Lumber Industry Leads All Others in Fair Dealing, Says Secretary Hoover

"I believe that your industry now leads all the industries in the United States inits effort to establish rules for fair dealing in the trade," said Secretary Hoover to the National Conference on Lumber Standard, at the conclusion of its successful meeting at the Department of Commerce.

The conference agreed on the whole of the standardization program left over from the previous meeting in Washington last December. The whole lumber industry of the United States as well as all the rvood .ivorking, wood using and consuming, and distributing industries, so far as organized, is now committed to the adoption of standard grades, sizes, and nomenclature, and to what may be called guaranteed inspection. The lumber trade is thereby simplified and elevated to a higher plane. The new regime becomes effective July 1, 19294. The net result so far as the consuming public is concerned isthat it will be enabled to buy lumber intelligently without confusion and rvith guaranties that it will get exactly r.vhat it desires. Secretary Hoover's closing remarks in full are as follows :

"f only wish to extend congratulations to you for having made such fine progress. I think you are doing something here, as I said when the meeting opened, something far more important than the details you are carrying through line by line, and I expressly like the intention expressed all through here, that there is to be a further conference in which these questions may be further advanced when there is further understanding and further development of facts.

"I believe that your industry now leads all the industries in the United States in its effort to establish rules for fair dealing in the trade."

John W. Blodgett, retiring president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, and chairman of the Central Committee on Lumber Standards, which has directed the standardization effort, spoke of the success of the "house-cleaning" as follows:

"We have spent a lot of time, and when I say 'we' I nrean every branch of the industry, and we have held out to the world that rve proposed to clean house, if there rvas any house-cleaning needecl, and that v/€ proposed to adopt and make standard the practices which not only extended towards a conservation of our raw material, but rvhich would protect the consumer of lumber, lvhich means protect everybocly in the United States, practically.

"Now, then, that is a great big contract that we have" assumed. We have agreed on the major portion, quite a very large portion of our program, and the thing I u'ant to impress upon you is this: that it is up to us to observe religiously every part of this program that you have adopted., Failure to do this, or variance from. this in the slightest degree, will not onlythrow us open to the imputation of bad faith in the construction of this program, but it will put us in avery much \\'orse light in the eyes of the Arnerican people than we have evei' been, and that is the thought I want to leave rvith you to take home."

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