The California Lumber Merchant - October 1931

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Storo Flxturc Hardwarc

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Slcalkraft Watcrproof Paper

Cclotex Company, The Chamberlin & Co., W. R. ..... '22

Cooper Lumber Co., W. E. ... ... ... '.32

Creo-Dipt CompanS Inc. .. ....r.11

Dallas Machine & Locomotive Works..'12

Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co. ,..

El Rey Products Company

Flintkote Company, The {. *

Fordyce-Crossett Sales Co.

Hammond Lumber Co. .......15

Hanify Co., J. R. ....20

Higgins, J. E. Lumber Co. .... ......22

Hill & Morton, Inc. .20

Hipotito Co.

Hogan, T. P., Co.

Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co. Hoover, A. L. . ..........10 Humboldt Redwood Co. ... ' '. '23

Insulite Co,. The

Koehl & Son, Inc., Jno. W. Koll, Harvey W. '. 3

Laughlin, C. J. . '. ' '.29

Lawrence-Phillips Lumber Co. ..

Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation'I.B.C. Lumbermen's Service Association '.. ..33

McCloud River Lumber Co.

McCormick, Chas. R., Lumber Co. .. r' McKay & Co. Moore Dry Kiln Co.

National Lumber Manufacturers Ass'n.'.13 ' Nicolai Door Sales Co. Oregon-Washington Plywood Co. ..... ..25

Lumber Co., The ... 9 Patten-Blinn Lumber Co.

Oak Flooring Co., Inc.

Paper Company ...18-19

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THE CALIFOR}-IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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"t:T$;tus; How Lumber Looks

The California lumbet situation does not show much change. Cument new business reported by these 225 mills was 12.6 fn the metropolitan districts it is teported that the demand has per cent over production and shipments wete 23.9 per cent picked up a little. Lath co,ntinues to be scarce and prices on over production.thisitemarestrongerrotherwisepricesremainaboutthesame.r, * * * * * * ,k * *

Unsold stocks on the public docks at San Pedro on Octobei With production continuing on curtailed levels, lumber 7 totaled 5r972roD feet which is very low, and approximately a shipments for the week ended October 3 exceeded the cut by half million feet less than the previous week. Our last report 2l per cent and otders were 9 per cent above the cut, it is indishowed 62 vessels in the California trade laid up, and one ves- cated in reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Assosel, the Missoula, operating ofi shore; the previous week ciation from 806 leading hardwood and softwood mills. Proshowed 61 vessels laid up. For the week ended October 3, 9 duction for the week of these rnills amounted to l67r7E5gOO cargoes of Fir carrying 61598'000 feet, and one cargo of Red- feet. This marks the eighth consecutive week in which orders

wood totaling 460r0fi) feet, were received at San Pedro.

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A total of 345 mills reportirrg to the Vest Coast Lumber-

have been above produ4ion.

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The Southern Pine Association for rhe week ended October

men's Association for the week ended October 3, operated 3 reported production from 115 mills as 24r3O3rOOO feet, shipet 31.5 per cent of capaci.ty, as compared to i4.l per cent of -ments 3lr542r000 feet, and new business 28r434rOOO f,ent. capacity for the previous week, and 45.5 per cent for the same \ Th. Westem Pine Association reported production from 83 week last year. For the first 39 weeks of 1931 these mills have mills as 2116561000 feet, shipmenb 22,944r@O feet, and new operated at 4o.3 per cent of capacity as compared to 57.2 pet business 20,968,fi)o feet' cent for th" ,.rr,. period of 1930.

The California mills of the Sfestern Pine Association reProduction, ora"r, .rrlrrrii-."., by 225 mills for the week ported production ftom 23 mills as l4'49E'000 feet' shipments ended october v, were reported to the Association in board 13t103t000 feet' and orders l2'712'ooo feet' feet as follows: Production, 82,874,8t5; orders, e3,ioi,o62; ,"":T#TlrIr":: TrHj,T#T:il"jif::'"Tti#f#ru; Shipments, 102,665rt36. and new business 18r448r0fi) feet.

Bill Chantland \(/ins McCormick Shevlin Pine Sales Co. Arrange

Tournament \ For 100-Car Shipment

Bill Chantlancl with a net score of 75 rvas the winner of \ff,. Shevlin Pine Sales Company are now arranging for the John Olson Cup at the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber a l0Gcar train shipment of Shevlin Pine from their Bend, Co. golf tournament held at the Westwood Country Club, Ot.:.-lnd-,YcCloud, Calif., plants to leave Bieber, Calif., Los Angeles, october 11. The tournaments are held -o.,ir"r- ovi'r,'l'r"HTtji}j::'l;;",),'"1:*'rl,tot;*, of Shevlin ly by the company's Los Angeles office force. John Olson, pine to go East, the first shipment consisting of a solid manager of the company's Southern California operations, trainload-of sixty cars made by the McCloud River Lumber has donated the trophy and to gain permanent possession Company going over the new Transcontinental service of of the cup it mttst be rvon twice. the Greit Northern Raihvay on September 15.

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Murging Editor

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Vrgabond Editorials

BvJacL Dionne

I notice that the Federal Trade Commission has denied the petition of Western Ponderosa Pine producers for a re-hearing of the "White Pine" case, in which they recently decided that Pinus Ponderosa could NOT be called "White Pine." f don't know what the next step is to be.

r am just a simple """":r;;, trying hard to get atong, and to help a lumber industry that is having a hard time trying to do the same thing. I'll admit that I don't seem to have the mental equipment to understand lots of things that I should. This White Pine case is one that staggers me. I'll tell you why. ,i*rt

On my desk, as f write, there are two Pine boards. One of them is a rich, cheese color. The other is very, very white in color. The cheese colored board is Sugar Pinebotanically-and Federal Trade Commissionally-a true white pine, and permitted to be advertised and sold ,,as sich." The other, ,the very white board, is California White Pine-so called-botanically Pinus PonderosaFederal Trade Commissionally speaking a YELLOW pine.

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You can readily understand how these exhibits worry and puzzle me. As f said, I'm simple and can't understand these things. This yellowish board is a WHITE pine. This whitish board is a YELLOW pine. The guy that rnade the yellowish board can call it WHITE and get alvay with it. But the one that made the .WHITE board mustn't call it "white" or he'll catch merry Hades. I'm satisfied the F.T.C. is right in the matter and that there IS a good reason why this white board must be called yellow, and this yellow board can be called white, and all f regret is the natural dumbness that blocks my understanding of the matter.

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But since, in addition to being simple I am likewise very inquisitive, I can't help wondering what the intelligent courts of this land would say if you took these two boards before them, unlabeled, and asked the learned judges to please select the white pine and the yellow pine, just as any layman buying lumber would do. Wouldn't that be fun?

They sometimes refer to him historically as a "heathen,"

but read the prayer of Socrates, the great Athenian commoner, and see if you agree. "Grant me to be beautiful in the inner man, and all I have of outer things to be at peace with those within. May I count the wise man only, rich; and may rny store of gold be such as none but the good can bear."

\il/'e're funny folks in lots of ways. We put such stamp as "heathen" on some great soul whose uttered thoughts were pure and stainless as the sword of Eden's sentinellacking only the trademark of orthodoxy. And then, mayhap, turn in our foolish pride and utter a prayer as soddenly savage as the war cry of a Solornon Islander.

The most delightful public speech f have heard in years was made by an orthodox Christian clergyman on the subject, "What I learned about spirituality frorn the heathen.". He had just returned from many months in "heathen" lands. One day he asked a "heathen" who and what his God was. And thp "heathen" answered with an explanation so simple, so beautiful, so understandable, that his interrogator dropped his head in humility. "It made me seriously wonder," said the clergyman in terminating his address, "which of us was the heathen?"

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On the wall of my office is framed this statement: "The holiest temple beneath the stars is a home that love has built; and the most sacfed altar in all the wide world is the fireside around which gather father, mother, and children." THAT was said by a "heathen," also.

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Someone ought to compile a volume of the beautiful utterances of the great heathens of history. In this gangridden, bootlegger-infested, murder-muddled country of ours today, such a volume might prove a saving grace. To know the beautiful thoughts of great men now dead might be sorne compensation for the mediocrity of today's moronic modernness. They might erase some of the "scramrt' "lamr" ttmob," ttmollrtt and the like, from our embattled consciousness.

Speaking of modernn"":, .-"" l, o.r, phitosophers of to(Continued on Page 8)

PINE DEPARTMENT

F. S. PALMER, Mgr. California Ponderoea Pine California Sugar Pine

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Incorporated Feb. 14, 1908

A. J. ttGugttRussellts Outfit

Erclurivc Reil Rcprcrcntativcr in Crliforaie rnd Arizone for Crntral Coat & C,oke C,o.

Oregon-American Lumber Co., Vernonia, Ore.

Exclurivc Rail Rcprcrentetivcr ia Northcrn Glifornir for Creo-Dipt CompanY, Inc. North Tonawanda' N. Y.

So. Calif. Officc LOS ANGELES '8O9 Pacific Electric Bldg. Bnrce L Burlingeme

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We have for several yearr represented the Central Coal & Coke Co.'s Lumber Department in the distribution of its lumber products in California, and consequently it is with considerable pleasure and satisfaction that we include their coal department Products.

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Vagabond Editorials

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day wisely explSins our divorce situation in this fashion: "A modern youngster acquires a rnate much as he does a new automobile. Attracted by first appearance, urged by a lust for immediate possession, and infuenced by the importunities of the salesman, he frequently winds up with a sport model, entirely unsuitable for family use.,'

on the other hand, *";; ,lo, n".," changed so much from our very beginning. Several hundred years ago two Europeans sailed Westward seeking a new world. Columbus the Spaniard was a man of high ideals. He believed ttre world was round and went forth to prove it for the sake of mankind. He succeeded.

From the North ""** ,,J.rrlroran. He was a sort of old-timey gangster, and went Vlfest to see what he could grab. He, likewise, struck land. But he was possessed of none of the high ideals and purposes of Columbus. And what was the result? We named lwo great continents after Americus, and a hick town in Ohio after the idealist, Columbus.

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The newspapers remind us that all business has not gone to pot of late. Coca Cola, a nickel drink made in Atlanta, Georgia, had the biggest quarter year of its hietory, and distributed an additional dividend among its stockholders. t+a

Which splendidly backs up a story that has been going the rounds. A ,man called on Williarn Wrigley, the gutn king, and tried to interest him in a business investment. Wrigley ia teported to have answered: "Your propositiolr sorurds good, but I am not interested in financing the salc of any article that the public pays more than a nickel for."

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Depressions pass by the popular nickel article, and leane it unecathed, while destroying its more expensive competi- tor. The present depression has done no harm to nickel thlngs to eat and drink and smoke. Perhaps we'd better start rnaking and selling lumber in nickel units. *t*

The lumber,rnen of.the Chicago territory have just had a run-in with their leading newspaper, the Chicago Tribune. A famsus cartoonist drew a two-phase cartoon which the Tribune published. Number One showed the steel men all cast-down by loss o{ business through the depression. Number Two showed them on their toes and shouting with enthusiasm. The enthusiasm was due to a plan created by their research department to manufacture houses out of steel.

The Chicago lumber fraternity raised merry Hades with the Tribune. The Tribune answered editorially. The defensc of the cartoon was more of an excuse than a reason. But in conclusion.the Tribune ofrered the lumber industry some very sage advice. ft suggested that the lumber industry would be far wiser if, instead of trying to hold the public to following the same old rouGs and ruts, it got busy like the steel industry and developed new uses for wood. And to that we say Amen, with a large A-M-E-N. r|r|*

When this depression ende, the decisive test of the lumber industry is going to come. In the swing upward that follows the low spell will come the opportunlty of the industry to save itself, When it again has funds to do things with, it must incorporate those funds into a carnpalgn to develop n€w uses for lumber, and new ideas for using wood, and for manufacturing and re-manufacturing wood. And on the quality and quantity and ultimate success of that campaign will hinge the entire future of the lumber, in dustry.

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Not to tell the public the valuc of boards I Not at alt t There would be nothing now, or appealing, or constructiVc about that. \Mhat we need is more and more and etill morc idcas as new an'd as novcl, and as appealing to the public mind and pocket as ply-wood (the greatest progressivc idea the softwood industry has evolved); the variors pressed woods made from ground wood fiber; and the ready-cut-for-use products of the hardwood mills during the past few years.

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Those mentioned, and a ferr other lesser developments, are almost the sum total of lu,rnber advancement in, a gcneration. And all of t-hem were individually discovered, sponsored, or produced. Steel develops new ideas for all the steel industry, ccfirent for the entire cement. industry, and they are of continual occurrence. The other great industries do likewise. Electrical, automotive, and aero industries are fair samples. Something new evcry day. Some radical change always in the offing.

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We've got a splendid supply of commercial trees left in this country. But when this depression is over we've got to get into the thick of the fight and cooperatively and coordinately lift this industry by the injection of CHANGE and VARIETY-or ure may as well let the trees stand for shade and birds' nests. It is to be sincerely hoped that the period of reaction that follows the depression does not again-as it has in the past-lull this industry into a feeling of false security. For false it wiU certainly be.

66ue ate the dog"

So writes Cabeza de Vaca, first hitch hiker from the Gulf of Mexico to California (land of Redwoods).

Cabeza and his companions were lost in the Great American Desert and hadn't donned the nose bag for days.

But let's read the explorer's own account: "It being the day set aside for the Feast of our blessed Saint Maria, we having eaten but the blades of dried grass these last eight days and the dog, poor dumb creature, was certainly sufiering as sharply as our helpless selves."

After a few more paragraphs of explanation Cabeza says, ttWe ate the dogr" and that's that.

Termites uiII eat Redwood, too, but-

they will eat other woods or even their brethren and sistren first.

Termites plugged up in Redwood blocks chewed their way out as fast as possible, eating fellow termites to keep steam up. Termites placed in blocks of other woods prospered and multiplied.

Frequently termites will eat ot'her woods nailed to redwood and not touch redwood.

Every particle of Redwood is grown highly termite resistant by nature. It has more than a vulnerable shell of treated wood; it is Sterling through and through.

If you strike any doubting Thomases write us for the indisputable facts.

Building Inspectors Get lnstruction in Lumber Grading at Annual Meeting

Convention Also Hears Talk on Model Termite Control Ordinance

Much interest was shown by building inspectors in the lumber grading symp,osium and lumber grading contest conducted by A. C. lforner, 'Western manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association at the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference held at the Whitecotton Hotel,,Berkeley, October 5 to 10.

The symposium was held on the first day of the conference. A pamphlet entitled "IJnit Working Stresses for Lumber" had been prepared by the Western offi'ce of the National Association for use in the Uniform Building Code and distributed to all the inspectors before the meeting. This pamphlet ,contained the proposed revision of se,ctions 2503 and 2504 of. the Code, and a lot of ,carefully prepared information for the instruction of building inspectors as to the methods of applying in practice the fundamental principles for selecting lumber according to its safe load bearing capacity in building construction.

Mr. Horner's talk dealt with the factors influen'cing the strength of and working stresses for lumber and timber, and while time only permitted him to give the highlights of this big subject, his explanation of many points in the pamphlet was of great assistance to the building inspectors in their study of the fundamentals of grading.

Jason McCune, of Los Angeles, field representative of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association spoke briefly on grade-marked lumber and American Lumber Standards.

Reuben W. Smith, of the California Redwood Association, San Francisco, told of the development of structural grades by his asso'ciation.

Professor Emanudl Fritz, associate professor of forestry, University of California, Berkeley, gave a short explanation of charts exhibited by him, one of which illustrated the wearing resistance and greater strength of summer wood, and another which showed the progress of decay of lumber which had only been three years in a new building, owing to lack of ventilation, s,craps of lumber piled around the foundations, and other violations of every principle of good building.

Albert Hermann, resear.ch engineer of the Western Pine Association, Portland, also gave a short talk.

C. D. Wailes, Jr., 1st vice-president of the Conference, chief building inspector of Long Beach, told of the use of grade-marked lumber in Long Beach. Most of the lumber specified by ar'chitects now, even in residential construction is grade-marked lumber, he said.

More than.50 pieces of lumber of sizes used commonly in construction were placed on exhibition in a building just across the street from convention headquarters. where

building inspectors were invited to examine and grade them at their convenience during the convention.

Other exhibits in this building were samples of Weyerhaeuser 4-Square Guide Line Framing; an exhibit of No. I Grade Perfections, 5X and Royals, Red Cedar Shingles; exhibit of various grades of Ponderosa pine, larcli, Idaho white pine and Douglas fir, rrranufactured by mills of the Western Pine Association; a large Douglas fir plywood panel, 8l feet by 12 feet, manufactured by Harbor Plywood Corporation, and exhibited by Davis Hardwood Co., San Francisco.

fnspectors Hear Tal,k on Termites

Earl Bowe, exe,cutive secretary of the Termite Investigations Committee, addressed the meeting on "Model Termite Control Ordinances Suggested by the Termite Investigations Committee," on October 7, and answered many questions on the subiect of termite control.

Citrus Belt Hoo Hoo Club Meet

Oct. 17 at San Bernardino

The Citrus Belt Hoo Hoo Club will hold irs annuirl meeting at the San Bernardino Country Club, San Bernardino, on Saturday, October 17. The program includes a golf tournament in the afternoon starting at 12:3O p.m.; business meeting and election of officers at 5:30 p.m.; dinner and dance at 7:@ p.m. A large attendance is expected.

Agricultural Paper Publishes \. Special Redwood lssue

'The Agricultural News, only agricultural newspaper in Cblifornia, published at Petaluma, made its September 30 issue a special Redwood number. A feature of the issue rvas a special article by Max E. Cook, farmstead engipeer, manager of the Redwood Farm Structures Bureau, California Redwood Association, entitled "Development of Better Farm Structures for a Secure fnvestmenl". ffhis ar.ticle was illustrated by designs of poultry houses, 6a.ns, septic tanks and other structures designed by Mr. Cook, and told the poultryman and fariryier of the free plan service made available to them by the Bureau through their local lumber dealer.

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L. P. Keith Appointed Sales Announce New Combination Promotion

Representative Screen and Sash Door

L. P. Keith, West Coast Lumbermen's Association field engineer, has left the employ of the Association to become Eastern sales promotion representative of the Puget Sound Associated Mills, Seattle, a cooperative selling 1nd merchandising company handling the East Coast sales of 24 Puget Sound sawmills, according to an announcement made by the Association. Mr. Keith took up his new work on October 1. He has had extensive experience in promoting use of West Coast woods on the Atlantic Seaboard, having carried on this work during the past 11 years. In I92IJ.

Mr. Keith joined the staff of the West Coast Forest Products Bureau, a trade extension organization supported by West Coast lumber interests. A few years later this organ- ization rvas merged with the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. In 7926 he became a field engineer for the West Coast Lumber Tracle Extension Bureau, which in 1928 was consolidated with the Association. a position he held until he took up his nerv rvork in Octobei.

Mr. Keith attended the Colorado School of Mines, and graduated from an engineering course at the University of lllinois. He then went into the office of a firm of architects and engineers in Chicago, and later worked in the engineering department of a steel company. Immediately prior to joining the staff of the West Coast Forest Products Bureau, he was serving as a field engineer for the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. During the World War he rvas a lieutenant of infantry and sa'w service rvith the America troops sent to Archangel, Russia. He has gained rvide acquaintance among retailers, rvholesalers, architects, engineers and industriai users of lumber in the Ntiddle West and on the East Coast. His efforts were devoted largely to promoting structural uses .of lumber, and he has collaborated in the preparation of a number of the Association's technical bulletins on West Coast woods.

Robert E. Seeley, manager of the Puget Sound Associatecl N{ills, stated that Mr. Keith u'ill rlevote his time to sales promotion work in the interest of this corporation's activities.

\ FRANK PRINCE VISITS CALIFORNIA

\ Frank Prince, Bend, Ore., editor of the Shevlin Pine News. formerly Shevlin Equalizer. was a San Francisco and Los Angeles visitor around the first of the month where he spent a few days at the sales offices of the McCloud River Lumber Co. and contacting the lumber trade.

6 *neeb saue you money

The Western Sash & Door Co., Los Angeles, wholesale distributors, has announced a new product, the Hollywoocl Combination Screen and Sash Door. The feature. bf th" new door are as follows: it can be used as a screen or storm door, summer or winter-an all-season door in one; rvire rolled in on outside of sash in metal frame: set in metal guides : cannot warp or swell; self-locking sash and a<1- justs to any position, and glass is easily cleined by removing sash. The new door ls made from clear Sufar pine, lfu inches thick.

George B. Bosworth, who has been connected with the sash and door industry in Southern California for many years, is president of the Western Sash and Door Co. His son, F. E. Bosworth, is secretarv of the companv.

Close Credit Checking Indicated

Ch-icago,- Oct. 1.-An increased volume of inquiries and a policy of closely scrutinizing credits is indicated in the increased number of requests for special reports received early in September by the "Blue Book", according to a re- port furnished by the National Lumber Mantifacturers Credit Corporation for the October issue of The Lumber Market. Requests received during the month exceeded thos.e of September a year ago by about 25 per cent.

The report, covering business problems gives l8 bankruptcies for September, 1931, as against 13-for the month a year ago and 12_ receiverships as against 5, indicating rather the culmination than the origin of business troublei during the month. Three extensions were reDortecl as against 4.a year ago; Z assignments against 2; i compro- mise settlement against 2; and 6 creditors' committees-ap- pointments against 5 for September. 1930

A very material increase in the number of claims placed for collection lvas noted. Collections rvere much moie difficult than a year ago.

FOUR L BOARD OF DIRECTORS TO MEET AT PORTLAND

The 26th semi-annual m.eeting of the board of directors of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen will be held at Portland, Ore., on November 16.

THERE IS A REASON

Why the largert mills are inrtalling our IMPROVED AIR COOLED REFUSE BURNERS.

WE ARE ABLE to care for your require. ments for air cooled and brick lined refirse burrrersnew and ued boilers of all sizer and types.

SEATTLE BOTLER WORKS

Seattle, Warh.

R"" ch 17 LUMBER PRosPEcTs in One Farmer

This Soles Promotion Bulletin will help you get your shore of the $5oo,ooo,ooo form lumber mqrket

EW lumber merchants realize th;e tremendous opportunity for lumber sales to farmers. The average farmer is a seventeen titnes better prospect than the average city home owner. Current farm construction requires over $500,000,000 worth of lumber annually-nearly one-third of our total lumber sales.

Yet farmers themselves don't realizehow vitally important good buildings are to their success. Overcrowded, badly ventilated, or draughty structures are as costlY to them as obsolete machinerY. A few degrees of temperature may mean, for example, tJ:e difference between dampness and drynessthe difference between healthY and unhealthy stock-the difference between profit and loss. educate the farmer to building needs, to discourage his experimentin g with unsatisfactory substitutes, and to help you sell more lumber, the National Lurnber Manufacturers Association has prepared an authoritative lumber sales manual dealing exclusivelywith increasing farm lumber sales and outlining many

proven plans for farm lumber promotion.

This nera'booklet, "Farm Markets and Lumber Sales," is available to you gratis-in single copies, as is theold standard guide to farm construction t54pes, "The Use of Lumber on the Farm." Write today for your FREE copies of these bulletins.

To these

California Building Permits for September

Roy Hills Thinks California Build Insulating Board Mill Outlook Wonderlul lor in Hawaiian lslands

Next Decade

Roy Hills, one of the owners of Wendling-Nathar-r Company, of San Francisco, famous in the wholesale lumber business in this state for both his ability and his unfailing optimism, is smiling and working his way through the present situation in great shape, and looking forward with positive enthusiasm to the great times that he sees coming to the lumber and building industry of this state in the next decade.

He believes that California is due for a great boom just as soon as this general business depression is over. He thinks conditions are better in California than in any other part of the country, and that prosperity will react faster here than elsewhere. Northern California, he says, is due for a splendid surge of building business, unfailing signs pointing in that direction. And Southern California will continue her rapid growth in population, demanding housing and shelter for the people that keep knocking at her doors, and he looks for a boom in Southern California to match that of. 1923. And all of this requires lumber and building materials in great quantities.

"I don't know when it will start" said Mr. Hills, "but I am convinced that the upward swing is on its way, and that at least five of the next ten years rvill be boom years all over California. I am placing my chips that way. The Wendling-Nathan Company, rvhich has been in business more than a generation, expects the biggest business tide of its history as soon as this depression ends".

Hawaiian Cane Products, Ltd., organized by leading sugar producers and other ,commercial interests in the Harvaiian Islands, is now constructing an insulating board mill at Hilo, and expects to have the plant in production about January l,1932. The plant will have an annual capacity of 1@,0@,00O square feet, and will manufacture a iigid fiber insulating board from bagasse, the tough fibers of the cane. Theo. H. Davies & Co., with headquarters in Honolulu and offices in San Francisco and New York are the United States sales agents.

W. L. Rawn, until recently associated with the Wheeler Osgood Co., Tacoma, and former manager of the American Export Door Co., is sales manager. Leo. C. Monahan is sales promotion manager.

R. E. Ford

R. E. Ford, vice president and sales manager of Cadrvallader-Gibson Co., Inc., Los Angeles, died at Alhambra on October 2. Ile was forty-two years of age. Funeral services were held at Glendale on October 5.

Mr. Ford was born at Colusa, Calif. He was connected rvith Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., since 1919, and prior to that he was associated with Henry W. Peabody & Co.. San Francisco exporters. He was a member of Hoo Hoo. He is survived by his rvife, Daisie, and trvo children, Lois and Raymond Ford.

Many Tanks!

Today every item counts in the retail dealer's effort to go through the year without an operating loss. Counter trade, repair jobs and side lines have to pay the overhead during the time that building is down to a minimum. Don't overlook TANKS for fann or industry. Many tanks may have been sold in your territory without your knowledge. Now you c:rn take the order at a profit to yourself by placing it with the Flammond Lumber Company's Tank and Pipe Department. At our Humboldt County mills we manufacture Redwood and Fir tanks, of any size-nound, sguafe or of any shape. Our tank engineers will be glad to help you handle any tank problem

S. S. Sfudmore, Pioneer Southern

C aliforni a Lumb errnan, C om pletes

Fifty T ears of Acilue Seruice

Stephen S. Shid,more

October 10, 1881, to October 10, 193l-fifty years a lumberman-stephen S. Skidmore, manager of -skidmore and Borvers Lumber Company of Dorvnej-, Calif., on October lO of this year hangs up a record of fifty years of active service in the Lumber Industry of Southern California. Practically all of this service lvis in the capacity of manager of the same yard, first under the corporate name of the J. M. Griffith Lumber Company and now under the rvell known pioneer name oi Skidmore & Bor,vers.

Stephen Schuyler Skidmore, pioneer lumberman, was born October 25, 1855, in Cass Countv. Texas. His father and mother having come to Texas in t6e early pioneer days of 1836. In 1857 the family moved to McKinney, Collins County, Texas. His early scl-rool days were spent in this place. Near the close of the Civil War the family again moved to \A/aco, Texas, in 1865. With the pioneer spirit of ahvays going rvestward his father organized a large tlain of wagons to make the journey to California, "The Land of Gold".

On May 6, 1869, the long, well equipped wagon train, "mule power", left Waco, Texas, for California. Just a boy driving a train of six and eight mules, sometimes doing scouting duty for Indians, enduring the hardships entailed in the crossing of the plains eminently fitting him to help build a pioneer west.

The wagon train after crossing \Vest Texas, Arizona, then the Colorado River, landed in San Diego August 23, 1869. Bordering the line between California and Mexico, and two miles east of the seashore, the ranch property still stands where the Skidmore family made their first California home. Seeking to rest up the stock and recondition them after.their long, tediogs trip across the plains. the family, learning of the fine wild hay and grazing facilities, moved up into the Cuyamaca Valley where they did their part towards carving history in this pioneer state.

Very shortly a{ter the family moved into Cuyamaca Valley, his father discovered a piece of float qvartz, which afterwards.proved to be, literally r,-eined with virgin gold. After considerable search the mother lode was found and was named the Stonewall Jackson mine, which afterwards proved to be one of the famous mines of the West.

While at Cuyamaca an older sister, Margaret Skidmore,

married another early pioneer, Mr. M. S. Julian, whom afterrvards the town of Julian, San Diego County, was named.

Disposing of their interests the family came to Los Angeles in 1871 and located in the Los Nietos Valley where they made their l-rome in the community of Downey. The next ten years he cleared many pieces of land of virgin growth and one piece in particular, where his son Grey has an orange g'rove, he cleared and plowed for the first time. Farming for a time, then later taking a position with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, he was transferred to Casa Grande, Arizona. During that time (1873) the town of Downey was subdivided by Governor Downey. Here at that time was the terminus of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which afterwards was extended to Santa Ana.

Mr. Skidmore married Miss Eliza Paulsell in 1882 who crossed the plains with her parents in the early 7O's from Missouri, locating in Booneville, Mendocino County, Calif. Later they came south, settling in the Los Nietos Valley. They have one son, Grey M. Skidmore, who was born in 1884, and is now associated with his father in the lumber business at Downey.

The Griffith Lynch Lumber Company of Los Angeles opened a lumber yard, the late J. M. Elliott, President of the First National Bank of Los Angeles, was one of the first managers. Later Mr. Griffith took over the Lynch interest and operated under the name of J. M. Griffith Lumber Company. Stephen S. Skidmore was called to take charge in October, 1881. Since that time the J. M. Griffith Company sold out to the Griffith Lumber Company, and then in 1921 the yard at Downey was taken over by Mr. Skidmore and Mr. A. C. Bowers. All this time S. S. Skidmore and A. C. Bowers had been close friends associated in the same corporation, and how fitting that they should still continue active business in the close relationship of a partnership.

Reminiscing withMr. Skidmore of the early days brought the writer one of his happiest experiences, drawing on this storehouse of unwritten history truly personal but interlocked with the events and lives of so many of our early pioneers._Mr. Skidmore still retains the firsi ledger account book. On its pages appear the names of Pio Pico,

one time Governor of California; Henry T. Gage, another chief executive of our State; Jotham Bixby and the Lugo family. Linked with these names Mr. Skidmore recalls incidents well worth preserving.

With this pioneering background little wonder that Stephen S. Skidmore fitted himself for a place in one of the pioneer industries of Southern California, took a place in his community commanding the higher respect, builded a happy home, and founded a posterity that each day brings him happiness with the knowledge oi having contributed towards the upbuilding of his community and state.

O"kland Concern Modernizes Plant

The complete rearrangement of a factory and the building and equipping of new offices, giving employment to many men and creating business for numerous West Coast concerns, is the contribution being made by the California Wire Cloth Company of Oakland to better business.

In order to reduce their cost of manufacturing to a point where they could successfully meet present day competition, they have made a complete rearrangement of their factory, grouping related machines, widening the aisles and introducing automatic controls 'ivhich have greatly enhanced the quality of ttr-eir products. This has given steady employment to many men who might otherwise have been forced to join the ranks of the unemployed.

The building of new offices with every modern convenience such as double windows to reduce outside noises, air conditioning for the greater comfort of employees, new rest room facilities and all new office {urniture, filing, accounting and recording devices, was designed to increase the office tempo and improve the service to their customers. This program of expansion has created considerable business fbr East Bay Uuilaing and equipment contractors and has provided work for many men etlgaged in those trades.

Irr undertaking this program of improvement and expansion the management believed that the present time was most advantageous because the project provided employment at a time when it was most necessary and the work could progress with less interference with the transaction of businesl. Throughout this depression this company has kept its organization intact, without a single layoff or salary reduction.

Plywood Display Brings Many I .. rnqurnes

A lot of public attention was directed to th-e 4llplgy of plywood anl articles made from plywood _!y 9' W. Bucknei, Northern California representative of Harbor Plywood Corporation, Hoquiam, Wash., in one of the large windo-ws of the Building Material and Machinery Exhibit Building at 557 Market Street, San Francisco.

The display, which recently ran for.three week5, brought "n a'uetage of 20 inquiries a day. Firms contributing articles to the display included White Brothers, San Francisco, Built-In-Fixture Co., Berkeley, and Davis Hardwood Co., San Francisco.

A feature of the exhibit was the big Douglas fir panel, 8l leet by 16 feet shown by Davis Hardwood Co. An inscription on this ran:

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IYENDIING. NATHAN C(}.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, MR. RIPLEY, THIS PANEL WAS CUT FROM A THREE FOOT LOG

sell you Mixed Cars with any other items of Old Growth Yellow Fir.

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LUMBER SHINGLES PIUNG

Redwood Cedar Fir

Dougta! Fir Redwood Redwood

California Pine

Cdif. Sugar Pine

We manrfacture and rell-Split Redwood, Tier, Portr, . Shakes, Grape Stakes

112 Market Street - San Francirco Portland Oficc, Amcrican Bank Bldg.

SHA$r BERTRAM LUMBEN GO.

Manafaclurers of

Dry Kilor Plrning Mill Bor

and Moulding Factoricr

Daily Capecity 390,0fl1 Ft.

CLEARS. SF-I-FCTS and FACTORY GRADES

Klamath Falb Oregon

IT COSTS NO IIORE

To haul lumber to your yard from our dock in Oakland than from any other lumber terminal in ihe S. F. Bay district.

It is our aim to catry a general assortment of stocL suitable to your purpose.

Our Motto; "Promise Less-Do More"

Vholesalers and Jobbers

Dennison Street Vharf - Oakland ANdover tO77-tO7E

"P.ul Bunyan Prosperity Special"

What promises to be the largest shipment of lumber products ever made at one.time is announced by The Red River Lumber Company of Westwood, Calfiornia, to mark the inauguration of traffic on the new 'Western PacificGreat Northern California line.

The Golden Spike will be driven at Bieber, California, early in November with Ceremonies attended by many of the most prominent figures in transportation, industry-and public life. This will open a new transcontinental link and' a new North-and-South line on the Pacific Coast. What far reaching effects this change in the traffic map will have on the industrial and agricultural development of the Pacific Coast can not be estimated at this time but it is expected that its stimulus will rank in .importance with that of the coming of the first railroad.

Beginning with the historic Hill-Harriman battle that caused a near panic on Wall Street thirty years ago, the fight of the Hill Lines for a terminus at San Francisco entered a new phase last year with the proposed connection with the Western Pacific. During the past fourteen months both lines have been extended to close the 250-mile gap, rushed to completion at record breaking speed of constfuctlon.

The "Paul Bunyan Prosperity Special" will leave Westwood as a feature of the inaugural program and run South to Keddie, California, where the cars for California points r'vill be taken out and the rest proceed in a solid train shipment, Eastward via Salt Lake, Denver, and Omaha, where it will split, part going North to Minnesota Transf,er and a part to Chicago and the East.

Dry Kilns Replaced in Record Time

The dry kilns of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company, Dryad, Washington, were destroyed by fire on September ll at a loss of approximately $2O,000. A quantity of lumber was also destroyed. This plant was formerly the T eudinghaus Lumber Company, having been purchased by the Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Company last March.

The kilns have been replaced by one Moore's Reversible Cross Circulation kiln which was installed and ready for operation on September 29-just eighteen days after the fire. The new kiln is 22 feet wide by 1O4 feet long and has a daily drying capacity of more than 25,000 board feet of upper grade lumber, or the same capacity as two of their former kilns. Some common dimension will also be dried in the new kiln.

The new kiln is designed for progressive operation and is of the longitudinal shaft design. The longitudinal shaft design is particularly adapted to producing strictly transverse circulation through the stock loads enabling the operator to carry widely differing schedqles of temperature and relative humidity throughout the length of the kiln, a feature essential to progressive operation. The lumber is stacked flat edge-to-edge, permitting reduced stacking cost and increased holding and drying capacity in comparison with the old kilns which were destroyed.

All of the dry kiln equipment for this installation was f_urnished promptly from stock from the Moore Dry Kiln Company factory at North Portland, Oregon.

CHANGE OF OFFICE

H. Bruce Wiscomb announces the removal of his office from the Architects Bldg. to the Building Arts and Crafts Exhibit, 169 No. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles. Mr. Wiscomb is the California representative o,f the Harbor Ply- wood C,ompany, American Door and Manufacturing Company, and Knox & Toombs, In'c.

Pine Firms Advised to Continue Use of \7ords "Whit" Pin

The twenty-three rvestern lumber manufacturing concerns recently denied a rehearing by the Federal Trade Commission in the case in which they were ordered last June to stop the use of the phrase "white pine" in describing yellow pine lumber of the species Pinus Ponderosa. have been advised by their counsel that the findings and conclusions of the Commission in the case are not warranted by the record of the proceedings, and that the order is beyond the jurisdicti jurisdiction of the Commission. These firms rvere also advised by their counsel to write to the Federal Trade Commission before October 12, 1931, stating that it is their present purpose to continue the use of the crlrrent trade name for their product.

Chas. S. Dodge No* With, Hammond Lumber Co. /

Charles S. Dodge, formerly of E. J. Dodge Co., Redwood manufacturers, has ioined the sales staff of the Hammond Lumber Co., and ii covering the East Bay and Peninsula territory.

N. H. HUEY VISITS LOS ANGELES

N. H. Huey, Phoenix, Ariz., lumberman spent a few days in Los Angeles around the first of the month attending to business matters and calling on the lurnber trade.

S:rNTRON r[OTORLESS ELECTRIC HAIIMERS

"Only the Piston moves"

/, to Z-rnch Drilling Capacity

Veights l0 to 2O lbs.

Priced at 1100 and up.

Electrlc Drlllc, All Stzec

Portable Grlnden and Bcnch T54rec

Goncrete Surtacerc

Strand Fledble Shatts and Equlprncnt

Elecdc lland Sawr

Sanders . Potleherc Bullers

If a job can be done with an etectric js6l-ws have it.

ft Pnys to Preverut ffiEFiresl

A 6re that might have been prevented is a double calamity. Eternal vigilance is the price of safety-and especially so with the fumes of gasolines and oils. You cannot be too careful when a spark from a motor, the scrarch of a match, or the flame from a cigarette may touch off an explosion to start a destructive fire and end in serious loss. Gasoline must be handled with gloves.

Lumber Mutual Insurance provides a threefold protection for the lumber industry-it gives expert counsel on handling gasolines and other hazards, to prevent 6res if possible; it pays losses faitly and ptomptly; and by substantial dividends it reduces insurance cost. Write any of our companies for spccific inf ormotion on our fire preaention serrice, on. Lumlter Mutual ltrotectiort both before and after Ioss, and, on the sa'tin,g efrected by Lnnrbcr LIututtl diddends.

7508 TOOLS RENTED Loc Angeler

NIY FAVORITE STORIES

Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 2O years-Some less This On" \flas Just an Incident

The doctor told him he was discharged, and handed him his bill ft was a very modest bill, considering that he had set and cared for a broken arm, a broken leg, a sprained ankle, sewed up his scalp, fixed up his nose, done some skin grafting, and fixed up a lot of miscellaneous bruises and bumps.

"Doc," said the patient, "you've been mighty good to me, and done a splendid job all the way through. Wouldn't

-EDRIC E. BROWN RETURNS FROM LOS ANGELES

Edric E. Brown, of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, has returned from spending two weeks in Los Angeles in the interests of the by-products department of the company.

be surprised if you'd saved that left leg from what otherwise might have meant amputation. All that worries me is that I don't know when I'll be able to Pay you for all you've done."

"Why," asked the doctor, "didn't you tell me when you first came in that you had six hundred dollars in the bank?"

"Sure I have," replied the patient, "BUT I'M SAVING THAT FOR AN EMERGENCY.'

JOHN McEVOY FLIES

John A. McEvoy, sales manager of the box department of the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, Bellingham, Wash., traveled by air from Seattle to Los Angeles on a recent business trip. He visited San Francisco on his way north.

Frank I. O'Connor

Frank O'Connor H

Shipowners Ass'n

for 10th Term

Frank J. O'Connor, of the Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco, was unanimously elected president of the Shipowners' Association of the Pacific for the tenth consecutive term, at the annual meeting of the association held in San Francisco, September 25.

The following directors were elected: R. W. Myer9, Hobbs, Wall & Co.; James Tyson, Charles Nelson Co.; S' M. Hauptman, McCormick Steamship Co.; L. C. Hammond, Hammond Lumber Co.; Otis R. Johnson, National Steamship Co.; L. C. Stewart, Sudden & Christenson; S. D. Freeman, S. S. Freeman & Co.; H. F. Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; W. R. Chamberlin, W. R. Chamberlin & Co.; John L. Reed, J. R. Hanify Co.; J. C. McCabe, A. F. Mahoney Co.

CHA"NGE OF OFFICE.,

The Holmes Eureka Lumber Company announce the removal of their Los Angeles office to room 204, Union Insurance Bldg., from room 329.

Wendling-Nathan Company Take

Plylock Wallboard Asency lor

Northern Calilornia

"Ihe Wendling-Nathan Company, of San Francisco, announce that they have taken the agency for Northern California for the Plylock Wallboard of the Portland .Manufacturing Company, of Portland, Oregon. This is a plywood wallboard of splendid reputation which they are selling either in straight or mixed cars with Fir lumber. Although they have been handling the product but a short time they report a very gratifying interest in the line among their retail trade in Northern California, and an excellent volume of sales.

Nefson-Hopk an /

Nels E. Nelsen, of the Hayward Mill& Lumber Co., Hayward, was married to Miss Harriet Hopkins, of Oakland, in Reno, October 5. The couple expected to motor to the East coast on their honeymoon.

EARL CARLSON INJURED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT

Earl Carlson, salesman for the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, 'was painfully injured when an intoxicated driver crashed into his car on the highway at midnight, October 7. The driver and his drunken companion were arrested. Earl is confined to bed at his home and is making satisfactory progress.

Harry B. Hewes

Harry B. Hewes, transplanted from the South to the West a number.of years ago, has become a very enthusiastic and loyal San Franciscan. A large portion of his business interests are now in the West. However he still maintains his old home in Jeanerette, Louisiana, where he manufactured Cypress lumber for nearly forty years, and he goes back to his old Southern home trvice everv vear.

Mr. Hewes lived and assisted in one 6f tne greatest epochs that the lumber industry of the world has k-nownthe Louisiana Red Cypress period. He saw Cypress develop from an unknown and unappreciated wood to the most popular and successful species in all lumber history, and he was one of those stalwarts who played a dominant part in selling the world the Cypress idea that brought ab,out that great tide of prosperity that lasted through a long term of years; which terminated, in fa'ct, only when the effort was allowed to lapse.

No one knows better than Mr. Hewes what CAN be done in the lumber business by cooperative merchandising, cooperative advertising, and cooperative protection of a species through intelligent direction. He believes that the future of the lumber business of the west-when this present depression ends-will be whatever the lumber manufacturers make it; as great or as small as their effort. But he knows that it CAN be done. He's seen it done. Ffe's helped do it.

He is the last living man of the famous old guard of Cypress men in Louisiana. The rest of those who were in the game when he started with it as a boy in 1887 are all gone to their reward. lle was the youngest of the lot, and therefore outlived the rest, and is still in the finest of health and spirits, although no longer a youngster.

H. B. Hewes was born in Houston, Texas, June 23rd, 1866. His forbear, Joseph Hewes, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His father, a member of an old Quaker family in Pennsylvania, moved to Houston, and in 1853 started a sawmill in that city. At the time of his death he rvas the oldest lumberman in Texas. His name was Samuel D. Herves. So Harry Herves came naturally by his lumber leanings. His mother's father, Lttke Moore, fought in the Texas army in the battle of San Jacinto, where Sam l{ouston won independence for Texas.

He went through high school, refused a college education, and started working in a planing mill in Houston for a veteran lumberman, M. T. Jones. In 1887 he went to Jeanerette, La., as bookkeeper for a Cypress mill owned by Milmo, Stokoe & Company. It looked good and he borrowed the money and bought an interest. In 1894 they organized the Jeanerette Lumber & Shingle Company. Wm. Cameron, famous Texas lumberman, was an associate. Mr. Hewes operated the mill until it cut out a few years ago. Mr. Cameron died and his son-in-law, a man who was to make Cypress history, inherited his holdings, as well as other Cypress mills in Louisiana. IIe was the late Robert Downman, one of the strongest and most constructive leaders the lumber industry has known.

Cypress was not a money-maker then. It was a tough game. How Robert Downman took the lead and raised it from the dumps, it too long a story to tell here. Under his leadership was organized the Southern Cypress Manufacturers Association, and the Louisiana Red Cypress Company. The Association did the trade promotion and pub- licity work. The Company did the cooperative selling. They raised the price of Cypress from $19 to $50 or more a thousand and kept it there for many years-until there wasn't any left. Mr. Hewes became the devoted associate and lieutenant of Mr. Downman inall his activities in Louisiana, on the Atlantic Coast and in the West. He be-

came a great believer in all association work, and in all intelligent cooperative activities for the lumber industry. In late years he has been an ardent worker for the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and has been ofrered the Presidency of that organization in recent years. He was vice-president of the Cypress Association for twenty- five years.

Inserted here with his picture is one of the steamer Amy Hewes, whi'ch he built ind used for many years to tow their Cypress logs on the beautiful Bayou Teche. This steamer is still operating and giving service in that territory, although there are no longer logs to haul.

Mr. Hewes married Miss Nellie Bussev. Thev have one son, Ciarence B. Hewes, who is first secreiary of'the United S_tates E_mbassy, in Berlin, and two daughtirs, Mrs. Amy Hewes Flowerree, and Mrs. Florence Hewes Griswold.

In 1924 Mr. Hewes and Mr. Downman came West and made_large milling and timber investments, and gradually Mr. Hewes moved to San Fran,cisco. Mr. Downman died several years ago, and Mr. Hewes looks after both their interests. These interests include the Clover Vallev Lumber Company, of California.

He believes in a great future for the lumber industry. But he believes that it must be achieved ,cooperatively and intelligently; that the lumber industry of the West must be organized into fewer and larger units, so as to efiect better control over manufacturing and sales policies, and

that more money must be spent for trade promotion and research.

He believes that the West needs a Robert Downman, and that if one appears, what was done with Cypress, .could be done for the Western woods.

He is and has always been an affable, tolerant, friendly, and intensely constructive personality.

Announce New Shingle Product

Introducing a new era in the manufacture of asphalt shingles in the west. The Pioneer Paper Company has announced that Setab Shingles, the most revolutionary product in the roofing industry since the invention of square butt asphalt strip shingles 16 years ag'o, are now ready for the market.

Stocks of Setab Shingles are being shipped this week to Pioneer dealers in the eleven rvestern states. An extensive nervspaper campaign has also been released, using metropolitan papers with a series of advertisements that unfold the story of Setabs and stress the fact that these new shingles cut the cost of roofing at least 50 per cent to the home owner.

Setab Shingles are manufactured by Pioneer under license and at present this company alone controls the right to make Setabs in the western states, thus placing Setabs in the Pioneer line as an exclusive product.

Setabs are a decided improvement over the ordinary asphalt shingle, in that the cut edges are protected with an extra coating of asphalt and crushed rock, thus sealing-in the saturant, lvhich is the verv life of the asphalt shingle. The process which makes the Setab Shingle an outstanding achievement, is patented.

Most modern products are packaged to keep in the dryness, flavor or color. Glassine wraps, moistnre proof containers and various other expedients have been perfected to protect factory freshness. With the asphalt shingle, the asphalt impregnation of the felt base has always been the most important feature in preserving the life of the product. In the old process of manufacture, when the felt sheets are cut into shingles, the edges were left exposed, which permitted the saturant to dry out in time and also allowed the felt base to absorb moisture.

Setab Shingles have corrected this condition. After the shingle is manufactured, a special handling seals-in the saturant by wrapping the exposed edges in an outer coating of asphalt. Thus, Setab Shingles are protected with an impervious thick film into which is embedded fire resisting granules of rock for added protection.

Heavier than ordinary asphalt shingles, because the crushed rock surface extends over the edges and on the back of the Setab Shingle, this new product produces a super-shadow effect, which has won favor with architects.

Carrying the same Forestry Blend colors u'hich have caused Pioneer shingles to gain such a rvave of popularity during the past year, Setabs enhance the beauty, texture and strength of a roof, while contributing extra years of life because of the patented sealed-in process of manufacture.

The feature of the advertising campaign to consumers throughout the west, is the saving rvhich Setabs offer because they have double the life of an ordinary asphalt shingle, and therefore cost half as much to the home owner.

SI]DDEN &CHRISTENSON

Lumber and Shipping

7th Floor, Alaska-Comrnercial Bldg.

31O Sanaome Street

AGENTS

.AMERICAN MILL CO. Aberdem, Wuh.

HOQUIAM LUMBER & SHINGLE CO. Hoquiam, Wub.

HULBERT MILL CO. Aberden, Waeh, J. A. LEWIS SHINCLE CO.

Soth Bend, Warh.

WILLAPA HARBOR LUMBER MILLS

Raymmd, Wash.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AGENTS

HUMBOLDT REDWOOD CO.

Eureka, Calif.

- San Francrrco

STEAMERS

EDNA

SANTIAM

TRINIDAD

BARBARA CATES

DOROTHY CAHILL

EDNA CHRISTENSON

JANE CHRISTENSON

ANNIE CHRTSTENSON

EDWIN CHRISTENSON

CATHERINE G. SUDDEN

ELEANOR CHRISTENSON

CHARLES CHRISTENSON

Arctic Club Bldg. Petroleun Sccuritier Bldg. Henry Bldg. SEATTLE LOS ANGELES PORTLAND

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ODE TO A COMPLEX

A complex is a fearful thing Or so it seems to me, It keeps one from becoming that Which one most wants to be. It's tough, when you've laid out a task And feel quite equal to it, To hear a pesky complex say, "Awright, Kid, try and do it."

Some day when skies are bright and fair And I feel fit and trim, I'll take my pesky complex out And rend him limb from limb. And then, when I have done the deed And his career is through, No doubt I'll hear his ghost remafk, "That wasn't bad-for you."

-Fred Meyers.

BRYAN ON MARRIAGE

When William Jennings Bryan asked for the hand of the daughter of John Baird, he quoted the following proverb from Solomon: "Whosoever findeth a wife findeth a good thing and obtaineth favirr of the Lord."

Baird, who was also a Bible student, replied that while Solomon did make that remark, the great teacher Paul had said, however, that "while he that marryeth doeth well, he that marryeth not doeth better."

Whereat Bryan replied that in a controversy between these two the opinion of Solomon was the more valuable on this subject because while Paul never married and couldn't possibly know, Solomon had married a thousand times and was an authoritY.

BIRTHSTONES

For laundresses-the soapstone. For architects-the cornerstone. For cooks-the puddingstone.

For politicians-the blarneystone. For borrowers-the touchstonc.

For policemen-the Paving stone.

For stockbrokers-the curbstone.

For shoemakers-the cobblestone. For burglars-the keYstone.

For tourists-the Yell,owstone. For beauties-the Peach stone. For motorists-the milestone. For lovers-the rnoonstone. For pedestrians-the tornb*tone. For editors-the grindstone.

T|^IHAT A DIFFERENCE FIFTY YEARS MAKE 1881

Fifty years ago women wore hoopskirts, bustles, petticoats, corsets, cotton stockings, high-buttoned shoes, ruffled cotton undies, flannel nightgowns, puffs in their hair -did their own cooking, baking, cleaning, washing, ironing-raised bigger families-went to church Sunday-were too busy to be sick.

Men wore whiskers, square hats, Ascot ties, red fannel underwear, big watches and chains-chopped wood for stoves-bathed once a week-drank ten-cent whisky and five-cent beer-rode bicycles, buggies, or sleighs-went in for politics-and lived to a ripe old age.

Stores burned coal-oil lamps-carried everything from a needle to a plow-trusted everybody-never took an inventory-placed orders fo'r goods a year in advance-always made money.

1931

Today women wear silk stockings, short skirts, low shoes, no corsets, an ounce of underwesl-fu4vs bobbed hairsmoke, paint, powder, drink, play bridge, drive cars, have pet dogs, and go in for politics.

Men have high btood pressure, wear no hats, some have no hair, shave their whiskers, shoot golf, bathe twice a day, drink poison, play the stock market, ride airplanes, never go to bed the same day they get up, are misund.erstood at home, work five hours a day, play ten, die young.

Stores have electric lights,, cash registers, never have what the customers want, trusts nobody, takes inventory daily, never buy in advance, have overhead, mark-up markdown quote-budget-advertising-stock control, dollar day, founders day, rummage day, economy day sales-and never make any money.-Exchange.

A NICKEL

I am a nickel.

I am not on speaHng terms with the candy man. I am too srnall to get in the movies.

I am not large enough to buy a necktie.

I am of small consideration in the purchase of gasoline. I am not fit to be a tip. But-believe me, when I go to church I am SOME money.-Exchange.

Millwork Institute Publishes Archilectural Frame Details

Portfolio

The Millwork Institute of California announces the publication of the Institute's portfolio of Architectural Frame Details. With a view to simplifying and standardizing the specification of millwork a committee of mill men representing the leading manufacturers in California, devoted almost two years to the preparation of this complete set of Architectural Frame Details, in accord with the best practices current in the industry.

Particular attention was given to constru,ctional'phases. At the same time, the details were so drawn that architectural requirements are well served through the careful designing of all mouldings used for exterior and interior trim, sills, and so forth.

Emphasis has been placed on water tightness, quietness, ease of sash and window operation, and convenient installation into the wall of the building. The 50 details show frames for as many'different wall conditions, types of sash, windows, etc. Included are details suitable for residences, hospitals, office buildings. schools, and every other type of structure, and for stucco, rvood siding, brick and masonry exteriors, with either rvood or plaster interior trim. Doors, swing-in and swing-out sash, double-hung rvindows, arvning style and other types of sash have been considered, and orovision has been made for various tvpes of screens in con' nection with them.

These 50 rvorking details are bound in portfolio form, l4l inches by 20 inches. Individual sheets may be removed for tracing. It is practical for the.architect to combine several of these details into one general detail of his own. The sketches are so comprehensive and so easily adapted that there is no phase of architectural frame construction which they will not serve. Each sheet is conveniently numbered so' that any detail may be referred to in specifications by number only.

The portfolio makes available to the architectural profession the best judgment and the accumulated experience of the entire millwork industry. The architect is saved needless expense of originating for each job details rvhich protect against leaks, rattles, and other de{ects due to irnproperly manufactured or poorly installed frames and sasl,.

With this portfolio, the Millwork Institute of California tenders the close cooperation of its officers and advisory board, with the thought that such cooperation will result very definitely to the benefit of the entire building industry. The price is $25. A copy will gladly be sent for in-

spection.

The new portfolio has mentary letters to date those who have seen the standing contribution.

brought over a hundred complifrom architects and others, and details pronounce them an out-

s. F. LUMBERMAN BACK FROM WORLD TOUR WINDOW

James L. Hall, well known San Francisco wholesale lumberman, has settled down to work again after a four months' trip around the world, on which he was accompanied by Mrs. Hall and their three boys. Mr. Hall, who took advantage of the quiet times in the lumber business to carry out a long cherished ambition to make this trip, found on his return that the United States looked mighty good, in spite of the depression, by comparison with the many other countries he visited on the tour.

H. R. Isherwood St. Loui,s, Mo.

S ecretary-Treasurer

Hoo Hoo Adopts Constructive Program at 40th Annual Convention

B. F. Sprin ger Elected Snark of Universe

Acloption of an aggressive program of local educational and promotional activities for the ensuing year lvas the outstanding feature of the 40th Annual Convention of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, at West Baden, Ind., September 23. 24.25.

The convention marked the end of the eventful administration of Franklin A. Hofheins as Snark of the lJniverse and the election to that office of Benjamin F. Springer, secretary of the John Schroeder Lumber Co., Milwaukee, a member of last year's Supreme Nine and a foriner president of the Wisconsin Retail Lumbermen's Association.

The other members of the new Supreme Nine are:

Charles R. Black, J. W. Black Lumber Co., Corning, Ark., and a past president of the Southrvestern Lumbermen's Association, Senior Hoo-Hoo.

Thomas C. Spaulding, dean, school of forestry, IJniversity of l\{ontana, Missoula. Junior Hoo-Hoo.

Kenneth M. Brown, Coast Sarvmills, Ltd., Toronto, Ont., Bojum.

Ormie C. Lance, secretary-manag'er, Northrvestern Lumbermen's Association, Minneapolis, Scrivenoter.

William H. Burruss, Burruss Land & Lumber Co.. Lynchburg, Va., Jabberrvock.

Ross C. Kuhlman, secretary, District No. 1, Ohio Association of Retail Lumber Dealers, Cincinnati, Custocatian.

J. E. Martin, managing editor, "The California l-umber Merchant", Los Angeles, Arcanoper.

Andrew J. Brady, Palburn, Ini., Buffalo, and Counselor last year for New York state, Gurdon.

"Material realization is not the major objective of HooHoo and brotherhood, fraternity, friendship, confidence and charity are the benefits that keep the banner o{ the Black Cat flying", Snark Hofheins said in his report delivered at the opening session, Wednesday afternoon. "However, it must be recognized that the success of these more intangible elements can be increased by tying them to a clefinite program of material achievements.

"Man-power is a tremendous force rvhen harnessed. The man-power of Hoo-Hoo is becoming year by year of increasing importance to lumbermen.and to lumber associations. It is being felt, recognized and respected by other branches of the great construction industry, by associations, banks and other financial institutions and by governments, states. provinces and municipalities.

"The consumer controls business today, and to serve the consumer satisfactorily the Lumber Industry mnst develop a better merchandizing sense. Hoo-Hoo, he said, is helping substantially toward the development of better merchandising by lumbermen.

"There are so many phases to the problem of merchandising the output of so vast an industry as ours that without centralized effort, particularly in an educational way, we are bound to find species destroying constructive rvork of other species," he continued. "One of our greatest tasks,

that of merchandising the new home and the modernizing of the home growing old, is too great a task for successful accomplishment by any one branch of the industry or for the entire industry, even as powerful as it is. It is a task that required the combined creative merchandising ability of the entire construction industry and the interests of lumber can best be served if the taik is approached with a united front.

"The man-power of Hoo-Hoo, particularly if a considerable number of the 150,000 eligible non-members in the industry are enlisted, represents the strongest possible factor that could be introduced into this huge merchandising program to make it successful. The benefit would accrue to the entire Lumber Industry, to every species and to the entire construction industry".

Snark Hofheins submitted a number of recommendations, the more important of which included the following:

l. Continuance of the present plan of group insurance for the mernbership, despite the loss of some members who oppose lt.

2. That Hoo-Hoo clubs sponsor wood users meetings, such as those held at Buffalo, Kansas City, Spokane, Duluth and other points, the object being to tell the story of lumber to carpenters, contractors, architects, purchasing agents, etc.

3. Enforcement of the laws of the Order requiring that all Hoo-Hoo Club officers and members be members of the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo in good standing.

4, That Hoo-Hoo clubs develop Boy Scout committees for the purpose of organizing older members of Scout Troops into active forestry groups, such groups to sponsor tree planting and nursery experimental projects in city parks.

5. That Hoo-Hoo International furnish a suggestive program for all Hoo-Hoo clubs for the year, and in turn ask each club to outline its plans.

6. That Hoo-Hoo public relations committees be organized in each state, and in each province of Canada, to campaign for the use of native woods in construction work within that state. (Snark Hofheins gave credit to Crosby H. Shevlin, of Bend, Ore., as the author of this plan).

7. That the Order maintain the closest possible contact with all Hoo-Hoo clubs, and with the various Lumber Trade Associations: also. that Hoo-Hoo clubs make fuller use of the information and practical help offered by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and affiliated trade extension organizations.

8. That the International Offices of the Order be moved from St. Louis to Chicago whenever finances permit.

All of these recommendations were approved in committee and adopted by the convention without a dissenting vote.

"Although showing a loss in paid-up members compared with 1930, Hoo-Hoo has done remarkably rvell under the conditions it faced," Secretary H. R. Isherwood said in his annual report, which follows in part:

"The Lumber Industry vitally needs the type of work Hoo-Hoo is doing, and this need will grow rather than decline regardless of improvement in business. The Lumber Industry must recognize that the return of better times will mean little to the industry unless a substantial share of the

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rvHOLDSALBBS SAIT I'BANOISOO

LUMBER

Chanherlin e Cc, W. Rttl Flor, Flfc Blft. ..............DOurlu 5a?0

Cc Bay Lmbcr Co., Balfor Bldr. ...DOuglar !0ZI

Dolbcr & Cm Lmbcr Co., lG Callfmtr Strut ...,.......DAvGnFrt 7,L

Hall, Jmcr l-. laza Mllb Blds. .,. .,.. .Sutrcr ltts

llrnnond Lubcr Co., tll lhuoc SL ..................DOus|* !3t9

Hulb Co., J. R., 2| Market Stret .........,.....DArcnport 255,1

Hlll & Mrto. lne. Dcmlro St. YYhrrl (Oatttand) ..ANdrvcr tO7?

Horu Co., T. P, &rd md Allcc Str. (Ollrlud) ...G|.aqt a|3f

Hdna.Eun&r l.ba Co., Moneock Bldr. .................GArfiold ttzt

Johm,_ C. D., Lubcr Cc, 2.O Califmia Stret ..........,DAvoDort llll

Ing-Bclt Lrmber Salec Cortpratio, Hobrrt Blds. .....................-.GAr6ctd rdrt

McCloud Rivar Lubcr Go -loEc- rra-"i.i"*L gtd&-: 1..... KEamy 70,t1

McComick, Chas. R., Lmber Co., 215 Market Stret ....,..,.,....,Dou9las 2561

McKay & Go., tfr Cafifonb SL .................KEany Cltt

Oregq-WuhinAtd Plywood Co., 2/| C.lifmir St. .........,........DOu3tu 57t0

Pacific Lubcr Co. ftc, r|O Bu.h St ..............,........GArf|c|d lltl

Red Riva Lmbc Co., Mm&rocL Blds. .................GArficld lt22

Reynlcr Lmbcr Co. lr2 M.r|tct St. ............,.......DOu3lar lGl5

Sladc, S. E. Lubcr Co., Ncwhell BldS. ..................DAvcnport lll0

Santr Fc trrnbct Cc, tl Calllornle Strut .....,.....,....KEany 2Jll

Sudda & Chrlrtcuo, Abeke Cretd Bldr. ........GArfic|d 2ttl

Unio Lubcr Co., Crckc Eulldia3 ...SUttor il70

Wendling-Nattu Lubcr Cc, ll0 Markct Stct .,. .SUttGr StGl

Weyerhaewr Salee Cmpany, 149 Califomia Strt ...,.....'...GArfieId E97{

Wod Luber Co, E. IC, I Drum St. .,......-............KEamy !710

HARDWOODS

Brcm, C- H., Hardrood Co, rlO-5E a?th Aw. (Oallaad) ,.FRuitvdc 05

Higgim, J. E., Luba Co, 423 Sixtb Strut ..................G4rfiG|d lzla

Strablc Hardrood Ca, $n Fint Str.ct (OrH.nd) ......LAkaide 55cl

Whltc Brothcrt Sth and Brm Street! ..........Sutter 1365

SAT]H AND DOORS

Nicolai Dq Sdc Co., r$h ud Harrlso Strt!.........Mlsim 7t20

CREOSOTED POLEII-PILING-TIES

Butcn J. H. ll Cq, ItS Califonia Strct ......Douglil 3tE3

McComick, Chu. R.. hDbcr Cc, 215 Market Strert .......DOuglar 2561

LOS AITGBLBS

LUMBER

Butcr, J. H. I Colll W..t Sh6 gL ,.,............TnilV rlrt

Bolctevq Brmr luba Cq. Ghrnbcr of Conotcr BlL,.,.WEraon ef

Boott-Kclly llr. Co,. ?tf C6tnl BUr. .................VAndi|re ?fta

Chanbcrlin e Co., W. n.. 5at Chanbcr o[ Co. BId3....,WErhm E5

Dolbccr rt Cam Lulcr Cq. Prclfic Mutual Bldr. ...TUcltcr ?Gl

Flnhy Mllhr Tlnbcr Cc. trl C@rnl Bldt. :........... .,.TUclr lt2l

Hmnod Lunbcr Co., 2|rl !b. AlDGd. St. ...........WErbm ?!il

Hulfy Co, J. R., 5a! Catrrl Bldt. ,. ..TUc}cr lOt5

Earl Hofrnm Co.. 5il5 Pctrolcu Smritlcs Bldg...WEatmm t'as

Holmcr-Eunb Lbr. Co., rccl W. ath Strut ,,....,.........Mutud ?aro

Horcr, A. L, 701 Standard Oll Bl&. .,..,,.....VAndike t532

C. D. Johnm Lmbcr Co., Ol Pctrclm Smrlticr Bldg...WErhore lto!

larene-Philipr Lubcr CocOd Petroleu Securitie Bldg...WEstmore 0229

Long-Bell Lumbe Sales Corpontion, dlS Petrolam Seqrities Bldg...WErtnorc lrl3t

McClod Rlvcr Lmbcr Co., Tbc, 3? Petroleu Se. Bldg.......,WEctmore Lti

McCormick, Cbar. R. Lumbcr Cc, rlla LrlG Mctnrr Bl&. .........TRlnlty t2|r

Pacific Lmbc Co,, Tho, ?ta Strndrd Olt Blds. ............VAnd&c 35it2

Pattcn-Blinn Lmbcr Co, 521 E. sth St. .VAndftc 2li?l

Rcd Riw Lubc Co., 712 E. Shrrn ..AXrldrc ffrr

Rcltz Ca, E. L., litl Pctrclm S@rtdc Bld3.,.WErtmore Zl€

Santr Fc Lunbrr Gc, 6 Pac. ELctic BHr. ............TUc}ct|lr

Slede, S. E'.. Lubcr Co., Pctrelam Serltla Bld3. ..,.!VErbm $!ft

Sud&n & Chdrton, !G Petrolan Sariti.r Bld3.,IVErhc tlJl

Tacma Lmbcr Seler Agency, Petroleum Securities BIdt. ..............,.WErtmorc llCt

Unio Lubcr CoIm Mct1r3c BLlS. .........,...TRi.|ty 22!2

Wendling-Ne$u Co, ?Ca St Dd.d (XI Btdt. ...,.......VAndtkc t532

'lileyerhaeuer Saler Cmpany, El9 Petroleum Seritier Bldg...WErhore 55E0

Wood. E. K. I.mba Co. a70l Sut! Fe Avc...,...,...,....JEffcm tlll

HARDWOODS

Brom, Rolling A,, llill So. Curson Ave. .............WHitney !24,1

Cadwallader-Gibm Co., 3filE Mlnr! rlrc. ......,...,.......ANgclua 32t7

Cooper, !V. E., Lubcr Co., 2035 E. lsth St. -... .WEstmore 5l3l

Huorrd Lubor Cq, 20rO Sq ALrnodt St. .....-.....WEdmorc tl?l

bughlln, C. J3|a Wfl.hbG Blvd. ............EXpc|do tltt

Stmtd, E. J. & Soq ltth.Dd Alrn dr St. .........,..4Xr1d3e l2ft

WGstGm Hrndmod l.mbcr Cc. tra E. fsth St. ................WErtmorc llSt

Hmnad lmb.r Co. 2afl 3c Alrncda 3t. ...........WErtnorc ?l?l

Kchl, Jr. W. I So, l5l! So Mytn SL .................ANtclu lf?l

'Rcd Riw Lubrr Go. ?o! E.Sbnn ...AXrldgc tO?l

Wcrtm !t.h I Dc Cc, lar E. tSrh 3t. ..................HUnbo|r 23t2

llcREENS

Hipolito Cmpeny, 2lrt rnd Aledr 3t.. .....,..WErtmqc llll

Sampon Copray, ?,|5 3o. Raynod Avc. (Pasdcm).Tcme ltll (ls Angclcr).Eliot l,|!t

PANEIJ

Calilomia Palcl & Vcnccr Ca, 955 S. Alucda St. ....,............TRinity 005?

Koll, Haney W., 722 So. Grifrin Ave. .............CApita| t6ll9

Oregon-Wuhingto Plywood Co., 3rE llr.9th SL .....................TUcker l|3l

THESD ARE GOOI} 3.OLKS TO IDO BUSINDSS WITH

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consumer's dollar goes for building materials, and a substantial share of the building dollar comes to us.

"Sales hungry industries selling everything from roller skates to motor cars are going after business hammer and tongs when free spending again becomes a public habit. they're not going to let people spend theii money for home building if they can get them to buy their products instead.

That close watch be kept on the local building code arrd organized resistance be made to any proposals for amendments curtailing or prohibiting the rightful use of lumber.

That committees keep in close touch with construction projects, including roads and bridges, airports, homes, farm buildings, etc., and ascertain as nearly as possible the kind of materials to be used and whether or not lumber is being given the consideration it deserves.

_

"ft's up to us to get our share-and to get it we have to be closely organized and unceasingly active. We have to rvork together. We have to stay on the job. And that's where Hoo-Hoo offers the Industry a powerful medium of defense and promotion."

Secretary Isherrvood mentioned a number of examples of outstanding work of Hoo-Hoo clubs, including Buffalo's wood users meeting, the advertising campaign of the Pampa, Tex., Club, Spokane's educational and wood promotional activities, Peoria's fight for wood sash, floors, doors and cabinets in a school building, educational lectures sponsored by the Boston, Buffalo and Cleveland clubs, Kansas City's fight for a lair deal for wood in the building code, the New Orleans club's campaign for the use of Louisiana woods in public construction, the Denver and Duluth club's forestry activities, and the McCloud, Cal., chapter's allround work for the industry and the community.

He also complimented Snark Hofheins and all officers of the Order and thanked the lumber trade press and the various associations of the Industry for their cooperation.

"There is only one thing, in my opinion, that can be done to improve the conditions of Hoo-Hoo", Mr. Isherwood said. "And sooner or later the Lumber Industry is going to have to take the same medicine ifit is to get well. We have to go to work-sanely, confidently and methodically. Every officer has to put something of himself into his job. We can't have an honorary officer--everyone must be a rvorker. We have to have a definite program that will be carried out energetically in all districts. We have to have stronger, more active Hoo-Hoo clubs."

Referring to an article, "The Weak Spot in the Lumber Industry", which he had mimeographed and distributed to the delegates, Secretary Isherwood urged the adoption by the convention oi the definite program of 'activities for Hoo-Hoo clubs which it proposed. The recommended program, which was read to the convention and adopted in toto, included the following suggestions:'

That architects, contractors and others concerned with new buildings and modernizing be contacted and impressed with the beauty, serviceability and economy of lumber.

Close observance of newspapers and other media in which anti-lumber propaganda or prejudicial references are likely to appear, and prompt action in defense of lumber wherever justified.

A local advertising campaign in behalf of lumber, home building and modernizing, such as those successfully carried out at Pampa, Tex., and Missoula, Mont.

The holding of a wood users meeting, at which carpenters, contractors, architects, purchasing agents and other construction materials users would be guests.

Establishment of lumber schobls, or educational lectures, similar to the plan of the Harry L. Folsom Hoo-Hoo Club, Boston.

That labor groups be contacted to gain their good-will and support for the Lumber IndustrY.

The program also provided a number of live topics for discussi,on it ttte regular meetings of Hoo-Hoo clubs.

Another resolution adopted by the convention protested the specification of a standard type of architecture for Federal -buildings to be constructed, without regard for the differences in architectural motifs in various communities; and the use of materials 'which, in many cases, have to be shipped hundreds of miles to the construction j.ob, -whereas -materials that are equally suitable and serviceable, including lumber, might be obtained in the immediate vicinityatfar lower cost. James M. Brown, president of- the Lbng Lake Lumber Co., Spokane, and a.past Snark of the Universe, was the author of this resolution.

Snark Hofhein's proposal that the Order launch a campaign for Educational -Endowment Memberships, at $100, $ZS, ESO and $25 a year, just as soon as the conditioh of the Lumber Industry justifies, was adopted. Another resolution, providing for a Junior Membership for forestry school students, was referred to the new Supreme Nine to work out details.

On the theory that the Snark of the lJniverse should devote most of his effort to international supervision, a resolution was adopted limiting the jurisdiction to be served by the Snark to the state in which he lives.

Past Snark J. M. Brown presided at the annual Osirian Cloister banqu-et, opening night. Short talks were made -b-y Past Snarks N. n. Gtaaaing,bf Indianapolis; Harry J. Miller, Seattle; Alton J. Hager, Lansing; Mich.; Arthur A.

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Secretary

The Thursday morning session, <ievoted to reports of club delegates and VicegErent Snarks, produced some encouraging news for the new year. One_ of the best reports came froir the Twin Cities Hoo-Hoo Club, represented by William 'Wattson, retiring president, and Fred Peschau, his successor. The year's program provides many coltstrrrctive activities, including -a wood users meeting, Mr. Peschau reported.

The following telegram from Vice-President Fred Anderson of the tiryin Cities Club, was read by Mr. Peschau:

"Twin Cities Club celebrated arrival at Minneapolis this afternoon of first train shipped over new Great Northern California extension, consisting of 60 cars lumber from McCloud River Lumber Co., McCloud, Cal. The Mayor, officials of Great Northern, Civic and Commerce Association, Shevlin-Carpenter Co., and a large delegation of Hoo-Hoo Club members attended. Spokane Club sent their Black Cat as mascot to see train through safely. Entire afiair given proper publicity to advertise lu,mber".

Chromium Plat'ed HIGH SPEED STEET KNIVES Give 30 Per Cent More Service

SIMONDS Chromium Platcd "Rcd Strcnk" Hi3h Spced Stccl Kniver hold a kccn'cutting cdgc ro nuch longcr that rLopr oncc tryilg them 6nd thern ro cconomical that thcy crnnot afiord to ure eDY othcr. Ordcr a act now. Give complctc :pccificationr'

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The-foliowing telegram from Charles L. Bird, Stockton, Cal., a former member of the Supreme Nine and chairman of the Parson Simpkin Memorial Committee of the Stockton Hoo-Hoo Club, was read:

"We are pleased to announce the success of the undertaking on the part of Hoo-Hoo to raise fund! for the purpose of dedicatlng one of the large Sequoia Gigantea trees in Calaveras Grove State Park to the memory of Parson Simpkin and that the dedication ceremony in connection with the unveiling of a bronze tablet placed on a large boulder at the fooi of the tree will be held on Sunday, October 11".

Alton J. Hager, past Snark of the Universe, in reporting for the Lansing, Mich., Club, said: "The manufacturers of this country ari overlooking one of the biggest op-portunities ever pi-esented to them by not coming into Hoo-Hoo the way they should. The retailers are not giving the support thiy shbuld either and it's up to us to impress on both hranchei what Hoo-Hoo is doing for their business".

The Hoo-Hoo Club at Pampaf Tex., was complimented many times for its newspaper advertising campaign. in the inteiests of home building, modernizing' community development and tree planting. Copies of the advertisements used were displayed in the hotel lobby.

The Tom A. McCann Hoo-Hoo Club, McCloud, Cal., lvas au'arded the Wilson Compton Trophy, a cup made of long leaf yellow pine timbers taken from the room of the W-hite Hbuse in-1927, after 112 years' service. Pampa was ranged second, Bend, Ore., third, and Missoula, Mont., fourth, 5y A. C. Dixon, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association and judge of the contest.

A eolf tournament featured Thursday afternoon, the prize leing a matched set of hickory-shafted woods and a matched sit of hickory-shafted irons, donated by the Golf Shaft & Block Co., Memphis; a redwood burl cup, golf bag, fountain pens and pencils, copies of the book, "Lumbei and Its l]ses". and a number of novelties in American Walnut, donated by the American Walnut Manufacturers' Association.

Prize winners in the tournament were John Simpson, Paris, I11.; Paul Spencer, Denver; Walter Ahlers, Pittsburgh ; William E. Grifiee, Chicago; Chester Gynn and EarI Lesher, Cleveland; James M. Brown, Spokane; Arthur A. Hood, Chicago; H. E. Lasater, Peoria; Mr. Fullenlove, Louisville; Arthur Bevan, Seattle, and Burdett Green, Chicago.

ThJ final morning's session was devoted to reports of committees, election of officers and "embalming of the Snark". Seer N. A. Gladding of the House of Ancients performed the ritual of embalming Snark Hofheins in amusing fashion and presented the Snark's ruby ring' Mrs. Hofhe_ins received a bisket of heather from Scotland, the gift of Col. James "Hoot Mon" Lightbody, Vancouver, B. C.

Thir ir a Simondr knifc which bar provcd mort eatirfactory in plante requiring a thick knifc. It givcr rnuch longer ecrvicc than the ordinary carbon atecl knifc. Adr about it.

SIMONDS

SAW AND STEEL CO.

4lXl Eart Third Strcct, Loe Angcler ZB Fir:t Strcet, San Francirco

"Red" Wood a Jaysi

"Yesterday he built with -his home is in service ,Eady."t*"ild your home today to last and serve tomo'rrow. LJse -ti1 [6s1st!tt Redwood

Box

Manufacturers

Meet Hammond Lumber Company In November Congratulated

Will

Owing to the fact that the Third 1931 Tri-Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Division of the National Association of Wooden Box Manufacturers. which was scheduled for October 23 and 24, at Klamath Falls. will conflict with the Pacific Logging Congress at Spokane, which many wooden box manufacturers wish to attend, A. H. Gordon, Pacific Coast Manager, announces it has been deemed advisable !g postpone the Association meeting until November 13 and 14.

The meeting will be held at the Willard Hotel, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and a very full program is anticipated, as there ar.e many subjects of geneial interest to the-industry to be discussed, and problems to be adjusted. A large a[tendance is expected, and they are looking forward to having a number of the Northwestern manufacturers present.

Shevlin Magazine Announces Change in Name

Coincident with the announcement of the Shevlin Pine Sales Company, the publishers announce a change in the name and policy of the Shevlin Equalizer. The Sook will henceforth be known as the Shevl-in Pine News and will include Carpenter-Hixon Company, Limited, Blind River, Ontario, and Shevlin-Clarke C-omiany, Limiied, Ft. Frances, Ontario, as well as the McCloud- and Bend mills. The n€w mag'azine_ will carry almost exclusively sales promo- tion material but will devote some space -to planf news items of outstanding interest. The Shevlin Pini News. ds a magazine will b_e published every other month beginning with November. On alternate months a small sales -promo-tion bulletin will be published. This will carry no pictures and only up-to-the-minute items of interest to salesmen and trade. The magazine will probably be increased in number of pages_an.d *il-l run pictur_es of Shevlin Pine jobs through- out the United States and Canada. Space will also be aviilable for pictures of customers and their plants.-shevlin Equalizer.

S. F. BUILDING PERMITS EXCEED I93O FIGURES

Building permits granted by the San Francisco Bureau of Building Inspection during the first nine months of 1931 totaled 5,065, with an estimated cost of $18,028,746, an in'crease of $1,200,000 over the same period of 1930, Permits for September, 1931, totaled $1,531282 as against $1,950,831 in September of 1930.

Los Angeles, Calif., October 3, 1931 Mr. H. W. Mcleod, Care Hammond Lumber Company, 2010 South Alameda Street, Los Angeles, California.

My dear Harry:

Permit me to say that your advertisement in the current number of The California Lumber Merchant is the best present day lumb,er advertisement I have se,en put out in this territory, and its psychological effect should be excellent.

Now, if you can get this same message over to the retail buyer, the architect, and the money lender; instilling in them, with informing propaganda, a desire for \he best; you will accomplish a result which will well repay you.

With best wishes

from "a nut on the subject", I am

Very sincerely,

cw-w

Curtis Williams

NUMBTR ONE COMMON CUARANTEED LUMtsER

AMERICAN LUMBER STANDARDS HAMMOND LUMtsER COMPAI.IY

Above is a reproduction of the advertisement referred to by Mr. Williams, well known Southern California lumberman, in his letter and which appeared in the October first issue of "The California Lumber Merchant".

LESTER G. STERETT ATTENDS ARCHITECTS CONVENTION AT RIVERSIDE

I-:ester G. Sterett, secretary of the Millwork Institute of California, recently spent a week in the San Francisco Bay district presenting complimentary copies of Architectural Frame Details to the architects. He attended the convention of the California State Association of Architects at Riverside, October 8, 9 and 10, and has now returned to work in the Northern California district.

SUGAR PINE WHITE PINE WHITE CEDAR

Vh.." in lhis vorld could vou lind more pleasin*, unique, con/enienb and mod.ern thouf,hbs F6r a home [han ne have embodiEd inbo bhis special plan

Yes. the entrv is diFfer6nt, and lhe spacious livina'roo* connected rvi th dinin?, room arid berrace, provides an ideal Imangpment For entert ain\ng.

You rvilhvanb to build bhis home. rve knonr.

Plans for this attractive home can be furnished by the Lurnbermen's Service Association

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LrvrNc Poov 2Z'-€ ,15',-O'

Plan No. t+ss Fay Building, Los Angeles

(The Clcaring Houce)

This Column of "Wants" and "Don't Wants" is for:

The Fellow Who Wants to Buy The Fellow Who Wants to Sell The Fellow Who Wants to Hire

Rate: t2.50 fer eolurnn inch The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hired

FOR SALE

Planing Mill Machinery for sale. All modern, nern 3 years ago. Los Angeles Planing Mill Co., 1800 Industrial St., Los Angeles, Calif. Phone VAndike 8460.

WANTED

Position Wanted by an experienced retail lumberman capable of managing yard or acting as salesman or office work; also knows the hardware line and speaks some Spanish. Reference and bond can be furnished. Address Box C-406. California Lumber Merchant.

STATEI\IENT OF THE O\^TNERSHIP. }IANAGEMENT. CIRCULATION. ETC., REOUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, Of The California Lumber Merchant, published Semi.monthly at Los Angeles, California, for October 1, 1931. 'State ol California ) ci"i'ti-ot-li"-'iiigcles, 1""' Before me, a Notary Public ia and for the State aad county aforcsaid, _personally appeartd J. E, Martin, who, having been dulj sworn according to law, deposcs aad gays that he is thc Manasiar Editor of The California Ltrmber Merchant. and that the followinc- isi to the bcst of his kaowledgc and belief, i true statement of thE ownership, manageme-nt .(and if a daily paper, thc circulatioa), ctc., of thc aforc- said publication for thc date shown in the above caption. reouircd by-the Act.of August U, 1912, cmbodicd in section lll, Poital Laws and Regulations, printed on the revcrsc of this form, t6 wit: l. That thc nameg and addresses of the pubtisher.-cditor. mrngrinl c4i!or, 4nd businers manaScrs arc: Publirhcr-, J. C. Dionne, 318 Cen-tra-l Bldg., !4s Angclesl. Editgi,J. C. Dionne, 3i8-Central Bldg., Lor An- geles; Managing Edit_or, J. E. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., Ini Angeles; Suslness ManagcrS, Nde.

- -2. Thzt the owncr ia: (If owned by a corporation, its name and addrcs-s- must be statod anil atso immidiatelv'thereuridir thc namii and addrerees of rtockholdcrr owning or holdiig onc Der ccnt or morc of total amount of Btock. If not oined bv a -coroorition- thc namcr and addrcsses of the individual owners mujt bc gii'in. If'or-nia bf a firm, company, or other unincorporated conccrn. itt nami a"d addriss. as w.ll as those of each individual member, must be given.)

The California Lumber Merchant (a corporation), 318'GnirCl Bldg., Los Angeles,

J. C. Dionne, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

.I. p. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., bs Ang-les.

FOR SALE-LUMBER YARD

An opportunity to buy lumber yard in good location. Business averages over $6000.00 a month, first class stock and planing mill. Stock and accounts receivable will inventory $25,000.00. Will handle Accounts Receivable. Will sell all of business or if I get the right man will retain an interest. Compelled to get out of active business on account of health. For full information address Box C-404, California Lumber Merchant.

POSITION AS BUYER WANTED

Lumber buyer-years of experience in Washington and Oregon-knows the mills, grades, etc. Open for position anywhere. References. Address Box C-409, California Lumber Merchant.

BOOKKEEPING AT LOWEST EXPENSE TO YOU

Why not save yourself the Worry and Energy of doing your own Bookwork by having a thoroughly experienced Lumberman call in once or more each month and give you accurate information and keep your books in balancePosting, Financial Statements, etc., at a very nominal fee. Phone LAfayette 8241, or address Box C-412, California Lumber Merchant.

EXPERIENCED SALESMAN WANTS POSITION

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A. -C, Merryman, 318 Central Bldg., Ins Angelcs,

T. P. Wier, Houston, Texas.

3. That the known bondholdcru, mortgagecs, and other secudty holders owning or holding I Dcr cent-or mor-eif t6tat imount "f Uona"'. mortga.ger, or other aecuritier are: (If therc are none. ro statc.) None.

4. That lhc.two para_graphs.nexl qlove, giving thc namci of thc ownc.rs, rtockholders, and _recurity hold-c-r!, if any, contaia not otrly .the. lilt of .ltockholdcrs and sccurit-y holders as they eppear upon th-e Doof,l_ ot, tnc compaty but elso, in cascs sherc thc ttockholdcr or 8ecurity holdcr arpear! upon -the lookr of qhe compeny a3 trurtec o_r rn_ any _otner nductary rclation, thc neme of the Derton or CorDora. tion lor whom auch trustee i! actiog, i! givcn; also-that the eaid two par.agrapha cootain statementr cmbr-Ccing-ef6airt's fuli knatlca;; i;d bctret ss to the circumstancca end conditiorig undcr whlch rtochholdcn and security -hol-dcrs who do not eppcer upon the bookr of the comoeni a! trusteea, hold ltock and securities in a capacity other than that-of i bola fidc ownerl and thi! afiiant has no reason to believc that anv other p-erlonr,associati-on, or corDoration has any intcrcst direct or indirect in the caid stock, bondr, or other securities than as so stated bv him.

5. That the averagc number of copicr of cach issuc of thir oublt- cation ,sold or distributed, through the mails or othcrvise. to- oaid subscribcrs during_the rix months preceding the date showa'gbovi ir (-l'his information is required from daily publicatioar oaly,) sworn ro and subscribecr berore me "t. {;,"e#*I6lT;o;nl,"i?5t* "ont" tsEALl rnrn^e, n. peur,sow.

(My commission expires Aug, f8, 1934.)

Wholesale selling connection wanted by salesman, age 30, with ten years' selling experience all Western lumber products. Familiar with both Northern and Southern California retail trade, and will accept position in either territory. Highest references. Forrest W. Wilson, 430 Adams St.. Oakland. Calif. Phone Glencourt 9862.

CAPABLE LUMBERMAN

Experienced manager of retail yard, age 32, wants position. Last three years managing for chain yard concern. Also interested in wholesale selling. Address Box C-4ld care California Lumber Merchant.

TlN fHn minds of mosthome owners and prospective home owners, oak flooring holds its own against any other flooring or floor covering. To them oak flooring is more than a good investment. In floors of oak they see real beauty, style that is always uP to date, warmth, color, life and the ease with which these qualities can be maintained.

Effectiee dealer sellins aids in oar seroice inclade l;terdtarl in color, siides and dealer cstsl lVe uoald like for loa to see for yoarself hou asefal tbey asould be to yoa-just utrite for them.

Ipng,Bell oak flooring beare, in addl. tion to it! own name, the emblemSOFI-the brand of Southern Oak Flooring lnduetries, an aesociatiol to promote f,ne flooring through adver. tising, research and co,operation with retail lumber dealers. architects. con tractorc and individuil builders,

Do yoa fr.n . w/tat /ze's /oohinr' for ?

-the sarne thinl )ou ore I e

Yes, he's on the job too looking lor leaky roofs. He'll lind them lirst no doubt. But you'll hear about them il they are in your territory, and you are on your toes, and are a Weaver-Henry dealer. S The coming rainy season is going to af,ord Weaver- Henry dealerr a splendid opportunity lor increared prolits. During the past two winters hundreds of owners have delaved having their homes re - roofed. Heavy rains scheduled for lall and winter will Iorce these tardy prospects into action. { The

recent new shingle innovations in the \Teaver - Henry line, the popularity of this roolingonthe coast from

Canada to Mexico,its complete consumer acceptance. these facts put active WeaverHenry dealers in a good spot. All inallthey'll get more than their share ol the tardy prospects. q Home owners know that there is something more than just color and beautyandindividuality in !(/eaver-Henry Shlngles . . . mor€ €Yen, than the rock-like sturdiness oI the product. They rely on the integrity oI those who handle the product toolers, contractors, carpenters, and dealers, alikc.