The California Lumber Merchant - May 1932

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Sandblast two-color panels and stencil trim. Tan-yellow wall panels. Browngreen pitasters. Organ lofts in rose-yellow, wine-orange and violet-gray. No painting on the job. Installed without loss of performance time.

SMALL HOUSE

Soft two-color gray wall panels. Boxbeams two-tone brown sandblast. Ceiling panels two-tone cream. Cost no more than plastet and ordinary decoration.

C0L0R Prus TEXTURE

With RID RIYER PINE PANETS

It's the texture of pine that gives pine-panelled roorns their appeal. Cateful color treatment is necessary to bring out the natural beauty of piqe.

Knotty pine and clears in rotary-cut veneers have richness and vatiety of grain and texture not developed by sawing. RED RIVER CALIFORNIA PINE PLYV/OOD PANELS in units up to 5x10 feet increase the possibilities of wall design and reduce installation cost.

RED RIVER COLOR-PROCESSED PANELS, LUMBER and DOORS simplify finishing. Cost is reduced. Unlimited "Two-color Harmoniest' ate obtained with one color-coat on the job. Oil-stains, acid.stains or lacquers are applied in the usual way. No ttgrainingtt; no tricks.

AGED PINE is accurately reproduced in its subtle combinations of colotation. Pastels and light tints in transparent stains reveal new colortexture effects.

DEALERS stock Red River semi-colored ("MAGIC") panels in two or three standard base colors on which limitless two-color efrects are easily produced. Either smooth-surface (sanded) or sandblast. Practical, standardized, profitable, economical merchandise.

QUALITY meets the most exacting taste. COST low enough for the small house.

COLOR IS THE MODERN TREND SHOW THEM "M^A,GIC" PANEL

hilARD\MARE

At our Los Angeles Yard we maintain an outstanding wholesale stock of Builders' Hardware. We have long special tzed in service to Lumber Yards who maintain a hardware stock, and are able to assist definitely in making such a line produce a profit, while keeping the inventory at a minimum. If you contemplate handling hardware in your 5rard, you will find friendly, unprejudiced counsel in our Hardware Department.

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT JackDionne,prblishu

How Lumber Looks

Douglas Fir-A total of 321 mills reporting to the Vest Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended April 30 opemted at 25 per cerrt of capacity, as compared to 24.7 per cent of ap crty for the previous week and 44.7 pet cent for the same week l,ast year. During the week 190 of these plan* were reported as down and 131 as-operating.

Cunent new business of 216 identical mills for tfie week was 1.9 per cent under production. Production was approximately the same as the previous week, while shipments were 2O.7 p* cent over ptoduction.

Unfilled orders declined ltr567ro00 feet from the previous week. New export business received during the 'week was 210061000 feet less than the volume reported for the previous week. Neru domestic cargo orders were 9181700 feet over, new rail business increased-lr804rl24 feet, while the local trade r€mained about the same alr comparod with the previous weekts business.

Production, orders and shipmerrts at these 2f6 mills for the week were repo'rted to the Association as follows: Production, 59,9211682 feetl Shipments, 72,3761161 f.eet; Orders, 58,733,091 feet.

Details of orders and shipments of the mills for the week follow: Orders-Rail, 25,113,443 feeti Domestic Cargo, 19r6061907 feet; Export, 6,5911636 feet; Local, 714211106 f.et. Shipments-Ra;1, 2716511240 feet; Domestic Cargo, 251836395 feet; Export, ltr467r420 feet; Local, 714211106 feet. fnventories, as reported by 144 mills, declined 2210001000 feet from the week ended Apil 23 and are 19.1 per cent less than at this time last yean

Cargo arrivals at San Pedro for the week ended May 7 totaled 8r953r00o feet, including 10 cargoes of Fir carrying 8r248rOOO feet and three cargoes of Redwood with 7O5r0OO feet. Cargo arivals showed an increase over the previous week when the total receipts totaled 615511000 feet. Unsold lumber on the

LUMBERMEN BACK FROM OREGON TRIP

H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, has returned from a trip to the Northu'est, on which he was accompanied by Jo H. Shepard, general manag'er, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; Z. T. Thorning, of the Gray-Thorning Lumber Co., Redwood City, and Harry Terrell, salesman for Hill & I\forton.

The trip, made by automobile in five days, was mainly for the purpose of visiting the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company's sawmill at Wendling, Ore., and the McCloud River Lumber Company's mill at McCloud, Calif. While at Eugene, General Manager Ralph Martin of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Co., arranged a golf game for the visitors, which was much enjoyed.

public docks at San Pedro totaled 4,O45'r0iJlO fe€t on May 11 as compared to 4r57lrOOO feet the rveek before. 47 lumber vessels were operating in the coastwise trade on Miay 7, with one vessel, the Missoula, operating in the intercoastal ttadei 64 vessels were laid up. The California market shows no material changes and the demand is light.

Vith lumber production at half tfie volume for t{re same period last year, an excess of ehipmento over new busineee, indicating further reduction of unfilled order files, again marked a dull lumber movement during the week ended April 30, it is indicated in reports to the National Lumbet Manufacturera Association from the regional associatiotrs covedng the operations of 659 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Ptoducion of these mills amounted to 12115651000 feet Shipmgnts, I-50?59r000 feet, exceeded this figure by 24 pr cwt. New bueineoop 114r9E6r000 feet, was 11 per cent above the cut. A week earlier 655 mills produced 124,4661000 feet with orderc 10 per ceot and shipments 17 pet cent above the cut.

The Southern Pine "rl*r.0"" i* *. weck coded Apil 30 rqrorted new business from 118 mills as 261691'fiD feetl shipments 27r972rOOO feet, and piroduction 2rrr67r00/D feet Orders were 14 pe cent above production and 5 per cent belorc shipments. Shipments were 20 per cerrt above production.

The Western Pine Association repoted new business from f21 mitls as 361535,OO0 feet, shipmetrts 35rl93r0W feeq and production 25r83QoOO f.e.t. Orders were 41 per cent above production and 4 per cent above shipments. Shipments wete 36 per cent above production.

197 hardwood mills reported fo'r the same wee& new buEiness as 10,8761000 feet, which was abotrt the same as production. Shipments wete l2r329ro0o feet, or 14 per cent above produc' tion. Production ivas 10'849'000 fect

TED LAWRENCE RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

Ted Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips'Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to the Northwest ryheqe he visited the mills at Portland, Tacoma, Seattle and \/ancouver, B. C. While in Tacoma, he made his headquarters at the company's office where he conferred with Alfred Hart, their l{orihwest representative.

JOHN OLSON RETURNS F'ROM ARTZONA TRIP

John Olson, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was a visitor at the company's Arizona office at Phoenix around the first of the month. Accompanied by C. P. Henry, their Arizona representative, they spent a few days calling on the trade.

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V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

I used to try and confine these items to lumber comment. But I find that the biggest "kick-back" that comes from fhese Vagabonds is from topics that wander away from lunber and its problems. And, since I write for my readers, why not keep on Vagabonding? +8*

The average fellow wants to get away from his business, and rest his mind and nerves by thinking about other things. Like the old story of the Irishman who was pulling the wheel-barrow, with his back to it. His friend saw him and said, "Pat, you know it's easier to push a wheelbarrow than it is to pull it." And Pat said, "I know it, but I get so tired of lookin' at the d-n thing."

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The Wall Street Journal says that borrowings on life insurance shows a decline, and wonders why. You don't suppose the fact that ninety-ninb out of every one hundred men have borrowed every nickle they can get on their insurance has anything to'do with it, do you? ***

Present conditions are not going to really frighten me until I begin to find parking space on the streets, and Gmpty seats at the fake wrestling matches.

The sawmills of the United States sold four hundred rnillion feet more lumber than they manufactured during the first nine weeks of this year, and sold every foot of it at a loss. Looks like we're in the fix of the people in an exclusive neighborhood, where one man went broke and sold his beautiful home to a rich Dago. When the Dago moved in the other residents of the swell neighborhood held a meeting, and agreed to buy out the unwelcome newcomer, and divide the loss.

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The Dago accepted tetr thousand dollars above his cost, and moved out. The treasurer of the neighborhood comrnittee billed each of the neighbors for his pro rata share of the ten thotrsand. One of them, a wag, sent a note with his check, that read: "It's a pleasure to be associated with to fine a group of people, in so worthy an enterprise; but at this rate I'm afraid we'll have to do a Hell of a volume before we show much of a profit."

A certain manufacturer of wooden fixtures has created and affixes on the first page of every bid he makes on a Job, a bright red sticker that reads: "IMPORTANT NOTICE; THIS IS OUR ROCK BOTTOM BID, IT IS

NOT PADDED AND WILL NOT STAND A CUT.'"

He says that he has noticed a decided improvement in the attitude of the buyer since he began using this sticker. The fact is that everyone admires a man with fortitude enough to quote a decent n;ce--1nd;tick to it.

Arise and be of good cheer, folks. Congress is now going to legislate to fix the purchasing powetr of the dollar. And while they are thui busily engaged in working miracles, why don't they pass a law restoring the fire of youth to the limbs of the aged-make health contagious instead of illness-turn weeping into laughter-pain into pleasure -wrong into right? If they can do tho one, they can as easily do the rest. ***

"There were giants in those days," says Genesis. Wonder what Genesis would report in THESE days if he could visit our House of Congress? ***

The brainless demagogue shouts "soak the rich" ! And that sentiment appeals to thotrghtless many. How easy it seoms ! No trouble to balance the budget. The country is full of rich men who have far more than they need. Take their surplus away from them by the high tax route ! Let the poor man alone! Simple, isn't it? Why hadn't we thought of that before? ** ,r.

It never occurs to these "soak the rich" adherents, that it just can't be done. Not in the way they are thinHng of. \J[/e can pass these high-tax-for-the.rich laws; without a doubt. But then what? The rich furnish the money trhat provides the jobs and the positions for all thc rest of us. Tax him inequitably and what does he do? Why, he just takes his monelr out of commerce and industry and buys tax free securities. Then where are your jobs-and your high taxes? ***

The Congressman who doesn't want'to. cut his own salary, and votes agalnst the use of the broad-ax in reducing Government costs, but wants to balance the budget by soaking the rich, is a perfect example of the level to which our alleged thinking men have fallen. They don't understand that there are only two ways to balance our budget; cut exp'enses, or raise taxes. And where do taxes come from? From the pocket of the consurnef, t No matter what sct of a tax, or how it seems to operate, in the final wind-

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National Annual Meeting Date Changed

Washington, April 28.-The 'date of the Annual Meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association has been changed to May 23, 24 and 25 instead of May 5, 6 and 7, as previously announced. The meeting this year will be confined to the board of Directors and the Committees of the Association. The meeting will be held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, Ill._

A. R. Morley

Albert R. Morley died suddenly on Friday evening, May 6, at his home in Los Angeles following an attack of acute indigestion. He lvorked. as usual during the day and on his return home that evening rvas taken ill, his death occurring a few hours later. Funeral services were held at 2 p.^., Tuesday, May 10, from the Little Church of the Flowers,'Fcrest Lawn, Glendale, Calif.

Mr. Morley was connected with the wholesale lumber business both in San Francisco and Los Angeles for a long period and had a large acquaintance with the lumber trade in Northern and Southern California. Prior to his association with the wholesale lumber business he was connected with The McCloud River Lumber Co. at McCloud, and later with The Union Lumber Company at Fort Bragg. At the time of his death he was with the Geo. F. Weis Lumber Co., Inc., of Los Angeles.

He is survived by his u'idorv, Edna Morley; a son and daughter, Frederick and Patricia Morley; his mother, Mrs. Charles Morley, of Los Angeles; two sisters, Mrs. Roy Niles, of McCloud, Calif., and Mrs. George Liberty, of Sacramento; and a brother, William Morley, of Toronto, Canada.

Announces New Process lor Celotex Products

By means of a new process, applied during manufacture, all Celotex cane fibre products are now rendered practically impervious to the natural agencies of decay and also to termite attack, according to an announcement just made by B. G. Dahlberg, president of The Celotex Company. He states that this process, known as the Ferox process, is the result of ten years of continuous experimental research and over two years of actual production of treated prodircts for tropical countries.

"The Ferox process," states Mr. Dahlberg, "is a proven method-demonstrated in the tropics where the attacks ,of termites and decav are most viciouswherebv each fibre, in its wet state and before formation into a board, is coated with a chemical complex which is toxic to fungi, termites and other cellulose destroying organisms. This chemical complex is insoluble in water, non-volatile, odorless, permanent, and in no way alters the physical properties or utility of the finished products. The treated Celo" tex products present no hazard to humans or domestic animals.

"It should be particularly noted," he points out, "that the Ferox process is an integral treatment-not a surface treatment-and that it does not alter the usual physical properties of Celotex. An integral treatment u'as adopted rather than a surface treatment because with the latter if material is cut or damaged the exposed portion is subject to attack, and also because treatments that discolor the product or otherwise alter its physical properties are a distinct disadvantage since such treatments require dealers to carry special stocks of limited utility."

Thls ls WHY

Tou get so nuch tron McGOnDf ICKtS JOBBING DEPARTDIENT

IMcCormic& ownr and opetreta itr own great nillr at St. Flelentr, Port Ludlow and Port Gamble, asuring depen&bifity of rupply. McCormick eteamahipa trantport ctoclr fron ririllt to wholerale yardr.

2 An ttin stock" sewice that is complete in every deteil. 1o nillion feet stocls cre mrintained in San Francirs for Northetn California trade; the rame in Vilmington and San Diego for the South. Untreated and Creoaoted Lunbet. Piling.poles, Tier and Portc, Lath, Shingler, Bor Shool.

tImmediate Truct or rail deliverier, whichevet may be rpecifed.

4 Individual attention to each dealettr requiremcnt for ptofiteblc re-sale+to overloading.

Vagabond Editorials

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up the consumer pays it. And the consumer in this country can't stand any more taxes. Therefore we m,ust cut the expense.

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Do you know what our debts are? In 1919 our national dbbt reached its high point, $26,000,000,000. But the state and municipal debts totalled only $4,000,000000. We cut the national debt to $16,500,000;000 in 1929, but in the meantirne the states and municipalities had gone on a spree and owed $13,500;000O00. That's what they owe today, and our national debt has crept back to $18,000,000,000, so that we now owe about $31,500,000,000. That's more than we owed in 1919 when our national debt was at its peak.

Yes, Sir !I don't know how long our present troubles are likely to last. But one thing I DO know, and that is that if we want them to last forever-with ten per cent added for good measure-all we have to do is to raise taxes instead of cutting expenses. The higher the tax, the less the buying power of the individual, and the higher the cost to industry. And the only way out of our present tro,uble is increased buying power for the individual, and lower cost to manufacturers.

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The incorrigible economic ass who would raise our tax burden to balance our budget, instead of understanding that only by relieving us of that already unbearable and unreasonable load can we rise from our present condition, should be prornptly tapped for the simples, and relegated to some position where his financial folly cannot harm his neighbors. We shall never again sail the sapphire seas of prosperity unless we dismiss and dethronre navigators of such hopeless incapacity.

God pity the railroads ! In your business, Mr. Business Man, you can use and are using every form of human ingenuity of which you are capable, turning, twisting, cutting, fitting, zigging, and zagging, without restrictions of lhtidtrde or lbngitude in your effort to save, safeguard, and preserve your business existence. You are finding the going to be rough, and the hills to be high, even under the mbst favorable conditions.

On top and in addition to all these acts of providence that try strangle holds on you from all sides, how would you like to be required to ask permission before yo.u could perform any and every act of self-preservation? THAT is what the railroads are up against. They are told what they can and ca[not. do; what trains they shall run; ]vhat Serv-

ice they shall make, etc., etc., etc. Trying to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls with a millstone around your neck would be a simple feat compared with what the railroads are up against in times like these.

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And men who should know are frank to proclaim that in this'time of emergency when the Justice of an Aristides, the Wisdom: of a Solomon, and the Understanding of a Franklin would be sorely tried and strained to meet the inevitable trials and tribulations that must be confronted, the justice, the wisdorn, the understanding, and the helpfullness of the fnterstates Commerce Commission is anything but corrnnensurate with the necessities of the hour. ***

Every man capable of reasoning from cause to effect believes that in times like these there belongs to the railroads, as to other lines of effort and industry, an inalienable right to attempt their own self-preservation with something of the liberties granted to other men and other business. They can't swim this current with handcuffs and footshackles.

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B. C. Forbes, in his magazine of business, discussing,the attitude the I.C.C. has assumed in refusing to sanction certain loans to railroads which had been agreed upon by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, declares that "the commissioners have miserably fallen down on their job;" that "they have been strangulators rather than regulators;" and offers the opinion that "it is inconceivable that ways and nr,eans will not be found to check the Interstate Commerce Commissioners' ruinous course and clothe the R.F.C. with adequate power to accomplish the vitally important task assigned to it."

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Poor old railroads !I shalt never forget when-during the war-we turned the railroads over to the Government to run. There shall not soon be.erased from my memory the vision of the announcement cards that were printed, and placed upon the end walls inside every passenger coach. The wording of the announcement is long forgotten. But at the bottom of each card, printed in huge type so that the dimmest eye could not fail to read it even the full length of the car was the name of-W. G. McAdoo. That name was always printed in type several times as large as any other on the card. f trust that the railroads have carefully preserved some of those cards. They should be posted where posterity could,look-and ponder.

Millwork Institute lssue

Revised Orange County Lumbermcnts

Sash and Door Schedules

The Millwork Institute of California has just announced the publication of Stanclard Sash & Door Schedules No. 132,.it bejlg a revision and simplification of the preceding editions, Nos. 128 and ID.

In compiling this edition, the Institute's Schedule Committee gave careful consideration to all suggestions for improvement submitted by members and other users of the schedules since the original publication of No. 128. All suggestions of merit have been incorporated in this issue. F mphasis has been placed upon attaining clarity and sirnplicity.

A further improvement over former editions is the nerv loose-leaf manner in which No. 132 is compiled. This ivill enable the committee to issue new sheets whenever market or manufacturing costs changes \4'arrant, thereby keeping the schedules in balance so that a uniform discount mav at all times be applied. The revision of a sheet or two r'rom time to time will involve but very little expense.

The Schedule Committee, under the able chairmanship of Al Koehl of Los Angeles, who is also southern vice president of the Institute, has done some very thorough work in compiling this new edition. They have worked constantly for several months, and in addition to the gen- eral experi,ence gained through the use of former schedules, the committee has been composed of men thoroughly conversant with the subject of sash and door schcdules.

Standard Sash & Door Schedules No. 132 are being distributed to the mills and dealers on the following basis: I to 1O copies, $1 each; 11 to 50 copies,85 cents each; 5l and over copies, 75 cents each. The above prices include a loose-leaf binder for the schedules.

Golf Tournament May 18

_ The next golf tournament of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club rvill be held at the Hacienda Countiy Club, Whittier, on Wednesda-y, May 18, L932, instead of tie California Country Club as previouslv announced. The arrangements committee for the tournament includes: N. E. Leitz, Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana; R. E. Hostetler, Costa Mesa Lqmber Co., Costa Mesa, and Art Kelly, Brown & Dauser Co., Fullerton.

National Forest Renamed for President Roosevelt

The name of the Colorado National Forest was changed on March 28 by proclamation of President Hoover to Roosevelt National Forest. the U. S. Forest Service announces. The forest renamed in honor of the late Theodore Roosevelt is located in north central Colorado and extends from near Denver to the Wyoming state line.

Mrs. Edith K. Roosevelt, widow of the late president, in a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture, has expressed her appreciation of the renaming of the forest as a tribute to the great conservationist and founder of many national forests.

BACK FROM SOUTHWEST TRIP

Perry A. Dame, Western sales manager.of the Creo-Dipt Company, returned to his San Francisco headquarters Apiil 30 from a seven weeks' business trip to Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.

To Eliminate Destructive Competition and Waste in Natural Reso urce Industries

Washington, April 29.-Permission for reasonable curtailment of production would be granted and elimination of destructive and unfair competition in the natural resource industries would be made possible under the Nye Bill (S. 2626) carrying the Steirver amendment, hearings on which were held here March 31 before a sub-committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The measure would permit such industries to hold Trade Practice Conferences for these purposes under supervision of the Federal Trade Commission, and for the first time places before Congress a reasonable, practical and widely supported measure designed to bring antiQuated law in line with economic necessities of the times. The hearings were well attended and demonstrated a united interest on the part of afiected industries, including coal, oil, mining and lumber, as well as support in both the executive and legislative branches of the government.

Senator Steiwer explained the purpose of the measrlre and emphasized the urgent need for the relief proposed. Secretary of Interior Wilbur testified. He voiced the approval of the Administration, after first explaining the need for such legislation and reviewing the conditions in the natural resource industries. They are neither bringing the returns they should, nor are they giving the public the benefits they should, he stated.'

Inquiry Shows Need

The follorving resolution of the U. S. Timber Conservation Board was inserted in the record:

"As an emergency aid to the rehabilitation of the natural resource industries, and the stabilization and security of their employments we recommend the early consideration by Cong?ess of such action as will apply io these industries, under the system and administration of the federal anti-trust laws-such restrictions as under existing law are applicable to agriculture.

"This may be done by the suspension, for the period of the present economic emergency and until further ordered by Congress, of the provisions of the anti-trust laws, in so far only as these laws relate to cooperation between competitors in the natural resource industries, for the purpose of (a) controlling production, (b) maintaining employment opportunities, and (c) conserving natural resources. The larger freedom of action rvhich would thus be permitted to the effort of these industries to remedy the disastrous consequences and correct the difficult causes of overproduction, should oI course be exercised under such supervision by a competent Federal agency as may be in the public interest."

Forest products interests were represented at the hearing by Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber I\{anufacturers Association. Others speaking for the several industries included : E. J. McVann for the bituminous coal industry, also W. M. Ritter; J.F. Callbreath ior the mining industries, Marvin Lee, a director of the Kansas Public Service Commission for the oil industry, and former Senator Hovi'ard Sutherland of West Virginia.

Committee Should be Advised

Members of the sub-committee are Senators Hastings (Delaware) Austin (Vermont) and Bratton (New Mexico).

write to their Senators, particularly to members of the fudiciary Committee, rvho in addition to those mentioned above.include: George W. Norris, Chairman, (Nebraska), William E. Borah (Idaho), Arthur R. Robinson (Indiana), John J. Blaine (Wisconsin), Charles-W. Waterman (Colorado), Felix Hebert (Rhode Island), Thomas D. Schall (Minnesota), Henry F. Ashurst (Arizona), Thomas J. Walsh (Montana), William H. King (Utah), Hubert D. Stephens (Mississippi), Clarence C. Dill (Washington), Hugo L. Black (Alabama), and Matthew M. Neely (West Virginia).

Forest Industries Support 5,000,000

In his testinrony, Mr. Compton said in part:

"Ordinarily more than five million people in the United States depend for their livelihood on the timber, lumber and forest products industries. These industries today are impoverishid, stripped of working capital, depleted of credit and in chaos. For the most part the same persons are anxiously looking to them to work their way up and out of depression. The proposed amendment now before you, if enacted, will give these industries a chance to do this in the only way which is, or rvill be, effective: namely, by reasonable cooperation among competitors under competent federal supervision.

"The alternatives are merg'er or continued chaos. A declared purpose of this bill is to avoid the necessity of large merg'ers. On the other hand, the consequences of continuation of the present economic chaos in these industries are plain and inescapable: Further impoverishment and insecurity of employment; gradual devaluation of standing timber; and destruction of the incentives and opportunities for forest conservation and reforestation.

"These consequences are not necessary but they are inevitable unless competitors in these industries are permitted to enter into and carry out reasonable agreements to' adjust prodrrction to consumption.

"fn the effort to restore public confidence and credit the Congress and the Government have recently taken emergency action for which citizens everywhere are grateful. Billions of dollars of public funds have been appropriated for these purposes. But after all, the restoration of profitable industry and secure employ'ment depends primarily not on what the Government does for industry but on what the industries, if given opportunity, can do for themselves and for those dependent on them for employment.

"The proposed amendment involves no expenditure of public funds. But it has possibilities of great public benefits which cannot be secured by direct appropriation of public funds however large-henefits in terms of revived industry, secllre employment and conserved resources. For that reason the forest products industries earnestly urge prompt and a.ffirmative action.

"What you may ask is at stake in the timber industries?

Lumber Industry Ranks Second

"Of the trventy leading American industries, the lumber industry ranks second in the number of persons employed, third in the extent of its investments, and eighth in the value of its products. Lumber manufacture is a factor of appreciable commercial importance in 36 states; of substantial importance in 18; and of great importance in 9. The Census finds more than 2O,00O sawmills. There are 2,000 wholesale distributors and about 2O,W retail distributors. of lurpber. Timber ownership is widely decentralized. A

Their report rvill be made to the full Judiciary Committee. Persons interested in this important legislation should

fourth of the land area of the United States is in forest. a greater area than is in agriculture. A fifth of the standing timber is owned by the Federal Government, supposed to be worth a billion dollars, but under present conditions worth no one knows what. Nearly a third is owned by farmers-largely in woodlots. One-half is owned by individuals and b.v* timber and lumber companies.

"The national timber supply, not even including the new natural timber growth which is extensive and increasing, is sufficient to sustain for 5O years the average rate of cutting during the last few years. There is no national timber famine; and there rvill be none. There is on the contrary a vast 'shortage' of markets and uses of wood products. Great improvements in wood utilization, and the extensive substitution of other materials have greatly reduced the national use of forest Droducts. The more important public problem now is noi one of sufficient lumber supply but--as in the case of ordinary agriculture-of maintaining profitable industry, security of employment, and permanent productive use of forest lands.

Carrying Huge Reserves

"The serious problem for the lumber industry itself is that of carrying the huge reserves of timber now in private ownership, representing in the aggregate several billion dollars of capital investment, subject to constantly mounting anntral taxation and to the uncertain and uninsurable hazards of destruction by fire. For a decade timber values have been stagnant or declining. Timber properties are no longer 'carrying' themselves. Chronic overproduction has stimulated ruthless competition and has led to depression in lumber prices which in turn, over a period of time, has been reflected in further stagnation of timber values. This has accentuated the urge to 'liquida- tion'. Meanwhile taxes on timber have continued to increase both in total amount and in proportion to income.

Today, with the single exception of agriculture, the lumber industry pays in taxes a greater proportion of its income than cloes any other industry. This has aggravated the vicious circle of 'liquidation' and 'depression'.

"Supply and demand are rarely in exact balance in any industry. But overproduction in the lumber industry is not casual and transitorv. but fundamental and chronic. The lumber industry has- been in depression during much of the past decade. It did not proportionately share in the general industrial ad'i'ance oi 1922 to l9D. The present general business depression has merely accentuated an already adverse condition. More or less the same situation prevails in the natural resource industries generally; and largely for the same reasons."

Character of Lumber Industry

Describing the variant character of the widely distributed lumber industry, Mr. Compton said:

"The lumber industry is composed of a multitude of independent and widely scattered units producing a comparatively non-standardized commodity. The possibilities of lumber product standardization have been diligently explored and applied. But there are a hundred commercially different species of wood, varying in important physical characteristics, which severely limit the possibilities of standardization of product. Also there are great natural differences in timber and in operating conditions. These differences, apcl others, have so far effectively discouraged extensive consolidations such as have occurred in many other industries. As a consequence no single ownership produces, controls or sells as much as five per 'cent of the lumber product; and less than fifty are able to inaintain for themselves the sales facilities necessary to market their own products."

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California Building Permits for April

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To Eliminate Destructive Competition and Waste

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Doubt was expressed, under the circumstances, of the possibilities of building up what would amount to unreasonable restraints of trade. On this score, Mr. Compton said:

"I personally doubt whether any plans for cooperation proposed for the lumber industry could, in fact and in any event be made to result in unreasonable restraints of trade. Competition ot other units not parties to agreements, and competition of other materials extensively and readily subsituted for lumber, would, I believe, nullify any substantial trade restraint, even were it attempted. Probably the most that could be accomplished through voluntary cooperation-should the necessary permission be grantedwould be a closer adjustment of prodrrction to consumption, more orderly distribution of lumber and a higher degree of price stabilization. Such a result would mean the.elimination of destructive and needlessly wasteful competition; trade extension, not trade restraint. It is frankly favored by producers, distributors and consumers alike.

"Jungle Competition"

"We in the forest products industries are operating today under conditions of 'jungle competition'. The pressrlre of overproduction prevents the thoughtful planning and measured action necessarv for stabilitv and continuitv of business policy, ancl enc6urages, in t'he distribution'and marketing of lumber, the very unfair methods of competition which it is the avowed purpose of this bill to discourage. 'We are now in practice denied the right of self-government which gives reasonable promise of eliminating at least the worst features of this condition. The point is fast being reached in the lumber business at which laws designed to protect the freedom of competition are in'fact destroying it.

"The Lumber Survey Committee of the U. S.'Timber Conservation Board in a public report last July made the following statement regarding the economic condition of the lumber industry:

"'It is obvious that the industry as a whole has been substantially depleted of working capital; and that the depletion is continuing. It is evident that to a substantial extent the industry's operations are being maintained not out of income but out of conversion or liquidation of capital assets at a loss. It appears from competent testimony submitted to the Timber Conservation Board that the capi- tal structure of the lumber industry as a whole will not without genelal financial disintegrition, long withstand this depletion of its capital assets, due to the consequences of the present unbalanced supply and demand.'

"It is these conditions that lead us to make an urgent plea for legislation which rvill permit cooperation in advancing plans which will enable us gradually to solve the causes and remedy the consequences of over-production."

In concluding, Mr. Compton said:

"It is our earnest belief that the greater freedom of cooperation and of self-regulation of industry proposed by Senator Steiwer's amendment should be not only p,ermitted but encouraged, particularly during this period of economic stress and national emergency; so that industrial stability may be measurably restored; sound business policy promoted and the destructive competition which iJ today dissipating national economic resources, may be averted. This obviously is in the interest of maintaining industry activity and security of employment."

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Childish Prayers

The little girl was visiting for the first time in a home where grace was said by the entire family in unison at the beginning of dinner. The littlegirl looked with openeyed interest while the family prayed "give us this day our daily bread," but did not join in. When prayer was ended the lady of the house said, "Edith, why didn't pray for your daily bread?" "I don't need to," Edith; "we buy our bread."

the her her night. So, when the congregation knelt in unison bowed their heads, she asked: "Mama, what are they doing?" "Hush, dear," said the mother; "they're going to say their prayers." "What !" exclaimed the little one; "rryith their clothes on?"

And then another little girl who attended Episcopal for the first time. Up to that tfune with praying was her little prayer beside

S. F. Firm Supplies Springboards lmports of Vcn eers and Plywoods for Olympic Games Events

Springboards to be useci in the diving events at the Olympi,c Games at Los Angeles were supplied by Van ArsdaleHarris Lumber Co., San Francisco, and have already been installed. The boards are equipped with the new adjustable fulcrum for springboards invented by Ernie Brandsten, head coach of the American Olympic diving team, and distributed by Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. The device is described by Hugh Handley, sales manager of the company, as a most important forward step in standardizing fan,cy diving competitions. The new devi,ce adjusts the amount of spring a diver desires in a board, and the diver adiusts it by turn- ing a wheel with his foot.

"Our springboards are used in every State in the lJnion", said Mr. Handley recently to a representative of this paper, "and our export business includes shipments to England, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, South Africa, Japan, India, China, Mexico and other foreign countries."

E. A. GOODRICH VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

E. A. Goodrich, IJnion Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was a recent visitor at thc. company's San Francisco office where he spent a few days on business.

Show Gains

Imports of veneer into the United States for the first quarter of 1932 amounted to 2,34O,315 square feet or an increase of approximately I,767,000 square feet over the total imports for the same period 1931, states the Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce.

Australia and Russia were the largest shippers in the 1932 first quarter, supplying approximately 1,155,000 and 577,W square feet respectively or 75 per cent of the total veneer imports for the quarter. France ranked third with nearly 12 per cent while Japan, United Kingdom, Canada, and Germany made up the balance. For the first quarter 1931, Japan and the United Kingdom were the principal shippers of veneer to the United States; shipping over 87 per cent of the total imports of this commodity during that period.

Plywood imports for the first quarter ol 1932 amounted to 458,306 square feet or a gain of. 439,463 square feet over the total imports for the same period 1931. Of the total imports during the first quarter of. 1932 Russia supplied nearly 92 per cent, while for the same period 1931 Cihada and Belgium were the chief shippers, supplying over 76 per cent of the total plywood imports for the first quarter last year.

Lawrence-Philips Appointed Sales Agents

The Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. of Los Angeles have been appointed the exclusive sales agents for Southern California for Schafer Brothers Lumber & Shingle Company, of Montesano, Wash. The Schafer Brothers Lumber & Shingle Co. operate mills at lVlontesano and Aberdeen, Wash. They are also agents for the Schafer Bros. Steamship Co., who operate the S.S. Hubert Schafer in the California lumber service. The Larvrence-Philips Lumber Co. have headquarters in the Petroleum Securities Bldg.; their telephone number is PRospect OZn.

Building-Loan League Holds Annual Meeting

J. Lester Miller, San Jose, was elected president of the California Building-Loan League for the ensuing year at its twenty-seventh annual convention held at the Mission Inn, Riverside, Calif., May 5 to 7 inclusive. Other officers elected were: Sanford M. Anderson, Inglewood, first vicepresident; Harold A. Noble, Stockton, second vice-president; Robert S. Odell, San Francisco, third vice-president; Fremont Wood, San Francisco, treasurer; Harold B. Starkey, San Diego, and George Campbell, San Jose, directors. Neill Davis, Los Angeles, rvas re-elected secretary.

Oakland was chosen as the convention citv for next vear. The delegates were guests at the Ramona Pigeant at Hemet on Saturday afternoon, May 7, and in the evening Lieut.Gov. Frank Merriam was the principal speaker at the banquet held at the Mission Inn, at rvhich C. H. Wade, of Los Angeles, retiring president, u'as toastmaster.

Signs'to be Posted in Mountain Err

ilaygrounds

Over 2,600 metal-enameled distance and direction signs will be posted by Forest rangers in the national forests of California this summer, according to report by Regional Forester S. B. Shorv, ,chief of the California Region, U. S. Forest Service. Sign posting is an annual duty of the rangers, due to the construction of new roads and trails for the use of travelers and campers and for the administration of the national forests. In the past ten years the U. S. Forest Service has posted approiimately 20,000 metal signs for the convenience of local settlers and visitors in the national forests of California and southwestern Nevada.

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Low Prices M.y Have Silver

Oakland Port Commission Head Lining Talks to East B.y Hoo Hoo

Washington, April 30.-In the lumber industry there are those who think that the greatest disaster the industry has encountered in a generation was the precipitous peak of high prices attained in 1919 and 192O. In those afterwar boom ;rears lumber, non-public use of which had been severely repressed by the various policies of the Federal Government during the war, suddenly came into insistent demand.

Stocks were low and the sarvmill men were hungry for long denied business and profits. Years of restriction of building and certain non-essential industries had built up a great reservoir of demand and buying power. Altogether the situation of scarcity, necessity and deniand was such that lumber was inore subject to wild and run-away prices than most other basic or bulk commodities. In fact, very few finished articles rivaled it in its celerity and degree of price expansion between March, 1919, and February, 1920.

The average F.O.B. mill price per thousand feet of Southern pine lumber, all grades and dimensions, for example, ascended from $28.54 in March, 1919, to 96O.75 in February, 1920. The recession was fully as rapid as the climb, and in March, 1921, the averag'e price was down to $22.58. Lumbermen had thought they would never again see such prices, and they looked forward with hope to another boom when prices began to ascend again in the spring oI 1922. They never approached the 1920 peak; but, looking b;rck, it seems probable that in reaching figures around $37 so soon as 1923 they climbed too rapidly for the good of the trade. They confirmed the general belief that the industry was to be endlessly blessed with high prices and that it had little need to dig for business when events were turning it rrp.

It is considered that the alpine peak of l92O and the subsequent foothill peak of I9Z3-24 were double barriers in turning the attention and desire of the building and manufacturing public to other materials.

Now that the price average, rvhich was $60.75 in 79N, is down to $15.84. lumber statisticians and economists are beginning to u'onder whether there is not a silver lining to the present dark cloud that overhangs the industry in the possibility effects that low prices may have on lumber consumptlorl.

No other building material has declined in price so much as lumber has within the last three years. The former tremendous per capita consumption in the United States, which approximated at one time 500 feet, is attributed very largely to the then extremely low cost of this commodity relative to conrpeting materials. At $15.84 lumber is really about as cheap both nominally and in real dollars, as it rvas twenty or thirty years ago. As compared with 1920, it is 75 per cent off in price. It is more than 50 per cent off as compared with 1923, and fully 5O per cent off as compared with 1929.

It is altogether possible that, as times improve a little and the spirit of enterprise revives, the realization that the traditional .Ar.erican building material has experienced a throw-back in price almost to ancestral levels may be followed by an epidemic of detached home building. It will be recalled that the record boom in residence building got away promptly after the depression of l92O-2I and reached its climax in 1925-26, four years before the apex of the general construction boom of the 1920s was reached.

An old time crowd ol 73 rewarded the efforts of the directors of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 by turning out to hear a talk by Ralph T. Fisher, president bf the Oaftland Port Commission and East Ray Safetv Council. at the monthly meeting of the club, heid at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, May 9.

Mr, Fisher's subjects r,vere "Interworkings of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge Project", ind "Pertinent Facts About the Port of Oakland", and his excellent and clear-cut presentation of both these subjects left the members with a real knowledge of all the important facts about the great Bay Bridge, and with a much clearer comprehension of the importance and progress of the Port of Oakland.

The attendance was srvelled by a delegation brought from Stockton by Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., to hear Mr. Fisher's talk. Mr. Bird is chairman of the Industrial Committee of the Stockton Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Marine Committee of the Stockton Chamber. The delegation included two other members of the Marine Committee, Horvard Bissell and lulius Manthey; Frank Fisher, Fisher Bros. Lumber & [{ill Co.; T. L. Gardner, secretary-manager, Central Valley Lumbermen's Club; Phil Beaton, city editor, Stockton Record; A. M. Robertson, secretary-manager Stockton Chamber of Commerce; Pliny E. Holt, member advisory Stockton Port Commission; Hubert H. Briggs, chairman Marine Committee, Stockton Chamber of Commerce; Claude Clawson, Diamond Match Co., Stockton; E. W. Doe, chairman publicity committee, Stockton Chamber of Commerce.

Entertainment was provided by a boys' orchestra called the "California Bears", and by "Pep" Harper's Capwell Corral Band. Both of these organizations put on fine performances. The cowboy band was brought from Livermore by Earle Johnson.

Larue Woodson, president of the club, presided, and H.' Sewall Morton was chairman of the day.

Chairman Morton introduced Fred liurgers of the Santa Cruz Lumber Company, rvhose Hoo Hoo number is 6695, and who became a member of the order in 1898.

Buys Yard at Fresno

H. B. Gamerston, has bought the yard is operating it under Co. J. R. Shipman sistant.

of Reynier Lumber Co., San Francisco, at lM Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, and the name of National Builders'Supply is manager, and L. J. Greeh is his as-

Insulation Board Conference to be Held at Chicaso

A general conference of producers, distributors and users of insulation board will be held at l0 a.m., Monday, May 16, 1932, at the Palmer House, Chicago, Ill., according to the announcement of }Iarry H. Steidle, Division of Trade Standards, Department of Commerce. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the adoption of a standard for this commo-dity. Anyone interested in this subject is invited to attend the conference.

CHAS. CURRAN VISITS HONOLULU

Charles Curran, Curran Bros., Inc., Pomona, Calif., left Saturday, May 7, on a six weeks' trip to Honolulu."Mrs. Curran accompanied him on the trip.

National Confer ence of Lumber

Fred Conner Re-Enters Sales Managers Held in Rctail Lumber Chicago Business

Fred E. Conner

E. T. Robie and Wendell Robie, of the Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn, and Fred E. Conner, of Sacramento, have purchased the yard of the M. L. & D. Marsh Company, of Nevada City, Calif. The yard will be operated under the name of Nevada County Lumber Co., and u'ill be managed by Mt. Conner.

Mr. Conner is well kr-rown to the California lumber trade, pnd was co-owner and manager of the Sacramento Lumber Company, Sacramento, until May 16, 1924, when he sold his interests in the business. He is a progressive lumber perchandiser, takes an active interest in lumber association affairs, and is a former president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association. E. T. Robie, and his son, Wendell Robie, are prominent Northern California retailers: E. T. Robie is vlce-president for the northerrl district of the state retailers' association.

Nevada City and the city of Grass Valley, which are only a few miles apart, are known as the "Twin Cities" and have gained national prominence for their mining activities. The M. L. & D. Marsh Company was established in the early 6O's under the firm name of Gregory & Marsh. Later Dan Marsh took over the Gregory interests, forming lhe partnership of M. L. & D. Marsh,

LUMBERMEN BUY REDWOOD CALENDAR

Orders and inquiries are coming in fine for the "1933" Redwood Calendar, according to Lawton & McClure, Ltd., 216 Pine Street, San Francisco, publishers of this artistic calendar, who say sales of the new one will far exceed last year's total. They will be glad to furnish particulars on ree tlest.

W. E. GRADY A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA VISITOR

W. E. Grady, St. Louis, Mo., for many years associated with the lumber business in the lvliddle West, is spending a few weeks sojourning in Los Angeles. Before returning east, he plans to visit the Northwest. Mrs. Grady is accompanying him on the trip..

Chicago, April l5.-Adjournment here yesterday of the first national 'conference of lumber sales managers marked a unique and highly effective accomplishment in the industry in the opinion of those who attended and of leading manufacturers who kept in touch with the proceedings. The ten sessions proved of incal'culable advantage to the delegates in attendance, giving them their first opportunity of getting together for the purpose of analyzing the weaknesses and difficulties of lumber sales and for building a suggested program of steps for overcoming these. The recommendations resulting will be placed before the annual meeting of directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at the Congress Hotel here on May 23,24 and 25, by Harry T. Kendall of Kansas City, who presided at the conference.

Despite the short notice upon which the ,c'onference was 'called, the attendance was .close to one hundred per cent, more than two dozen sales managers, representing every manufacturing region and species, being present. As called for in the tentative program, the first few sessions were devoted to ferreting out distribution and consumer appeirl weaknesses. The remainder of the sessions were given over to plans for aggressively combating and overcoming these and for generally developing lumber markets.

The sessions evoked marked interest on the part of the sales managers and there developed a strong 'belief that su.ch conferences should be held periodically. Many expressed the opinion that the mere opportunity to get together and view common problems with the eyes of fellow sales managers had proved more helpful to them than anything that had occurred in the past decade. There was a general and genuine expression of appreciation for the efforts of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in arranging the conference and of the strong desire that similar conferences be held from time to time as a means of gradually developing a more unified sales program for the industry.

G. A. HO,USTON VISITS LOS ANGELES

George A. Houston, Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corpora- tion, Kansas City, Mo., was a visitor at the compiny's Los Angeles office around the first of the month, where he conferred with Harvey F. Bowles, manag'er of their Southern California office. Mr. Houston was en route to Kansas City following a visit to the company's mill operations at Longview, Wash.

"Pefiect Posts" Prove Popular Paying for Exports to Russia

"It is seldom that saw logs are made into split products, but The Pacific Lumber Company's policy of making posts and other split produ'cts out of the choicest Redwood timber has proved to be a good one", said Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager of the Company, recently to The California f,umber Merchant.

"After making his decision to go into the split produ,cts business E. E. Yoder, resident manager of The Pacific Lumber Company at Scotia, decided that posts should represent the same high quality that has always been maintained by Palco products. In making the posts he has the large posts cleaned up with a broad axe and the small posts with a draw knife, and although the extra work entailed requires the posts to be sold at a ,considerable premium over ordinary posts, these perfect posts have proved so popular that the company is operating a crew of 25 men in its split products operations.

"Although The Pacific Lumber Company is specializing in posts, they are in a position to offer exceptional quality in any split Redwood produ,ct, and have recently developed a split and sawn shingle which ,carries the trade name of 'Ruff-Rift'. These shingles are offered in various lengths from 18 inches up, and in various thi,cknesses. It is believed that a good market can be developed for these shingles in small homes as the split shingles heretofore available have been too massive for application on the smaller tvpe houses."

SHERMAN BISHOP BACK FROM TRIP

Sherman A. Bishop, of the sales department of the Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned May 9 from a four weeks' business'trip to Middle West and Southwest States.

Washington, D. C., May S.-Senator Oddie, of Nevada, has introduced an amendment to the Revenue Bill which provides that in addition to any other tax a duty or tax. of 50. per cent ad valorem, assesied on the American selling price, shall be imposed upon all goods, wares, articles and merchandise produced or manufactured wholly or in part from materials produced in Russia.

It was said at the offices of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association here todav in reference to the Oddie amendm,ent that that industry views with disfavor the present drive to recognize Soviet Russia and re-establish commercial relations with that country. It was remarked that the supporters of this drive have-paid no attention to the problem of what the Russians would use for money in case the Utopian dreams of American exports of a billion dollars annually to Russia were realized. The Soviet authorities actually expect to pay for any future increase in their imports from Am,erica with equivalent exports from Russia. .The most promising field for the development of such reciprocal exports is lumber. The lumber industry ordinarily employs over half a million men and is the chiif industry of many states. Lumbermen ask what advantage could accrue to the United States from the importation of large quantitie-s of lumber from Russia, especially as the United States is the largest producer and eiportei of lumber in the world and has self-perpetuating lorests which assure it an abundance of timber from generations to come and forever if economic conditions permit.

J. H. PRENTICE RETURNS FROM VISIT TO MILL

J. H. Prentice, Los Angeles, Southern California repre- sentative for the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, has- re!g_rn9d from a trip to the company's mill at Bellingham, Wash.

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I watched them tear a building down, A gang of men in a busy town.

With a ho-heave-ho and a lusty yell, They swung a beam and the side'wall fell.

I asked the foreman: "Are these men skilled, And the men you'd hire if you had. to build?"

He gave a laugh and said: "No indeed !

Just common labor is all I need.

I can easily wreck in a day or two

What builders have taken a year to do"'

And I thought to myself as f went my way, Which of these roles have I tried to play?

Am I a builder who works with care, Measuring life by the rule and square?

Am I shaping my deeds to a well-made plan, Patiently doing the best I can?

Or am f a wrecker who walks the town Content with the labor of tearing down?

-Edgar A. Guest.

CIVIC PRIDE

Young Son: "Dad, what a mean when you say lCivic Pride'?"

Father: "Well, son, this way; if the state institution for the located in our city, we refer to it as the 'state hos i if it is located in some other city we call it the asylum'."

BOTH

"'Who is that over-dressed woman over there who is trying to flirt with half the men in the roorn?"

' "That's my wife."

"Oh ! Beg pardon ! My mistake !"

"Not at all-MINE."

THE BUSINESS OF LIFE

Take it as though it was-as it is-an earnest, vital, and important affair. Take it as though you were born to the task of performing a merry part of it-as the world awaited your coming. Take it as opportunity to do and achieve, to a grand forward great and good schemes, to help and a suffering, weary, it may be a broken-hearted Now and then a man stands aside from the labors earnestly, steadfastly, becomes famous for wisdom, confidently, and intellect, skill, of some sort. The wodd wonders, admires, idol[6s, and it only illustrates what others may do if they take hold of life with a purpose. The rniracle, or the power that elevates the few, is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.-Mark Twain.

There is no cutting t ordian Knot of Life; each must be smilingly unravel

NATURE AND BUSINESS

When business embarks on a rampage that does not help humanity to live and grow-wherr it pushes beyond this range of usefulness and over-produces human nsgdsor when it falls behind and out-lives its usefdlness-it runs into trouble of some kind. And when the business tree is crowded with these dead or dyrng branches, the tree as a whole begins to suffer. We run into a business depression or plunge into an industrial war to shake the rotten branches down.-V. C. Kitchen.

REAL MEN

HE WAS UNDER SELLING

"The testimony," said the Judge of the court to his prod- the defendant, a milk man charged with w uct, "shows that your milk is 25 per cen ,t

"My goodness !" exclaimed the milk n. "Then I should have been selling it as cream.If. you1fri Judge, to look up the that it is 80 to 90 per cent I've been cheating myself."

I So if mine is only 25

The real men dare and the real men do, They dream great dreams they (Dme true; They bridge the rivers and plains, And gird the land with thei trains. They make the desert And send the cataract in bloom, the flume, To turn the wheels And bring the coin thousand mills, a 4ation's tills. take the trouble, The real men wor and the real men plan milk, you willfind And, helping lves, help their fellow man. And the sham n yelp at their carriage wheels barks at the big dog's heels.

As the small

Softwood lmports During First IDENTIFYING Quarter of 1932 the Lurnber Merchqnt

According to figures supplied by the Section of Customs Statistics of the Deoartment of Commerce to the Lumber Division, softwood imports by species and countries during the first three months of. 1932 were as follows:

Softwood sawed boards, planks, deals and sawed tirnber, dutiable; in board feet, from Canada: fir,24,158,00O; hemlock, L,474,000; spruce, 18,012,000; pine, 7,990,00O; from Germany, of spruce, 751,000; from Mexico, ol pine, 2O7,000; from Russia, of spruce, 2,2D,0ffi1, from Poland, of spruce, 69,00O; from Yugoslavia, of spruce, 4O,000; from Sweden, of spruce, 42,0W, and from Nicaragua, of. pine, 32,000. There were no transactions in larch under this class. Total imports of this class from Canada were 51,634,000 board feet. Total imports of this class from Canada in January were 11,102,000 feet; in February, I7,787,ffiO feet; and in March, 22,745,ffi f.eet.

Softwood boards, planks and deals in the rough or planed and dressed on one side, free of duty, in board feet, from Canada : fir,9,7O4W; hemlock, 393,000; spruce, 23,779,W, and pine, I0,47I,00O; from l\{exico, of fir, 47,W feet. There were no transactions in larch under this class. Total imports of this class from Canada were 44,347,m board feet. Total imports of this class from Canada in January were 15,982,000 feet; in February, 12,427,W feet, and in March, 15,938,000.

Other kinds of softwood sawed boards, planks, deals and sawed timber, free of duty, in board feet, from Canada, 3,956,000; from Trinidad, 3,000 feet. Total imports of this class from Canada in January were 1,227,00O feet; in February, 1,334,000 and in March, 1,395,000 feet.

Total imports of softwood sarvn and dressed lumber and timber from Canada for the first three months of. 1932 werc 99,937,W board feet as compared with 164,057,00O feet in the same period of 1931, 'r,r'hile for March, 1932, they amounted to ,{O,078,000 feet compared with 7I,723,0ffi leet in March. 1931.

Sells Redwood Lawn Furniture

Reynier Lumber Company, 112 Market Street, San Francisco, is selling a number of articles of outdoor furniture manufactured from all-heart California Redwood by the Humboldt Redwood Company, of Eureka, Ca'lifornia, and finds the lumber dealers are interested in handling sidelines that can be easily sold and that show a good margin of profit.

The articles included in the line are a garden and porch chair, table, ottoman and settee. All of these are packed in sturdy cartons. All pieces are cut to size, ready to assemble, and ,complete directions for assembling are enclosed in the carton. 'The chair is gracefully designed, is light and strong, easy to move and has a magazine rack.

Reynier Lumber Company is also selling a line of split and sawn Redwood shingles, which are 24 inches long, with a /a-inch butt. One of their customersl according to Manager H. B. Gamerston, says this shingle, put on with a copper nail will make a lOGyear roof.

New Manager at Vista Yard

"A.L. Connor, Riverside, has been appointed manager of the'\iista, Calif., yard of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. He succeeds A. C. Mankin, who was manager of the yard for the past several years.

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Lumber Rates From Coast Reduced lnto C. F. A. Territory

Seattle, Wash., Apr. 29.-The West Coast Lumbermen's Association is in receipt of the Interstate Commerce Commission's decision covering the complaint filed jointly by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Western Pine Association on lumber rates from the Pacific Northwest to Indiana, Southern Michigan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia, otherwise known as Central Freight Association territory, according to an announcement by H. N. Proebstel, Trafific Manager of the Association. The case lvas decided on March 28, 1932, by Division 4 of the Commission. of which Commissioners Meyer, Eastman and Mahafifie are members.

The decision finds that the rates complained of are not unreasonable maximum rates but that they are unduly prejudicial and such undue prejudice is ordered to be removed on or before July 14, 1932, upon thirty days' notice to the Commission and the public. The exact amount of undue prejudice is determined by the Commission in its decision. The crux of the complaint of the two Western lumber associations was directed to the existing sharp increase in lumber freights east of the Illinois-Indiana state 1ine. To points throughout Illinois and Wisconsin, the north Pacific Coast rate on lumber is 72c. Just across the Illinois-Indiana line, this rate rises to 821c, which is the most abrupt gradation to be found in the entire lumber rate structure from the Pacific Northwest. The Commission's decision finds that the existing rates to Central Freight Association territory are unduly prejudicial to the consumers and dealers located in that terrilory to the extent that they exceed 5c over the

72c rate of the lllinois-Wisconsin group to a narrow strip /Zc tate llhnols-Wrsconsln of territory in Western Michigan (Southern peninsula) and terrrtory ln Western rulcnlgan ()outnern penlnsulal ancl 'Western Indiana characterized as the Grand Rapids-Evans-

ville group; that to the remainder of Southern Michigan and Indiana, also Western Ohio points, rates free {rom undue prejudice should not exceed loc over the IllinoisWisconsin group. To the balance of the destination territory described, rates free from undue prejudice should not exceed 15c.

Following the filing of the complaint by the Sest Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Western Pine Association ijointly, separate complaints rvere filed by the California White and Sugar Pine Association and the California Redwood Association, whose members manufacture lumber in southern Oregon, California and Nevada. The Southern

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Pine Association filed a separate complaint of its own, covering rates on Yellow Pine lumber from the entire Southeast and Southwest producing regions to Central Freight Association territory.

Relief granted to produ,cers in the Pacific Northwest will be accorded the operators in Southern Oregon, California and Nevada.

No relief to North Pacific lumber shippers will be gained from the decision in the limited area in the central part of Ohio, of which the cities of Columbus and Cleveland are representative; otherrvise, the rates now in force, the reductions ordered, and the rates to be scheduled on or before July 14, are as follows:

Restores Tariff on Lumber to Rev enue Bill

The Senate Finance Committee on May 4 added four tariff duties to the revenue bill. Oil and coal import taxes were restored to the measure and duties on copper and lumber were also added. All votes reversed previous decisions of the committee.

Senator Jones of Washington won on the proposal to incrcase the present tariff on lumber from $1 a thousand feet to $3. Irltlrlllrl

Program to Strengthen Home Financing and Lighten Burden of Taxation on Real Estate Published

With President Hoover's proposed Federal Home Loan Discount Banks as the first 1tep, detailed plans to correct the defects in home financing and to lighten the destructive burden of taxes on real estate are offered to the public with the publication today of volume two of the final reports of the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership. The volume is called "Home Firiancing and Taxation" and contains the second part of the complete program formulated by the President's Conference at its meeting in Washington last December, to raise the standard of American housing. It is the product of a survey of existing conditions in the financing of homes and in taxation as it relates to home ovgnership made by leaders in the home financing field, tax assessori, and economists who composed the Committee on Finance and the Committee on Taxation of the Conference.

It is evident from the Finance Committee's report that if the high cost of homes is the greatest deterrent to sound home ownership, the high cost of financing is.at the heart of this evil. Two-thirds or mo.re of all home purchases, says the Committee, require second mortgages, for which it is not unusual for buyers to pay a bonus of 15 to 20 per cent. In considering remedies the Committee states. that "the development of reputable second mortgage companies is essential."

In an introductorv analvsis of the Committee's reoort the editors of the reports, br. John M. Gries, who is 'also Executive Secretary of the President's Conference, and Dr. James Ford, find that present legislation based on poor appraisals is the principal cause for most second mortgages with their exorbitant rates and frequent failures.

"In order to assure safety for investments," the eclitors state, "legislation has been enacted that precludes certain financial institutions from investing in mortgages amounting to more than 5O per cent of the appraised value of the property." While such legislation may protect investments, they say, it is nevertheless the cause of most second rnortgages.

In addition, the editors emphasize the significance of the Committee's recommendation toall home buyers of the advantages of long-term amortized loans. 'ushould mortgages be made up to 75 per cent of the appraised value of the property where needed and justified, and equitably amortized, the home owner rvould be much better protected than he rtow is, and much of the need for junior financing would disappear."

In this connection, also, legislation is found to be at fault. State banks in some States are forbidden to hold mortgages made for periods in excess of one year, and National banks are prevented from holding mortgages made for longer than five years. "From the standpoint of liquidity such l_egislation seems to be in line with sonnd public policy. On the other hand, the inability of the home owner to renew such short-time mortgages in times of depression results in heavy losses to home owners and in the depression of real estate below normal levels, and is not in line with sound public policy."

Herein enter the Home Loarl Discount Banks proposed by President Hoover and which are norv the sublecl of a bill before Congress. These discount banks would provide discounting facilities for mortgage paper and thus insure liquidity for commercial banks, which in turn would remqve the hazards of non-renewal of mortgages for the

home owner. President Hoover's statement recommending the establishment of the banks is included in the vslume, and in a foreword Secretary Lamont, of the Department of Commerce, states that our home financing system will be needlessly weak until these banks are estlbfished.

Other factors that contribtrte to the high cost of home financing, such as bad foreclosure laws and clumsy ,mortgage acts, are studied in detail by the Committee and remedial measures proposed.

A call to reform state and local tax practices and to reduce public expenditure is sounded in the report of the Committee on Taxation. Hor,v great is the need is evidenced by the Finance Committee which lists increases in taxation and special assessments among the principal causes of foreclosure in the present economic crisis. The Committee on Taxation states that millions of homes are today paying taxes that exceed 3 per cent upon their full capital value. fn one State investigated by the Committee taxation takes 31.7 per cent of the rental income of prop- erty. As a result of these conditions tax delinquencies have risen sharply since 1920, and an accompanying br.eakdown in the machinery of enforced collections and tax sales is said to have occurred.

In addition to a thorough survev of corrective steps to reduce the cost of government, the report discusses substitute taxes, the eflect of a property tax offset under an income tax, and tax exemptions.

The first volume of the President's Conference reports entitled "Planning for Residential Districts" appeared in March. Nine more volumes, making a total of eleven, will be needed to include all the reports of the thirty-one committees that collected data on €very phase of fiousing for the President's Conference. They will appear in the course of the next few months. The volumes can be purchased for $1.15 each postpaid, from Dr. John M. Gries, Executive Secretary, President's Conference on lfome Building and I{ome Owne'rship, Department of Commerce Building, Washington, D. C.

San Fernando Vallev Dealers Meet

The San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's Club met at North Hollywood, Calif., on Wednesday evening, May 11. R. R. Leishman and E. E. Hemming, Los Angeles, field engineers of the California Redwood Association, addressed the meeting on the Association's trade promotional activities. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday evening, June 8. Chester Knight, San Fernando Lumber Co., San Fernando, president of the club, presided at the meettng.

FRANK O'CONNOR VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Frank O'Connor, Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco, president and general manager of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, spent a few days in Southern California the early part of ihe month cailing on the wholesale dealers in the Los Angeles district.

Lumber and Pulp Tariff Urged in Revenue Bill

Washington, April 2S.-Inclusion in the Revenue Bill of appreciably higher duties on lumber and duties on wood pulp imports was urged and opposed in arguments before the Senate Committee on Finance at hearings April 20 on the revenue measure now before Congress. An excise tax as high as $5 per thousand on dressed lumber was asked by Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, who testified such an impost was essential to the salvation of the forest industries and their labor. Governor Hartley, of Washington, urged affirmative action by telegraph, emphasizing distressed conditions in the Northwest.

David J. Winton, Minneapolis, Minn., representing a number of lumber,companies having Canadian holdings, and P. C. Bloedel, Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Company, led the opposi'tion. Mr. Winton asserted that the additional tax was not needed in order to put American and Canadian producers on an equal footing. Mr. Bloedel, whose company has interests in Washington State and British C'olumbia, said present conditions were more likely the result of unstable rates and chaotic timber ownership factors than of lower production .costs and ,cheaper money in other countrtes.

Ficturing distressed ,conditions in the Northwest, Col. Greeley told the Committee "the sudden and rapid shrinkage in the ,consumption of lumber in the United States has for,ced upon the domestic industries a most drastic curtailment in production, closed down over half of its sawmills, and has thrown more than 60 per ,cent of its labor out of employment." Under these conditions, and with surplus lumber stocks given by the U. S. Timber Conservation Board as amounting to 4,000,000,000 board feet on December 31, 1931, the domestic market is chaotic; and at the same time foreign markets are being lost to Canadian and other producers, he said. The loss was ascribed to depr.eciated foreign currencies, the British Empire preferential tariff and many special tariffs adopted by foreign countries.

Col. Greeley made the point that in their present plight the forest industries are entitled to other industries, notably such natural resource industries as coal and oil. He asked specifically that the following import tax provisions be incorporated in the pending legislation:

"1. On rough lumber ofall softwood species, $3 per thousand b.f. measure.

"2. On dressed lumber (planed on one side or more) of all softw,ood species, $5 per thousand b.f. measure.

"3. On logs, poles and piling of all species, $1.50 per thousand feet log scale.

"4. On pulp wood of all species, $1 per standard cord of 128 feet.

"5. On mechanically ground wood pulp, one-fifth of one cent per pound, dry weight; chemical wood pulp, unbleached, one-third of one 'cent per pound, dry weight; chemical wood pulp, bleached, one-half of one cent per pound, dry weight.

"6. On ,cross arms, shingles, lath, handles, turnery and fence posts, 25 per cent ad valorem."

"While some reductions in the volume of imported forest

produ'cts would follow the imposition of import taxes prgposed", Greeley said, "the revenue therefrom to the Federal Government would constitute a substantial item."

Contending against the tariff, Mr. Winton said the spruce supply in this country was not sufficient; and that, while the tariff would not achieve the ends intended it would unfairly result in higher prices for spruce to American consumers,

The American producer will not find an increased market as a result of this tax, Mr. Winton argued, but Canadian interests will find various foreign markets, competing against domestic producers, to offset the loss of American trade. He argued that spruce lumber and wood pulp muSt be treated alike; otherwise a great injustice will be done the Ameri,can owners of spru'ce lumber mills in Canada.

Others appearing in support of the tariff included H. B. Van Duzer of the fnman Poulsen Lumber Company, Portland, Oregon, who said that the unprecedented times of distress and labor idleness required an exceptional remedy'in the form of tariffs; Ossian Anderson, Everett, Washington, speaking for wood pulp, who said the tax would offstt the advantage gained by great Britain and Sweden in going off the gold standard; Ralph Shaffer, Tacoma, Washington, emphasizing the connection between lumber and wood pulp; R. M. Ingram, Aberdeen, Washington, who called attention to the keen competition with British Cotrumbia in the shingle trade, and William D. Welsh, repre: senting the American Legion, who urged the tariff as a means of relieving unemployment distress. From the Northeast Clarence C. Stetson, Bangor, Me.,'W. N. Wentworth, Old Town, Me., and Thomas Allen, of Boston, spoke in behalf of a tariff on wood pulp.

Among those opposing the tariff were H. P. Christian, general pur'chasing agent Robert Gair Company, New York pulp purchasers, (heading the Temporary Committee Opposing a Tariff on Wood Pulp) who said the wood pulp available from domestic sources was only one-third of the requirements of 'converting mills and that a tariff would work a hardship on such mills; and Elisha Hanson, Washington, D. C., American Newspaper Publishers Associatioq, who asserted the tax would drive the American manufacturer of newsprint out of business and seriously affect from 1,800 to Z,ffi daily newspapers and from z0f[{t- to 22,ffi0 weekly papers dependent upon su,ch domesti,c newsprint..

Will Manage Fay-Egan Sales

Announcement is made by R. W. Egan, president of the J. A. Fay & Egan Co., manufacturers of woodworlcing machinery, Cincinnati, Ohio, that F. T. Crane has been promoted to the position of sales manager. Mr. Crane is well known to the woodworking industry in the Chicago district where he was formerly district sales manager, previous to being called to the plant several years ago to take charge of the school and government sales division.

Mr. Crane has many years' experience in the woodworking industry, is thoroughly familiar with the requirements of the trade and has a wide acquaintance in the industry.

State Forester Announces Forest Fire

Organization 1or 1932

Sacramento, May 12.-California's new forest fire organization f.or 1932, adopted by the state board of forestry and approved by the state civil service commission, was announced here today by State Forester M. B. Pratt.

W. H. Coupe, state district forester for the Southern District, has bleen chosen to serve as district forester in charge of fire protection, rvith headquarters in Sacramento after July 1.

Coupe's duties rvill be to correlate the fire plans of the state district foresters and assist them during the season. He will serve under direction of state forestlr, with full authority to take disciplinary action and recommend any personnel changes desirable.

Two new districts, Central California and Central Coast, have been added to the Northern and Southern California districts of last year. Each district will be in charge of a state district forester, who will plan the work and direct the personnel in their territory.

In addition, each district will be made up oi several units, with state district rangers or rangers at large in charge. These officials rvill inspect and supervise the work of state forest rangers, and assist in the actual prevention and suppression of fires.

The new districts and units. and the state district foresters will be as follows:

1. Northern California District: C. G. Strickland, state district forester, headquarters, Red Bluff.

(a) Redwood Fire and Protective Association, Mendocrno county _,

(b) Area outside of association in Mendocino countv, Humboldt.

(c) Trinity, Siskiyou, Shasta, Tehama, Butte, Lassen.

2. Central California District: O. E. Fowler, state district forester, headquarters, Sacramento.

(a) Colusa, Yuba, Placer, Nevada.

(b) Eldorado, Calaveras, Amador, Tuolumne.

(c) Mariposa, Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kern.

3. Central Coast District: Frank E. Thompson, state district forester, headquarters Palo Alto.

(a) Sonoma, Napa, Lake, Solano, Marin. ,

(b) Saqta Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, San Luis Obispo.

4. Southern California District: W. H. Coupe, state district forester.

(a) San Bernardino, Riverside.

(b) Orange, San Diego.

(Cooperation with Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara counties.)

Under the new arrangement the state forest technician, Burnett Sanford, will continue to make a statewide study to determine areas of statervide importance and areas not irr that classification. However, under fire emergency conditions, he may be detailed bv the state forester, to act as assistant to a state district forester.

PLYwo,oD tfilrH8tifi URERS vrsrr

E. E. Westman, of -the Washington Veneer Co., Olym- pia, Wash., and Huntington Malarkey of the Plylock Corporation, Portland, were recently in San Francisio and Los Angeles on a business trip.

SACRAMENTO LUMBERMAN VISfTS S. F.

Rus_sell Tracy, sales manager of Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento, recentlv spent a fer,v days in the San Francisco Bay District on business.

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San Francisco Launches Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign

San Francisco, April 26.-San Francisco's catnpaign for 1932, sponsored by a civic committee appointed by Mayor Rossi and cornposed of the heads of various organizations, was launched this week with unprecedented enthusiasm.

The Golden Gate Paint Club, of which R. D. Sullivan is chairman of the Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Committee, is supporting the movement energetically and has decorated the business places of the citywith official Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign display material obtained from the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau in Washington.

Whitney Tenney, a well-known attorney, is chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Committee.

Mr. Sullivan has informed the National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign headquarters in Washington that the plan outlined in the official campaign handbook is being followed and is being supplemented by many novel features.

The campaign was opened by a grand parade, with city officials in automobiles, machines from the Fire Department and the Police Department, the Fire Insurance Patrol, Red Cross Nurses on a truck, and trucks carrying Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls and Street Cleaners, and decorated trucks from the manufacturers of paint and allied products. The program included trucks from the Garden Club, featuring "Better Homes," and three bands.

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A permanent all ihe year around Clean Up and Paint ' Up Campaign Committee, to be composed of the heads of ;, the present civic organizations and representatives of thc" Paint Club, is favored by Mr. Sullivan, who believes that the value of cumulative experience, is very great, and that a perman,ent committee should function for at least four, '., or five years. It is considered that such an organization, : with experienced leadership, will be able to carry the history of each campaign into the following year, and to con- ii., tinue and strengthen the contacts with the city officials, as i well as with the civic organizations. Such a practice would give added impetus to the campaign in each successive effort, and, while retaining the interest of those organizations .' which had taken part in the campaign in the past, would add more civic organizations to the support of the moye-. ment. has ever been witnessed in San Francisco.

Enthusiasm for the Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign r, is running vcry high in San Francisco, in the city admin-'rt

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