The popularity of the log cabin extends to every locality and to many classes of buildings.
sign can be followed as the d'esigner is not limited to the length and diameter of logs as in actual log con'
Vacation Cabins, Resorts and Hotels, Auto Camps, struction. Service Stations, Wayside Stands, Suburban Stores, Park Buildings, Clubs, Scout Campsr-611 acquire dis' tinction when built with Red River "Paul Bunyan's"
Log Cabin Siding.
Advertising value is given to commercial buildings built with log cabin architecture. They stand out with an individual character. They are quickly identified by the passing motorist. In word-of-mouth recom' mendations between travellers they are easily described and located.
Flexibility recornmends Red River "PauI Bunyan's" Log Cabin Siding for all types of buildings. It nails on like siding. Any type of foor plan and exterior de'
Doors and Interior Walls should harmonize with the log cabin exterior. The Red River line includes LOG CABIN DOORS on the "Paul Bunyan IOO/o Laminated Core" faced with rounded strips and knotty pine veneer.
KNOTTY PINE AND CLEAR PINE VENEER PANELS
Decorate, Insulate and form complete wall covering in one unit. Attractive pioneer style interiors economically constructed.
Dealer's advertising includes booklets and folders with the information the builder wants for planning a cabin.
In Los Angeles-Factory and Truck Service
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Almost every ranch and farm uses one or more water hnks. Do y9u kngw that Redwood is superior to any other material for water storage tanks? Consider a few of the advantages:
Redwood tanks, once installed, require no further attention.
The 6rst cost is low and there is no maintenance cost.
Redwood keeps water cool. It is a good non'conductor.
Redwood keeps water fresh. It stays free of organic and bacterial grow,ths which are induced by warm water.
Redwood tanks can be easily moved. They can be taken down and re' assembled at any time.
Redwood tanks are durable; they are free from the decay of other woods, and from the rust of srcel.
We manufacture all kinds of Redwood and Fir tanks, big or little, any shape or capacity. They are shipped to you knocked down, all- carefully crated and *a.L.d. A1[ necessary har-d*'ar" is included. An unskilled man can easily erect them, according to the explicit printed instructions furnished.
Why not let your trade know that you can furnish them with the best tanks made? \|7e will be pleased to send you window cards and catalogues.
Douglas Fir-Curent new business received by 216 identical mills as reported to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for the week ended May 14 was 7.4 ovef, pnoduction. This group of mills reported production slightly less than the previous week. Shipments for the week were 21.9 p* cent over production. New export business was 5rl52rOOO feet more, and new rail business showed an increase of 1r13lr0o0 feet, while new domestic cargo business showed a decrease of 4,9OO,OOO feet and unfilled orders declined 91613,000 when compared with the volume of the week before.
Production, orders and shipments at these 216 mills for the week ended May L4 were reported to the Association as follows: Production 58r945rOOO feet, Shipmufis 7lr87tr4r3 feet, and Orders 6313231246 f.eet.
Details of orders and shipments at these mills for the week follow: Orders-Rail 22,3L3r673 f.eet; Domestic Cargo 2015201686 feet; Export 12r78rr298 feet; Local 7 s 7O5r589 f.eet. Shipments-Rarl 2414601047 ferlt; Domestic Cargo VOrO52rO73 feet; Expot't. 916551724 feet; Local 7,7O5,589 feet.
A total of lZt mills reporting to the Association for the week ended l&.4.ay 14 operated at 24.O per cent of capacity, as compared to Z4.O of capacity for the previous week and 45.6 per cent for the same week last year. During the week 196 of these plants were reported as down and 135 as operating.
fnventories, as reported by 144 mills declined 910001000 feet from the week ended May 7 and are 18.2 per cent less than at this time last year.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro for the week ended May 25 totaled 317761000 feet, as compared to 3'895,OOO feet the previous week. Cargo arrivals at this port for the week ended May 22 amounted to 7r832rOOO feet which included 9 cargoes of Fir with 616391O00 feet,
and 2 cargoes of Redwood carrying 111931000 feet. 46 lumber vessels were operating in the coasfiryise trade on l|vlay 2L, with one vessel, the Missoula, operating in the intercoastal trade; 65 vessels were laid up as compared with 62 for the week before. No change'is noticeable in the California market, and the volume of business is light. rl.rN.*rf**
Although lumber orders for the week.ended May 14 exceeded production by approximatd 13 per cent, they were more than a third below the volume of new bueiness received through the equivalent period a yenr ago, according to reports received by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associatione covering the operations of 653 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Production at these mills totaled 125,913,000 feet. Orders called fot 1421346,OOO feet. Shipments, l48r973.OOO feet, exceeded the cut by 18 per cent. A week earlier 635 mills produced l2lr278r000 feet with ordert 4 per cent and shipments 9 per cent above the cut.
The Southern Pine Association for the week endd May 14 reported new business from 118 mills as 24r59lrOOO feet, shipments 261922,000 feet, and production 23r&72r000 feet. Orders were 3 per cent over production and 9 per cent below shipments. Shipments were L3 per cent above production.
The Vestern Pine Association for the week reported new business from 123 mills as 40rl55r000 feet, shipments 35,654,000 feet, and production 3112911000 feet. Orndere were 28 per cent above production and 13 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 14 per cent above production.
189 hardwood mills repofred for the same week nen' business as 111668rOOO feet, or 16 per cent above production, shipments 11'25O,OOO feet, or 11'per cent above production. Production was lOrO9SrO0O feet.
TIVERY\r'HERE-in everY -E section of the counffy where they are taking advantage of The Insulite Co.'s loofi Lunber Dealer cooperation-the rePort is "Business is Looking UP" and the dollars are.beginning to move.
Mr. Lumber Dealer, are You "cashing in" on the Insulite na' tiooal advertising aod the Insulite dealer hbtps? Are you using the services of the Iosulite insulation authority io your territory? Are you requesting the assistance of the Insulite Engineers when You have an iqsulation problem? All this co' operation and more is yours for the asking, and making use of it will make dollars for you.
Remember, the Insulite dealer has a superior product to offer his custoslers for every insulation requiremeot io the building field. There are 18 fnsulite quality prod' ucts io all-everyone of them con' ceived by The Insulite Co.'s own engineers and every one of them manufactured in The Insulite Co.'s own plants.
May we tell you nore about Insulite Products and the Profit oppornrnities they ofier? Let us send you also additional informa' tion aboutThe fnsulite Co.'s LOOft Lumber Dealer Disuibution Policy. !flrite today.
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EVERY BUILDING ERECTED IN YOUR LOCALITY IS A PROFITOPPORTUNITYFOR YOU IF YOU ARE AN INSULITE DEALER
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By Jack Dionne
"We live and learn," says a modern sage; and then adds, "And it's nice to do both.',
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Some men spend years of their lives in college. Others just read College Humor, and get much the same result.
A lot of men who .,"uJ ,.* errlhuse about the effects of Iow pressure Jumbo's, floating power, silent seconds, adjustable shock-absorbers, and synthetic gin, are today getting quite a kick out of re-soled shoes and good old Java. Which isn't such a bad idea, either.
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Arise and give thanks ! One of the great basic industries of the country is definitely out of the swamp of dp- pression, and constantly improving. Oil ! And, since it is generally believed that the return to business health will be by sorne great industry emerging and gradually hauling the others along with it, this glow o,f health on the cheeks o{ the great oil industry brings hope and cheer.
And, while we're on an" ,"0:*,, let,s put the credit for this improvement where it belongs. It belongs to the Governors of the huge oil producing states of Texas and Oklahoma, who, whether it was legal or not, sent troops into the oil fields of their respective commonwealths when oil was down to ,five cents a barrel and being produced at a rate that the world could not possibly buy, and stopped the production of oil by force of arms. They saved the oil industry !
A great merchant is quoted as saying the other day that: "Past experience shows that new products which catch the popular fancy will sell regardless of business conditions." Sa fact ! They're doing it right now ! Lots of them ! Cellophane is just one of many. It is selling faster than if the country were booming. ***
Several years ago the Save-the-surface organization in their national paint advertising used this potent phrase: "Words, words, words; give us something more than words." Let's borrow that phrase and apply it to a SAvethe-Country Campaign, and send it to our rqrresentatives at Washington. It DOES look as though, in this time of peril, the average Congressman seeks only to discover what will help re-elect him. Saving the nation doesn't seem to register with a lot of them.
,The great corporations that are conducting national sales efforts at the present time are putting less emphasis on the need for "high pressure,,, and more on the necessity for hard work. General Electric is putting on a national refrigeration drive, and their campaign dernands that every salesman contacting the public must rnake TWENTY_ FIVE PERSONAL INTERVIEWS DAILY. Folks, 25 personal interviews a day by fifty thousand contact men representing the 25,000 retail lumber yards in this country would sell a world of building materialeven in these times. Ask General Electric! They know! ***
, The other day one of our so-called great American industrialists, Charles M. Schwab, celebrated his seventieth birthday, and some of his friends presanted him with a luxurious limousine. The crux of this story is that Schwab is quoted as saying to an assembled group of well-wishers: "I needed a new car, but in these times of depression I DIDN'T THINK I OUGHT To BUY oNE.,. And so this alleged wise man unthinkingly exposed the very state of mind that is making and continuing this depression. Here is a multi-millionaire who couldn't even spend a part of the interest on his wealth, thinking he should not Luy because there is a depression on. He'll never be a big man to me again. He stamped himself a mental midget when he made that remark.
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"Vl/hat this country needs right now is ,Captains Courageous' to help us through this trouble," said an editorial writer the other day. When I reid that rernark of Charles Schwab it occurred to f,ne that it is something more than courage that our captains need; a wee bit of understanding might help some, too. With our captains of industry thinking in that fashio,n, is it any wonder the derpressiolr Iasts?
A banking friend tells me that there is actually a billion more dollars in cash and currency in existence in this coun- try today than there was three years ago. The slow circulation of money forced the Government to issue an additional billion. So, you see, it is NOT a money shortage we are bothered with. We've got more money today than ever in our history. ***
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For nearly 25 years I have kept my book of stories.
Every worth-while story I have told in that time, is in that book. Until recently these stories were simply in the form of notes. Urged by many friends to preserve them by at least putting thern into t)pewritten form, I have finished typing about half of them-the "Nigger" stories.
Now I am contemplating publishing these col' ored stories in book form. Havenr't quite decided yet just how to go about it. But I hope soon to have thlem available to lovers of good stories. I shall call the book, "CULLUD FUN."
What a marvelous collection this 25 years of "Nigger" stories comprises I had no idea until I began putting them into type form. It took ninety days just to typewrite them. There never has been such a collection of darkey stories. That really isn't bragging because there is not now and never has been available any really fine collection of colored stories-or any other kind for that rnatter. The average book of funny stories-and thEre are scores df them on the market-is about the saddest thing imaginable.
To keep thsrn frorn being lost and forgotten I have included in this list a couple of dozen of the very best "Nigger" stories of the World War, that are entirely too good to be lost to the world.
Don't you think it would be fun to have every first class negro story that the people of the South have laughed at in a generation available under one co\rer, told in such a manqer as to lose none of their "punch" and life?
The Paramount Built-in Fixture Co. has established a factory at 1807 East 12th Street, Oakland, where they will manufacture a complete line of built-in fixtures and store fixtures. They will conduct a purely wl.rolesale business in built-in fixtures, selling only through dealers' The factory has 8000 square feet of sPace on the main floor, and 7000 square feet in the basement.
Charles G. Murra, formerly vice president of the Concealo Fixture Co., Oakland, is manager' Mr. Murra was associated with the latter firm for the last 12 years.
A foolish question, yet it can be answered to your satisfaction, After considerable research, the ITEAVER-HENRY Corporation made a startling discovery, Home owners can be sold house-remodeling on a basis of value. The 1932 Remodeling Dollar is the biggest in modern history. Materials and la6or costs are down. And the average home owner acrually has the cash to pay.
lfith these facts, the ITEAVER-HENRY Corporation got busy. We developed a merchandising plan to reach these remodelirg p"orp".ir and make roof sales.
WEAVER-HENRY dealers say the deal is great. You will too when you see and heat ihe pl.n. It doesn't cost anything to find out. - Drop us a line and one of our boys will call with full details.
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and no one has now?" is a question you hear asked every day. Well, ysu see, we really nerrer had it in CASH. WL simply had sorneone's promise to pay on demand. ft was really CREDIT we had; and that's what we've lost. There is no lack of actual MONEY. The difference is that it either stands still or travels in low gear. Some of these days the ternpo will increase. The same dollar will begin changing hands five, ten, or e\ren twenty times a day. A-nd TTIEN we'll have prosperity again.
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The trouble is we've been butting our heads against this stone'wall seeming depression so long that we,ve become addle pated and our think-tanks are congested. We spen a most of our time asking the fool question, ..how can iros_ p€rity come back when no one has any money left?,'when the fact is that there is more actual money than there ever was. Getting it rolling from hand to hand is the thing.
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And nonr, to add to our presmt.wo€s, we are threatened :-9 I mighty scary one. Senrator Walsh propories Senate Bill No. 3256, a law to tremendously increase the powers and authority of the Federal rrade commission. riwourd seem that, with the courts on every hand repudiating the acts of the Commission for the past several years, _a " general record that has convinced business generally that the F.T.C. is harmful rather than, helpful, iro inteiligent man would be likely to suggest any act that would rn-ake the Commission a greater nuisance than in the past. yet this proposed Senate Bill would give the Comrnission au- thority never before dreamed of. If there is one particular and outstanding thing that the business of this country does NOT need, it is Federal Trade Commission interfer_ ence. It's hard enough to exist without that.
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Did you lrrow that the death rate in the united states has been dropping steadily and consistently since the Government first began gathering such statistics? Fact. In 1880, the first Government figures available, the death rate in this country was 19.g for each one thousand popula_ tion. In 1900 it was 17.6. In l9l0 it was tS. In tgZO it was 13. And in 1930, the last figures available, it was 11.3, the lowest year in history. The figures for 1931 .r" ,roi yet available. So human life IS lengthening. We can,t
C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California Red_ wood Association, San Francisco, recently spent a u,eek in Los Angeles on the business of the Associaiion, and since his return from the south made a one-day trip to Sacra_ mento.
compete with old Lamech, (717 years), or Noah, (950 years), or Methusaleh, (969), but we're improving.
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The following,. a friend of unimpeachable integrity infqrms me-is an actual happening.
In the sprlng of. l9Z9 there was a certain business man in the City of . who had reached middle age and thought he saw the folly of wo,rki4g all his life to aocumulate money. So he took advice from his friends, amdrg the bankers and brokers and invested his total for. tune which amounted to 9190,000.00 in what was considered the very best stocks available at that time. The price of the securities continued to advance and he became quitc enamo,red with the easy way of making money, so he borrowed $ZOO,OOO.OO more and bought more of the same stocks he already held.
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The panic in the fall of 1929 came shortly thereafter and the price of all securities and commodities started falling- then tumbling down. somewhere arong the line his brokirs and bankers got together and sold him out, much against his wishes; paid off his loans and sent him a ctrect for $66,000.00 which was the salvage out of his original fortune.
He put the $66,00O.00 in a bank and sat down to tate a survey of his new situation. While he was making up his mind what to do, and how to do it, the bank "lo6e4 tyi"g up the remainder of his fortune. The bank -"s ptaceA ii liquidation, and after so long a time, the liquidating agent declared a 50 per cent dividend to depositors and -oui ifvestor found himself t" n:"r?Ut:n of 933,O0O.O0 in castr.
However, our friend still had confidence in the stocks he formerly owned, so he took g21,000.00 of the 033,000.00 hhad saved fro,rn the bank failure and bought an equal amount of the identical stocks he had purchased in 1926 at a cost of approximately $4Oe0@.OO.
Now he is in this position:
lst. He has the same stocks he originally purchased.
2nd- He doesn't owe any money.
3rd. He has 912,000.00 in the bank.
4th. He has a chance to get something more out of the closed bank.
R. W. Hunt, district manager in California for the Wey_ erhaeuser Sales Companv, returned to his San Francisco headquarters from one of his periodical trips to Los An_ geles and Southern California, IVIay 16. While in the south Mr. Hunt conferred with the company's sales representa_ tives in Los Angeles and San Diego. -
fH E price to build this cobin is RIGHT for I this yeor's conditions. lt is moderole in cost - yet conloins everything essentiol.
2lI4leet wide by l4 feet deep, it hos room for sleeping occommodotions for four to six people. Front ond reor doors ond six windows give plenty of light ond oir. The chimney is built for stove or portoble ftreploce.
This cobin gives you o good lumber order-1422 feet of Shevlin Pine Log Siding, 336 feet of floor boords, 575 feet of roof boords os well os dimension
lumber ond olher building moteriol.
Thlg cobln har been bullt full clzc on lhe flfth floor of t. S. Donoldgon Gompony-one of the leodlng deportmenl storca of Mlnneopollrto dlrplcy outlng clother ond comp equlpment.
Thls cabln ls sultoble olso for o roodclde eotlng stond or for lourlct ccbln. lt is well designed for rentol purposes.
Send the coupon for this plon, Number 155632, now.
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I should like first to give a brief pi,cture bf ttre present condition of the manufacturing end of the lumber business. Companies with which I am familiar operated in'1931 on the basis of donating their timber, the use of their sawmills, and the use of their logging railroads or other major improvements in the hope that current'cash income would exceed the cash outgo. To some small degree in this way, plus inventory liquidation, money was made available to meet timber land taxes and carrying charges, interest, etc. The year L932 to date reflects somewhat worse conditions. Without question the measuring stick of the entire industry today throughout all its ramifications of plants and logging operations in favored locations or not, owing money or not, and operating owned stumpage or not, is its cash position. It is obvious that conditions as described are depleting the capital structures of the industry at a terrifying rate.
Were this, as in the ,case of most industry, directly tra,ceable to the present world economic ,condition, the situation would be serious enough, but lvhen it can be proven that the 'capital assets of the lumber industry were being depleted at a rapid rate even during the inflated conditions of 1929 and in the years before, it becomes apparent that to prescribe for the ills of the industry is more than a twenty minute job. The situation is so serious that we are inclined to become hysterical in the remedies which we demand from public and other bodies and forgetful of the huge task we have always to face in putting and keeping our own house in order.
The problem is so complex and the causes so deep rooted and involved that no one unit in the industrv can do mu'ch. by itself, in discovering and prescribing the remedies. Nor can the industry itself do much except by the sincere mutual consideration of all its members in all its bran,ches and as well by the industry's silent partners-the public, the railroads, the banks, etc.
The public itself, nationally and locally, has by far the largest stake in the lumber industry thro,ugh its timber ownership, its interest in payroll and community stabilization, and in a hundred and one other ways. But in spite of this very real partnership between thb lumber industry and the public through the years, it has always seemed to me that the desires of the industry have been viewed with distrust and suspicion. The reasons for this feeling are varied. Perhaps the fact that the industry itself has more times than not been divided in its desires has had a large influ- ence. The various conservation movements in the country have been directed more against the lumbermen than with them, and have given rise to the belief that a lumberman was an individual with a limitless pocketbook, accumulated largely as a result of his exploitation of the public's play grounds, and beauty spots in a questionable fashion. For years antagonism existed between lumbermen, and those who wished the lumbermen to do those things which would keep all the forests beautiful and green, without a very definite idea of either what measures were necessary or their practicability.
The,preachments of this group did much to promote the feeling even among lumbermen themselves, thal they were
dealing in a commodity which was vanishing. This encouraged speculation in timber, and did mu.ch to encourag'e the continuous rise in market values of stumpage. Today there is a far greater harmony of viewpoint. The lumberman knows he is broke, and so does everyone else. There is a general realization that lumber is loiing its markets. This, togethir with a greater knowledge of the actual supply, has punctured the speculative value of timber. We now know that the ,country's forests can be managed as to provide ample lumber and forest products for the country's future needs.
The period of rising stumpage values coincide with a period of greater material development of timbered regions previously remote. Schools, highways, and local governments have been extended to the isolated bodies of timber. The inevitable result has been the building up of assessed valuations and tax levies to a point where the pressure to liquidate become enormous. Coincident with rising taxes came the realization that stumpage values were receding. These facts and an urge to fatten public treasures by liquidation of public timber as well, have so encouraged construction of plant {acilities, that today there is lumber productive ,capacity in existence 50 per cent in excess of the requirements of the best year in the past decade.
To aocomplish what is needed for the industry requires that tlre industry and its leaders so sell themselves and their problems to their public partners, as to make them willing bedfellows. The chief prerequisite to this is the industry's so organizing itself as to be a cohesive and effectivb unit itself.
ft seems to me that if this existing partnership is to be presented to the public as something worth contin,uing, then the public must be shown its own definite interest in those handicaps which have been placed upon us and which are beyond our own unaided ability to reduce and eliminate.
I do not attempt to recite these handi'caps in the order of their importance nor to make a dogmatic assertion that we cannot greatly strengthen our position without their complete'elimination. I mention them because they are unfair and because, in my opinion, the publi,c permits them to exist because it does not understand its own opportunities in its partnership with us.
That transportation 'costs are a far greater proportion or the delivered price of lumber than it can stand is incontrovertible. Lumber, in the last decade has become a typically long-haul commodity. I seek no sectional advantage for any group when f say that it is radically unfair to expect longhaul rates to take up all the slack resulting from the railroads'loss of short haul business. The situation has become one which sharply favors the distribution of 'competitive substitutes and as it now stands is intolerable.
Our tariff situation as it affects lumber and other forest products is a very unhappy one. Through favored national clauses, empire preferentials, monopolies, and one means and another, it is now apparent that the domestic market has become practically the only market for American lumber manufacturers. But in this, our own market, we bre not adequately protected. We have not been a strong single unit in the presentation of sur tariff ideas. We can not be
while part of us has one eye on Canadian timber holdings. Still it occurs to me that domestic capital and labor have every right to protection under the conditions.
For timber to pay an annual ta-x rvithout regard to its current earning power is very unfair. It is there to see, and consequently has been taxed out of all proportion to su,ch properties as lie beneath the ground and are invisible or such properties as produce an annual revenue. The only basi,cally fair method of taxing timber is on a yield tax basis.
Much more economy should be introduced into govern- ment. \Me should lend our aid to the public in establishing and maintaining minimum balanced budgets of public ex-penditure. The solution of this problem involveJ redu,cing to and maintaining at a minimum those governmental func-tions which actually the government shbuld perform. Industry should, so far as practicable, perform research or other work in their own field without attempting to have it don-e "free" by the government. Industry sh-ould take back for internal performance work of this kind which is no_w an unne,cessary burden on government. Industry and other responsible economic groups in cooperation should more effectively plan for sound government brganization for the elimination of unnecessary governmental ma,chinery such.for example, as the elimination of unnecessari countres.
Production ,control is a crying need of all industry, and also of lumber. 'We must have the sympathy, undeistanding, and help_of our public partners in-our-efiort to help ourselves in this matter.
Strong trade associations seem to me to be the immediate and obvious method of procuring orderly marketing and production in the lumber industry, to th6 extent thit the benefits of trade association government are lost throueh our anti-trust laws. I believe we need revision or ndw interpretation of those laws. Without the trade asso,ciation being able to g'overn through trade agreements, the tende-ncy must be toward physical mergers throughout the industry.
In this emergen,cy temporary production control measures have centered around voluntary control of sawmill operations. The Special Lumber Survey Committee of the "United States Timber Conservation -Board" in a series of quarterly reports is recommending redu,ction of excess stocks by production ,control. Rigional Associations through appropriate committees are interpreting and and transmitting such recommendations to individu;l lumber manufacturers. Each manufacturer in turn decides in the light of general conditions and his own cir,cumstances to what extent he will voluntarily carry out such recommendations. This process when aided by-powerful economic fa,c- tors as at present, is helpful in periods of depression, but must be recognized as only a partially effective and temWrary stop-gap. Efforts to make this temporary control more effe.ctive must be, in my opinion, viewed with considerable care, lest rve waste oui efiorts o.n what can at best be temporary, since not sawmill control but timber con- trol is the fundamental essential.
We especially need the understanding help of the oublic in order to build upon this fundamenta-l faci. Fores^t land o_wners (and always remember that the greatest of these is the- public) should re.cognize that without produ,ction con- trol overproduction may ,continue for decides, that control- of_ produ-ction to be effective in the long run must be applied to timber rather than sawmills, tfrat control of timber cutting must_be-applied both to public and private timber, and especially in the west, ,cooperatively to these two classes of timber; that sustained yield foresi manasement is a form of control of timber cutting completelfin the public's interest both as a timber ownir and throleh its manifold other interests in the industry. Conseouent"lv the prin,ciple of sustained yield management is a goal
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SisalkraJtfor the ra,ses they illustrate.
SisalkraJt for rnany other uses-sofne of uhich you ntay not eaerr, lenou about.
Stock iterns of many other types uhich you rrorn hanl.e in your yard.
What else do you carry in stock of which you can send a selfdernonstrating selling sarnple right through the rnail? Ask for the 6 tested and tried ways to use Sisalkralt sarnples.
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toward whi,ch private timber owners should cooperate to the fullest possible extent.
It is impossible to adequately describe the principle of sustained yield forest management in this paper. Suffice it to say briefly that it consists of a form of managing such forest lands as may comprise an economic unit in such manner as to protect and reprodu,ce the forests therein, and at the same time harvest the trees at a sufficiently moderate annual rate as to permit new growth to repla'ce the timber cut, thus giving a continuous, permanent, and regular output of forest products from the area. The principle. except for the items of prote,ction and reproduction, is not unlike that of unit operation of an oil pool.
This form of management will accornplish the utmost toward community maintenance, stabilization of employment, and provide most effectively for the national timber supply. In doing all this it r,vill provide an adequate and effective step torvard the elimination of overproduction.
The adoption of a feasible widespread program of sustained yield forest management in the western states involves cooperative timber management in forest units in which substantial quantities of both private and publi,c timber occur. It also involves the setting up of sound, long time policies for the protection and ultimate orderly disposal of all public timber and for the protection and acquisition of such private forest land as cannot be proper- ly managed in private ownership. There is also involved the application of selective logging, rvhich has the effect of placing the whole enterprise on a more sound economic basis. Frequently, or usually, mergers of private properties are essential or will greatly prornote the effective establishment of sustained yield units.
The subject is compiicated and requires study, and endorsement by private land owners. Its inauguration presupposes a willingness on the part of operators to find the proper application of selective logging where possible, ancl most of all recognition by public land owners of the necessities, and a willingness to deal justly r,r'ith responsible operators.
Obviously this program requires mutual co,nfidence and fair dealing and can only ,come out of cooperative effort. Its results I'r,ill benefit all groups inter-related within the lumber industry.
The greatei' part of my paper has now been read and I have told you only of those things which others must do for us or must help us do. To talk more about getting help and less about helping ourselves probably reflects the typi'cal American attitude today. But at least I hope we can agree upon the kind of help we need.
From now on I want to talk about helping ourselves.
The equally important ,corollary of controlled production is market extension. The lumber industry has been living largely on the momentum resulting from its long period of service. Its matketing methods are as out of date as the horse and buggy. The prices at which its product is sold are not made by the producers. Its trade extension work as an industry has hardly scratched the surface. Now that the industry is so poor it is just so much harder to realize that more money must be spent in order to control its sales and promote its product against the ever increasing field of substitutes. 'We are becoming alive to these facts, but I do not see how they can be effectively met unless our trade association activities, wherein matters of mutual in-
terest should be centered, are given adequate financial support no matter how much it hurts, and more than that, active thought and direction by all lumbermen.
A 'catalog of our needs cannot but bring home to everyone the fact that what we do for our own selfish company interes,ts has turned out to be absolutely inadequate. We must recognize that however unwieldy our trade dssociation organizations, the solution to our problems lies in these cooperative agencies. Our attention mus,t be to a very much greater extent than ever before, given to those matters which con,cern us all, and not those solely concerning our own bailiwick.
D.uring the past generation we have seen individual companies improve greatly in efficiency of industrial processes and internal management, but very little improvement is eviden,ced in those groups of companies which,constitute an industry, toward'the effe,ctive management of the industry. Still less progress evidently has been made toward effective cooperation between groups of industries in solving their common problems.
In the lumber industry, and no doubt in others also, we must recognize the fact that individual companies can attain real success onlv to the extent that their industry as a whole is soundly managed, and that each company, as a responsible unit, must support those activities which are essential to the common good of the industry. I think that means membership in and full support of the trade association whi,ch is the nearest feasible approach to an orderly "government" or industry. That membership and suppoit must find ways of putting that association in a poiilion where it can much more effectively function as an orderly "government." Consequently it devolves upon members t-o actively parti,cipate in the thought behind association prog'rams, and means of effectively putting those programs into or,ce,
Given strong association government in the lumber indus,try and others, many points of contact exist between industries. One problem of this character, upon the solution of which possibly the maintenance of our present economic system depends, is that of maintaining stable employment.
Another is that, already mentioned, joint responsibility of all of us and our industries to be'critical and helpful in analysis of government economy and tax revision. -
While all lumber markets need maintenan.ce work, it seems. especially necessary that the industry help the construction field to the end that lumber can go into place with the efficiency that do other materials. Another large lumber market needing help much in excess of its receipls is the box field. I mention these two as indicative of lhe necessity o,f research work by the industry in order to apply intelligent trade extension help.
We need expanded research and trade extension work. We need lower long haul railroad rates. We need an adequate lumber import tax. We need revision or a new interpretation of our. anti-trust laws. We need to greatly strengthen our distribution facilities. We need a vi6ta tai on timb.er. We need sustained yield forest management and stronger trade associations.
While this list of needs is imposing, it does not seem to me impossible_of attainment, can the industry unite to promote them and solicit the aid of its friends and partner! as necessary.
The resignation of Max E. Cook, Iarmstead engineer, in charge of the Redwood Farm Structures Bureau of the California Red#ood Association has been announced by C. H. Grifien, Jr., general manager of the Association. The announcement follows:
"It is with genuine regret that rve announce the resignation, efiective July l, 1932, of Mr. Max E. Cook, who has served this Association so faithfully and well for the past eight years. Our support and best r'vishes go with Mr. Cook in any activity rvhich he might undertake.
"The California Redwood Association lvill in the course of the reorganization of this department continue to render its agricultural service, and 'rvill make available to all retail dealers and agricultural interests all the information possible on the use of California Redn'ood for farm structures."
Mr. Cook stated to The California Lumber Merchant that he will take a rest for some rveeks before announcing his future plans.
The Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co' and the McCormick Steamship Co. recently moved their offices from the Matson Building to the Sheldon Building, 461 Market Street, San Francisco, rvhere they r'vill occupy the entire seventh floor.
The telephone number of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. is the same as before, DOuglas 2561.
E. W. Daniels, vice president and sales manager of Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam. Wash., was a recent business visitor to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Ed. Seward. Dolbeer-Carson Lumber Co', Los Angeles. and W. B. Koehler, 'Weaver-llenry Corporation, Los Angeles, rvere tied for the low gross prize with a score of 82 at the Orange County Lumbermen's Club golf tournament held at the Hacienda Country Club, Whittier, Wednesday afternoon, May 18.
They will have a playofi game at the June tournament when the first prize, a brassie, will be awarded to the winner. C. C. Barr, Barr Lumber Company' Santa Ana, was the winner of the low net Prize, a box of golf balls, with a low net score of 62. Ted Lee, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, was the rvinn,er of the blind bogey prize. Following the tournament, dinner was served at the club house.
The following took part on the tournament: Art Kelly, Bill Dempwolf, Ted Lee, W. B. Koehler, F. C. Whittemore, Ted Corcoran, Roy Stanton, Earl }Ieber, Ray Clark, E. Stefiensen, Glenn Fogelman, Del Liggett, Walter Spicer, Ross Hostetler, Charles Lyons, W. H. Wright, Ed' Seward, Emil Swanson, C. C. Barr, C. C. Bohnhoff, Earl Galbrarth, Bob Holden, R. C. Johnston' A. M. Thompson, T' Beck, Bill Sampson, Bill Godshall and Ed. Martin.
The S. S. Hubert Schafer, making its first California trip under the new management of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. of Los Angeles, agents for the S'chafer Bros. Steamship Co., arrived at San Pedro on Friday, May 27, with a cargo of lumber. After discharging i'ts Los Angeles consignment, it proceeded to San Diego. The Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. are also the exclusive sales agent of the Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co' in Southern California.
Captain Robert Dollar, San Francisco lumberman and Pacific Coast shipping leader, died at his home in San Rafael, California, May 16, at the age of 88, after an illness lasting l4 days.
Captain Dollar was born in Falkirk, Scotland, March 20, 1844. His start in life rvas told in an article entitled "Mv Early Recollections of Lumbering," which he wrote espe- cially {or The California Lumber Merchant, and which lppeared in the issue of August 1, 1931. His schooling ended yh._"-at 1l years old he rvent to work in a machini'shop. At 13 he emigrated rvith his father to Canada soon after the death of his mother. His first iob in Canada was in a stave mill in Ottawa. At 14 he r,vis working in a lumbbr camp as chore boy, and after seven years of work that included hard work in the rvoods all dav and clerical work at night, he_ was made foreman in charge of a camp at the age of 21. He started in the logging business for himself in the Muskoka district of Ontario when he rvas 28, and later went into partnership with H. H. Cook, big Canadian lumberman. Their camps were on Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, and they e.xport!4 logs to Great Britain and sold logs io the sarv mills. When they cut out the large timber lhere he moved over to Michigan, and after oper-ating there for some time moved to California, rvhere he purihased the Meeker tract in Sonoma County as a beginning for his lumber operations on the Pacific Co".t. La"ter he"extended his lumber holdings to the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.
The Robert Dollar Company operate lumber yards in China, and are importers of Philippine hardwoods, being the agents of the Insular Lumber Company. The compan! carries on an extensive export lumber business which tbtats from 14O,000,(B0 to 150,000,000 feet per year.
*.C-aptain Dollar, the hero of Peter B. Kynes, ,.C"ppy Ricks", started in the shipping business when he *as o'rret fifty years old with one small vessel, the Newsboy, and shipped his first cargo of lumber to China in 1901. 'From this beginning he acquired the largest fleet of vessels ever operated under the American flag by one company.
He inaugurated_the Dollar rvorld pasenger ind freight service when in 1924, and although over 80 years of age, he personally worked out the plans and sailed on the fiist loyage calling on 400 shippers and prospective customers. The next year, he made a similar voyagi making over 500
business calls. Mrs. Dollar accompanied him on both trips. He never retired, and up to within two weeks of his deith was at his office every morning at 8:30 ready for a full day's work. The Dollar banner floats on the mastheads of over 75 ships, including the huge liners President Hoover and President Coolidge and othEr palatial round-the-world vessels.
He received numerous honors, including three decorations by Chinese rulers. He made mani charitable bequests a1d established a chair of Christian sociology at the San Francisco Theological Seminary.
He was president of thJRobert Dollir Company, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Dollar-S.S. Lines. Inc., Ltd., and a director of the American Internationai Corporation, Sjrn Francisco Savings Bank, aid the Anglo- London and Paris Bank of San Francisco. Among-his other interests were the Canadian Robert l)ollar Com[any, Dollar Portland Lumber Company, and the Adriirai Oriental Company.
_.-Captain Dollaronce rvrote a short autobiography of his life by de-c1d^e^s. This was as follows: 1-10 yiari-Helped mother.rc-20 years-Bought. farm for father. 20-30 yelrs
-Rose from chore boy to lumber camp owner. 3Gr{O years
-Extended lumber business. 40-5O years-Foundnew lumber markets. 50-60 y_ears-Added shipping to lumber business.. ffi-7o years-Developed shipping ind foreign !?4q. 70-80 years-Developed shipping in Far Eait. 9GPQ y"_"t.-Established greatest American passenger and freight fleet.
paptain Dollar rnarried Miss Margaret Proudfoot in 1874, and they celebratecl their golden wedding anniversary seven years ago. He is survi.'ea Uy Mrs. D-ollar and his three sons, A. Melville, R. Stanley, and J. Harold Dollar, his successors in the huge business he- founded; David Dollar, a brother, and Mrs. Robert Proudfoot. a sister. Funeral services lvere held in ,the First Presbvterian Church, San Rafael, N{ay 18. Sixty honorary pall6earer5, bd by Gov. James Rolph, Jr., N,Iayor Angelo-Rbssi of San Francisco, and Mayor William S. Nock of San Rafael, were in attendance.
Representatives of foreign governments, State, civic and business leaders were there to express their sorrow at the passing of this man rvho was one of the world's greatest crtrzens.
The U. S. Forest Service announces that summer fire regulations, made for the safety of visitors and the protection of the forest, watershed and recreational resources, went into effect in the four national forests of Southern California on May 15, and in all national forests north of the Tehachapi on June 1.
These Federal regulations require that a c4mp fire permit be secured before building any fire, includlng fires in stoves burning rvood, kerosene or gasoline, on national forest lands. Permits may be secured free of charge from any Federal or State forest officer, automobile clubs, and local authorized agents, but must be obtained before the fire is lighted. In the Angeles, Cleveland and San Bernardino Forests of Southern California camp and picnic fires are permitted only at public camp grounds.
All parties camping in the national forests are required to carry a shovel and ax suitable for fire fighting purposes. Shovels must be 36 inches overall in length with a blade at least 8 inches wide, and axes not less than 26 inches long with a head weighing two pounds or more.
No smoking is permitted in the national forests, after the above mentioned dates, except in camps, at places of habitation and in special areas along roads and trails that have been fireproofed and posted with "Smoke Here" signs'
Public cooperation in the enforcement of these regulations is requested of all national forest visitors. They are designed to aid in the protection of recreational, timber and watershed values of the State, and to reduce the drain on public funds for fire suppression.
Last year nearly four million people visited the national forests of California for health, sport and enjoyment. Over 95 per cent of these vacationists rvere motorists. Realizing the fire danger that goes with this heavy influx of visitors and the necessity of taking every possible precaution to prevent fires from starting, the Forest Service recommends the following equipment for motorists an'd recreationists:
A stove burning kerosene or gasoline is much safer and more convenient for cooking thah an open camp fire.
A mechanical pocket lighter is very useful to smokers and does away with the danger of starting a fire by carelessly discarding burning matches.
Every motorist should have his automobile equipped; both front and back seat, 'uvith ash containers in which the smokers in the car can place their burning matches and cigarettes and not thro'iv them out of the car rvhile travel1ng.
Autornobiles sometimes catch on fire on heavy mottntain grades, and gasoline camp stoves sometimes explode. In such cases, an approved fire extinguisher effective on gasoline fires may save serious personal injuiy and loss, and prevent the fire from spreading to the forest.
Clyde Owens, Los Angeles, manager of the lumber department of the Whiting-Mead Co., who has been on the sick list for the past two weeks, is reported to be shorving considerable improvement.
Effective Now, the price of Flaxine . . . the very highest quality roofing made by Pioneer . is reduced to the SAME price level as Marathon roofing!
Get out your new price list and check this fact. pioneer is now re. placing the Marathon grade of roll roofing with its super-quality Flaxine. . . . and AT THE SAME PRICE! Frere's a selling argu. ment that will win an increased volume of business for you from every customer in your territoryluality that cannot be excelled, at the same price you would pay for ordinary roofing! Tell them, and sell them!
The best ignorant scholar story of the season comes from, a school teacher in Coolidge Redwood Park in Northern California.
On the day school opened a little fellow started school for the first time. When asked his name, he stated that his first narne was Gooey. He didn't know how to spell it. So Gooey he remained for several weeks. Then, one day, the school teacher met the mother of this little boy, and when opportunity arose she said:
"'What an unusual name you gave your little boy. Is
A. R. Moylan, general manager, and Earl Galbraith, sales manager, of the Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, Los Angeles, have returned from a trip through Northern California where they called on the retail lumber trade. Mr. Galbraith reports that the fruit and grain crops in that section are in excellent shape, and due to the good crops. the lumber trade is optimistic towards future business.
The second 1932 tri-annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers will be held at the Sir Fran,cis Drake Hotel, San Francisco, -on June 23 and 24, 1932. At the last general meeting of.'t!e Pacific Coast Division it was decided to hold the meeting. on these dates at Los Angeles but the Executive Comrnittee'has recently announ,ced that the rneeting place has been ,changed to San Francisco. All rvooden box manufacturers are urged to attend the meeting.
Gooey really his name?"
"Yes, trnam," said the mother. "Yoq see I was reading a qovel a short time before he was born, and that wis the name of the hero of the story, and I liked it so much I gave that name to my baby."
"\Mhat !" exclaimed the school teacher. "The hero of the book was named Gooey?"
"Sure!" said the mother.
"How was it spelled?" asked the teacher.
"G-If-Y", answered the backwoods mother.
W. E. Cooper, Caddo River Lumber Co., Kansas City, Mo., is a California visitor and calling on his lumbermen friends in the Los Angeles and San Francisco districts. The Caddo River Lumber Co. operate mills at Rosboro, Glenwood and Forester, Arkansas.
William L. Richardson, well known Southern California lumberman, died at San Diego on May 7, 1932. He was born June 14, 1865. He had been co.nnected with the lumber business in San Diego for over thirty years, twenty years of which he was with the Chas. R. M'cCormick Lumber Co. yard there. He is survived by his wife and a daughter.
H. P. Plummer, San Francisco, general sales manager of the Union Lumber Company, was a recent Los Angeles visitor where he spent a few days calling on the trade. He made his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office.
Seattle, Wash., May 18.-By direction of the Board of Trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the letter reproduced below has been mailed to the stockholdbrs of the Association calling for a m,eeting on Tuesday, May 31, at Tacoma, Wash., to take final action on the resolution passed by the Trustees on May 17.
"The following resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association on May 17 z
"'That the Board of Trustees recommend to the stockholders of the Association that the payment of dues under membership contracts be terminated with and including the dues payable on business conducted during the month of April, 1932; that the Association services be terminated on June 1,1932; and that the Association proceed thereafter to liquidate its current obligations and affairs while retaining its corporate existence.'
"The Trustees also directed that a meeting of the stockholders of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association be called at Ta'coma, Washington, on Tuesday, May 31,-to consider and take final action upon the foregoing recommendation. The meeting will be held at the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, at 10 a.m.; and this is your offi,cial notice, under the By-Laws of the Asso.ciation, of the call for the meeting and its purpose.
"On account of the trade and good will value of the name of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, its trade mark, and its registered symbol, the Trustees do no re,commend that the Association be disincorporated; but this subject and any related questions may properly be considered at the meeting on May 31, if desired by any stockholders.
"The primary reason for this drastic re.commendation from your B.oard of Trustees is the lack of interest and support on the part of a sufiicient proportion of th'e industry to justify further effort to maintain the Association.
"The present financial situation of the industry makes it doubly difiicult to ,carr)' on a cooperative organization without the united support of all West Coast loggers and lumber manufacturers.
"The Trustees fully appreciate the losses that will be sustained by the industry from termination of the services of the Association in lumber grades and inspection, in traffic matters, trade extension, industrial statistics and representation of the industry in national matters. The Association is entirely solvent; in fact, has a small reserve in excess of liquidation requirements. But-for the reasons above given, which have made the continuation of Asso.ciation work increasingly difficult during the past six months -the Board of Trustees has reluctantly come to the conclusion that its only ,course is to recommend that the stockholders terminate the a,ctive work of the Asso,ciation in the near future, providing, of course, for a proper and orderly liquidation of its outstanding obligations and affairs.
"You will fully appreciate the importance of the stockholders' meeting on May 31. The work of the Association can be terminated only by vote of its members and the importance of this step requires their most earnest consideration. .Your attendance is stronglv urged."
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Closing a long career of business activity, Addison Crockett Bowers, 78, Orange Coun'ty pioneer, died May 13, 1932, at St. Joseph's Hospital, Orange, California, where he had been receiving treatment {or a severe illness' Funeral servi,ces were held at the Smith and Tuthill funeral chapel, Santa Ana, California, Monday, May 16, with the Rev. Perry .Schrock, pastor of the First Congregational Church, of Santa Ana, in charge. Mauri'ce Phillips, friend of the former lumber dealer, sang. Pallbearers were H. M. Adams, O. H. Barr, C. H. Chapman, C. S. Crookshank, Grey Skidmore, and W. V. Whitson. Interment was made in Fairhaven Cemetery with members of Santa Ana Lodge, Knights Templar, escorting the body to its final resting place.
Addison Crockett Bowers, widely known and respected, was the son of Patterson Bowers, who came to Orange County, then a part of Los Angeles County, in 1858, from Virginia. Mr. Bowers opened the Santa Ana lumber yard for the J. M. Griffith Company o'n March 6, 1878. J. M. Griffith had been in the transportation and lumber business in Los Angeles since 1861. He rvas a progressive pioneer, proven by ihe fact that his name was one of the seven that were the entire contents of the first telephone book in Los Angeles, when the telephone was not well thought of.
At that time, Rutherford B. Hayes was President of the United States; Irwin was Governor of California. Santa Ana had a population of less than 700; the township had about 3000. In the same month, March 1878, one of the first brick buildings in Santa Ana was started, the J. G. Bailey block at Third and West Streets (Broadway)' The Southern Pacific completed its line to Santa Ana in that month, charging $4.00 for the round trip to Los Angeles. The Santa Ana Public Library was also organized in March, 1878.
The first bill of lumber the Griffith Company sold was to a railway conductor living on Fruit Street. Among the first customers ufere George Preble, contractor, and Chris McNeill, contractor. Both of these men were patrons of the business during the entire 43 years it was under Mr. Bowers' management, and are still residents of Santa Ana, though now retired.
A. C. Bowers, the grand old man of the lumber business, and of Santa Ana generally, was manager of the concern for 43 years of Santa Ana's most important history, and up to the time the yard was purchased by the Barr Lumber Company in 1921.
At first, Mr. Bowers performed every duty of the yard and office alone. There was no such thing as delivery. Business was done on the "cash and carry" basis. The lumber was pointed out to the customer who loaded it on his wagon and paid for it on the spot. There were just two prices for lumber, one for "common" and one for "clear", any size and any length. Most of the early sales went to farmers for fencing, barns, etc., until the era of brick buildings and fine residences came to Santa Ana.
Other yards established by the Griffith Lum'ber Company and continued with Mr. Bowers as general manager until 1921, were located at Orange, Anaheim, Downey and Norwalk. When Mr. Bowers decided to retire, the Santa Ana yard and the Norwalk yard were sold to the Barr Lumber Company, and the Orange yard to W. E. Clement, the former manager of that yard for the Griffith Lumber Company.
Mr. Bowers joined with his son, Elmer Bowers, and H. M. Adams, the manager of the Griffith Lumber Company of Anaheim, to purchase that yard, which has since been operated as the Adams-Bowers, Lumber Cornpany, and he joined with S. S. Skidmore, the Griffith Lumber Company manager at Downey, and his son, Grey Skidmore, to pirrchase that yard, which has since been known as the Skidmore-Bowers Lumber Company.
Mr. Bowers was recognized for many years as the dean of the lumber business in Orange County. He was universally respected and held in warm affection by all who knew him intimately. Throughout his 54 yiars'connection with the lumber business in Orange County, his counsel and advice were sought by other lumbermen, by his contractorcustomers, and many others. He was always conciliatory and exercised an influence enjoyed by but few men.
Some time after the death of J. M. Griffith the business was taken over by Mr. M. M. Crookshank and his two sons, A. J. and C. S., Santa Ana bankers, together with Joihn Cubbon, a pioneer capitalist, and Mr. Bowers.' At the expiration of 4O years' service as manager, and la,ter as president and general manager of the Griffith Lumber Company, Mr. Bowers was given a complimentary dinner at the country home of A. J. Crookshank, Orange Cdunty lumbermen and other intimate friends being the guests.
On March 6,I92I, which marked 50 years of Mr. Bowers' connection with the lumber business in Orange County, he was the honor guest at a banquet tendered by the Barr Lumber Company, marking 50 years' continuous service by
the Santa Ana yard. About one hundred guests were present, including lumbermen from Orange County and Los Angeles and many personal friends of Mr. Bowers. No mark of esteem in the power of man to bestow ever seemed too great for this kindly man.
Following the death of his son, Elmer, he was made an honorary member of the Anaheim Lion's Club. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, Knights Templar, Shrine, and Elks, also of the Sunset Club and the First Congregational Church of Santa Ana. lle was a director of the Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank and the Santa Ana Building and Loan Association.
The yards of Santa Ana and Orange County closed for the funeral of Mr. Bowers, May 16. Nearly all of the lumbermen of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club, representing forty-four yards, were present, as well as many from out of town. Mr. Bowers is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Bowers; a sister, Mrs. William Atkinson of Arlington; a daughter-in-1aw, Mrs. Elmer Bowers, of Santa Ana; a grand daughter, Mrs. Helen Bowers Norton, of Santa Ana; and a grandson, Addison Borvers, who is attending school in Missouri.
Everett G. Griggs, pr,esident of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, Wash., presided at a round table conference on the oil and lumber industries held at the Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, May 19, in connection with the 20th annual meeting of the Chamb,er of Commerce of the United States.
J. P. Weyerhaeuser, Jr., of Lewiston, Idaho, president of Potlach Forests, Inc., spoke for the lumber industry on "What the Lumber Industry Needs."
There was a good attendance of lurnbermen at the meetrng.
George Weir, well known lumberman, formerly for many years with the Coos Bay Lumber Co., is now with the Smith Lumber Co. of Oakland as salesman. Mr. Weir is covering the East Bay and surrounding territory and San Jose, and will travel the Sacramento Valley as far as Sacfamento.
C. B. Matheny has purchased the interest of P. R. Duner in tlre Duner-Matheny Sash & Door Co. at 4200 East 14th Street, Oakland.
Announcement is made by The California Door Company that they are discontinuing their sash and door warehouse at 43-49 Main Street, San Francisco, and are removing their offices to 506 Doe Building, 153 Kearney Street, San Francisco.
The Atlas Lumber Company, of Long Beach, Calif., has been purchased by M. E. Dorvney, and will be operated as the M. E. Downey Lumber Co. Mr. Downey was formerly connected wittr ihe Century Lumber Company of Long Beach.
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"All of which reminds me of Peter, a Norwegian friend of mine. Before the world discovered gold in Alaska, Peter and three of his friends ventured into the Tanana country in that bare land of ice. Gold they found, and in due tirne having saved a considerable fortune apiece, they journeyed back to San Francisco, married each one a country maid brought from Norway, and lived, in the days before the Great Fire. at the Grand Hotel.
"The wives forthwith began to plunder the jewelers and the modistes, and by the same token the jewelers and modistes plundered the wives-that is, all but Peter's wife. Peter's wife continued to wear the peasant coiffure, the peasant clothes, the peasant dhoes she was born to.
"One afternoon I sat by Peter in the lobby when the four wives came down in the elevator. Proudly the three beauties of the quartet peacocked their way across the marble floor to the entrance and out.
"Behind them toddled the wife of Peter, dressed almost like a charwoman.
"'I know what you are thinking,' said Peter to me. 'You are thinking those other fellows have sornething on me in the way of wives.'
"'But they haven't,' continued Peter, and he pointed to his spouse. 'There's one YOU CAN GO AWAY AND LEAVE.'''
The Jewish Bronxite went into the delicatessen and looked around. He inquired the price of various articles such as cakes, fruits, etc., and finally got around to a big Virginia ham. Looking cautiously about to see that none observed him, he secretively asked, as he pointed to the ham:
"lloqr much?"
Just at that moment there came a terrific crash of thunder, and a bolt of lightning that seemed to rend the very heavens. Down cowered the little Jew, and looking upward he asked in quavering voice:
"Mine Gott-can't I even esk?"
The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.-Will Foley.
We are charged with preaching the gospel of discontent. We plead guilty. We are dissatisfied with the world in which we live.
But isn't it a pretty good old world, dfter all?
Yes, it is a grand old wodd. It is a grand old world because, generation after generation, down through the ages, men always have been dissatisfied with it.
That is why they crept out of their caves and built houses,in the sunlight. That is why they brought power from the hills, and sound from the uttermost parts of the earth. That is, why they discovered anesthetics. That is why they abolished slavery. There is no such thing as progress without discontent.
"The trouble with us," declared Parson Rastus, "is dis here status quo."
"What you rnean, status quo?" asked Deacon Rufus.
"Status quo," answered the parson, "is two Latin words meanint de mess we's in."
The parson is right. Whatever the status quo may be, it must be changed. Change is the law of life. An organis,m which resists change is dying; an organism which does not change, is dead. Whether the United States must speedily make changes for the better is not a debatable question. The only question is, what those changes are to be.
It was said of Robert Louis Stevenson that he never believed he had attained a great success, but fre was ever hopeful that by taking pains he might yet do so. Between the two great dangers of the artist, he steered safely a middle course. He was never satisfied, never discouraged. These are the two great dangers of every nation. Both are fatal.
Discontent withotrt a purpose, is pain. Discontent WITH a purpose, is progress.-By William Trufant Foster and Waddill Catchings.
Flapper-"Listen, boy ! You ain't no collar ad man."
Drug Store Cowboy-"An listen, Sister! You ain't got no Fisher body."
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Son: "Father, I dreamed pense.tt
Father: "Sandy, ye hae keep it."
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"The Goat's Hoof".
' Chicago, May 23.-Indications that American business is rapidly liquidating its obligations and preparing for a fresh start are contained in the monthly credit analysis for April just released by the l,umbermen's Blue Book, credit service of the lumber industry.
After noting that special requests for credit reports had fallen 20 per cent below the level for April last year, indicating a decrease in orders placed, it reports that the volume of collection business was approximately the same as a year ago. It concludes with the significant statement: "Collections are easier than for some months past."
A sharp rise in the number of reports on "business troubles" gives further support to the liquidation theory, indicating that concerns whose difficulties began months ago have finally capitulated to the inevitable. Bankruptcies, for instance, usually 20 to 30 a month, and totaling 26 in March, rose to 40 for April. The Blue Book's business trouble statistics for April in 1932 and 1931 are as follows:
DISTRIBUTORS OF
House Doors .. Garage Doors
Screen Doors . Sash . Windows
Plywood and Inside
Door Jambs
WE SELL DEALERS ONLY
CALIFORNIA
3045 19th St. San Francicco, Calilomia
Tclephoner: Mlcsion 7920 & 7991
The April, 1932, issue of the Blue Book contains 24,W changes from the listings six months earlier.
' Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, Calif., was a Los Angeles visitor on May 21 . Together rvith Earl Galbraith, sales manager of the Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, Los Angeles, and Ernest Dudley, DudleyThomas Lumber Co., Santa Monica, they played a round of golf at the Brentwood Country Club during the afternoon and Earl Galbraith reports, that as usual, the lumber dealers donated.
J. O. Means, John E. Marshall, Inc., Los Angeles, is in receipt of a letter from John C. Cushing, for many years Southern California sales manager for the Donovan I-umber Co., who is now making his headquarters at Pengra. Ore., where he is connected with the Lewis Lumber Co. of Eugene, Ore. At Pengra, the company's loading point, they also operate a planing mill. Pengra is on the main line of the Klamath Falls branch of the Southern Pacific railroad, fourteen miles south of Springfield. Mr. Cushing states that a good auto road is avail4ble all the way and he will be pleased to have bny of his old California lumber friends, while on their way to the Northwest, call on him. And as Pengra is located on the Middle Fork of the Willamette River,. as a special inducement, he ofiers them excellent fishing.
Washington, D. C., May 13.-To meet the convenience of as many of the directors, committee members and regional associations as possible, the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association has postponed its annual meeting to lune 2,3 and 4, Congress Hotel, Chicago.
The program is as follows:
Thursday, June 2-Executive Sessions
l0:30 A. M. and zffi P, M.-Nominations and Recommendations Committee. Mr. Frank G. Wisner, Chairman.
lO:3O A. M. and Z:ffi P. M.-Meeting: Trade Extension Committee and Regional Association Representatives.
Mr. R. B. White, Chairman.
(a) Consideration of Features of Research, Promotion, Publicity and Merchandising.
(b) Coordination of National-Regional Company Promotion Activities.
lO:30 A. M.-Blue Book Executive Committee, Mr. Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., Chairman.
2:0O P. M.-Inter-Insurance Exchange Committee. Mr. John W. Watzek, Jr., Chairman. Fridan June 3
10:00 A. M.-General Conference-Open Session.
Report of President.
Report of Secretary-Manager.
Report of Trade Extension Manager.
Report and Discussion on Sales Managers' Conference Recommendations
2:@ P. M.-Stockholders' and Directors' Meeting, Executive Session-
1. Report of Committee on Recommendations.
2. Report of pending Federal Legislation-
(a) Revenue Bill.
(b) Anti-Trust Legislation.
(c) Protection against Russian Lumber.
(d) Timber Acquisition by Federal Government.
(e) Home Loan Bank Bill.
(f) Proposed Legislation covering Federal Purchases.
3. U. S. Timber Conservation Board.
4. American Forest Products Industries.
6:30 P. M.-Dinner-Directors of N. L. M. A. and delegates of Retail and Wholesale Associations, Toastmaster-President A. C. Dixon.
Address-Representative, National Association of Purchasing Agents.
Address-Prominent Architect.
Saturday, June 4-Open Seesion
9:3O A. M.-Joint Meeting with Directors and Delegates of Retail and Wholesale Associations.
What Can the Three Branches of the Industry Jointly do'to Relieve Present Conditions?
1. What can be done to reduce the cost of getting lumber from producer to consumer'?
2. How can lumber meet the current trend for low cost housing?
3. What can be done to further cooperation in merchandising and distribution ?
4. Which markets are most attractive to lumber this year?
5. Lumber's interes( in reports of the Presidentls Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership.
6. Plan for use of radio in behalf of lumber and forest products.
7. Shall the organized lumber industry exhibit at the Century of Progress Exposition ?
8. What can be cooperatively done on federal legislation such as Home Loan Bank Bill; Russian Lumber Imports; Anti-Trust Legislation; and such national projects as the work of the U. S. Timber Conservation Board.
Edwin M. Tilden, president of the Tilden Lumber Company, with yards at Berkeley and Richmond, died from a heart attack at the Oakland Emergency Hospital, May 11. He collapsed while attending the boxing matches at the Oakland Auditorium, and was removed to the hospital but died before members of his family, summoned from his home in Richmond, could arrive at the hospital.
Mr. Tilden, who was a native of Maryland, was 65 years of age, and had spent nearly all of his life in California, and all of his business life in the lumber industry. His first job in the lumber business was with the Sierra Lumber Company, in Red Bluff. He started in business for himself with a retail yard in Richmond in 19O1. For many years he was at the head of the Tilden Lumb,er & Mill Company, National Mill & Lumber Company and Pacific Pipe & Tank Company, but retired from his position with these concerns a few years ago to devote all his time to the operation of the Tilden Lumber Company, with headquarters in Berkeley.
He was formerly president of the Builders' Exchange of Alameda County, and was president of the First National Bank of Richmond, and director of the Mechanics Bank of Richmond. IIe was also a member of the Harbor Lodge, F. & A. M., Scottish Rite, Aahmes Shrine Temple of Oakland, Richmond lodge of Elks and the Richmond Rotary Club.
Mr. Tilden is survived by his rvidow, Mrs. Margaret Jane Tilden; two sons, Waverly Tilden and Edwin M. Tilden; two sisters, Mrs. Waverly Stairley of tserkeley and Mrs. Louise Wasserly of Oakland; a brother, J. D. Tilden of Sacramento, and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in Richmond Friday, May 13, under the auspices of Harbor Lodge of Masons, with Rev. Thomas Boyer of Martinez officiating.
C. C. Stibich, San Francisco representative of Sugar Pine Lumber Co. and Pelican Bay Lumber Co., has moved to 517 Waller Street, San Francisco. His telephone number is UNderhill 1487.
Lumbermen representing th9 industry in five Pacific Coast States sought lower rates on eastbound shipments of lumber from the transcontinental railroads at a conference held in San Francisco May 23. The lumbermen requested that rates be lowered to the level of water rates for lumber shipments through the Panama Canal to the Atlantic Seaboard.
Officers of seven transcontinental railroads who were present agreed to consider the matter. Lumbermen pointed out that 'if they shipped lumber by rail to the Atlantic Coast now the freight would be more than the cost of the lumber at the mill.
The lumber delegatiori was headed by John D. Tennant, of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., Longview, Wash., and Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. Paul Shoup, presiclent of the South. ern Pacific Company, was spokesman fof the rail group' Representatives were also present of the Western Pacific, Santa Fe, Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroads.
Mailler Searles, Inc., 189 Second Street, San Francisco, western headquarters for all kinds of merchandise-handling equipment, including Gerlinger Lumber Carriers and Sfackers, announce that their Southern California office was opened for business May 2, to continue the business heretofore conducted by their representatives, John F. Wil' lard & Son.
The new quarters are on the sixth floor of the Westinghouse Building, 420 South San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, and are in charge of William O. Hicks, an experienced merchandise-handling and packaging engineer, who has until now been a member of the firm's San Francisco organiation. Display room and warehouse stock are included in the Los Angeles branch in keeping with the firm's policy at San Fra4cisco and Seattle.
LeRoy Alcott, for many years connected with the lumber business in Los Angeles, died at Long Beach, Calif., on May 10. IIe was 47 years old and is survived by his widow and a daughter. He was with The Pacific Lumber Com. pany from 1910 to L912, then going with the Frank Graves Sash, Door & Mill Co., of Los Angeles, with which firm he later became sales manag'er. He then went to Louisville, Ky., where he was connected with the hardwood business. Later he returned to Los Angeles, joining the Frank Graves organization again. About four years ago, he retired from the lumber business, going into business for himself, first at Pasadena and later at Long Beach. Funeral servic€s were held on May 12,
S. Rexford Black of San Francisco has been appointed by Governor Rolph as member of the State Board of Forestry, succeeding Edwin A. Mueller of San Diego, resigned.
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The statement is often made that there is no business today. Another remark that one hears many times is that there is no money to pay for business if it is obtained. There is no question but what both of these statements are erroneous.
California has been favored in this period of economic stress and is going through 1932 as the principal white spot of the Nation. This is true in building activities the same as in many other lines of activities. Let us compare the permits for March.
California ranks second (next to New York) in the volume of permits in the Nation for the first part of the year.
According to the recent survey by the Hoover Residential I-oan Committee, there is a potential need for 3,000,000 new single family dwellings. This business would amount to 12,000,000,000 of dollars if this demand could be satisfied. In the old home field there are even greater possibilities for business than in the new home field. The following figures are presented for your study.
new homes built or modernized in l93l in the United States. Other mail order houses did as well.
It is often said that the people have no money with which to pay for such work. This statement is hardly the truth. In savings accounts in the banks alone of the United States there are approximately 28 billions of dollars on deposit. It is estimated that there is another 2 billions in hoarding, making a total of 30 billions under the control of the American public. The above figures do not include the money that is on deposit in building and loan associations which totals $22,000,000,000. The above figures do not inctude investments in finance companiis, government, utilities or street bonds.
In 1931 42,W people paid income taxes on incomes of over $1,000,000.00. In 1932 there were only 12,000. This indicates that a ,comparatively small percentage of the above resources and reserves is in the hands of the extremely wealthy class. Obviously the seven or eight million unemployed men and women do not have these funds under their control. To a large extent the logical conclusion is therefore drawn that these millions o{ dollars are under the control of people with incomes of from $2,000.00 to $10,000.00 per year. Intelligent application of effort, therefore, would be to direct our energies toward this class of people.
The above suggestions as to where it would be well to direct our attention are given for consideration. The figures showing potential business should encourage you in the belief that there is plenty of it available. The statistics concerning resources of these potential customers are given to overcome the statement that is so often made that there is no money available with which to purchase.
There is business available. And there is money to pay for it. Imagination, ideas, aggressiveness, courage, and intelligent hard work will obtain it.
Harland Wentworth, formerly with the Sterling'Lumber Companl , at Morgan Hill, Calif., is now connected with the Aztec Paint Products Co., of Los Angeles. Mr. Wentworth is making his headquarters at Los Angeles and calling on the Southern California retail lumber trade.
It can be seen from the above figures that there is plenty of business available. The energetic mail order house is tapping these markets consistently. For example, last year Sears Roebuck supplied the materials for 1 per cent of the
J. M. Derr Lumber Co., Elk Grove, is constructing a new office building. They will have a display room for their hardware and paint stock
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Having decided to allow the Civic Auditorium to be used for prize fights, wrestling matches and shows of all kinds, the City of San Francisco is installing an auxiliary floor which wiil protect the surface of the building's maple floor.
The auxiliary floor will be made of Douglas Fir plywood. The panels are five-ply, /s" thick Each panel is end matched and is 48"x96', and a total of 35,000 feet will be required for the job. The panels will be dipped in hot boiled linseed oil to harden the grain. No nails will be used in the construction of the floor, which will be laid down quickly for any event for which it may be need,ed.
The plywood to be used for the floor was manufactured by Harbor Plywood Corporation, of Hoquiam, Wash., aqy' was sold by the Davis Hardwood Co., of San Fnnci/o.
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Farley sailed from San Francisco May 18 on the Matson Line steamer Nlaui to spend a vacation in the Hawaiian Islands. They will be gone six weeks. Mr. Farley is assistant We-stern sales manager of The Pacific Lumber Companl', San Francisco.
H. B. Hewes, president of the Clover Valley Lumber Co., and nationally knor,l'n lumberman, arrived in San Francisco May 18 from Louisiana, rvhere he has spent several months.
F. "Tom" Tomlinson has resigned his position rvith MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, to go with the Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco, as salesman in the San Francisco Bay and Peninsula territory. "Tom" was exactly 13 years with MacDonald & Harrington, having entered their employ June 1, 1919. Prior to that he was with the Coos Bay Lumber Co. for six years.
H. T. "Mac" McGrath has joined the sales for,ce of the Geo. F. Weis Lumber Co., Inc., of Los Angeles and is calling on the trade in the Southern California territory. "Mac" has been associated lvith the harhwood business in Los Angeles for several years and is well known to the lumber trade. IIe was formerly with the American Hardwood Company, of Los Angeles.
F-inanced by San Francisco capital, the Trinidad Redrvood Lumber Co. started operation recently at Klamath, Del Norte County. The mill has an approximate capacity of ,lO.00O feet in a nine-hour shift.
Marshall G. Fremming, formerly of the American Tank Nlill Co., is operating manager.
Ben Byrnes, 24 Calif.ornia Street, San Francisco, is sales agent for the company, and headquarters of the concern is at the same address.
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20x$48.9r:$979.00
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If death occurs any time after contract is signed bond will mature and be paid in Cash to your heirs.
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Salvage Building Material Yard.
Very attractive proposition is offered on business. Address L. S. Granger, 62Ot Yan Van Nuys, Calif. Phone Van Nuys 145.
Old established yard for sale.
established Nuys Blvd.,
Good location in oldest growing city in Southern California.
No Bonus-clean, up-to-date stock.
$15,000 will handle, attractive lease on plant and real estate.
Address Box C-441, The California Lumber Merchant.
Washington, May 23.-The reduction by three billion feet of surplus lumber stocks which has occurred since January I, L93I, as a result of curtailed production would have been a potent factor in restoring an even balance between supply and demand had it not been for the extraordinary decline in consumption, the Lumber Survey Committee says in its report to the U. S. Timber Conservation Board on lurirber consumption, stocks, and anticipated consumption for the first half of 1932. Facing conditions as they are, however, the Committee finds it necessary to recommend further reductions to offset surplus stocks, which latter are estimated at a.bout 3tl billion feet.
The Lumber Survey Committee r,r'as appointed July 9, 1931, by Secretary of Commerce Robert P. Lamont, Chairman of the Timber Conservation Board. It consists of Thomas S. Holden, economist, F. W. Dodge Company, New York; Dr. Frank M. Surface, Assistant Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce; M. W. Stark, lumber and coal economist, Columbus, Ohio; Calvin Fentress, Chairman, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago, and Wilson Compton, Secretary and N{anager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association. The Co.mmittee serves voluntarily in cooperation lvith the rvork of the Timber Conservation Board in its study of the economjc situation in the forest products industries.
Lumber consumption, the Committee finds, has dropped from 37 billion feet in 1928 to an averag'e annual demand of but 20 billion feet during the tr'vo-year period ended March 31, 1932. Its present level is at the rate of only 13 billion feet per year. The Comrnittee finds that there is nothing to indicate a return to 7928 or 1929 consutnptiou levels. Present stoc-ks, representiug an uneconomic sur-
plus of three and a half billion feet more than adequate r'eserves, prevent re-establishment of a reasonable balance between stocks and demand.
.pl .waf of relieving the present situation through distribution it recommends that the industry consider pooline of_ stocks, con-qolidation of sales, and deferred financing ti stimulate^building. It urges cooperation of the Depart- ment of Commerce in making a comprehensive markiting and distribution report for the industry and recommendi cooperation of _lumber manufacturers in furnishing information to the Census Bureau of lumber stocks.
The Committee calls particular attention to the adverse influence of increasing taxes on standing timber. It points out the decisive effect high taxation has in stimulating timber cutting in.excess of public requirements for foresl products.
Past recommendations of the Committe urging radical curtailment of production, it notes, are receiving wider attention, and that "the economic burden of reducing excessive stocks is being shared more equitably and more evenly between competitors than at any time in the history of the lumber industry." It is evident, however, that some important factors have not yet participated in the effort to restore balance, although substantial reductions in stocks have been shown in every important producing region during the past guarter. Producers are particularly urged to avoid additions to items that are exceptionally overstocked. and it is recommended that lumber producti,on during the rest of 1932, in so far as community and financial exigencies rvill p,ermit, be adjusted by individual manufactu-rers with view to the accomplishment during the year of recommended regional reductions of stocks in the industry..
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Wide restful armwide enough to hold a generos tray of Iunch.
Cone in either straight legs or rwkere. A neat, sturdy chair ot light, durable Douglas
A new fom fitting seat, wide and sloping just enough for perfect comfort.
The rear legs are runded to prevent maning the porch or lam.
Lumbermsn3-166g-Bell Kum-fit Chairs have many convincing selling points but the biggest one of all is.to get a customer to sit in a Kum-fit Chair. They come knocked down, in packages, ready for complete and easy assembly by anyone.
U-Nite-It shelving and cabinetsr lawn chairs. s€ttees, tables, juvenile chairs, ottoman, flower boxes.
Bird houses, wall shelves, sand box, chain fence and trellis material, h o g houses and hog feeders.
A handy rack for books and magazines underneath the seat, fir.
