National Lumber Manufacturers Association Meeting Marks Pronounced Forward Steps in Lumber Industry

The lumber industry will date a turn for the better in its varied history from the action taken by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in its group of meetings-the best attended and most earnest in manv y€arsheld at Chicago from April 16 to April 26.

Conspicuous amoRg' many forward looking decisions was the acceptance in principle by the Association in its annual meeting of Secretary and Manager Wilson Compton's comprehensive plan for the ordeily ,control of lumber pro- duction and distribution. Presented to the open meeiing on Thursday afternoon, April 24, and endorsed in principle, the plan was discussed Friday, April 25, at a .confirence of the Directors of the National and representatives of the regional manufacturing association and referred for consideration and appli,cation to a committee of five. This committee is to report in from thirty to sixtv days to a special meeting of the Board of Directors to be held in Chicago.

In further promotion of stabilization of the lumber industry is the previous decision to ask President l{oover to appoint a Federal Ttimber Conservation Board, similar to the Oil Conservation Board appointed by President Coolidge, which proposal was to Ue ta;a before the President'on April 30 by a ,committee of the directors.

Not content with determining to wrestle finally with the supply and demand problem the conference directed this committee to consider "other features of primary importance to the lumber industry" and Dresent its conclusions regarding them to the same speciai meeting of the directors. These features will include steps to increase trade extension revenues and extend and intensify all trade extension activities. Another committee was instru,cted to meet at the same time as the committee of five and also report to the directors' special meeting plans for coopera- tion with lumber retailers. It is the object of these two committees not only to adjust lumber supply demand but to reinforce the measures now under wav for the increase of demand.

Other outstanding decisions reached by the directors, trade extension committee and other bodies were: l. The trade extension committee approved a proposal for more extensive research lnto the properties and utllization of lumber. development of the provisions of the Clarke-McNary act was urged, as well as complete protection of the naiional forests. Progress in foresC conservation and perpetuation was- noted and appreciation was expressed of the forestry rvork of the various organizations of the lumber industry.

2. Curtailment of advertising during 1930 with a view to the inauguration in 1931 of the mosf powerful advertising campaign the industry has ever known.

3. Decision to continue the Central and Consulting Committees on Lumber Standards, after these committees had taken various de,cisions and expressed "satisfaction and gratification with the remarkable progress being made in the manufacture, distribution and specification and use of American Standard Lumber and of grade-marked and trade-marked as well as certified car shipments of lumber."

6. Appointment of a committee to revise the 7,000 series o{ mouldings in accordance with certain suggestions, after the adoption of whi,ch the industry is urged 1o follow this series exclusivelv.

-_7.. Regional issociations were asked to strengthen the National Lumber Manufacturers Credit Corpoiation by following the action of the Southern Pine AJsociation in establisling a ledger experien,ce exchange system rvith the Credit Corporation.

8. Amendment of the by-laws of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to confine eligibility for membership in the executive committee of the Asiociation to persons actively engaged in some branch of the sawmill industry. Past presidents of the Association are made members of the executive committee.

9. Provision for seeing to it that the Procurement Department of the Panama Canal Zone has no difficultv in procuring'correctly tallied, grade-marked, trade-maiked association inspected lumber. Names of manufacturers providing such American Standard Lumber are to be suoplied to the chief co-ordinator of the Federal Government. to the Federal Specifications Board, the purchasing officers of the various federal departments and ihe Natioial Committee on Wood Utilization.

10. Indorsement of the idea of the establishment of a code of trade practices; and the Committee on Trade Practices was authorized to proceed with the formulation of such a code, on which mu.ch work has been already done for submission to a general lumber trade conferetc..

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11, Adoption of a resolution urging Congress to enact the lumber and lumber products tiriff duties now before the.conferees of the two houses of Congress.

12. Adoption of National Lumber Manufacturers Association revised budget for 1930 to meet income requirements.

- ._19.. P_ledge of support to the "Century of Progress Exhibitionf' to be held in Chicago in 1933.; annual meeting of N. L. M. A. to be held in .Chicago that year, and al-l lumber interests are urged.to make tfe week bf that meeting,. or a parti'cular d,ay, a time for their meetings.

14. Provided for ,continuation of development of Home Building Finance Companies, local and also rvith National connections.

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4. Steps to improve the lumber reporting service of the National.

5. Commendation of President Hoover, Congress and the Federal Bureau of the Budget in providing for 1931 lpgrgpriations for forest protection and research nearly $3,000,000 more than in the previous year. Further rapi-d

A. C Dixon, manager of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, Eugene, Oregon, was elected president of the Assqciation at the meeting of the Directors of the N. L. M. A. Mr. Dixon was born in Sangamon County, Ill., near Mechanicsburg, May 27, 1875, ind resided ch;efty in Auburn until he went west in 1889 to seek his fortune. He began at the bottom of the lumber industry as a labore, arrd' is now the managing head of a,company that otvns vast tracts of Douglas fir timber and operates two large sawmills. He married Caroline B. Herrin of Ashland, Oregon, in 1897,

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