The California Lumber Merchant - June 1933

SALT PORK OR COFFEE

"What'll you have?" caid the waiter to Paul Bunyan. "What you got?"

sayr Paul. "Salt pork or coffee, take your choicer" rays the waiter. "Gimme a toothpick and my change," says Paul.

A shortage of some items is already felt. If the oobaek to the land" rrov€. the public ment, works program 'and an increased buying power of the farmer and the re-employed brings out a demand for reparrs and new construction, oohere will you get lumber? ? ? ?

WE CAN SHIP NOW CALIFORNIA WHITE PINE

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No. I and No. 2 Clear, C-Select, D-Select Bevel Siding, all sizes, all grades

SUGAR PINE

All Sizes and All Grades and

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If , real demand for lumber starts, wh:nt wiII happen???

Random Items---Mill Run

RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST

A. J. "Gus" Russell, head of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his desk June 12, from a business trip to the Northwest. Mr. Russell left San Francisco May 29, and made the trip by automobile, visiting Portland, Tac.oma, Seattle and other points in Washington and Oregon.

MASON KLINE VISITS LOS ANGELES

Mason C. Kline, Union Lumber Company, San cisco, was a visitor at the company's Los Angeles around the first of the month rvhere he spent a few on company business.

WALTER SCRIM ON EASTERN TRIP

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Walter G. Scrim, Los Angeles, United States representative of the Findlay Millar Timber Co., is on an Eastern business trip where he will visit the lumber centers in the Middle 'West, along the Atlantic Seaboard, and Canada.

IT'S A BOY

It's a boy at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, where little Alfred, Jr., arrived the other day. Mr. Johnson is one of the owners of the Capital Lumber Co., Sacramento.

EARLE JOHNSON VTSTTS TEXAS

Earle E. Johnson, Independent Lumber Co., Livermore, left June 10 to pay a visit to his father and mother in Dalhart, Texas. Earle, who was raised in Texas will be able to tell some of his old cowboy friends of the big success made again this year by the Livermore rodeo, of which he was ticket chairman, and one of those largely responsible for the financial success of the affair. He will be gone two weeks.

DON PHILIPS RETURNS FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a two weeks' trip in the Northwest where he ,called on the company's mill connections in the Coos Bay, Grays Harbor and Portland districts.

GUY SMITH IN EAST

Guy E. Smith, general sales manager, Chas. R. mick Lumber Co., San Fran'cisco, left June 3 for business trip to Chicago, New York and other cities.

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L. A. GODARD LOS ANGELES VISITOR

L. A. Godard, sales representative for Hobbs-Wall & Co., San Francisco, spent a ferv days in Los Angeles the latter part of Ma-r'.

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Arociated Lumber Mutuals ----------------------------2,

Eootstaver-Burnr Lumber Co. ------------,--- --------21

Booth.Kelty Lumber Co. --- - -

Celifornia Panel & Veneer Co. ------------- O.F.C.

Cslifqrnia Redwood Asociation,, The ---------{

Crlifornia Vholesale Lumber Association -- -t

C.elotcx Company, The

€henberlin & Co.' W. R. -----------------------------21

C.ooper Lurnber €o, V. E. ------------------ ------ ---.21

Dallar Machine & Locomotive Worls

Flintlote Company of California, The _--tt

Flammond Lumber Co. ---------------- -----------------21

Hill & Morton, fnc. ------------ ,,---,----- 2l

Holmee.Eureka Lumber Co. .------..------- -- ---.21

Hoover, A. L. ------ -,-,---------------21

Koehl & Sonr, Inc., Jno. W. -------------------------.21

Laughlin, C. J. ------ - ------ ----.21

Lawrence-Philipe Lumber Co. -------------,-- -------.21

Long-Bell Lumber Salec Corporation ----------- 21

Lumbermen's Service A$ociation ------ ---.I.B.C.

McCormick Lumber Co., Chac. R. -----------------.21

Moore Mill & Lumber Co. ---------------------------- 2l

Forryth Hardwood Car. -- 9 Pacific Lumbet Co., The --------.2,

Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. ----------------,--------------.21

Pioneer Paper Company - -------------------------14-t5

Red River Lumber Co. ---------------------------.-.I.F.C.

M. ADAMS Circulation Mmger

A. C. MERRYMAN Advertirinl Manager

LUMBERMERCHANT

JackDionne ,publ;slw

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Lumber Orders Heavy---$teady lmproyement

THE CALIFOR}IIA Forecast for Building Construction

Lumber orders booked at the sawmills during the week ended 'lv/,ay 27, 1933, wete the heaviest since April, 1931, and slightly exceeded those reported for the previous week according to reports to the Nationd Lumber Manufacturers Association covering the opera,tions of. 644 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Production and shipments for the week were respectively 3 and 5 per cent greater than the week before and exceeded all weeks since November, 1931. Orders totaled 2r8r792rOOO feett shipments were 189r89!r(XX) feet, and production 1461010,000 feet.

The West Coast Lumberments Association reports that the volume of new business continues unusually high and more than 50 per cent greater than production. Small stocks and low production with active buying are forcing pdce increases in all markets.

New business reported for the week ended June !l by fSO mills is lllrggtrSt0 feet against a production of 7411371558 feet and shipments of 88,370,179 f.eet. Shipments werc 19.77 pet cent over production, and cunent sales were 51.39 per cent over production. Orderc booked by this group of mills during the week were less

tr E64,7E5 feet.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended June 3 reported orders from 100 mills as 4f,r5Tr0{il0 feet; shipments tsrt0rrffiO feet, and production 26r63lrffiO feet.,- Otders were 51.54 per cent over production and 14.72 per cent above shipments. Shipments wete 32.56 per cent over production.

The Vestern Pine Association for the same week reported orders ftom 123 mills as 49r7O4rOOO feet; shipments 45r301r0fi) feet, and production 3619581000 feet. Orders werc 34.4 pet cent over production and 9.7 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 22.5 per cent over production

239 hardwood mills give new business for the week ended June 3 at 3Or34Or@0 feet, or 126 per cent over production, and shipments 27rt60r0{Ji0 feet, or 104 per cent over production. Production was 13,439,O(X) feet.

The California market continues very strong. Fir cargo prices made another advance on June 12 and, considerable buying is

reported at the new price levels. The market is still very active although bulng is not quite as bdsL ac bcfore the lart price advance. The cargo mills have big order files and meny of the big cargo shippers have withdrawn from the madcet.

Fir rail prices have also advanced and buying ic very tight as practically all the mills making rail shipments into Califomia have withdrawn prices both on general and special itemc.

The Pine and Redwood markets are strong. A price advance on California White Pine went into elfect this we€lt. Sugar Pine prices are also strengthening. The Pine and Redwood demand is good.

California retailers report that the conaumer demand is showing continued improvement.

Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro are gradu. ally decreasing; on lune 7 unsold stocks here totalled 2rg26rgc/0 feet as compared to 31199,000 feet the previous week. Cargo arrivals at this port for the week ended June 3 amounted to 8,689,(X)O feet which included lO cargoes of Fir carrying 7p&rfi)O feet and 3 cargoes of Redwood with 1,407rflD feet; cargo arrivals t{re previous *".: .t.O lt,279,OOO f,eer.

Building activity in California is definitely on t{re increaee and indications are that this improvement will continue through the remainder of the year.

May construction in Loc Angeles totaled $114151742 arrd shorved a gain of $241,7O3 over May, 1932, which was the firEt time in nearly two and one-half years that the building pcmits for any single month exceeded the valuation of any conrparable month in the previous year. Homes featured the May construc. tion in Los Angeles with 194 homes started with a valuation of $5t5,6OO. Los Angeles' building permits for the first nine days of June, 193t, totaled f799,t52 which is far ahead of the carne period during the previous month, May.

Building permits issued in San Francicco during the month of May totaled $3211821222, greater than the total for any previous month in the city's history. The largest item was {ttr62,Er5,40, covering San Franciscots allocation of permits for worl on dre Golden Gate and San Ftancisco Bay bridges. A total of 977 permits were issued dudng the month.

Two-Boord buyer of todoy fs

THE H(|ME BUITDER

o o and the way to make sure he will be loar a$tomer when he buys that house bill is to sell him \treyerhaeuscr

4-SQUARE for his little jobs now.

Selling 4-SQUARE is no hard task today. Even the two-boerd buycr appreciates this improved, guaranteed, trademarked lumber now that its extra values are sold at no extra cost

And you can sell 4-SQUARE to et)er! customer for eoerl sr;lftwood use because the 4-SQUARE Line is now complete, in all the usual items, from No.4 boards to the top.

Made, priced and merchandised to get the business available today, 4-$QUARE qualifies to go out on every job, to sample your entire trade, and to line up the big, imponant, profitable business of tomorow for the authorized 4-SQUARE Dcaler.

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V.gabond Editorials

Bv Jock Dionne

Never in the history of this country have the buildings been in such run-down condition as they are today. That means repairs"

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Never in history has there been as great need for paint on buildings and structures of every sort, as there is today. The next couple of years is going to witness an orgy of painting.

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The retail lumber industry can prepare itself to respond to this unrivalled opportunity to do the repairing and repainting business of the country in tremendous volume.

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Just the needed repairing, re-fixing, remodeling, and repainting that is vitally needed everywhere in this land, if it could be financed and developed, would mean an active and prosperous business for the next year or so, even if new building was r""r"".*

Hang up the good old sign over the lumber yard door"A board and a nail and a can of paint, Make many a place look new that ain't."

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And it would be well to keep in the front of your head the fact-

That towns are built of houses, you know And houses are built of wood; And the man who will see that both are built well, Is doing a work that's good.

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We might go rhyming on and remark thatThere ne'er was a time in the annals of rnan

When repairs were as needed as now, But the dealers efficient Can furnish sufficient By putting their hands to the plow. ***

For-don't you see-

The bird has his nest and the fox has his hole

And cattle can stand under sheds, But the children of man Are in luck if they can

Find a sheltering roof for their heads. ***

Since under the new Federal securities regulation Act fines and jail sentences are possible for the bonding and investment house that gets too enthusiastic in its advertising,

there will naturally arise a new kind.of advertising man, the combination lawyer and ad writer. Every agency handling investment advertising will need one.

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What an ideal combination! The legal phraseology that makes for safety on the one hand, and the publicity redundancy and enthusiasm that rnakes for sales pressure on the other. Truly, there is nothing new under the sun ! ***

I see one great benefit that may come from the new securities regulation bill that Congress has passed. The Federal Trade Commission is made the arbiter of this law. This may keep them so busy that they wo,tr't be able to dig into the botanical and trade names of commercial woods for a while, which would help some. Although they lost their five year contention regarding what woods may be called mahogany, and about the designation of some of our pines, f've been worrying about cottonwood. Of course I know the manufacturers of this wood do not claim it is a competitor of our Southern cotton, but I,m not sure tfie F. T. C. knows it.

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And now Mr. Ickes wants to investigate the cement industry and at the same time Mr. McAdoo wants the oil industry looked over. And all the while their boss man is trying to give both these industries and all other harassed industry a chance to operate on a living basis to the end that they may put men back to work in honorable employment and thus create an irreplaceablb foundation for prosperity. Looks to me like the big man is going to have to call in the little men and explain to them just what it's all about. They don't seem to understand. Of course they found Mr. McAdoo on the Morgan list; but what Mr. Ickes is trying to set a back-fire for does not yet appear.

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The fact that aluminum kegs with glass lining are being offered-and used-for beer, as substitutes for the good old white oak kegs, shows how very much the substitute boys are going to be on the job from now on. But {fiat ain't nuthin'. The first week in April an oil refinery man told me he had loaned a lot of used gasoline drums-metal of couse-to a brewer to be used as beer containers until he could get real kegs. Wonder how the contained in that container tasted?

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Absolutely no telling what this enthusiastic beer-seeking nation DID drink the first few weeks of the beer era. Not

only was it packed and shipped in any sort of containers, but the Lord only knows what they packed and shipped. Naturally the entire supply of near-beer was doctored in some fashion and foisted upon a thirsty and unsuspecting world. But that is gone by this tirne, and the brewers have had time to really make something akin to old-fashioned beer, and get decent containers to store and ship it in, and the chances are that a present day beer drinker may get something like what he expects. Soon, anyway. But I shudder to think what HAS been swallowed since April first. One man said to the other, "What do you drink?" And the answer was, "Sometimes I often wonder." He reallY sHouLD'

Mind you this is NOT offered as an editorial criticism of bringing beer back. Not at all. When Mr. John Citiz€l says-"I want beer," I say, "Give him beer." And the innovation HAS made lots of fun, and awakened lots of interest, and put a lot of money into circulation, and put a lot of men to work, and put a lot of tax money in Governmental cofrers. All of which are constructive things. And, if it will take the place of the rot-gut, murder-making, brain-killing "licker" of the bootleg regime, I'm for itstrong'

And, as an interested by-stander, I get a lot of "kick" out of watching the show. Naturally, there is a lot of farce about the fight over beer. Frequently I read where some enthusiast quotes the Bible to prove that intoxicants were approved by Scripture. They turn to that dear old mis-

used, misunderstood Bible to prove everything. SURE the Bible recognizes the use of intoxicants. It likewise lays down the laws for human slavery; and for polygamy; and for many other things you would go to jail for if practiced today. Abraham, the sainted seer; David, from whom Jesus was descended; and many others of the good rnen of the Bible kept their vyomen besides their wives. And the Lord turned Miriam, the sister of Moses, into a leper because she objected to Moses marrying a colored lady (12th Chapter of Numbers). Yet we would put him in the pen if he did it in Texas today. You can prove a lot of strange things by Biblical quotations.

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But, speaking of substitutes, millions of fiber containers for beer bottles have already been used. In fact, that's about the only kind of beer bottle container to be seen, anywhere. Coca Cola has long since taken the fiber package route. Looks like loyal lumber folks are going to have to stick to old fashioned pop. They still use wooden cases for THAT.

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Taxes, taxes, everywhere ! It's a strange world, my masters ! Every man, every businqss, is bowed down with the weight of the taxes we are now bearing. Yet we are told-and provably in most cases-that we can find no royal road out of the troubles in which we presently find ourselves without paying a new toll for that road-in taxes. Our most substantial hope is that, when this frenzied era has passed into history, and we arrive once again

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at a flat place on the highway where it seems safe to say"Things are normal again"-ws will unite our most intelligent and vigorous efforts to securing tax reductions; steady, continuous tax reductions. For mad taxation threatens our very existence, my masters ! It will require concentrated intelligence when times react again to destroy this hydra-headed rnonster-abnormal, unwise, vicious taxation.

A wild orgy of gouurrrrnlr,,"r r*,r, has bradded upon the wrists and ankles of this entire nation shackles of taxation that will require decades to eliminate. Right now, apparently, we must increase them. But let us hold in the forefront of our thought, to be started into effectiveness the moment conditions justify, the determination to cast off these manacles, and become free again. May Providence send some wise and strong emancipator to lead the nation's thinking in this' direction ! When the American farmer arrives at the point where every time he sells four pigs he pays one of them to the Government for taxes-the

time for crying a halt has manifestly arrived. There is nothing ure can do about it at this moment. \ille are now trying to find our way out of the labyrinth of depression. Apparently we must pay our way out-in taxes. For the moment we are shackled. But the future is ours. Let us pray that we use it wisely. **

Personally I've always been a strong advocate of a sales tax. It seems to me the most just and painless form of collecting needed revenue. As an example of how painlessly it works, consider the gasoline tax. The average person never realizes when he buys gasoline what a huge tax bill he has just paid. He pays it painlessly. And generally and in many states the gasoline tax amounts to from 100% to 300% of. the wholesale price of the commodity itself. We pay that without squealing; and then when someone proposes a 2To tax on general sales, we scream to high heaven. We could put on a conservative sales tax, balance our budget, and none of us be particularly conscious that we have paid a tax. It works that way.

C. H. Griffen Retires From So. California Retailers' Picnic Lumber Business

The Barr Lumber Co. of Santa Ana has purchased the C. H. Griffen Lumber Co. yard at Artesia, Calif., and will operate the yard under their own name.

Mr. Griffen, who has been associated with the lumber business in Southern California for many years, is retiring from business. He lvas connected with the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co. for many years, and when the Patien-Davies Lumber Co. acquired their interests in 1918, he established the C. H. Griffen Lumber Co. at Artesia.

While his flag has been hauled down, Mr. Griffen will afiectionately remain in the hearts of the old time lumber fraternity of Southern California, u'ho hal'e known him since the early days of this century when he rvas connected with the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber Co. Always a friendly, loyal and upright man, he will be missed from the industry.

WHOLESALE ASSOCIATION GETS NEW MEMBERS

Three more lumber companies have recently joined the California Wholesale I umber Association. These are as follows: Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., of Montesano, Wash., and Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles; Wilson Bros. & Co., Russ Building, San Francisco, and 480O W. Pi,co Street, Los Angeles, and Trower Lumber Co., 110 Market Street, San Francisco.

June 24

Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, Chairman of the Arrangements Committee for the California Retail Lumbermen's Association picnic, Southern Division, that will be held at Brookside Park, Section A, Pasadena, Calif., Saturday afternoon, Jane 24,1933, announces that the comrnittee have arranged a fine program of games and sports' events for the afternoon.

There will be a baseball game between the Retail and Wholesale lumbermen. Other events include : tug-a-war; nail driving contest for ladies; fat men's race; running races for men, ladies and children, etc. Prizes will be ar,varde<i to the rvinners of the various events.

All lumbermen, including all branches of the industry, their families and friends are invited to attend. The picnic will start at 12 o'clock, noon. Ice cream and coffee will be free. Bring your own cups.

RETURNS FROM SOUTHERN TRIP

John C. McCabe, Andrew F. Mahoney Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from a trip to Southern California where he spent several days on company business matters and ,calling on the trade. He visited Los Angeles, Long Beach, Wilmington and San Pedro, Santa Ana, Solano Beach and San Diego.

Forsyth Hardwood Company's Yard Swept bv Ftre tVill be Rebuilt lmmediately

Practi,cally the entire hardwood stock of the Forsyth Hardwood Co., 1855 San Bruno Aven'ue, San Francisco, was destroyed when a spe,ctacular four-alarm fire, believed to have been the work of a firebug, swept through their yard on the night of May 31. Several other lumber yard fires started within a period of a few days are thought to have been set by the same incendiary.

P. R. "Bob" Kahn, manager of the Forsyth Hardr,vood Co., announces the plant will be rebuilt immediately, and refurnished complete up to its former capacity, and the company will continue to maintain its former policy of handling only the finest hardwoods obtainable.

The fire, discovered at 1l:30 p.m., was believed to have started in the sheds where the kiln-dried material was stored. Mr. Kahn was on the job very shortly after, and while the firemen were still working, started placing his first long distance calls at 4:30 a.m. to Eastern and Southern hardwood mills to purchase material to replenish stocks. New stocks to the extent of more than 1,000,000

feet have been purchased and several carloads of this have already arrived.

Forsyth Hardwood Co. carried in their well assorted stock about 32 varieties of foreign and domestic hardwoods, amounting to over 1,000,000 feet, and always specialized in the highest type of material.

Some items of valuable woods lost in the fire are absolutely irreplacable, that is, they cannot be bought in the open market. These include four-inch and thicker walnut, maple and birch, of extremely wide lvidths. The fire loss, however, was fully covered by insurance, and the work of rebuilding began without any delay, following prompt adjustment of the loss.

Many items of the stock are redeemable, Mr. Kahn says, and this partly burnt and w-ater damaged stock is being offered and freely sold at very attractive prices.

The plant of the Acme Manufacturing Co., 1845 San Bruno Avenue, adjoining the Forsyth yard was partiallv damaged by fire and water.

In spite of the severe fire loss, damaging our entire stock, we are rebuilding immediately.

New, clean, stocks to the extent of over IrO00r00O feet have been purchased at low prices. Some of this lumber is already on hand, and cars are arriving daily.

SENID US TOUn TNQUIRTES

We are offering partly burnt anil waler-damageil stocft at bargain prices.

Generaf Johnson Approves Lumber's Plan of Industry Controf Organization

Prospective Administrator of Industries Recovery Act States General Administrative Position---National Association of Manufacturers Adopts Lumber Code and Administrotive Set-up as Models for All Groups---Principal Provisions

Washington, June 6.-In accordance with the recommendation of the conference of lumber and timber products industries at Chicago, May 24 and 25, the Executive Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association arranged a conference with Gen, Hugh S. Johnson, prospective administrator of the Industry Recovery Act.

In this conference Gen. Johnson expressed his approval of the plan of organization of the lumber industry in coordination with the administration of the act. The tentative outline of code of fair competition submitted by the Executive Committee was stated to be in line with Gen. Johnson's ideas on the subject because under it no minority within the industry or within any division of it is shut out of an equal opportunity to participate in the formulation of the code.

The Adminstration desires that the submitted codes be based on limitation of the work day, coupled with limitation of the work week or month and minimum wages; together with such provisions regarding production and minimum prices as may be necessary to make the proposed provisions effective. The general position of the Administration seems to be that at the beginning the code should not include other matters that do not have a substantial bearing upon the enforcement of provisions regardinC (1) hours, (2) minimum wages, (3) production and (4) minimum prices. As the Administration proceeds with its work other features of the codes will be adopted.

Protection Against "Chiseling"

It was made clear at the conference that whereas the minority group in any industry must be protected, there must also be protection of majorities against minority "chiseling" after the code has been approved. It will probably be up to the industry through the Emergency Central Committee to devise the most practical and effective way of preventing any devious evasion of responsibility of performance under the provisions of the code and the Administration will back it up.

At the Emergency Meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers held here on June 3, a booklet was distributed containing a model code of fair competition for the guidance of organizations planning to cooperate with the Industry Control administration. The form and virtually the entire wording of this draft are those of the lumber industry tentative outline of code and is so accredited. The "model plan" of organization drafted is precisely the plan adopted by the Lumber Conference in Chicago week before last. That plan starts with a National Control Committee of five, which is the contact with the Administration of the act, with similar committees from other building material industries, and with an Emergency Central Committee of

twenty members representing the timber products industries. The last named committee has contacts with committees representing wholesale distributors, retail distributors, and exporters. The Emergency Central Committee is also the medium through which the Executive Committee of the various regional or divisional associations or groups of lumber manufacturers make their contacts with the National Control Committee. Each division or regional Executive Committee deals for and with its group on hours and wages, production, prices, and enforcement provisions.

Principal Code Provisions

The principal provisions of the outline code either as required by the bill or proposed by the Committee are in substance as follows:

1. Employes have the right to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, but no employe shall be required to join or to refrain from joining a labor organization.

2. Employers agree to comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay and other working condi. tions prescribed by the Administration.

3. Ifours of labor, to be specified as later developed.

4. Minimum wages shall be as specified in a scale to be adopted and revised from time to time.

5. Each established division of the set-up is to undertake at once the formulation of standards in respect to hours of labor, minimum wages and other working conditions. These standards are to be submitted to the Emergency National Committee of the Lumber Industry and upon adoption shall be binding upon all concerned.

6. The Emergency National Committee of the Lumber Industry, co-operating with the Timber Conservation Board, is to determine and revise estimates of expected lumber consumption and derive therefrom quotas for each division, which divisional quotas are to be distributed within the division.

7. Each division is to establish and revise a scale of minimum prices for the various classifications of logs, lumber and timber products. This scale of prices shall govern upon adoption by the Emergency National Committee. In connection with prices it is declared to be unfair to offer for sale non-standard grades, sizes, dimensions or classifications of logs, lumber and timber products for the purpose of evading price regulation.

8. Distribution is governed, except as otherwise provided, by the National Code of Trade Practices and National Sales Policy.

9. Manufacturers mav not sell to wholesaler or other

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10. Each manufacturer is required to furnish to his divisional organization a weekly report of production, orders and shipments, monthly reports on stocks, employment and costs and a daily report on accepted orders shorving f.o.b. mill prices and destination.

11. Voluntary agreements witl-rin the groups or organizations are not to be in conflict with the provisions of the code.

12. The outline code is not designed to promote monopolies, and its provisions shall not be so interpretecl or administered as to eliminate or oPpress small enterprises or discriminate against them.

Earl Galbraith Back in Lumber Business

Earl Galbraith is back in the lumber business and is now sales manager of the }layrvard Lumber & Investment Company with headquarters at their Los Angeles office. For the past six years he was sales manager of the Schumacher Wall Board Corp. He has been associated with the lumber business in Southern California for a long periocl and before joining the Schumacher'organization was sales manager for the lfammond Lumber Company of Los Angeles.

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Redwood Industry Adopts Fair

Competition Code

Meetings of representatives of the California RBdwood industry were held recently in San Francisco for the purpose of formulating and adopting a code of fair competition, in order to place themselves in a position to take advantage of the National Industry Recovery Act recently passed by Congress.

As 95 per ,cent of the total cut of Redwood lumber is produced by mills with membership in the California Redwood Association, the meetings were sponsored by the Association, and rvere presided over by Leonard C. Hammond, the Association's president. Details of the code were worked out by a committee appointed for this purpose.

The code will be presented by representatives of the industry to the Emergency National Committee of the lumber industry at the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association to be held in Chicago, June 20'

Pine lndustry Formulates Code at Portland Mecting

Formulation of a code of fair trade practices that will fit into the National Industry Recovery Act recently passed by Congress was undertaken by representatives of the Pine lumber industry at a meeting of the \Mestern Pine Association held in Portland, Ore., May 31 and June 1.

More than 100 Pine logging and mill operators from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and California attended the meeting. In addition to these states the code will also apply to the Pine industry in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and South Dakota, and it will also be submitted to operators of Minnesota for optional adoption.

R. R. Macartney, president of the'Western Pine Association, presided.

The code will be submitted by representatives of the industry to the Emergency National Committee of the lumber industry at the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, to be held in Chicago, June 2O.

HOWARD C. CLARK VISITS SOUTHLAND

MY FAVORITE

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Reaf Asker

I heard this story told the other day to illustrate the difference between the methods employed by Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt.

They are as different in their methods as the old and new preachers in the colored church. The old preacher was gone, and the new preacher had come to take his place, and preached his first Sunday sermon.

The Deacon's wife did not attend service that Sunday

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but the Deacon did, and when he returned home she irnmediately wanted to know what kind of a preacher the new parson was.

"Lady," said the Deacon, .,dass de mos' rematkable preachah Ah evah listens to in all mah life. yes ma'am. He done preached a mos' pow'ful suhmon. yes ma'am. Dat preachah ackchally axed de Lawd fo' a whole lot o' things dat ole preachah nevah even knowed de Lawd had."

Gov"tnor Signs Mortgage Australia Steady Customer Reluf Bill for Redwood

Senate Bill No. 7, introduced by Senators J. W. McKinley of Los Angeles, N. T. Edrvards of Orange and Walter Duval of Santa Paula, making changes in the law regulat- ing mortgages and deeds of trust, rvas signed by CnOvernor R'olph on June 2.

Under the new larv the difierence betr,veen the appraised market value and the amount of the debt rather than the differen.ce between the amount obtained at the foreclosure sale and the debt is made the maximum amount of available deficien'cy.

No deficiency judgment can be given on a purchase money trust deed or mortgage on real estate.

"This should remedy the situation which arises when a man makes a great number of payments on a home and thereafter is unable to keep up the payments. This prevents the creditor from buying the property at bargain rates and suing the debtor for the difference," Governor Rolph explained.

The law specifies no deficien,cy judgment can be given if the sale takes place between the date the law takes efiect and September 1, 1935, unless notice of default is posted a year prior to the sale. This, in effect, lneans that the debtor cannot be held personally liable for any deficiency unless he has been given a year in rvhich to raise the money.

Notice of trust deeds must be recorded in every ,county in whi'ch any of the property is located and notice of default and of sale must be mailed to every person who records a request for such notice. This is to eliminate the danger of a man's property being sold without his knowledge.

The debtor is given an option at anv time the sale or court foreclosure to wipe out the default and reinstate the instrument as though he had made all his payments on time.

The new law, the Governor stated, "should benefit debtladen farm and home owners."

More than 1,000,000 feet of Rbdwood in two shipments left Humboldt Bay for Australia in the early part of this month. The steamer Boren sailed June 7 with a little over 500,000 feet, and the steamer Golden Coast sailed June 9 with a cargo of 500,000 feet. This lumber was shipped by the various member mills of the Redwood Export CL., San Francisco.

As noted in a recent issue a direct mill shipment to Australia of 500,000 feet of Redwood was made by Union Lumber Co. on the steamer Golden Harvest from Noyo Harbor, April 27.

Frequent shipments of this size have been made to Australia by the Redwood mills since the first of the year. through the Redwood Export Co.

Takes Charge of S. F. Office

Miland R. Grant, Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, has succeeded his brother, Robert S. Grant, as San Francisco representative of the ,company, with office at lI2 Market St.

Erecting Ne* Office Building

The Dinuba Lumber Co., Dinuba, Calif., is constructing a new office building which will also include their new hardware and paint department. The building will be 24 feet by 70 feet and will be an all-frame structure with 1x6 Redwood rustic sidewalls. The building will be insulated with Celotex. When completed the company will have an attractive and modern office building. Walter Hardwick is manager of the Dinuba Lumber Co.

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Southern Pine lndustry Adopts M.y Building Permits Show

Fair Trade Practice Code lncrease

New Orleans, La., June 8, I93}-Unanimous acceptance, in a tentative way, of the provisions of a code of fair trade practice prepared by the Southern Pine Association for the Southern Pine industry, in compliance with provisions of the pending Industrial Recovery Act, was given by more than 300 Southern Pine lumber manufacturers at a meeting held at the Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, on Wednesday, June 7. That the approval of this c,ode represented the voice of the entire Southern Pine produ'cing region is evidenced by the fact that manufacturers from every Southern Pine producing state, from Virginia to Texas, were in attendance, and participated freely in the dis,cussions on the subject.

Specific provisions as to minimtim wages, hours of labor and prices of products, however, were reserved for the Association's board of directors to decide upon, after recommendations have been made by representative committees to be appointed on each subje,ct ancl after negotiations with other divisions of the lumber industry.

The Code of Fair Competition for the Lnrnber Industry, adopted at a recent meeting of lumbermen from all sections of the country, was also ratified in principle.

The authority to appoint delegates to the national lumber conference to be held in Chicago shortly, rvas given to President L. O. Crosby, as well as the porver to select a committee to administer the code and to work out its adjustment with the codes of other regions through the emergency national committee of manufacturers. The delegates to the national conference will include the Southern Pine manufacturers on the National Board of Directors.

The following resolution, adopted at a meeting of the Board of Directors and Southern Pine Steering Committee held on the 6th rvas unanimously ratified:

"At a meeting of the lloard of Directors of the Southern Pine Association, held at Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans. La., June 6, 1933, consideration lvas given to the provisions and requirements of the National Industrial Recovery Act now pelding in Congress, and to the adoption of codes of fair trade practices, and other action to be taken when, as and if said act shall become effective. The following action was taken or recommended, such action to be'come effective only to the extent that it may be authorized or required by the National Industrial Recovery Act and shall not be in ,conflict r.vith other State or Federal laws applicable thereto: '

"The board of directors of the Southern Pine Association recommends to the manufacturers of Southern Pine the ratification in principle of the National Code of Fair Trade Practices, and recommends that its delegates to the National Lumber Conference be instructed to work for the adoption of the same, after negotiation with other divisions of the lumber industry and after consideration of local problems affecting the Southern Pine industry. The board of directors also authorized the president of the Association to appoint delegates to the National Lumber Conference who will be truly representative of the industry, such delegation to inclucle the present members of the

Building permits in twenty-five leading Pacific Coast cities totaled $36,067,517 for the month of May, 1933, as compared to $4,422,347 in the previous month, April, and $4,877,231 in May, 1932, according to the monthly survey of S. W. Straus & Co.

This large in.crease was due in part to the issuance of permits for the .construction of the San Francisco Bay bridge and additional permits issued for the Golden Gate bridge. The survey states that 72 per cent of these cities showed gains in building permits over the month of April, and 68 per cent reported increases over May of last year, which rellects the general improvement throughout the Pacific Coast.

Eighteen among the twenty-five cities showed reported increases over the preceding month and seventeen cities showed gains over May,1932. Following are the comparative totals for May this year and last year:

Southern Pine Association who are on the board of directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

"The board of directors recommends to the manufacturers of Southern Pine the tentative acceptance of the provisions of the Southern Pine code as submitted to this meeting, except as to spe'cific provisions on hours of labor, wages, and prices, which should be first recommended by the con'rmittees that the board empowers the president to appoint to administer the code and to negotiate its adjustment with the codes of other regions, through the Emergencv National Committee."

LET US PRAY !

By Jack Dionne

Who are these eager, emotional gents Vho are shouting so loud and so strong, That the panic is over and if you have sense You'll buy, and you cannot go wrong?

Can they be the same who would splutter and choke And put the whole world on the pan; And swear that the nation would surely go broke-? They CAN-gentle reader-they CAN!

And who are these fellows whose faces all smile As prices go up in the air; And point with delight to their big order file And tell us-"Buy now, or beware!?"

Can they be the same birds who cried and gave way Their products for nothing per car?

And swore there was Hell, yes, and naught else to pay? They ARE-gentle reader-they ARE!

And who are these fellows who clamor so loud That Roosevelt has saved all our skin; And shatter our ear-drums proclaiming they'te proudThey voted for him to get in?

Can they be the dizzies who started right in To smother him over with blame; And shout that his stoutness of heart was a sin? The SAME-gentle 1gadg1-1h6 SAME!

And what shall we say of this wonderful thing That seems coming over the land? Will it stick? Vill it hold? Will it grab? Vill it cling? Will it save all our necks? Ain't it grand?

I merely will say in concluding my song f'm prayerfully watching the "dope"; And praying the Lord not to let us go wrongIet's HOPE-gentle reader-let's HOPE!

SUSPENSION OR CANTILEVER?

"Hello! Is this the bridge department?"

"Yes. What can we do for you?"

"How many points do you get for a little slam, vulnerable. and doubled?"

THE WILLOW

I know they call you "weeping willow tree," Yet I have seen your misty loveliness Reach out fair arms, and quiver joyously, To feel the moonbeam's touch of fond caress.

Shaken and rippled out by summer breeze, After a bath in sparkling raindrops there, Your slender leaves are tendrils of soft hairOf foating hair that crowns no other trees.

And still they say you weep, when I have seen You wave, and then draw close your lacy shawl, So that I glimpsed the red dawn's glow between Its silver mesh. So lithe, so curved, so tall, Your dew damp garments sway or firmly cling As though they robed pale nuns whose rosaries swing.

-Ida Norton Munson in "The Rotarian."

THE FARM

Every city man believes in his heart that if cornpelled to he could go back to the farm and make a living. He enjoys fooling himself with such a thought. No harm is done, though, so long as he doesn't actually try to make a living on a farm. Those people enjoy farms most, probably, who are not dependent on them for their livelihood.

Yet always the truth remains that the country offers the greatest security to the man of common-sense who will work hard and intelligently and who will be content with simple creature comforts. Somehow, those who live on the land and who plant and tend and reap, manage in some way to keep frorn starving. So the inStinctive longing for land may be Nature's way of showing her children the way to security.-Thomas

Dreier.

TEXAS IS A BIG STATE

Two natives met on the street in Brownsville, Texas, and this was the conversation that ensued.

"Mornin', Jim."

"Mornin', Joe."

"Where have you been lately?"

"I been up North on a visit."

"Where did you go?"

"f went to Dallas."

"Have a good time?"

"Naw. I just canlt get used to them damn Yankees."

OUR FUTURE

There is genius enough in America to evolve and to execute political and economic policies that will give us a future that will, in point of rnaterial well being and social enrichment, far outstrip the very real, if very spotty, prosperity of the past decade. If America does not realize this finer and more fruitful future and begin her realization of it with decent promptness, it will not be because the cards of destiny are stacked against us. They are not. Every card in the deck is in our hands. It is a matter of playing them expertly.-Glenn Frank.

FAST

Lawyer-"What did you say when you saw that the automobile and train were about to collide?"

Watchman-"I said 'That IS a fine car WASN'T it?"'

THE LIBERTY TREE

The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.-Thomas Jefferson.

DEMAGOGUES

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, and leagues and registers may be very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.-Disraeli.

Public Shows lntercst Tribute Paid to Indian Service

Hardwood Display Forester

A joint permanent exhibit of the various kinds of hardrvood in a prominent place in each large city would be a good investment for the local hardwood dealers, judging by the great interest being shown by the public in an exhibit of hardwoods in the window of the main office of the Pacific States Savings & Loan Company at 745 Market Street, San Francisco.

This exhibit is made possible through the courtesy of the Davis Hardwood Company, of 350 Bay Street, San Francis'co. Hardwood samples shown include white oak, Tennessee Cedar, maple, hickory, ash, quartered figured gum, and quartered oak, all United States woods; English holly wood, Philippine norra, Philippine camagon, Australian ironbark, Siam teak, Dutch East Indies ebony, and Chinese birch.

Veneers shown include Black walnut crotch, quarter sawed figured gum, quarter sawed oak, American walnut, Oriental walnut from New Zealand, Hawaiian koa, Philippine avodino, Central American stripe mahogany and Australian blackwood.

Large Douglas Fir panels and samples of fu-inch Fir plywood are also exhibited.

Special interest seemed to be taken in two policemen's nightsticks in the 'center of the display. One of these is made of balsa wood and the other of lignum vitae, the lightest and heaviest woods known. The first weighs one ounce and the other 14 ounces.

Also featured in this window is a display of balsa wood, contributed by Ramon de Ycaza, 461 Market Street, San Francisco. Balsa wood on the average weighs from six to nine pounds per cubic foot, but some weighs as little as two pounds a cubic foot. Balsa trees grow to 12 inches diameter in three years' and reach three feet in diameter rvhen full grown. The wood is largely used in making motion pictures, as it is entirely free from echoes and vibrations.

Washington, May 27.-lay P. Kinney, Director of Forestry in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, was accorded the almost unique honor of re-election as chairman of the Washington Section of the Society of American Foresters, at the monthly meeting at the Cosmos Club, Thursday evening. William Dayton was elected secretary-treasurer and E. A' Fivaz of the Agricultural Department was chosen vice-chairman.

In nominating Mr. Kinney for re-election, L. F. Kneipp, Assistant forester, U. S. Forest Service, said:

In selecting a man to be head of our Section, I assume that the qualities we would most desire him to possess would be vision, idealism, intelligence and 'courage. The vision to see the full potentialities of forestry for social service; the idealism to desire to attain through the forests the greatest possible contribution to human happiness and progress; the intelligence to plan creatively and constructively, to translate his vision and i<ieals into realities' and the courage to go forward toward his objective despite all obstacles and difiiculties that beset his path.

It was brought out in other remarks that Mr' Kinney has been in the servi'ce of the Department of the Interior for 27 yearc, of which 23 have been in the work of its Indian Forest Service. He was graduated from Cornell in 1902 and later received its degree of Master of Forestry and that of Bachelor of Laws frcm the National University in Washington. Kinney is the author of the only books published on American forest law,viz., "Development of Forest Law in America", and "Elements of American Timber Law"; he is the author of many forestry articles in forestry and popular magazines.

Tribute was paid to IVIr. Kinney's progressive administration of the Indian forests as at once practical and'constructive, combining conservation with maximum utility'

LUMBERMEN'S PICNIC

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ASSOGIATION

BROOKSIDE PARK-SecIionA-PASADENA, CALIF.

PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE ALL KINDS OF GAMES AND SPORTS

Baseball - Tug-of-War - Fat Men's Race - l,adies' Nail Driving Contest

Rinning Races for Men, Ladies and Children, etc.

Excellent Prizes

Ice Cream and coffee Free (Bring Your Own Cups)

All Lumbermen, including all branches of the industry, their families and ' triends are invited to attend

California Building Permits for M.y

Governor Signs Bill Regulating BuildingConstruction to Resist Earthquakes

Assembly Bill No. 2391, rvhich specifies archite,ctural requirements in building construction to resist horizontal stresses which forces rvere largely responsible for the damage and destruction of many buildings during the recent earthquake in Southern California, was signed by Governor Rolph on May 27. The bill was introduced by Assemblyman If. B. \iley of Long Beach. It has been estimated that the added cost to conform to the new law will vary from 5 to 10 per ,cent in the ordinary well constructed building. The text of the larv follorvs:

An act to regulate the construction of buildings in the State of California, in respect to resistan,ce to horizontal forces, providing penalties for the violation thereof and providing that this act become effective immediately.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

Section 1. Every building of any .character and every part thereof rvhich is hereafter constructed in any part of the State of California, including every inc,orporated city, incorporated citl' and county, and county, except such buildings as are hereinafter expressly excepted from the operation of this a,ct, shall be designed and constructed to resist and withstand horizontal forces from any direction of not less than either trvo (2) per cent of the total vertical design load or twenty (20) pounds per square foot wind pressure on the vertical projection of the exposed surface, the horizontal force used to be the one that produces the greater stresses in the building.

Section 2. For the purpose of computing the resistance of any building of such horizontal forces as required by section t hereof, the computed stresses resulting from the combined vertical forces and horizontal forces shall not exceed one and one-third (1 l/3) times the allowable working stresses as hereinafter provided.

Section 3. For the purposes of this a,ct, allowable working stresses shall be those specified in the ordinances governing the erection and construction of buildings in the city or city and 'county in which the building is to be constructed or if in unin.corporated territory then of the county wherein the work is done.

If no such ordinance is in effect at the place at tuhich the work is done then the allowable working stresses shall be those specified by the Division of Architecture of the State Department of Public Works, rvhich is hereby fully authorized and empowered to specify such allowable rvorking stresses for the purposes of this act as to any city, city and county, or ,county in which no such ordinance is in effect.

Section 4. This act shall not apply to the following buildings:

(") Any building not intended primarily for occupancy by human beings and no part of whi,ch is located within the limits of an incorporated city or incorporated city and countv.

(b) ,\ny building designed and constructed for use ex. clusively as a dwelling for not more than two families and no part of which is located within the limits of an incorporated city or incorporated city and county.

(.) Any building on which work has actually been commenced prior to the effe,ctive date of this act.

Section 5. Any person who constru,cts a building not meeting the requirements of section I of this act and not excepted under section 4 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Section 6. It shall be the duty of the building department of every in,corporated city, and incorporated city and county, to enforce all of the provisions of this act. In every county it shall be the duty of the department, officer or officers who are charged with the enforcement of ordinan'ces or laws regulating the erection, construction or alteration of buildings in said county to enforce all of the provisions of this act outside of the limits of any incorporated city.

For the purposes of this act the term ,,building department" shall mean the department, bureau, or officer charged with the enforcement of laws or ordinances regulating the erection, construction or alteration of buildings.

Every incorporated city, or ,city and county, and county in the State of California shall have and is hereby empowered and given authority to designate and charge by ordinance any other department or offi,cer than the department or officer mentioned herein with the enforcement of this act or any portion thereof.

Section 7. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed as a limitation on the powers of incorporated cities, cities and counties and counties to establish by ordinance further standards for the construction of buildings beyond the requirement of this act.

Se'ction 8. This act is hereby declared to be an urgency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace hereof and safety within the meaning of section I of Article IV of the Constitution and shall therefore go into immediate effect.

Joins McCormick's Sales Staff

William Schorse has joined the Los Angeles, sales staff of the Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Co. and is calling on the retail lumber trade in Orange County, the .,Kite,' territory, and Long Beach, Pasadena and Glendale districts.

Mr. Schorse has been connected with the McCormick organization for the past several years, and before taking over his new duties, was assistant superintendent at the company's operations at Wilmington, Calif. prior to that he was at the ,company's mills in the Northwest. He is a graduate of the University of Syracuse School of Forestry.

Plywood Firm Opens Office

Lloyd Harris

Elliott Bay Mill Co., Seattle, Wash., manufacturers of "Big Timber" brand Fir plywood and plywood wallboard, has established the Elliott Bay Sales Co. as their California sales agent, with offices at 1924 Broadway, Oakland.

The office is in charge of Lloyd Harris, well known lumber salesman, who was for many years associated with Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco, as sales representative, and who recently resigned his position with that company.

Mr. Harris has a large acquaintance with the lumber dealers all over California, and has already started calling on the trade.

C. E. Wllliams

Charles E. Williams, prominent Southern California retail lumber dealer, died at his home at Azusa, Calif., Tuesday, May 30. His death was due to pneumonia' Ife was 53 years of age and a native of Iowa.

Mr. Williams came to California eleven years ago. He was the owner of the C. E. Williams Lumber Co. retail lumber yards at Azusa and Wilmar. He also took an a'ctive part in civic affairs at Azusa and at the time of his death was a member of the City Council.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Carrie G. Williams; a son, Charles E. Jr., who was associated with his father in the lumber business and manager of the company's yard at Wilmar, and a daughter, Mrs. Fay W. Rodecker, of Azusa. Funeral services were held at Azusa, Thursday afternoon, June 1.

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Half of Arkansas Wage-Earners

Arc in Sawmills

About one-half (48.7 per cent in 1929) of. all the wageearners in manufacturing industries in Arkansas are employed in sawmill and logging operations; 45 per cent of all wages paid in the state go to these employees, and 28 per cent of the total value of products of manufacturing industries is reported by this (lumber and timber products) industry, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Associatiorl.

In the year 1909, Arkansas reported its largest lumber cut of 2,111,300,000 f.eet; lX)7 and 1913 were also peak years. Lumber production in l9D was 1,348,318,000 feet, reported by 796 mills ; in 1930, 869,379,W feet reported by 600 mills, seven of which cut between 25,000,000 and 50,000,000 feet each; 37 between 5,000,000 and 25,000,000 feet each; 69 between 1,000,000 and 5,00O,000 feet each; 487 less than 1,000,000 feet each.

Of the softwood production in 1930 of 569,684,000 feet, Southern pine claimed 533,752f/U]_ feet, and ,cypress 35,932,000 feet. The hardwood cut ol N,695,W feet was made up principally of 776,228,AN feet of oak; 66,213,000 feet of gum; 13,863,000 feet of cottonwood, and 12,494,W feet of ash.

The second industry of Arkansas after lumber and timber products in number of wage-earners and wages paid is car construction and repair. Other important wood-using industries in the state are planing mill produ'cts, furniture and boxes and crates.

About one-fourth of the retail distribution of lumber in Arkansas is within the state; approximately 35 per cent goes to the four states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio; about 6 per cent to Pennsylvania and New York; 9 per cent to Missouri; 9 per cent to Texas and Oklahoma.

Of total lumber sales by Arkansas mills in t929, the Census Bureau reports more than 47 per cent to wholesalers and commission houses, 23 per cent to manufa'cturers, 16 per cent to retailers and 14 per cent to all others, including 7.2 per cent interplant transfers and 3.6 per cent, local sales.

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Strange Tale of Amenphophed Orban-Crowell

Amenphophed, august ruler, dwelt in Egypt long ago, And his mode and rate of living were, they tell me, far from slow.

On life's stage for years he strutted in exultant pomp and pride,

Then, like anycommon person, Amenphophed up and died. Charon rowed his haughty spirit swiftly o'er the river Styx; On his body, taxidermists turned some very clever tricks. Then for centuries he slumbered in a crypt beside the Nile, And the pyramid above him, was a huge imposing pile. In due time came rude explorers, searching for Rosetti stones.

Cuneiform inscriptions, paplrus, sacred cows and holy bones.

In old Amenphophed's chamber, they "Sacrilege !" The natives shouted, afraid.

When they found the royal mummy, "now here's a thing,

Miss Elizabeth Crowell, daughter of William C. Crowell, of Oak Grove, Pasadena, became the bride of Paul Orban, son of the late Peter Orban and Mrs. M. J. Backenstoe, of Pasadena, Wednesday noon, May 31, 1933. The ceremony took place in the garden of Mr. Crowell's residence, and the rvedding breakfast was served immediately following the ceremony.

Mr. and Mrs. Orban left on the S. S. Mariposa that afternoon for Honolulu where they will spend their honeymoon. On their return they will make their home in Pasadena. Mr. Orban operates the Orban Lumber Co. at Pasadena.

Ed. Culnan Resigns

E. B. (Ed) Culnan has resigned as vice president and " cried they, general manager of the Western Lumber Company, San Diego. He has returned to Los Angeles where he intends

We'll be rich when we have sold by the Black Cat, to get into the wholesale lumber business. he's a king !"

Then they dragged poor Amenphophed forth the light

of day,

Heeding not his lrozen aspect and forbidding air, they say. Forth they dragged his Hathor couches, easy chairs and carven throne,

Do-dads that a regal monarch needs who takes a trip alone. Hearts beat fast and voices trembled as they gazed upon the prize, Avaricious lights gleamed brightly in their wonder widened eyes.

First a German baron bought him for Rhone, Whereat Amen, don't repeat this, made moan.

a murky tunnel made; but adventurers aren't his castle on the a sharp protesting

Then a Frenchman wished to lease him, charmed by dry, insensate clay; But the bargain was not final, for the Frenchman would not pay.

Amenphophed went to England-to a show place in the strand,

Where wiseacres ,came stand.

Soon a rich Americano Advertised him, made see.

to view him and in awe about him

bought and shipped him o'er the sea, fiesta. bade his world to come and

And it did come, never doubt it, fetching uncles, aunts and nieces.

Amenphophed could not stand it-in the night he went to pieces.

Cerements were ripped asunder, atoms tore themselves in two, Hot electrons let go madly; Amen vanished from our view. There was nothing left next morning save a little pile of dust.

Which the experts said resembled residue of iron rust. Oh, of course there was excitement-great detectives sought for clues

And for weeks old Amen figured as head liner in the news.

VISITS NORTHWEST AND LOS ANGELES

Walter J. Mulligan, president of W. J. Mulligan & Co., San Francisco, returned June 5 from spending a week in the Northwest visiting sawmills on Puget Sound and Grays Harbor which his company represents in the export and California trade. Following this trip Mr. Mulligan left San Francisco June 7 to spend a few days at the company's Los Angeles omce.

C. M. FREELAND VISITS S. F.

C. M. "Friday" Freeland, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, conferred with executives at the company's San Francisco offi,ce around the first of the month.

CARL HORNIBROOK CALLS ON TRADE

Carl Hornibrook, sales manager of the Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., is spending a few days in Los Angeles calling on the lumber trade.

PORTLAND SALES MANAGER VISITS S. F.

J. W. Vaughan, sales manager for Hammond Lumber Company at Portland, Ore., recently spent a few days at the company's head office in San Francisco.

Finally he was forgotten-soon oblivion was his lot; Fresher and more vital issues occupied the public thought. Now the wherefores and whereases of the case I can't explain,

Long I sought for information, but my efforts were in vain. Once I fully was persuaded, as I pondered Amen's fate, That spontaneous combustion caused him to disintegrate. But the theory is, they tell me, antiquated, obsolete; Can it be that Amenphophed with a lame duck chanced to meet ?

I give up; the eerie mystery pins my reason to the mat; Loss of energ)' depletes me ; Quick, go page a Technocrat !

Normal Seasonal Building Expansion is at Hand

Contrary to general belief, the late summer and not the spring is the big building season of the year, although the increase from March to April in building employment is greater than between any other two months.

In 1924 the President's Conference on Unemployment surveyed the subject of seasonal operation in the construction industry and stressed the fact that bad weather was not the principal'cause of seasonal idleness, but fixed customs in the building trades. It con'cluded that for most types of construction it is possible to build the year round in all parts of the United States. The 1929 Construction Census indicates that progress has been made toward greater stability in employment from month to month in the construction industry, despite the persistence of a distinct seasonal trend in all lines of constru'ction activity in 1929. Seasonal fluctuation is apparently not so pronounced as it was ten years ago when (in 1922) the monthly employment of building labor was about 45 per cent in January of what it was in July.

Seasonal EmPloYment

In 1929, building employment under contractors and builders was 59 per cent in January of what it was in August and residential building was 56 per cent of what it was in its peak month, or June. Comparison is shown below in percentages of employment in construction under

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Best Months in Different Occupations

The Construction Census also shows that in highway, bridge and cuivert work, August and September employed more men in I9D than any other months of the year; October and November for dredging; and July and August for carpeutering under sub-contractors. In each case, January and February employment is the lowest of the year. These classes of construction took more lumber than did any other types in 1929, except building into which went 75 p& cent of all lumber used in construction under contractors aud builders.

Of all construction covered by the 1929 Construction Census, for which nearly 150,000 establishments of contractors and builders reported, 30,597 establishments each doing an annual business of more than $25,000, showed 828,772 as the average number of wage-earners employed $1,467,541,m1 as the amount of wages paid; $2,055,595,482 as cost of materials and $4,794,772,665 as the value of all construction work done.

Golf

Tournament at Long Bcach June 21

The Orange County Lumbermen's Club will hold their next golf tournament at the Lakewood Country Club' Long Beach, Calif., on Wednesday afternoon, June 21, 1933. The Lakewood Country Club is located on Lincoln Ave., Long Beach, just east of Cherry St' and north of the l,ong Beach airport. Lunch will be served at the Club H'ouse. The tournament will start at 1:00 p.m. All lumbermen are invited to attend.

RECOVERS FROM COLD

A. B. Hammond, veteran head of the Hammond Lumber Company, and dean of the Redwood industry, returned to his desk recently after being confined to his home by a cold for about 1O days.

SOUTHERN LUMBERMAN VISITS WEST COAST

Allard Kaufmann of the Southland Lumber & Trading Co., New Orleans, La., representative of the Hammond Lumber Company, in that territory, was a recent visitor at the Hammond Los Angeles plant. He also visited San Francisco and some of the Redwood and Fir mills'

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Annual Meeting of N. L. M. A.

Postponed to June 30

Chicago, June l4.-Probably the most momentous question ever'considered at any meeting in the 31 years of its history will feature the annual ,convention of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association which will be held Friday and Saturday, June 3o-July l, at the Congress Hotel, Chicago,-that of initiating a coordinated Forest Products Industrial Contr.ol Organization plan in connection with the Natiotral Industrial Recovery Act just passed by Congress. This will include completion of plans for cooperation of the lumber and timber products industries with the Administration and the further ,consideration of the Outline of Code of Fair Competition which was tentatively drawn up and approved at the Executive Committee meeting of the Association in May.

With this 31st annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association will be held the first annual meeting of American Forest Products Industries, Inc., and its subsidiary, Timber Engineering Company. Lumber trade extension and promotion of modern timber connector construction will feature this meeting.

To enable the divisions of the lumber manufacturing in. dustry to be established under National Industrial Recovery legislation, to make furthef progress in the formulation of their Division Code Proposals, the annual meeting, at which these will be considered rvas postponed to June 30July 1.

It is suggested that lumbermen attending the convention take this opportunity to visit the housing exhibits at A Century of Progress Exposition and to see for themselves the utility and architectural beauty of the lumber indus-

Virgin Western Hemlock and Cedar on tract 23 square miles, oflicial cruise shows 640,000,(b0 board feet. Located at Kiprino Harbor, B. C. Excellent shipping facilities. Address Rhoda Flynn, 2618 South LaBrea Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION

Lumberman with general wholesale and retail lumber experience-sales, purchasing agent and yard management. Has been connected with lumber business in Los Angeles and Southern California for past fifteen years. Excellent references. Will appreciate an interview. Paul E. Kent, 5324 Monroe Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Phone Hlllside 2677.

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try's house. Plans have been {nade for busses to leave the Congress Hotel on Thursday afternoon, Jane D, at 2 o'clock, for the exposition.

The annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association has much significance outside of the lumber group. The tentative outline code of fair competition proposed for the national lumber group, his been aacepted as a model by the National Association of Manufacturers and the Department of Commerce, and many group associations are awaiting the outcome of the Chicago meeting.

A number of forest industry groups are considering pooling their interests with those of the lumber industry in so far as they relate to the administration of the Industrial Recovery Act. A number of groups in the timber products industry are seeking affiliation with the National Association. Southern Oak Flooring Industries (S.O.F.I.) of Little Rock, Ark., has recently joined the National Association and more than 150 new individual members have been enrolled in recent weeks.

DONOVAN'S OTHER MILL STARTS

Donovan Lumber Company's mill Nb. 1, Aberdeen, Wash., which has been down for some time. was scheduled to start operation June 12.

WILSON BROS.' MILL STARTS

Wash., started A. B.

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