Prompt Payment oflo$ret

In the event of fire, your first thought is for prompt payment of your insurance. Our Mutual Companies were organized and are operated by lumbermen to serve the lumber industry. 'IVe understand and appreciate all the special requirements of the lumber business and, in prompt settlements, as well as in every other phase of our insurance activity, your interest as our policyholder is always the primary consideration.

Our policyholders who have sufiered losses know that our adjustments are promptly and fairly made and our checks are always either first or among the first received. By expert fire prevention we protect from every possible loss. By economical management and dividends averaging 40/o, we provide insurance at lowest cost. Specialized for the industry, with a mutual interest, our policies offer highest insurance value for the lumberman.

Ang of our Companies will give you full information about our policies, our payment of claims, our fire prevention seryice, and our dividends.

New House Organ

"Ifardwood Headquarters News" is the name of a snappy little house organ published by White Brothers, San Francisco. The first number was issued in February, and contained articles on the Philippine hardwood name question, "Many New Uses for Plywood Panels", "The Romance of the Hardrvoods", and "How to Specif"y Hardwood Lumber". The last named article is by Louis Maricich, the company's purchasing agent. The book is well illustrated, the picture reproduced here being a sample.

Monolith Publishes New i Architectural Book

/ Compiled for the purpose of providing architects and wbuilders with new and novel ideas in construction, announcement has just been made of the publication of a book, "Old World Inspiration for American Architecture," by the Monolith-Porthnd Cement Company and Richard S. Requa, San Diego architect rvho recently returned from Spain where he made an extensive study of homes and other structures.

While in that European countrv, Mr. Requa took several hundred photographs showing the Spanish trend of architectuie, and almost 300 of these are reproduced in the publication which is said to be a triumph in the art of printing and book-making. Only 15@ copies have been issued and they are intended as gifts to architects, universities and libraries. None is for sale.

Mr. Requa and the Monoiith company classify the illustrations into groups showing street scenes, general views, country and city type buildings, enchanting glimpses of unusual roofs, towers, cornices, quaint chimneys, windows, doorways, balconies, patios, etc, The covers of the book are of heavy board covered with deeply tooled brown leather. It is the second of its kind produced by the Monolith company and Mr. Requa, the first being called "Architectural Details, Spain and the Mediterranean".

J. E. Mackie Joins National Staff

1. E. Mactie. for three years secretary of the Pacific Coast Building Ofrficials' Conference, has joined the Trade Extension forces o! the National l-umber Manufacturers' Association. ltris rvork rvill begin April 16.

Mr. Mackie will attend the Building Officials' Conference of America, rvhich will be held in Pittsburgh, April 23,24, 25 and 26, and then 'rvill come to N. L. M. A. headquarters, in Washington, where he rvill engage in special work before activelv taking up building code work in the field. In addition to consultant rvork on building.codes, in which he will specialize, his se'rvices u'ill be made available for addresses before meetings of engineers, architects, lumber'dealers. building code officials and civic organizations.

Mr. Mackie has been closely identified with building code activities on tlre West Coast arid has demonstrated his superior technical ability in the rvork he has done on behalf of the Pacific Coast Building Officials' Conference, whose trniform building code has been adopted l>y 42 cities.

With the addition of Mr. Mackie to the tsuilding Code Stafi, the National Lumber Manttfacturers' Association has available for the building public as comprehensive a technical-consulting service as has ever beeu offered lly any industry.

George Weir Back From Northwest Trip

George Weir. sales manager of -the Coos Bay I-umber Co., San Francisco. has just returnLd from a ten-day business trip to the Northwest. in the course of which he visited the company's plant at Marshfield, and also spent a few davs in Portland and Seattle.

N. R. WENTWORTH VISITS COAST

N. R. Wentworth of Bay City. Mich., president of the Santa Fe Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a recent visitor to the Pacific Coast.

Mr. Wentworth spent a week in San Francisco, and attended the big gathering of lumbernr'en at Stockton on Marcl*,ZZ and 23. He also visited his brother, I-. J. Wentworth, in Portland

"Not until we initiate instead of imitate. and set our minds and energies to the task of originating suitable styles for our country, can we hope for real architecture in America, architecture that will persist unaffected by transient fads and fancies, architecture that will fulfill its purpose and justify its use," is the way the architect states the purpose for which he consistently bends his energies, the establishing of a distinctively American type of building, particularly a California type.

Among the products of the architect's mind is the town of Santa Fe Rancho, it was pointed out, and the torvn of Ojai, nestled in the hills back of Ventttra, in addition to many magnificent homes up and down the coast.

"In our nerv book we have endeavored to furnish ideas and details of practical use in present day American architecture in the localities where favorable conclitions for their utilization prevail," is one of the quotations from the foreword of the publication. "It is hoped that they rvill stimulate imagination and suggest ideas appropriate to modern design rather thau encourafie mere imitative lvork."

Shingle Bureau Has New PIan

The Advisory Board of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau has completed and put into effect a plan which they believe will give greater service to the retail trade and also to the shingle manufacturers. by lllacing the field men of the Bureau in definite territories.

It is the policy of the Bureau to have in each district a man who can do ordinance work, trade extension, inspections, and in fact who will represent the industry in all of its phases.

The names of the fie1d men in the various districts and their office addresses are given below:

R. S. Whiting-1068 First National Bank Bldg., Chicago, Ill. (Midwest Section.)

F. J. Parker-Room 1215,75 State street, Albany, N. Y. (Northeast.)

H. W. Call-ZT Candler Bldg., Atlanta, Ga. (Southeast.)

A. J. Wartes,lO24 Allen Bldg., Dallas, Tex. (Southrygst.)

Arthur Bevan-4455 Stuart Bldg., Seattle, Wash. (Western.)