The California Lumber Merchant - September 1934

8. $uper-$aws for $uper logs

If you had a gigantic Redwood log, fresh from the hills of Mighty Humboldt it would be a whale of an attraction. But since you are conducting a lumber business and not a penny arcade you will take your log cut to fit the needs of your customers.

The first step in giving logs marketable shapes is sawing. Great band saws that operate like belts rip off ponderous slabs that can be handled in the facrory.

Pacific operates two modern, electrically driven sawmills at Scotia.

Like a great bridge, your dependable source of Redwood lumber must send its foundations all the way to bed-rock, even though they do not show in the super-structure.

The Pacif ic Lumb er Company

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SPEND VACATION AT SAN FRANCISCO

Harry V. Hanson, California. Panel & Veneer Co., Los Angeles, is back at his desk following a week's vacation spent in San Francisco. Mrs. Hanson accompanied him on the trip.

MAKE TRIP TO ARIZONA

Charles R. Wilson, San Francisco, and Charles P. Henry, Los Angeles, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., have returned from a week's business trip to Arizona.

ATTEND LEGION CONVENTION

Russell Gheen, C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., and Theodore Stearns. Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, attended the American Legion convention which was held at San FranciS,co, August 11 to 15. They served as delegates from Lumbermen's Post No. zlo3.

RETURN FROM NORTHWEST TRIP

H. H. Shoup, H. H. Shoup Lumber Co., Phoenix, Ariz', has returned from a month's motor trip through the Northwest which took him as far north as Vancouver, B. C. IVIrs. Shoup, and her two sisters, Mrs. Eric Monthan of Phoenix, and Mrs. T. H. Sanders of El Paso, Texas, accompanied him on the trip.

BACK FROM OREGON TRIP

H. W. Bunker, president, Coos Bay Lumber Co., returned recently from a visit to the company's mill at Marshfield and the Portland office.

ON VACATION

D. R. "Dud" Else, sales manager, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, and Mrs. Else left August 18 on a vacation trip to Southern California. Mr. Else will be back in his office September 4.

VISITS L. A. OFFICE

W. R. Chamberlin, president, W. R. Chamberlin Co', San Francisco, was a recent visitor to the company's Los Angeles office.

KENNETH SHIPP VISITS L. A.

Kenneth Shipp, California Builders Supply Co., Oakland, recently spent a few days in Los Angeles on business.

VISITS MILL

Jim Farley, assistant Western sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his office August 15 from a visit to the company's mill at Scotia'

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How Lumber Looks

C:".-f"i heavy lumber shipments from the mills during the week ended August 18 mark furher release of the water !hip- ments on the Vest Coast which had been tied up by the long dock strike, total shipments €xcept for the previous'week anl one week in March bling the hea-viest since july, 1973, accotd,- ing to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Associ- ation. Lumber orders were somewhat lower than durine the preceding three weeks, while production though slightlf less than during the preceding *..L was otherwisJ heav-iest'since M.y.

For the week ended Au_gust lB, lr3gj mills reported produc- tion as 2O4r7O3.OOO feet, shipments 2O9,l57rO0O feet, .rrd orderc 1841465'000 feet.

The new business reported to the 'West Coast Lumbermenrs

lV 5SO mills for the week ended August t8 was 81,9431955 feet against a production of 96125612{2 feet, and shrpments oI l09r25lr975-feet. Shipments were over produc_ jb"-lf 13.5 per cent, and current ,.lo l""r"

by l?-f per cent. Orders booked for the week by'thi, ero,ro ot mills were under the preceding week by about g,:OO,OOb fe"i or..approximately lO.2 per cent. The unfiiled order file at these mrlls stood at 452,741,978 feet, about 34100O,000 feet under the week before. ***

The Sotrthern Pine Association for the week ended August 18- reported new business from lg6 mills as z6,loOpOO 'f-eet, shipments 26,661,000 feet, and productiotr 2li+S,OOO f""t. Orders were 10 per cent above production and Z p., """i t"t", snrPments.r Stripments wete -12 per cent above production. (Jrders on hand at the end of the week at these rg6 mills totaled 74r5O4rOOO feet, equivalent to 3,54g cats.

BACK FROM NORT.HWEST

- I E.^"Eddie" Peggs, sales manager, W. R. Chamberlin cr Lo., ban -1,'rancisco, was back at his desk August 16 from a 10-day business trip to Marshfield and portland.

CITY OF'FICIALS VI.SIT REDWOOD MILLS

R. R. Leishman, California Redwood Association, Los Angeles, accompanied by C. V. Welsh, Chief of the Build_ ing Division, and Blaine Noice, member of the Building and Safety Commission, City of Los Angeles, h"rr" ,.1 turned from an inspe,ction trip to the Redwood mills. Mr. Welsh and Mr. Noice were commissioned by the Building irnd Safety Commission of the City of Los Angeles to makl the trip to investigate Redwood

The Western Pine Association for the same week reported new business from 122 mills as 44167210}0 feet, shipments 43r547rOO0 feet, and production 5Or379rOOO f.eet. Orders were li per cent below production and 3 per cent above shipments. Shipments were 14 per cernt below production. Orden on hand at the end of the week at the t2Z mills were 94r398rOOO feet.

The California Redwoodirl".rl.a" for the week reported production from 15 mills as 614481000 feet, shipments 5rg-22r000 feet, and new business 513281000 feet. Oideri on hand at the end of the week were 33183!1000 *feet.

475 hardwood mills reporting for the week ended August lE gave new business as lTrT5lrOOO feet, or 14 per cent belJw pro- duction, and shipments l7r58lro(X) feet, or 15 per ""nt bJlort, production. Production was 20ll&000 feet.

The California lumber situation showed little change during the_p13-t two weeks and the demand is light. Fir cargo arriva[ at-California ports continue to be h"aw J,r" to the acirmulation of orders placed at the mills following the dock workers' strike. I he Government's modernization program under the National Housing Act is now under way but lt is almost too soon to determine just what the demand for lumber from this source will be.

^ Cargo amivals at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended A;rSust 20 totaled 10,503,000- feet, which included ff carloes :l_Ftl g"Tying l_0,118,000 feet, and one cargo of redwood with 385,0fi) feet. Llnsold lumber on the pribli. docks at Los Angeles harbor totaled 3llrOOO feet on August 20. 66 vessels 3r.e. operating in the coastwise lumber ."*1""; 34 vessels are laid up.

A. C. HORNER BACK FROM TRIP

A. C. Horner, consulting engineer with the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, returned to San Fran_ cisco August 23 from a lGday trip to Southern California and various intermediate points, in the interests of wood frame school buildings and timber connectors construction.

RECEIVE MANY CONGRATULATIONS

Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Seward are the recipients of many congratulations on the birth of a baby daughter, Janet, a1 the Cedar of Lebanon hospital, Los Angeles, on August 22. Mr. Seward is Los Angeles representative for the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company.

"S.f"ty With Economy in \(/estside Mill at Tuolumne to School Buildin gs" Start in Spring

The 16-page popular pamphlet entitled "Safety with Economy in School Buildings", prepared and published by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at their San Francisco offrce, recently came off the press and a copy has been distributed to every retail lumber dealer in California.

The pamphlet was designed to set forth the record of wo6d frame buildings, and the points which make such buildings suitable for future school construction.

Retailers have been requested to purchase copies of the pamphlet at 10 cents each for local distribution to taxpayers' groups, parent teacher associations, and others interested in obtaining safe schools at the least cost rvithout sacrifice in beauty or suitability for school purposes.

E. G. DAVIS BACK FROM VACATION

E. G. Davis, Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., Angeles, is back on his territory calling on the retail after spending a two weeks' vacation at Monterey Carrnel.

ATTENDS BOHEMIAN JINKS

Announcement was made in San Francisco recently that the plant of the Westside Lumber Co. at Tuolumne, Calif., will be opened in the spring.

The receiver of the Pickering Lumber Co., operators of the mill from 1925 to 1931, has been directed by the Federal District Court in San Francis'co to "assign and return to the Westside Lumber Co., a certain portion of the said assets as a portion of the relief to be granted."

The Tuolumne plant, built in 1897, has a capacity of 60,000,000 feet annually. The door factory has an annual capacity of 400,0@ doors. The timber stand is estimated as sufficient for a fifty year operation of the mill at present capacity.

Wm. R. Thorsen of San Francisco is president of the comDanv.

Los ATTENDS CONVENTION

trade Newton Isaacs, Corning Lumber Co., and San Francisco for the American Legion gust 11 to 15.

Harry T. Nicolai, of Portland, Ore., president, OregonWashington Plywood Co., Tacoma, was in San Francisco for a few days in the latter part of July. He attended the annual Jinks of the Bohemian Club.

Corning, was in Convention, Au-

DIXON OLD-TIMER VISITS S. F.

Fred Hutton, manager of the Dixon Lumber Co., Dixon, recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business. Mr. Hutton has been in Dixon since 1887, so he classifies himself as one of the town's old-timers.

MOUNTAIN CABIN DESIGN BOOK

There has just been published a book of designs of mountain cabins, by Southern California architects. There are some 7O in the book, one to a page (S/2xll"), each showing the perspective and the floor plan.

This book is retailed at75c each; or is furnished to dealers at 40c each, plus postage (Southern California, 8c1 Northern California, loc).

V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

A friend of mine expresses the opinion that Recovery is coming back to this country in spite of everything we are doing to bring it back. Y"t; i1.. so long as it comes !

"Intellectual prostitutes" is what Creneral Johnson in his recent Chicago speech called editors who criticize him. If I am not mistaken in my reading the General sort of made a red light district of the newspaper profession that time.

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Rexford Guy Tugwell, of the Brain Trust and the Department of Agriculture evidently decided that diatribe against critics is one of the honors and emoluments of official position at present, and he burst into print dubbing criticism of governmental crop and food manipulation because of the drouth "infantile, obscene, and wicked." But I know a man who forgets rnore about the economics of agriculture every morning than Mr. Tugwell will ever know, who thinks the same thing about this agricultural planning that Mr. Tugwell thinks about those who attack it. So what? ***

Good news. The new Federal Housing program is apparently taking a splendid start. Believing as I have from the beginning that it will either be a monumental success or a complete flop, this start is indeed reassuring. The very stagnation of credit that prevails and has for so long prevailed in this entire country, together with the evergrowing visibility of buitding needs throughout the land, could very easily bring about a building landslide. ***

If we can believe the reports emanating from Washington with regard to professed eagerness on the part of financial institutions throughotrt the country to participate in this program and loan money for building and remodeling purposes, together with local reports from many sections apparently telling the same story, we may assrune that the Housing Act is at least to have a flying start. ***

It is by no rneans beyond the range of possibility that this Housing Act could be the final straw to break the back of Depression by turning loose money and credit that will errrploy millions of men, and really get the wheels of industry turning once more. Let us join together in prayer. ***

This Act aims to aid depressed industry by promoting PRMTE investment in PRIVATE property; induces

property owners or holders to rnake improvements at a cost of six per cent a year that will prevent deterioration of ten or more per cent annually; creates TAX-PAYING property; increases business, employment, and money turnover in communities where they are much needed, and helps those industries in which there is the most unemployment. ***

The Government invests no money. This is the one Governmental agency created to promote Recovery that does NOT contemplate and include the use of Government cash. In the case of remodeling the Government guarantees 20 per cent of the loan, and, since so great a loss as 20 per cent in building loans has never been heard of, it practically means that the Government gives the lender of the money to be used for repairing and remodeling a complete guarantee against loss on intelligently made loans. ***

A wonderful and needful thing which this Act will accomplish if it becomes generally effective and used, will be the elimination of the terrible and indefensible old secondmortgage, which has robbed more worthy people of their homes than any other human agency. It will likewise eliminate interest sharks. The day of the 12 to l8 per cent carrying charge for the honest man and woman who want to own a home, will be gone forever. ***

And a lot of the objections that we heard to this Housing Act were really the thinly disguised weeping and wailing of the interest and the service-charge sharks, who felt that if this guarantee of low interest rates and low senrice charges and long years to pay for homes,,came in, one of the lousiest rackets that ever befouled a worttry industry would have to go out. The remodeling loans under ttris Act will cost about 5 per cent, with a five dollar a year service charge, and to the horne builder the cost will be between five and six per cent interest, plus one-half to one per cent for insurance on the'mortgage.***

Now this thing isn't going to sell itself. It is going to have to be sold. Good real estate merchants, and good building merchants, and good lumber merchants are going to have to go out into the highways and the byways and demonstrate and prove to people that it is to their advantage to go in debt to improve their properties, or to build new homes. Like all the other good things of this world,

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it won't just happen. There will have to be a definite and intelligent and forceful sales effort in every community of this land to put this thing over. But if the money lending powers rise to the occasion and proffer the cash with which to do this building and remodeling, there will be a marvelous opportunity offered to the live building merchants ever5rwhere to create business. ***

Stop and think of the talking points the building merchant has to offer, if he can show prospective builders where they can get this money at Government-prescribed rates. Every past opportunity for creating business for building, Sinks into insignificance by contrast.

LOS ANGELES

ROBT. FORGIE

311 Financid Centcr Bldg. 7O4 So. Spring St. - VAndyke tATl

And one thing first and foremost the building merchant is going to have to get out of his mind, and that is that everyone is broke, and therefore won't be interested in buying, building, or borrowing. Just as an example, to show how so-called "broke" territories sometimes give loud evidence of being muchly contrariwise, take fowa. Iowa, as you Lnow, is an outstanding agricultural state. And Iowa is supposed to be about the worst broke state in the tfnion, being primarily and overwhelmingly a farming state. Well, boys and gals, while the sale of new automobiles for the first guarter of 1934 over the entire nation increased 44 per cent over last year, the sale in Iowa increased ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR PER CENT. Laugh that off, if your lip isn't split.

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Vagabond Editorials

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I am perfectly certain that if you had told the .lumber rnerchants of Iowa that any such sale increase as that could be effected they would have thought you were in training to become an idiot, because they knew that Iowa was broke. But Iowa made the biggest increase in the country in the purchase of new cars.

There is a whole lot of wrong guessing being done all the time in this country with regard to sales possibilities. My great merchandising friend, Ray Saberson, says that the most terrible thing that happened to this country during the first three years of the depression was not the fact that the values of commodities sank to desperately low levels; but the worst thing that happened was that people QUIT SELLING. People began taking it for granted that everyone was broke or scared to death, and they ceased their efforts, or part of them, or their quality, to make people buy things. And when Ray got done lecturing to me on that subject, I'll be doggoned if I didn't to a very large extent agree with him.

For instance, and to prove his contention that the sellers of the world laid down on their jobs ai. d thus helped the world go down hill, he tells about driving an old and obsolete car for many months just on purpose' parking it and displaying it at every opportunity where motor car salesmen had a fine chance to see what he was driving, exposing himself on every hand to the importunities of auto salesmen. No one ever offered to sell him a car. Then he made several ealls at automobile display rooms and looked over cars; left his name. They were never followed up. He says moreover that no one has offered to sell him even an insurance policy in more than two years. He thinks the world has sufiered because it quit selling, and that we will get back to prosperity only when we get out and SELL OURSELVES BACK. Think it over.

We read on every n""U an", "ln" ,.r-., is broke." But what says "successful Farming," one of the great farm publications, published in Des Moines? It says that only 42 per cent of the farms of this country are mortgaged, and 26 per cent are mortgaged for less than half their value. (The total farm mortgages in the country amount to 8.5 billion dollars, about the same as the total of mortgages in N'ew York City.) The ratio of farm debt to investment in this country is 18 per cent, while for public utilities the ratio is 52 pet cent, for railroads 43 per cent, for petroleum 49 per cent, for telephones 54 per cent. So you see the

farm situa.tion, figured in that fashion, doesn't look desperate. And there are several tremendous agencies in full force and effect right now offering to the farmer assistance in refinancing, rehabilitating, etc.

City building in this country has been falling off steadily for eight years. Farm building has teen declining since 19f9. It is estimated by well informed people that it would require 200 billion feet of lumber to give the farrns of this nation the buildings they should have. The U. S. Department of Agriculture reports that one State in the {fnion, to whose farmers was sent a questionnaire as to their home building needs, made report directly flom the farmers themselves that 17,300 needed new homes; 169'100 wanted remodeled hornes; 106,000 wanted new roofs; 142,' 000 wanted ne{/ screens; 79,700 wanted new floors; 18'100 wanted new stairs; 119,000 wanted new porches; all these for homes only, and not including other farm buildings.

Someone has wisely ."* an"a ""ery home in the United States is out-of-date except one; and that is the model home at the World's Fair in Chicago, and it isn't shown by a building concern but by an automobile manufacturer. This is the model air-conditioned, drudgery-eliminated, model house of the future. We are going to start one of these days to make every house in America just as up-todate as that one. hnd when we do we will start on an era of prosperity that should last as long as the lumber industrY'

This new Housing Act might well be the lever that starts us on the road to that great promised era. But the lumber industry will never achieve its share of this Promised Land by'sitting back and waiting for folks to com€ and buy lumber. We're going back to selling days again, and the fellow who does the best selling will get the lion's share of the profits. In the future, as in the past, simply stocking and offering lumber for sale will not meet competition. If that is as far as they are going, the lumber industry might entirely miss the mighty building program that is coming. We must do things with lumber. We must sell something INTERESTING and ATTRACTM to meet the competition of all of those other interesting and attractive things that strive for the public dollar.

Right today throughout this land every lumber dealer in every community should be up and on his toes and hustling with other live people in his town to g€t th6 new

Housing Act into operation there. The lumber dealer who is sitting back and waiting for someone to come in and 'buy some lumber and pay cash for it and hoping the Code will pull him through, does not belong in the picture at all. There is work to be done; real, active, interesting work. There should be local committees in every town to get this work going, publicize it, coordinate it, etc. Local architects, real estate men, bankers, newspapers, lumber and other building material dealers, civic clubs, etc., should be lined up, instructed, enthused, and started hustling to PUT PEOPLE TO WORK. Naturally the lumber dealer should play a most important part. Likewise the contractor.

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Enthusiastic drives should be stimulated to acquaint ev" eryone in the district with the proposition. What a chance for the lumber dealer to line up with this civic work, and advertising his own products and business at the same time ! The local ballyhoo can be made just as interesting and enthusiastic as the local committees desire. It is simply a wonderful civic enterprise that aims to help worthy citizens, help worthy industry, and put men to work who have long been in need of employment.

All right, Mr. Lumber Merchant, now is the time to do something for yourself. Pick it up out of the chair and

go out and hit the ball to put over the remodeling and home building campaign in YOUR district. You've had nothing to talk about but depression in a long time. This is a chance to get yourself some REAL business.

Tacoma Firm Opens S. F. Office

Buffelen Lumber & Mfg. Co. of Tacoma, Wash., has establised a sales office in the Sharon Building, San Francisco. J. O. Elmer, well known to the trade in Northern California, is in charge.

Arrangements for opening the San Francisco office were made by J. P. Simpson, vice-president and general manager of the company, who visited San Francisco August 4 on his way back to Tacoma from Denver.

This office will handle sales of the company's doors, Philippine and hardwood panels, and Philippine lumber.

George E. Middleton

George E. Middleton, 81, pioneer lumberman, died in Boulder Creek, August 8. lIe was for many years associated with his brother, Henry L. Middleton in the operation of five mills at Boulder Creek, owned by the California Timber Co. He was in the lumber business at Boulder Creek more than 40 years, and was previously in the same business at San Rafael and Alameda.

RED\TOOD FOR DU RABI LITY

IN PERFECT CONDITION AFTER 64 YEARS

The two tanks shown in the picture in process of being wrecked were made of California Redwood by Pacific Tank Co. and erected by John Center at 16th & Shot' well Streets, San Francisco in 1870.

They were in constant use uP to about a year ago, and when wrecked were found to be in perfect condition.

Lumber lndustry and House Mod ernization

Bv C. C. Sheppard, President, National Lumber Manufocturers Association

Washington, D. C., August 25.-While lumber has recorded its business peaks in the years marked by expansion of new construction, the possibilities of business acceleration in the modernization section of the National Housing Act are sufficient to fire the imagination ol lumbermen in all branches of the industry. No industry stands to benefit more or contribute more through that one phase of the Better Housing Program.

In furthering real property alterations, repairs and improvements, the Better Housing Program seems destined to cultivate a vast new field of opportunity. For never before before have improvements to all types of buildings constituted the goal of what will amount to a national crusade. Never before has building modernization become a cause espoused by the Federal government and implemented by legislative measures aimed directly at results.

Now for the first time on a nation-wide scale property improvement loans will be partially insured, low interest rates provided, and payments extended over a period of years. For the first time hundreds of thousands in the small income groups will have a chance to enhance their property values with needeil improvements.

For all practical purposes the prospect for the lumber industry under such auspicious circumstances is bounded only by the lirnits to which the program itself may go, for only an inconsequential number of strucfuls5-wtlq1hs1 homes, farm buildings, stores, or factories-can undergo alterations without some, and in most cases extensive. use of lumber. This is true because lumber in almost every instance has formed either the principal or an important part of the original construction, and because no material lends itself more readily to the endless variety of uses called for under a program so all-embracive as the present undertaking.

Lumber as Beleficiary of fmprovements

As a matter of fact were lumber to be confined to projects on buildings technically classified as frame construction, its field of opportunity, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, would still include 92 per cent of urban residences and farm structures, considering the total of those two classifications. That percentage figure was obtained by striking an average between the 82 per cent basic lumber ,construction for city dwellings, as shown by the U. S. Department of Commerce of house construction in 63 representative cities (the results of which were announced a few weeks ago) and the 98 per .cent farm structures of all kinds accredited to lumber lty agricultural authorities. The Department of Commer-ce survey in cities showed that more than 81 per cent of thc dwellings in the cities ,canvassed are of frame construction, and that 6.6 per cent are of stucco. The National Lumber Manufacturers Association included the stucco percentage in its figures for lumber for the reason that ex-

cepting the mere ,coating of stucco comprising the visible exterior, structures classified as stucco are in reality of frame constru,ction. The figures compiled from the city survey refer to the principal material or type of home construction. For example, in frame construction, brick for foundations and chimney and the like are used; and, similarly, in brick houses much lumber is used.

Some idea of the alteration and modernization potentialities contained in the above figures may be had from estimates made as to structures needing repairs. It is calculated that urgently needed repairs on 6,000,000 farms in the United States would require 12,000,000,000 feet of lumber, and that renovation, alterations and repairs of woodbuilt city dwellings of which there are 24,000,000 would require about 24,000,000,000 feet of lumber. These' items, urban and rural, total 36,0@,000,000 feet of lumber, about three times the entire record-low lumber output of L932, i.e. since 1869. It should be borne in mind that the "needed repairs" and "renovation" have nothing to .do with what are generally catalogued as modernization projects. Add modernization and rebuilding and the figures would be mrrch larger.

Of course. it will be impossible to meet repair needs rvith deeds. It is to be conceded that nothwithstanding tire manner in which the National Housing Act facilitates credit and lightens the burden of interest and paym€nts on principal, the total of buildings needing repairs and alterations will far exceed the number whose owners can afiord to make the improvements. Any attempt to calculate the per'centage of olvners financially eligible would necessarily involve a large element of conjecture.

But ret u, ",,u-l XfT:T::T1;" one-tenth or the previ.ously stated need of 36,000,000,000 feet of lumber for repairs can be turned into actual lumber sales-that is 3,600,000,000 feet-and double the figure in order to include a conservative estimate of lumber sales for modernization or alteration projects. By so doing an estimate of 7,200,000,000 feet of lumber consumption under the Better Housing Program's alterations, repair and improvement campaign is obtained. That figure, it is to be remembered, has been derived for rvood-built structures only. fnasmuch as the program applies to all types of structures it is surely not extravagant to add another 2,800,000,000 feet of lumber for repair and modernization projects for store exteriors, store interiors, apartment houses, factories, office buildings and the like, plus residences not principally constructed of wood. Thus is derived a total of 10,000,000,000 feet as a conservative estimate of possible demand for repairs and modernization, a figure in excess of the entire 1932 lumber production.

Should these 10,000,000,000 feet be added to the estimated 16,000,000,000 production in 1934, and the total taken

as an estimate of 1935 production, the lumber manufacturing industry next year would be placed rvithin striking distance of normal business volume, and any genuinely tangible results from the Housing Act's other provisions, for stimulating new construction, would almost certainly bring back the production schedules of. L923-29 when annual lumber output averaged between 35,000,000,000 and 40,000,000,000 feet.

If that result is obtained the lumber industry will be in a position to make signal contributions to the economic well-being of the nation.

Effects on Employment

Should the lumber industry be presented with the 10,000,000,000 feet of possible additional volume of business through repairing and modernizing projects it would be sufficient to provide a year's work, based on the present average work week, for more than 20O,000 additional men in the various branches of the industry, with total additional wages of around $150,000,000.

Some of the lumber industry's contributions to the restoration of building activity and general economic improvement already have been made or are being made, and a notable increase in the industry's business volume would be of pronounced assistance in carrying forward these undertakings to their fullest possibilities.

The contribution which should prove most stimulating to the Better Housing Program, and reward a buying public most directly, is the recently authorized 10 per cent reduction in NRA minimum cost-protection prices for lumber at the mills, plus the recent 8 to 10 per cent reduction in the

so-called modal mark-up in retail prices. Both these reductions are designed to spur building activity and should prove widely effective as soon as present retail stocks accumulated at former prices are exhausted and stocks replenished at the lower rates.

No less significant as an aid to the lumber buyer, and as happi'ly timed to dovetail with the national campaign for remodeling projects, is an amendment to the Lumber Code, now awaiting NRA approval, providing for grade-marking and trade-marking of lumber. A long-sought objective of the great majority of lumber manufacturers, grade-marking as a universally mandatory practice will take the guesswork out of lumber buying and guarantee that the purchaser gets exactly the grade and species he orders. Under code regulations every piece of lumber going into the building or remodeling of a home would bear the brand of the manufacturer's association, the manufacturer's mill number or name, the grade and species.

Help to Reforestation

Another public benefit resulting from the NRA Lumber Code is its provision for the practical introduction of reforestation. The code is a conservation measure and looks to the perpetuation of the commercial forests. Such an undertaking involves large expense and may ultimately give employment, to 100,000 woodsmen in the various phases of forest care and cultivation. The forestry part of the Code is based on the assumption that tree growing can be made to pay its way, which has not been the case in the past. An increased volume of lumber consumption means impetus to the progress of s,cientific forest management, which aims at keeping the forests in a condition of sustained yield instead of treating them as timber mines to be cut over once and then forgotten.

The lumber industry has much at stake in the Better Housing Program-its own progress and the return it can make to the national economv.

Lumber and Shipping

MY FAVORITE STORIES

Ag" not guaranteer---rorj'

Jock Dionne I have told lor 20 years---Some less

No Tracks

Some of the darkey sto,ries that drop around are not essentially colored. Whereas others come alorg that are just plain "cullud" and couldn't by any possible stretch of the imagination be anything but colored. A friend of mine, f. F. Wallace, of Monroe, Louisiana, sends me such a one in a recent mail, and I got a great kick out of it, because it is a nigger remark pure and simple.

Out in the Tensas Swamp near St. Joseph, Louisiana, there is a variety of black mud so surpassing in its sticking qualities that it is called throughout that section, "Buckshot mud." When it is dry it is like fint itself ; but when it is wet the foot of the unfortunate who steps in it comes up with fifty pounds of this clinging, sticking stuff. That is, it comes up if the owner of the foot has the strength to lift it.

The sender of this yarn overheard one of the negro camphelpers answming questions from a Northern gentleman who was about to go hunting in the Tensas Swamp and had heard a lot of talk about the fearsomeness of the "Buckshot mud." The Northern gentleman said to this boy who is called "Dead Red":

"Red, what is this stuff that they are all talking about, this 'Buckshot mud'?"

"Well, Suh," replied Red, "hit's dat kind o' mud dat y'all don' make no tracks in a'tall."

"What do you mean, you don't make tracks in it?" asked the gentleman.

"Well Suh," said Red, "hit's dis way. When hit's dry, yo' feets don' make no tracks in hit. An' when hit's wet, y'all jes nachally carry yo' tracks away wid yo'."

"Mountain Cabins ol Redwo od" Pacific Y eneer Definition

"Mountain Cabins of Redwood" is an attractive and beautiful book that has been published by the llammond Lumber Company of Los Angeles. The book contains the designs of mountain cabins which were submitted by Southern California ar.chitects in the recent architectural competition conducted by the Architects Building Material Exhibit of Los Angeles for the Hammond Lumber Company. The purpose of the competition was to create an interest in better architecture for vacation homes.

There arc 70 mountain cabin designs in the book, one on each page, and each design shows an exterior perspective of the cabin, the floor plan, and an interior view of the living room. The book is SlxIL inches in size, and is being retailed by the Hammond Lumber Company, 2010 So. Alameda Street, Los Angeles, at 75 cents each. The price to the lumber trade is 4O cents each plus postage from Los Angeles.

M. R. Gill With Schaler Bros.

M. R. Gill has joined the Los Angeles sales Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. Mr. Gill calling on the Southern California retail lumber the past several years and was formerly connected sales force of the Union Lumber Company.

staft of has been trade for with the

Washington, D. C., Aug. 13.-NRA has announced approval of Amendment No. 72, which is a new definition of the products and area of the Pacific Veneer Package Subdivision, Schedule A (28). The amendment eliminates the overlapping of jurisdiction between American Veneer and Pacific Veneer Subdivisions and includes certain items, particularly wooden veneer baskets, which logically belong under this subdivision but which were not included in the list of products as previously approved. The definitions as to products is now identical for all three of the fruit and vegetable veneer package subdivisions, American Veneer, Standard Container and Pacific Veneer.

Pewy Dame With Upson Co.

P. A. Dame, formerly Pacific Coast manager of the CreoDipt Co., is now representative of The Upson Company, Lockport, N. Y., in California, Arizona, Oregon and Washington, with headquarters at 1550 N. Wilcox Avenue, Hollywood.

RETURNS FROM SAN FRANCISCO

Ted Wright, Los Angeles, California representative for the Washington Veneer Company of Olympia, Washington, has returned from a short business trip to San Francisco.

Lumber Not Subiect to 15% Reduction lor Gove]nmcnt Departments

Washington, D. C., Aug. 14.-Continued rnisunderstanding on the part of government purchasing agents of Executive Order 6646, which stated that individuals might submit bids at not more than 15 per'cent under prices filed by bidders with code authorities, has led Carl W. Bahr, secretary and treasurer of the Lumber Code Authority, to request NRA Deputy Administrator A. C. Dixon to advise governmental purchasing offices that the order does not apply to the Lumber Code. Notwithstanding that following issuance of the order it was explained that the order is applicable only to those industries operating under codes which require filing of open price lists with their code authorities, the Lumber Code Authority has continued to receive numerous ,complaints that purchasing agents of various government departments and establishments are inviting bids from members of the lumber industry on the basis of the reduction.

Similarly the Department of Purchases of New York City, in requesting bids for Ponderosa Pine boxes on July 9, attached a copy of the Executive Order to the proposal. In the hope of stopping this practice where lumber purchases are concerned, the LCA Compliance Depattment recently addressed a letter to the department explaining the non-applicability of the order to the lumber industry and suggesting that the practice of attaching copies of the order to proposals for bids "can only lead to misunderstanding and possibly to code violations when manufacturers of lumber or lumber products are involved."

Employment lmproves in Pacific Northwest

Washington, August 22.-Employment conditions in the Pacific Northwest show no little improvement over those of mid-July, according to the mid-August employment report of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen.

Practically all large sawmills have resumed cutting, the Legion states although in most districts only about 25 per cent of logging camps are operating.

The 4L attributes the improvement to seasonal work, as well as to the general pick-up following the longshoremen's strike. Due to an early harvest, fruit picking and canning is furnishing temporary employment to both men and women, while Federal and state constru,ction projects, including the coast bridges, are also furnishing considerable employment.

F. L, Jones With T. P. Hogan Co.

LAMINEX

DOORS and PLYVOOD

From Fir and Philippine ENGINEERED PRODUCTS

Consult your nearest jobber

3045 Nineteenth St. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

2153 Sacramento St. LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

"Red" Wood Says;

'rThere ic a grade of Redwood for every purpore-te suas to get the proper gtade.t'

CLEAR ALL HEART-TIe high. ect gtade available. Shall be oound, Iive all Heartwod (no rapwood)t well manufactured, uniform texturet free from all defecg.

Recommended where durability is a requisite, where high clasc and exacting detailc are e*ential, where uniform texture is necersaryr ruch as: Battery SeParator*Tri6-Pa6srttLumberSignrSinl Boatdr Cabinet WorlWater Tanls - Bulletin Boatdr-Rowboat-Sounding Boards-Silo+4arving-P.tt"1".

Fred L. Jones, formerly with F. S. Buckley Door Co., San Francisco, is now a sales representative for the T. P. Hogan Co., Oakland, dividing the Northern California territory with Geo. B. Eidemiller.

IYHEETER ()SGO(}D SATES C()RP.

PIllNEENI

Housing Act Details on Loans Jor Prop ertv lmprovements

Here are some of the questions property owners will be asking regarding loans for modernizing, remodeling and improvements under the property-improvement provisions of the National Housing Act. This information is explained in a booklet just published by the Federal Housing Administration. The questions and answers follow:

(1.) WHO MAY APPLY? Any property owner, individual, partnership or corporation, with a regular income from salary, commission, business or other assured source. It is not necessary to be a depositor in the financial institution consulted.

(2.) TO WHOM DO I APPLY? To any national bank, state bank or trust company, savings bank, industrial bank, building and loan association or finance company approved by the Federal Housing Administration; or a contractor or building supply dealer.

(3.) DO r BORROW MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT? No.

(4.) HOW MUCH MAY I APPLY FOR? From $100 to $2000 depending on your income, for improvements bn any one property. A like amount in connection with not more than five properties ($2000 maximum on each.) Approval by the Federal Housing Administration, Washington, D. C., must be secured by the lender in advan,ce for loans on more than five properties.

(5.) HOW LONG MAY NOTES RUN ? For any number of months from one to three years. (Notes extending from thirty-seven months to five years may be submitted to the Federal Housing Administration by financial institutions for special consideration.)

(6.) WHAT SECURITY IS REQUIRED? Only that you have an adequate regular income and a good credit record in your community.

(7.) WHAT ASSURANCE NEED I GIVE?

(a) That you own the property. (Lessees under "repairing leases" may qualify under special circumstances which the local lending institutions can explain.)

(b) That the annual income of the signers of the note is at least five times the annual payments on the note.

(c) That your mortgage, if any, is in good that there are no past due taxes, interest or your property.

(d) That you will use the proceeds solely improvement.

standing, and liens against for property

(8.) WHAT SIGNATURES ARE REQUIRED? Signature of the property owner; and (except in special cases) if the owner is an individual and is married, also signature of wife or husband. No other co-signers or indorsers are required.

(9.) WHAT rS THE COST OF THrS CREDTT? The financial institution may not collect as interest and/or discount and/or fee of any kind, a total charge in excess of an amount equivalent to $5 per $100 of the origin4l face amount of a one-year note, deductible in advance.

For example: If you need $285 for housing improvements, you might sign a note for $300 payable in twelve equal monthly installments. In this case the note would not bear interest, because the maximum charge permitted ($15) would be included in the face of the note.

If you borrow a larger amount, or if you repay in equal monthly installments extgnding beyond one year-from thirteen months to three years-the total charge permitted would be at a proportionate rate.

(10.) DO I PAY ANY OTHER CHARGE? No.

(11.) HOW DOES THIS COST COMPARE? Compared with ordinary sixty or ninety-day bank loans, it is higher. Compared with the same type of loans payable in monthly installments, it is much lower than heretofore available. The reduced cost is made possible because of the government credit insurance to the financial institution.

This type of loan makes it possible for you to spread the payments over a long period. You do not have to keep money on deposit with the institution making the loan. You do not have to give a mortgage. You need not have friends or others sign your note, and you reap the benefits of the improvements now.

(12.) HOW DO I PAY THE NOTE? By making t'bgular, equal, monthly payments (seasonal payments for

'The House ol Friendly Seruice

farmers and others with seasonal income) until the note is paid in full.

(13.) MAY THE OWNER OF ANY KIND OF PROPERTY APPLY? Applications will be considered for credit to improve one-family, two-family, or other residences; apartment buildings, stores, office buildings, factories, warehouses, farm buildings.

(14.) MUST I USE SPECIFIED MATERIAL? NO, you are investing your own money (even though borrowed) in Better Housing.. There will be no restrictions on your rights as an owner to use such materials and employ such methods of construction as you may desire-provided they meet the approval of the lending agency.

(15.) MAY I BORROW TO BUY HOUSING EQUIPMENT? Yes, if the equipment is an integral part of the improved building. Furniture, refrigerators, stoves, etc., are movables, (unless built in) and are not permitted under terms of your loan.

(16.) WHERE DO I MAKE PAYMENTS? The regular installment payments will be made in person at the place of business of the financial institution; or by mail; or as otherwise arranged. No payment shall be made to any governmental ofifice or organization.

(17) MAY I PAY THE NOTE IN FULL BEFORE MATURITY DATE? Yes, at any time. A reasonable rebate will be allowed for prepayment, if charges have been collected in advance.

(18) MAY I PAY MORE THAN ONE INSTALLMENT AT A TIME? Yes, as many as you wish, but such payments should be in exact multiples of the agreed payments-that is, if monthly payment is $10, advance payments should total $20, $30, etc'-not, for example, odd sums such as $18 or $25.

(19) WHAT IF I AM LATE IN MAKING MY PAYMENTS? The maker must not permit his payments to fall in arrears. Should a payment be more than fifteen days late the financial institution's expense, caused thereby, may be reimbursed in part at the rate of not more than 5 cents per dollar for each payment in arrears' Persistent delinquency will make it necessary for the financial institution to take proper steps to effect collection in full'

Note: If you are not eligible for a loan under the terms of the National Housing Act, you may be eligible for a conditioning loan from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, which has recently established a Reconditioning Division. Any one of the banks in your community will advise you where to make your application.

BACK FROM

CHICAGO

C. W. Broback, of the sales department, Union Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned August 19 from a lGday business trip to Chicago.

McCormick. Vhen you need unusual dimension, fast delivery' good lumber, it will pay you to considerdslivsled via McCormick.

A JE\,iIEL

There is a jewel which no Indian mines Can buy, no chemic art can counterfeit; It makes men rich in greatest poverty; Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold, The homely whistle to s$reet music's strain: Seldom it comes, to few from heaven sent, That much in little, all in naught-Content.

-[nqnyrngus.

THOUGHTS

You never can tell what your thoughts will do in bringing you hate or love, because thoughts are things and their airy wings are swift as a carrier dove; they follow the law of the universe; each thing creates its kind and they fly o'er the track to bring you back, whatever went out of your mind.

-Anonymous.

WISE BABY

Fond Mamma: "Now, dear, you are going for a ride with a perfect stranger. All I can say is, be wise."

Daughter: "f will, Mamma."

Fond Mamma (next day): "Were you wis€, dear?"

Daughter: "I am, Mamma."

TWO NATURES

It is the animal nature of man that prompts him to shun difficulties, to take the easiest way around obstacles, to dodge duties and to play truant from the obligations. It is the divine nature within us that finds pleasure in toil; joy in conquest; happiness in tasks well done and peace in squared accounts.

-Nuggets.

WOODROW WILSON ON LIBERTY

The history of Liberty is the history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

THE ONE THAT APPEALED TO HIM

Teacher: "And what parable do you like best?"

Boy: "The one about the multitude that loafs and fishes."

CASE FOR THE UNDERTAKER

First Aid Instructor: "What would you do if a man was pale, sweating profusely, unconscious, bleeding from the mouth, eyes and ears, and had a fractured skull and arrn?"

Student: "I'd bury him."

GOOD TRAINING

He: "Would you scream if I kissed you, little girl?"

She: "Little girls should be seen and not heard."

SAID MACAULEY 1OO YEARS AGO:

Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining therirselves to their own legitimate duties-by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment-by maintaining peace, by defending property, by dim'nishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this-the People assuredly will do the rest.

THE WIFE'LL BE GLAD TO MEET YOU

Midnight was striking as the householder crept down the stairs. His eyes fell on a burglar tampering with the safe. "Jove, a real burglar !" he smiled. "Wait a minute, will you?"

"While you call a cop, eh?" said the burglar. "Not me!" "No," said the householder, "wait until I call my wife. She's heard you every night for 15 years, and it'll be a real pleasure to her to see you at last."

HILLS AND VALLEYS

Look backward for inspiration; look forward for progress; look around you for material for stepping stones to higher things, and never despair. A man's house should be on the hilltop of cheerfulness and serenity, so high that no shadow rests upon it, and where the mgrning comes so early and the evening tarries so late that the day has twice as many golden hours as those of other men. IIe is to be pitied whose house is in the valley of grief between the hills, with the longest night and the shortest days.

\(/estern Pine Directors Meet at Portland

Code matters were discussed at the meeting of the board of dire,ctors of the Western Pine Association at Portland, on July 31. The meeting was open to all members of the Western Pine Association. President R. R. Macartney of Klamath Falls, Ore., presided.

Among those who addressed the meeting were: President Macartney; Secretary-Manager, S. V. Fullaway, Portland, Ore.; W. E. Moore, Elgin, Ore.; B. W. Lakin, McCloud, Calif.; Walter Johnson, San Francisco, Calif. ; James McNary, Albuquerque, N' M.; Swift Berry, Camino, Calif ; Floyd Hart, Medford, Ore.; Don Lawrence, Spokane, Wash., and J. P. Hennessy, Minneapolis, Minn.

During the meeting a silent tribute was paid to the late John C. Hemphill of Madera, Calif., a former director of the Association, whose death occurred since the last board meeting.

Don Critchfield. Lincoln. Neb.. Forest Products Better Paint Campaign, gave an illustrated talk on the proper painting of lumber.

VISITS REDWOOD MILLS

Hugh W. Handley, sales manager, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, was back at his desk August 13 after a 10-day business trip north as far as Crescent City, on which he visited most of the Redwood mills. He also managed to find time to do a little fishing at Lake Pillsbury and in the Klamath River.

CALIFORNIA

\(HOLESALE LUMBER ASSOCIATION

San Francisco Office: Merchantr Exchange BIdg.

S. M. Hauptman, Gen. Mgr., Phone SUtter 6126 Lor Angeler Office: Petroleum Secwitiee Bldg.

Clint Laughlin, Dirtrict Manager - Phonc PRorpect 2703 MEMBERS

W. R. Chambcrliu & Co. ......Su Fnnclrco rnd Lo Angclo

Donovan Lumber Co. ..........San Fnncbo end Lo An3clcr

Eagtcrn & Wegtem Lmbcr Co.................,....Portland and San Franciro

Jainea L. Halt ........San Frucis

J. C. Hamilto Box & Lmbcr Cq .San Francim

Hanmod Lumbcr Co. ........Su Franciro and Lo An3clo

J. R. Hanlfy Co ............. ,.San Fnncbco ud Lc Angclcr

Hart-Wod Lmber Co. ....,.,..Su Fnnclro

A. B. Johncon Lunber Cq .....San Fnrciro

C. D. Johneon Lumbcr Co. ..,.Su Fnoclrc and Lo Angclcr

Alvln N. Idgrcn ........ ........Su Fnncis

MacDomld & Hanington .....Su Fnndso and Lo Angelo

A. F. Mahony Lunbei Co. ..,..............,......San Fnnciro

Chaa. R. McCmlck Lumbcr Cq ..........'....Su Frucirco and Lo Angdc

McCqmick Supply Co. ........San Fnncirco ild llg Angelcs

W. J. Mulligan & Co. ........,........,.........San Fnniqco and Lo Angeler

Charlcr Nebm Co. .,...,....... San Fnnclmo and Lo Angcla

Panmino Lumbcr Co ..........SanFrmcl,ro

Santa Fe Lumbcr Co. ...,...,San Franciro and Lo Angelee

Sud&n & Cbrirtcnron ,.,.....Sen Fmncicco and Lc rlngcla

Trevq Lumbcr Co. .................San Frmeiro

Wcndling-Nethan Co. Sm Fnnd*o and Lc An3clc

R. O. Wiln & Son ......,... San Fmc|rco

Wilrcn Brcg. & Co. .....,... ,.SuFnnciscoandlcAngeler

E. K. Wsd Lumbcr Co. .....3u Frocire and Lor An3clc

Hilt & Morto, Inc.

Pyramid Lumbq SaIa Cq .................Oakland

Blc&t-Donovm Lumber MllLr

C. G. Lynch

C. G. Lynch, pioneer Southern California lumberman and vice president of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., died at his home in Los Angeles, Saturday, August 11. He was 68 years of age.

Mr. Lynch was born at St. Louis, Mo., March 15, 1866. He had been a resident of Los Angeles since 1887, and shortly after his arrival he became connected with the Los Angeles yard of The L. W. Blinn Lurnber Co. The L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. was established at Tombstone, Ariz., in 1880. He became general manager of the company in 1895, and under his management it became one of the biggest lumber operations in Southern California and Arizona. lfe was also general manager of the Russ Lumber & Mill Co. for twenty-five years. The Russ Lumber & Mill Co. was started at San Diego in 1885, later opening ;-ards in the San Bernardino valley.

On July 1, 1931, The L. W. Blinn Lumber Co., Russ Lumber & Mill Co., and the Patten & Davies Lumber Co., oue of the largest lumber and building material distributors in Southern California with more than thirty yards, merged. The merged concerns operate under the name of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. with general offices at Los Angeles. Mr. Lynch became vice president of the company.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Lynch; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia L. Gray of Pasadena; and two sons, Leslie G. Lynch, director of sales of the Patten-lJlinn Lumber Co., and Kenneth G. Lynch, who is connected with the company's millwork department.

Funeral services were conducted August 14 in the Wee Kirk o' the Heather at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.

BACK FROM L. A. TRIP

Lloyd Harris, Elliott Bay Sales Co., Oakland, returned August 2O from a business trip to Los Angeles.

An3clcr

Bokctaver-Bunr Lumbcr Co. ..........,.. ........Lo Angclc

Brookr Lmbcr Co. .......,....

Gripper & Haglind

Kcrckhofr-Cuner Lumbc Co.

Leme-Pbilipc

An3cbr

Angclee

LUMBER CAREERS Herb Klass

The subject of this sketch, Herb Klass, completed in mid-July of this year a total of 3O years' service with The Pacific Lumber Company, the great Redwood manufacturing concern of which he is general sales manager.

Last April he entered the fortysecond year of his experience, gained in practically every branch of the lumber industry. As is the case with many successful men, he has made his work his hobby, so it is not surprising that for many years he has been recognized as one of

the foremost authorities on Redwood. A member of the executive committee of the California Redwood Association, his keen judgment and practical knowledge of the industry is a great asset to that body in the work of solving their many problems.

Born in Oconto, 'Wis., on New Year's day, 1876, he attended school there, and after three years in high school left to enter the lumber business in April, 1891, when just over 15 years of age.

After working in a lumber yard and in the rvoods for about a year he left and decided to become a druggist, and right here the lumber industry nearly lost a good man. For this young fellow of 16 tackled the job seriously, as he has tackled all his jobs throughout his career, and he Iearned a good deal about the drug business in the two years he spent at it. However, the long hours in the drug store and the inside r'vork didn't appeal to him, and he re-

VDSIT

Frank Bell, of the recent business visitor panied by Mrs. Bell.

SAN FRANCISCO

Clovis Lumber Co., to San Francisco. Clovis, was a He was accom-

entered the lumber business in 1894 with the conviction that this was the business for him.

For the next ten years he worked in sawmills, in lumber yards, in the woods, and in planing mills, gaining as varied an experien.ce as he could, in Northern Wisconsin, Northern Michigan and Northern Minnesota, and in 1904 when working in Duluth he made up his mind to quit his job and come to California.

He came direct to San Francisco and went to work for The Pacific Lumber Company in July, 1904, in their yard at 6th and Channel Streets, first as clerk and later as stevedore boss. In l9O7 he was transferred to the company's Oakland yard as yard foreman. He was promoted to superintendent and remained there until July, 1915, when he went to Scotia to be factory superintendent.

His next promotion brought Mr. Klass to the highly responsible position of superintendent of production at the big Scotia plant, which he held until April, 1929, when he was called to the main oflice in San Francisco to be assistant to the general sales manager, the late Peter I\fcNevin. At Mr. McNevin's death he became general sales manager.

In 1902, when he was living in Duluth, Minn., Mr. Klass was married and he is the proud father of two boys and two girls. llis son, John, is a member of the sales staff of the Bark department of The Pacific Lumber Company.

He lives in Oakland. And while not an enthusiast, he plays an occasional round of golf.

His private office on the 24th floor of the Shell Building ir, San Francisco is beautifully paneled in Redwood, a fine example of the use for interior decoration of the wood, to the manufacture and sale of which he has devoted such a large portion of his business life.

SPEND VACATION IN L. A.

Or'ven L. Gibson, secretarv of White Brothers, San Francisco, with Mrs. Gibson. have been on vacation in Los Angeles, wl-rich was Mrs. Gibson's birthplace.

FIIA RElIOUATI lIG PROGRAIf,

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR QUICK SERVICE ON ROUGH LUMBER, SHINGLES, LATH, UPPERS, STOCK DOORS, TRIM, WALLBOARD AND PANELS TO KEEP YOUR STOCK BALANCED TO MEET THE DEMAND FOR RENOVATING UNDER THE FHA PROGRAM.

Herb Klass

MILLS AT BANDON, Underwood Bldg., San Francieco

BT]YDBS9 GT]IDB SAN FBANOISOO

LUMBER

Chamberlin & Co., W. R., 9th Floor, Fife Bfdg. ...........'DOuglu 5{?0

Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co.' 730 Merchants ExcbanSe Bldg.'...'.SUtter 7{56

Hammond Lumber Co., 310 Sangome St...........,.."" "Douglai 3389

Holmes Eureka Lumbcr Co., l5tl5 Financial Center Bldg. ....."GArfield l02l

Lawrence-Pbilips Lumber Co., 205 Fife Building... .'.. .EXbrook 1303

Loop Lumber CompanY' Ft. of l6th St....,..'.... " " " " "EXbrook {tlill

Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, @5 Market Street .......'....'..GArfield lt39

Mulligan & Co., W. J.' 52e Montgomery St. ..........,..'GArfield 66t0

LUMBER

McComick, Chas. R., Lunber Co., l5l Market Street ...'........""'DOuglu 256r

More Mill & Lumber Co.'

525 Market Stret .......'..'.....'EXbrook 0173

Pacific Lumber Co- The

100 Bush Street "'."""""""GArfic1d llEl

Red River Lumber Co.'

315 Mmadnck Bldc. ......."....GArfield 0922

Santa Fe Lumber Co-

16 Catifonia Stret ...............KEany 20?{

Schafer Brc. Luber & Shirrgle Co.'

1208 Fife Bfds. ..................'..Sutter lnl

Sudden & Cbristemn' 310 Samme Stret ...............GArfie|d 2t{t

Union Lmber Co., CrocLer Building ..SUtter Cl70

OAITLANII

LUMBER Hill & MortoD, lDc.' ----O""ni""" Si. Wi.* ............'.ANdovcr 1077

T. P. Hogan Co.' - aia e Atie StGt3.....,.......Gl.en@rt tttl

HARDWOODS

LUMBER

Van Arsdale-Hanis Lumber Co- Inc., Fifth & Brannan Streets. ..GArfield 36110

Wendling-Nathan Co., ll0 Market Stret Suttcr 5t63

E. K. Wod Lumber Co., I Drumm Street...... ..... ......KEarny 3710

Weyerhaeuser Saler Co., l1l Califonira Street .GArfield t97{ DOORS AND PLYWOOD

Nicolai Door Sales Co3045 frth Strcet .....,..........,...Mlssion 7!20

Wheeler-Oagood Saler Corporation, 3045 l9th st. ......................VA|encia Z4l

CREOSOTED LUMBER_POLES-PILING_ TIES

McCormick, Chag. R.' Lumbcr Co., 16l Markqt Stret ..., - .DOuglar 2561

PANEIJ

Elliott Bty Salcr Co.' lf2f Bmdmy ..'..............'.,..HI8"'to zla?

Califmia Buildere Supply Co.. 501 29tb Awnue ..................ANdover lltt

Strable Hardwod Co., 53? FiEt Street '. ...TEmplebar 55tl

LOS ANGNLBS

LUMBER

LUMBER

Bokstaver Burns Lumber Co', Chanber of Commere Bldg"""PRocpcct 6Ztl

Chmberlln & Co.' W- R.' 318 West Ninth St. ...""""""Tuckcr l'l3l

Dolbeer & Carsm Lumber Co',

r2g Sbell Buitding.......... " " " "VAndikc 3?!2

Hotmer Eureka Lumber Co., ?u-?12 Archltects Bldg- " 'Mutml 9ltf

Hemmond Lumber Co.,

2lll0 So. Alameda SL .'...........PRGPcct ?l?f

Hoover, A. L.'

?tt0 So. La Brea Avc. """"."""'YOrk ucc

Lawrcnce-PbiliPs Lumbcr Co.,

Gt3 Pctrolcu Smritiel Bldg....PRcpect 02, Long-Bell Lumbcr Sal:c Corpontion'

?D Petrclm Securitic Bl&....PRocp€Gt 6'168

McComick, Char R., Lunber Co, U? WBt tth SL ................TRhity 5z{r

Mulligaa & Co.' W. J.'

lu W6i t6 St. ..................VAEdte'l'ltt

Paciic Lmbcr Co., IAc

?C0 So. I: Bnr Arc.....'............YOrk ll0t

Patten-Blinn Lunber Co., 52r E. sth sL ..................'.VAndike 2321

Red Rivcr Lumber Co-

?02 E' Stam ..'AXridgc 9071

Sata Fe Lumber Co.,

3U Fimncial Center Bldg. ..VAndike 44?l

Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shinsle Co.,

,l2E Petrolcum Sccuritier Bl&.. ..PRcpect 5{78

Sudden & Chrirtensorl

GtO Boud of Tmde Bldg. ..'.'...,TRinitv tt44

Union Lumber Co-

923 W. M. Garland Bldg. ..........TRinit Ztz

Wendling-Nathu Co.

700 So. La Brea Arc. .................YOrk ff6t

E. K. Wood Lumber Co1701 Santa Fe Ave................JEfrenon 3ll1

Weyettaeu*r Sals Co., t49 Pctrcleu Sodtio Btds....PRGFct 55t0

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLEII-PILINGTIES

McCcnick, Chr.. R. lmbc Cou7 W6t ttb 3L ...............Tru.1t SAlr

HARDWOODS

Cooper, W. E- Lumber Co. lori e. tstt st. ..................PRspGcr Slll

Hammond Lumber Co. 2010 So. Alamcda St..............PRospcct ?l7l

Laughlin, C. J.' 625 Petroleum Seoritic Bldg...'.PRdFct 2703

Stanton, E. J., & Son, 2050 East 3Eth Stret '............Axrid9e l2U SASH_DOORS_MIT I WORK

Hamod Lubcr Co2lll0 So. Almeda St.....,.."'...PRaFct tl?l

Kchl, Jno. W., & Sonr, 652 So Myen St. .................ANgc|u l07l

Red River Lmber Co702 E. Slam ..AXrtdgc to?l

Wbeler-Osgod Sale Corpora6o, l0Llll So. Brodway ............,.,,PRospect gllG

PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Callfmia Parcl & Vcnu Co055 So. Alameda St. ..............TRinity m5?

Coopcr, W' E.' Lumber Co' 20115 E. lsth St. .................PR6FGI Sltl

Wheler-Ocg@d Saler Goryondoo' 2lliit Sacnmento St- :..... .TUcker 116l

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Urge Lumbeimen to Get Behind \(/estern Bankers Discuss New Construction Program Housing Plans

R. F. Pray, General Sales Manager of The Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, Calif., has sent out a letter to their customers in all territories from coast to coast, urging each lumberman to get behind the new Government housing program. His letter follows: "Gentlemen:

"The purpose of this letter is to call to your attention the desirability and necessity of those interested in the production and distribution of lumber and lumber products, to see that means are taken at once that the terms of the National Housing Act are carried out promptly.

"Our belief is that no form of efiort will put back to work more men and recreate a recovery of the industrial and financial conditions faster and more substantially than the building program made possible under the National Recovery Act.

"To this end we urge you to bring every pressure you can on your political representatives, your bankers, your newspaper men, your Chambers of Commerce, your Boards of Trade and your service clubs, to force the terms of this act to a prompt and successful conclusion.

"As lumbermen and interested in the wide use of lumber we hope you will ,conceive it as a personal responsibility to get behind the enforcement of the terms of this act.

"May we have from you a letter indicating your interest in this matter and what steps you may take to bring this about.

Yours very truly, THE RED RIVER LUMBER COMPANY.

By R. F. Pray, General Sales Manager."

First Remodeling Loan Job in L. A. Under \(/.y

Paul H. Hutchinson, l7I8 West Thirty-eighth place, Los Angeles, received the first remodeling and imprclvement loan in that city under the National Housing Act on August 18. He will remodel and build a garag.e. The loan was handled through the California Bank. Delivery of lumber which included Douglas fir and redwood was made by the Bank Line Lumber Co. of Los Angeles, and construction work is already under way. The Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express of August 25 f.eatured a photograph showing a truck load of redwood siding being unloaded at the lumber yard ready for delivery to the job.

FHA Opens Office in S. F.

Offices were opened at 1722 Russ Building, San Francisco, by the Federal Housing Administration, August 17. These offices will serve the Northern district of California. Clifford C. Anglim is District Director.

Alfred B. Swinerton,225 Bush Street, San Francisco, is regional director of Region No. 10, which includes Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada. Oregon, Utah and Washington,

Bankers of seven Western states met with the National Emergency Council at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, August 21, to work out plans for handling in the West the home modernization program of the Federal Housing Administration.

Alfred B. Swinerton of San Francisco, regional director of the FHA, read a dispatch from James A. Mofiatt, federal housing administrator. The dispatch said that already banks representing 87,000,000 of the nation's population had promised unqualified support.

Hearty cooperation was promised by Andrew Miller, secretary of the California Bankers' Association, and by Clifford A. Anglim, district director of the FHA for Northern California.

Mr. Miller, in behalf of the. bankers of California, said: "The banks are anxious to help in every way possible, and we believe the home modernization loan setup is a fine program."

Under the terms of the loans, which are payable in one, two and three years, the borrower must have an income of five times the service charge, which will be $5 per hundred on the loan.

Loans will be made to improve and modernize property up to $2000.

FHA Opens Los Angeles Office

Fred W. Marlow, district director of the federal government's new housing program in Southern California, has established offices in the Great Republic Life Building, Eighth and Spring Streets, Los Angeles.

Mr. Marlow addressed 300 leading building and construction executives of Los Angeles on August 22. The meeting was held before the constru,ction industries committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and was presided over by John H. Austin, a former president of the chamber.

Flnds Dealers Enthusiastic About FHA Program

Russell D. Baker, manager of the Redwood Sales Co., sales organization for Eastern sales for an important group of Redwood mills, returned to his office in San Francisco, August lQ from a four months' business trip.

Mr. Baker called on the company's representatives and salesmen, and a large number of retailers, in all the states east of the Rocky mountains.

Asked about the attitude of the retail lumber dealers to the Federal Housing Administration's modernization and renovation program, he said he found retailers everywhere rvithout exception enthusiastic about the possibilities for new business to be created by the campaign.

lnterprets Decline of Lumber Redwood Tanlcs Good as New Sales in Second Quarter After 64 Years' Service

Washington, D. C., August 12.-In a survey of lumber demand and supply issued today, the U. S. Timber Conservation Board's Lumber Survey Committee attributes ths poor showing in the second quarter of 1934 partly to the prevalence of strikes outside the lumber industry, particularly on the Pacific Coast. Part of the lethargy is charged to "retail and consumer hesitancy" because of price uncertainties. In that quarter shipments and new orders were 1O and 9 per cent, respectively, below production. Orders were only slightly above those of the first quarter of the year, and nearly 30 per cent below those of the second quarter of 1933.

Lumber stocks at the mills on July lst were about 8.5 billion feet-an increase of.832 million feet in 12 months.

It is pointed out that the Lumber Pri'ce Index of the Bureau of Labor, which was 88 last December, is expected to dr'op to around 8O when the recent 10 per cent reduction irr minimum mill prices begins to be reflected statistically.

Lumber stocks are considered to be in surplus by nearly 4 billion feet, but an increase in lumber buying during the rest of the year is confidently expected. The industry is criticized for- backwardness in organized and centralized trade promotion efforts, implying that it has relied upon trade stabilization and orderly marketiug through the Lumber Code more than upon encouragement of consumption.

Attention is called to the fact that since the Lumber Code became effective in August 1933 more than 5,000 small sawmills have been put into operation. At the rate of lumber consumption given by the Committee for the first six months of 1934 the year's lumber consumption will equal 15.5 billion feet, as compared with 14.6 billion feet in 1933.

Another proof of the durability of California Redwood, and its suitability for the construction of all kinds of tanks, was given recently when two water tanks, made of Redwood in 1870 were wrecked in San Francisco af.ter 64 years' service. The tanks, which were in use up to about a year ago, were found to be in perfect condition.

The tanks, made by Pacifib Tank Co., now known as Pacific Tank & Pipe Co., were erected by John Center, who owned most of the property around the neighborhood of Sixteenth and Shotwell Streets, where the tanks were located, to supply water to his tenants.

When the great fire of 1906 came, these water tanks were credited with saving much of the property in the district.

On account of the sturdy construction of the sub-structure, which was mortised and tenoned, without a nail in it anywhere, and the fact that seven feet o{ water remained in the tanks, the wrecking job presented unusual difficulty, and resisted the efforts of the wreckers until thev found out about the water and drained it.

The San Francisco Examiner gave a good deal of publicity to the wrecking of the tanks, and treated the wreckers to some good-natured joshing, Their first article, after the first failure to pull the tanks down, was headed, "No, Tanks, They're Not Pushovers, These Old Boys." A picture was shown of the structure leaning at a slight angle, with the caption, "And Still They Stand." The following day the paper showed five pictures of the structure in various stages of falling, with the heading, "Tank Yank, In Five Reels. Tower Falls After Battle." SIRUCIURAI

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From

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Ten of The

Years Ago Today

California Lumber Merchant, September 1 , 1924

The market report states that the California lumber situation is much improved. Fir and Redwood cargo receipts at Los Angeles harbor for the month of August will run about 110,000,000 feet. The cargo totals at this port for July were 91,000,00O feet.

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Vere Hunter, prominent San Francisco Bay District lumberman, died at Oakland on August 12 following a prolonged illness.

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"IIow Do They Buy Your Product?-By Price or by Preference?" is the leading editorial by Jack Dionne.

The Nfillwort< tnstitutJ of* Ciiforr,ia held their second quarterly meeting at Santa Cruz on August 22 and 23. President H. W. Gaetjen presided at the meeting.

California closes Hoo-iroi fiu, *itt big meeting at Santa Cruz. 47 Kittens were initiated.

An article and illustra;"J J the Brentwood Lumber Company is reprinted from the Booster Number of the Byron (Calif.) Times.

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J. A. Stroud of San Francisco was the low gross winner at the State Hoo-Hoo golf tournament held at Santa Cruz on Sunday, August 24. A. B. McAlpine, Los Angeles, won the low net prize. H. A. Cahalan was the second low gross winner and Z. T. Thorning took the second low net.

Breaking all former ,."lral iJ ti-. between the Lower Columbia River and San Diego harbor, the tug "Humaconna" arrived at San Diego harbor on August 14 towing the third raft of the season for the Benson Lumber Company's mill. The "Hurnaconna" made the trip in twelve days. +,i*

The annual picnic of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco was held on August 17 at the Hoo-Hoo Inn near Cupertino in the Santa Clara Valley.

***

The Kellogg Lumber Company has opened offices at Los Angeles where they will carry on a general wholesale business. C. M. Kellogg is president of the company.

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The Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co. has filed articles of incorporation at Santa Cruz.

Jack Dionne addressed the San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's Club at a meeting held at the Black Cat Cafe, San Fernando, on Wednesday evening, August 13.

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The Los Angeles District Hoo-Hoo will hold their annual election on September 5. C. J. I-aughlin, Berne S. Barker and Phil Hart are the candidates for the office of Vicegerent Snark.

'I'he Brentwood Country Club was the scene of a very successful dinner dance held by the Los Angeles Hoo-lloo Club on Friday evening, August 15. ***

The 1924 membership roster of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club has been sent out by Secretary I. E. Brink of Chico. L. H. Chapman, Sacramento, is president of the Club. :frF*

J. E. "Jimmy" Atkinson is now representing the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. in the Peninsula, Sonoma and Marin County territory. He was formerly assistant to Ed. Garland in the company's San Francisco office.

George M. Janeway, Janeway Lumber Co., Bellflower, announces that he will start construction on a new plant at on,ce to replace the one destroyed by fire early in August. ,1. d< *

At a meeting of the directors of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, held at Santa Cruz on August 23, it was decided to hold the annual meeting of the Association in the southern part of the state, probably Los Angeles.

This issue carries an article with illustrations on The Sugar Pine Lumber Company at Pinedale, Calif. :8rf*

There is a sketch and photograph of the Wm. W. Wilson Lumber Company, Los Angeles, wholesale hardwood distributors, in this number.

Donald E. Holcomb ir: "J* lor,n".t".l with the ColeHunter Lumber Co. of San lirancisco, ancl is representing this concern in the Bay District.

The Hammond Lumber Company will move their San Bernardino yard to a new location recently purchased near their present site.

California lumbermen visiting the Northwest include C. F. Reeder, Fillmore; Milt Hendrickson, Oakland; H. M. Van Houten, Brawley; Bill Rarnpe, San F'rancisco; Allan 'Iurner, San Francis'co; G. R. Tully, Los Angeles, Charlie Hammond, San Francisco and Arthur Cole, San Francisco.

The Gray-Thornton Lumber Company, Redwood City, is constructing a large lumber shed. The storage building will be 400 feet in length.

A picture and article i, lt"J" on the Tracy Lumber Company, at Tracy, Calif.

J. C. Kerr, Acme Lumber Company, San Francisco, was elected a member of the Lumber Salesmen's Club of San Francisco at its meeting on August 11.

Transfered to

Harry L. Call, rvho has with the Oakland office of has been transferred to the tendent of branch yards in

Los

Angeles Building Book Reviews

been for some years connected the E. K. Wood Lumber Co.,. Los Angeles office as superinSouthern California.

Howard L. Bacon

Judge Hor.vard L. Bacon, of Oakland, died August 16 from bullet worrnds inflicted lty a client. Oakland police, firemen ancl members of Oaklan( Post No. 5, American l,egion, joinecl in the funeral procession August 17.

Judge Bacon is survived by his widow, Mrs. Clair Bacon; his mother, Mrs. S. E. Bacon; two brothers, Ralph E. Bacon and Ellard A. Bacon, and two sisters, Miss Doris E. Bacon and Mrs. S. E. Brown.

Ralph E. Bacon is a member of the sales staff of Strable Hardwood Co., C)akland.

INCREASED SALES MEANS INCREASED NEED FOR CREDIT INFORMATION

Vhile increasing your sales effort to get your share of the building material business created by the new Housing program, do not overlook the element of CREDIT RISK. Not only will it be present in the case of new accounts, but also with old customers, who have been inactive and about whose present financial status you may know very little.

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This service has functioned successfully for nearly sixty years. It keeps you advised of alt changes affecting the credit status of all of your accounts. It is not necessary to get a Special Report on each account about which you want to be kept constantly advised.

ft is the logical credit information service fot those who sell lumber and allied products as it furnishes much EXCLUSM information, and the cost is small.

In view of the rapidly reviving public interest in home building, the popular booklet, "The House For The Growing Income", has been revived by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The booklet des,cribes an extensible house plan and scheme, whereby a small family and a thin purse may start a home-owning career with a charming cottage of four rooms, which'can be enlarged as income and family grow, and yet be at each stage an architectural unit which grows in beauty, rather than suffers, from the carefully planned extensions.

The original unit may be built at as low a cost as $2,000, according to the refinement of the interior finish and equipment.

'fhis booklet, although issued by an industrial Association, is not a piece of commercial literature and the demand for it has been so great that the publishers, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., have been compelled to ask a nominal price of loc a copy, including postage.

The same Association is also bringing out anew its beautiful brochure, "Modern Home Interiors", which gives many interesting and stimulating ideas, illustrated by sketches, for the beautification and better utilization of interior space. This booklet, also strictly non-commercial, may be obtained from the same publishers at the same nominal fee as "The lfouse For The Growing fncome".

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WANTED_EXPERIE,NCED PINE BOX FACTORY SUPERINTENDENT

Wanted experienced Pine Box factory superintendent capable of assuming full charge of plant capacity approximately 50,000 feet per day; willing to pay top salary to man that can qualify. All replies will be treated in strictest confidence. Please answer fully on past experience, age, if employed at present, salary expe,cted, etc. Address Box C-519, care California Lumber Mer,chant.

Organizing Pole-Piling Division

Washington, D. C., Aug. 13.-The Pole and Piling Coordinating Committee, in charge of the administration of the Lurnber Code as applicable to the Pole and Piling Division, held its organization meeting at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago, July 30. By-Laws were adopted and the following officers elected: L. A. Page, Page & Hill, producers and distributors of white and red cedar poles, Minneapolis, chairman; Charles Chadbourne, Puget Timber Co., Seattle, Wash., vice chairman, and Arthur Bevan, secretary pro tem. The chairman was authorizecl to appoint an executive secretary to serve at his discretion. A. N. Robertson was elected as the Division's member of the Lumber Code Authority, with Mr. Page as alternate.

Following a discussion of code fees and budgets, the chairnran was authorized to prepare a budget to cover the Division expenses including the LCA assessment, and the secretary was instructed to use the most recent statistics of the Census Bureau in respect to the volume of business as a basis of establishing the percentage of the Coordinating Committee and Lumber Code Authority expenses to be paid by each Subdivisional agency. Each Subdivisional administrative agency will be instructed to prepare and submit a budget to the Coordinating Committee within the next thirty days, the budgets to be accompanied by a detailed report of possible income to cover the budget, supplemented by recommendations on basis of assessments.

Each Subdivision is to prepare a set of Fair Trade Practice Rules for submission at the next meeting of the Committee, these to be consolidated irrto a set of Fair Trade Practice Rules for the Division.

The follorving persons attended the organization meeting: C. D. Zagelmeier, L. A. Page, Ray V. Clute, Charles Chadbourne, T. B. Morgan (representinC E. C. Gates), H. E. Austin, A. N. Robertson, H. N. Roach, E. H. Chapman, J. D. Mylrea, and Harry W. Cole (representing Mason E. Kline).

EXPERIENCED LUMBERMAN WANTS POSITION

Lumberman of long experience wants position as bookkeeper, office or clerical work. San Francisco Bay district preferred. Address E. T. Paulson, 1735 Grove Street, Berkeley. Telephone AShberry 932.

YARD FOREMAN

Wants position with wholesale or retail lumber yard. Knorvs both softwoods and hardwoods. Long experience. Anything considered. Can furnish references. Would prefer Los Angeles District. Address Box C-517, care California Lumber Merchant.

Tests Show Structural Adaptability of Plywood

Washington, D. C., August 23.-Architects, home owners and contractors contemplating either modernization or new construction will be interested in tests concluded by the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, 'Wisconsin, shorving that plywood as a covering for frame walls and as the sub-floor and ceiling of floor panels contributes improved strength and stiffness and furnishes opportunities for prefabrication of these units of a building.

Two series of tests'completed this year are described by Geo. W. Trayer, Senior Engineer of the laboratory, in a recent issue of the Engineering News-Record. The first test covered the action of plywood when utilized as a structural covering for frame walls and wall units; the second dealt with floor panels with stressed plywood coverings.

The investigation of plywood for wall units developed the fact that well nailed plywood in large sheets contributes strength and rigidity equal to that obtainable with diagonal lumber sheathing, and, consequently, greater than that obtained with horizontal sheathing.

Hitherto unknown advantages in the use of plywood when nailed and glued to the top of floor joists as a sub' floor and to the bottom of joists as a ceiling, were developed in the floor panel tests. These indicated that such construction permits the plyrvood to contribute to the flexural strength of the floor system and in effect reproduces the action of a box girder. This method of construction would permit shallower joists and contribute greater stiffness and strength.

"The extent to which the inherent rigidity and strength of large plywood sheets are utilized depends upon the security with which the plywood is attached to the frame", rvrites Mr. Trayer. "By gluing, a rigidity is obtained that is far superior to anything possible with nailing, whether plywood or diagonal sheathing is used."

Let lls Tell Therrrrr

Twice each month rtre are sending out our message of business news, ideas and good cheer to the lumbermen of California. On every page there are matters of direct and practical interest to every California lumberman. Isn't this then an ideal medium for those who have a business story they want to send to these lumber folks?

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N^TT'NAL HousrNG Art AND THE LUUTBERMAN

The National Housing Act presents the lumberman with an opportunity and a responsibility. We have the opportunity to extend the sale of lumber products but the responsibility for success rests entirely upon our efforts as salesmen. The law permits financing but it does not compel anyone to build. Every lumberman, manufacturer, wholesaler and dealer, must join in selling the idea to the public.

Dealers, to realize sales, must be able to meet the builder's demand for all items needed for renovation and construction. A diversified and balanced stock is necessarv.

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