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positi'on Participation, gave an interesting and educational talk on the Philippine Islands, stressing their importance to the Pacific Coast in particular and to the United States in general. He reminded his hearers that the Islands contain the third largest English speaking people (15,000,000) in the world; that the Philippines will produce this year between 4O and 45 million dollars worth of gold; that they lrave the largest iron deposit in Asia, a steam shovel proposition, and that the Islands loom as one of 'the United States' largest customers.

Mr. Fischer outlined the history of Philippine lumber production since 1915 when interest in Philippine lumber started. There are, he said, 87 different dialects and there were, therefore, 87 different names for every wood. The name for each wood was picked from the various native names. At the conclusion of his talk Mr. Fischer in answer to a question said that in his belief if a plebiscite was held in the Philippines at this time they would vote to keep their present relation to the United States.

Bert Bryan, Strable Hardwood Company, Oakland, made the suggestion in a brief talk that in view of the fact that vacations spread over five months, disrupting business to some extent over that period, it would be much more practical to set aside two weeks each year for vacations, say the first two weeks of July. He suggested that all salesmen take their vacations at the same time and that the warehouse force be split, half to go in the first week and half in the second week. Mr. Bryan said he believed if

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the industry will adopt this method the employees will fall in line and that the idea will spread to the softwood wholesalers and retailers. A committee co,nsisting of Mr. Bryan, Frank Connolly and Jerry Sullivan was appointed and brought in the resolution favoring the idea, which, as already stated, was unanimously adopted.

President W. T. White again presided on Thursday morning.

The secretary was instructed to send wires to the following absent members: J. Fyfe-Smith, Vancouver, B.C.; Roger Sands, Seattle; D. J. Cahill, Los Angeles, and Henry Swafford, Los Angeles.

Ralph Hill, secretary-treasurer of the National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association, Memphis, Tenn., gave a fine talk in which he outlined the effect of the outbreak of the first w,orld war on the Oak flooring industry, which was, briefly, that shipments weht up 20 per cent in l9l4 and gained for three years.

He said it is hard to predict what will happen as a result of the war, but mentioned that shipments in August were 11 per cent over July and 32 per cent over August 1938.

Mr. Hill, in discussing the war, showed himself to be quite a student of world affairs. IIe expressed the hope that this country would not become involved.

C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, presented the report of the San Francisco committee on the unload-

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