The California Lumber Merchant - June 1933

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General Sales Office: Eugene, Ore.

Mills: Wendling, Ore., Springfreld, Ore.

CALIFORNIA

Northern California

Hill & Morton, Inc.

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REPRESENTATIVES

Sorrthern California

Oakland ANdover 1077

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The Alarm Clock is Ringing! Hear It?

TIMELY TIPS

Dawn is breaking. The lumber industry is waking lrp. . . . Demand is growing by leaps and bounds and is already several jumps ahead of Suppl/. . . . Paul Bunyan has been working continuously at Westwood the past three years-Saw Mill, D"y Kilns, Plywood Factory, Box Factory, Moulding and Cut-Stock DepartmentE. . . Orders will receive prompt attention but remember, our order files are grouing rapidly. Anticipate your needs and otder nou).

Paul Bunyan traded hig bed for a California Whitc Pine plank. "It's wide, it'e roft, it'r clean and it's light," says Paul,

CALIFORN IA

Wholesale Lumber Association

San Francisco Office: 26O California St.

F. J. O'Connor, Prer. and Gen' Mgr. - Phonc GArfield 56'{5 Los Angeles Ofrce: Petroleum Securities Bldg.

M. S, Loper, Dirtrict Managcr Phone PRorpect 2703

MEMBERS

W. R. Chmbertin & Co. ...,..San Fnnci*o and Loa Angelcr

Donwm Lumber Co. ,... .Su Frucisco and Lc Angeles

Eastcm & Westem Lumber Co.......,..............Port|ud and San Fraociso

Hammond Lmber Co. ' .Su Franci*o and Lc Angelea

J. R. Hanify Co. .., .San Francicco and Lc Angeles

Hart-Wod Lumber Co. --..-"."""San Francisco

C. D. Johnson Lumber Co. ....SuFranciscoandlcAngeles

Alvin N. Lofgren .,..,... ........San Fratrcis@

MacDomld & Harrington .San Franci*o md Lc Angelce

A. F. Mahony Lumbei Co. ......San Fnncisco

Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. ...............Su Franciaco and Lo Angelcr

W. J. Mulligan & Co. ...........................San Franiwo and Lc Angeles

Charter Nelim Co. SuFrancisudLor.Angelca

Paramino Lumber Co. ..........SuFrucicco

Santr Fe Lumber Co. .San Francisco and Lo Angeles

Sudden & Cbristengon ..."..'San Francico and Los Angeler

Wendling-Nathan Co. San Franciro and Lc-Angclcr

R. O. Wilson & Son ......,... San Francirco

E. K. W@d Lumber Co. .....San Franciro and Lw Angeler

Hitl & Morton, 1nc...".'...... ....'..Oaklmd

W. E. Gilbert Sacmmnto

Blcdet-Donovan Lumber Mitls

Bokstaver-Bums Lumber Co.

Brooks Lumber co' "'"'"' '''

Kqckhofr-Cuzner Lmber Co.

Giid*-fnitips Lumber Co.

Fatlen-Bl'nn Lmber Co.

LUMBER

SASH & DOORS

MILL WORK

Lo Angclce

Angcl'ea

Angeles

E. f-. Reitz Company

iacoma Lumber Sales Agency

iwohv Lumber Co.'....,.....,,.

St. Piul & Tacoma Lumber Co.

E. U. Whelak

Angeles

Angeler San Pedro Lumber Co'

Angeles

J. E. MARTIN Managing Editor

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A. C. MERRYMAN Advertising Mamger

How Lumber Looks

The California lumber situation is strong and buying continues active. Fir cargo prices have strengthened. The Fir rail market is showing steady improvement. The Redwood mills are booking considerable business, while the pine and hardwood markets are showing substantial gains, with prices very firm. The retail trade reports that business is better and inquiries are increasing. Lath and shingle prices have advanced.

Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro totaled tr4r4r0o0 feet on Mlay 24, as against 3r5t4r000 feet the previous week. Cargo arrivals at this port for the week ended lfv|'ay 20 totaled 10,0551000 feet which included !2 cargoes of Fir carrying 8r39orfi)O f.a, and 4 cargoes of Redwood with 1'665'000 feet; the previous week the cargo amivals arounted toT'S2O.OOO feet. On J|r,|'ay 2Or 49 lumber ve$els in the coastwise trade were operating; 56 vessels

The Southern Pine market is reported very strong, with prices steadily going up and the demand continues to increase. Reports from the South indicate that hardwoods are selling freely with the automobile, furniture and millwork industries all buying; prices are advancing and are expected to go higher atonce'

Residential building continues on the upgrade, the first three weeks of May indicating that the month will show a slight increese over I[Iayo 1972. If this materializes, it will be the first monthly gain in residential building since the spring of 1931. During the week, May 16 to May 22, reidential construction in the thirty-seven states east of the Rocky Mountains accounted for $6,562,3o0 of a total for all classes of f,16'388'900' according to the F. W. Dodge Corporadon.

Building permits in Los Angeles from May I to May 25 inclueive total€d $112281986 which surpasses the volume for the month of April by f39'000.* * *

The West Coast Lumberments Association reports a furthet increase in the domestic cargo markets4oth Atlantic Coast and California with a substantial gain in tfie rail trade, brotrght the total of new orders for the week endd }&.|ay 2O to the highest point since April, 1931. The increased business, the Association says, is held by the industry to be speculative. Ptoductiotr at the mills has been low, compared with o;ders and shipments. Unfilled orders are now 3O per cent of stocks, the highest since Apdl 1930. Stocks are 18 Per cent lower than

at this time last year. The Association reports that white the consumption of lumber in building has not started, dealers are now anticipating their needs expecting fu*her advances. Th'e industry is continuing to gain in strengt{r every day, the Association states.

New business reported for the week ended ll'lay 2O by 179 mills was 11619791158 feet against a production of, 6815471752 feet and shipments of. 771963168 f,eet. Shipments were over production by 7.9O per cent, and current sales wete over production by 70.7 per cent. The orders b*td by this group of identical mills for the week exceeded the orders of the preceding week by Errl6rl02 feet, or 7.7 pet cent.

Details of orders and shipments reported by these 179 mills are: Orders-Rail 2918851091 feet; Domestic Cargo @r7r9r0r4 feet; Export 20,t58r797 feet; Locd 5,996236 feet. ShipmentsRail 25,003,417 f.eet; Domestic Cargo 2t,569r48t feet; Export 19,394,532 feet; Local 519961236 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended May 20, reported orders from 106 mills as 3812911000 feet; ship. ments 3510531000 feet, and production 251899O00 feet. Orders wete 47.85 per cent above production and 9.24 pet cent above shipments. Shipments were 35.34 per cent above production.

The $(/estern Pine Association for t{re wee& ended Mry 2O reported orders from 116 mills as 58r547r00o feet; shipmcnts 37r33lrOOO feet, and productio'tr 29r923rOOO f.eet. Orders were 95.6 pt cent over production and 56.E per cent above shipments. Shipments wete 24.7*OT ";rra ovet production.

The California Redwood Association for the mont{r of April, 1933, reported orders received from 12 mills as 15'989'fi)O feet; orders on hand 17rOllrOOO feet; Shipments l4r00lrq)O feet, and production 81726rOOO f.eet.

Details of orders and shipments for the month follows: Orderc"-Northern California 5,141,000 feet; Southern California 3r2O4rO0O feet; Westetn 115,(XX) feet; Eastern 61416,000 feet; Foreign 11113,000 feet. Shipments-Northern California 4,543,OOO feet; Southetn California 216241000 feet; Weetern l2ErOOO feet; Eastern 6'058'000 feet; Foteign 64ErOd) feet.

247 hardwood, mills give new business for the wee& ended lrlay 17 as 24r523rffi feet, or 138 pet cent above production, and shipments 2Or443rOOO feet or 99 per cent above production. Production was 10r284r(X)0 feet.

Yohn Yorgensen, c/o Loomber Koompany, Scotia, C,alif.

Dear Brother Yohn:-

A Tip To Brother Yohn

6'Yim" Gartirt-

You ask if inflashoon maLe das prices yump up and businesJ go like yack rabbit. You post card me that Repoob' lican you moet on vay back from Vashington tell it is all too wicious for vords!

Yust vun peep in das crystal, brother Yohn, before you go {iggin' up hard earned yack fron back yard. Doan be doomb Svenska, ask Yogi Yorgensen.

Yogi gaze into crystal and see sad Svedish faller look thru vindbw at good'ol Coapenhagen snoos. But sign on snoos say vun quarter doolar. Faller yuggle around in pooakets and only locate vun lonely dime. He shake head and valk on chewinl on tong.

Next Yogi see brighter picture. Same faller look thru same vindow. Same snoos is dere only marked vun half doolar! Faller pull das half smacker out of yeans and buy snoos. Grocer happy; faller glitter gleefully with snoos in yau. Ve are yust around das corner!!!

See, Yohn, lotsa stoof on market and no yack make all das boys dull.

Soo-O,-yo1tn, better to dig up tomatoe can and inwest quick vile doolar gtill vun big curiosity and vill buy half of loomber koompany.

Yours till Roosevelt shifts into nootraal,

who belieaes tn action

put on vun pre-infashoon sale for das customers of Stanislaus Loomber Koompany. "Yim" urged buying vile doolar still powerful like my brother Yohn's sox.

V.gabond Editorials

Bv Jack Dionne

An advertising magazine says that a certain'advertising agency is contemplating a campaign of burlesque advertising for a certain brand of cigarettes. Great Scott, Man ! Do you mean to tell me that ALL cigarette advertising isn't burlesque ?

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It is said that on January first, 1928, there were five million people in the United States engaged in the business of selling things, and on January first, 1933, there were only one million. Well, I'd like to see all of those people employed again, but I doubt if it is entirely necessary that they go back to selling. Something tells me we were slightly over-sold. '***

Talk about advertising ! The big oil companies all over the country are spending millions of dollars for advertising, trying to get the people to accept all the free service they give, without kicking.

Decentralization of n"n;";"".rs becoming measureable. Uncle Sam says that there are a million rnore people on the farms of this country today than there were a year ago. And the rate of acceleration from the city to the farm is going to increase in the next year or so, and will continue for years to come. Which means that the country is going to have to be rebuilt. Let us get ready for the rebuilding.

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There is one prophecy I unhesitatingly make, and that is that you can look for the doggondest tide of repairing and replacing and repainting business in this country in the immediate future that you ever saw or heard of. Buildings that are not kept up, run down at the heel very rapidly. So do fences, and all the building things that surround homes. And not only have we built practically nothing for six years, but we have done almost no repairing. **!t

There has never been a time in the history of this country when there was one third as much crying and manifest need for actual repairs as there is at this very minute. And before we build we are going to do this big repair job. Get your thinking caps on, you folks who sell repairing materials, and think how you can best supply this ireed, give the kind of service that will best fit the occasion, and bring home the building bacon. This work has actu-

ally GOT to be done. You can help to get it started properly, and to do it skilfully.

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It doesn't require a skilled salesman to convince people that they NEED repairs. And just the minute they get to where they can pay for repairs, they are going to have them. The paint business should encounter a tide of prosperity immediately following the depression that will make their best past sales volume look puny. For the country is run down, and crying for repairs and paint.

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Folks, it looks like the lumber market-. But let's wait a little. Let's not brag just yet. But, honest to g,oodness, it DOES look like rnre've climbed out of the well, and that the good old lumber business was doing a REAL comeback.

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They are buying lumber-everywhere. Prices are forging slowly upward. And the lumber isn't being bought for speculative purposes-it's being used.

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A whale of an immediate demand for lumber is going to unloose itself the minute this huge Governmental program to put men to work becomes operative. And it will form a nucleus for all the other thousand and one sorts of lumber demand that is now manifesting itself in the ordinary channels.

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But so many matters .of almost incalculable importance having to do with our Government's efiort to save business, save industry-yes-save the whole works, are before us at the present time, that it would be a waste of opportunity to use these columns at this time for any other purpose than a calm discussion of the mighty drama in which we are both actors and audience.

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I can't help Sppreciating the service Mr. Roosevelt is giving me. In this colunn on April first I said: ,.I'm watching the papers every day hoping to see him suggest to Congress and to the nation at large, modification of the anti-trust laws along intelligent lines in keeping with the times we are living in. The anti-trust laws of our states are no more fit to be applied to business today than the old Mosaic laws are to our present civilization. No longer do we smear our big toes, thumbs, and ears with the blood of a bullock in order to approach the temple of Goil,

as Moses cornmanded his priests. But such barbaric rites are as applicable to our present mode of thinking as our age-old anti-trust laws are to our present business conditions."

More than that, Lo*lu"l"u*,hat when Congress had made our needed Federal adjustments, the sovereign states follow suit and do likewise, giving business a chance to breathe. I note with pride that such action is also contemplated in many states throughout the union. No great use in having the Federal Government try to save business and put men back to work unless the state laws are likewise amended or suspended to permit the same sort of associated activity. The Federal action would be largely nullified without state cooperation. When Mr. Roosevelt issued his rules and regulations by which business will be enabled to depart from the strict code of the Sherman Act, every state in the union should immediately follow suit. That is, if they want to share in the prosperity such action will inevitably assist in developing, they should so act. I believe they will.

General, Hugh Johnson, whom President Roosevelt has made director of industrial activities under the new national recovery act, has asked that the various states pass measures providing that during the present emergency

it shall not be unlawful "our present anti-trust laws to the contrary notwithstanding, for any citizen or institution to do those things which may be approved by the President in connection with his national recovery program." Any state that fails to follow suit and match its legal relaxation with those rules promulgated by the President for national relief, cannot hope to secure the full measure of relief that would otherwise accrue. ***

Everything the Government is trying to do and the foundation of all that it hopes to accomplish in the present amazing campaign in which one hundred and twenty million people are active participants-and astounded audience at the same time-can be summed up in one magic word-JOBS. That's the whole business. Everything else is artificial. We can have no genuine return toward prosperity until we put millions upon millions of men to work, earning an honorable living, providing for their loved ones, winning back their long-threatened morale.

Any sign of improvement based on anything except increased employment-is false-work. We must rebuild our industrial, economic, and financial structure upon a foundation of employment for our citizenship. When every man who is willing and able to work for a living is doing so,then we'll be home again.

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REDWOOD

CALI TAX FORNIA PAYE R

v agabond Editorials

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Mr. Roosevelt knows ! That's why he is directing his Take my own case. I've been losing my shirt for three splendid energies right now to the immediate creation of years. Unless something happens to bring back prosperJOBS in great numbers. He understands, of course, that ity there soon won't be a single button left on it. Mr. these created Government-aided activities now being en- Roosevelt says to me, "We've got to get a lot of cash gendered won't have to directly employ ALL the men who together to put a lot of men to work, and when this reare in need of employment. He knows that every man employment of millions brings a profit to your business who goes to work is giving BUYING POWER; and his I'rn going to increase the income tax on you, and take a power to buy and his act of buying furnishes employment share of the profits this campaign creates." I must.respond to still other men, producing, creating, raising, rnanufac- as did the drunken pall-bearer, when the preacher threw turing, distributing, merchandising the things that are the dirt in the grave and said-"Ashes to ashes and dust bought. Put a million men to work at a living wage, and to dust." The drunk responded-"Nuthin' could be fairer immediately hundreds of thousands of men must go to than that." work to furnish those things that these million men will buy with their wages. And so it spreads.

And the fabric or nna"lrr"l."in*"n"rity that is woven by the employment of many men, creates business. It puts rnoney into circulation. The tempo of cash circulation will increase. Credit will be actually created out of improved cash circulation, increased business, and more jobs. And so, like piling brick upon brick, the wall of returning business will be builded. Each man hired-hires more men. Each dollar put in circulation-puts more dollars in circulation. Every upJift in business-creates more business. And all of it creates confidence-and confidence begets credit. And credit we must have.

The income tax rate is going to be sharply increased to raise the money to finance these public works-the creation of jobs. O. K. with rne. These things-without which we cannot revive-cannot be done without money. Let me make some money once again, and I'll not cry at having to divide it with the man who wants to work, but can find no work to do.

For THAT is the way we must look at this advanced income tax rate. And that's the only way. Unless we can put these millions of .men back to work and get business started again on a sound basis, lve aren't going to make any money. So why object to sharing such profits as we may make with the one and only thing that can create. profit -JOBS. It won't last always. And when our millions of idle people go back to work, and the spread of normal industry covers the land again, these emergency measures will be dropped. In the rneantime, what better way could be devised for financing the return of prosperity than sharing the profits with those things that must create the profits ?

East B.y Club Meets June 12

The next dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 will be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, June 12 at 6:09 p.m. This will be the last meeting before the summer vacation, and entertainment'chairman Larue Woodson promises a good program. Dinner will be served in the well known Athens Club style at 85 cents a plate.

Motion pictures revealing the "new" in architecture at the Century-of-Progress exposition, Chicago, and a travelogue film will be shown through the courtesy of T. H. Lachelt, of the Lachelt Service Bureau.

Op"ns Los Angeles OJftce

W. J. Mulligan & Co. of San Francis,co has opened an office at 1025 W. M. Garland Bldg., Los Angeles. John Olson, widely known Southern California lumberman and formerly Los Angeles manager for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., will be in ,charge of their Los Angeles office. W. J. Mulligan & Co. has been associated with the lumber business in San Francisco for many years and has carried on a large lumber export business. The company will represent a group of Washington cargo mills in the California market.

Announces New Product

The Insulite Company has announced a new product, Insulite Dark Hardboard. The company feels that there is a definite market for both a light and dark hardboard; the Insulite Company introduced the light hardboard more than a year ago. The dark hardboard has a very interesting ,color, and has a glassy-smooth surface that lends itself to many decorative possibilities

Light and Dark Insulite Hardboard are specialized products for the fabrication of arti'cles or the enclosure of areas where hard surface, glassy-smooth finish, durability, supertransverse and tensile strength are required. They are built to resist wear and tear, and can be saw'ed, cut, nailed, punched and glued. Both boards can be easily and attractively finished. They are manufactured at the company's plant at International Falls, Minn.

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RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST

A. W. "Al" Hart, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co', Los Angeles, hds returned from the Northwest where he spent three weeks on company business.

WILL ATTEND WORLD'S FAIR

Ben C. Phillips, salesman for Nicolai Door San Francisco, will take the month of June off and accompanied by Mrs. Phillips will travel 'continent by automobile. While in the East attend the Chicago World's Fair.

CHARLIE WILSON VISITS S. F.

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Chas. R. Wilson, assistant to Clyde Osborne, manager of the creosoting department of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Portland, Ore., recently paid his first visit to San Francisco in five years. Charlie, who is a native San Franciscan, was accompanied by his wife and little son.

G. R. BLEECKER VISITS CALIFORNIA

G. R. Bleecker, who for many years represented the Eagle Lumber Company in the Northern California territory, and who for several years has been the representative of the Pelican Bay Lumber Company of Klamath Falls, Ore., in the New York territory, is a visitor to California. Mr. Bleecker has been calling on many of his friends in the lumber business in the San Francisco Bay district and in the Sacramento Valley, and intends to take a trip to the Northwest. He has not made any announcement regarding his plans for the future.

EDRIC BROWN VISITS LOS ANGELES

Edric E. Brown, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor during the month of May where he spent a week on company business. Mr. Brown is in charge of the company's Pal'co Redwood Bark Fibre department.

BUYS LOS ANGELES YARD

The W. E. Cooper Lumber Co. of Los Angeles has purchased the J. D. Halstead Lumber Co. yard at 460O West Pi,co Blvd., Los Angeles. H. W. Hoyt, who managed the Halstead yard, will continue as manager.

HARDWOOD SALESMAN BACK ON JOB

Ralph E. Bacon, who recently returned from a leisurely trip around the world, returned to his old place in the organization of the Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, May 15.

L. A. LUMBERMAN VISITS S. F.

A. L. "Gus" Hoover, Southern California representative of The Pacific Lumber Company and Wendling-Nathan Company, was a re'cent visitor to the main offices of these concerns in San Francisco.

ART PENBERTHY RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

Art Penberthy, Tacoma Lumber Sales Agency, Los Angeles, has returned from a trip to Tacoma, Wash., where he spent a week visiting at the several mills he represents in the Southern California territory.

President Recommends Vast Public \(/orks Building Program and Co-Operative Movement in lndustrv

In his message to Congress on May 17, 1933, president Roosevelt presented his industrial recovery and public works program recommending that Congress provide for the machinery necessary for a great co-operative movement throughout all industry in the country, and that the executive be given full power to start a large pr,ogram of direct employment.

On the subject of co-operative movement through industry, the President proposes to obtain wide re-employment, to shorten the working week, to pay a decent wage for the shorter lveek, and to prevent unfair competition and disastrous overproduction.

President Roosevelt said that a careful survey convinces him that approximately $3,300,0@,0@ can be invested in useful and necessary public .construction, and at the same time put the largest possible number of people to work. He proposed that the executive be given full power to start a large program of direct employment.

The President stated: "Provisions should be made to permit States, ,counties and muni,cipalities to undertake useful public works, subject, however, to the most effective possible means of eliminating favoritism and wasteful expenditures on unwarranted and uneconomic projects."

Projects to be preferred under the public works program, and which will be subject to recommendation and .control by an administrator include: The ,constru,ction and repair of highways and public buildings, the elimination of railroad grade crossings, the conservation of natural resources, the constru'ction under public regulation or control of low cost housing and slum clearance projects, and other public proje,cts.

Introduced in the Senate by Senator Wagner of Netv York and in the House by Representative Doughton of North Carolina on May 17, the Industry-Control Bill invites voluntary trade agreements regarding fair competition and labor conditions by industrial associations and units.

Senator Wagner described the industrial section of the bill as follows:

"The purpose is to secure co-operative action within industry with a view to eliminating unfair competitive practices and thereby to redu'ce unemployment, improve standards of labor and otherwise to rehabilitate industry.

"The bill authorizes any group or association within a trade or industry to prepare a code of fair competition which sets forth the standards covering trade and competitive practices lvithin that industry. Such a code is without effect until it is approved by the President.

"The President may approve su,ch a code if he finds:

"(l) That the group presenting the code truly represents the trade or industry for which it speaks.

" (2) That it admits freely to membership all who are engaged in the same trade or industry.

"(3) That the code of rules is fair to cornpetitors, employees and'consumers.

" (4) That is will not promote monopoly.

"(5) That it does not oppress or discriminate against small business enterprises.

"In addition the employers submitting su,ch a code of fair competition must agree that their employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively and that their rrght to join a labor,organization will not be interfered with. They must undertake to reduce the hours of labor to thdt number whi'ch the President finds will be most helpful in increasing employment in the industry. Finally, they must agree-to pay a minimum scale of wages and maintain minimum standards of working conditions as determined by the President.

"The President is further authorized to enter into or approve agreements relating to any trade or industry with a view to improving conditions within that industry and increasing its porver to provide employment.

"The initiative is left with industry. Ifowever, should an industry. be unable or. refuse to co-operate the President may impose upon it a code of fair competition and in extraordinary circumstances license the trade or. industry.

"Once a code of fair competition is approved or issued by the President it becomes the standard of fair competition within that trade or industry to which it applies and all those who comply with it are exempt from the provisions of the anti-trust laws and all those who violate it are subject to legal penalties." '

Southern California Retailers to Hold Picnic

The California Retail Lumbermen's Association. Southern Division, will hold a picni,c at Brookside Park, pasadena, Calif., Saturday, June 24, 1933. The committee is planning to make this a gala event and are arranging a fine program which will include all kinds of games and sports. Lumbermen, including all bran,ches of the industry, are invited to attend. Announcements of the various events for the day will be made later.

The committee arranging for the picnic includes: Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, Chairman; paul Hallingby, Ifammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; A. J. Stoner, Sawtelle Lumber Co., Sawtelle; Ross Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., North H'ollywood; Henry Adams, Henry Adams Lumber Co., Anaheim, Phil Curran, Curran Bros., Inc., Pomona; M. E. Downey, M. E. Downey Lumber Co., Long Beach; Roy Sandefur, Dill Lumber Co., Arlington, and Kenneth Smith, Lumber and Allied products Institute, Los Angeles.

Harry Graham Low Gross Lumber Cut For 1931-32

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Harry A. Graham, H. A. Graham Lumber Co., Long Beach, was the low gross winner at the Orange County Lumbermen's Club golf tournament held at the Hacienda Country Club, Whittier, on Wednesday afternoon, May 17. Ross Hostettler, Costa Mesa Lumber Co., Costa Mesa, was the low net winner and was awarded the Blue Diamond Trophy. E. Stefiensen, Santa Ana, se'cretary of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club, was the winner of the blind bogey prize.

The handsome silver trophy whi'ch has been donated by the Blue Diamond Corp., of Los Angeles, will be played for at the monthly toutnaments until the annual tournament in November and the contestant who wins it the most times will gain permanent possession of the cup. Only members of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club are eligible to participate for this prize.

Alderman-Truher

Hubert P. Alderman and Miss Helen Catherine Truher rvere married in Honolulu on April 29, 1933. I!Ir. Alderman is well known to the lumber trade in California, having been with The Pacific Lumber Company as salesman for several years. He is now associated with Lewers & Cooke, building material dealers, Honolulu.

HOLE SALE LUMBER-!tX'"

lY. R. CHAIIIBERTIN & C().

Glifornia Sales Agents for

Pobon Lumbcr & Shingle Co.

Hoquiern' Verh.

Andenon a Middl*on Lumbcr Co.

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Prouty Lumber & Box Company

lTerrcnton, Orcgoa

No*hern Calitomia Sale Agcntr for

Deftancc Lumber Comprny

Trcome, Verh.

Operating Sterncrr

V. R. Chemberlin, Jr. - Stenwood ' Brrtrre G C,riclct PhYllie

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The Bureau of the Census announces that, according t<-r a preliminary tabulation of data collected at the annual Census of Forest Products taken in 1933, the lumber cut of 508 identical mills-each mill having sawed 2,000,000 feet or more, board measure, either in 1932 or in 1931amounted to 5951,944,000 feet in 1932, a decrease of 4I.4 per cent as compared with 8,62I,243,W feet sawed in 1931. These mills contributed 52.2 per cent of the total cut of all mills which reported for 1931.

In order to present statistics which will show, as nearly as possible, the extent of the decrease in the total lumber cut, comparing 1932 with 1931, data have been included for a considerable number of mills which operated in 1931 but not in 1932 and. for a very few which operated in 1932 but not in 1931. Nevertheless, it is likely that the per cent of decrease in the total lumber production in the United States was somewhat larger than that shown for the identical mills covered by this report, since probably a larger proportion of the small mills than of the large ones were idle in 1932.

The following statement presents statistics by important regions for the 508 mills in question, f.ot 1932 in comparison with 1931:

Lumber Cut, by Regions, for 508 Identical Mills: 1932 and 1931 (a)

il) Connecticut, Delaware. Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hi#pstrire, New'Jersey, New York. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. - iZl itti""i., Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

tJj el"-Ui-", Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas.

(4) North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.

(5) Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

(6) Oregon and Washington.

(7) California and Nevada.

(8) Idaho and Montana.

(ti A;t.";, Colorado, New, Mexico, -Utah and Wvqming' -

t"i tft;r report was prepared bv- the pyre3u of the Cens-us, Dep"ilrr,.r,t of Cbmmerce.'in iooperaiion with the Forest Service, Department of Agricultur

VISITS SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE

E. A. Goodrich, Union Lumber Company, I-os Angeles, spent a few days at the company's San Francisco office during the month of MaY.

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MY FAVORITE

By Jack Dionne

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STORIES br

20 years---Some less

Both Gone

There came a knock at the pearly gates, and St. peter opened them, to discover two late arrivals from Earth, who asked admittance, and did so in rather peremptory manner.

"Who are you?" asked St. Peter.

"I" said the first, "am John Smith, President of the First National Bank, of Smithville."

"And I" said the second, "am Bill Jones, president of the

First National Bank, of Jo,nesville.,,

"Just stay right here a minute, gentlemen,,, said St. Peter, "while I go and look up your records."

So he left them standing between the pearly gates, and he went to look them up in the record book.

And when he came back the bankers were gonFand so were the pearly gates.

Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 Lumbermen Attend Rodeo

East Bay lumbermen heard a splendid talk on "Early History of the California Missions" at their dinner meeting held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday, M.y 15.

The talk was given jointly bv Harry Bradford, postmaster of Hayward, and M. G. Callaghan, postmaster of Livermore, and was illustrated by slides made from pictures taken by Mrs. Bradford and from old drawings. Both of these gentlemen showed by their intimate knowledge of the subject that they had made a deep study of the early history of California, and their presentation of the history of the establishment of the missions was much enjoyed.

Larue Woodson presided in place of President Earle Johnson, who was absent owing to a family bereavement.

Musi'cal entertainment was provided by "Tom" Tomlinson at the piano, and Joe Bobba on the accordion.

Plywood Plants to lncrease Wages

Seattle, Wash., May 25.-A minimum rvage schedule for all plants of the Douglas Fir Plywood Manufacturers'.Association has just been announced by members following a conference at Portland, Oregon. A trade association and a code of ethics also were agreed upon by the manufacturers.

More than 90 per cent of the Pacific Northwest plywood industry agreed to a minimum wage of 25 cents an hour effective June l, and 30 cents an hour, effective July 1. As a result, most of the 3,000 plywood rvorkers will be given a wage increase, the percentage depending on the base wage now being paid. On July 1 a second increase will affect all workers in the industry.

A group of lumbermen with their wives and friends attended the Livermore Rodeo, Sunday, May 14. All had a very enjoyable time watching the various events, and topped off the day's fun with a banquet in the evening. The following made up the party: Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Gilbert, Eureka Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. Earle E. Johnson and son; Independent Lumber Co., Livermore; Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Rogers, Sterling Lumber Co., Salinas; Mr. and Mrs. H. Sewall Morton, Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Wilson, Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sherwood, Oakland, and Mr. and Mrs. John Ross. Oakland.

Clean Up and Paint Up \(/eek

May 22 to May 27, 7933, inclusive was Clean Up and Paint Up Week in Los, Angeles. The program for the 'iveek was as follows : May 22, Fire Hazard, Day; May 23', Yard and Plant Day; May 24, Public Health and Extermination Day; May 25, Housecleaning Day; May 26, paint Up and Renovate Day; May 27,Yacant Lot Cleaning Day.

Clean Up and Paint Up programs were als6 broadcasi over the following Los Angeles radio stations; Tuesday, May 23, KFWB and KNX; Wednesday, May 24, KECA; Thursday, May 25, KHJ; Saturday, May 27, KMTR.

The various programs were arranged for by the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce.

JOINS WHOLESALE ASSOCTATTON

The Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., San Pedro Lumber Co.; Ker'ckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co., Bookstaver-Burns Lumber Co. and E. U. Wheelock, all of [,os Angeles, have become members of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.

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DI]O.LAY STBIP SHINGLNS

The great harvest in the building industry today is modernization. More than $2o0,0001000 was spent in the United States alone last year for modernizing residential buildings.

Modernizing should start at the top with a new roof of DUO'LAY Strip Shingles.

DUO-LAY Strip Shingles . because of their high qudity at low cost . . . because of their four beautiful colors . . . because of their long life and freedom from repairs . . . offer every dealer a product to sell on every modernizing job.

DUO-LAY Scip Shingles can be laid two ways-broken effects or square butt pattern. They can be laid over the old wood shingles, or for new roofs.

DUO-LAY Srip Shingles should be on top of every modernizing job. It is the dealer's opportunity to get a share of this tremendous new volume of business.

I our oE EvERy I5ilG

Here is the actiue roofung TIIIS marlrct thut belongs to fou, Mr. I)ealer.

In every city and town of California . .'. hundreds of homes will need a new roof this year. A thorough survey of California homes, recently conducted by an independent agency, reveals for the first time this important information: "Statistics show that on the average residential roofs in California require major aftention once in every 7 years.

"Vhile these figures do not apply to the class of roofs covered with asphalt shingles, the life of these roofs being considerably longer, they do apply to roofs on the average." Vhat interests you Mr. Dealer is that l/7th of all the homes in your territory . I out of every 15 will require a new roof this year. This is a tremendous market . right in your own front yard. Let us tell you how to caPture a large share of this business NOW with the sensational new DUO-LAY Strip Shingles.

ES NEEDS A NEW ROOT AR ! Here is the merchand,ising id,ea that u)ill bring you this business.

The new DUO-LAY St ip Shingle offers the customer a quality of design and color heretofore available only in the more expensive asphdt shingles.

Thus, it is an economy product for a quality market . . . j*t the type of roof to sell owners who must re-roof this year.

ft can be laid two ways-with broken effect or in the conservative square butt pattern. It is manufactured in four beautiful colors. Adaptable for over the old wood shingles or for new roofs.

And, for the dealer-DUO-LAY Strip Shingles offer an entirely new merchandising idea! They provide double quick turn-over with low investment in stock . . because with DUO-LAY Strip Shingles, the dealer can sell several different patterns and color combinations from one stock.

New Standards for Shingles Redwood Manufactu]ers Attend and Mouldings Chicago Meeting

Washington, M"y 15.-Just released by the Bureau of Standards of the U. S. Department of Commerce is pamphlet ,containing the 1931 revised 7000 series of Standard Wood Mouldings and recommended specifications for standard grades of Red Cedar Shingles, the Central Cornmittee on Lumber Standards announced today. These new standards for mouldings and shingles supersede those now given in Simplified Practice Recommendation R16-29Lumber-Fourth Edition. The pamphlet is a supplement thereto.

The new moulding sizes and designs of the 1931 revised 7000 series were published for the benefit of the lumber trade by the Central Committee on Lumber Standards about a year ago. They superseded all previous stock moulding series published.

These new designs and sizes were the result of painstaking work of a special ,committee representing the lumber and millr'r,'ork, producing, distributing, designing and consuming branches of the trade. Much was the result of original work of E. Stanford Hall, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the committee. This new series has been,characterized by architects, consumers, manufacturers and distributors as the most up-to-date and architecturally correct of any stock series ever published. Because of their merit they are gradually becoming the standard in the trade.

The new standards for wood shingles as a part of the American Lumber Standards for softwoods marks a new milestone in simplification and standardization of grades within the shingle industry. For the first time, all grading specifications issued by any agency for Red Cedar Shingles are uniform and conform to the Ameri'can Lumber Standards.

Ninety-five per cent of the capacity production of red cedar shingles is strictly in,conformity with the new Standard and has contracted through their organization, the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, to manufacture exclusively in conformity with the new Standard. Following the promulgation of this Standard, the cypress and redwood manufacturers through their organizations, the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association and the California Redwood Association, have announced that shingles from their species will be manufactured in conformity with the new Standard. Shingles from these durable species constitute over 97/o of the wood shingles sold in the United States.

This uniform practice made possible by the publication of the new Standards by the Department of Commer,ce will be of inestimable value to all distributors and consumers of wood shingles.

Through the elimination of innumerable grades, many of which were misunderstood by the trade and through simplification of packing to a uniform basis of the square (enough shingles to cover 100 square feet when laid to the stipulated weather exposure), everybody is benefited. The home builder, the architect, the contractor or the roofer can purchase with confidence and knowledge. The manufacturer and the distributor are similarly benefited and in addi-

A. S. Murphy, president of The Pacifi,c Lumber Company, San Francisco; C. R. Johnson, president of the Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, and C. H. Griffen, Jr., general manager of the California Redwood Association, left San Francisco May 2l to attend a meeting in Chicago on May 24. The meeting was called by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to be attended by spokesmen for the principal forest industry groups of the country to assist in working out a competitive code agreement for the approval of President Roosevelt under the Industry Control and Publi.c Works bill.

Mr. Griffen attended the opening of the Chicago World's Fair, and inspected the exhibit of the California Redwood Association's exhibit, which is in,corporated in the California State exhibit. The Redwood exhibit is in charge of two young lady attendants who will answer questions and distribute ,copies of a beautiful booklet explaining the many uses of Redwood. They will also give away a neat little sample of California Redwood in the form of a card which gives the addresses of the Association's Chicago, New York and San Francisco offices.

After spending some time in Chicago Mr. Griffen will visit New York, Washington and other Eastern cities in the interests of the work of the Association.

B. J. Boorman Elected Director

B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland, was elected a director for Northern California of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, to succeed the late Samuel E. Dalton, at a meeting of the State Association's Northern board of directors held at the Hotel Clark, Stockton, May 20. H. A. Lake, the association's president, presided at the meeting.

S. E. Dalton

Samuel Ewing Dalton, president of the Melrose Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland, died at the Merritt Hospital, Oakland, May 17, after an illness of a month.

Mr. Dalton, who was in his 53rd year, was a native of Tennessee, and had been 30 years in the lumber business in Oakland. He was vice president of the East Bay Lumbermen's Association and, a director of the California Retail Lumber,men's Association. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alice Dalton; three sisters and a brother, Robert O. Dalton. associated with him in business.

tion have the assurance that confiden,ce in the product will build business.

Copies "of the Supplement on shingles and mouldings may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents for 10c, cash or money order. Copies of the new standard wood moulding book published last year by the Central Committee and containing designs drawn accurately to scale may be obtained from the Central Committee for 30c per copy.

Tradc or Exchahge---ldeas for ldeas or \(hat Have )e1;---

Bv Dick Ustick, Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto, Calif.

We have found results by "corning out from behind."

Lumbermen usually hide their lights beneath bushels and their merchandise beneath or behind anything that will conceal its presence from a customer who might be needing just that particular item.

Our Manager, Jim Gartin, while pencil drumming on his desk recently, conceived the idea of having a building material display. He doped out materials complete for a

back and these were given a place just to attract attention. Ad cards for nailing on outgoing loads were suspended from the sides of the fence and garnished with fluttery strips of red gauze.

While the idea emanated from the fountain head, he wasn't just too sure that old man buying public wouldn't stifle a grin and drive on. Not so-We were most pleased with the results. Faces appeared that never appeared before. Ninety or more odd sash, counted and recounted each stocktaking for four years, were tagged "50d while they last" (the price we have been quotigg right along) and cleaned out in two days. We sold lawn furniture from Porterville to Oakland. Our garages and chicken houses went over good also, and we're still having inquiries and expect more from those who see our displays. We are still showing paint, stucco wire, roofings, and doors-changing often enough to keep passing eyes interested.

Prices on displayed materials were regular, but we believe that from the picture we tried to paint, people (who are little acquainted with our business as a rule) were better able to visualize the cost picture of their requirements.

l2x|6 garage, an 18x20 chicken house and a small chicken house. These were loaded on trucks and captioned in large letters, "This 18x20 Chicken House $35.00" or whatever the price might be. Our yard sides to the State Highway through torvn and the intake road for twenty-five or thirty side roads. This side made an excellent place to "show off." We drew the trucks out-signed our fence with a twenty-foot notice, "A New Deal In lum$s1"-ran six half dollar line ads in the classified columns of our daily and the display was on. We had a batch of trellises stored in our attic since the launching of "Old Ironsides." These were tabbed Q!4 fior the large and 666 for the balance and stood out rvith the display. Lau'n furniture was painted up and set on our lawn. Charles Sloan, who runs our branch at Salida, made several model houses a few 1's315

One item of our display failed to be displayed. We erected a champion two-passenger Chic Sale, crescents on the sides and everything, but we still have it tucked from sight behind one of our buildings and I'll tell you why-bur bookkeeper felt that the more astute might be offended. And the Specialist who built her said, disappointed like, "Just like you lumbermen-hidin' the things you have to sell. She's a dandy and tuckin' that edifice back of this shed is just like robbin' a queen of her maiestv."

Takes Charge of Forest Camp

Donald H. Clark, well known stained shingle manufacturer of Seattle, has joined the Civilian Conservation Corps and has been appointed superintendent of Camp Hemlock, Vancouver, Wash.

George Davidson will manage Mr. Clark's shingle business during his absence.

Buitdins Materiat Disptay fr::;*:",tffi:;y^ Lumber Co. office at

PEOPLE WILL TALK

You may get through the world, but t'will be very slow, If you listen to all that is said as you go; You'll be worried and fretted and kept in a stew, For meddlesome tongues must have something to do, And people will talk.

If quiet and modest, you'll have it presumed That your humble position is only assrunedYou're a wolf in sheep's clothing, or else you're a fool; But don't get excited, keep perfectly cool. For people will talk.

And then, if you show the least boldness of heart, Or a slight inclination to take your own part, They will call you an upstart, conceited and vain, But keep straight ahead-don't stop to explainFor people will talk.

If threadbare your clothes and old fashioned your hat, Someone will surely take notice of that, And hint rather strongly you can't pay your way; But don't get excited, whatever they sayFor people will talk.

If your dress is in fashion, don't think to escape, For they criticise then in a different shape; You're ahead of your means, or your tailor's unpaid; But mind your own business-there's naught to be made-

For people will talk.

Now the best way to do is to do as you please; For your mind, if you have one, will then be at ease; Of course you will meet with all kinds of abuse But don't think to stop them-it ain't any useFor people will talk.

-Author Unknown.

THE RETORT COURTEOUS

Officer: (Stopping fair girl for speeding) "Say, where's the fire?"

Fair Girl: "In your eyes, you great big gorgeous policeman.tt

TWO PRTNCIPAL OBJECTTVES

Buying a home and taking out life insurance for his family should constitute the prlncipal objectives of a man. In this manner he can overcome all obligations in the event of serious adverse developments.

A REAL MAN

A real man never talks about what the world owes him, the happiness he deserves, and the chances he ought by right to have, and all that.

A real man is just as honest in the dark in his own room as he is in public.

A real man does not want pulls and favors. He wants work and honest wages.

A real man does not want something-for-nothing, so the get-rich-quick people cannot use him.

A real man does a little more than he promises.

A real man is loyal to his friends and guards their reputation as their own.

A real man rninds his own business. He does not judge other persons beyond sure knowledge, not presuming to ttsearch hearts."

A real man has excuses for others-never for himself. He is patient and charitable to others; to himself he is strict.

A real man does not hunt danger, but never dodges it when he ought to meet it.

A real man is glad to die and not afraid to live.

THE CRITIC SAYS_

That the only improvernent the railroads have made in fifty years is the slot for used razor blades.

LINCOLN, THE LAWYER

Lincoln discouraged litigation and as counsel always advised a compromise. Lincoln was not a lawyer. He was a man who understood law, and then practiced largely in the courthouse of common sense.

HABIT

The police reporters never state things as facts until they are proven so. The society editor of a newspaper was ill and they asked the police reporter to do some of the work. And he urrote a social note as follows: "Mr. and Mrs. John Doe announce the marriage of their alleged daughter, Mary Ann to Richard Roe."

"To^" Tomlimon Back With Reduction in Lumber Stocks.

Donovan Recommended

F. "Tom" Tomlinson, formerly with the Donovan Lumber Company, San Francisco, has started to work again for this concern, covering his old territory, the San Francisco Bay district and Northern California.

Donovan Lumber Company's mill No. 2, Aberdeen, Wash., rvill start operation June 1.

Hammond Golt Tournament

The Hammond Lumber Company of Los Angeles held a golf tournament at the Fox Hills Country Club, Culver City, Calif., on Saturday afternoon, May 20. lO-foursomes took part in the tournament which included the golfers of the Hammond organization and their guests. A. H. Hoel, Claremont Lumber Co., Claremont, Calif., was the winner of the low gross prize, a dozen golf balls. M. J. Ely, manager of retail sales, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles, won the low net prize, The Hammond Cup. As this is the second time Mr. Ely wori the cup, he gained permanent possession of the trophy. Prizes were also awarded to the rvinners of the various other events.

REDWOOD EXECUTIVE BACK AT DESK

Leonard C. Hammond, vice-president and general manager of the }fammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, has returned to his office after an absence of several r,veeks due to illness.

The Department of Commerce has re,ceived a report from the Special Lumber Survey Committee of the Timber Conservation Board on lumber consumption, lumber stocks and anticipated consumption for the second quarter of 1933.

The Lumber Survey Committee appointed on July 9, 1931, consists of Thomas S. Holden, Vice President, F. W. Dodge Company, New York; Dr. Frank M. Surface, former Assistant Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commer'ce; M. W. Stark, lumber and coal economist of Columbus, Ohio; Calvin Fentress, Chairman of the Board, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago, Ill., and Dr. Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association. This Committee serves voluntarily in cooperation with the work of the Timber Conservation Board in its study of the economic situation in the forest products industries.

The Committee points out that although lumber stocks have been reduced over 3 billion feet sin'ce January L, 1932, equivalent to nearly one-fifth of the total volume of lumber movement, the net decline from the beginning of. 1929 to January 1, 1933 was only 30 per cent and the stock reduction in the first quarter of this year approximately 6 per cent below that of January 1, 1933, consumption in 1932 declined over 65 per cent lrom L929 and the first quarter of 1933 showed apparent further decline from the similar period of 1932 of 20 per cent.

is the time to sell surnmer cottages.

Noyo Durable Redwood L o g

Cabin Siding is a sure fire bet!

Note from the above photo the adaptability of Redwood Log Cabin Siding and how closely it resembles actual log construction. DURABILITY.BEAUTY.ECONOMY

The Committee states that further reductions in stocks are essential to industry recuperation and recommends a reduction during the year of three billion feet unless and until building operations expand much more rapidly than is norv indicated and substantial upturn continues in woodusing industries. The C'ommittee further points out that average lumber pri'ces at the mill have continued the moderate advance begun in the last quarter of. 1932 to a point in March averaging 5 per cent above August, 1932. It recommends that diligent effort be made through exchanges of stocks and sales to avoid unnecessary production of items already in industry surplus.

BACK FROM NORTHWEST

Guy E. Smith, general sales manager, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Fratrcisco, returned May 25 from a 10-day trip to the company's Portland and Seattle offices.

The Challenge

I give you our President's slogan"Peace and Prosperity ;" The dream of incredulous ages, A challenge to you and to me; Shall we accept it bravely For the sake of a war wrecked world, Till the ominous drums are silenced And the flags of battle furled ?

I give you our leader's courageHis freedom of thought and of will; Shall we rally about him boldly For a pull up the rugged hill ? O, then should he stumble or falter, Sustain him with faith and love, Till the cohorts of darkness are vanquished And the day star shines above..

I give you a wonderful vision Of a time when war shall cease, And the children of men turn gladly To the glorious arts of peace; When science shall lead earth's races To knowledge and power and health, And the gifts of the mind and the spirit Be counted a nation's wealth.

I give you our pla'ce in the picture, Our part in the gracious p1an, Are we wise enough to assume it? Are we ready to play the rfran?

Lo, here is our leader's slogan, "Peace and Prosperity,"

A dream of incredulous ages, A challenge to you and to me.

A. Merriam Conner.

National-American Elect Olficers

At the forty-first annual meeting of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C., on April 26 and 27, Max Myers of Cleveland was re-elected president. The other officers were all re-ele'cted which included: first vice-president, Wells Blan,chard, Boston; second vice-president, John I. Coulbourn, Philadelphia; treasurer, Otis N. Shepard, Nerv York; secretary-directing manag'er, W. W. S,chupner, New York.

The following were elected to serve as directors for the three year term ending in 1936: Henry N. Anderson, Aberdeen, Wash. ; L. K. Creason, Kansas City; J. A. Currey, New York; C. A. Goodman, Marinette, Wis.; R. C. Pepper, Springfield, Mass. ; W. H. Schuette, Pittsburgh; R. P. Shannon, Vancouver, B. C.; John C. Shepherd, Charlotte, N. C.; Horace F. Taylor, Buffalo, and J. R. Thames, Birmingham, Ala. Otis N. Johnson, San Francisco, and O. H. Babcock, Pittsburgh, were elected directors to fill terms expiring, respectively, in 1934 and 1935.

Takes Over Mill at Klamath Falls

It has just been announced that the sawmill owned by F. Hill Hunter and R. H. Hovey of Klamath Falls, and Willis J. Walker of San Francisco, located on Klamath Lake at the north edge of Klamath Falls, Oregon, will resume operations after a two years' shut-down, under the management of the Ivory Pine Company. The mill is now undergoing a reconditioning under the direction of the Sawmill Engineering and Construction Company of Klamath Falls and is expected to be in operation by the first week in June. Starting on a one-shift basis, it will cut two shifts as soon as conditions warrant. They will cut Ponderosa and Sugar Pine.

The mill is an electrically driven single band mill equipped throughout with Diamond Iron Works m'achinery. It has a rated capacity of forty million feet per year and has produced close to this amount during several seasons. The new operators rvill only run at less than half capacity during 1933 unless conditions materially change for the better.

The logs for the operation will be furnished by WalkerHovey Company from their extensive timber holdings in the vicinity of Klamath Falls. R. H. llovey, manager of the Walker-Hovey Company is in charge of logging oPerations.

The Ivory Pine Compar-ry is incorporated in Oregon and rvill have its headquarters in Klamath Falls. It is under the management of E. P. Ivory, who has been associated with the lumber industry in California and Southern Oregon for many years. Mr. Ivory was recently associated with General Timber Service, Inc., and the Wayerhaeuser Sales Company at St. Paul, Minn.

"The major'consideration in starting the mill at this time has been the general improvement in business sentiment throughout the ,country", says E. P. Ivory, "lumber has never been one of the first commodities to come out of a depression because it must await improved purchasing power on the part of the farmer and working man. That situation has already begun to unfold itself and it is the belief of my associates and myself that improved demand for lumber will soon be in evidence".

Council Meets at Stockton

A meeting of the California Lumbermen's Council was held at the Hotel Clark, Stockton, on Saturday, May 20. H. A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, presided.

Matters discussed included the proposed national industry control legislation.

YOUNG LUMBERMAN ARRIVES

Francis E. Boyd, Boyd Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara, well known Southern California lumberman and golfer, has been the recipient of many congratulations from his lumbermen friends during the past week, the occasion being the arrival of a baby boy, Fran'cis Eugene Boyd, Jr., on Tuesday, May 23. Both Mrs. Boyd and the youngster are reported to be doing nicely. Mr. Boyd says that Junior will be a lumberman, and he already predicts that he will be an expert golfer.

Lumb ermen Urge Interstate Comm erce Commission to Reduce Rates on Basic Commodities

Washington, May 15.-A dozen representatives of the lumber industry told the Interstate Commerce Commission in the general raihvay rate revision hearings, that thel' favored general reductions as rvell as spe,cific reductions in lumber rates.

Speaking for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, the regional associations of lumber manufacturers, the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, and the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, Wilson Compton, I\{anager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association submitted extensive information on rvhich is based an appeal for general reductions in the rates on commodities, especially basic commodities; including a reduction of lumber rates which rvill restore them substantially to the levels of 1915 to 1918.

Mr. Compton contended that present rail rates on lurnber are not only higher than traffic r.vill bear, but that the gravity of that situation was aggravated by the lorv rvater transportation rates, which divert traffic from the railrvals and create a ruinous competitive condition between mills accessible to water and the great number of land-lockecl mills. The latter have to meet tl-re prices of the former regardless of ,costs of production, which means abandonment of competitive markets of billions of feet of lumber or operation at a loss.

While lumber prices are now approximately at the level of 1913 transportation costs are more than 5O per cent higher, Mr. Compton said. Present operations are at about 20 per'cent of normal capacity, and more than 60 per cent of the lumber mills are closed. The lumber industry generally has been liquidated to a point not only of obliteration of profits and even of realization from the 'conversion of timber and plants, but also of the gradual and remorseless destruction of its remaining working capital and credit; ancl in many sections of an extreme irnpoverishment of its r'vage scales as the only alternative to complete stoppage of employment. An industry in this condition should not be expected to contribute further to the subsidization of the railway operations. The railroads have been subjected to reduction of revenue by the forced reduction of lumber traffic. In 1923 forest products were 9 per 'cent of all raihvar' freight traffic; now they are but 4 per cent.

In conclusion Mr. ComPton said:

Reduced Rates and Business Recovery

' "M"y we make clear the fact that the lumber industry, however much it is interested in the reduction of lumber freight rates, is much more interested that there shall be also such substantial reductions in the rates applying on other commodities as may be expected to restore the movement of traffic generally. Reduction in lumber rates would, of course, make it easier for the shippers to ship. But it would not help the buyers to buy. What is needed is the opportunity for a general restoration of industrial and com-

mer,cial activity, and thus in general purchasing power. This, in our contention, will not be secured without a substantial general reduction in freight rates on basic commodities in reasonable conformity to the changed generat price levels.

"If that is done we expect a substantial improvement in the lumber and forest products industries and in volume of lumber movement from two directions: first, through reduced costs of delivery of products from producer to con, sumer; second, through gradually increased consumer purchasing power.

"Therefore, the lumber industry of the United States as represented by the organizations whose spokesmen now appear before you, asks for a substantial general reduction in freight rates; and specifi,cally as to lumber that the rates be reduced in the same manner as during the past fifteen years they have been increased; that the level of lumber rates be established substantially upon the basis prevailing prior to Jtne 24, 1918; and that r,vhat is done be done promptly.,'

This testimony rvas the subject of extensive cross-examination by rnembers of the Commission and by counsel for tbe railroad companies.

Lumber's Advocates

Other spokesmen for the lumber industry appearing before the Commission were: W. B. Greeley, Secretary, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle; D. T. Mason, Secretary, Western Pine Association, Portland, Ore.; H. A. Gillis, Western Pine Association; Harry T. Kendall, Weverhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul, Minn.; A. Larsson, California Redrvood Association, San Francisco; C. C. Sheppard, Southern Pine Association, New Orleans and Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association, Ja,cksonville ; A. L. Osborn, Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Mfrs. Association. Oshkosh, Wis.; R. D. Grubbs,,Lumber Traffic Association, Cincinnati, Ohio; Spencer Baldrvin, President. National Retail Lumber Dealers Association; C. A. New, Associated Cooperage Industries of America & Southern Hdtv. Traffi,c Association; F. P. Dooley, Southern Hard*.ood Traffic Association; E. A. Powell, Associated Cooperage Industries of America.

Mill Will Resume Oper.tions

The Durango Lumber Company, El Salto, Durango, Mexico, rvhose sawmill and box factory were destroyed by fire on April 9 will continue the production of crossties and heavy timber, and other operations will be resumed as soon as the necessary equipment is pur,chased and installed, according to a recent announ,cement. While it is expected that a new box factory will be built, it is understood that the large sawmill rvill not be replaced and for the present the company will operate two or more of their smaller lumber operations.

INrrlron 0rr1tl "l IgrcHIN G-owrxc Dorri<ten Dr'l.

Hardwood Business Better Announcement of Consolidation

"Business is better with us", said C. H. White, vicepresident and general manager of White llrothers, hardwood dealers of San Francisco and Oaklan<l, re,cently. Mr. White is optimistic ancl proved it in a rnessage he rvrote and sent out to the retail tracle a couple of weeks ago. The message follows:

..SWEET ARE THE USES OF ADVERSITY''

That's what Shakespeare said.

We've had our adversity

Norv we're just coming out of it. We're feeling the first faint syrnptoms

Of returning prosperity.

First we sold basswood panels

For jig saw puzzles, Then mahogany bar tops for the new brerv. Now the Bay bridges bring many inquiries, And lve are happy, Because we have two tvarehouses

Full of hardwoods.

Our inventory is

As big in footage as in 7929

But worth in dollars only half as nruch.

When the market advances

Which now seems ,certain.

Our prices will go up, So call on us now

For your hardwood needs;

And you rvill be happy too.

Bob Grant in Ne* Job

Robert S. Grant has resigned his position as San Francisco representative of Western Door & Sash Co., and is now associated rvith the San Francisco offi,ce of National Mill & Lumber Co., 74 New Montgomery Street.

lssue Attractive Booklet

"Interiors that Speak of Charm and Comfort" is an attractive booklet that has been published by the Celotex Company. The book is beautifully illustrated and shorvs the wide use of the Celotex insulation boarcl. The pictures show installations rvhere Celotex has been used for interiors in the homes, offices, stores, schools, chur'ches, public buildings, ,country clubs, libraries, tourist cabins, etc. Sorne of the illustrations show the effe,cts'developed through various treatrnents such as stencils ancl painting, however, n-rost of the pictures are of rooms rvith rvalls and ceilings of natural Celotex.

The booklet shorvs a variety of designs in Celotex tile and mouldings, also application instructious covering the points most essential in the su,ccessful application and decoration of Celotex as an interior finish. Copies of the booklet may be had on request by r,vriting The Celotex Company.919 N. Michigan Blvd., Chicago, I11.

BACK FROM NORTHWEST

H. S. Morton of Hill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, returned May 20 from a business trip to Portland and Eugene.

Announcement has been made of the merger of The Lumbermen's Blue Book and Clancy's Red Book. The rnergecl service has been named The Lumbermen's Red & Blue Book Service, and the new corporation will be known as The Lumberrnen's Credit Asso,ciation, Inc. fn announcing the consolidation to the Blue Book subs,cribers and clients, G. W. Dulany, Jr., Vice-President of The Lumbermen's Blue Book, fnc., and Chairman of the Credit Corporation Committee of.the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, says :

"For nearly 30 years the Lumbermen's Blue Book has been furnishing its subs,cribers and clients specialized credit reporting and ,collection service, second to none in the agency field.

"Yet, the need for further improvement in credit information and ,collection service has been in,creasingly apparent to everyone during the past few years. In-so-far as the lumber and allied industries are concerned, it has been determined that the greatest improvement can be rnade by a strong combination of organizations furnishing such servi'ces; a merger which it is believed will be of such benefit as to be whole-heartedly supported by the entire lumber industry.

"Therefore, after many conferences with the officers of the Association which furnishes Clancy's Red Book Credit Reporting and Collection Service, the merger of the Red and Blue Book organizations was agreed upon. E,ven before you receive this announ.cement, the two former organizations will be functioning as one. The merged service has been named The Lumbermen's Red & Blue Book Service, and the new corporation, which will furnish both the credit reporting and collection service, will be named The Lumbermen's Credit Asso'ciation, In,c. If you are subscribing to both former credit reporting servi,ces, an equitable adjustment of your subscfiption contracts will be made shortly. All claims or collections in process of being handled by The Lumbermen's Blue Book, Inc., will be handled by the merged organization, and any new business will have the benefit of Red Book's 57 years of experience, as well.

"As soon as plans can be perfe,cted, the merged organization will have a committee of users of the service to which can be referred matters of general policy, and subscription and collection rates, with the object of developing services of greatest good for the greatest number. The various national lumber associations will be invited to appoint members to represent them on this committee.

"At the close of business on April 2A, 7933, the management contract, dated De'c. 1, 1931, with the Credit Clearing House was cancelled by mutual consent.

"For the present, all communications are to be sent to the main office of the merged organization, The Lumbermen's Credit Association, In,c., at 608 S. Dearborn St.. Chicago, Ill."

RECEIVE MANY CONGRATULATIONS

Mr. and Mrs. Jason C. McCune are receiving congratulations from their many friends on the birth of a daughter, born Wednesday, May 10. Mr. M'cCune is connected with the Los Angeles offi,ce of J. H. Baxter & Co.

Bill Provides Cut in Contractors' President Offers to Establish Registration Fee

Sacr4mento, M.y l7.-Presaging a saving of approximately $125,000 annually for California contractors, the senate approved A. B. 780 providing for a 50 per cent cut in the annual registration fee of contractors from $10 to $5 for renewals.

The bill, as finally adopted, retains the present $200 exemption clause. The original bill, introduced in the assembly by Lawrence Cobb, Los Angeles, provided for a $50 exe,mption clause. This was raised to $100 in the lower house and was later raised to the present $200 mark by amendments adopted on the floor of the senate. The assembly has concurred in these amendments.

The reduced fee, however, applies only to renewals by registered contractors, and, if approved by Governor Rolph as anticipated, the cut will be placed into effect with the issuance of licenses for the new fiscal year beginning July 1. Under the measure, the delinquent fee remains at $10 per year, while the fee for new licenses also remains unchanged at $10.00.

"The amended act," according to Registrar Huntington, who is also director of the department of professional and vocational standards in the governor's cabinet, "provides for more stringent regulation of the unscrupulous fly-bynight contractor and 'jerry-builder,' but in no way will interfere with the legitimate business operations of the honest and ethical contractor."

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Yz to 2-inch Drilling Capacity

Weights 10 to 20 lbs.

Priced at ll00 and uP.

Etectrlc Drlllc, All tlzcr

Portable Gr{nderr and Beoch T54rer

Goncrete Surtaccm

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Forest Camps on State Lands

Robert Fechner, director of Emergency Conservation Work at Washington, D. C., has wired the governors of all states outlining the terms under which the Federal government will agree to establish conservation camps on state, county, municipal and privat'e lands, according to advice received by S. B. Show, chief of the U. S. Forest Service in California and regional coordinator for emergency conservation work in this state.

The telegram states that President Roosevelt stands ready to approve the establishment of camps on State or private lands if the governor would give assurance that he would urge the State legislature at the earliest possible date to enact legislation providing "that if as a result of the work done the State derives a direct benefit from the sale of the land or its products, the proceeds will be divided equally between the State and Federal Government until the State shall have paid for the work done at the rate. of one dollar per man per day for the time spent on projects, subject to a maximum of three dollars per day per acre."

"The President desires," stated the telegram, "that no rvork shall be done on privately-owned land except as may be necessary in the public interest for regional or statewide forest protection against fire, insects and disease and./or simple flood control measures to arrest gully erosion and flash run-off at the headwaters of mountain streams. Where public interest demands work on privately-owned land for these purposes, the President requests that it be conditioned on the State assuming responsibility for maintenance of works by landowners or otherwise, and obtaining contracts with the landowners by which the State reserves the right to remove at its option and without recompense to landowners any structures or other things of removable values .ivhich may result from the work done, including products of trees planted to arrest erosion."

If the State of California accepts the terms offered by the Federal Government, Mr. Show states he is informed that President Roosevelt is ready to give approval to thirtyeight emergency conservation camps on state and private land in California, in addition to the 177 camps already authorized for the national forests and national parks of the State.

Regional Forester Show also reports that Army officers acting under the direction of Major General Malin Craig, Commander of the Ninth Army Corps Area have examined the following camps in northern California and that the Army has authorized their construction as soon as necessary building 'materials can be secured: Sequoia Forest, Millwood; General Grant Park, Park headquarters; Sequoia Park, Ash Mountain; Yosemite Park, Wawona; Sierra Forest, Sugar Pine; Eldorado Forest, Riverton ; Plumas Forest, Challenge; Tahoe Forest, Bloomfield; Stanislaus Forest, Buck Meadow; Klamath Forest, Oak Knoll and Orleans; Lassen Forest, Big Springs; Lassen Volcanic Park, Old Boundary Spring; Modoc Forest, F{ackamore; Mendocino Forest, Patton Mill; Shasta Forest, Castella; Trinity Forest, Hawkins Bar.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING

Rate---$2.50 Pet Column lnch.

ELECTRIC HOIST_ROSS CARRIER . WANTED

Used 5 or 6 Ton Electric Hoist; Also used Ross Carrier. Address Box 479, California Lumber Merchant

FOR SALE

Lumber yard in Southern California for sale. Old established yard. Stock about $10,000.00. Mill equipment; Trucks; Office Furniture and Fixtures, $2,000.00. Real estate and sheds can be leased reasonably. Address Box C-477, California Lumber Merchant.

YARDS FOR SALE

Two Well Equipped and Modern Lumber Yards for sale, within forty miles from Los Angeles.

Or will sell Stock and F.quipment and gt*'" long lease. Or will sell one yard.

Address Box C-478

C^alifornia Lumber Merchant

LUMBER YARDS FOR SALE

Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480, Care California Lumber Merchant.

Home Beautifiication Makes Jobs Funds for Rebuilding in Qu.lce for Unemployed Area Available

Attractive garden equipment, which will improve greatly the general outside appearance of a home, whether it be a costly mansion or a small bungalow, is available at little cost to home owners through the suggestions contained in the booklet entitled "You Can Make It For Profit," pr.pared by the National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce.

The ger.reral appearance of the premises can be enhanced considerably by the addition of such articles as well designed trellises, pergolas, and fences with attractive gates and arches, all fully described in the committee's booklet.

The suggestions in the manual are particularly timely in view of the many spring home beautification programs now being formulated by various civic and community organizations, as well as by individual home owners.

According to the Wood Utilization Committee, the equipment described in "You Can Make It For Profit," copies of which may be obtained for five cents each, is neither difficult to construct nor does it represent a great outlay of money. On the other hand, it will improve the attractiveness and the actual value of the property.

A window, a corner or jog in the exterior side wall, a fireplace chimney, or a blank wall may be made more attractive by the addition of simple lattice-wall trellises. These also provide ideal supports for vines and climbing roses.

The booklet points out that of all outdoor home amusement devices, there are probably none that have a greater fascination for children than sand boxes, swings and seesaws. Adults will be attracted by such items as lawn

Immediate funds for rebuilding and repair of homes and business buildings in the area affected by the recent Southern California earthquake were made available by action of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington on May 9. The R. F. C. officials approved the securities put up by the Unified Rehabilitation Corporation which represents all the cities in the quake area, and ordered the first installment of a $5,000,000 loan for rebuilding without further delay.

The first installment will amount to $250,000. Persons and corporations whose loan applications have been approved will commence at once and a second installment will be forthcoming when the first allotment is exhausted.

tables, lawn benches, garden nooks and lawn chairs. and seats.

Besides giving detailed information on each of the articles illustrated, the bulletin contains other valuable information regarding the selection of materials and tools. A special chapter is devoted to a discussion of painting and decorating. Helpful woodworking shop suggestions also are listed.

Inasmuch as the articles can be constructed by the man handy with tools who is temporarily unemployed, the Committee's publication discusses a number of ways in which the articles made for profit can be marketed. It is pointed out that chain and independent department stores, mail order houses, hardware and paint stores, souvenir and specialty shops offer good markets for disposing of useful home items.

ENTERLOCK

Makes Good Lumber

Do More Than lt Ever Did Before

The new method rimplifies the carpcn, ter'c work and speedr the conotruction of a frame dwelling, oince more than threc'fourths of the lumber used in a houee may be delivered to the site ready for aceembling wlthout further cutting.

-Frcm PoPlIar Sciencc Monthly

So goes the demand of buyers of everything. So goes the demand of the alert seller of everything. Manufacturers answer with a will-new gasolines, new fabrics, new foods, new styles, new household appliances. That is progress. Inventive genius has made America great.

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It guarantees correct grades.

It eliminates multiplicity of grades.

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