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MANUTACTURER, SAYS R,ETAILEB SIIOULD PAY TR,EIGHT IN 10 DAYS ON CAR,GO SIIIPMENTS

Gentlemen: We note the discussion in your Open Forum relative to the payment of water freight upon arrival of the lumber at destination, or at least within ten days of that date.

We have been selling lumber on these terms in California for about a year, and in most cases the retailers have acknowledged the justice of these terms. The points brought out in your last issue are well taken by the " Cargo Shipper. ', Another argument which might be added is that it would be entirely unfair to those who discount their bills and pay their freight net cash at the same time, namely within ten days after the arrival of the vessel, for the shipper to give sixty days' time to the customer who does not discount his bills but allow him to pay his freight sixty days after date of invoice when he pays for his lumber.

'We believe the practice of paying freight sixty days after it is earned has come about through the practice of wholesale yards selling to retail yards out of stock which they have on hand on terms of 2 per cent in ten days, or sixty days net. The item of freight here does not enter as the wholesaler has no doubt charged a sufficient price for his lumber to cover the carrying charges of freight as well as the handling charges in the yard, but where the produet is going direct from the manufacturers or jobber who does n"' carry a stock in California the terms of payment should be universally established at not to exceed 10 days after arrival of the lumber.

Very truly yours, NETTI/ETON IIUMBER, COMPANY. Seattle, Wash.

A STRONG LETTER, FROM CALIFOR,MA LUMBER WOMAN

Mr.

Jack Dionne,

Publisher, TIIE CALIFORNIA I-,UI\[BER, MERCHANT.

Dear Sir: Since its inception and introduction into the ffeltl I have been reading religiously, page for page, with a critical commercial eye and avidity THE CAIJIFORNIA IJUMBER, MERCHANT. It meets a GREAT need and its success is fixed. Complimentary comments are heard. on. every hand. Your article on "Shingles and Raisins" made such an impression that immediately I had read it I telephoned a live wire lumberman who enthusiastically rejoined he too had read it and TIIAT DAY hatt sent a subscription to your paper.

For years I have been hearing of your activities in behalf of lumber MEN. But in scanning the pages of THE CAIJIFORNIA LUMBER, MERCHANT I fail to find a line touching on CO-OPERATION, SERVICE, IJOYAL/TY, AITERTNESS, GREATER, ACTIVITY among WOMEN-of which there are not a few-in the LUMBER industry. :

I am a young worr,an associated with a better than-fortymillion dollar lumber organization with ofrices, agencies and other connections all over the world. 'Why do YOU not publish something appealing to hundreds and hundred.s of women LUMBER, employees, something to feed their starved souls, something to make them individually proud to be a part of the great lumber world, something that will ma' them 'WANT to remain a part of it and not DESIRE to leave it? The advertising, newspaper and other fields open to women afford greater opportunities for advancement SEEMINGIJY than the LUMBER, industry. But are not women as vitally interested in HOMES, the exterior, interior, and cultural beauty as m.en? Are not they as interested in architecture, build.ing plans, etc., as men? And. if not could not YOIIR, journal, which is leaving so pleasant a taste in the minds of Iumber MEN meet a need and arouse a keener interest through an instructive and entertaining department for lumber WOMEN? Women, dependent upon and encouragers of lumber men,-employees, wives, sisters and sweethearts,-who, yearly, spend large sums of money on magazines and. journals of various types and of shifting interest to their sex.

May I add, your pages are chuck full of the get-together, pull-together, knit-together spirit so greatly needed. today 'in the ranks of wholesale and retail lumbermen of Northren California, particularly

With appreciation for your messenger, I remain, Very truly yours,

(Signed) MISS MAUDE B. FORRESTER, 845 Sutter St.. San Francisco.

We ofrer one of the best manufactured Lath in the rnarketBright, fult width and thiclcres!-up to grade-and made from atrictly old growth yellow Fir.

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