan Lumber Co. yard at 83@ South Vermont Ave., Los Angeles. Mr. Clark has been connected with the company for the past several years as manager of the yard.

TOM DANT RETURNS FROM PORTLAND TRIP Tom Dant, Los Angeles, Southern California representative of Dant & Russell (Inc.), has returned from a business trip to the Northrvest where he visited the company's offices at Portland, Ore. z@a d

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WOODLAND LUMBER CO. REMODELING OFFICE The Woodland Lumber Company, Woodland, Calif., is remodeling their oflice and arranging for a display of hardware, paints and building specialties. Joe Holmes is manager of the companl'.

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April i, 1932

New Company Organi zed to

Coronado Beach to Have New

Handle Mexican Hardwoods

Pleasure Pier

The X{exi'can Hardwoods Company has recently beeu

Coronado Beach, Calif., March ZS.-This resort. which for years has vied with ocean resorts of the east and west coas.t despite its lack of a first class pleasure pier, is about to fill this lack in its portfolio of attra,ctions. -Construction is planned of a creosoted timber structure which will extend one thousand feet out into deep water. In addition to fishing and swimming, and strolling accommodations for th.ose who love to get out above the ocean, the new pier will serve as a wharf for pleasure craft and particularly for the large Navy cornplement whose families make iheir homes here while their vessels are in the harbor. Selection of creosoted timber was made, it has been learned by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, after an extensive investigation by Building Inspector C. B. pickett, rvho has promised the city that wi[h suih material they can expect their pier to withstand the characteristic oceari-side elements for approximately forty years with maintenance requirements reduced to minor repairs and occasional reconditioning of piling.

in-corporated under the larvs of New York for the purpose of shipping logs cut on its extensive holdings in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. The property which hal been acquired by purchase is known as Chimalapa and is located at the I'read waters of the Coatzacoal.cos River which flows into

the Gulf at Puerto Mexico.

The'company owns and operates a saw mill in Santa Lucrecia, a town located in the state of Yera Cruz at the junction of the Jaltepec River and the Tehuantepec Railroad from which point shipments are made by rail to Mexico City. The logs are transported from the property by river to Puerto Mexico for shipment by steamers t,o Nerv C)rleans and New York.

Mr. W. H. Emery, who is president of the Chi'cago Rarvhide Manufacturing Company, is president also of the Mexi,can Hardwoods Company, Inc. W. H. Corbin is vicepresident and general manager of operations with offices in Chivela, Mexico, and Mr. S. E. Ullmann, Chicago, is treasurer. The 'company maintains a sales office in the Grand Central Terminal, New York City, which is in charge of C. D. Mell, who is general sales manager and also a director of the company.

lnstall New Dry Kilns The McGoldrick Lumber Company, prominent manufacturers of Ponderosa and Idaho white pine of Spokane, Washington, have recently completed the installation of three additional Moore Reversible Cross Circulation kilns. equipped with the latest Moore development, "Variable Speed Circulation." The McGoldrick company installecl six Moore kilns several months ago, and the additional installation was made to take ,care of the increased demancl for their high-quality kiln dried stock.

The Variable Speed Circulation feature on these ner,v kilns enables their kiln operator, Mr. George Erley, to carrl' any rate or speed of circulation desired, as conditions demand. The usual procedure is to ,carry a very fast circulation during the first stage of drying and until the lumber has reached fibre saturation point and then slow it down.

The trade is demanding a greater variety of items in their orders and to better take care of this demand, one of the new kilns rvas built specially to tike care of special orders.

Moore Dry Kiln Company of North Portland, Oregon, installed the kiln equipment whi'ch is of the latest and most modern type and which also'features 'complete electrical control of the drying elements.

The Planer Saw Reduction of production costs, elimination of waste and more efficient operation of saws are problems which are r.row being studied b1' rvoodworking plants. Competition to a considerable extent has been recognized as a big factor in reducing profits, especially in shops which have taken time to make a careful survey of overhead exPenses.

The planer salv operates successfully on either hard or soft woods, stands fast hand feeds, either in ripping or cross-cutting. On mi-

tering jobs. the manu-

facturers report, it gives a very smooth cut, making it possible to glue joints without further operation. Elimination of the planing operation should of great service to the rvoodworking industry, they state.

The planer saw is made from 6 to 24 inches in diameter and is manufacturecl by the Simonds Saw & Steel Co., of Fitchburg, Mass.

M. E. MOOREHEAD PROMOTED TO HEAD OFFICE Nf. E. l\{oorehead, for the past five years manager of the United Lumber Yard (Inc.) yard at Hughson, has been promoted to a position in the head office at Modesto, Calif. A. G. Karnes, who has been connected with the Unitecl Lumber Yards for the past several years, rvill succeed Mr. Moorehead as manag'er of their Hughson yard.

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OPENS NEW RETAIL YARD The Poinsetta l-umber Company announces the ooening of a yard at Ventura, Calif., where they r'vill carry a general line of building materials. E. E. (Ro1') Smith, formerll' connected rvith the letail lrrmber bttsiness in \/entura, rvill manag'e the yard.

OREGON MANUFACTURER VISITS S. F. E. D. Kingsley, president of the West Oregon Lumber C,o., Linnton, recently spent a few days in San Francisco, rvhere he made his headquarters at the office of WendlingNathan Co., agents for his company's products.

A. INGVOLDSTAD RETURNS TO ST. PAUL A. Ingvoldstad has returned to St. Paul. Minn.. where he will devote his time to his retail lumber interests there.

Mr. Ingvoldstad, formerly olvner of the Lennox Lumber & Supply Co., at Lennox, recentlv sold the yarcl to I\{. E.

April t, 1932

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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New Windou) Cards and Poster ofered to dealers by the National Clean [.]p and Paint up Campaign Bureau.

Two new window cards, one featuring the slogan "CATCH UP WITH

REPAIRS NOW", showing a house with the front cut away, with many different kinds of jobs of p"irti.g and repairing in progress both outside and inside, and another showing a propetty owner w,elcoming a painter and a carpenter, dh the slogan "CLEAN UP, PAINT UP, MODERNIZE AND REPAIR NOWI" are included in the 1-9t2 li$. of Clean Up and Paint Up display materid.

The cards are made in four brilliant colors by the new printing process, size L4"x22", arrd, are being sold at ten cents each in lots of five or more cards, to cover cost and handling, by the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau, 22Ol New York Avenue, N. V., Washington, D. C.

The Bureau also includes in its long list of display items, twelve other designs of window cards, a poster showing LIncle Sam introducing the property owner and the workman, and many window trims, banners and other sales

h.lp". The poster is being sold in quantities at five cents each, without profit to the Bureau.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 1, 1932

Urges Establishment o[ Home Loan Bank System Washington, D. C.-The sub-committee of the Senate considering the bill tcl create a system of Federal Home Loan Banks to relieve the present "frozen'2 small house mortgage situation and facilitate the continuous financing of nerv residences in a systematic and orderly way wa- urged by Wilson Compton, appearing as Secretary and General Manager of the National Lumber Manufaciurers Association, to enact the measure speedilv into lalv. Po;nting to the unfortunate ,condition of manv present ancl prospective home owners rvho need mortgage iunds l:ut cannot get then-r. 1\4r. Comltton cited five specific reasons r,vhy the rneastlre shoulcl be promptly and favorallly acted upon.

Mr. Compton's testimony, giverr before the sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, rvhich is handling the tneasure-5. DS9-reads: The lumber industry favors this proposecl legislation for these reasons:

First: It rvill encourag'e home orvnership through emer'gency relief in the present, and through greater permanent

security against forced sale or foreclosure. Individual home ol'r'nership is spoken of and generally and sincerely regarded as a national asset. That asset is not now being rvell conserved. Home ownership in so far as it is under mortgaged indebtedness is under great discouragement.

The present fact, the overhanging threat and the future fear of foreclosure are deterring home ownership. The system of home loan banks will largely if not wholly dissolve this threat arrd this fear.

Second: It will reduce the cost of home-building and home or,vnership. A third of our people, it is estimated, rvho do not now own their homes. are potential prospects for home ownership if the costs of building and of ownership can be substantially reduced. The costs of building have in the last few years been reduced about a fourth and the end is not yet. The costs of home ownership on'the contrary-consisting largely of interest and taxes-have not been reduced.

Third: It will put a clefinite premium on mortgage loans on small homes. If the only loans eligiblc for rediscount are the small home loans, that fact'ivill encourage the loan companies to have constantly in their portfolios a large percentage of such eligible loans because of their greater liquidity. I believe this is of considerable importance and that no harm rvill be done if the upper limit of eligible loan is reduced from $15,00O to $12,@O or perhaps $10,000.

Fourth : It r,vill encourage home-building. Prudent exas distiirguished from tensions of residential building business or income-producing building-have often been one of the most effective means of breaking the back of depression. There is reason to believe that many communities from the standpoint of present occupancy, have a surplus of honres. But there is tro reason to believe that theie is a general oversupply of good housing. The condition of vacancy is of course relative to prevailing conditions of industry ancl employmerrt. No one, I believe. denies the need of more modern homes. This conclition may be accomplished either by building nerv homes or rnodernizing old ones. This legislation rvill be an aicl to both.

In the lumber business of tl,e past year more than 40

per cent of the residential building demand for lumber has been for remodeling jobs. Progress in this direction is a net gain and should be encouraged. The danger and prospect of inflation in home building is, I think, largely imaginary. IJnrvise building is largely responsible for the present sorry condition of residential building. It, of course, is important that mere speculative building be not encouraged. But it is more important that prudent home building and horne or'vnership be not discouraged, as it is now.

Fifth: It will make available in the field of home finance a facility comparable in effect to the Federal Reserve system in the commercial banking field. That such a facility is needed but is not norv in existence is evident in my own state, Ohio, in the fact that nearly a billion and a quarter dollars of the assets of building and loan associations are now frozen; and in the recent advertisernents of thousands of foreclosecl homes in Philadelphia. A large proportion <rf these loans would not be frozen or would have been renerved had there been a reasonable facility for rediscounting them in case of necessity.

Effect on Jerry-Building We should like to see the system of llome Loan Banks usecl as a means of encouraging not only sound and r,easonable methods of mortgage finance, but also of sound methods and standards of construction; a protection, so far as homes built after passage of the Act are concerned,, against jerry-building; a limitation of rediscounts, or at least a substantial preference in rediscounts, to mortgages on homes owned by bona fide householders and not built or held for speculation. Exaggerated speculative building and jerry building during the past decade have made home ownership needlessly unsatisfactory to thousands of people.

The lumber industry has tried for ten years, in cooperation rvith the Department of Commerce, to establish lumber size and grade standards and to secure their observance throughout the lumber trade and by builders and lumber users generally. The use of inferior grad'es of lumber and scant sizes has been an element in jerry-building of small houses which has been an imposition on thousands of home buyers and a great harm to the lumber business.

We want to see the practice stopped. It is not fair to the owners; and not fair to the honest lumber dealers and the honest builders. In cooperation lvith the Department of Comrnerce, Bureau of Standards, the lumber industry has made progress in this direction, but the progress is not satisfactory.

We shall therefore appreciate your giving earnest consideration to the feasibility of giving to the Federal Home I.oan Board the authoritv and the dutv to limit the mortgage discounts of the Fecleral Home Loan Banks to mortgages or1 houses, the construction of which measures up tn certain minimum standards of quality of materials and installation. rvhich may perhaps be best determined by the Burean of Standards, in consultation with the building material and construction industries and the architects.

This. of corlrse, could fairly apply only to houses built after enactment of this legislation. It ought to be a further safeguard-if any is needed-against premature building activity or inflation. Public-money: gug!.!..no.t,!.9_,pe rnade available to aid jerry-btrilding. --I have no r€a6o's-to

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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believe that any of the building material industries will

dissent from this view, nor the builders or developers themselves.

The Home as Security The criticism has been rnade that the important purposes of this proposed legislation will be accomplished by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. If I correctly understand that legislation and this bill, it cannot be so. The Corporation is by its terms solely an emergency aid. Its primary prlmary aid ano ald is llquely commercial commerclar banking DanKlng assets assefs and ls to liquefy credits. Undoubtedly in so doing it will somewhat ease mortsage loan situation but only indirectlv and in part. the mortgage onlv indirectly oart.

In the home mortgage loan field you cannot so easily separate the emergency relief frorn the permanent aid.

Sixty per cent of home owners, I believe the reports show, have no mortgaged debt. But to thousands their homes constitute their total savings. In time of stress they may need to use those savings. They can do so only if they can secure a mortgage loan. They should not be forced to make themselves the victims of loan sharks.

The other 40 per cent of homes are mortgaged. Their owners should not be deprived of their homes merely because in their local community mortgage loan funds are too tight to permit a renewal of a perfectly sound loan.

The proposed legislation rvill in practical effect give to the little home owner with a sound security the assurance that in a pinch he will not be forced into foreclosure as long as there is in the United States-not merely in his communitv capital available for mortgagc loans. The man wit'h -liquid satisfactory mortgage security who is now threatened with the loss of his home because he cannot renew or place a loan, wants emergency help, it is true. Also he wants to know that it will not happen again. Greater assurance of permanent financial security in the ownership and occupancy of his home will constitute "emergency relief" of great importance. But that is a kind of emergency reli,ef which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation cannot give.

Residential building offers the most promising opportunity for the gradual restoration of building. The greatest opportunity, and the greatest need, is in the small home field. Evidently in the absence of Federal initiative, and the initial impulse of public funds, the needed cooperation of loan and finance agencies cannot be secured. We-express therefore the earnest hope that the Congress will noi unnecessarily delay the enactment of this legislation.

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Al. Hollivet Opens Hardwood Yard at Los Angeles Hardwood Co. has opened a hardwood yard ^Angelus at 67ffi South Alameda,Strcet, t,oi Angeles, rvhere ihey rvill carry on a g'eneral .lvholesale business in domestit and foreign hardvvoods. Al. E. Hollivet, president of the nelv firm, is well knotvn ,in harclrvood lumber circles in Southern California ancl has been connected with the hardwood business in Los Angeles for the past twentvtrvo 1'ears.

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INSTALL TELETYPE SYSTEM Wenclling-Nathan Co., San Francisco wholesalers. who recently installecl a teletype system in their San Fran,cisco offices and the offices of their Portland representatives, Alclrich-Cooper & Co., say that this has alreldy proved to be a mone)' saver over th_e regular_system of using long distance telephone and telegraph. West Oregon Lumbei Co., Linnton. C)re., u'hich they represent, has also installed the teletype.

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SALESMAN WANTED Prominent manufacturer of spray painting equipment line desires sales representation contacting lumber dealers.

Liberal commission basis. Can be handled with one or two other lines. Give details and territory now covering. Address Box C-434, California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED BY EXPERIENCED OFFICE MAN

POSITION WANTED BY EXPERIENCED

SALESMAN Experienced salesman, desires connection, past three years covered Southern California district for an Eastern manufacturer. Familiar with California architects, lumber dealers and contractors. Married, can furnish references.

Address California Lumber Merchant. Box C-473.

WILL TRADE REAL ESTATE FOR LUMBER

Experienced lumber office man, stenographer and bookkeeper, several years experience with wholesale lumber firms. Capable, reliable, references furnished. Address California Lumber Merchant. Box C-430.

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For a good yard in a one or two yard town. Northern California or Oregon preferred. Address Box 437, California Lumber Merchant.

National Forests Show Incrcase of Visitors

Promoting Home-Building and Modernization

Recreational use of the national forests of California has shown a slight but steady increase for the past two years, according to the annual report, for the calendar year 1931,

by S. B. Show, U. S. regional forester for California. Counts and estimates made by forest officers give a total of over 3,900,000 persons who Used the national forests in 1931, or a gain of one million over 1930. A decrease in the number of hikers and those who reached the forests by rail and stage was compensated by an increase in automobile pas-

Washington, D. C., March 28-The Haskin Information Service, comducted by Frederic'J. Haskin, famous Wash-

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seng€rs.

Picnickers in the national forests totaled 1,870,000, an increase oL 697,O00, and campers numbered 832,000, a gain of

173,m in the past two years. Summer resort and hotel guests are still below the number recorded two years ago, but increased 385,000 in 1931, bringing the total almost to that of 1929-the banner recreation travel year.

The total recreational travel figures given do not include

transient motorists using main state and transcontinental highways passing through the national forests. These travelers in 1931 totaled over 13 million Californians and outof-state visitors.

The increased use and popularity of the national forests is caused, according to Forest Service officials, by the extension of the road systems, free camp grounds, summer home sites at low rentals, and other facilities that offer recreation at comparatively low cost to vacationists.

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ington correspondent, whose Washington letters and "Question and Answer" column appear in about 15O leading daily newspapers, is specializing on the distribution of information concerning home building and modernization.

The newspapers subscribing to the Information Service are all publishing advertisements intended to evoke requests to the Service for copies of certain booklets relating to the construction of residences and the modernization of old houses. Among the booklets listed are "Modern Homes," a publication of the Southern Pine Association, and "Moderizing Old Houses." The latter was writteh by the Information Service itself, the data being draurn largely from the files of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and other organizations interested in modernization. The illustrations are almost entirely from photographs collected by the N. L. M. A. Among them are "before and after" pictures of the old house near Elgin, Ill., which was modernized by the N. L. M. A. in order to provide the setting for the moving picture-"The Transformation."

The Information Service reports that it is receiving a flood of requests for these booklets.

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Lumbermsn3-Long-Bell Kum-fit Chairs have many convincing sellhig points but the biggest one of all is to get a customer to sit in a Kum-fit Chair. They come knocked

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