Arizona Retailers in Successful Convention

J. B. Campbell elected President

From point of numbers in attendance, the brilliance of the features on the program, and the extreme success of the social features, the Annual Convention of the Arizona Lumbermen's CIub, held at Nogales on May l5th and 16th, will go down in history as one of the most

At the Annual Election. Mr. T. B. Campbell,.of Roy & Titcomb, No{ales, was unanimously elected to servb the Club as President, for the coming year.

Mr. John H. Wood, of Bisbei,-was again named as Secretary. Mr. Wood served the Club in this capacity in 1923.

To Meet In Northern Arizona In 1926

Flagstaft was chosen as the Convention City in 1926, at the invitation of a number of the Northern Arizona sawmills who have extended the hos- pitality of their part of the state to the retailers, and an invitation to make a tour of inspection of their mills.

_ E. L. O'Malley, O'Malley Lumber Company, Phoenix, will aci as VicePresident for the coming year, and the four named are: Francis M. Pool, John C. Light, H. and H. S. Corbett, the retiring President.

Directors

H. Shoup

The first session opened on Friday afternoon, in Firemen's Hall, with a good number in aitendance.

President Corbett.called the meeting to order, thanking the delegates f_or t-heir promptness,'and extending th? hospitality of Nogales to- all, lnd the keys of the "entire state, to the visitors from California, of w[.,ich there was a goodly number.

Sylvester L. Weaver, President of the Weaver Roof Company, Los Angeles, was the first and principal speaker at this session. His subject was ,,Waste in Industry.'i

In opening his remarks Mr. Weaver stated that it was not usual for him to commit his thoughts to paper, but on account of the subject involving so many-st-atistics he thought best to read his address raiher than give it, for from these many facts and figures he did not wJnt to misquote or be like Artemus Ward, who in making an address in which he stated the total number of rats rin into the hundreds of thousands, cautioned his hearers that he spoke from memory only.

Mr. Weaver also made the statement that he secured his information from various sources and in some instances had lifted a statement bodily from the reports of Ray M. Hudson, Chief of the Division of Simplifiid practice bf the De_ partment of Commerce of the United States, and that while much of the data had already been used throughout the East, undoubtedly it would be of interest and m-uch value to Western manufacturers who were not in immediate contact with eastern groups.

"Ttt"- Iast.fifty years_ have made of the United States a great in- dustrial nation. The invention of labor saving machi".iy- ""-i"g soon after the discovery of the steam engine *hastened ttie ;h;;: from largely an agriculiural to an intCnset-f i"a""iiiiip"Lirr.]"-"--

We are proud of_ qur ildustries, large and small. We have taken. also, a natural plide in tle -economy of opepation in our plants, thd savrng or by--products aqd tleir preparation for the market, and the prelgntigq of waste. Nothing of iny value has been aidrecaidJ and in this respect perhaps American- industry is foremost.

I remember in my own -boy!r99d thirty years ago the typical men_ tar prcture ot ttre care wrth whrch raw material was, by man,s labor a:rd genius, turned into finished products without ihj loss of """_ thing of -real-value-. This was depicted in one of the nationil ;;ri;ei_ cals of the times in a cartoon representing one of the ereji iicli"t plants. A -machine was shown into which a live hog"wis iJ;;e out of one hopper came hams and bacon; from anothjr hair brushis trom the bristles, and so on, with the further caption that only the pig's squeal was wasted and that was expected s-oon to be renlered useful by some means.

I direct your attention.

- Notwithstanding the heights to which our factorics have riscn in therr s-ystcmatic defeat of waste by science, chemistry and invcntion, there has grown up in nearly eve-ry great'industry inother toim-oi waste-hor_€ potent in its powers foi increasing colts and prevcntinc that distribution which lowered selling priceJ brings nat-urallv. rr is tlat phase of waste in industry to which successful affairs ever held by this organization.

The rapid increase of population in our Country, its great natural resources and the increased purchasing power of our citizens, plus the ingenuity and inventive powers of our industrialists, have given us tremendous domestic markets and an enortnous multipli- cation of the products of industry, Enlisting a high type of leadership and with great quantity productiorl the output of thousands of plants throughout the nition has placed in the possession of our people, and chlaply, numberless articles of utility and luxuiy ranging the wholc gamut of human ncedi and desires.

With the full development of the splendid markct and the ouick response_ by those engaged in industry to meet its demands, it-was a natural sequence that varying types, sizes and designs of eich and every commodity or product should be made to suit the taste. caprice or individlral_requirements of all, Plants making any given'prolduct ot a standard pattern -have-in the-past few years, being anxlous to app€ar- prggrgssive and desirous of pleasing the customir (who ar- par_ently-is always right or has beln up to this time) hive bein making from five to one -hqndred and fifty difrerent designs of the same article of use. And it is this phase oi industrial wasii that hjs had the attention of thinking industrial leaders for sometime pist.

So great a _part has bee4 played in the stalking of this form of extrivagance by Secretary }loover of the United S-tates Department o{ Commerce, and so successful have been his efiorts to cill atten!i9:r tg this dupli.cation^of commodities, that f can hope to tfrrow lut little-if .any additional light on_ the subject. Nevertheless, it is always benehcial to restate facts and truths where there is yct progress io be made and I shall give you-a few examples Uy,iticFi-ou wtio near me can renew your investigations in your own industries.

And let me. say at this And me, sa-y at ^this point that it is the duty of ind draw its own rules of conduct and so conduct its orrn or not to require any legislative action by federal. state or tive bodies. An industry which through its organized tion can correct abuses-that may be rs industry to so its own operations as 'federal, or l-ocal leeisla-legislaoiganized tradc asiciarat may be injurious to the public interest r practices including waste in duplication. and can. prevent improper iniluding wasti duptic;iffi: wul avotcl that vexatious state of government in business.- In th6 wo_rds .oJ S-ecretary Hoover, the industry is able to ,,poiice itsolf; and.wrtl:r the simplicity of business rules and undersianding_not wai-trng for the cumbersome blunders that legislative bodies exract to perf-orm that same function which is casily fossiblJ tt th; i;iGt ; itself. fied Practice, at teri

While a little off the beaten -path .of this subject, yet a remarkable evidence of the need of simplification in busine* is t a;;iiili-i learned at a conference in Dei_Monte a few *eits ago. p"J-r: i?iri_ dent Reid of the california Real Esate Aisoci.ti6n tJa-irs trrat there were t$/enty-fo_ur thousand different tormi oi-igriern*i"-l;;: tween-buyers and seller in the hands of realty men t'he stali-lvei. and _that-by Association activity these wer6 all reaucJd -i"-lirj standard form.

The annual waste in oul manufacturing industries in the United .1t"9::^::11*1t-"d,!y I*y M..Hudson, ch-ief of ir,i-biir. oi siirpii:

States is estimated by R?y M. Hudson, Ch-ief of ttre bivn.-oi S-lirofil prac-tice, teri ulrion aoirais-b"i;;-"boil'o;l:il:Lrl' fil'il'ji income of our people as shown by the incolmJ tax returns of tSZi.--

The Hoover Cornmittee.on Elimination of Waste in fndustry made 1-auyey -of six of ow major.industries, findin{w;rd, ;ilft ;;;; 28vo in the metal trades- io 64% in ttr6 manuFactur. of miir's-rLao made clothing- Much-of this waste can be "ttatsid to dr;pii;iti"ritrr srzes, tlimensions and other immaterial difrerinces in 'every- day commodities.

Pfpp +rl article, by Ray M. Hudson of Mr. Hoover's Department. p_uDlshed rn the contractor, a nttional periodical of the Associated General Contractors of America, I quote'thJ i;m;rk"di; ";-id;;-;; waste in duplication in several iirduitries.

"A survey of the catalo_gs of three manirfacturers of single bit axcs shows the common garden -variety_of axe made in Sa:modcti-i -quaLJies, 35 brands, -il finishes "ia-is-rE"..*-irri .-"t"'J;iltd listed is 6.118.

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