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Reliable quality starts with the excellence of the California White Pine and Sugar Pine in Red River's forests. These are early selections o.f, superior growth and in large tracts that will yield a supply for many future y€ars.
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Lumber orders during the week ended September 2 continued to decline to a total oi l42r078r}o0 feet which was the lowest since April and lumber production was the lowest since that of the fourth of Juty week, according to reltorts to the National Lumber Manufaciurers Association from the regional associa' tions covering the opetations of. 676 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Production totaled 18r'998'000 feet; shipments 183,71 3,OOO febt: and orders 142,07 8'0OO f.eet. * X. * {. {.,-
A total of. 356 down and opemting mills which reported to the West Coast Lumberments Association for the week ended September 2 produced lO7,9OL,87l board feet of lumber. This was a ddcrease of aplroximately 4r5fi)r000 feet undet the cut of the preceding wee[. The average week's production of this gtoup of sawmills rn l9r, has been 811750167l feet; during-the same period in 1932, their weekly avetage was 6318621639 fe*:t.
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The new business reported last week by 19S mills is 6810921246 board feet against a production of 9615111562 f.eet and ship' tnents of tOtr66ZrOgt ieet. Shipments were over production -by 5.34Vo, and current sales were under production by 29.45VoThe orders booked for the week by this group of mills were over the preceding week by 1'588'000 feet or 2.39io.
The Los Angeles lumbermen will hold a golf tournament at the Fox Hills Country Club, Culver City, California, Friday afternoon, September 22, 1933. All lumbermen alrd their guests are invited to attend. The tournament will start at 1 :00 p.m. Luncheon will be served at the Club Ifouse, and in the evening there will be a buffet supper and entertainment. Prizes will be arvarded to the winners of the various events.
The committee in charge of the tournament includes : Harry V. Hanson, 'chairman; Don Philips, W. B. Wickersham, Ross Blaiiihaid, Jack Thomas, Kenneth Smith, Harry A. Graham and Ed. Martin. Make your reservations through Ed. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles. Telephone VAndyke 4565.
Frederic S. Palmer, manager of the Pine Department of the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his desk September 5 from a tour of the Pine mills in Northern Oelif-o.rnia and South'ern oregon'
The Soutftem Pine Association for the week ended September 2 reported new business for 98 mills as 2617O3rOOO feetl shipments 27r355rOOO feet, and production 24r848rOOO feet. Orders were 6 per cent above production and 4 per cent belorv shipments. Shipments were 10 per cent above production.
The Western Pine Association for the week reported new business from 94 mills as 2516721000 feet; shipments 28'3161000 feet, and production 74r933rOOO feet. Orders werc 27 per cent below production and 9 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 19 ller aent below production.
279 hatdwood mills for the game week reported new business as 19 219,000 feet; shipments 2216611000 f&t, and production 23,683rOC[J feet. Orders were 19 per cent below production and shipments were 4 per cent below the*outpuj:.
Unsold stocks on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor totaled 6641000 feet on September 5. Catgo amivals at Los Angeles harbor for the week ended Septembet 2 amounted to 5,8781000 feet, which included 1O cargoes of Fir with 5,142'000 feet and 2 cargoes of Redwood carrying 736rooo fet. Cargo arrivals the previous week at this port totaled 142O6,OOO f.et. 59 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on August 3O1, 46 vessels were laid up.
Los Angeles continued the leading city on the Pacific Coast in building permits for the month of August, with a total of $115641166. Long Beach was second wrth i577r755, and Sin Francisco third with a total of $544,224.
The California lumber situation shows very litde change and the demand in all sections of the state is reported light. July and August ate ganetalLy quiet mo,nths but the seasonal fall demand which should start s(xln is expected to bring an improvement in the market.
Deputy Commissioner Malcom Muir who conducted the National Retail Lumber Dealers' code hearings at Washington last month presented the code to General Johnson of the Recovery Administration on September 12. It is expected that the Code will be signed by President Roosevelt at an earlv date.
W. B. Wickersham, Chas. R. M,cCormick Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a two weeks' vacation in the Northwest. While in the Puget Sound territory, he visited the company's mills at Port Ludlow and Port Gamble.
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The ability to laugh at everythiug that developed has saved the heart and soul of the American nation for four years. Everything thet comes up is made the butt of stories, "gags," and wise-cracks galore.
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But the NRA breaks all possible records as subject for futrny efrorts of all sorts. The nation mects on thc corners these days to tell the latest one, I'vc heard five hundred already, and the tidal wave is rising. ***
"Nuthin' new 'bout dis NRA to me," said grey haired Uncle Mose; "Ah bin havin' it fo' twenty yeahs-Neuralgia -Rheumatis6-91' Asthma."
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It isn't always easy to "laugh it off" though. A friend of mine, a happy, optimistic fellow, came back from Washington the other day. He had been Code-ing. He looked ten years older. I said-"How was it?" He never even grinned. "Therd ain't no God," he said, and walked off.
When you've owned and run your own business all your life it isn't easy to have some stranger tell you how you've got to do it "from nolt on."
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I met another sawmill rnan. "What does NRA mean to you?" I asked him. "Well, if I don't sell some lumber soon it will mean 'Never Run Again'," he said with a grin.
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Editorial writers from Washington say that now that the brilliant Dudley Cates is gone from NRA, only the laborites Richberg and Wolman seem to have the ear of General Johnson. So, to paraphrase the famous old Bostonian rhyme-
Here's the nest of the Royal Blue Eagle
Where industry bends to the formative rod
Where Richberg and Wolman alone speak to Johnson And Johnson speaks only to Roosevelt and God.
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Speaking of Dudley Cates-and the nation has been speaking rather pointedly of Dudley Cates of late-he- is an old friend of General Johnson, a very practical, very fair, very understanding qln. But he didn't agree with Johnron about the proper interpretation of the labor provi-
sion of thc NRA. He tdked back, they said, which isn't allowed. So Cates isn't there any more.
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By the way, why not have a graded scale of Blue Eagles, instead of just one for everyone. Give the Blue Eagle to those who live up to their Code. But for those who do more for labor than just what the Code calls for-who perform a greater service in the direction airned at by the Recovery Act-why not give some sign of distinction, guch as a Blue Eagle with gold wings?
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Professional economists are bursting into print every day now telling us that this is only the beginning; that the philosophies and formulas of the Recovery Program will be permanently implanted in industry. Wrong. All wrong. Industry has its shoulder to the wheel and is going to move Heaven and Hell to help President Roosevelt put over his NRA. But the day when Government goes back to running Government, and business tahes back the operation of its own affairs, is the day of days industry is looking forward to. And, he who thinks otherwise is either blind or stupid.
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One of the great threats to the success of the NRA program is lack of credit. If a business is just barely existing (as most businesses have been), is down to its last dollar and with its lines of credit entirely exhausted (as the majority of businesses are), and along comes the Government and says "reduce your working hours and increase your wage scale," which means of course "increase your cost o,f doing business and pay cash for the increase,"-q;5ere is the money to corne from? trft
President Roosevelt himself and two of his financial lieutenants told the American bankers in national convention assembled in Chicago the other day that the NRA cannot hope to succeed without a tremendous expansion of credit to American people and American business. The bankers were told that hoarders of credit and hoarders of cash are not much difrerent. Everyone, they said, who is entitled to credit must have it, "the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker." And, they were told that if the banks will not furnish it, the Government must.
It was made very clear to the bankers that the recent utterances of many bankers in the face of Government
criticism to the effect that there is plenty of money available to people of sound credit, hasn't fooled anyone. Loaning a thousand dollars on a note with two thousand dollars worth of Government bonds attached, isn't extending credit. That's running a pawn shop. The shadow of infation was raised before the bankers as a sort of threat to loan dollars while dollars still have a high value. ***
Consider the situation in which the sawmill man finds himself. I have in mind what I consider an average case in Southern Pine manufacture. This concern has been in desperate financial straits for the past two years. They have strained their credit and exhausted their cash, and they meet with a small sized panic every time their notes come due. But they have been getting by through stout hearts and wise heads. They have weathered the storm thus far.
The new Code gave them reduced hours, and increased wages. It increased their cost tremendously. In the first place that means that they have to have the cash to meet the increased cost, until they can sell and collect for their lumber. When a mill manufactures lumber it really buys and pays for that lumber, and holds the position of an investor in that stock until it can sell and collect the money for it. ***
This concern f am thinking of has to find twenty or more thousands of dollars additional this month if it wants to run its mills on the new scale. And, then it has the big question mark about selling the lumber and getting the money. WILL the public buy lumber at the advanced
prices necessitated by the Code? CAN the public do so? Those are the question this firm-and all other firms in such circumsf3nss5-s1e asking right now.
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The next month is going to be a very important one to the lumber industry; perhaps the most dramatic since the depression started. The industry has taken up the NRA effort wholeheartedly. Everyone in the industry will do his best to rnake and market lumber as efficiently as possible, and keep men employed to the nth degree. But everyihing hinges on the buying power of the public. Will the public find money enough to buy lumber at the new cost level? Will there be sufficient incentive to invest the newly created buying power in building materials?
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Keeping employment at high tide will depend entirely on the demand for lumber at the new prices. The industry is not financed to produce lumber at present costs, unless it can be promptly sold and collected for. Employment at the sawmills had reached a high levil-compared with the last five years-on August first, 1933. To keep it there will require a very active lumber market. The entire industry is watching developments with anxious eyes.
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There was a large attendance of retail lumbermen at the hearing on the Code of Fair Competition, recently {iled by California retailers, which was held at the State Building, San Francisco, September 7.
Adolf Michel, Deputy Commissioner of Corporations, presided. Seated at the head table were the members of the Code committee appointed by the California Retail Lumbermen's Association consisting of Dee Essley, manager of the Association; F. L. Dettman, Allen & Dettman Lumber Co., San Francisco, and F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno.
Dee Essley read the entire code section by section. The majority of the sections were approved, but protests were filed against some sections by Kenneth Smith, representing the Lumber and Allied Products Institute, Los Angeles, and by Orrie Hamilton for the Lumbermen's Service Association, San Diego.
It was stated that 73 per cent of the retail lumber industry of California had signed approval of the Code.
There was ,considerable discussion as to whether other building materials would come under the Code, and it was stated that this would be determined by the National Codes for those materials.
Harry A. Lake, State Association president, and Earl Johnson, Pasadena and E' T. Robie, Auburn, vice presidents were in attendance, and directors of the Association present included the following: Ross Blanchard, North Hollywood; Francis Boyd, Santa Barbara; Phil Curran, Pomona; Paul Hallingby, Los Angeles ; O. W' Hamilton, San Diego; Chas. G. Bird, Stockton; Ira E. Brink, Chico; Mead Clark, Santa Rosa; Ray Clotfelter, Visalia; Frank Duttle, Oakland; Ralph Duncan, Merced; W. F. Hayward, Santa Clara; Paul M. P. Merner, Palo Alto; J. H. Shepard, Sacramento, and B. J. Boorman, Oakland. Also in attendance were the majority of the Association secretaries.
The National Control Committee, executive body of Lurnber Code Authority, Inc., (formerly the Emergency National Committee) at its meeting August 21, decided upon Wednesday, October 4, f.or the next meeting of members of Lumber Code Authority. This will be the first meeting of the Authority since the adoption of the Lumber and timber products code which was signed by the President, on August 19. It will be held in Washington, D. C.
Business before the meeting will in'clude su'ch further action as is necessary to put the lumber code into effect and will cover the questions of cost prote'ction, trade practices, production control and forestry.
The meeting will also consider the matter of inclusion of various industry groups not now under the code, as of some of the wood-using industries.
Ta'coma, (Wash.), Aug. 3O.-Lumber mills in the Pacific Northwest Douglas fir district will work a maximum of thirty hours a week for the month beginning September 4, the first period of NRA production allocation, it was announced today by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association.
The announ'cement was made by Col. W. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Association, r'vho said:
"Trustees of the West Coast Association, acting under authority of the lumber code, and under an allocation from Washington, of 45O000,000 board feet of lumber production for the Douglas fir district in September, have established 120 hours, or at the rate of thirty hours per week, as the maximum working time for any mill in the area for a period of four weeks beginning September 4'
"The efiest of this order will be a substantial reduction in the volume of lumber to be produced in September compared with the amount made in August'"
Portland, August 31.-The production control clause of the Lumber Code offi,cially became effective September lst in the Western Pine Division upon announcement by David T. Mason, manager of the Western Pine Association that the Association's Board of Directors have allocated to each concern who wishes to operate a maximum of. 525 hours of sawmill operation for September, October and November. This action was taken following allocation to the Divisiou by the LumberCode Authority of a production quota of 750,000,000 feet for the three month's period beginning September lst.
"This allotment of hours is equivalent to approximately 40 hours per week for 13 weeks; however, in this allotment of total hours there is no limitation upon any concern as to the distribution of its plant operation during the three month period so long as the 525 hours is not exceeded; bttt it should be fully understood that this allotment of sawmill hours in no way afiects the rules relating to maximum hours for employees," Mason said'
"Notifi,cati,on will be given if a change is made by the Code Authority or if it becomes evident later that the total hours may safely be increased or that a decrease is necessary," aocording to the announcement.
At a meeting of the California Redwood Association held September 1 produ'ction quotas for September were allocated to all Redwood mills. A total produ'ction of 30,000,000 feet was set for the industry for the month of September.
After having been shut down for some time the sawmill of the Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company at Eureka will start up about September 25 and will operate on a 4O-hour weekly basis. The starting of this operation will afiect more than 300 men in the mill and logging camp.
The resumption of operations by this company marks the completion of the rebuilding by them of the Bucksport and Elk Railway. This road rebuilt at large expense, taps a solid body of the finest Redwood timber which will serve the mill for the next 50 years. Most of the trestles have been rebuilt with Redwood. The railroad is of standard guage, and the equipment is all of the most modern type. Geared locomotives are used for the steep grades.
A feature of the rebuilding work, which has occupied two years, is that it has provided work for many of the men who would otherwise have been unemployed by the shutting down of the sawmill.
W. R. Chamberlin, president of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Chamberlin, sailed September 8 from San Francis,co on the Dollar liner, President Hoover for Yokohama, where they will attend the wedding of their daughter, Mrs. Phyllis Chamberlin Duffill, to Gregor Charles Merrill, American vice consul at Yokohama.
Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin will visit Kobe, Shanghai and Manila before returning to San Francisco.
O. G. Grimes of The Pa,cifi'c Lumber Company is now connected with the company's Los Angeles office where he is specializing in the sales of Palco Redwood Pre-fabricated Products and Palco Bark Insulation which are manufactured by the ,company. He will also assist A. L. "Gus" Hoover with their lumber sales. Mr. Grimes has been with The Pacific Lumber Company for the past thirteen years, and for the past five years has represented the company in the San Joaquin Valley territory. Prior to that he called on the Coast Counties'lumber trade.
T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, has returned from a combined business and pleasure trip in the Northwest where he spent seven weeks. He made the trip south on the company's steamer, Point Loma, from Marshfield, Ore. He was calling on the mills but took several days ofi while in the Grays Harbor district to go on a fishing trip and also spent two weeks vacationing at Lake Paulina in eastern Oregon. Mrs. Lawrence and their two sons, Ted and Dick, accompanied him on the trip.
G. R. Bleecker, who represented the Eagle Lumber Company in Northern California for several years, and who re,cently spent three months in the Northwest after his return from New York, is again selling lumber in the Northern California territory. Mr. Bleecker is making his headquarters at 1300 Sacramento Street, San Francisco.
Address of President, H. \fl. Swafford, at the Annual Convention, Paciftc Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association Held in San Froncisco
At our last Association meeting held in Victoria in 1931, a number of our staunch members were absent because they felt we were in the midst of a depression, but it remained for 1932 and the first quarter of 1933 to teach us what a real depression can be ! These were times that tried men's souls, and lumbermen were not excepted. Because of the conditions it was impossible for your officers to muster sufficient interest to insure a representative meeting of the Association in 1932. It took an Act of Congress and the signature of the President of the United States to bring about this meeting today.
Here we are, and after you have heard the reports of the work which the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association has accomplished during the past several weeks, I am sure you will agree that henceforth we should hold our meetings annually, regardless of business conditions.
When the new Administration took charge in Washington the country .itt"d for action, and that call was not in vain. Action has been abundant and rapid. More new legislation has been made effective by the last Congress than during any other session of Congress since the founding of the nation. Included in this legislation is the revolutionary National Recovery Act, which vitally affects all industry and is fast changing the course of American business. Regardless of political faith it is up to every American to co-operate with the Administration to make this Recovery Act su'ccessful. If the American people will put their hearts and shoulders behind this National Recovery Act with the same enthusiasm and determination with whi,ch they fought the World War, it will be a success.
From the speakers at this convention you will learn more about the Recovery Act and Lumber Codes and their effect upon our business. However, it might be well to set forth here the part our Association has taken to date in this matter.
The fact that the hardwood dealers along the Pacific Coast were organized into an Association enables them to marshall their full strength at on'ce behind our interests, which proved to be no small factor in preserving our position as wholesalers in the new lumber codes. From the beginning our Association had as one of its major objects representation on the board of directors of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. Such representation was attained, which has doubly fortified us in this emergency. Those who have been in the front ranks fighting our battles were:
D. J. Cahill, our National Director.
Harry C. White, our former National Director.
L. S. Beale, National Hardwood Lumber Association Secretary, delegated to represent the Pacific Coast.
Kenneth Smith, our delegate to the Chicago Lumber Code Convention.
Roy Barto, member of the Coordinating Committee in Washington, especially delbgated to represent our Association's interests.
Your Secretary and President.
This group of men did yoeman work and rendered extraordinary servi,ce to our Association, and it is my feeling that their work will have the lasting gratitude of our membership. Details of the great work accomplished will be set forth in the speeches that come to us during this convention.
While everyone is thinking and talking codes these days, it is appropriate to read a part of our Association's constitution and Code of Ethics, which was adopted at our first meeting held Jan. 18, 1924, at Del Monte, Cal.: (Portion of our Constitution)
a. To further and intensify a spirit of mutual respect, confidence and good-fellowship among its members.
b. To encourage the adoption of a code of ethics looking to the elimination of unfair competitive practices among its mernbers, and their respective salesmen.
c. To exchange ideas regarding credit extensions and encourage the free interchange of credit information.
d. To stimulate a determination on the part of its members to ascertain accurately the cost of doing business in order to insure an adequate profit in all departments.
e. To develop and carry out methods of advertising the advantages of hardwoods for interior finish, thereby increasing their use in the building industry.
f. To secure for its members, protection against the careless and unreliable shipper, and to insure in return fair and equitable treatment of all shippers, to the end that mutual confidence may be established and maintained.
g. To work towards the permanent establishment on the Pacific Coast of an authorized inspection service.
h. To cooperate in dealing in a friendly and reciprocal way with hardwood manufacturers who are found selling or soliciting the consuming trade.
No. 1. To develop in our relations between ourselves, our 'customers, and our shippers the spirit of the Golden Rule.
No. 2. To establish the spoken word on the basis of the written bond.
No. 3. To cultivate true friendship, therefore con.fidence between persons engaged in the Hardwood industry.
No. 4. In our dealings with our customers to give them one hundred per cent value for every dollar spent with us.
No. 5. To conduct ourselves and our businesses so that we may render service to society.
No. 6. To recognize the square deal as the keynote of our business.
From this it is seen that the Pacific Dealers Asscoiation was nine years ahead codes:
The three outstanding problems calling today are as follows:-
Coast Hardwood of the country on for our attention
1. That a continuous battle be waged with the national lumber group to safeguard our interests as wholesale lumber dealers in connection with the lumber code.
2. That each state group (California, Oregon, Washington) prepare a lumber code to conform to their respective state law and the National Recovery Act, to include minimum weekly wages, maximum weekly hours, etc. A committee will be appointed to work on this vital'problem.
3. That the Pacific Coast hardwood group recognize its greatest commercial problem, namely, to increase the use of hardwoods in home construction, office and public building ,construction, and industrial usage.
a. To this end I strongly urge this convention to adopt a program of an effective general advertising campaign to be sponsored by the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers Association-the division to be by states, each state to set its own policy and take care of its costs.
b. I strongly recommend the appointment of a permanent advertising committee composed of a minimum of three and a maximum of five members; this committee to develop the advertising policy and work out proper methods of finance.
These advertisements should be so worded as to enlist the active and continuous co-operation of the architect, the ,contractor, the mill man, and the retail lumber merchant. What we need to do is to sell the public the idea that a modern home must include hardwood flooring, hardwood finish, and hardwood paneling.
The automobile industry has forgotten how the 1920 model looked ! Why not take a page out of that industry's book and fit it into our industry, and educate the public to ne\/er designs and newer models that call for hardwoods?
The general sales offices of the Wood Conversion Com.pany, Cloquet, Minn., manufacturers of Balsam-Wool and Nu-Wood products, have been transferred to the First National Bank Bldg., St. Paul, Minn.
All matters pertaining to sales and sales promotion will be handled from the St. Paul office, while matters of production, accounting, credits, and traffic will be handled from the Cloquet office as formerly. The Northwestern district sales office, previously located in the Baker Bldg., in Minn6apolis is now located in the group of offices with the general sales department.
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boy, who naturally supposed his wages would be cut accordingly; "Ah caint hardly mek a livin' wukkin' 70 houahs a week."
"Don't worry, Mose," explained the boss man; "I'm not only going to work you just 40 hours a week, but I'm going to pay you $12 a week for it."
A local garage had a nigger boy washing cars. worked 70 hours a week, and got $5 a week.
When the NRA workers came around and explained what he had to do to get his Blue Eagle, the garage owner signed up. Then he called in his help to explain the new deal to them. To the car-washing boy he said:
"Mose, I can't work yos 70 hours a week any more. From now on you only work 40 hours a week."
"Please don' cut me down thataway, Boss," pleaded the
"Cap'n," said the puzzled, darkey; "How come you gwine pay me twelve dollahs a week fo' only fo'ty houahs wuk?"
"The NRA tells me I've got to do you that way," explained the boss.
The dark one scratched his head in wonderment as he studied this wonderful change that had come to him. Then he said:
"Cap'n, who done thunk up dishere Niggah Relief Association, anyhow?"
John V. Lervis, Collector of Internal Revenue at San Francisco, will be the principal speaker at the postponed meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 to be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, September 18.
Mr. Lewis will speak instead of George Creel, National Director of the NRA who was to have addressed the meeting but will be unable to be present. He will discuss the processing taxes and the NRA. The club dire,ctors are putting in a lot of work in the effort to get a big ,crowd at this meeting. All lumbermen and their friends are rvelcome.
Dinner will be served at 6:09 p.m. in customary Athens Club style, and at the usual moderate rate of 85 cents a plate.
Committee,chairmen recently appointed to serve the club for the coming year are as follon's : E,ntertainment, H. Sewall Morton ; Publicity. Larue Woodson; Attendance, Bert Bryan; Sports, Henry M. Hink; Education, Prof. Emanuel Fritz; Publi.c Affairs, Frank W. Trorver; Reception, Clem Fraser; Finance, Gordon D. Pierce; Membership, Miland R. Grant; Fraternal, Chas. S. Lamb.
A. H. Silligo has been appointed Sergeant-at-Arms.
John G. Ziel, Barg, Ziel & Co., San Francisco, was a recent Los Angeles visitor rvhere he spent a ferv days calling on the lumber trade.
W. R. Chamberlin & Co. has appointed W. W. Wilkinson of Los Angeles as their Southern California representative. His office is at 318 West Ninth Street, Los Angeles. The telephone number is TUcker 1431. Mr. Wilkinson has been connected with the lumber business in Los Angeles for the past ten years and is widely known to the lumber trade in Southern California.
W. R. Chamberlin & Co. are large shippers of lumber, both cargo and rail, into the California market. The head office of the company is in the Fife Building, San Francisco. They also maintain offices in Oakland, Portland and Seattle. The company operate the following lumber steamers: W. R. Chamberlin Jr., Stanwood, Barbara C., Cricket and Phyllis.
Western Pine Asso'ciation decided at its meeting held August 29 and 30 at Klamath Falls, Ore., to open regional branch offi,ces in San Francisco, Klamath Falls, Ore.; Spokane, Wash., and Albuquerque, N. M. This action, it was stated, will enable the Association to give better service to its members throughout the 12 states in rvhich their mills are located.
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The big selling season is just starting for STATIC COATING.-- Thousands of roofs need repair. STATIC COATING will do the job efficiently *d economically. ft can be used on composition, wood or metal roofs and will prevent wear and deterioration. It will not check or crack and can be applied to damp or cold surfaces as well as to warm and dry surfaces.
Pioneer has introduced STATIC COATING to home owners throughout the West in a campaign of newspaper advertising. Now you can ttcash intt on the demand in your territory, Mr. Dealer!
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With the recent turn in economi,c events there is much to do-but who to do it. As to the master situation, that is the preparing of codes acceptable to the N.R.A. we must have intelligent well constructed thought towards the end in view or our program will not be accepted, hence the type of leadership that will prevail in this endeavor is obvious. They will necessarily be men who can understand what is wanted under the terms of the act and be able to put our problems to words.
However, the second and more important step in this leadership is with the leaders both local and national who put our industry to the buying public.
Before we ,consider what these leaders will do let us stamp a leader. He must be primarily unselfish, he must be devoted to the cause and his followers rather than his own career. He must have confiden,ce in his beliefs and after arriving at his conclusions logically he should hold to them tenaciously. Idealisms must be a part of his makeup and the ability to impart these idealisms will be a mark of his leadership. Finally he must have personality, one that seizes the imagination of his followers and brings them to follow his other qualifications and with the success that comes he must carefully develop other leaders about him to carry on the same splendid ideas with growing enthusiasm.
Now as to what they will do:
First, let them direct the setting of our house in order that we may not spend our time bi,ckering over price schedules but arrive at a program that with efiicient operation and ,correct business methods all ma1' be amply repaid for their efforts from the cheapest of labor to the most effi'cient executive.
Second, design a program of education applicable to each bran,ch of the lumber, millwork and building material industry that will foster thinking among the many minds that are ncnv directed only on the job they are doing. Broaden our thinking that we may make a better product for certainly competing lines are daily making better merchandise than they did the day before.
Third, map a mer'chandising program that will be second to none. Combine the best thoughts of Crane, Sunkist, General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Sears Roebuck, and countless others into a program 'that will educate dealers and the public in what we have. Lumber and millwork with its allied lines have equal importance with the ultimate value of the house with that of the architect and contractor. Why not let the public-who just buys a house know this? Lawyers have their clients, doctors their patients and we have our "Chislers" who just want lumber or millwork to "fiIl an opening". Let's put our business on a plane that we may ,call our customers clients, patients or at least something more dignified than a "Chisler."
Let us make it desirable that the contractor or architect bring the prospective builder or home owner to the mill or yard showroom to consult with the expert regarding grades of lumber, kinds of roofs, details of doors, fireplaces, entrances, panel walls, stairways, sash, screens, blinds and countless other things that rve supply to go into the home. Let us have the millwork chosen as the hardware, plumbing, drapes and other essentials of a home are selected' Let us have our competition confined to the best ability to show, talk and merchandise our produ,cts and not to the mere price of. a 24 x 3-0 sash. This program would materially increase our volume for we would be selling wood made mantels, sash, stair rails, cabinets, etc., where they had not been thought of before and in addition we could have a lot of real joy in selling-for this is real salesmanship.
Let us prepare a suitable catalogue of our achievement, not just in black and white and mere words but show the product in use, describe it with romance and color. Show the article in actual use in all classes of homes and follow up with pictures and drawings of the product as it comes from the mill. Give the buying public something to feel, something that they can visualize as it will look in their home. Figuratively let us, "Wrap our merchandise in cellophane".
The efforts in this field of endeavor for our industry are tremendous. Through national advertising the consuming public can be reached and made wood minded. People have as primary interests food and shelter. Daily we read advertisements on food and many things that can be classed as gadgets about the home but one can look in vain to find an ad that merchandises our products as an industry.
Fourth devise wa1's and means of determining new wood uses, new wood products and designs if you please. The automobile, ,chemical, drug, rubber, etc' industries are operating laboratories to determine new uses for their produ,cts and why shouldn't we ? New designs create new desires and with 'these nerv desires come new fields of expansion for our products.
The bloody war we have been rvaging for business life or suprema'cy between individuals and concerns in our industry forgets the law of live and let live as a fundamental factor. It cannot be disregarded without paying the penalty in business ,chaos and loss. We can control the machinery of manufacture and should recognize the need for the control of our individual greeds. With the proper cooperative objectives for the good of our industry we could focus our sights upon this target and find much satisfaction and real joy in hitting the bulls eye. Let's sell our industry.
Unselfish leadership rvill do it.. Let us all put our shoulder to the wheel and follow the leader.
Herbert S. Griggs of Tacoma, 'Wash., secretary and a director of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., died in a hospital at Olympia, Wash., on August 2l from injuries re,ceived in an automobile accident near Shelton, Wash., on August 18. Ife was 72 years of age, and was born at St. Paul, Minn., February 27,186I. His brother, Major Everett G. Griggs, who was injured in the same accident is recovering from his injuries at his home near Tacoma.
Ife was also secretary and a director of the ChehalisPacific Land Co., C. W. Griggs fnvestment Co., Wilkeson Coal & Coke Co., Pacific Stevedoring Co., and John Dower Lumber Co.
He is survived by his rvife and two sons, Herbert S., Jr., of Southern California and Chauncey L., of Tacoma; two daughters, Harriet L. and Elvira C., of Ta'coma; two brothers, Major Everett G. Griggs, chairman of the board of directors of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Tacoma, and Theodore Griggs of St. Paul; and two sisters, Mrs. George C. Wagner, of Tacoma, and Mrs. Benjamin Tilton, of New York.
Fred S. Buckley, F. S. Buckley Door Co., San Francisco, left by plane for Chicago, August 31 on a business trip. He lvill come back by way of Fort Worth, Texas, where he rvill pav a visit to his mother.
The anticipated rise in prices is materializing. profits are going to him who is well-stocked in readiness for increasing business on a rising
market. See the McCormick man without delay. Direct service from the forest to your yards.
He dropped into my of;fi,ce with a grin on his face, He talked about the weather and the college football race, He asked about the family and told the latest joke, But he never mentioned anyone who's suddenly gone broke.
He talked of books and pictures and the play he'd been to see.
A clever quip his boy had made he passed along to me, He praised the suit of clothes I wore and asked me what it cost.
But he never said a word about the money he had lost.
Ife rvas with me twenty minutes, chuckling gayly rvhile he stayed,
O'er the memory of some silly little blunder he had made, He reminded me that tulips must be planted in the fall, But calamity and tragedy he mentioned not at all,
I thought it rather curious when he had come and gone, lfe must have had some tales of woe, but didn't pass them on.
For nowadays it seems to me that every man I meet Ifas something new in misery and moaning to repeat.
And so I wrote these lines for him who had his share of woe
But still could talk of other things and let his troubles go. f was happier for his visit-in a world that's sick with doubt, 'Tlvas good about.
to meet a man who wasn't spreading gloom
Credit Managers Ass'ociation of Northern and Central California, San Francis'co, Calif.
Edric E. Brown, The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, left September 4 for Chicago to spend two months establishing an organization to market Palco Redwood Bark in the Eastern territory. Mr. Brown will make his headquarters at the Chicago office during this period.
We freed our homes from mortgages as quickly as possible. All this happened in the days when the country was prosperous. Many of our friends told us how foolish we were. They argued that if instead of paying our indebtedness we should use the money for the purchase of securities, we would be far better off. They told us the profits alone would more than pay what we owed.
We didn't follow their advice. We had sense enough to know that all we really need is food, clothing, and shelter. A mortgaged home is not a secure home. Someone else is part owner.
Many of those who failed to Pay their mortgages and used the money in speculation now have neither their homes nor their securities. The trouble with them is they thought in terms of securities dnd not in terms of security. -The Vagabond.
It is said that the Persians, in their ancient constitution, had public schools in which virtue was taught as a liberal art or science; and it is certainly of more consequence to a man that he has learned to govern his own passions in spite of temptation, to be just in his dealings, to be temperate in his pleasures, to support himself with fortitude under his misfortunes, to behave with prudence in all his affairs, and in every circumstance of life; I say it is of much more real advantage to him to be thus qualified, than to be master of all the arts and sciences in the world. Virtue itself alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happv.
District Attorney: "\ll/hat possible excuse could you jurymen have for acquitting that bloody murderer?"
Juryman: "Insanity."
District Attorney: "What? The whole twelve of you?"
Manager: "Have you seen the cashier this morning?"
Office Boy: "Yes, sir. He came in early and borrowed a time table. f noticed that he had shaved off his rnustache."
When I am done with worldly things that blind me, Like a swift light that flashes and is gone, Deep in a forest the long slow years will find me Waiting for the twilight, listening for dawn.
I shall have time to see a fern uncurling Its emerald fingers like a child asleep; To watch gold fire-fies, gypsy-hearted, swirling In beauty that the night alone may reap.
I shall have time to hear the scarlet sobbing Of shattered roses on a frosted bough; To hear the breath of early autumn throbbing fn every grass I trample lightly now.
Then shall I know, and let my heart run over, With secrets that shall open like a flower, And I will lie in deep sweet-scented clover And count the shining minutes of each hour.
-Daniel Whitehead Hicky.The big darkey who acted as doorman for the rich and formal City Club, started down the front steps to open the door of a big car that had just drawn up to the curb, when he tripped, lost his balance, and fell all the way down the steps to the sidewalk.
The big cop who was just sauntering past, ran and picked him up, handed him his hat, and then grinningly remarked:
"Cut that out, Mose! What the Hell? Do you want folks to think you're a member of the Club?"
A girl met an old beau who had successfully resisted her efforts to lead him to the matrimonial counter, so she decided to hand him the high hat, to repay him for his rebuff of days gone by.
"So sorry," she said, when the hostess introduced them; "I didn't get your name."
"Sure you didn't," he said, say you didn't try."
"but no one can
A committee composed of D. N. Edwards, Oakland; J. G. Kennedy, Santa Clara; F. J. Piel and A. J. Todhunter, Los Angeles, dire,ctors of the Millwork Institute of California, and L. G. Sterett, secretary of the Institute, attended a meeting of the Emergency National Committee which has been designated as the agency of the Lumber Code Authority for the administration of the Lumber Code in the Woodwork Division, in Chicago on August 30. F. S. Bu'ckley of San Francisco who is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Wholesaler Distributors Subdivision was also in attendance at the meeting.
The National Code for the Woodworking Industry is included in the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries as approved by the President on August 19, 1933. For jurisdictional and administrative purposes, the Woodwork Division has been divided into Subdivisions as follows: Stock Manufacturers Subdivision. Wholesale Distributors Subdivision and Special Woodwork Subdivision.
It was authorized in Chicago by the Coordinating Committees of the Wholesaler Distributors and Special Woodwork Subdivisions that the industry in California be administered through one administrative agency with each Subdivision self-governing in respect of all matters pertaining to said Subdivision exclusively as provided by the Lumber Code. For the purposes of administration, Arizona and Nevada were included in the territory with California. This territory was also granted representation on the National Coordinating Committees of both Subdivisions.
"fn view of the above authorization," Secretary L. G. Sterett states, "it appears necessary to change the name of the Millwork Institute of California to some other more appropriate one which would imply more accurately the new s,cope of activity. Furthermore, inasmuch as subdivisions constitute the approved separation of interests, the present territorial method of selecting Directors to the State organization needs to be ,changed so that representation is by subdivisions, which subdivisions will, of course, recognize the different parts of this territory when making their selections for the State Board of Directors. The details of making the necessary readjustments are being worked out as rapidly as possible, as it is our desire to get into operation at once. This is no small task and is going to require the best efforts which this industry has to put forth."
George Melville has joined the sales force of Schaler Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. and is calling on the retail lumber trade working out of their Los Angeles office. He is well known to the trade in the Southern California territory. where he has been connected with the lumber business for a long period, and was formerly associated with ttGus" Hoover.
.tO Cfifornia St. SAN FRANCISCO
Phone GArfield 6890
117 V'eet Ninth St. LOS ANGELES
Phone VAndite 44ffi
CALIFORNIA AGENTS
Netdeton Lumber Co.
Puget Sound Lumber Mfg. Co.
Seattle Export Lumber Co.
Vest Waterway Lumber Co.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AGENTS
Schafer Bros. Lumbeq & Shingle Co.
AGENTS
Schafer Bros. Steamship Lines
s.s. (HUBERT SCHAFERD - S.S. (C. D. JOHNSON III"
A Garden Fence ir reyere test fot any naterial.
It ir eubjected to extreme heet and ftezing temperaturer, alternete wet and dry conditionr, it ie rubjected to lermite etteck and the ha3a{ of f,re, it requiree painting and continual repairr duc to rplitting, warping, checting and breatage.
There ir only one clasc of material which can and doer withstand this abuce that ir CALIFORNIA REDWOOD.
QTIME TESTED" NOYO BRAND REDWOOD tu durable, rtrongr- teroite re.rirtant, f,re retardent, tater and holdr paint, will not split, warp or chect TRy IT.
*Included in Los Angeles totals.
A meeting of the Pacific. Division of the National Wooden Box Association and othei Pacific Coast and Inland Empire box and shook manufacturers was held at the Willard Hotel, Klamath Falls, Ore., on August 29,1933.
Floyd Hart presided as chairman of the, meeting. Mr. Hart outlined the procedure of the delegates elicted by the Pacific Division to represent that Association in formulating and presenting to the President a Code of Fair Competition for the industry. He also outlined in a general way the provisions of the Lumber Code which was signed by President Roosevelt on August 19, 1933. Following h4[r. Hart's address, discussions were held con,cerning the manRer in which certain provisions of the Code will affect all manufacturers in the Pacific Coast Division territory, also the best method of administering the Code in that territory.
The following motions were voted upon, first by the members of the Pacific Division by means of a poll vote, and later bf,.all manufacturers present.
1. Resolved, that, the wage scale for box factories as set forth in the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries for New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado (south of 38 degrees, North Latitude) be investigated, and that factual information be forwarded to the Lumber Code Authority and the Administrator, with the request that the matter be given further consideration. (Motion unanimously carried in both votes).
II. Resolved, that, the matter of Control of Produ,ction (Article VIII of the Code) be tabled until the next general meeting of the Pacific Division, and that in the meanwhile the Board of Directors of the Division give the matter their consideration, and that they, with the aid of the Lumber Code Authority, prepare a formula for consideration by Pacific Coast manufacturers. (Motion unanimously carried in both votes).
III. Resolved, that, the Pacifi,c Division proceed immediately to collect from manufacturers in its territory, the information necessary in filing application with the Lumber Code Authority on October 4th, 1933, at Washington, D. C., with regard to Cost Protection, as set forth in Arti,cle IX of the Code. (Motion unanimously carried in both votes).
IV. Resolved, that, the Board of Directors of the Pacific Division be empowered to chartge the Rules of Fair Trade Practice as set forth in Article XVI of the Lumber and Timber Products Industries Code, and also if necessary, to change Article VII of the Code of Trade Practices of the Pacific Division adopted on June 7th and 8th, 1933, in such a manner as may be necessary to make them applicable to sawn wooden boxes, crates, trays and shook; and that these be sent to the Lumber Code Authority for approval; and that copies of the action of the Board of Directors be mailed to the membership of the Association. (Motion unanimously carried in both votes).
V. Resolved, that, the manufacturers present at this m€eting, representing the four divisions of the sawn weoden fox and shook industry on the Pacific Coast are in
Imports of lumber and sawn timber into the Unitedf States in July were almost half the total in volume of' sirnilar imports of the first six months of the year, accord. ing to preliminary reports of the l)epartment of Commerce. These imports were 49,858,000 feet in July and 103,494,000 feet during the first half of 1933.
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association finds in an analysis of these figures that fir imports rose from a total of 331,000 feet in the first five months of 1933 to 1,251,000 feet in June and 1,754,W feet in July. These were all from Canada. Pine imports from Canada totaled 27,681,m feet in the January-to-May period, 15,914,000 feet in June and 15,761,000 feet in July. In addition 351,000 feet of pine came from Mexico in the first half of 1933 and 295,W feet during July.
Spruce imports from Canada were 25,87O,W feet in July as ,compared with 47,341,W feet for the first six months of the year. No imports during the first seven months of 1933 were reported as from Russia, but 1,918,000 feet of spruce came from Poland and Danzig and 1,490,000 from Germany.
Imports of hardwood lumber and flooring were 4,308,000 feet in July, including 4,109,000 feet from Canada, as compared with 6,078,000 feet during the first half of 1933. Of the latter amount, 5,288,000 feet came from Canada.
July, 1933, imports were six times those of July, 1932, which was the first month under the lumber tariff and only recorded 8,119,000 feet. July, 1933 with its record ol 49,858,000 feet also makes a favorable showing as compared with the last six months of. 1932, which totaled 101,378,000 feet.
favor 100 per cent for the Lumber Code Authorities insofar as establishment of wages and hours of labor for box factories are concerned; but that under present conditions we feel that the wage differential set forth in the Lumber and Timber Products Industries Code shows too great a spread between 'Western territory and other sections of the United States, and that this spread should be narrowed down, either by reducing the wage requirements for the Western territory or by increasing the wage reguirements for other parts of the country, and we ask that this matter be given immediate consideration by the Lumber Code Authority and the Administrator of the N.R.A. (Votes of Members22 "Yes", 11 "No"); (Votes of all present---4l "Yes, 20 "No").
VI. Resolved, that, after thorough study, the Board of Directors of the Pacific Division shall be empowered to temporarily fix a fee to be levied against all sawn wooden box manufacturers located in the territory served by the Pacific Division, which fee shall be in addition to the present Association dues now paid by Members of the Pacific Division; and the funds so secured shall be used to pay the necessary additional expenses of the San Francisco office in collecting and compiling data and other additional activities in connection with the administration of the Lumber and Timber Products Industries Code. (Motion unanimously carried in both votes).
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Note lhe abbractrve [ernace bhe entry.rvibh large closeb, spaclous lrvrnA room, sunnv bi.eahFa.st alcbve, coroa"l hitchen and ufilitv sh<iwer bath. AlloF these teibures are hopsedwithrn a mosf pleasing exberior.
Plans for this attractive home can be furnished by the Lumbermenfs Service Association
Fay Buildiryr LqB Angeles
Rebuilding of the . -rsvth Hardwood Cornpany's plant at 1855 San Bruno Avenue, San Francisco, recently destroyed by fire, was con.rpleted within 75 days, at which time no visible sign of the fire remained.
The accompanying picture shows the front vierv of the new building. The front is of stttc,co and stone, trimmed in hand-hewn Redwood.
The rvhole yard is double decked and under cover. All gang\\'a)'s are asphalted. Most of the new stock has arrived
and all lfastern shipments will be completed by October 1, according to P. R. "Bob" Kahu, mallager.
The loading platform at the rear is 150 feet long. Here six cars can be spotted on the spur track.
The panel room has a capacity of seven cars, and is already stocked with three carloads of hardrvood and four carloads of Fir panels.
Shorving their belief in harclu'oods for ir.rterior finish the office is trimmed in Oak througl.rout, rvith Oak floors.
J. Arthur liclgecumbe, rvho was prominently identified rvith the Red Cedar shingle industry for the past twentyfive years, tlied at Minneapolis, Minn., on August 22, following an operation. He was 42 years of age. He is sttrvivecl by his wife and four children.
He moved to IVlinneapolis several years ago from Vancouver, B. C., where he organized the Eclham Co. (In'c.), specializing in stained shingles, which he operated until he sold his business to the Twin City Lumber & Shingle Company, a Weyerhaeuser subsidiary, within the past year; he remainecl as sales manager of the shingle division of the concern.
Mr. Edgecumbe was a former president of the Shingle Manufacturers Association of British Columbia. While lir'ing in Vancouver, he was president of the EdgecumbeNewharn Co. (Ltd.), Canada Shingle Co. (Ltd.), and the Edham Shingle Mills (Ltd.).
W. J. Clarksotr, rvell knotvn nran, recently joined the sales pany, San Francisco.
San Francisco lumber salesstaff of Loop l-urnber Com-
Gripper & Haglind, of 7I4 West 10th Street, Los Angeles, re,cently became a member of the California Wholesale Lumber Association. This firm represents the Southeast Portland Lumber Co.. Portland. in Southern California.
Edgar Pack of Seattle, representative of the Chas. Nelson Co., has returned to the Northwest after spending several days in California. He was a visitor at the company's San Francisco offi'ce, and also spent a few days in Los Angeles calling on his lumbermen friends.
The Pacific Coast Hardrvood Iilooring Dealers' Association held their annual meeting at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, on August 12, 1933.
Kenneth Smith of Los Angeles r,vas the main speaker on the program. He told the convention of the action taken up to that date by the Maple and Oak Flooring Associations, each of which had set up separate codes, and expressed his opinion that the logical thing for the California group to do was to prepare a code under the State recovery act. Mr. Sn.rith's informative talk gave convention members a good background for their discussion on the matter of a code.
The following standing code comrnittee rvas appointed : Frank Connolly,'Western llardnood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, chairman; Jerry Sullivan, San Diego; Grover Gearhart, Los Angeles; B. E. Bryan, Oakland ; James Ahearn, Portland, Ore., and K. L. Bates, Seattle.
The meeting was called to order by President Chas. M. Cooper. The minutes of the last annual n.reeting and the treasurer's report were read and adopted.
Brief reports of business conditions in the various districts were made by K. L. Bates, J. J. Matthews Hardrvood Lumber Co., Seattle; James Ahearn, Emerson Hardwood
Co., Portland; B. ii. I3ryan, Strable Hardrvood Co., Oakland; Bert Galleher, Reid-Galleher Co., Los Angeles, and Al Frost, Frost Hardwood Co., San Diego.
An advertising committee to function with the advertising committee of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Dealers' Association was appointed ,consisting of Bert Galleher, chairman; E. A. Howard, M. A. Thornsen, and John Johnson.
Speakers rvho gave short talks on general matters of business discussed at the meeting included Q. J. Crh;tt, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Grover Gearhart, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco; Chas. Koenig, Inlaid Floor Co., San Fran,cisco; A. J. Bowman, Bowman Building Supply Co., Berkeley; President Chas. M. Cooper and Secretary-treasurer Grover Gearhart.
Resolutions included one defining the status of the hardwood flooring dealers as wholesalers, and another setting the dues to be paid by exclusive flooring dealers.
Frank Connolly, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was elected president; B. E. Bryan, Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, was re-ele,cted vi.ce-president, and Grover Gearhart, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, was re-elected secretary-treasLlrer.
Directors were all re-elected. These are: Jerry Sullivan, San Diego; C. H. White, San Fran,cisco; G. lf. Brown, Oakland ; J. E. Higgins, Jr., San Francisco; Roger Sands, Seattle; E. E. Hall, Portland, and H. W. Swafford, Los Angeles.
Frank J. Garland, for many years manager of the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. yard at San Diego, Calif., diecl at his home there on August 17. He was 65 years of age.
Mr. Garland came to San Diego from Menominee, Mich., where he had been associated with the lumber business. He opened the McCormick yard at San Diego in 1911 and was manager of the yard until it was discontinued last year. He is survived by a son, Hastings Garlancl, and a daughter, Frances Garland, both of San Diego.
M. L. Euphrat, L. C. Stewart and Frank O'Connor of San Francisco, and Henry S. Patten and D. R. Philips of Los Angeles, representatives of the California Wholesale Lumber Association, left for Portland, Ore., Wednesday evening, September 13, where they will confer with a group of Fir manufacturers, September 15, on the Lumber eode re, garding shipments to California.
The California Redwood Association will have an attractive exhibit at the Los Angeles County Fair which is being held at Pomona, Calif., from Septernber 15 to 24, 1933. The display includes a front section of the Monterey type home, 20 feet in length, showing the use of Redrvood for both the exterior and interior finish. A moving picture of the Redwood lumber industry will also be exhibited three times each day. R. R. Leishmpn and E. W. Hemmings of the Association's l-os Angeles offi,ce rvill be in charge of the exhibit.
The National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce has received a piece of wood recently removed from the British Museum, where it has been in service since 1834. The girder from rvhich this piece rvas sawed supported the floor of the heavy gallery of the Egyptian room. The wood, perfectly preserved, is Sylvester pine whi,cl-r is the common lumber pine of northerr-r Europe.
William Westover, of the White Star Lumber Co. and the Royal Shingle Co., Whites, Wash., recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business.
Washington, Sept. l.-W. H. Ferguson, Marshfield, Oregon, has obtained a patent for his "Line and Delay Graphic Recording Device for Sawmill Carriages" which won the second prize ol $5@ in the National Lumber Manufacturers Association Waste Prevention Contest in 1925-26. Mr. Ferguson says that he has had a great many letters from lumber manufacturing concerns in many parts of the United States. He intends soon to put the device into manufac' ture and sale either by himself or through some compaRy.
The Ferguson carriage applian,ce'is devised to furnish a graphic record of the number and character of carriage movements; the time required for sawing, loading, cantturning and unloading; and the length of the log sawed. It is calculated to provide information which makes it possible to eliminate inefficiency at the head saw to systemitize that portion of milling operations.
O. L. Russum, rvho was formerly a salesman for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco, recently wrote to a friend in San Francisco asking to be remembered to his friends in the tumber business in California. Mr. Russum has been ivith Shepard & Morse Lumber Co., r,vholesale lun-rber dealers of Boston, n'lass., for the last trvo vears.
Fox Hills Country Club, Culver City' California
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 22, r9t3
Luncheon Will be Served at the CIub House
Bufiet Supper and Entertainment in the Evening
AI-I. LUUBERMEN AND THCIN GUCSTS INVITED Committee
Harry V. Ha,nson, Chairman - Don Philipsi$Jffi*ffil ;f1ilf;'aham ' Jack Thomas ' w.
Rate---$2.50 Per Column Inch.
LUMBER YARD FOR SALE
Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480. Care California Lumber Merchant.
WILL SELL
Owner will sell well located yard with attractive lease for less than actual value-Will inventory about $9000.00' Address Box C491, California Lumber Merchant'
B. wickershamDO YOU WANT NEW BLOOD in your business ? A lumberman with successful experience in managing both line and independent yards and in building business wishes to get in touch with proprietors to propose a plan to operate business with privilege of buying stock, Address Box C-492, The California I-umber Merchant.
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I HE Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation is proud of the right to display the Blue Eagle-America's badge of honor. To us the simple co-operative principle it represents provides the sure"s.g way ro help our country and thereby help ourselves. Let us all sta'd by our leader. Alone he is powerless. But with each a'd every one of us behind him, he can srart the wheels of industry and bring about a distribution of prosperity heretofore unknown.
