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M. I. C. COMMITTEES WORKING OUT ..STANDARDS OF' CONSTRUCTION'' ON WHICH TO BASE CERTIFICATION PLAN

The Certification Plan, adopted at its recent conference in Los Angeles by the Millu'ork Institute of California, is well on its way. A. W. Bernhauer now has six sub-committees working with him in perfecting "Standards of Construction" on which the operations of the Certification Plan will be based, and it is expected that by the middle of October these Standards, Licenses, Applications and Certificates will be ready for release in final printed form.

A letter to the members from Managing Director H. T. Didesch states that the committees are working splendidly to get this important matter under way, and calls on all others who may be solicited for help to join in whole-heartedly and finish up the fine work started at the Conference.

Mr. Didesch also urges their members to sign and send in to the Federal Trade Commission their individual acceptance of the rules of conduct established at the May Trade Practice Conference in Chicago, and recently approved by the Commission. The Acceptance was printed in the August 15th issue of The California Lumber Merchant.

D. R. PHILIPS BACK FROM VACATION

D. R. Philips, of the Hart-Wood Lumber Company, Los Angeles, has returned from a two weeks' vacation spent at the beach and at San Francisco.

TACK THIS ON YOUR WALL MR. MILL MAN

Here is one of the cleverest things ever said about a pine board. Every sawmill man should tack it up where he can'see it every day. There is a big lesson in it. The story is that Mr. B. P. I{ead, Secretary of the Kaul Lumber Company, Bitmingham, Alabama, looked over their statement, looked at the beautiful lumber they were turning out, and then wrote this apostrophe to a Pine Board:

"We cruised you, we surveyed you, we abstracted you, we bought you in the tree, u/e cut you, we skidded you, we hauled you, we built railroads to you, ufe loaded you, we transported you, we floated you, we ranyou through the mill, we band sawed you, we gang sawed you, we resawed you, we edged and trimmed you, we dried you in the air, we kiln dried you,. we humidified you, we weighed you and tested.you, we bulked you down, we planed you, we dressed you, we end matched you,we graded you' we bundled you, we wrapped you in paper, we stencilled you, we stamped you, we stored you with carer we loaded you' we checked you and rechecked you' we sealed you from dust, we braced you, we shipped you, we accounted for you, we statisticized you, we advertised you, and then-WE GAVE YOUAWAY."