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Lumber grades are standardr buto... ther e is a difference in pines

that grading rules cannot cot)er.

No grading system can indicate the texture of the wood

or the standarda of seasoning and manufactwe. Thee factors are important to the builder and the industrial user. The texture ir developed by Nature'r pattern of growth. Moicture content and uniformity of manufacture depend upon the method of milling, handling and shipment.

There ig often a gfcater difference in rize, texture, weight, resin content and limb growth between treer of the same species growrr in different localities than the difference between botanicd species.

Red Riverts extensive forests were carefully, .cblected for quality, in the early dayr when there wag wide oppor-

tunity for choice and rejection. RED;RIVER CALIFORNIA PINE (ponderosc) in tlris region is lirge bodied and har grown with exceptionally light weight, soft ruriform texture, and bright color. RED RMR SUGAR PINE iE equd to the best from other localities.

RED RIVER C'ALIFORI

RIVER RED ttPaul Bunyantstt

CALIFORNIA PINES

LUMBER MOULDINGS CUT STOCKS BOX SHOOK PLYWOOD High standards of manufacture and searoning are maintained in the Red River mill, factorier, dry kilns and yards at Westwood with an annual capacity of 250 rnillion board feet. Continuous year'round operation keeps the yard stocks well assorted and permits prompt rervice on special orders.

NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY AND SELL QUALITY With code prices equalizing the cort, it pays to be particular about the factors that can not be ascured when

buy-ttrg on grade alone. Build your trade on Good Will

by giving the consumer a little more for his money.

RED RMR MTXED CAR SERVICE enablee ttre dealer and the industrial us€r to maintain t{re necesrary assortment of stock with the minimum inventory and capital investrnent.

PLYWOOD, WALLBOA.RD (Catifornia Pine, a distinct quality product) YARD and INDUSTRIAL LUMBER, PATTERN STOCK, MOULDINGS, CUT STOCK, produced and loaded at one point. Prompt shipment on specified date.

"Producers of White Pine for Three Gener:ationr"

THE RED RIVER LUMBERCALIFORNIA COMPANY Mill, Factorier, General t"r"", 315 Monadnck

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April 15, 1934

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3 PLY FIR WALLBOARD

The following letter ftom a San Joaquin Valley lumber dealer (dealet's name will be furnished on request) is an example of dozens of lefters which we receive from satis. fied retailers:

LUMBERN{EN! TlMBER-wallboard loaded into the car when going to a mountain or beach camp will be "worth its weight in goldtt to your customer.

"Gentlernen:

-BIG

"Ve haue recently receiaed the clear lumber on our Oriler No. 57, your SF-150, and, ue want to express to you our appreciation ol the aery fine grad,e ol material that was

shipped to us. It sure is a pleasure to put in stock sunh 6ood lurnber."

Our buslness ia increaaing bsus

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lumberen

lmow good tumber and lumbemen know good lumber cmes from McCmlck

LLOYD HARRIS

ORMICK ELLIOTT BAY SALES CO.

LUMBER

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Phone TRinity 5241

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Lawrence-Philipr Lunber Co. ---------------- -------21

Strable Hardwood Co. ------ - -------------------------- 7

Long.Bell Lumber Saler Corporation ------------ *

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Dellac Machine & Locomotive W'orkc------------23 Dolbecr & Carson Lumber Co. ----------------------21

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Chamberlin & Co., V. R. ------------------------------21

Schafer Bror. Lumber & Shingle Co.--------------17

Stanton & Son, B. J. -------------------------------------21

Loop Lumber Conpany

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Santa Fe Lumber Co. --------------- --------O.B.C.

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Laughlin, C. J. --.----------

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Oaldand

Telephone Hlghgate 2447

117 Weet 9th Street Loo Angetes, Calif.

461 Market Street

C,aliforaia Saw \9orkr

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McCormick Lumber Co, Chaa. R. ------------------ 3 Moore MilI & Lumber Co. -----------------------------21

Mulligan & Co., W. J. ------ -- - - -----------------11 Pacific Lumber Co. The 3 Peaen.Btinn

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Thac&aberry, M. N. ---------------------------25

Union Lumber Co. -------- ---------- ---------- O. F. C. Van Arsdale-Harrir Lbr. Co., Inc.------- -----21 Vendling-Nathan Co.

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J. E. MARTIN Managing Edltc

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April 15, 1934

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

W. T. BLACK oa5 L€wanworth 3t.

San Fnndro

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How Lumber Looks Lumber orders received at the sawmills during the first quar-

tq of, 1934 wete 3 per cent above production; sf,ipments wirc 7

pet cent belorr_ production during the same period, according to reports to the Natio,nal Lumber Manufacturers Association the operations of leadfrom- the_ reglg{ral associations covedng ing hardwood and aoftwood mills. -Reports showed ordets lbove ouq>u1 {o-r the quarter in all softwfu regions, but Vest Coact and California Redwood, total softwoodlrders being 4 per rrnt above ouqput; hardwood orders, 3 per cent below haidwood production.

Reports fron 11473 mills for the week ended March 3l showed production l9tr482rOOO feet, shipments 2D2r4g4r000 feet, and 91d9rs 2O4,769,O00 f,et. During-this week, shipmetrts weie the highest of_any week of the yeai; production ind orders wete somewhat less than during preceding recent weeks.

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_ New business reported by 565 mills to the Vest Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended March jl was 94,3_7-t-,!3. feet, ohipments 97$54e278 feet, and production 95,7161394 f.eet. Current sales were under production by t.+/o, and shipments were over the outpur bV tiZVo. Orders'booke-J

Western Retailers Elect Officers H. W. Trask, Interstate Lumber Co., Missoula, Mon_ tana, was elected president of the Western Retail Lum_ bermen's Association at the annual convention held at Spokane, Wash. R. L. Brown was re-elected secretary_ manager. The 1935 annual meeting will be held at Ta_ coma, Wash. W. W. Anderson, Anderson Lumber Co., Ogden, IJtah, is the retiring president.

The following were elected to serve as regional vice_ presidents: Oregon-(Western Division) E. G. Gabriel, Gabriel Powder & Supply Co., Salem. (Eastern Division) Paul Van Petten, Van Petten Lumter Co., Ontario.

Idaho-Harry J. Nelson, Nelson Lumber & Coal Co.,

Narimo. Montana-(Eastern Division) J. B. Schultz,

Thompson Yards, Inc., Billings. (Western Division) E. W. Brown, Brown Bros. Lumber Co., Helena. Nevada_ Ray Peterson, Home Lumber & Coal Co., Reno. Washing_ ton-(Western Division) W. C. Deering, John Dowlr Lumber Co., Tacoma. (Central Division) Earling Hellie_ sen, Helliesen Lumber Co., yakima. (iastern iirrision; H. B. Kendall, Standard Lumber Co., Spokane.

for _the week by this group of mills were over the preceding week by 4,4OOrOOO fet or l.gVo.

**r<* The Southern Pine Association for the week ended March 3l reported new business from 151 mills as 28r(X)6r(M) feet, shipments 2616391000 feet, and production 22,821rO00 feet. Ordcrs werc 23/s above production and 5/s above shipments. Ship. ments were lfls above production. Orders or hand at these 151 mills on March 31 totaled 8716811000 feet, eguivalent to 4'175 carc'

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The Vestern Pine Association for the same week reported new business ftom 122 mills as 4lr442rOOO feet, shipmeits 37, 8081000 feet, and production 35r235r0OO f.et. Orders werc l!/s gb,ove- production and lo/s above shipments. Shipments were

7/s above production.

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The California Redwood Association for the week reported production from 18 mills as 7.28B,OOO feet, shipments 616941000 feet, and new business 6'O4O10O0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the week werc 34,496,(X)0 feet. Ten identical mills reP-orte{ production 122/s gceater and new business 64/6 greatec than for the same week last year.

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Reports ftom 574 hardwood mills for the week ended March 3t gave new business as 2819111000 feet, or 8/s above produc. tionr- an{ shipments 27r322rOOO feet, or 2/s above production.

Production was 26,E87r000 feet.

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The California lumber market shows little change. Although retail sales show a slight increase over the business of the win6r months the consumer demand is still light. Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor totaled zr4ff,r}O} feet on April 9. Cargo amivals at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended April 9 amounted to 4,931,0fi) feet, which included E cargoes

of Fir c1rryrng 410761000 f.et, and 2 cargoes of Redwood foth 855,000 feet. 58 vessels were opetating in the coastwise lumlier setvice on April 9; 40 vessels were laid up.

Will Hold "HaJinks" M.y zj Lumbermen's Post 4O3, American Legion, will hold a "Hi Jinks" on Friday evening, May 25,1934 at the Hamilton Club, 623t1 South Grand St., Los Angeles. Harold W. Brown is chairman of the arrangements committee.

Tickets will be $1.50 and can be secured from the Legion members.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

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N-A-C HA N_TH AT_SERVES-YOU I

S. Woodsmen.o.

Let us speak first of MEN;-human side of the four Ms of lumber production. Men, Machinery, Materials and Means must all be present in generous measure. The true romance of the industry is found in people. Members of the Palco family have, in most instances, specialized in one task down through the years. Skill, understanding and Ioyalty have been acquired and must be counted as the priceless resource of this institution.

Over 1000 people are employed directly by The Pacific Lumber Company. It is their source of the Daily Bread and they are happy in giving their best in return.

Link-byJink the picture story of what is back of Palco will be brought to you. Bringing in the logs from the forest and what happens to them before they are rcady to market should prove well worth following.

The Pacif ic Lumb er Company RE

D\rOOD K'"'?,ial[ PRODU CTS

1OO BUSH STREET. SAN FRANCISCO

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

V.gabond Editorials

By Jock Dionne

I once asked a splendid old gentleman who was spreading sunshine ever5rwhere he went in this world what his ambition was, and he replied with a grin-"I'm working for a big funeral." I liked that.

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I was reminded of it the other day after I had made what seemed to be a particularly effective talk to a big crowd of warm-hearted men, and one of tfiem asked me rny chief ambition. I told them that the fairest beauty in my particular harem of hopes was contained in the little rhyme-

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f'd rather have it said of me When this old journey's through, That on my way I tried to be A friend to all I knew, Than have it said I gathered goldAnd then have voices fall, Because they kn,ew when that was said That they had said it dl; I'd gladly pass along the way When my time came to die If everybody said of me, "IIe was a friendly guy."

.*-Jr, ,l"y u. in this world, if he "lru isn't friendly he isn't worth two whoops in Hades. HELPFULNESS and FRIENDLINESS ! A pair of incomparable oars for rowing the stream of life ! r don't care what

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The much advertised report that the "brain trust" planned to overthrow the government,, is plain, silly. Only one thing that I can think of right at this moment is sillier,

and that is HAVING A BRAIN TRUST AT WASHINGTON. )8**

They were holding a hardwood lumber code meeting in Memphis, Tennessee. Like all lumber code meetings it was just one continuous fow of heated argument and debate for hour after hour. If you've attended one, you know what I ,mean. Finally someone' to prove an opinion, quoted Darliel Webster. "Who did you say said that?" asked one of the others. "Daniel 'Webster," replied he who had quotetl. "Must be a pine man," declared the second; "I never heard of him in the hardwood business."

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Another lumber code meeting. Words flew thick and fast with tireless continuity. In the back of the room sat

a highly respected veteran sawmill man. Never a word had passed his lips all day. Finally someone said to him: "Mr. Seand-So, you haven't said a word about all this.

What do you think of this code business?" "I think wdre all in the same fix Colurnbus was," he answered promptly. "Iifow do you mean?" asked the other. "Wellr" said the veteran, "when Columbus sailed West, he didn't know where he was going; when he got over here he didn't know where he was; and when he got back to Spain, he didn't know where he'd been." *'|.ri

I said not long ago that there were a hundred unblockable highways for those who desired to chisel on the lum-

ber code. Since then I have learned much on the subject, and am forced to revise my opinion and withdraw that remark. I should have said a million.

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And of all that multitude of methods of chiseling that present themselves in all departments of the industry, I think THIS ONE took the cake. A mill is reported to h6ve quoted on some lumber, the quotation being exactly on the code level. But there was attached to the quotation a slip of paper, pinned on, and the long-hand notation read: "Please send us an order, and a ten per cent grade claim with the order; we'll accept the claim." **{<

One of my fellow editors opines that he's inclined to agree with the passage of the veterans' increase over the President's veto, but regrets seeing Congress disagree with

the President. I've sorta got what the colored brother called the "vice-versas" about that. I'm inclined to think the increase unwise at this time, but believe that a certain amount of intelligent disagreement at Washington is vitally needed right now. We need a lot of sound thinkers who will forri'r honest opinions and stick to their guns regardless of what any other man says. Such monumental busts,as the recent handling of the air mail contracts, disrupting struggling business, destroying valuable lives, etc;, shows that thinkers are badly needed at the capital. ,F*rF

A small town retail lumberman writes me: "The Govenrment cannot save us, but maybe we can save the Gov-

ernment." Notbad!

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The Federal Reserve Board has worked odt a plan to establish twelve permanent intermediate credit banks, one

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

in each Federal Reserve District, to furnish short-time order to discharge employees of the borrowers. It could credit assistance to industry and commerce. The Senate have no other effect. It DID have no other effect. Calling has a bill authorizing these banks, the President recorn- those loans decreased business exchanges, decreased busimending same: IF THEY PUT THEM IN AND MAKE ness activities, decreased business employment. And when THEM WORK IT WILL BE THE BIGGEST MOVE loans of that sort are called on a large scale, it means deTOWARD BUSINESS RECOVERY SINCE THE DE- pression. The heavier the call, the greater the depression. t< * * PRESSION STARTED. **:8

We can indulge in all the temporary and artificial assistance in the world, and we will never start back toward genuine prosperity until we begin creating business thus creating jobs-over the permanent and busi-

-and

ness-like root of properly financing business. It looks simple. Business and commerce were accustomed for years to certain lines and methods of credit, which credit money

they used as part of their business structure. When a bank loaned a business money, that money was placed -on deposit and expended, and immediately became part of our working capital, passing rapidly from hand to hand, from deposit to deposit, keeping business going, keeping men employed in our exchange of goods and services. ,F*rF

This depression did not begin when the stock market crashed in, the fall of 1929. This depression began when the credit-extending agencies of this country began calling the loans of commerce and industry. And it grew in exact proportion to the demand for li<iuidation of loans.

The entire depression, and the entire burden of unemployment was directly created by the enforced retirement of money from the industrial and commercial field. And it will be over when industry and commerce may once again secure normal credit. It's as simple as ABC.

*** You can take all the billions you please for public works;

you can, dump money as fast as you like into artificial channels for helping the unemployed; you can make RFC loans to banks and railroads; and you can feed the hungry

To ask the repayment of these loans means reducing the working capital of each borrower, and of the entire business structure. Every repayment asked for by the banks during the early years of the depression was a peremptory

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and clothe the naked ! But until we get CREDIT established in this country again, all these things will be temporary and artificial. The natural result of such financial (Continued on Page 8)

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April 15, 1934

Vagabond Editorials (Continued from Page 7)

activities as just mentioned must naturally have the effect of helping conditions generally, and lighteping the darkness a whole lot. But none of them are permanent or genuine. But when industry and commerce begin expanding again-a.nd they never will until they get the whenewithal-then permanent bricks will be laid every day in the foundations of our future prosperity.

I hope those bank, -U, O" *,ablished and put into operation as soon as is humanly possible, and that steps will be taken to make them really FUNCTION. It is so pitifully idle to keep on saying that our banks today-our commercial banks-are ready and willing to loan money "on good collateral." That remark is too silly for words !

This country is filled with good and solvent concerns who need cash and can't get it. And that's our chief trouble.

And nothing so far has been done about it. Loaning money on good collateral isn't extending credit. Any pawnshop will do that ! *'i*

Finance worthy business; finance worthy commerce; finance worthy home-builders; and your well advertised depression will be over. And it won't be over until then.

Codes can make people play fair in their contest for business. BUT WHAT WE ARE CRYING FOR IS A LOT OF NEW BUSINESS FOR THE CODES TO REFEREE !

JERRY STUTZ VTSITS LOS ANGELES Jerry Stutz, Stockton, representative of the Chas' R. M.cCormick Lumber Co., in the San Joaquin Valley territory spent a few days in Los Angeles around the first of the month.

SEATTLE LUMBERMAN VISITS S. F. Archie Somerville, formerly in the lumber business ln Los Angeles, and norv'in the lumber specialty business ln Seattle. was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

The other day I saw a copy of a letter written by J. H. Fahey, Chairman of 'the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, at Washington, in which he declared he was aware "that there are certain building and loan associations operating under one kind of restriction or another which are not in position to make mortgage loans." What do you think of that for a discovery? He has discovered that some building agencies are not making mortgage loans ! I wonder if he discovered any that WERE? rt*rF

But he says further in that same letter: "All of us realize that there are ISOLATED INSTANCES of desire for mortgage money. where that money is not IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. It is NOT clear, however, that this situation is sufiEciently general to justify a change of policy on the part of the Federal Government."

There, my friends, is an example of official something-orother that takes my breath away. It is, of course, a monumental fact that all that keeps millions of idle artisans from going to work erecting and remodeling buildings is the almost total lack of available mortgage funds to be had.

And that condition prevails in every nook and corner; every town and hamlet; every city and metropolis in this land ! Yet the man who should know more about that than anyone else, is convinced only that there are "isolated instances" where people need building money and cannot get it. Is it any wonder recovery drags?

VACATION IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA John Kendall, Spokane, and J. H. Crawford, Walla Walla, Wash., well-known Northwest lumbermen, have been vacationing in Southeln California.

MAKES IMPROVEMENTS P. C. Hansen Co., Centerville. have remodeled their office and display room.

ADDS DISPLAY ROOM Dixon Lumber Co., Dixon, recently added a display room for paints and hardware.

C. P. HENRY VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Charles P. Henry, Phoenix, Arizona representative of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office.

H. H. SMITH RE.,ELECTED MAYOR H. H. Smith, Daly City lumberman, was re-elected mayor of Daly City, April 9.

VISITS HAMMOND MILL Frank H. White, assistant sales manager, Ifammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, is back from a week's visit to the company's sawmill at Samoa, Calif.

W. P. COMMITTEE MEETS APRIL T8.20 The executive committee of the Western Pine Association will meet at the Portland Hotel, Portland, April 18 to 2O. to consider Code matters in the Western Pine Division.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

E. A. Goodrich Joins Holmes

Lumber Code Authority to Meet

Eureka Sales Staff

in June

E. A. Goodrich of Los Angeles, widely known Southern California lumberman, has joined the sales staff of the Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., his appointment becoming efiective on April 1. He will work out of the company's Los Angeles office.

"Good", as he is familiarly known by his lumbermen friends, has been ,connected with the lumber business in Southern California for many years. He lvas formerly with the Union Lumber Company for a long period, and prior to that was with the E. K. Wood Lumber Company of Los Angeles. "Good" has a host of friends among the Southern California Lumber fraternity who wish him success in his new position.

Bill Hamilton, who has had charge of the company's operations in Southern California for many years, continues in the same capacity and with the assistance of Mr. Goodrich, they will be able to devote more time to contacting the trade. The Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., manufacturers of the well known "HE" Redwood products has an extensive merchandising program now in operation, and since they have expanded their mill operations and recently acquired a large tract of Redwood timber, they have found it necessary to increase their sales staff in the Southern California territory.

The ,company recently increased their Los Angeles office space in the Architects Building and are now located in Rooms 7lI and, 7I2. The telephone number remains the same, MUtual 7080.

Washington, D. C., April 4.-Pursuant to the requirements of the By-Laws, which direct that the annual meeting of the Lumber Code Authority be held in June of each

LUMBERMEN'S POST MEETS Lumbermen's Post 403, American Legion, met at the Rosslyn Hotel, Los Angeles, on Tuesday evening, April 10. M. O. Griffiths, Hollywood banker, addressed the meeting on "State Socialism in Australia."

year, the National Control Committee has tentatively set June 11 as the date of this year's meeting.

The Committee ruled that the calendar for the meeting shall be closed on May 31, and that all those desiring to bring any matters to the attention of the Authority should arrange to have them docketed by or before that date, as any business introduced subsequently thereto may be considered only by unanimous consent of the Authority.

The Committee also directed that there be included in the calendar an entire day during which any persons subject to Lumber Code jurisdiction may participate in general discussion of the code and be invited to 'criticize its operation favorably or unfavorably.

Duncan-Paulsen Ralph P. Dun,can, well known retail lumberman, was married to Miss Evelyn Claire Paulsen at Yosemite, Calif., on Friday, March 30. Mr. Duncan is general manager of the Merced Lumber Co.. Merced.

ATTENDS CODE HEARING S. M. Hauptman, general manager, California Wholesale Lumber Asso'ciation, San Francisco, returned April 11 from Washington, D. C., where he attended a hearing of Amendment to the Lumber;-flode No. 68, Schedule B, Rules of Fair Trade Practice, as representative of the Association.

The telephone number of the Association's new oftices in the Merchants Exchange Building, San Francisco, is SUtter 6126.

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April 15, 1934

Cof. Greel"v Answers Criticism on Lumber Prices A San Francisco wholesale lumber dealer wrote recently

to Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West

Coast Lumbermen's Association drawing his attention to a statement in George Durno's syndicated column, "National Whirligig," which appears locally in the San Francisco News and the Oakland Tribune, that the NRA had closed down lumber mills so that Soviet lumber could come into the United States, and that a cargo of Soviet lumber had recently arrived in SeattleHe also called attention to another statement of Durno's to the effect that a "big shot" lumberman from the West Coast had told him in Washington that the Lumber Code had done. him too much good by raising prices g8 per thousand feet and killing trade.

The wholesaler suggested to Col. Greeley that Mr. Durno should be supplied with the truth about these matters, and that the industry needs a press agent to ofiset such damaging printed attacks as this, and verbal attacks

such as contained in Senator Borah's radio speech.

Col. Greeley's reply should be of interest to retail lumber dealers to help them to ofiset criticism by consumers that lumber prices have advanced too much. His letter

follows: "I regret this delay in acknowledging your letter, but the pressure of Code work has kept me very much on the ju-p.

"In reference to the reported arrival of Soviet lumber in Seattle, I enclose a letter from the Acting District Manager of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in this city. You will note that there is no record of any such entry.

"The lumber price situation is, of course, complex, and there is difficulty in expressing it simply and clearly. An analysis of the lumber orders accepted by West Coast mills from November 15, 1933, to January 9, L934 (after the Minimum Code Prices took effect) show an average price received of $18.16 per M board feet. Our average price in I9D was $20.63, and in 1930, $17.80. In other words, the industry's realization under the Lumber Code is substantially less than that in 1929 and but 36 cents per M feet over that in 1930. These prices are gross, before deducting wholesale discounts and other selling costs.

"December, 1933, comparisons of the Bureau of Labor statistics show the following price indices for building materials (1926 being taken as 100) All building materials Brick and tile . .

Structural steel .

Cement Lumber Paint and paint materials .. .,.77.5 "In othei words, lumber is not out of line with other construction materials. The reason why there has been considerable criticism of lumber prices is the fact that during the depression they plunged to much lower levels than most other building materials. Now they have climbed back to the same level as other building materials, but the relative advance in recent months has been substantially greater than that of its competitors. Hence lumber is

charged with excessive price advances when it has done no more than regain the exceptional losses which it suffered during the worst of the depression.

"The reason for this relatively rapid advance in lumber during 1933 was not the institution of the Lumber Code but the active buying periods in mid-year at a time when the industry's stocks had been depleted and the law of supply and demand, for once, was supporting lumber rather than depressing it.

"For example, the prices received by a number of the larger manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest reached their lowest monthly average in March, 1933, at $11.03 per M board feet. Subsequent months showed the following averages received by the same companies:

April M"y .

June.

August September October November July .

. ..$11.52

...12.07

... 13.03 ... 15.39 . 17.38 . ... t8.77 18.45

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"Minimum prices were not effective under the Lumber Code until November 11, 1933. The approval of the Code

on August 19 and the initiation of control of production on September 4 doubtless did have a stabilizing influence on prices as against the then declining demand and bearish market conditions. However, the real point in these figures is that the principal increase in West Coast lumber prices took effect prior to the application of the Code Minimum List, and was the result of a normal supply and demand reaction. What our Code minimum list has done, as indicated by the average of $18.16 from November 15 to January 9, is to maintain substantially the level of the strong selling mills established earlier in the year.

"I appreciate your interest and inquiries, and am only too glad to give you any information on this extremely important subject that I can."

Big Crowd Expected at Reveille All indications point to a record attendance at the second annual Reveille of Central and Northern California lumber-

men to be held at the Oakland Hotel, Oakland, Friday, April 20. Secretary Carl Moore reports an active demand for tickets, which are $1.75 each. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.

Assurance of an excellent entertainment program is given by H. Sewall Morton, chairman of the entertainment committee.

Charles F. Bulotti, rvell known N.B.C. tenor will be guest star on the program.

Entries for the golf tournament to be held at the Oak Knoll Golf Course, Saturday morning, April 21, should be sent to Clyde Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co.. 2101 East 12th Street, Oakland. Tickets for the golf tournament are $1.75, which includes green fees and luncheon.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

President and R. F. C. Chairman Interested in Aid to Home

A. J. Hagar Resigns as Retail

Building

Washington, D. C., March 30.-A. J. Hagar of Lansing, Mich., who represented the retail branch of the industry on the Lumber Code Authority, has resigned from the Authority because of the pressure of private business. C. W. Bahr, Secretary of the Authority, wrote Mr. Hagar as follows: "I acknowledge receipt of your resi'gnation as a member of the Lumber Code Authority. I cannot do so, however, without expressing on behalf of the Authority and the stafi of this office our appreciation of the splendid services which you have contributed to our work, and particularly the ability you have shown in advising the Authority in respect of the problems of the Retail Lumber Industry which have constantly arisen during our discussions."

Washington, D. C., Mar,ch 3O.-Within the last few days both President Roosevelt and Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, have given assurance of their active interest in proposals for Gbvernmental measures directed towards stimulation of residential building.

The President expressed his sympathy with the movement Monday to a group of Congressmen who have for some time concerned themselves with the impasse in new construction and who called at the White House in behalf of a Federal appropriation for financing prospective home builders on a long term basis with low interest rates. They explained that thousands all over the .country are ready and eager to build, that they own property equities qualifying them to do so, but are unable to obtain loans on what they consider fair terms.

The same Congressional group laid the matter before Mr. Jones, who said that he would give it full ,consideration with a view to taking whatever steps may be possible towards a workable plan.

Congressmen making up the delegation were Martin J. Sweeney and Warren J. Duffy of Ohio, James M. Mead of New York, Arthur D. Healey of Massachusetts, Theodore Christianson of Minnesota, Francis E. Walter of Pennsylvania, and Martin F. Smith of Washington.

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February Employment in Lumber lndustry Shows Gain Washington, D. C., March 27.-The preliminary report on January-February employment statistics prepared by

the National Lumber Manufacturers Association statistical agency for the Lumber Code Authority, covering identical reports from 3589 establishments, shows that the total number of employes increased 2.82 per cent in February over January, with a total increase in payrolls of 2.38 per cent.

Last year there was a de,crease of about 4 per cent in these items, but normally an increase is indicated.

Total man-hours worked went up 1.€ per cent, while there was a drop ol 3.73 per cent in average hours per employe. The average of lowest wages per hour remained almost constant, dropping only 0.23 per cent, and the average rate per hour showed an in'crease of. 4.43 percent.

BACK FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, In,c., Oakland, returned April2 from a visit to the mills of The Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., Eugene, Ore., for which his firm is Northern California representative. Mr. Morton made the trip by automobile and was accompanied by Harry Terrell, salesman in the Sacramento Vallev territory.

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April 15, 1934

MY FAVORITE STORIES Bv Jack Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told br 20 years---Some less

Winner or Loser?

Stories that illustrate our condition and position fly thick and fast. Some of them hit the point as no logical words could do. For instance, I lunched the other day with a lumberman who possesses a fine sense of humor.

Of course, we talked of lumber, lumber conditions, the code, and what not.

"What do you think of the lumber code situation?" I asked him.

"I feel like the Tennessee farmer did, who went to town and got drunk," he replied.

So I pressed him for the story, and he told it to me

like this: This farmer hitched his fine team of mules to his stout farm wagon and drove into town. He drank an awful lot

of whiskey in town, and when he finally started back home in the middle of the afternoon he was awfully drunk.

Finding that between the liquor inside him and the hot sun beating down on his head he could not keep his eyes open, he drove off the road and under a tree, where he unhitched the mules so they could graze, and lying down under the wagon, went to sleep. When he awoke he was still very, very drunk, and totally muddled. He looked around and the mules had strayed out of sight. So he proceeded to commune with himself.

"The question is," he said to himself, "is this ME, or ain't it? If it IS me. then I've lost the finest team of mules in Tennessee. But if it AIN'T me. then I've found a d-n . fine wagon.))

Forestry Supplements to Lumber Code Approyed Washington, March Z4.-President Roosevelt today approved the forestry amendments to the Lumber Code which were adopted by the Code Authority in February.

fn announcing the President's approval the National

Recovery Administration put out a newspaper release today in which it said: "Under the program, commercial lumber interests are bound, starting June 1, to follow strict rules for conserving and replenishing the approximately 400,000,000 acres of forest land under their ownership and management. * * * Jt is estimated that approximately one-fifth of the total land area of the United States-an area lvhose products supply a livelihood for 10,000,00O citizens and give employment to 1,000,00G-will eventually be affected. Conservationists assert the conservation program to be fundamentally one of the most important and beneficial social and economic changes put under way by the present national administration."

General Johnson is quoted as reporting to the President: "From the testimony taken at the hearing, it is apparent that these amendments represent a tremendous step toward the establishment of effective mechanisms necessary to carrying out a successful program of conservation and sustained produ,ction in one of the nation's most important natural resources." Citing to the President the unanimity of opinion in support of the supplements among the different groups interested in reforestation, Johnson added:

"That this reconciliation has been possible is undoubtedly due more to your interest and leadership than to any other force."

Plan Fo,restry Administration Anticipating administrative approval of amendments to the Lumber Code known as "Schedule C-Forest Conservation Code". the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, which has been designated by the Lumber Code Authority as the special agen,cy for administration of the nerv forestry provisions, notified the divisions of the industry to take the initial steps toward putting 'conservation into actual practice.

These initial steps involve, first, the setting up of divisional and subdivisional agencies within each administrative agen'cy for the formulation of rules of forest practice.

The divisions were dire,cted to provide first for fire protecti,on during and immediately following logging, cooperation in protection against fire and insects, conservation of imrnature trees and yorlng growth, and provision for restocking the land after cutting, as the industry is committed to undertake and promptly put into effect these measures. fnasmuch as standards higher than those listed in the four essentials are possible on many holdings, the divisions were also directed to determine the extent to which it is practicable to put into effect rules for partial cutting or sele,ctive logging, development of individual management plans, and sustained yield.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

Overhead Costs in Retail Lumber Trade National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson has issued an order approving for a 90-day period, expiring June 27, a modal cost accounting system under the code for the retail lumber, lumber products, building materials and building specialties trade. The order supersedes that of Jan. 5. last, on the same subject, some changes having been made in the modal costing method.

Stumpage Prices Approved National Recor.ery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson on Aprll 5 announced his approval of a schedule of "fair current values" of standing timber for tl-re West Coast Logging and Timber Dir.ision of the Lurnber and Timber Products Industry.

The.schedule of values \vas submitted by the code authorify as one factor-to be included in a determination of the current weighted average cost of production provicled for under the code. As appror.ed by the Administrator, it follows: .....$2.92perMft.,LogScale Douglas Fir .. . . . .$1.06 per M ft., Log Scale West Coast F{emlock ..... .$3.32 per Nf ft., Log Scale Red Cedar Western

......$3.50perMft.,LogScale Sitka Spruce The Administrator's order of approval of the above stumpage values becomes effective at once.

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Selection o[ Autho fized Wholesalers Washington, D.C., March 29-A practical "Who's Who" among rvholesale distributors of lumber and timber products is considered a probable result from action of the National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority, reported today, designed to deny wholesale discounts from manufacturers' established minimum cost-protection prices to certain groups of distributors.

Designating the National American Wholesale Lumber Association as the agency of the Lumber Code Authority, the committee has directed that asso'ciation to invite each l>ona fide rvholesaler, as defined in the Lumber Code, to file rvith it under oath a statement to the effect that his principal business is selling at wholesale to "wholesalers, retailers and recognized r,vholesale trade," and that he "will not seek, accept or keep any portion of a wholesale discount on any purchase for resale to others than said recognized wholesale trade." Eacl-r affidavit will include a declaration by the maker to the effect that he will "faithfully observe all requirements ,of the said code which apply" to him "as a rvholesaler."

A list of the names and addresses of those executing these affidavits rvill be 'compiled and published by the Authority not later than April 15. After publication of this list all manufacturers and others subject to the jurisdiction of the Lumber Code will be prohibited from granting rvholesale discounts to any buyer not on the list unless the buyer submits with his order a similar affidavit covering the individual transaction.

Plan to Aid Code Authority Under the NRA Lumber Code Authority there has been created a subdivision designated as "Trade Practi,ces Committee" and among the duties assigned to that committee is the task of classifying the business activities of every concern manufacturing or buying lumber or forest products

in quantity lots.

With the thought of aiding in this movement the Lum-

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15, 1934

Two-Billion Dollar Federal Financing for HomeBuilding rs Advocated Bv C. C. Sheppard President of the National Lumber Manu[acturers Association Among the telltale manifestations of subsiding business activity that marked the relentless onset of the depression, none was so omrnously visible to the public eye as the steadily dwindling sight and sound of steam shovel, hoisting crane, steel riveter, ,concrete mixer, and hammer and saw. It was evident more than three years ago, even to the most casual observer, that the building industry was heading into an eclipse. And it got there by the close of 1931.

In the years following no certain indications of a building revival have appeared. Time after time the wish has fathered the thought. Professional and amateur forecasters alike have read into statistics from other lines of business what encouragement they could find for the ,construction industry, or have drawn from ,comparable developments in past economic cycles the premises for hopeful but always dubious predi,ctions.

In the meantime the sheer dead weight of an industry formerly so huge and so lvidely ramified, but now for so long persistently dormant, has come to bd recognized both in industrial and governmental ,councils as very largely comprising the difference between passing and lasting recovery. Su,ch a deduction does not appear extravagant when it is shown that only 10 per 'cent of the 1,70O,000 artisans in the building industry are now at work, and that back of these are 3,000,000 to 4,000,00O others-both white collar and manual ule1kg15-rvhose opportunities for earning a livelihood are directly or indirectly dependent on construction activity and who therefore are necessarily to be reckoned in the counting. Hence the reasonable conclusion that approximately half the estimated 10,000,000 men still without jobs are likely to continue so until ,construction climbs back to somewhere near its pre-depression volume, and that at this stage of the revival the key to further recovery will be found in the impetus to buiiness at large which renewed building activity on a large scale would supply. Moreover, if there is any other approach to the recovery protrlem as promising, no one yet has pointed

lt out.

That both of the administrations at Washington whi,ch have come to grips with the economi,c breakdown have recogni2ed the indispensable role the building industry plays in.any form of sustained prosperity, is amply demonstrated by lhe successive measures taken during the last four years, first to ease the burden of debt on existing real estate, and second to unlock..the jam whi,ch for so long has blocked the flow of credit into new construction ,chainels.

Because many aspects of the problems faced were unprecedented, these measures have been to a large extent experimental, and only the test of trouble-fraught months and years 'could reveal their practi,cal worth.

Nerp Building Lacks Financing As a relief to debt-burdened property, the legislative measLlres have been gratefully efficacious, and plans are u.nder way to make them even more s,o. Unhappily, only the reverse is true for new construction. Financing for new building other than public works projects reriains almost wholly unavailable.

Granting, then, the obvious achievements of the variously created governmental agencies for relieving distressed mortgages, buttressing loan institutions in the

building field, and organizing new loan institutions in that

field-for thawing out realty credit generally-the fact remains that none of these agencies has been designed for quick and broad application to the impasse in new constru,ction. They have had to rely too,much upon estab-

lished practices and agencies for new mortgage finan,cing, and too mu,ch upon the poli'cies, personal judgment or whims, as the case may be, of those dire,cting the institutions through r,vhich the loans must be made. Capital has been filtering through so slowly to people in a position to build as to be of little or no immediate help in the building situation as a whole.

The experimentation has been worthwhile, none the less.

For if the new cogs geared into financial machinery must be ticketed as thus far ineffectual for reviving new construction, they have at the same time served to demonstrate the futility of other thari dire'ct methods of attack, and have therefore indi,cated what steps should be taken next. Those who have activelv concerned themselves with the urgency of getting the building industry ofi dead center, are being heartened by the grorving re,cognition in Administration and Congressional 'circles of the need for cutting the red tape and opening the way to more direct dealing between the Home Owners Loan Corporation and the multiplving thousands of individuals who have expressed their eagerness to build homes and who hold property equities entitling them to do so. Whether it is because financing organizations, many of whi'ch have been fortified with government funds, can not or will not oblige these applicar\ts for mortgage money, is right now a highly 'controversial issue. However that may be, the loans are not being made, and the Administration is taking increasing,cognizan'ce of the fact.

A $2,@0,000,000 Proposal The mounting sentiment for making government financing directly available to qualified home builders, already is being translated into action. As this is written the movement has taken form in a number of proposals, perhaps most concretely in a suggested amendment to the Federal llome Loan Act which would provide $2,000,000,000 definitely applicable, and so earmarked, for new ,constructionl It is proposed that su'ch loans be made at relatively low interest rates, with the amortization periods ranging from 75 to 20 years. In order to pre,clude government competition with the existing loan institutions, after the normal flow of building'capital has been restored, the plan provides that the government financed mortgages be taken over by the private organizations after the first two or three years, the government retiring from the field upon the passing of the present credit stringen'cy.

Proponents hold that such a program not only would lighten the load for the home builder by spreading his payments over 5 to 10 years more than is customary in the field of private finan,cing, and by ,charging an interest rate as low as 5 to 6 per cent, but would at the same time cir.cumvent the heavy carrying charge.s and mortgage renewal fees whi,ch some corporations have been exacting under their fixed policies of short term financing only. It is contended that many who otherwise would build homes are

April 15, 1934

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

not doing so because they are unable or unwilling to pay these extra ,charges.

Real Need for Building It would be idle, not to say foolish, to urge government financing of new constru,ction merely for the sake of putting men to work did the need for new consturction not exist. But that it does exist has been made so evident through numerous surveys condu,cted both by governmental agen.cies and business factors that the question is no longer debatable.

What are the Facts?

Notable am,ong these surveys is that which has been condu,cted by the Resear'ch Department of the NRA, headed by Alexander Sachs, and which has indicated a present need of 8m,000 residential units. Supporting this evidence is a report by the National Association of Real Estate Boards to the effe,ct that there is hardlv a city of any size in the 'country in rvhich there is n,ot an immediate demand for homes on the part of people who are ready and able to build, people in a position to pay substantial cash equities providing the balance of the m,ortgage financing can be obtained on fair terms. Some representative figures offered are: Washington, D. C., 1,000 homes; Oakland, Calif., 1,000 homes; Fort Wayne, Ind., 500 homes; Canton, Ohio, 400 homes.

Similarly enlightening are figures supplied by the Nati,onal Lumber Manufacturers Association and obtained through a questionnaire sent to 7,000 retail building supply dealers. The canvass brought reports from 1,743 dealers in 883 counties of the 48 states. These reports show there are over 300,000 prospective small residen'ce builders, possessed of a l,ot or some cash or both, who are waiting only for adequate financing to begin building. Also that awaiting moderate and ,conservative finan,cing are proje,cts involving 256,W farm buildings and 35,000 small business structures-not to mention remodeling and repair jobs without number.

Seventy-three per cent of the dealers reporting to the lumber association declared that no first mortgage money is to be had in their trade territories, while 18 per cent reported a limited amount available for loans varying from 20 to 50 per cent of a conservative appraisal. Only 6 per cent reported availability of adequate first mortgage funds, while a meagre eight-tenths of 1 per cent find it possible to get second mortgage loans from dealer-managed companies. Dealers in t24,counties rep,orted no active lending institutions of any nature.

Thus it is shown that a public waits for finan,cing facilities with which to build. At the same time the building industry continues to scrape bottom after having steadily declined from an all-time high in 1928, when the F. W. Dodge figures for the 37 states east of the Rockies showed a total of $6,600,000,000 in ,constru'ction contracts, to the lamentable low of $1,260,000,000 in 1933.

Lumbermen Play Golf There was a good turnout at the Lumbermen's Golf Tournament held at the Brentwood Country Club, Los Angeles, on Friday afternoon, April 6, 1934. Sixty-three took part in the tournament. H. O. Warde, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was the low gross winner, and Paul Hill, Lounsberry-Harris Lumber Co., Los Angeles, rvas the low net prize. H. W. Brown, The Celotex Co., Los Angeles, had the high gross score and was awarded an attractive handbook, "The 19th Hole", a book of recipes of spirituous and non-spirituous drinks gathered from authoritative sources which was donated by Ted Wright of the Washington Veneer Co. An added feature rvas the golf exhibition by Jack Redman, noted trick golfer, which took place immediately after the tournament. Dinner was served at the Club House at 7 p.m. rvith 6O in attendance.

Among the golfers were: G. O. Fogelman, Walter J. Best, V. G. MacDougall, F. P. Baugh, W. P. Frambes, Ber[ l$aule, Percy Dixon, W. B. Wickersham, C. M. Freeland, lMalter Harris, George Lounsberry, Lee Vocker, Bob Holden, Al Holiivet, H. O. Warde, H. A. Graham, E. E. Schmidt, J. L. Hook, I.rMorgan, D. E. liSSett, Clyde Johnston, E. Steffensen,'Ross Hostetler, Charles Lyons, Gene DeArmond, A. C. Penberthy, Bill Godshall, L. A. Beckstrom, Earl Jameson, $arvey Bowles, Don Philips.

Ed. Martin, Bill Chantland, Ross, Blanchard, Ed. Seward, Bob Leishman, Jack Thomas,'George Lockwood, Jack Redman, Fred Varin, Fred Golding, Ted Lee, Roy Stanton, L. W. MacDonald, C. A. Bergstrom, Henry Pries.

Ted WrigJrt, Paul Hi$" Jim Ronner. H. W. Brown, J. H. Prentice,?;ul Orban,.Warren Wood, Paul Crowell. T. B. La*r.n.e,tRay Hill, C. J. Laughlin, W. T. Davies, Stanley Moore, Bill Schorse, R. Castell, E. G. Davis and R. H. Loveday.

The committee that arranged for the tournament included Don Philips, Chairman; Ross Blanchard, Kenneth

Smith, E. L. Reitz, Harry Hanson, Ed. Seward, Walter Harris, C. M. Freeland, Frank- Burnaby, Bill Chantland, Jack Thomas, Harry Graham, Roy Stanton and Ed. Martin.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON'S REBUKE

(A famous nobleman, and man of letters, wrote some articles in the London newspapers recommending Dr. Johnson's "Dictionary". This gentleman had entirely failed to notice Doctor Johnson's writings and efrorts of literary character until they had of themselves become famous. Then he hastened to indorse them publicly. Whereupon Doctor Johnson wrote him a letter, a portion of which follows:) "Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door;

during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to,complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, one smile of favor.

"fs not a patron, my lord, o,ne who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.

"Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favorer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for f have been long wakened from that dream of hope in which I once boasted rnyself with so much exultation, my lord."

A NOSEY GUY Charity Patient: "Doctor, is there any danger of this operation resulting fatally?"

Highbrow Surgeon: "Really, my good fellow, considering that we are conducting this experiment on you free of charge it seems to me that your idle curiosity is hardly in good form."

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April 15, 1934

CHANGED IMPRESSIONS

When you have lived longer in this world and outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increase tenfold, and your admiration and attachment to any particular party or opinion fall away, altogether."-J. H. Shorthouse.

PERSPECTIVE Others sometimes appear to us more wrong than they are because we ourselves are not right in judging them.

-Dillwyn.

SPRING NIGHT Spring was kind to us that night; She filled the air with light; She put candles in the sky, Hung her golden lantern high.

Tucked the muted violin Of the wind beneath her chin, Played low melodies that we Trembled at in ecstacy.

She spread sweet accents everywhere;

She put dusk in Sylvia's hair:

Love, she said, is happinessShe was lying, though, I guess.

Wilfred J. Funk.

SAME ONE

"Did Ah evah tell you erbout de awful fright Ah got on Mah weddin' night?" asked Rastus, after his third drink of gin.

"You don' need to," said Hambone, who had had his fifth drink; "Ah done seed you wid huh."

THE EXPLANATION Teacher: "Tell me, Johnnie, why is your essay on 'The Cat' exactly the same, word for word, as the essay of your sister Mable?"

Scholar: "Well, why not, teacher? It's the same cat!"

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April 15, 1934

l9

Compliance Division o[ L. C. A. Reports Activities

Small Mill Representation on

Washington, D. C., April 3.-The report of the Compliance Deparment of the Lumber Code Authority covering compliance activities of the Authority and its administrative agencies, made to the National Control Committee disclosed that on March I, 1934 there were n,227 establishments subject to the jurisdiction of the Code. On the same

Washington, D. C., April 4.-To effect dire,ct representation of small enterprises on the Lumber Code Authority, the National Control Committee has recommended to the Authority that each of the major divisions be asked to include among the members designated by them to the Lumber Code Authority at least one representative of typical small enterprises and that these members be operators of such small enterprises. The Committee also reccommended that the By-Laws of the Authority be changed to effect an increase in the present membership suffi,cient to include those additional members.

The matter is to be do,cketed for consideration at the June meeting of the Authority. The Committee also dire,cted that the National Re'covery Administration be advised of the contemplated increase in the representation of small enterprises on the Lumber Code Authority and that the matter is to be held up until the June meeting of the

date there were in the employ of the Authority and its agencies 209 field men. The list of employees as of that date included a total of 241 qualified to audit payrolls.

During the six months ended February 28, 14,720 payr,olls were audited and a total of 34,980 field visits made.

A total of 3,048 complaints were received. During the three months ending February 28, 2,0D or 66.6 per cent of these came through field agents, 810 or 26.6 per cent direct from complainants and 209 or 6.8 per cent through the Lumber Code Authority. The reported violations numbered7,852. These in,cluded 3,359 or 42.8 per cent involving code reports and fees, 1,847 or 23.5 per cent involving labor provisions; 1,652 or 2l per cent involving production control and 94 or I2.7 per ,cent involving trade practices.

Two thousand, three hundred and sixty-four cases were disposed of during the three months period. In L,647 or 69.6 per cent of these cases, the respondent agreed to comply with the Code, 558 or 23.6 per cent were outside the jurisdiction of the Authority and 159 or 6.8 per cent were referred to the Lumber Code Authority by various adminis-

tration agencies.

The Authority reported 34,cases to the NRA, 2 of which have been referred by the Administration to the Department of Justice. Of the remaining 34, 12 were referred back to the Authority for further investigation and NRA action is now pending on 20.

The Compliance Division reported 2,041 cases pending as of Mar'ch 1. The report does not include the Plywood and Commercial Veneer Subdivisions, from which no figures were received.

iLumber Code Authority

Authority for final a'ction only because of the necessary change in the By-Laws.

Sells Venetian Blinds Ed. A. Horr, well known former lumberman, is now as-

sociated with the Ry-Lock Company Ltd., San Leandro,

selling their Venetian blinds in the Northern California territory. This company added a department for the manufacture of Venetian blinds at the first of the present year.

Slats for the blinds are made from Port Orford Cedar.

ON SALES PROMOTION TRIP Charles R. Wilson, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. San Francisco, is spending some time in Los Angeles doing sales promotion work in connection with ,creosoted materials.

FIR PAN Ets REDTYO()D

WAIJ. BOARDS IN SUTATI()N S HARDW()()D LUMBIR HARDW()OD FIO()RII{G

CATIFORNIA PINES WHOLESALE YARDS 2035 EAST 15TH ST.

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COOPER

LUMBER

co.

LOS ANGELES

April 15, 1934

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

California Building Permits For March City Los Angeles ... .

San Francisco ..

Oakland

Beverly Hills .

Alameda

Long Beach ... . *West Los Angeles ....

*Hollywood San Diego Palo Alto Sacramento Santa Monica San Jose :.....

Fresno Eureka ... . ..

Huntington Park .

Watsonville

Berkeley Glendale *Van Nuys Bakersfield Vernon pasadena Newport Bea,ch *San Pedro San Mateo Piedmont El Segundo Stockton Santa Maria .. . .

Modesto San Marino Alhambra Riverside Ventura Albany South Pasadena Laguna Beach

Inglewood Burbank Montebello South Gate .

Santa Barbara Emeryville Arcadia *Wilmington ....

San Bernardino .

Huntington Beach

March, 1934 March, 1933 . .$i,340,402

680,403 366,823

287,5W 239,180 223,470 182,330 167,470 155,944

128,M L2O,327

105,860 100,590 90,719 86,740 72,530 65,575 65,167 57,535 51,205 49,198 45,982 44,564 42,885

548,231 136,351

t32,320 7,049 1,101,435

97,987

Ill,57g 113,035

17,150 34,173 2? ?A\ 283,270

70,946 6,605 136,830

630 42,663 79,424 25,371 9,500 27,805 40,003 1 1,455

4D,492

29,075

35,589 35,385 35,150 33,543 33,496

14,500

32,U0 31,320 31,@0 27,263 26,753 26,725

r,435 875

Whittier

Bell .

Monterey Park .

Corona Lynwood El Centro Compton Ifermosa Beach Oxnard Glendora Ontario Porterville Orange

Visalia Redwood City ..

Maywood Calexico Claremont Santa Paula

12,136

11,6i5 11,462

11,400

II,375

ll,l23 10,2m 10,000

3,528 24,825 17,355 4,890 15,190 6,325

3,025 970

9,410

1,752

9,221

24,615

8,500

4,WO

7,445

2,470

7,060

2,235

6,080

14,983 965

5,W7 5,576 5,224 4,824 4,800

45,720 15,080

4,370 4,345

6,085

3,880 3,500

2,715 2,703

9,050 600

2,lw 5,2N 1M,500 5,010

2,5N

5,125 780

2,375

4,lD

2,r82

3,430

r,072 8,670

Anaheim Torrance

1,950

18,558 11,800

Brawley

1,660

Gardena

1,615

Tulare Hayward Fullerton Los Gatos

r,328

Oceanside

Colton La Verne San Fernando Culver City ..

Oroville Hawthorne Azusa Covina Seal Beach Exeter El Monte Palos Verdes ...

550 500 450

350 245

395

2,sfi

353

7,49r

325

1,800

230

1,925

12,o7l 3,O20 2,657

2I,760 18,256

1,240 34,915 20,178

L7,999..

11,689

16,60

9,640

16,2W 15,934

12,263 14,655

15,145

1,945

( R2(

4,67 13,672

March, 1934 March, 1933

12,827

9,386 3,900 165,@4 42,850

2I,735

City

Monrovia Manhattan Beach San Rafael San Gabriel ....

Santa Rosa .

Burlingame Upland Lindsay Sierra Madre

*Harbor City .

25,@0 22,950 22,933 21,995 21,837

Pomona

Salinas Redlands Redondo Beach

$

958,441

20,242

13,478

lll,l74

l2,2l0

12,67

*In,cluded in Los Angeles totals.

r,925

240 10,375 556,365 3,800

1Iffi

6,346 690

1,250

5,425

1,725

7n

7,496 8,700

650

1,080

2n

150

1,900

100

5,130

75

2,425

320 8,450

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHAN1

April 15, 1934

BIIYBBSg GT]IDE SAIT T'BANOISOO LUMBER

LUMBER

LUMBER Union Lumber Co.,

McCormick, Cbas. R., Lumber Co.,

Chamberlin & Co., W. R.,

gth Fl@r' Fife Bldg. ...".......DOuglu il70

Dolbeer & Carson Lmber Co.' ?30 Merchants Exchange Bldg.....'.SUtter

7456

Hammond Lumber Co. 310 Sanmme St....................DOu8las i!l!t9 Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., 1505 Financial Center Bldg. ..."..GArfreld l92l Loop Lumbcr ComluY'

Ft. of l0tb St. '...'........'...'..MArket

lEll

Long-Bell Lumber Salcc Co4reration' 025 Market Stret ......'....'...GArfield lt39 Mulltu & Co.' W. J.' 520 Montgomery St. ..............GArfie|d 6t90

More Mill & Lmber Co.' 525 Muket Stret ........'........EXbroo& 0173

..SUtter Cl?0 Creker Building Vu Arsdale-Hmic Lunber Co, Inc., Fifth & Bram Streets.,........GArfield 30([

Pacific Lmber Co- Thc

Wendling-Nathan Co.,

,16l Market Street .......'..'......Douslas

2561

ll0 Mukot Stret ..................Suttcr

l00 Buh Street ...'............'.GArfield rltl

Red River Lumber Co-

149 Califmia Str*t

315 Momdnock Blds. ...... .......GArfi eld 11922

Santa Fe Lumber Co., 16 Califomia Strcct ..........'.,..KErny

l07a

Sshafer Brc. Lmber & Shingle Co.'

l2llE Fife Blils. . .. . .. ...... ' .. .... . .SUtter l?71

Sudden & Christeuon, 310 Sansmr Stret

536:t

Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.,

..............GArfiold t074

SASH AND DOORS Nicolai Door Saler Co3045 l9th Strcet .,..................Mls|otr

7t20

CREOSOTED POLES-PILING_TTES McComick, Char. R., Lumber Co., 461 Muket Stret .................DOug|lr

...........,...GArfield 2t{0

2561

OAIILANII P.ANELII

LUMBER,

Hill & Mqtoq Im.,

Dennircn St. Wharf ,...........'.ANdwcr

Elliott Bav Salcr Co..

ffEl B;ofdmv ....'....... ...'..,.' .Hlrt'te 2/'47

1077

HARDWOODS

T. P. Ho3an Co.' aild & Alicc StElt.............Gletrourt

Strablc Hardwood Cc' 5il? Fint Street ..............'TEnplebar 35t{

Ct61

LOS ANGELDS Boketavcr Burne Lunbcr Co.' Chamber ol Comcre

Btdg...."PRorFct 6elf

Chmbcrlin & Co., W. R.'

l43l 3lt W4t Ninth st. .'.""""""Tuckcr Dolbcer & Carrcn Luber Co.' 129 Shcll Boiklirs... ....'...' .. ". .VArdikc t7t2 Holmee Eurcka Lumber Co', ?ll-712 Archltects Bldg. ...........MUhaI Hr-md Lmbcr Co.

HARDWOODS

LUMAER

LUMBER

?Oill

2010 So. Alane& St. ..'.....'....PRdpGct ?ul Hover, A. L. ?00 So I: Brc Ave. ................YOrk ll6t

'Larene-Fhllipr Lumbcr Co.Bldgt...'PRoEFct 0tlt dl Pctrolem Seorlticr Loag-Bctl Lubcr Sale CrPoration, ?2! Petrolu Scuritlcr Bldg.'..PRoapcct ta6lt McConiclq Chu. R.' Lubcr Co, ?l? 11|. M. Garland Bldr..'......'..TRiDity Sar Mulllsu & Co.' W. J.' u? Wc.t tth St. ...,.........,....VAldlkc l,lt6

Pacific Lmber Co- Tbc ?O So. La Brca Avc....'....'........YOrk ll6E

Coopcr, W. E. Lmbs Co.,

Patten-Blina Luber Co52r E. srh sL ....................vAndtkc

Hanmond Lmbcr Co. Ztl0 So. Alanc& St.......'......PRsFGt ?Ut

23Zl

Rea, Jack,

tOl Petroleu Seuritiar Bldg...'PRoFGt 5903 Red Rivcr Lmber Cq, ...AXridgc ,O7f ?02 E. Sltusn Suta Fe Imber Co, 3rr Ftllncid Ccntd Blda..........TRinity ttzl Schafer Bru. Lumbcr & Shingla Co,

|26 PetrcIcun Securitlc Bldg....PRcpcct 5l?t Sudden & Chrlstenld.

3Gt Pctrclem Sccuritia Bldg..."PRefcct

lf]l

Union Lumber Co'

Irre Mortgagc Bl&. .."..........TRhtty Wcndling-Netbu Co., 700 So. La Bu Avc. '''......'.....'.Y()rt Wcycrhaeuc Sala Co.'

zaA

ffat

t0 PctroLu Scrrltier Btdg....PRooct 56t0

2035 E. rsth SL ...'......'..'.'..PRapcct

5l3l

Ilrghlin, C. J. 3?23 Wllrhin Blvd. ...'.........EXporttlo ?ult Stanton, E. J., t* Sm, 2050 Eut

Stti Stret ....'.,......Axridjc

t2ll

SASH-DOORS_MILLWORK

Hrhnmd Lubcr Co2010 So. Aluc& St..,...,......'PRaFct ?l7l Kehl, Jno. W., & Sor, l0?l 152 So Mycr SL .........'.......AN3c!u Rcd Rivr Luber Co..AXrldgc t0lf 702 E. Shuro PANEI.S

Callfmia Pea:l & Vcnc Co.

,$ So. AhE & jL ...'.....'......TRltltt

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TIIE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

Lumber Production Second Quarter Fixed at 4,550,000,000 Feet Washington, D. C., March 28.-The National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority has authorized total lumber production for the second quarter of 1934 of 4,550,000,00O feet. This is made up of 3,650,000,000 feet of soft woods and 900,000,000 feet of hard woods.

The allocation to divisions and subdivisions is given below in units of one million feet board measure: Lumber Divisions Quota Granted

Cypress

39

Northeastern . ..

Appalachian Softwood Northern Hemlock Northern Pine .

80 18

. .. ...

Redwood

60

.

35

98

Southern Pine .

.I.285

WestCoast Western Pine .

.....1.285

7n

Tillamook Burn (Oregon) . ..

10

Total all Softwood Divisions Hardwood Divisions

,5" 900

Total all Lumber ..-Jt The allowed production f,or other divisions and subdivisions follows : Divisions o'r Subdivisions Quota Granted Red Cedar Shingle: Canadian Importation,

n% .

387,2n

American Mills, 80%...,1,548,800

Total

squares squares

1,936,000 squares

.... . 42,mO,000 feet Oak Flooring Division Maple, Beech & Birch Flooring

Division

.... 21,000,000 feet

Broom and Mop Handle Division.. 18,500,000 handles Face Veneer Subdivision (to be distributed quarterly) 97,000,000 surface feet Plyrvood Package Subdivision. . . . . 95,000,000 surface feet Eastern Shook and Box Subdivision 51,000,000 feet Pacific Northwest Loggers Products Quota Granted Pulpwood 126,000,000 Shingles

120,000,m0

Plywood

51,000000

Spru,ce

36,000,000

Spe'cialties Export Logs .

Lumber(allspecies)....

19,000,000

quota in the final quarter of 1933, and it is estimated that it will fall at least 15/o below quota in the first quarter of 1934, due in large part to adverse weather conditions. It

is also estimated that the more favorable weather conditions to be expected for the second quarter of the year will enable the industry to bring production nearer to the

amount authorized and thus actually show an in,crease in the total amount ,cut, in spite of the reduction in quotas.

Although the United States Timber Conservation Board. reported an estimated ,consumption for the third quarter of 5,192,000,000 feet, this amount includes lZ7,OW,W feet of estimated imports. As there will be an estimated carryover of un,cut seasonal allotments of 600,00O,000 feet, the probabilities are that produ,ction will be more nearly adjusted to .consumption than at any time in the recent past.

Any marked in,crease in consumption over the T;imber Conservation Board estimate due to such then unexpected developments, as, for instan,ce, a large home building program directly subsidized by the Federal Government would result in a marked reduction of stocks on hand. The difficulty of adjusting established quotas downward is recognized by the industry. On the other hand, quotas ."r, b. raised by the Authority at any time in the fa,ce of a demand not now anticioated.

Lauan Wallboard Lumber dealers r,vill be interested in the new Lauan wallboard advertised in this issue by Strable Hardwood.

Co.] Oakland. Speaking of the new line B. Ii. Bryan, president and general manager of this company, states that Lauan wallboard is being used for an inexpensive hardwood finish in restaurants, cafes and stores, and is also being extensively used by the furniture trade and cabinet shops.

"One of the outstanding features ,of this wallboard is that

it comes in such large sizes, 48 inches wide and up to 96 inches long, and it is becoming available in all thicknesses from one-fourth to three-fourths in.ch. Manufactured in the Northwest from logs shipped in from the philippine Islands, it has a Douglas Fir core, and comes in both one

side and two side panels. The making of this new line is furnishing 'considerable work for United States workmen, and is an important addition to the Fir plywood industry,,, Mr. Bryan said.

.1,100,000,000

Total for second quarter .....1,452,000,000 Although the authorized produ,ction is approximately l0/o less than that for the first quarter of the year, the probabilities are, the committee tielieves, that it will not result in decrease of either production or employment.

Lumber production fell over l9/o below the authorized

Mrs. Lydia Sarah Smith Mrs. Lydia Sarah Smith, wife of William Smith, Smith Lumber Co., San Francisco, passed away March 26. Funeral services were held in San Francisco March D, and interment was in St. Iohn's Cemetery, San Mateo.

April 15, 1934

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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Completes New Offtce Stanislaus Lumber Company, Modesto, has just about completed some improvements to its plant which include a new office and sales room. R. L. "Dick" Ijstick has written a description of these for The California Lumber Merchant.which will be interesting to readers. He says: "We have endeavored to adhere to a style best described as 'frontier'. Our siding is 3x8 log cabin (Redwood No. 3 in grade to show enough knots and imperfections to appear attractive). Logs on the porch are also redwood from a pile we found hidden in \Marren Tillson's lumber yard.

Verge boards, window frames and door frames are also

front doors Philippine Mahogany outside with adzed face.

Plate glass windows throw ample light from a point of vantage favorable to the eyes of those working at desks.

"We have much to do yet to ,complete our 'six months' plan'. We are attempting to pull all of our most called for stock ,close to the office. Doors, windows, mouldings, panel boards, roofings, lx2 and 1x3 in both clear and common-all of these are materials, the quick sale of which can be made from the office, money taken, delivery made and customer on his or her way rejoicing in less time than it takes for a yard man to reach the offi'ce. We have cut 'step ups'and 'step downs' to a minimum (customers do not like obstructions) and have aimed to make ample passage ways that a customer may be taken on a bee-line to whatever he wishes to see or buy. There are still a great many ragged ends to pick up, but as far as we have gone (pardon our immodesty) we're a bit proud of our new plant and its workability."

Says State Home Shortage 4OrOO0 The shortage of single family dwellings in the United States is estimated at 900,000 units by Sanford Anderson,

Neu Ofice and Sales Room ol the Stanislaus Lumber Company

built from the log cabin siding, mitred on corners and put cogether with white lead. Space in front is left for drivein-and accessory more valuable to a lumber yard than to a grocery store.

"In the interior we have our main sales room containing also nails and builders hardware. Other rooms are for paint and rough hardware, private offi'ce, lavatories, vault, an attic room for drafting and exe,cutive sessions (if any) and basement for depression records and heating system. Our coun-

ter is of Oregon Pine plyr,riood with Presdwood top. All other trim and woodwork is Knotty Ponderosa. Walls and ceilings are of Beaver insulating board, battened with 1x3 battens and panel mould. Ceilings are beamed. Floor in rear of counter is of 6x6 and l2xl2 T&G Presdwood. front floor being 1x3 Oak No. 2 Common, finished to show color streaks and imperfe,ctions. Doors are knotty Pine inside-

of Inglewood, president of the California Building-Loan League.

"This means an indicated shortage in California of more than 40,000 homes," Mr. Anderson declared in speaking before a conference of real estate brokers in Los Angeles.

"Building of new residences at one time was $2,000,000,000 a year," he said. "Now it is scarcely $15,000,000 a month. The shortage in homes due to various continuing causes makes it certain home building will resume.

The families are beginning to undouble. With the apparent improvement in general business which is being reported from many sides, there is due to be an indicated general revival."

STEAMER'S NAME qHANGED The name of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company's steamer C. D. Johnson III has been changed to Anna Schafer.

6 *neeb CATIFORNIA SAW WORKS Manufacturers of Saws, Knives, Special Machinery Heat Treating and Grinding 721 Btannan Street

1407 Santa Fe Ave.

San Francisco

Los Angeles

Saw and Knife Sharpening Service in our Repair Department

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

Proposed Amendments to Lumber Code

Ship Rcady-to-Make \(/indow Screens in Cartons

Washington, D. C., April 4.-Declaring that American

A steady increase in the popularity both with lumber dealers and the public of Ry-Lock Ready-To-Make Window Screens is reported by Ry-Lock Company, Ltd., of San Leandro, Calif., manufacturers of these screens.

Lumber dealers are finding that a good many of their customers get a lot of satisfaction out of making things themselves, even where the making only means an easy job of assembling, and Ry-Lock screens can be easily made with a few simple tools by anybody to fit any opening, or if the 'customer prefers the dealer can make up the screens

producers of Douglas fir ties are likely to lose what remnant of foreign trade they still have, unless the provisions in the Lumber Code governing export prices are removed and freedom to quickly alter export prices as the need arises is restored, William Denman, president of the Coos Bay Lumber Company, Coos Bay, Ore., protested against Amendment 49 at the NRA hearing today on proposed Amendments 49 to 67 inclusive to the Lumber Code. Mr. Denman represented the 126 tie producers of the Dougals Fir Tie Industry Association.

Amendment 49 would permit the Code Authority divisions and subdivisions to establish ,cost-protection prices for export sales and revise and rnodify such schedules upon 48 hours notice, whereas the present provision permits effective price changes only after ten days following publication of changes by the Authority.

Mr. Denman dealt particularly with the Chinese market for Douglas fir ties, and read reports on tie sales in that market to show that Ameri'can ties had steadily lost business to Canadian tie producers since the Code regulations went into effect.

Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumberman's Association, agreed in part with Mr. Denman but said he hoped that the inclusion of Amendment 49 would make it possible to arrive at an agreement with the British Columbia exporters that would stabilize foreign market prices for the benefit of both American and Canadian interest.

Suspensioor of Allotments Mr. Denman also vigorously opposed Amendment 50 which provides that persons failing to fulfill their obligations under Article IV of the Code may be denied an allotment by the governing agen,cy.

John L. Donovan, of the NRA Labor Advisory Board, proposed that the differential existing between wages paid employes in fir door plants in California and those to the same ,class of workers in Oregon and Washington be eliminated. Amendment 67 sets the California s,cale at 321 cents an hour, and that for Washington and Oregon at 4O cents an hour. Mr. Donovan said no reason has been given for the lower scale in California and that it should be raised to that of the other two states. No serious objections to considering the proposal were offered, it being explained that the wage s,cale was that in effect in California when the fir door manufa,cturers were under the jurisdiction of the Woodwork Division, and that the scale had been continued without protest from Washington and Oregon manufacturers since the California manufacturers had been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Douglas Fir Door subdivision.

Mr. Denman also vigorously opposed the amendment for limitation of additions to productive ,capacity of the industry, and proposed that it not be applied to the erection and operati.on of small "subsisten.ce" tie mills in rural sections, stating that such mills would be of great benefit in creating employment for persons who otherwise ,could not obtain work. Continuing his testimony, Mr. Denman laun,ched

at a small extra ,cost.

Ry-Lock Screens are Easy to Make. Many Customers Carry Them Home and, Mahe Them uith the Aitl ol Sirnple Tools,

Each Ry-Lock screen is complete in a'carton, whi.ch contains complete frame material, wire cloth, moulding, hangers, hook and eye, tacks, brads, corner braces, yard stick, moulding miter, and instructions, in fact everything to make a full sized window screen of any size.

Ry-Lock dealers find it is only ne,cessary to ,carry about a dozen sizes to supply all needs; the wood parts in each 'carton are left an inch wider and one and a half inches longer than the stated measurements to take care of variations in window frames.

Screens have white pine frame, are steel braced, have beveled bottom rail, wood spline for tightening wire cloth (bronze or galvanized), are convenient to carry, and are inexpensive, being manufactured by mass production methods.

The factory of Ry-Lock Company, Ltd., is located at 2485 Washington Ave., San Leandro. D. J. Rust, vicepresident and manager, is well known to the retail lumber trade having formerly been with the California Cedar Products Company, of Stockton, an asso,ciated concern. into a spirited attack on the proposal to create a California Water Distributors Subdivision under the Code, declaring it would serve to place administration of manufacturing in the hands of wholesalers who own some of the largest retail yards in California.

Replying for the proponents of the amendment, Col. Greeley stated that the purpose of the provision was to bring all distribution practi,ces under the code's control and discipline, and that this would be an advantage for every producer.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHAN1

April 15, 1934

S. F. Clean Up and Paint Up

N"w Deal lor Hoo-Hoo

Campaign

Harry E. Caldwell, Minneapolis, executive secretary for lfoo-Hoo, was a recent California visitor where he spent several days conferring with lumbermen in various sections of the state regarding the New Deal for Hoo-Hoo. The Hoo-Hoo Reorganization Committee announces it has developed from the first appeal for renewals a list of over 700 members, and states that it has uncovered a strong sentiment for the continuation of the Order.

Mr. Caldwell's trip to the Pacific Coast was to get the unqualified support of the manufacturers, which he says, has been readily given. lfe now looks to the retailers to give their support to the movement. Hoo-Hoo clubs will be reorganized at once throughout the Northwest, he states. Plans are now under way in California to get the Hoo-Hoo clubs reorganized, and Mr. Caldwell hopes that members of the industry will join, both locally and internationally, in large numbers.

Discussing the New Deal for lfoo-Hoo, Mr. Caldwell says, it is proposed to establish Hoo-Hoo clubs in the 15,000 municipalities in the United States as soon as possible; each club should be given wide latitude as to its local activities, but headquarters at Minneapolis will at all times stand ready to furnish technical and other information ; in addition to the other committees, each club should have a Public Education Committee which should arrange to give lectures which will be furnished by headquarters to Service Clubs. Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Education, etc., in each town about wood, also another committee to be known as the Wood Promotion Committee

San Francisco, Cal., April 3.-San Francisco's Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign will be launched a week later than

has been anticipated, the opening day now being set for April 23. For the past two weeks, James G. Yates, Chairman of the Clean Up and Paint Up Committee of the Golden Gate Paint Club, has been active in promoting the local Campaign in the adjacent communities, and anticipates that Campaigns coordinated with the San Francisco Campaign probably will be held in Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, Burlingame, San Mateo, Palo Alto and Vallejo.

Plans of organization for all of the communities are being obtained from the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau in Washington.

ARTHUR JONES SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VI.SITOR Arthur Jones, Tremont Lumber Company, Chicago, Ill., spent a few days in Southern California recently where he was contacting the trade, calling on their customers and representatives. The Tremont Lumber Company mill operations are at Rochelle, La. ERNEST JOHNSON VISTTS CALIFORNTA Ernest E. Johnson, Portland, Ore., sales manager of the C. D. Johnson Lumber Co. was a visitor at the ,company's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices the early part of the month.

lYAPPAT ELEGTRIC HANID SAWS

should be active.

Reinstatement of former members is set at $3. Applications from others must be accompanied by a check for $5, the extra $2 being for the initial expense of going through the records, button, and addressograph plate.

Members reinstating will retain their old Hoo-Ifoo number.

The Hoo-Hoo Reorganization Committee includes Harry T. Kendall, chairman; T' M. Partridge, treasurer; Sam L' Boyd, T. T. Jones, Ormie C. Lance and W. M. Watson' Hoo-Hoo headquarters are at 742 Lumber Exchange Building, MinneaPolis, Minn.

The handiest tool around the yard for-ripping, bevel-angle and cross cutting Take the tool to the lumber pile-

Save that coedy handlingSave thoge rhort lengths-

SEE A DEMONSTRATION Table Sawe - Jointero . Glue Potr Band Saws - Wood Lathes - Shalen Flexible Shaf&. Grinderr - Sanderr Concrete Surfacerc . Electric Drills

If,. N. THACKABERRY 3O8 Ee* 3rd St.

Lor Angeler, Catif.

Mutuel 7508

22O First Street San Francicco, Calif.

BXbrool 6O43

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TOOIS RENTED

RETAILERS ATTEND CODE HEARING Elmore W. King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, national code authority member of Retail Lumber and Build'ing Material Code Authority, Inc. (Northern California), and F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, code authority member of Subdivision No. 4, left for Washington.

D. C., April 5 to attend a Retail Lumber Code hearing.

E. E. WESTMAN VISITS CALIFORNIA E. E. Westman, Olympia, Wash., president of the Washington Veneer Co., is on a business trip to California. After spending several days in Southern California where he conferred with Ted Wright of Los Angeles, their California representative, they left for San Fran'cisco to spend a few days in the Bay District.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

April 15, 1934

CLASSIFIED

ADVERTISING

Rate---S2.50 Per Column

Inch. Minimum Ad One-HalF lnch.

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-,180. Care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED A position by young man of good habits, experienced in yard and office work both retail and wholesale lumber business. Can run bookkeeping and billing machine, also has bank experience. Will go anywhere. References given.

Address C-505, The California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION WANTED 12 years' experience in the Retail Lumber and Building Material business-also experienced in Paint and Building Hardware. Can furnish first class references and bond.

Will take anything for a start, will go anywhere. Address J. W. Haynes, 109 E. Lexington Dr., Glendale Calif.

WANTED POSITION Position wanted by experienced lumberman-retail or wholesale-Pine and Hardwoods, as foreman, inspector, yard or office. Address Box C-507, California Lumber Merchant.

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FOR LEASE Warehouse equipped complete for handling of lumber and lumber products. 8G(135 feet, double frontage, on Santa Fe Siding. Desks, safe and office space included. Apply Roy E. Harrington, care California Moulding Co., 1306 West 58th Street, Los Angeles.

WANTED Lumberman seeks connection as Bookkeeper-Stenographer or small yard manager. Experienced in yard and office management in California. Will go anywhere.

Address Box 506, California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBER SALESMAN 15 years' experience calling on the California retail lumber trade selling Fir and Redwood. Open for connection.

Can furnish best of references. Address Box C-508. care California Lumber Merchant.

REDWOOD TIMBER FOR SALE About ten million feet. Good road. Situated in Santa Cruz County, California. Address Box C-509, care California Lumber Merchant.

Have You Anything to Sell? or Do You Want to Buy Anything? in the way of Sawmill Machinery - Planing Mill Machinery - Lumber Handling Equipment - Truchs or Miscellaneous Equipment.

Whv Not Use Our Classified Ad Columns? $2.50 per Column Inch - Minimum Ad 0ne-Half Inch The California Lumber Merchant, 318 Central Bldg., 1O8 Wect Sixth St., Lor Angeler, Cdifornia: Please publieh the following Classified .Ad:

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VENEERS

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We carry the largest and best assorted stock of Plywood west of Chicago. Our well assorted stocks, our well lcnown dealer policy and our central location guarantee the kind of service you demand.

Progessive lumber merchants should carry these quality products. Familiarize your traile of the advantages of using Plywood. For remodeling and modernizing they are real economy.

AIso a Complete Line of Pressed Wood Moulilings

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THE SAME OLD

SUDDEN SERVICE IN FIR, PINE AND RED

Rail

CEDAR PRODUCTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION

WE DO OUR PART

Cargo

.dnd back of it all a personal responsibility for standards of quality that have been identified with Santa Fe for a generation.

WE REPRESENT THE

BOLCOM.CANAL LUMBER CO. SEATTLE, WASH. Manufacturers of Soft Old Growth Yellow Fir

SA]ITA FE LUMBER Gl|.

Incoqrorated Feb. 14, 1908 Erclurive Rcprcrcntativcr in Northern Celifornia for

Creo-Dipt Company, lnc., North Tonawanda, N. Y. Gcncral Officc

PINE DEPARTMENT

LOS ANGELES

SAN FRANCISICO St. Clair Bldg.

16 California St.

F. S. PALMER, Mgr. California Ponderosa Pine California Sugar Pine

311 Financial Center Bldg.

7O4 So. Spring St. - TRinity 982f

ROBT. FORGIE