Walter Scrim Heads Reorganized and Vitalized Philippine Mahogany Association

The Philippine Mahogany Association, with offices in the Grand Central Terminal, New York City, recently entirely reorganized,, revitalized, and incorporated for the purpose of fighting the battles of Philippine Mahogany before the world, held its election of officers in New York on September 26, ancJ. elected the follorving officers for the ensuing year:

President, Walter Scrim, Findlay Millar Timber Company, Central Building, Los Angeles.

\/ice-President, Horvard R. Black, Black & Yates, Inc., New York City.

'Treasurer, I{erbert L. Black, Black & Yates, Inc., New York City.

Secretary, Cla1,-ton D. Mell. Grand Central Terminal, New York City.

The history of the nervly incorporated and reorganized association really begins from this election date.

The honor paid Mr. Scrim was justly earned. As the directors stated in their letter telling Mr. Scrim of his choice for their highest office,-"No man has done as much for the cause of Philippine Mahogany as you fi4ys"-and this trubute is a very just one.

Ten years ago Mr. Scrim, a Canadian born and life-long lumberman and sash and door man, was sent to the Philippines by The Findlay Millar Timber Company and made resident manager and sales manager of their business. He found that they were shipping only half a million feet of their product a year to the United States where Philippine was a comparatively unknown r,vood, most of their pro{uct being sold for ordinary construction purposes in the Philippines just as the softwoods are used in the United States. He induced his directors to let him try a fling at making the United States buy more Philippine, and they gave him leave to come to this country and give it a try.

They gxpected him back in a ferv months. He has never returned, beiqg too busy merchandising the wonderful woods o! the Philippines to the lumber using trade of this nation. His first sale on this side was 900,00C) feet of Philip- pine to a single buyer, which convinced him and his employers that their great market had been overlooked.

Mr. Scrim has built for himself a national reputation as an earnest, honorable, practical, and successful preacher of the gospel of Philippine Mahogany. He believes that they are the world's most useful woods, and indispensable to Americ_an use, and his business has built steadily every year. He recently built himself a home in a suburb of I;os Angeles, using Philippine woods in wonderful fashion throughout wE OFFEN THE CALIFORNIA TNADE

He- !s a splendid selection for President of the Philippine Mahogany Association, and will give much of his concentrated interest to the work to be done. He drives horne the thought that this Association is organized for the protection of the rights and interests of Philippine Mahogany, and for the distribution of honest and practical infolmation concerning same.

They have selected as their Secretary a man wonderfully equipped for the job, Dr. Clayton D. Mell, one of the world's foremost authorities on Mahogany and all tropical woods, who has spent much of his life in a series of 26 expeditions of study into the tropical forests of the world. A botanist and dendrologist, as well as very excellent organization enthusiast, he is doing splendid work for the organization.

Mr. Scrim announces that their first work will be a drive for members. Their active members consist of manufacturers and large wholesalers of Philippine r.voods, and their associate members are large industrial consumers of those woods. They willtry and enlist the membership of the latter class in their first efforts.