The California Lumber Merchant - April 1935

IIEPEIIIIABIE TUMBER SERUIGE

Our service to you includes the best quality materials, courteous attention to inquiries and orders, and prompt shipment by our own steamers, Old Growth Fir and Hemlock Packaged Lumber Red Cedar Shingles

Carefully manufactured from our own fine stands of Old Growth Yellow Fir in our mills at Montesano, Wash., Aberdeen, Wash., Dryad, Wash.

Spring melta the soul of the rwamper and the icicles on the whigl(ers of the bullcook. The world thrillr to rectored life and Paul Bunyan, not to be outdone by the returning dickybirdc, mugt burst forth in song.

He hae built a ukelele with boards Babe kicked off of the barn and some wire rope from his logging outfit. Paul sings the old songs, "Shanty Boyr" "Paddy Hartr" "Bung Yer Eye," and "The Rock Candy Moun1aias"-1n66eries of his daye on the white pine drivee on the upper reaches of the Missiuippi, the Penobscot, on White River, the St. Croix and the Red River of the North. Serious complaintr are being received of interference with radio reception, so he may have to be stopped.

SPR IN G

Spring, to the lumber dealer, is something more than singing in the sunshine. It means the filling up and rounding out of yard stocks to meet building demand. This year it is already difficult to obtain all the required items and indications point to more seriousshortages Iater on if ordersare not placed early enough to permit accumulation of stock by the mill. Supply anddemandis working in that direction.

On one hand we havehousing programs and returning farm prosperity to increasedemand, on lhe other thegreatestshortage of mill stocks ln years.

You can't sell items you haventt got and the mill can not supply. Place your orders as early as possible.

RED RIVER MIXED CARS

. . . one loading, one shipment, one billing, one handling of lumber products and plywood panels and wallboards. This reduces your unit costs and the time consumed in buying scattered l.c.l. quantities or multiple loadings.

IT'S THE HILLBILLY IN HIM

Random ltems---Mill Run

STEWART MATTHE!\IS SOJOURNING AT PALM SPRINGS

Stewart Matthews, secretary of the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash., was a'guest at the El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs, for the past few weeks where he enjoyed a rest. Before returning to the Northwest, he will spend a few days in Los Angeles with J' H' Prentice, the,company's Southern california representative.

STUART SMITH VISITS OAKLAND OFFICE

Stuart Smith, Coos Bay Lumber Co', Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the San Francisco Bay District where he visited the company's offrces in Oakland and called on the San Francisco wholesale trade'

ATTENDS SALES MEETING IN CHICAGO

Perry Dame, Los Angeles, West Coast representative for the Upson Company, left for Chicago by pla4e on April 4 to attend a sales meeting.

J. O. ELMER VISTTS LOS ANGELES

J. O. Elmer of San Francisco, Northern California repre,.rrt"til " for the Oregon-Washington Plywood Co', spent a few days in Los Angeles around the first of the month' He was a visitor at the office of W' W' Wilkinson, the company's Southern California representative, and also called on the lumber trade.

HARRY GRAHAM BACK FROM SAN FRANCISCO TRIP

Harry J. Graham, director of sales for the Pioneer-Flintkote Company, Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a business trip to the San Francisco Bay District where he ,conferred with their sales representatives and called on the trade.

W. W. WOODBRIDGE CALIFORNIA VISITOR

W. W. Woodbridge, manager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, Wash., was a San Francisco and Los Angeles visitor the early part of the month.

VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

P. W. Chantland, manager of the Los Angeles office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., was recently in San Francisco on a business triP.

CALL ON RETAIL LUMBER TRADE

'Warren B. Wood, vice president and general manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. Southern California operations, and Per,cy Merithew, wholesale sales manager, Los Angeles, with Fran'cis Pool of Phoenix, the company's Ari"orru ,.pr"rentative, recently completed a two weeks' trip calling on the trade in Southern Nevada, Arizona and Northern Mexico. Mr. Pool made the return trip to Los Angeles and spent a day at the Los Angeles office' They bring back word that the Arizona dealers will hold their annual convention on May 10, 11 and 12 at Phoenix.

*Advertiserrents appear in alternate iacue'

Associated Lumber Mutualg ----------------------------19

Bookstaver-Burng Lumber Co. ----------------'-------21

Booth-Ke[y Lumber Co.

Broo&mire, Inc.

Buctley Lumber Dealers' Supply Qo' ---------"2L

California Builders Supplv €o. ---------------------13

California Panel & Veneer Co. ---------------------- 9

California Redwood Aseociation

California Vholesale Lumber As3n'--------------

.Hill & Morton, Inc. ------------------------------------21

Hogan Lu-ber Co. ---- -- -----------------.--------'-21

Holmes Eureka Lumber Co. -----------------21

I{oover, A. L. ----------- ---"-'Jl

Kingsley Company, The ------------------------'--'

Koehl & Sonr, fnc., Jno. V. ---------_---------21

Laughlin, C. J. ----- -- ------'-'-21

Lawrence-Philipc Lumber Co. ---------------------21

Loop Lumber ComPanY ----'--'l'

Lumberments Credit Association --------------25

McCormick Lumber Co., Char. R. ---------'----21

MacDonald & Bergstromy fnc. --------------19

MacDonald & Ffarrington, Ltd. ------------------11

Moore Mill & Lumber Cro. ----- -------------------21

Mulligan & Co., V. J. -- --- ---- --- "'--'----""21

Pacific Lumber Co., The -O.B'C'

Pacific Mutual Door Co. ---------------------'- ---'-23

Patten.BlinnLumber Co. ------------------_

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M. ADAMS Cirolatlo Mmger

rtow Lumber Looks

_Shipments from the lumber mills during the week ended March 30 were the heaviest of any week of"1935, except onel production was less than in recent weeks, and new busirrl"" was about the same according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association

Reports from 1,085 mills for the week ended March 30 showed -production 165,541,000 feet, shipments 2O3.O44rOOO teet, and orders received l97rg29rOOO f.eet.

New busines" t"ol* l" ,r"-**r-ao"rJt.r-b"rmen's Association for the week ended March 30, 523 mills reporting, was 192:!-!5.79r- feet, shipments, 98,715,611 feet, and^ prodiction 8Er357r422 f.eet. Current sales were over production by te p",

9en9 a1d- shipments wete ll.7 p.. ""t t orr"-,'production. .Orders about 9,OOO,OOO feet booked for ihe week fot the week by these mills were gTOOOTOOO o".j. tl" preceding wgek o1 approximately 9.6 per cent. The unfilled order file at the mills ,i"od "t lgi,Sg7,|iS feet.

The Vestern Pine Association for r:he week ended March 3e 122 mills ^t:g9.ji"g, gave new business as 43,977,0O0 feet, ship- ments 4710961000 feet, and production 1116g91000 feet. Ordeis were 38.7_per cent over production, and 6.6 per cent below ship- ments. Shipments wete 48.6 per cent over production. Ordeis on hand at the end of the week totaled tg+it77,OOO f.eet.

The California Redwood Association for the week reported production from 15 mills as S,gt6rOOO feet, shipments gr0bgr0d feet, and new business 614591000 feet. Oiders on hand at the end of the week totaled 32r5O9,00O f.eet.

259 hardwood mills for the week ended March 30 gave new business as 181588,000 feet, or 2O per cent above prid,r.tioi, and shipments 17,994,0OO feet, or 16- p.. cent above iroduction. Production ri,as 15r5O5,00O feet.

, Ptl". Market_ prices are pretty firm. Generally speaking ttre Ponderosa advances over the Code list thai have been put into effect from time to time are being well maintained. S.riar Pine prices ar9 v_ery strong, and all it.-, .r" selling consid"erably over Code lisi.

Redwood. Market is firm and active. Movement from mills is steady and continuous. Demand for tank stock still exceeds the supoJ/. The demand for Redwood shingles is picking uf, due to the promotion work of the Redwood -StringtJ BureZu.'' _ Douglas Fir. No.3 Common is very scarce. Cimmon prices have strengthened somewhat in the iast two weeks. Stringte prices are strong. There is no speculative buying in spite of ti" threatened strike of loggers and sawmill *orLoi Rail business rs quret.

Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor totaled 316861000 feet on April 6 as against 4,671:000 feet for the preceding week. Cargo-arrivals .il,o, Angeles harbor for $e_w9ek ended April 8 amounted to t2,926,O{o feet which in"t""*d. 15 cargogs of Fir carrying ll,g5groo0 f.ee6 and 2 cargoes ot Redwood with 1r068r0fi) feet. 61 vessels were opetatin! in the coastwise lumber service on April g; 39 vessels *!r"i.iil"f.

\(/. T. Coo per Back in Wholesale The Diamond Match Company Lumber Business Buys Two Yards

_, Wilfred T. Cooper is now selling for the Wendling_ Nathan Co., The Pacific Lumber Compan1,, and A. L. "Gus" Ifoover in the Southern California territory. He will devote most of his time to Douglas fir.

Mr. Cooper is well known to the Southern California re- tail lumber trade where he has been connected with the wholesale lumber business for many years.. He will make his headquarters at the offices of ,.Gus', Hoover, 200 South La Brea Ave., Lo,s Angeles.

GEORGE GRANT VISITS LOS ANGELES OFFICE

George Grant, California sales manager for the Coos Bay Lumber Co., returned to Oakland Jr Marcn 29 after a week's visit to the company,s Los Angeles office.

The Diamond Match Company recently purchased the yards of Livermore Lumber Company, Livermore, and J. B. Blair Lumber Company, placerville.

Buys Ne* Yard Ste

The Western Lumber Company of San Diego recently purchased the site at La Jolla formerly occupied by the Spreckles Commer'cial Company yard, and have moved their La Jolla plant to the new site. They have built an addition to the planing mill at their main plant in San Diego and have replaced some of the machinery with new equipment. The company recently opened a wholesale department.

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V.gabond Editoriafs

By Jack Dionne

And now the federal Government starts to turn loose nearly FM BILLION DOLLARS to end unemployment and force the return of prosperity. How much of that money is the lumber industry going to get?

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That's the biggest guestion before the industry today. In my judgment the participation of the lumber industry in that huge sum of cash is going to depend on the intelligent effort of the industry to plan and work and point the way. That share will be great or small in exact proportion to the quality and quantity of the effort.

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This will be the last tremendous effort of the administration at Washington to end this depression by artificial stimulation. It has naturally just GOT to work. A five billion dollar dud would be five billion dollars more than we could stand. And, because it MUST work it WILL work. But the efforts of the intelligent citizenship to help MAKE it WORK is going to be a great deterrnining factor in its develoPment'

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If the building industry, and the other heavy goods industries, secure a large share of that five billion bucks-the depression will be wiped out. If not, and the money does NOT find its way to the fundamentals of things, we can all of us just start singing a hymn.

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If we can find ways and means for using a large share of that money to restore to normal buildings and building conditions throughout the land, millions of men will go back to genuine work, and each of these men directly employed in building will further employ millions of other men, both before and behind them. It wiU require one great army to produce, and refine, and distribute, and deIiver the materials; it wiil require another great army to supply the NEEDS and the WANTS of the building mitIions when they get to spending their WAGES.

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Just what the lumber people, individually and collectively, can do to attract dollars into lumber and building directions, is the thing we should immediately set our heads to. That there ARE numerous-practicaily INNUMERABLE-such things that can be done, every intelligent man will admit. Those five billions of bucks have not yet been routed toward their job-creating destinations. They will seek the line of greatest attraction, and most practical promise.

The Government has tried many rnethods of financial distribution in the past two years to promote recovery. The President of General Motors says in a recent statement to the newspapers that many of these recovery efiorts have unquestionably retarded recovery, while others have been of unquestioned benefit, although almost entirely artificiaily. No real try has yet been made in the direction of home building. That great effort is due for the immediate future.

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There are individual things that I know the lumber folks can do to attract the coming shower of dollars into lumber channels. They can go back to selling. Conditions of the past two years have almost prohibited intensive selling. But that time is coming back. And, on the quality of their selling is going to depend how much prosperity the lumber industry is going to get.

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I believe the time has come again for the retail lumbermen to go out into the highways and by-ways and spread the gospel of homes and of home building and possession, seeking, searching, digging, tunneling, blasting if need be, for every dollar's wofth of available building business. They must offer prices that are always fair and will stand the closest scrutiny in that respect. The rising prices of living commodities of late has done much to set back recovery. A fair price for building material is utterly essential if recovery is to return via the building route.

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I believe that there is the greatest potential opportunity imrnediately ahead of the lumber industry today that any of us have ever seen. The huge buildingJess vacuum of the past ten years will swallow in huge gulps our available building materials and our available building artisans whenever the financial supply is available. And if, as I believe, the Government is going to try and create genuine recovery by financing worthy people in their needed buildings-then it won't be long.

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If I had all thd lumbermen in this country in an audience before me today and was privileged to address them, I would offer THIS prayer to them now: ..ff you love the lumber industry, and would see it emerge from this stifling depression, and would see it move forward into an enduring period of usefulness and prosperity-DO SOMETHING

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Vagabond Editorials

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FOR IT. Set as:de all subterfuge. Tear away all camouflage. Destroy all fences, inhibitions, and restrictions except those of fair play, and SELL LUMBER WHEN THE NEW FINANCES BECOME AVAILABLE AS YOU NEVER DREAMED OF SELLING LUMBER BEFORE.''

Solicit business *.r" nJ""J ,J no.r"u, f rom man ro man, from office to office. Follow the example of the automobile man. If you don't think depression can be overcome in the midst of depression, check up right now on the business of one Henry Ford, whose customers flood him with orders and patiently wait for delivery.

The sin of omission i, ;"i the tumber business the same as the sin of commission. The man who fails to carry the message and do the work in HIS town, has contributed toward the failure of the effort to kill depression. Get the old feet off the table, the old seat off the chair, put on the

G. E. Manspeaker Opens L. A. Office

G. E. Manspeaker recently opened an office at 1205 Rives Strong Building, Los Angeles, where he is carrying on a general wholesale lumber business in Douglas fir, pine, recl cedar, sprucet plywoods and box shook. He is representing the A. C. Tebb Lunlber Corporation of Aberdeen, Wash.

With P. S. Associated Mills

Fred C. Whittemore has joined the Los Angeles sales force of the Puget Sound Associated Mills and will assist George S. Melville calling on the Southern Califorhia retail trade. Mr. Whittemore is well known rn retail lumber circles. Ife was with Weaver-Henry of Los Angeles for a long period, and later s'ith the Moulding Supply Co. of Alhambra.

M. Huddart

J. M. Hudclart, retired lumberman, who at one time was agent in San Francisco for EasJern & Western Lumber Co. of Portland, died at his home in Woodside on March 31 at the age of 73.

Mr. Huddart left his 973 acre estate at Woodside, a magnificent Redwood property, to the city and county of San Francisco.

old thinking cap, and go out and see what you can do to divert the money that is being spent and going to be spent intlie near future in YOUR territory, into building channels.

rn the old days *n"";.;" i"". in the hey-day of her glory, the proudest boast of any Roman citizen rev3s-"Qivis Romanus $ss1"-pfuich meant, "I am a Roman citizen." No empty title, was this. He had to prove it by his deeds. No sluggard, no doubter, no unbeliever could be a "Civis Romanus." Let us take our lesson from ancient Rome and make each man his !e3sf-"1 am a lumberman," and let him prove it by his deeds, and strive, just as did those Romans of ancient days, to be loyal and helpful ***

And let us fight the good fight so that when the great day comes when the history of all good and courageous deeds are written. it will be said in truth of the lumbermen of 1935 that they were indeed BUILDERS.

Coast Counties Club

Elects Officets

Wiley T. Masengill, manager of the Pacific Coast Coal Company's yard with headquarters in San Luis Obispo, rvas elected president of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club at the annual election ,of officers held in Monterey, April 4.

W. H. Enlow, manager of the Watsonville yard of the Hammond Lumber Company, was elected vice president.

J. H. Kirk, manager of the Southern Pacific Milling Company's yards with headquarters in San Luis C)bispo, was elected treasqrer.

M. D. Bishop, Watsonville, was re-elected secretary-manager.

Control Committee Discusses Big Attendance Expected at Enlorcement Situation o[ Lumbermen's Reveille

Lumber Code

At the conclusiou oi the n.reeting of the National Control Committee rvhich convened at \\rashington, D. C., on April 2, the Lumber Cocle Authority on April 9 sent the follon'ing telegram to the clivisions and subdivisions of the Lumber Code:

"Control comn-rittee today conclttclecl rveek's session clevoteci entirely to euf orcdment situation o{ lumber code brought to crisis by withdrarval of appeal in Belcher 'case. During this time it l'as almost constantly in 'confereuce rvith officials o{ the NIRB ancl revier,ved and studiecl in detail jointly rvith theur complex ancl involved situation both from point of view of industry ancl of board. At conclusion of conference tocial'. program for fttture action lvas agreed upon. Cornmittee annouuced its intention of presenting promptly to inclustry report of its discussions and indicated industry rvould soon be asked to express its viervs on amendments to code to be proposed lty NIRB. Prog'ram as announced today by board, follows :

"First-it u'ill be made clear that compulsory enforcement of code 'ivill not be undertaken during continuance of conditions making it inequitable.

"Second-Governlnellt contracts u'ill continue to be alvarded upon basis voluntary compliance with code.

"Third-Appropriate atnendments to code will be preoarecl by NIRB and submitted to jndustry.

"Fourth-When any division or subdivision assents to submitted amendments they u'il1 become effective in such division or subdivision.

"Fifth-When such course becomes equitable greatest possible degree 'compliance and enforcement effort u'ill be made available in each division or subdivision'

"Sixth-Administrative machinery will be set up immediately within NRA to afford authoritative prompt and efficient attention to lttmber code matters.

"$svsnfh-Joint effort will be made promptly to develop and establish improved means to obtain cornpliance within industry including use of labels, stamps or other means identification of industry products.

"National Control Committee expects your agency to carry on."

Fred Hamlin

Fred Hamlin, 57, r.vell known lumberman, died at the X,Iasonic }Iome, Decoto, after a long illness. He was a native of San Francisco.

Frecl entered the lumber business as bookkeeper rvith Robert Dollar Co. in San Francisco, became a salesman in Cali{omia f'or this firm and represented them for a time in the Orient. After his return from the Far East he was rvith the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. for six years, and later was a partner in the Bennett-Hamlin Lumber Co. in the 'rvholesale business. His last position rvas with the Paramino Lumber Co. in San Francisco.

I{e was an active Hoo Hoo member for many years'

A11 previous attendance recorcls will be broken at the Third Annttal Reveille of Central ancl Northern California Iumbermen to be helcl at Hotel Oakland, Fridal', April 26, according to preclictions by Larne Woodson, general comuittee chairman and Carl R. Nfoore, geueral secretary-treas11 rer.

The banquet n.ill be held at 6:30 p.m. The entertait.tmcnt s,ill again be furnished by the rvholesalers, and Bert Bryan, entertainment committee chairman promises that it will be first class. Echvin Imhaus, tenor, radio star of national fan.re, l,ill be guest artist. Tickets for the ltanquet ancl entertainment are $2.00 each.

1'he golf tournament rvill be held on Saturdal' morning at Oak Knoll Conntry Club. l\{any valuable prizes will be arvardecl. Green fees, inclucling luncheon and a free ball, ar e $1.75.

Reservations for the Golf Tournament should lte r.nade as soon as possible r,vitl-r the chairman of the golf con-rnrittee, Kenneth Shipp of California Builders Supply Co. 501 29th Avenue, Oaklancl. Telephone ANdover 1188.

Arizona Annual May 10-11-12

The annual meeting of the Arizona Iluilclers' Supply Association will be held on May 10, 11 and 12.

Retail Lumber & at Phoenix, Ariz.,

PLYWOOD VENEERS WALLBOARD

Our well assorted stocks, our well known dealer policy and our central location guarantee the kind of SERVICE you demand.

For remodeling and modernizing they are real economy.

Annual Meeting of the National Lumber Manufactu rers Association to be Held in Chicaso

Washington, D. C., X{arch 31.-The thirtl'-third annual meeting of the National Lumber l,Ianufacturers Association rvill be held at the Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, on April 25, 26 and 27. It is expected that at that time the National Lumber Manufacturers Association rvill have been reconstitnted as a federation of the American lumber manufacturing industry through the affiliation of the more important regional associations and species groups.

The meeting tvill have a rvicler appeal to the industry than most of the annual gatherings since 1929. The magnet u'hich has particularly drar,vn the regionals together again is the necessity of cornmon industry action and common trade promotion activity. The fundamental group phase of promotion of lurnber and timber produ,cts will be the responsibility of the National Association, leaving the regionals ,charged with the duty of promoting particular species follou'ing the advance rvork by the National. Behind the regional association rvork should be intensive and intelligent selling by individual companies in the markets created by National and regional associations.

The idea is strongly emphasized that the National is merely an extension by united effort into the national field of functions which rvottld otherwise have to be performed individually or regionally with much repetition of effort and expense.

With the per capita consumption of lumber during the ,depression down to European low levels, the industry is 'undoubtedly threatened rvith the possibility of continued' lorv-standard,consumption. Moreover, rival material in.dustries are preparing to fight for the replacement of rvood 'rvith greater vigor and sagacity than ever.

The necessity of a powerful drive in the interests of wood as a whsle, in order that the lumber of individual concerns 'may have a market is becoming more and more insistent. It is futile to make good lumber and rnerchandise it u'ell :if lumber is regarded as out of fashion.

With this theme of common action the annual rneeting 'is expectecl to consider the $'a)'s and means of raising an adequate clefense and advancernent fund and the main lines rvhich the promotion rl'ork shall take-all the rvay frorn helping 'fhe 'retailer to scientific resear,ch designed to e\tract more value at less cost from everl' log.

Critical Legislation Affecting Lumber

Federal legislation affecting the industry is another topic of intense intetest rvhich rvill come before the rneeting. It includes NRA legislation rvith particular reference to the future Iorm .e,f ,the Lurnber Cocle, the 30-hour n'eek bill, the Wagner labor dispute bill. forestry legislation and social rsecurity :pnqposals.

The virtual paralysis of the Lumber Code brought about by the announced intention of the government to suspend efforts to enforce the Lumber Code by withdrawing the crucial Belcher lumber appeal case from the United States Supreme Court, makes the present a tnore critical situation in the lumber industry than trvo years ago when NRA legislation was on the rvay. At that time the annual meeting had to deal rvith the problem of what to do under the "Nelv Deal" in general and a "nerv deal" for the lumber industry in particular. The problem rvhich is now posed before the lumber industry is, rvhat to do ifit is thrown back on its own defensive and recuperative resources, as a result of either the extension or the dissolution of NRA. The stand taken by the national meeting of lumbermen rvill have much to do with the future status of the industry.

A plan for the der.eloprnent of an Export Division within the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, set up and finan,ced by the export organizations, will be submitted to the Board of Directors for approval.

The Directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association are hopeful of representative attendance of lumbermen, regardless of rvhether their local or regional ulrits are at present members of the National Association, so that they may have the benefit of the collective judgment and opinion of the industrf in dealing with the problerns raised by the changing national legislative and economic situations.

Frank Curran Buys Retail Yards

Frank Curran, prominent Southern California lumberman and for many years manager of the E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. at Los Angeles, has purchased the retail lumber yards formerly operated by the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. at Santa Ana and Huntington Beach, Calif., and will engage in the retail lumber business for his own account under the name of Frank Curran Lumber Co., Inc. Howard Curran, his son, u'ho has been connected rvith the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. fora long period and formerly in charge of the Pine Departrnent in their l-os Angeles oftice, u'ill be associated with his father.

VISITS LOS ANGELES

Ralph T. lVloore, president, I\{oore Mill & Bandon, Ore., and Carl R. Moore, in charge pany's San Francisco office. recentlv spent a Los Angeles on business.

Lumber Co., of the comfew days in

Red Cedar Shingle Bureau Capacity o[ Plywood Plant Holds Annual Congress Increased

H. J. Bailey, Saginaw'Timber Co., Aberdeen, Wash', was elected president of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau at the annual Shingle Congress held in Seattle, IMarch 29.

P. H. Olwell, Jamison Lumber & Shingle Co., Everett, Wash., was elected vice president, and Miss Grace Jones' Seattle, was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

The nerv board of trustees is as follows : P. H. Ohvell, Everett, Wash.; D. H. Lowry, Whatcom Falls Mill Co', Bellingham, Wash.; Geo. Bergstrom, Pacific Timber Co., Everett, Wash.; Paul Smith, M. R. Smith Lumber & Shingle Co., Seattle; Ray Wilde, Pacific Timber Co', Everett, Wash.: A. H. Landram, St. Paul'& Tacoma Lumber Co', Tacoma, Wash.; Dale Craft, Royal Shingle Co., Whites, Wash.: C. H. Kreienbaum, Reed Mill Co., Shelton, Wash.; I{. V. Whittall, Huntting-Merritt Lumber Co., Marpole, B. C.; Earl McNair, Robt. McNair Shingle Co., Vancouver, B. C.; Russell llorton, Victoria, B. C., and A. L. Hughes, Joseph Chew Shingle Co.. Vancouver, B' C.

Leo. S. Black, Seattle Cedar Lumber Mfg. Co., Seattle, retiring president, presided.

New by-laws for the Bureau were approved by the meeting, and on the recommendation of the manager it was decided to use in future on the No. 1 shingle label the word "Certigrade", a 'coined word designating No. 1 grade Bureau Shingles, certified as to grade, instead of the word "Certified". It r,vas also decided to identify No. 2 Bureau shingles by a label.

W. W. Woodbridge, manager of the Bureau, in his report outlining the activities of the Bureau in the past year, expressed great optimism as to the future. He predicted that the present demand for shingles would be doubled in a year or so. He stated that more than four million pieces of literature advertising shingles had been distributed in the last year, and said that the lumber dealers all over the country are pleased with the efiorts of the Bureau to help them in the marketing o{ wood shingles.

Mr. Woodbridge expressed appreciation of the free publicity given to wood shingles by the lumber trade papers.

R. O. WILSON VISITS LO,S ANGELES

R. O. Wilson, R. O. Wilson & Son, San Francisco' was a recent business visitor to Los Angeles.

More Than 50%

Expansion of the plant of the Elliott Bay Mill Company of Seattle, manufacturers of the well known Big Timber plywood and wallboard, to increase its plywood manufacturing capacity by more than 50 per cent was recently announced by Bruce Clark, vice president and sales manager.

This work has been under way for some weeks and is now nearing completion. It will raise the capacity of the plant from 38,000,000 square feet to 60,000,000 square feet annually, and is expected to add 100 men to the present mill stafi of about 250.

The company has 2,26 dealer representatives throughout the country and the present increase of capacity is just a normal development due to the steady growth of the company's business. Mr. Clark believes that modernizing will produ,ce more business for plywood than new constructiotl in 1935.

Lloyd }farris, Elliott Bay Sales Company, Oakland, reports a healthy increase in California sales of Big Timber plywood and wallboard in the first quarter of 1935 as compared with 1934.

Appointed Yard Managers

C. C. Nuckolls, formerly manager of the Hammond Lumber Company yard at Colton has been appointed manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at San Bernardino. T. O. Thompson, who has been connected with the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Escondido, has been appointed manager of the 'company's yard at Bloomington.

Capt. P. C, Hansen

Capt. P. C. Ilansen, rvell known Northern California retail lumberman with yards at Centerville, Niles, Alvarado, Decoto and Irvington, died at his home in Centerville on April 8.

Capt. Hansen was born in Denmark 76 yeats ago, and came to California at the age of 26. He is survived by a brother, M. C. Hansen of San Francisco.

By Jock Dionne

Ag" not guaranteed---Some I have told for zo years---Some less A Hish Toned Gent

The colored woman was telling her neighbor about her daughter Mandy's new beau, and how well mannered he was. She said:

"Ah'm tellin' you dat new sweetie whut Mandy's got suttinly is de rnos' confiscated gentman Ah evah is seen. He got de mos' high-toned manners. you would'n believe itif you didn't see him how he does.,'

"IIow you mean he got sich high-toned manner?" asked the neighbor.

"Well," said'the mother, "jes' to give you an idee, when he drinks he coffee, he poes it out in his sauce' jes lak common folks, but he doan blow on hit lak we does. Nossuh ! He doan blow on hit ! He jes' fans hit wid his hat."

LCA Favors Suspension ot Lumbermenfs Golf Tournament the Lumber Code

Washington, D. C., Mar. 26.-Left by the action of government, through the National Industrial Recovery Board and the Department of Justice, rvith a code nominally in effe,ct but rvithout the support of governmental authority, the Resident Committee of the Luml>er Code Authority today took a stand in favor of suspension of the ,code. Explaining this action, the executive offi,cer of the Lumber Code Authority rnade the following statement:

"The t'ithdrawal of the Belcher case by the Department of Justice is a bitter disappointment to the Lumber and r Timber Prodrrcts Industries.

"The unavoidable inference is that the Department of Justice l,vill no longer endeavor to enforce the Lumber Code. thus creating a difficult situati,on of dis,crimination between the lumber'and other industries. Being thus left 'ivith an incapacitated code, the Resident Committee of the Lumber Code Authority today telegraphed to its administrative divisions throughout the country a recommendation that 'for reasons of equity' the Administration should be requested to suspend the ,code for the lumber industry, together u'ith a request for their viervs thereon and ,comment on the Belcher case rvithdrawal, which are to be transmitted to the National Industrial Recovery Board for disposition. During the present uncertainty the Lumber Code Authority intends to maintain its organization in order that they may be in position to speak officially for the industry.

"We entered into the President's recovery program nearlr- tu'o years ago tvith sincerest intention both to rehabilitate our own industries and to contribute to the public interest through increasing wages, sh,ortening hours of labor and putting our industry in a position to carry on in the recovery movement. Because at that time our inclustry s'as in the depths of a depression, not approached in any other industry except agriculture, the difficulties of achieving recover)' u'ere greater and the requirements for cooperative action were consequently more imperative. Our

At a meeting of the ,committee for the first annual Southern California Lumbermen's Golf Tournament which is being sponsored by Lumbermen's Post, No. 4O3, American Legion, it was decided to hold the tournament on Friday afternoon, May t7. Announcement of tvhers'the tournanrent will be held will be made later.

Cash prizes which will be awarded the winners in tl-re various events have been donated by Lounsberrv & Harris, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Owens-Parks Lumber Co., Hammond Lumber Company, Ker,ckhoff-Ctzner Mill & Lumber Co., Lawren'ce-Philips Lumber Co., E. J. Stanton & Son, California Wholesale Lumber Association, and Gus lloover. Lumbermen's Post is donating a cup for the low gross winner; this cup will have to be won twice to gain permanent possession of the trophy. As many nerv golfers are expected to participate in the tournament, the committee has arranged to donate prizes to the rvinners in this group.

Council Meets at Fresno

The regular m,onthly meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council was held in Fresno, April 5.

Fifty lumbermen were present at this rneeting. This is the largest number that has ever attended a regular monthly meeting, indicating an ever-grorving interest in Council activities.

Code had to be adapted to meet the peculiar requirements of our industry and rvas, therefore, quite difierent from rntist others approved under the Act.

"The industries under our Code immediately made a sincere and honest effort to fulfill their obligations in code aclministration and we can reasonably point.rvith pride to the marked contribution we have made to the recovery movement. All this was done through voluntary compliance which, notrvithstanding the practically complete failure of enforcement activities, has continued to a substantial degree up to the present time."

Stumpage and Log Prices Show H. M. lsenhower Great Fancier

Increase in 1934

Increasecl sturnpage and log prices in 1934, as compared with 1933, are indicated in a preliminary tabulation b1' the Forest Service, of. 1934 sales of privately owued timber stumpage and of logs. The tabulation was made from re,cords collected in cooperation with the Bureau of the Census, based on more than two billion feet of stumpage and nearly two and one half billion feet of logs.

Subject to revision in the final compilation, the follor'ving percentage of increases (1934 over 1933) are now indicated: softrvood stumpage 7.6 per cent; hardwood stumpage, 2'5 per cent; softwood logs, 11.1 per cent, hardwood logs, 12.4 per cent. Of the more important species, Douglas fir stumpage increased 5.4 per cent, logs 12.5 per cent; southern yellow pine stumpage increased 20 pet cent, logs 17.2 per cent; Northern White pine stumpage increased 5.7 per cent, logs 5.9 per cent; Ponderosa pine stumpage in'creased 10.6 per cent, logs 8.1 per cent; oak stumpage increased about 1 per cent, logs 14.6 per cent; gum stumpage increased 23.2 per cent, logs 13.1 per cent. Maple stumpage remained practically unchanged in price, but maple logs increased 4.1 per cent.

VISITS SAWMILL

Bob Caldrvell, Hammond Lumber Company, Sau Francisco, returnecl April 8 frorn a visit to the companl"s mill at Samoa.

o[ Pedigreed Dogs

Harvey M. Isenhotver, sales representative for the Holmes Eureka Lumber Company, is the orvner of a Pointer bird dog rvhich rvhelped eight pups on February 24. The accompanying photograph' which rvill be of interest to all sportsmen in the lumber fraternity, shows the eight husky young canines. The voung lady in the picture is Miss P.ggy Isenhower.

The pups are all males which is very uuusual as in a litter of pups there are generally more females than males' Both the father and mother are registered pedigreed dogs; the father, Burning Fo,201262, and the tnother, Mable Dee, No. 185665. These pups which are for sa1e, llarvey stateq, are some of the finest stock in the United States. Mr. Isenhorver's address rs 3725 Third Ave., Sacramento, Calif.

BACK FROM THE NORTHWEST

Perry A. Dame, Western representative of The Upson Company, with headquarters in Hollywood, returned recently from an extended business trip to Northern California and the Pa'cifi'c Northwest. His trip included visits to San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane.

Reciprocity Negotiations With Canada Hing ed on fmperial Prelerence

Washington, D. C., March 25.-prospects for reciprocitv with Canada took one step nearer realization when the Committee for Reciprocity Information of the State De_ partment held hearings on the subject, March 1g_21, with lumber as the first commodity for consideration. It is gen_ erally believed in Washington that the Administration plans to make Canada very tempting ofiers of access to American markets with a vierv to opening a breach in the British Empire tariff preference wall, and bringing Canada more into the American continental trade system.

The hearing began with testimony by Senator Steiwer of Oregon and Senator Bone of Washington. Senator Mc_ Nary of Oregon, Senate Republican Lader, submitted a letter in which he endorsed the stand of the lumber indus_ tryin favor of reciprocal trades in certain items of the lumber tariffs. Senator Steiwer and Bone placed emphasig on the necessity of maintaining ample protection for lum_ ber, and the latter also mentioned fruii and fish. Senator Schwellenbach of Washington, took a position similar to that of Senator Bone. Representative IVIott of Washington supported the general position taken in the brief submitted by the N. L. M. A. and also advocated an embargo on Canadian shingles. Senators Hale and White of Maine ar_ gued that the industries of their state must not bg sacri_ l5d to the reciprocity policy. Representative Lloyd of Washington called for consideration for bulbs and coal as well as lumber and shingles. Representative Martin Smith of Washington supported the general position of the lumber industry in its brief and compared conditions of timber taxation in the United States and Canada, also noting the fact that in the State of Washington 3O per cent of the standing timber is owned by the Unlted Staies gov_ ernment, 19 per cent by the State and some by the In_ dians. Representative Sam Hill,of Washington, while making some mention of the necessity of protecting lum_ ber, devoted himself particularly to the need of proiection for wheat, apples and livestock, and Representative Wall_ gren emphasized the need of protection all around.

Coming to exclusive lumber testimony, Wilson Compton made an oral presentation of the position taken by the ium_ ber industry in its previously filecl brief, namely: (a) main_ tenance intact of tariff protection on our surplus species, (b) of suggesting the legally permissible .."1pro""i .on_ cessions in duties on th.ose species of lumber which are scarce in one country and in surplus in the other, (c) of moderate recipro,cal tariff reductions on identical species l'r'hich are scarce in both Unitecl States and Canada.

Reference !o Imperial preference

He pointed out thdt freer access of Canadian lumber to the United States lumber market, fifteen times as large in the aggregate as the Canadian market, was warranted only if Canada similarly admits, on comparable terms to her smaller markets a wide range of species scarce in Canada and abundant in the United States, ,,each being a large natural lumber exporting country". This unexpected stand, in favor of limited re,cipro,cal exchanges of lumber evidently

impressed the Committee for Reciprocity Information. It wds accompanied by recommendation that the United States government shall seek the cooperation of the Canadian government "in securing promptly the abandonment, in the lumber markets of the British Empire, of discriminations in favor of Canadian lumber in tarifis, quotas, or in other forms; so that lumber exported from the United States and lumber exported from Canada into the world markets may compete on equal terms and without discrimination." Canada's forest products, it was stated, already contribute half of her exports to the United States.

Geo. Gerlinger of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, presented a logical statement of the position of the West Coast lumber industry with regard to the tariff, with particular reference to conservatism, sustained yield, and other forestry piactices.

C. H. Kreienbaum followed Mr. Gerlinger with a strong statement in behalf of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.

"Successful', Competition Defiqed

Former Senator C. C. Dill, of Washington, counsel for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association in this regard, supporting the ,contentions of the National Association, made particular mention of British preferences and their effects in the constriction of markets for American lumber in the British Empire. He also made mention of the employment of low-paid Oriental labor in the lumber mills of British Columbia and other cost advantages. He also made a strong appeal for the maintenance of the present agreement on shingles.

Lumber fnterests in Both Cotrntries

R. C. Winton of the Winton Lumber Company, whose headquarters are in Minneapolis with mills in Idaho and in the prairie provinces of Canada, particularly supported the reduction of duties on western white spruce, although he said his company's timber interests were six times as large in the United States as in Canada.

A. A. D. Rahn, Minneapolis, representing the Shevlin interests at McCloud, California; Bend, Oregon: Blind River and Fort Frances, Ontario, endorsed the position of the N. L. M. A., insisted that the northern white pine which would 'come in from Canada under a lower tarifi would largely be of original stand, that the only remaining original white pine in the eastern half of the United States was mainly in Minnesota, and the owners of it were not opposed to the reciprocity proposal, and that the protection of the surplus species in the U. S. should be maintained.

M. P. McCullough supported the general lumber industry brief but said that he could not understand why Engelmann spruce had not been included in the species on which mutual concessions could be made.

He said that Engelmann spruce was needed in the United States and that wages in the Canadian mills making this species of lumber were the same as in the United States. He said that there was no distinguishable difierence be-, tween Engelmann and western white spruce lumber.

.E. G. Bergk, representing the Collins Lumber Company of Maine and the Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association, took the position that no reductions should be rnade on Canadian lumber of any species in the Northeast including white pine, spruce, maple, birch, beach and eastern hemlock.

Other testimony was offered by representatives of the newsprint, wallboard and pulp interests. They took the position that these industries needed protection, and insisted that there be full reciprocity of tariff reductions (if any) on comparable goods.

C. R. Buchanan Joins Hogan Lumber Company

C. R. Buchanan, well known San Francisco Bay district lumberman, has succeeded the late Galen H. Pierce as director and secretary of the Hogan Lumber Company, ,Oakland.

.Mr. Buchanan's long experience in the wholesale and retail branches of the industry will be a considerable asset to the firm.

CORYDON WAGNER SANTA BARBARA VISITOR

Corydon Wagn€r, vice president of the St. Paul & Tacoma -Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash., has been spending a few weeks at Santa Barbara. While in the Southland, he was a visitor at the Los Angeles offices of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.

Vote for Continuance of Lumber Codc in its Present Form

Portland, Oregon, April 1st-The Executive Committee of the Western Pine Association at a special meeting today voted for the continuance of the Lumber Code in its present form.Itwill notify the National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority, which meets in Washington, D. C. Tuesday, that it is NOT only opposed to the suspension of the Code at this time but also to any modification which would require Government approval of the Authority's actions.

It further recommended that members of the 'Western Pine Division continue their splendid voluntary compliance with all provisions of the Code during the remaining period the NIRA is in force.

On the basis of past experiencb the Association's Executive Committee felt confident this support would be forthcoming from pine manufacturers in this region.

In Charge of Pine Department

George E. Geary is now with the E. K. Wood Lumber Co. in their Los Angeles office in charge of the Pine de'partment. Mr. Geary has been connected with the lumber business in Southern California for a long period and was formerly with the W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. of Los Angeles.

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LCA Opposes Dismissal of Belcher Case in U. S. Supreme Court

Washington, D. C., April l.-The Lumber Code Authority moved in the U. S. Supreme Court here today in the Belcher case for "leave to appear as 'friend of the court' and be heard orallv and by brie{" on the motion of the Department of Justi'ce to dismiss the appeal in that case. The appeal, it will be remembered, was taken by the Government from a decision in the U. S. District Court sitting at Birmingham, Ala.

The body of the motion is as follorvs :

"That the existence of 1'611t petitioner, the validity of its actions, and the nature and extent of its authority in the administration of said Code depends upon the ,constitutionality of the statute pursuant to lvhich it was 'created.

"That the constitutionality of the said National Industrial Recovery Act pursuant to rvhich your petitioner was organized and is norv operating is involved in the instant case.

"That the decision of the lorver court in this case held said National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional and if the motion of the United States to dismiss the appeal herein is granted your petitioner will be in effect rvithout power and authority to administer the Code approved by the President of the United States for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, and the said National Industrial Recovery Act will in effect be deemed null and void without the far reaching questions involved having been finally and authoritatively passed upon by this Honorable Court whose decision alone can be final.

"It is respectfully submitted that .a de,cision of the issues involved in this case is necessary to remove the deadening uncertainty affecting the integrity and operation of the National Recovery Act. This isa question in 'ivhich the Lumber and Timber Products Industries are deeolv concernecl.

"In making the motion to dismiss the appeal, the government has in effect practically deciared that the Lumber and Tirnber Products Code is illegal apparently for the reason that it grants ,certain discretionary polver to industry representatives although the power of final review is reposed irr the National Recovery Administration. It is respectfully submitted that there are sound legal as rvell as practical considerations for vesting the industry representatives with certain discretionary powers. It is essential to operation under this Code that a reasonable degree of discretion be left with industry in order to maintain a proper and essential balance betr'veen 'industry self-government' and 'public supervision'. This is necessary in order that this code may function effectively. Dismissal of this case rvithout an opportunity for decision of this important principle will prevent legal recognition or denial of this principle.

"The Attorney General of the United States has publicly announced that the Lumber and Timber Products Code is nnenfor'ceable in the courts. This announcement coupled

with the motion in this case has practically completed the r,vrecking of this code inasmuch as loyal operators were, in face of crucifying competition from Code violators, desperately holding on pending the decision in this case. A decision in this case is an essential step toward restoring vitality to this Code. Without a decision in this important ,case there can be no hope of efiective enforcement without which it becomes a code of unfair competition working to the advantage of ,code violators and oppressing those who comply. Moreover, the present uncertainty surrounding this Code which was created by conflicting lower court decisions renders any new legislation on the subjeit equally uncertain and unenforceable.

"The effect of granting the government's motion to dismiss this appeal would be virtually to sustain the decision of the lower court. The situation is analogous to a confession of error by the government in an appeal by defendant in a criminal case and it has been held that in such a ,case the Attorney General of the United States is without authority to ,confess su,ch error but that the case being before the court on proper appeal must be decided by the court on its merits. Parlton v. United States, 63 W.L.R., 169, decided by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, February 4, 1935.

"It is respectfully submitted that the issues involved should be finally decided by this Court, and that your petitioner should be entitled to be heard as Amicus Curiae in opposition to the Government's motion to dismiss."

Modernization and Repairs Totaf $ggo,1 s9,s79

The rveek ending April 5 was for the Better Housing Program of the Federal Housing Administration one of the most successful since the start of the program. All iudications point to an unusually active season for modernization, repair and new building.

On April 5, pledges for modernization and repair obtained by the community canvasses active throughout the country reached $330,159,579. This is dn in'creas.e of ff15,232,%6 over the previous week's total. The total funds advanced under the Modernization Credit Plan by financial institutions on the same date amounted to $51,500,084. This is an in,crease of $2,M3,572 for the rveek, as against the preceding week's increase of $1,705,4€. Individual credit advan,ces by April 5 numbered 122,296, an increase ol 5,047 for the week.

Thirteen thousand ninety-eight insurance contracts were issued to financial institutions up to April 5 entitling them to extend modernization credit under the National Housing Act. This represents an increase of 48 for the week. There were 6,923 community campaigns organized or being organized on that date, which is an increase of 106 over the orevious week's total.

NORTHWEST MEN VISIT CALIFORINIA

C. W. Osborne, of Portland, manager of the creosoting department, and E,. R. Wade, sales manager at Port Gamble mill of Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., recently visited the company's San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

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SALUTATORY

Did you tackle the trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day With a braven soul, and fearful?

O, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only, how did you take it?

You are beaten to earth? Well. well ! What's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there-that's disgrace.

The harder you're thrown, why the higher you bounce; Be proud of your blackened eye! It isn't the fact that you're licked that counts, It's how did you fight-and why?

And though you be done to the death-what then? If you battled the best you could, If you played your part in the world of men, Why the Critic will call it good. Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce And whether he's slow or spry, It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts, But only, how did you die?

NOT TOO CRAZY

Two fellows in a car went through the automatic signals and were stopped by a policeman.

"I'm sorryr" said the driver, quick-wittedly, "but I happen to be a doctor. I'm taking a patient to the asylum in a hurry."

But the officer was suspicious and looked penetratingly at the passenger. But he, too, was quick-witted, and looking up at the policeman with a seraphic smile, whispered, "Kiss me, Sergeant."

They got away with it.

DURING THE COMING YEAR

Take time to work-it is the price of success.

Take time to think-it is the source of power.

Take time to play-it is the secret of perennial youth.

Take time to read-it is the fountain of wisdom.

Take time to worship-it is the highway to reverence.

Take time to be friendly-it is the road to happiness.

Take time to dream-it is hitching your wagon to a star.

Take time to love and be loved-it is the privilege of the gods.

Take time to look around-it is too short a day to be selfish.

Take time to laugh-it is the music of the soul.

Take time to live.

NO LINE

NOT PERFECT

Affronted Maiden: "How dare you? A perfect stranger!"

Drunk: "Tut ! Tut ! young lady ! None of us are perfect !"

AVERAGE

"Dad," said the son, "What is meant by the expression 'The Average Man'?"

"An 'Average Man', son, is one who isn't as good as his wife thought he was before she married him, or as bad as she thought he was, afterward."

In men whom men regard as ill, I see so much of goodness still, fn men whom men pronounce divine, I see so much of sin and blot. f hesitate to draw the lineWhere God has not.

WHERE?

Hubby: "We must think of the future. We ought to economize more. If I were to die, where would you be?"

Wife: "Why, I'd be right here. But where would you be ?"

'Edmund Vance Cooke.

Milwaukee Uses Plywood in New Streamlined Equipment

The adaptability of Douglass fir plyrvood to railroad car and coach construction has been shown in its use recentlv for sidervalls, ceilings and floors in the new stream-

the Harbor Plyrvood Corporation of Hoquiam, Washington, which furnished the plywood used in this job.

The new day coaches present the most advanced ideas in comfort and convenience for this type of travel and important use has been made of plywood in the strengthening and beautifying them. These cars, which are streamlined to the extent that there are no projecting windorvs, belt rails or rivet heads, have turtle back roofs and are tubular in shape.

While these cars are the same length as the present Milwaukee steel coaches, T2 leet 6 inches over body and posts, a saving in weight of almost one-third over the steel coaches has been effected, the new cars weighing about 50,000 pounds less than the steel coaches of the same size' The floor of the coach is lr/a-inch fir plywood covered with composition tile. The sidewalls are /a-inch fir plywood ,covered with cloth. Partitions are made up of 1f{-inch fir plyrvood. The ceiling is ft-inch plywood with poplar face, which is painted. The cove ceiling is 3/16-inch poplar, painted. The cove under the parcel rack is 3/16-inch fir plywood. The base of the parcel rack is likervise 3/16-inch fir plywood.

Wood is also featured in the new baggage and freight cars. In the case of the former, the walls are of t/a-inch fir plywood and the ceiling t/a-inch plywood. The freight car sides and ends are fu,-inch, five-ply fir plywood and the ceiling ft-inch three-ply fir plywood.

equipment for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, states E. W. Daniels, vice president of

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The soft-toned walls, of the coaches, have been tnade possible by the use of plywood panels as a foundation for the cloth covering. This not only adds to the attractiveness of the appearance, but the construction of walls, ceilings and floors has an important effect in reducing noise and vibration. Rubber inserts, placed on the trucks where metal would touch metal, helps still further to eliminate noise and all the steel sheets of the car body have been heavily coated with sound-deadening material'

Interior ol d,aycoach in which Douglas fir plywootl is useil in the ceiling, sid.eiwalls, lloor and in the base lor the parcel racks. lined

California Building Permits for March

*Included in Los Angeles totals.

BT]YEBS9 GT]IDE SAN FBANOISOO

LUMBER

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Cbamberlin & Co., W. R-' ---ii[-Fi-;; Fitl, etag-"Douslas 5470

Dolber & Careon Lumber Co., --iii' tvt*"lnE Eichange Blilg.. ..'sutter zlsc

Hmmond Lumber Co., "-ii0-5."";" st.'...... """""Douglm 33t9

HolmesEureka Luber Co.. ---.iiG -fi*t"ial Center Bldg"" "GArfield 1921

t*t.lX?bi[,n""ST1:. EXbrook$3r

Mulligan & Co., llt. J.' - -- ii Montg"-ery St... ".. "GArFeld 6t90 t"',?"H,1rg*Hli"'ii. .ll1:: GArnerd E3e3

LUMBER

McComick, Chas. R., Lmber Co'' - -- aii-M#tut Strei..................Douglas 2561

Moore Mill & Lum.ber Co. 525 Market stret .....'...........EXbrok 0l?3

Pacific Lumber Co.. The - --roo Suslt Streei..'..'.........,....GArfield' rl8r

Red River Lumber Co., --- ili Momrlnck Blds'.........'. "'GArfield 0922

Santa Fe Lmber Co.' 16 Califomia Street. '. .KEarny 2074

Scbaler Brc. Lumber & Shingle Co.' l2ll8 Fife Bldg.'.....................Sutt€r Uzl

Sudden & Cbristenson' ---tlo s**" stre6t'. .'. ...,..GArfield 2t46

Trcwer Luber Co, - - -ffO Mar*et Street'.. "......',..... "SUtter lE26

Union Lunber Co', Crclter Buitdiig 'Sutter 6u0

LUMBER

Hill & Morton' Inc.' "-'otiilt-"- St- ivtttt ...'..' " "ANdover 107?

Hoean Lub€r CmPanY' '"";i -& At-iL -striets-..... ....'.. Gl*ncort 6t6l

E. K. W@d LumberCq. -'?;"e;"k C King Sds.....""""Fruitvale 0ll2

LUMBEI

HARDWOODS

LUMBER

Van Arsdale-Huris Lumber Co.,Inc" Fifth & Brm Streets...'......GArfield 36{xl

Wadling-Nathan Co., ' 110 f,larket Streei .................'Sutter 53fi1

E. K. Wood Lunber Co., I Dt1rm Street.,...........'......KEamy 3710

\f,/*erhaeuser Sales Co. ' ils c"lif*ia strei.......'....'..GArfield E97J

DOORS AND PLYWOOD Harbor Plywood CorPoratiorl 557 Mrket street......."....,....GArfield E529

Niolai Dq SaIe Co.' &r45 rgth Street ...'.................Mlssion ?920

Oregm-\f,/ashington PlYwood Co.' F5 New Motcomery Street.......GArfield 7ll5t

Wheler-Osgood Sales Corporation' 30{5 r0th SL ...'.'........'.VAlencia 2241

CREOSOTTED LUMBER-POLES-PIIJNGTIES

McComick, Chc. R., Lmber Co. ,16l Market Stret..................Doug|as 25GI

PANELS_DOORS-SASH

Elliott Bay Salec Co., iozr Bi-a*v ..:.......'..... ....Hls,ate 2,17

Califomia Builders SuPPIY Co.' 501 29thAvenue ......'..".'....'ANdovr lltE

lAlestem Dor & S*h Co. ' sth & Cypres Sti .....'........LAlcide t4dl

Strabl,e Hardwod Co' - - $t Firea Stet.... .............TEmplebar 556{

LOS ANGDLES

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"tt*"th"f fir.JE*.... ".. " " "rucker r'r3r

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"Tf"t"lHH""!1i,. " "PR6Fct 7r?1 ""orrilrr?*ili",t**i'f"':' . Mutuar ersr

Hovs. A. L.- "*z'iff Si.- G'Srea Ave. .......YOrk 1l6t

t"Hr"?.l$f-tB*;u*, srds.. rncp."t oz20

t""Bi $S*,"H"i,tjffi ,,t"T' ut.". .' PRcFct ?rer t""r?r"*,$".H3H*t"lt$'ir".. pR'pect 5e3r

'"Pni1."}ff'$:' .l*::. Sl.' ...rn,',e ,'n'

Mutlicil & Co-' W. J.' "'liTz*wit -st[ st. ..'. ...'VAndike 4{t5

Pacific Luber Co- The '*;di s"j" Brea Ave' " '""""""York ll6t

LUMBER

Patte!-Blirn lamber Co, - --ai E iu st. ...............'..'.vAndike zr2r

Puset Sdnd Asciated Mills - -tzC W. l!!- Garland Bldg.'...'...'.Tuckcr lEZs

Reil River Lunber Co' Ttltl E. Slamn

Smta Fe Lumber Co., - 3il Finmcial Ceriter Bldg-......VAndike 447r

Schafr Bro Lmber & Shingle Co.' lZ26 W. M. Guland Bldg.....'...TRinitv {271

Sudden & Christenson, 63lt B€rd of Trade Bldg. .....'..TRinitv Et44

Uni,on Lumber Co. 923 W, M. Garlud Bldg..."......TRiritv 22t2

Wendliu-Nathan Cozm So. ta Brea Ave. ...........'..YOrk ll6E

E. K. W@d Lrmber Co., {?Ol Suta Fe Ave. ..............JEtrersm 3111

Weyerhaeus Salec Co', -t49 Pet'oleum Securitic Bldel...PRcpect 55tO

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILINGTI,ES

MqCmi<.k, Chas. R. Luber Co.' - lu Weir tth st. ..................TRinitv 52{1

HARDWOODS

Hamnod Lmber C,o.' zoro So Atue& St. ............PRdD€ct ?Ul

Laughlin, C. J.' &s pettotoim Ssritie! Bldg...PRcpect 2?Gl

Stantq. E. J.. & So. zxill' Edst -38th Street.'..'.......CEntury 29211

SASH-DOORS-MILLWORK

Hmmd Lumber Co1ll0 So. Alamda St. ..'...'.....PRGpect ?l?l

Kchl. Jm W. & Sru. esi So. Mydra St. ,.'. .., .ANgelug tltl Red River Luber Co. ?O2 E. Slaum ..CEntury 2907l

Wheler-Osgood Sdes Cqpmtion' 2l5it Samento St. ......'...'..'.TUcker,l!61

PANEI.S AND PLYWOOD Califmia Prel & Verer Co., 955 So Ahneda St....'............TRidtv 0057 Harbor Plywood Corpontio' fd9 N. Ia Brea..,...'........... ...WHitDy 326?

Orego-Washington Plywod Co., 318 West Ninth Strete .............TUcktr l,l3l

Pacific Mutual Du Co. CApitd 78llt 1126 lllsbiuter Ave. (Alhmbra)

Wh*ler-Osgod Salea Ccpoatio' 215t Sacnmento St. ...'...... ...'..TUcker $64

Co-operation Betw een \(/hofesafer and Retai ler

By Frank \(/. Trower

Trower Lumber Co., San Francisco, Calif.

Excerpts of an Address Delivered at the Annual Convention of the California Lumbermen's Council at san Francisco on March 16,1935

This is not the time for pollyanna platitudes, or Dr. Coue vain repetitions that rve are daily in every way grow_ ing better. Nor is it a time for a Cassandra's gtoorr.y prophecies. It is a day that calls for what Theodore Roose_ velt called "Practical Idealism.,' Co-operation cannot re_ peal natural and economic latvs. If there are roo many sawmills, the natural process u'ill put some of them oui, because mere dividing the business rvill make the gruel too thin to sustain life for any of thern. A tlr.o-yard town cannot by mere co-operation be made to properly support four or five lumber yards. As Walter Bali says, l,if " man eats too much, he must take his medicine. And this applies to stocks of lumber or inflated capital shares. Na_ ture just will have her way.,'

And yet, I do not believe in the old doctrine of ,,laissez faire," or in plain English ,,Let ,er slide.,' We don't do that in handling poverty or disease or epidemics. Selfhelp must be linked with the co-operative principle. I have no patent remedies for our economic ills_no isms of any sort. We must have open minds, yet not as open as an empty, wind-swept garret.

Dr. David Starr Jordan once saicl: ,,Wisdom consists in knowing what to do next; courag'e consists in doing it."

In solving our Lumber problems, f am sure lve have enough Knowledge of tvhat is needed for reasonable success. It is the Spirit and Purpose that are lacking. The machinerv of the Codes is generally .n,ell planned. It is the Human Spirit that has failed. Men are more important than the mere mechanics of a problem or its remedy. C)ur lumber association secretaries and their advisors and directors could soon devise needed solutions of our acute problems. But human selfishness stands in the rvay. When an ob_ scure Austrian paper-hanger becomes the Dictator_Leader of Germanv and an almost unknou,n editor becomes the Dominant Will of Italy, surely there is hope for the lumber industry if the only requisite is brains. What we must have is the Will to achieve the benefits of co-operation. Will Rogers uttered a great truth when l.re recently said: ,.There ain't no word wrong rvith any of us 'cept just selfishness.,'

Let me, without comment, toss a fer,v facts and figures into your mental hoppers. Building costs in Ner,v york City are estimated by the Dotv Service to have advancecl under the codes nearly one-third above the low point of the depression, and are over 8O per cent higher than be_ fore the war; and the efiects of these costs in blocking building recovery are demonstratecl in the 1934 totals of contract awards, as compiled by the Dodge Corporation for 37 Eastern states. Privately-financed construction again declined, and the total yearly gain rvas represented by the

increase of slightly less than g30O million in public works. The figures, requiring no further discussion, are as follows: Publicly-financed jobs in 1932 were in round figures $767 mitlion, rising in 1934 to 9975 milrions. privi'tervfinanced jobs dropped from the 1932 total of $5g3 millions down t9 $567 millions in 1934. Thus, last, year the pri_ vately-financed jobs were only slightly more than one_ third the $1,543,000,000 total. The National Bureau of Economic Research shows that, taking July, 1929, as an index number of 100, prices received by farmers in October, 1934, rvere equal to 68. prices paid by farmers were g2. Building material costs in October, 1934, were 150 as to 100 pre-war. Building wages were 2O4 as to 100 pr€_war. This arbitrary holding up of nominal wages is an example of the wrong sort of co-operation. It is true that low volume of work has meant low.average monthly or yearly pay, but for each builder or prospect these high costs g"i"i" his job 10O per cent. The cost of all government in the U. S. in 1933 was 5Ol as to 100 pr.-*".l Taxes *.." SOg to 100 for the same period

Professor Lewis E. Haney of the Economics Department of New York University, and a noted columnist, said last week that the pitifully small private building activity is due to three chief reasons: l, high building costs; Z, i;gl, taxes; and 3, great money uncertainty.

And nor,v let's get down to the immediate problem of what the California Wholesale Lumber Associaiion can do in co-operation rvith the members of the California Lum_ bermen's Council to promote the mutual interests of whole_ saler and retailer in ihis great territory North of the T.e_ hachapi, and at the same time give the public the square deal it must have. C)ur rvholesalers association incfudes many interests-manufacturers, rvholesalers, shipowners and retailers. 'We cannot control them all l0O per cent, any more than you retailers can guarantee what your mem_ bers will do in this common co-operative effort io improve our condition. We must deal rvith realities. But we must also do all within our power to achieve the desired results. One great difficulty has been the absence of a proper defini_ tion of "wholesale trade." Amendment No. 6g of the Lum_ ber Code would have been a good compromise, but NRA would not permit us rdal self-government on that proposi_ tion. However, our California Wholesale Lumbei Association committee has worked out a tentative definition which is now before your Council and which should cover most of the sales, leaving the small remainder to clearance by the two organizations. Such an agreement, properly lived up to, should at one stroke remove most of the con_

troversies about trade jurisdiction. In line with this proposal may I submit four basic considerations.

1. As wholesalers we must ourselves recogriize and help to persuade others to recognize the Retailer as the proper distributor of lqmber. Eor if the retailer were not the total distributor of lumber at retail, the wholesaler would of necessity become a retailer; and he could not serve the consumer economically or satisfactorily.

2. We must recognize that industrial business for remanufacturing is not retail business, but the wholesaler should not sell construction lumber to industrial plants.

3. Outside of certain state business, the same principles should apply to sales to smaller governmental units. Most of it is naturally retail business and the balance should be cleared through some central office.

4. As wholesalers we must not help one dealer to compete with another dealer outside his own trade area, for this breaks down the stability of the market and reacts unfavorably on our own business.

These main principles of co-operation between our two groups may not be all that either of us may desire, but let u3 remember Edmund Burke's words: "All human acts are based on Compromise." He did not mean principles, but policies.

We must make common cause against unfair and unscrupulous dealers and wholesalers. This is no time for recrimination, but I may say that our Association has been looking into the matter of loyalty to these principles of cooperation and we have been greatly disappointed in what we have learned about some of your Council members giving business to known enemies of sound co-operation. This effort must not be one-sided. A retailer told me he could not afford tg overlook the lower price made him by one of the trade dynamiters. Yet, how he would have howled if we wholesalers had gone into his town and sold direct to his trade. The courts have uniformly thrown out onesided contracts. Even a promissory note reads "For Value Received, we promise, etc." The "Achilles heel" of the 'chiseler is his pocket nerve and there we must strike. As long as our Profit System lasts, no court or jury has a right to deny any of us a just return on our capital or labor.

I cannot here lay down a charted course for our two

bodies. We have able secretaries. Let's back them up loyally. We wholesalers believe that Mr. Hauptman, our Manager, is not excelled in ability, sound judgment and knowledge of the lumber game by any lumber official anywhere. You can trust him. I have often remarked that, taken as a whole, lumbermen rank high in the attributes of decent, honest manhood. In over 4O years amongst them, I have seen but few scalawags; and they did not last long. Given a workable system of co-operation and a dogged purpose to weed out the trade pirates, we can go far in our common efforts to stabilize the lumber industry of California. It's a task worthy of the best that is in us.

I need not plead with this group for co-operation. The need for it cries louder than anything I can say. A radio announcer was criticised for his pronunciation of "inkum tax." Someone, probably a lumberman, suggested he might mean "red-inkum tax." The Pacific Coast is strewn with the financial wrecks of lumber mills and lumber concerns that tried to operate without a profit. The credit situation is appalling. Hardly'a week goes by but that some Credit Bureau or other calls on us for information about this man or that concern. It sometimes requires the wisdom of a Solomon, or the justness of an Aristides, or the honesty of a Diogenes to answer the man. But when the inquisitor occasionally asks some blamed fool question about our own concern, it takes the cornbined attributes of all those ancient worthies to kiss him off with a favorable impression.

When I look over the credit reports of many lumber concerns who used to proudly discount every bill promptly, I get a heart-breaking reminder of the devastation wrought by this demon Depression. For, behind the cold figures lurks grim tragedy for many a distracted employer and employee and their families. I challenge you to Do Your Part in helping to end this misery, in so far as reasonable Co-operation will help.

So as we build our new American Temple of Civilization in which shall live harmoniously the rights of each individual and the rights of our collective commonwealth, let its main pillars be Co-operation, Decency and Justice.

And as our lumber army emerg'es from its Valley Forge, may we not gird ourselves after our sufferings into a chastened and disciplined host that shall march on to the better davs that lie ahead !

Ten Files of

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Ago Today

The

California

From the Lumber Merchant, April 15, 1925

Texas was the largest consumer of California pine doors in 1923 and 1924.

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The story of the Insignia adopted by the Millwork Institute of California rvith its ' wealth of historical background is publisherl in this issue.

The San Diego "t.-r1... ".1 pt"n'ing a Hard Time party and dance on Saturday evening, April 18, at the La Mesa Club, San Diego.

A photograph, showing " lorrl,r,ur" elephant carved by Burton W. Adams from a piece of California ptne, IS/d, inches by 10 inches by 4 inches, appears in this issue.

Gus Hoover joined ,n"."rl"rJ-,n-One" Club on 'April 7 when he made a perfect drive on the 16th hole at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo golf tournament held at the Hollywood Country Club.

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S. T. Flintham, Los Angeles ,county forester, addressed the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on April 9. W. B. Wi,ckersham presided at the meeting. ***

J. Walter Kelly, vi'cegerent snark of the San Francisco Bay District, announces that a Hoo-Hoo concatenation will be held on May 14. Frank O'Connor and Ed. Chamberlin are arranging for the entertainment.

The Weyerhaeuser rr,lu"l Jo-p"n, has pur'chased a site on the Columbia river front at Longview, Wash., for a lumber manufacturing plant. ***

Hill & Morton, Inc., San Francisco Bay District wholesalers, have opened offices in Oakland where they will maintain their head office.

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Ifoo-Ifoo Club No. t held their.first annual golf tournament and Hi-Jinks at the Claremont Country Club, Oakland, on April 6. Charlie Wilson was lorv net winner and was awarded the Cup donated by the Hardwood Club of San Francisco. L. H. 'Wernecke was low gross winner and was awarded the Cup donated by the California Redwood Association. ***

All building permit records of Portland, Ore., were broken during Mar'ch, 1925, when the total was $4,645,140. The total for the first three months of the year was $10,987,6W.

T. D. Woodbury, U. S. Forest Service, was the speaker at the meeting of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco, at the Palace Hotel on April 6.

Martin D. Johnson, t,";":"Jsnark of the Fresno HooHoo district announ,ces a concatenation will be held at Fresno in May.

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M. A. (Bud) Richley, McCormick Steamship Co., agent of their San Francisco docks, has been transferred to the Wilmington do'cks 'where he will act as terminal agent for the company.

Carl G. Bock has ...ignla L ,l"r,"*., of the Stout Luml>er Company of Oregon at North Bend.

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President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing an appropriation of $50,000 for the establishment of a forest experiment station in California.

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Hal Baly was appointed manager of the Consolidated Lumber Co. at Wilmington, suc'ceeding Henry J. Meyer who was transferred to the Sunset Lumber Company plant at Oakland.

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Forty-five of Southern California's lumbermen golfers took part in the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club tournament at the Hollywood Country Club on AprilT. In the evening there was a stag banquet, Clint Laughlin acting as toastmaster.

E. C. Miller, president of the Grays Harbor Shingle Co., Aberdeen, Wash., addressed the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club on April 16. Jack Whitney was ,chairman of the meeting. ***

The Coast Counties Hoo-Hoo held a ,con,catenation at San Jose, Saturday evening, March 28. After dinner, a concatenation was staged at which six kittens were initiated. Dancing followed until midnight. **,N<

If'enry Hink was chairman of the day at the Hoo-Hoo No. 9 luncheon at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on Mar'ch 26. Norman H. Sloane, California Development Association, addressed the meeting.

With Hipolito Co.

L. M. LaPierre, formerly with the sash and door deSan Francisco building permits for the month of March partment at the Hammond Lurnber Company, Los Antotaled $5,130,965, an in,crease of nearly $500,000 over the geles, is now ,connected with the Hipolito Company of Los same month in 1924. Angeles.

East B.y Hoo-Hoo Club

More than 60 members and friends listened with great interest to a talk by Dr. Tully C. Knoles, head of the College of the Pacific, Stockton, on the subject of "Recent Changes in the Curren,cy System", at the regular dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo-Hoo Club held at Hotel Coit, Oakland, Friday evening, March 29.

A. A. Stagg, director of athleti'cs at the College of the Pacific, spoke on college athletics and football.

The speakers were introduced by Frank W. Trower. Music was provided by the Patricia Maddern trio during the dinner.

President Jerry Bohnington presided, and Bert Bryan reported the progress in arrangements for the lumbermen's Reveille to be held at Hotel Oakland. April26.

C. E. Huddart

C. E. Huddart, who for many years was with the E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco, and rvho was in the retail lumber business for several years in Oakland, died in Napa, March 25.

Favor Modilyins NHA

A meeting was held at the Poppy Trail Villa on Whittier Boulevard, Los Angeles, Thursday evening, April 4, to dis,cuss the National Housing Act. N. Whitacre, Los Angeles retailer, presided.

Following the meeting, a telegram was sent to Spencer D. Baldwin, president of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, Washington, D. C., favoring modificatiorrs of the National Housing Act so that any man of good character can borrow up to $2,000 for building or repairing homes, that the Relief Bill provide a substantial part of the appropriation be made available for su,ch purposes, also that Congress extend Title I of the Act until 1940, and that restri'ctions be removed as to location and building standards. A letter was also sent to President Roosevelt.

With The Retailers

Walter Decker and R. R. Proctor have opened a retail lumber yard at Colton, Calif., which they will operate as the Colton Lumber Company. Both were formerly with the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co.; Mr. Decker as manager of their San Bernardino' yard and Mr. Proctor was manager of the Bloomington yard.

The Giles Lumber Co. of Lennox has bought the Independent Lumber Co. yard at Hawthorne.

The Reliable Lumber Co. of Rosemead is starting a new yard on Garvey Avenue near El Monte. Herb Higman will manage the yard.

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FOR SALE

Lumber yard and small mill. East Bay district in thriving town. Old established business. This is worth investigating. $5000.00 plus stock inventory will handle down payment. Address Box C-544, California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION OPEN FOR BOOKKEEPER AND ASSISTANT TO MANAGER

Retail yard in well located country town wants experienced man with some knowledge of bookkeeping to act as assistarit to rnanager. Must have country yard experience. State age and past experience. Applications confidential. Address Box C-546. California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED LUMBER SALESMAN

Desires to make connection with either wholesaler or' nranufacturer. Well acquainted with retail trade in both Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. Can furnish best of references. Address Box C-540. care California Lumber IVIerchant.

, LUMBEIR YARDS FOR SALE

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EXPERIENCED YARD MAN WANTED

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No Freight Increase on M.iority of Lumber ltems

Washington, D. C., April l.-With but few exceptions, lumber, logs, shingles and other forest produ'cts were exempted from emergency in'creases in freight rates in a decision handed down by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the matter of the application of the railroads for increases averaging about 10/o, known as "Ex Parte 115."

Mexican pine and Canadian woods in general are included in the exemption. A1l other imported woods, however, together with butternut, cherry, dogwood, holly, ironwood, lancewood, Spanish'cedar, and walnut, whether domestic or imported, are not included in the exemption and will be subject to an authorization to the carriers to assess an emergency increase of. 7% of existing rates on all linehaul cdrload shipments, with a maximum of 4c per hundred pounds, up to the end of June, 1936.

, The Commission's opinion noted that "the decline in revenue freight tonnage of class I railroads since 1929 has been substantially greater in the case of most forest products than of all freight", and that "the unprecedented stagnation of building and,certain other wood-consuming operations during the depression accounted for a large part of the greater decline in tonnage of these articles."

The desire of the industrlr to cooperate with the FHA is noted. "Both the applicants and the lumber industry", says the opinion, "obviously would profit by revival of building operations, particularly residential construction. In July, 1934, the lumber industry, in co-operation with

the Federal Housing Administration, reduced lumber prices a.pproximately 8 per cent with a view to stimulating the use of lumber and lumber articles." It is then noted that the proposed in,creased rates, especially on common lumber, "would tend to impede the movement of these commodities and result in less rather than greater revenues to applicants".

The opinion gives $22.43 as the average f.o.b. mill price per thousand feet of lumber for the entire country during the first six months of. 1934. Bureau of Census figures are quoted to show an average of $18.28 for 1933, $15.12 in 1932, and $18.56 in 1931, with the average price during the preceding eight years ranging f.rom $22.81in 1930 to $31.78 in L923. "At the present level of prices rail rates now represent a greater proportion of the mill or delivered prices than did such rates in their relation to mill or delivered pri'ces for a number of years prior to 1930." The opinion adds that "the proposed increased rates would increase that proportion". It is also pointed out that. "as the railroads are heavy consumers for forest products, increases in carrying charges for certain railroads will increase the operating costs of others."

The case for lumber was presented before the Commission by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in cooperation with the regional associations.

R. C. Fulbright, J. V. Norman, and John C. White appeared as counsel for the lumbermen.

Let lls Tell Themrr

Twice each month we are sending out our message of business ne\fls, ideas and good cheer to the lumbermen of California. On every page there are matters of direct and practical interest to every California lumberman. Isn't this then an ideal medium who have a business story they send to these lumber folks?

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Fourth of a Personal Interyiew $eries With Palco Folks

PRICE LISTS and SHINGLES

The individual in the snapshot is John James Farley. The background is THE little grass shack on the island of OAHU, T. H. Twenty pounds of surplus suet pictured here were shaken off during a barnstorming demonstration tour in our Mid-Pacific Paradise. The net result of the tour was reportedly the adoption of Palco Bark Fibre as the official dancing skirt. It's fire and vermin proof qualities were proved conclusively, it was reported.

When approached by the inquiring reporter, Jim modestly avoided discussing the secret of his success. From associates it was learned he is known to the Industry f or his commendable work with the Redwood Association. And by the ofice boy we were informed that "He's a guy that scatters a lot of sunshine."

Our hero was a bare-foot boy up in the Redwood country some years ago. Has an all Redwood living room in his Rockridge home. "Even my pay envelope is made from Redwood-I hope," smiled Jirn.