The California Lumber Merchant - October 1934

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SUDDEN & CHRISTINS()N

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San Francisco

AGENTS

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Floquiam Lumber & Shingle Co.

Hulbert Mill Co. -

Villapa Ffarbor Lumber Millc

Edna Sanitam

Trinidad

Barbara Cater

Dorothy €ahill

Edna Chrictenron

STEAMERS

Aberdeen, Wach, Hoquiam, Wach

Aberdeen, Vash. - Raymond, Vach,

J.ne Christenron

Annie Christenron

Edwin Chrictenron

Catherine G. Sudden

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THE CALIFOR}IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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Lumber Code Administrators "Mod" mize Sacramento" Put on Guard

Washington, Oct. 9.-David T. Mason, Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, today sent a telegram to all of the 85 Divisions and Subdivisions of the Lumber Code' ,{tithority administration throughout the United States admonishing them not to put an erroneous interpretation on temporary restraining injunctions. Referring to the ,temporary injunction granted by Judge Anderson of the United States District Court at Memphis last Saturday, restraining the United States Attorney from proceeding against 16 lumber manufacturers accused of Code price violation, he pointed out that the injunction may not even protect the individuals named against criminal liability if the j-udge's position were reversed on the final hearing, or on appeal. Mr. Mason's telegram reads as follows:

"Memphis decision Saturday grants temporary injunction against U. S. Attorney, restraining him from proceeding 'against the sixteen plaintiffs concerning price violations only. Wish to emphasize that this action limited to sixteen plaintiffs in this jurisdiction only, and even in case of these sixteen does not necessarily relieve them from criminal liability if situation reversed by judge following final hearing or upon appeal. This decision on temporary injunction does not relieve any division or subdivision from full price compliance activities nor does it relieve any persons in any division from obligations in price compliance, not even sixteen persons involved. In other words, this temporary injunction merely restrains U. S. Attorney from proceeding against these sixteen people until such time as -question is finally passed on. NRA has promised prompt appropriate action and case will be promptly taken to Circuit Court of Appeals. All Divisions should continue vigorously full compliance'activities."

Orange Starts Housing Program

. With former Mayor Clyde A. Watson as general chairman, a community-wide modernization and repair program is under way in Orange, California. Chairman Watson will be assisted by John Christiansen, H. J. Kogler, J. J. Hutchins, C, O, Oldfield, V. D. Johnson and H. G. Lembke.

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The "Modernize Sacramento" Campaign of the Sacramento Better Housing Program is being handled by a committee headed by Martin C. Bolts, of the Bank qf A,merica, and an advisory committee of 21 business men of 'which G. W. Peltier, also of the Bank of America, is chairman.

Jo H. Shepard, general manager. of Friend. & Terry Lumber Co., and Oscar H. Miller, manager of the Klox l,umber Co., are active members of the committee.

As a part of the campaign an old house is being remodeled at 7th and K Streets, a prominent downtown corner. Each Sacramento lumber yard is ebntriboting a share of the materials for the remodeling work.

An information bureau has been opened at 717 K Street, in charge of Mrs. J. B. Smith

Stockton's Housing Drive

Stockton organized its Better Housing Drive at a meeting held at the Chamber of Commerce, Stockton, Seplember 22.

Jerry A. Andrews was named chairman of the general campaign committee. C. B. Clawson, The Diamond Match .Co., San Joaquin Lumber prominent members of a for the drive.

Co., and W. H. Falconbury, are committee selected to lay plans

George R. Baker has been appointed campaign manager for the housing drive. He is on a full-time salary basis, and has been provided with a downtown office and a secretary.

An intensive advertising and educational campaign has been started.

A total of 30 prominent business men and civic heads were put on the various committees, and a lot of enthusiasm is being evidenced. l

An old house will be placed on a prominent downtoyrn corner and remodeled, the cost being borne by local lumber and building material dealers and home furnis1rers. When completed tickets will be sold on the house.

WINS COSTUMIT PRIZE

Donald A. Fraser, of the Lodi Lumer Co., Lodi, won the first prize for the most original and distinguished costume at the recent Lodi Grape Festival. Mr. Fraser's costume was that of a Southern gentleman of the. old school... -.

To Represent McCormick in 6000 See Better Housing Stunt

Aiizona and New Mexico

It is announced by the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. that they have appointed L. R. Chadbourne their representative in Arizona and New Mexico.

Mr. Chadbourne recently spent a few days at the company's home office in San Francisco and attended the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at Fresno on October 71, 12 and 13.

He has represented the Elliott Bay Mill Co. and the Insulite Co. in that territory for some time. It is also announced that Charlie Henrv will continue to spend a Week out of each month in the Arizona territory.

J. H. Kruse

John Henry Kruse, 84, founder lumber firm bearing his name, and men in the retail lumber business of di,strict, passed away at his home ber 4.

of the San Francisco one of the best known the San Francisco Bay in Hillsborough, Octo-

A crowd of 6,000 Oakland people turned out on the evening of October 5 to see the dramatic stunt of remodeling a dilapidated house in four hours that would normally take about six rveeks. The demonstration took place in Lakeside Park under batteries of floodlights. The job was made possible by rehearsing for some time a crew of 150 mechanics.

Louis J. Breuner, general chairman of the Oakland Better Housing Program, and Clifford C. Anglim, director of the Northern California district of the Federal Housing Administration, and other speakers told of the Better Housing movement and urged the co-operation of Oakland'citizens in the program

Fresno Better Housing Program

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Mr. Kruse was born in Germany, cisco 70 years ago. He had been for the past 54 years.

and came to San Franin the lumber business

Jesse E. Rodman, pr'esident of the Fresno County Chamber of Commerce, is the chairman of the Fresno Better Housing Program committee. In connection with the program a dinner meeting was held October 1, at which Clifford C. Anglim, director of the NHA for Northern California was the chief speaker.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cora B. Kruse, and six dadghters, Mrs. Ed Gillon, Mrs. Helene Gilmore, Mrs. Harry Thompson, Mrs. M. Hirshfeldt, Mrs. Walter R. Clare Lumber Co. has opened a yard in Sacramento. The Blick, and Mrs. E. A. Green, Jr. company also operates a sawmill at Azalea, Oregon.

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V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

The farming business must not be as bad as the farmers claim. Tell you why I think so. I've called on and visited with a whale of a lot of business men in the last few weeks, and nearly every one of them says to me before we get through talking: "Boy, how I'd like to sell this business and go out and live on a farm for the next year or so, until this thing is over." ***

So you see, the farming business can't be so very bad, or all these industrial folks wouldn't be wishing to get into it. :f*t

That's the way it is in this life. The farmer envies the business man, with his good clothes and private office and his many signs of luxury; and the business man envies the farmer who has no Code, no NRA, no Section 7a, no fear of taxes, no fear of infation, but who can smoke his pipe, put out the fire, call the dog, and go to bed to dreamless slumber. If his stomach is a little empty, it still beats nervous indigestion all to Hades.

Verily it is a tr,." ."yirrf, a*, an" pastures the other side of the fence always seem more green than those on our side.

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Personally I'll have to take the business man's choice in this little argument. If I had a dollar in cash for every time in the last year I've tried to wish rnyself away back yonder away from telephones and newspapers, I'd be rich today beyond the fondest dreams of avarice. flowever, it looks like I'm not much of a success as a wisher. ***

A famous lawyer once said that his law firm had three departments; one for those who were in trouble and wanted to get out; one for those who were out of trouble and wanted to get in; and a third for those who were out of trouble and wanted to stay out.***

Looks like there is only one class of business men in this country today; those that are in business and can't get out. And what we need is two additional classes; one that is in and wants to SPREAD out; and one that is out and wants to get in. ,F{.*

Indecision continues to persecute the lumber industry. For rnonths past uncertainty about the future of the Lum-

ber Code has kept business reduced to a minimum. It's that way again.

Every report from Washington since the retirement of General Johnson, agrees that NRA is wallowing badly, and that price fixation is doomed to be the first limb to be lopped off. The Lumber Code Authorities met in Chicago to decide about price fixing. They announced that price fixing would continue, and that enforcement would be arranged. ***

At about that same hour NRA Boss Richberg announced from Washington so that the public might read, that all price fixing would likely be dropped. Washington writers agree that President Roosevelt never believed in it. But three or four days later comes another public statement from Richberg. It may be that in the natural resource industries some form of price protection may be continued, he said. And as this is written the lumber folks sit looking at one another, and wondering "what t'Hell?"

You can imagine no* it Jn*."u"".. the sale of lumber. And with judges and courts here and there handing down decisions adverse to the enforcement of price fixing, the waters grow more and more muddled.

So it seems that the unanswered question with regard to lumber at this minute really is, shall they eliminate price fixing and let everyone cut the price, or hold onto price fixing and let only the countless army of bootleggers do it?

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A smart man told me the other day that every other man who enters his office brings some subtle suggestion for getting around the Code. I've had some offered me that weren't so dumb, either. ***

The crack-down days are over. On your way, General Hugh Johnson ! You had courage, and intelligence, and color, and loyalty, and your worst critic will cheerfully admit that you are a mighty stout fellow, and a high minded American citizen. I disagreed with you in a whole lot of things, but I admired you as a rnan who stood foresquare for his own convictions.

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No one can ever call you a fence rider, or doubt where you stand. God protect and keep us always from that

whispering crowd of monkey-doodles they call fence riders; rJEo sit perched high on the fence of opinion, daring not to u6isper their creed until they have discovered to their comppte satisfaction which way the wind blows-and then blrows with it. You never were one of those, General !

The tax-payers' association in the District of Columbia made an investigation and discovered that ten per cent of the people on the relief rolls in Washington drove up after their rations in automobiles: a considerable number came in taxicabs.

You don't suppose those are the folks President Roosevelt was talking about in that recent radio speech when he spoke of "the privileged few" do you? **{<

And, did you hear what he said about bankers? I thought that sounded like a dirty dig when he uttered it. And, from what'I've read since in banking journals I gather I wasn't the only one that thought so.

Now, r've been pouri:, : ;** salt in the bankers' wounds myself now and then. But Mr. Roosevelt and I are "cussing" them for quite opposite reasons. He suggests that they haven't helped the Government in its recovery efforts. I thought they'd been sort of overdoing it. **tl.

I read that about two-thirds of the entire banking resources of the United States are now invested in Government securities. My word, Mr. Roosevelt, they have to keep a little cash on hand to make change with, don't they? ***

I've been thinking that if they didn't trade all their deposits for Government bonds just the minute they got hold of the money, they might some day get tired of storing it and loan some of it to someone who would put some of our unemployed to work. But I fear-in the light of presentday thinking-that that is an impractical thought.

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Vagabond Editorials

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Well, I got my wishl Remember I wished that a Man from Mars might come down here and whisper to Mr. Roosevelt that the business people of this corinfiy are a wee bit down in the mouth, and that if he would get on the radio and clear away the clouds that seem hovering over them, it might get us a whole lot better winter than'the one in prospect?

Well, it happened. "TIME' says that when he got back from the Pacific trip, he heard a lot about business and industry having turned sour on the New Deal and he didn't believe a word of it. So he sent out a couple of good reliable reporters, one of them Raymond Moley, and told them to go talk to the business boys and see how they stood.

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His reporters got so excited at what they heard every time they stuck an ear close to a business man's conversation that he had to buy them motorcycles to rnake better time. And, they told him that what he had heard rumored was not the half of it; that business was frightened, jumpy, critical, and desperately in need of reassurance, and that the reason why business had been slowing up through the summer was this mental condition.

So Mr. Roosevelt got right to his radio and made a talk. It wasn't one of his old-timey talks, though. Not at all. The same charming voice, the same well-chosen words, the same delightfully assorted phrases. But the old element of frankness wasn't there. ***

What did he say? Well, Will Rogers summed it up pretty well when he said that business asked Mr. Roosevelt a lot of questions, and Mr. Roosevelt answered, "Why should I tell you?" Only Will thought it was funny, and most business folks haven't appreciated the humor of it.

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There WAS some effort at reassurance, of a very general character, and that was helpful. But the questions business and industry have been asking have not yet been answered.

Well, come to think of it, what business is it of business folks anyway? All they have to do is furnish jobs for the unernployed-if they are ever furnished; and pay the.bills of the recovery efforts-if they are ever paid. That's all. {. {3 rS

It[/e have heard much of "freedom" and "liberty" lately.

It would be well to remind all these who would lay down rules regarding what liberty is, of the words of Brand Whitlock: "When you define LIBERTY you limit it; and when you limit it you DESTROY it." There is no truer statement than that in all of Holy Writ. And, no statement that we could keep in mind to better advantage right now. Laying down rules of freedom is ranging far afield from all that freedom stands for. * {<

In a certain city that I know of, the Rotary Club recently appointed a Fellowship Committee and instructed them to go out and call on the members at their places of business. They called-or attempted to call-on the head of a factory whose employes were on strike. The strike pickets stopped them, asked their business, and told them they couldn't go in. The Fellowship Committee said, "You must not have understood; we are the Fellowship Committee of the local Rotary Club and we want to make a fellowship call on a member of the Club." The spokesman for the pickets said, "And, you must not have understood us; you can't go in." And, they didn't. The Rotary Club bulletin wrote up the affair under the title: "My Country 'tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty?"

11 -Ply Doors Used in Penthouse

The beautiful 11-ply hardwood doors furnished by Davis Hardwood Co., San Francisco, for the panorama penthouse on the roof of O'Connor-Moffatt's department store in San Francisco, are getting a big share of attention from the crowds that are daily visiting the house.

An article in a recent issue of the San Francisco Chronicle describing these doors said in part:

"All the skill of long experienced fancy woodcrafters has gone into the fashioning of woods from a dozen countries to create these ll-ply doors of Zebra wood from South :\merica, Oriental walnut from Australia, mahogany from the Philippines, rosewood from Africa, grained timber from the Sandwich Islands, from the East Indies and from India.

' "fn the elaborate Davis plant at Bay and Mason streets, these exotic woods were carefully treated, thinned, taped together with the grain made to run crosswise to add strength, while painstakingly matched to suit the vagaries of artistry.

"This type of construction is the invention of the Davis Hardwood Co., specialists in artistic wood finishing.

"Not even the door Bill Davis made for the Emperor of Japan, for which a special baftleship was sent to San Francisco-and which is now in the Emperorrs palace<an.be considered a finer example of woodcraft than these doors."

QUBSTTONS

Dveryone in Your Organiza;tion Should Know the Answers Here They Are

1. WHO MAY APPLY?

Any property owner, individual, partnership or corporation with a regular income from salary, commission, busi' ness, or other aseured source. It is not necess:rfy to be a depositor in the financial institution consulted-

2. TO V/HOM DO I APPLY? '

To any National Bank, State Bank or Trust Company, Savingi Bank, Inductrial Bank, Building and Loan Associ' ationf or Finance Company approved by the Federal Housing Administration; or to a contractor or building supply dealer.

3. HOW MUCH MAY I APPLV FOR?

From $lfi) to $2.OOO, depending on your income, for im' provement on any one property, and in connection with -not more than dve properties unless approved by the Fedetal Flousing Administration, Washingtonr D. C.

4. HOW LONG MAY NOTES RUN?

For any number of monthc from one to three yearc' (Notes'extending from 37 months to five yearc may be submitted to the Federal Houring Adminictration by 6nan' cial institutionc for special congideration-)

5. V/HAT SECURTTY rS REQUIRED?

That you have an adequate regular income and a good credit record in your communitY.

6. \VHAT ASSURANCE NEED I GIVE?

(a) That you own the ProPertY.

ib) fh.t ihe income of -the eignerr of the note is at leart 6ve timec the annual paymentt on the uote.

(c) That your mortg.ge, if any, ir in good etanding, and - that ihe.e are no other past due encumbrances or liens againrt your ProPerty

(d) That you will uee the proceedr solely lot property improvement.

7. VHAT SIGNATURES ARE REQUIRED ON THE NOTE?

Signature of the property owner-; and (elcept in specid ca'ses) if the owner is an individual and ic married, alro rignature of wife or hucband. No other co'cigners or endot"cm are required.

8. VHAT IS THE COST OF THIS CREDIT?

The financial institution may not collect as interest and/ot discount and/or fee of any kind, a total charge in excesg of an amount equivalent to $5 discount per year per flfi) original face amount of note.

9. HOW DO I PAY THE NOTE?

By making regular, equal, monthly payments (seasonal payments for farmers) until the note ic paid in full.

10. MAY THE OV/NER OF ANY KIND OF PROP. ERTY APPLY?

Applications will be considered for credit to improve onefamily, two-family, or other ri:sidences; aparr-ent buildinge, stores, ofice buildings, factorieo, warehouses, farm buildings.

11. WHERE DO I MAKE PAYMENTS?

The regular ingtallment payrnentE will be made in person at the place of businesc of the fnancial inctitution; or by mail; or as otherwise arranged. No payment sholl be maile to any goi)ernmcntal office or organization.

12. MAY I PAY THE NOTE IN FULL BEFORE MATURITY DATE?

Yes, at any t'-e. A rcasonable rebate will be allowed for prepayments, if charges have been collected in advance.

1'. MAY I MAKE MORE THAN ONE PAYMENT AT A TIME?

Ycs, ac trrany as you wish, but euch paymen$ Sould be in exact multiples of the agreed payment+that ir, if monthly payment ir tf0, Iarger payments should total $2O, $3O, etc.-not, for example, odd sums cuch ac f,18 ot $25.

14. VHAT IF I AM LATE IN MAKING MY PAYMENT?

The ma&er murt not permit his payments to faII in arrelrrr. Should a payment be more than 15 days late, the fnancial institutiontg expenre, caused thereby, rhould be reimbursed on paft at the rate of not more ttan five cents per dollar for each payment in arrearr. Peraictent delinquency will ma&e it ne,cestary for the faancial inctitution to take proper stepi to efiect collection in futl.

The biggest question of all, Mr. Dealcr, is this-Are you stocked with a full line of Pioneer-Flintkote shingles and roofing products to make your full profits on the N.H.A. demand that is b.itg created in your trl.riolry?

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State Retailers Hold Annual Convention ln

Fresno

In their annual convention held at Hotel Californian, Fresno, October tl, 12 and 13, the California Retail Lumbermen's Association reaffirmed their belief in the necessity for the maintenance of the cost protection price provision of the Retail T umber Code; endorsed the proposed $30,000,000 Veterans' Home bond issue, and endorse-d the glnd-idacy of_ Frank Merriam for Governor, and George Hatfield for Lt. Governor.

They also endorsed the distribution policy adopted by

Sawtelle; San Joaquin District, H. M. Cross, Cross Lumber Co., Merced.

Thursday Afternoon

Registration, in charge of Paul Overend, former field man of the Association, started at noon and continued throughout the afternoon, and on Friday.

Thursday Evening

The Association's Board of Directors met at 8 p.m. President Harry Lake presided.

representatives of LZJT retailers at the Denver meeting in August, and decided to protest to Washington against Government business being awarded to bidders violating provisions of the Retail Lumber Code.

The convention speakers included Spencer D. Baldu'in, president of the National Retail Lumbermen's Association, whose address was enthusiastically received. Mr. Baldwin declared the National Housing Act to be "the finest piece of legislation that has come out of Washintgon for many a d.ay," and assured the gathering that "it is not being run by any brain trusters."

Topics discussed by other speakers included the lumber manufacturers' code, wholesale lumber dealers' code, code enforcement, earthquake legislation, and the Federal Housing Program.

The sessions rvere well attended, and keen interest was shown in the proceedings.

All the officers were re-elected. These are:

President, Harry A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., Garden Grove; vice-president for the Northern District, E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn; vice-president for the Southern District, Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena; treasurer, Ross Blanchard, Blanchard Lnmber Co., North Hollywood.

The election of directors resulted as follows:

Coast Counties District, W. A. Bales, McKinnon's Lumber Yard, Hollister, and J. E. Norton, Norton-Phelps Lumber Co., Santa Cruz; Oakland District, B. J. Boorman. Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; Redwood Empire District, Mead Clark, Mead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa; Peninsula District, James Wisnom, Wisnom Lumber Co., San Mateo; Orange County District, Henry Adams, Adams Lumber Co., Anaheim; San Bernardino District, Fred Chapin, Chapin Lumber Co., San Bernardino; Ventura District, Roy H. Myers, Peoples Lumber Co., Ventura; Santa Monica District, A. J. Stoner,.Sawtell-e Lumber Co.,

The board endorsed the distribution policy unanimously adopted by the Federated Western Retail Lumber Associations at Denver, Colo., on August 24-25.

Those taking part in the discussion on this matter included Paul Hallingby, Los Angeles, E. T. Robie, Auburn, and W. K. Kendrick, Fresno.

The resolution follows:

WHEREAS, one of the most serious problems confronting the Retail Lumber Industry is the utter lack of an adequate distribution policy, resulting in the destruction of profits and the demoralization of the retail branch of the lumber business: and

WHEREAS, representatives of 12,120 retail lurqber dealers from the western half of the United States recently met in Denver, Colorado, largely for the purpose of trying to correct the present intolerable situation as regards distribution; and

WHEREAS, out of that meeting came the following recommended distribution policy covering Lumber and Lumber Prbducts, As- phalt andlor Asbestos Roofing Materiats and Insulation and Wall Board:

Lumber and Lumber Products

Wholesale trade for the territory is defined as follows:

Sales of lumber and lumber products in carload quantities or more

(l) To wholesale and retail lumber dealers:

(2) To departments of the Federal Government and to and for United States Government river and harbor work e>cept ma- terial purchased under Government Emergency Builaing programs;

To and for railroads:

For sh_ipyards, underground work in large mines, large docks, large dams and large bridgesl

To large industrials who buy regularly in carload lots for remanufacturing or shipping purposes, but not for construction: and sales in less than carload quantities to wholesale and retail tumber dealers.

Asphalt and/or Asbestos Roofing Materials

Wholesale sales of asphalt 7yd/or asbestos roofing material in carload or LCL quantities shall be confined to retail-dealers. iobbers, wholesalers and distributors with the following exceptioirs, in carload lots:

(1) To departmelts of the U. S. Government except material

_-. pur.chased under Government Emergency Building-programs;

(2) To and for railroads;

H. A. Inke Re-electeil President

E. T. Robie Re-electeil Y ic e - Pre sid, ent Northe.rn District

Earl lohnson Re-elected, Yice-Presid,ent Southern District

Ross Bldnclwrd Re-electeil Treasurer

(3) To large industrials for remanufacturing purposes but not for construction.

Insulation ad Wdl Board

Wholesale sales of all Insulation and/or Wall Board in carload or LCL quantities shall be confined to retail dealers, jobbers, wholesalers and distributors with the foltowing exceptions, in carload lots:

(f) To departments of the U. S. Government except material purchased under Government Emergency Building Programs;

(2) To and for railroads;

(3) To large industrials for remanufacturing and shipping purposes but not for construction; therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED. that the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, now in annual convention, does hereby approve the above recommended distribution policy covering the materials named.

W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno, was authorized by the board to prepare a new price schedule for Irrigation Grade Redwood and place it before the Redwood Relations Committee for their approval.

A. C. Horner, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, San Francisco, discussed earthquake legislation as it affects lumber, and answered questions on this subject and on the California School Program.

Friday Morning

The directors of the Association held a breakfast meeting at 7:3O a.m., and the State secretaries had a breakfast meeting in another room at the same time.

The morning session of the convention started at 9 a.m., when President Harry A. Lake opened the meeting with a few brief remarks introducing Steve Ross, of the Central Lumber Co., Hanford, chairman of the program.

Mr. Ross welcomed the delegates to Fresno, and called on A. C. Horner, manager, National Lumber'Manufacturers Associations, San Francisco, for an address on "The Earthquake Feature of Wood Utilization."

Mr. Horner urged the retailers to let their representatives in the Legislature know they are in favor of the earthquake legislation contained in the Field Bill and Riley Act. He asked for support of the California School Program, and invited dealers to grasp the opportunity of distributing a number of copies to the right people in their territory of the pamphlet, "Safety with Economy in School Buildings," to be had from his office, 45 Second Street, San Francisco, at a nominal charge.

D. C. Essley, manager of the Association, and secretary of the Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority (Northern California), discussed in an address lasting an hour "The Retail Lumber and Building Material Code," and also his experiences at Code meetings in Washington. Mr. Essley was heartily applauded for his talk, which will appear in a later issue of this paper.

fn concluding his address Mr: Essley said he believed that codes are here for a long time, that the successful operation of the retail code depends on cooperation of those in the industry, that most of their problems are due to lack of volume of business, and that compliance with the provisions. of the codes will be enforced.

Henry S. Patten, president of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute of Los Angeles, asked by Chairman Ross to tell how the code is working in Southern California, said it has been a wonderful thing for the dealers in that territory, and that it has been working nicely up to now.

Louis Stewart, vice-president, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, spoke on the "Lumber Manufacturers' Code," declaring that the most significant matter in connection with the code at the moment is the question of the retention of price fixing. He said that while the Lumber Code Authority voted 34 to 1 to retain the price structure recently, there is an intense fight in the West Coast division on this question. Whatever the outcome, he believes that production control will remain. Mr. Stewart stated his belief that the majority of manufacturers are ethical, and that the manufacturers and wholesalers will give the code fine support when the problem of distribution is ironed out.

"Wholesale Lumber Dealers Code" was the topic as-

signed to Frank J. O'Connor, Donovan Lumber Co., San Francisco, president of the California Wholesale Lumber Association. Mr. O'Connor explained the setup of the California Water Distributors Subdivision of the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division, for which the California Wholesale Lumber Association is the administrative agency. He said that cooperation of wholesalers, retailers and manufacturers is necessary to make the codes work, and that they will work if all will put their shoulders to the wheel.

Wesley O. Ash, Trade Practice compliance officer, from the office of Donald Renshaw, State NRA director, addressed the meeting on "Code Enforcement." At the end of his talk Mr. Ash answered questions by Harry .Lake; Philip Curran, Curran Bros., Inc., Pomona; Ira E. Brink, The Diamond Match Co., Chico, and W.- K. Kendrick, Fresno. Mr. Kendrick asked what can be done to force compliance with the code by the hundreds of itinerant peddlers selling Redwood grape stakes, posts, etc., from trucks. Mr. Ash promised to look into this matter.

Invited by the chairman to talk on code infringements, Dee Essley said his division of the retail code authority hadn't found it necessary yet to take any case into court. He reminded his hearers that it is up to the dealers to report infringements, as the code authority has to get factual evidence.

The morning session was closed with a talk on the "Veterans' I{ome Bond Issue" by Warren Atherton, chairman of the American Legion committee in charge of putting over the issue, who asked the lumbermen's support for the measure. B. J. Boorman, Chas. G. Bird, E. T. Robie, J. H. Shepard and Harry Lake joined in the discussion that followed the address.

Luncheon

Frank Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co., Fresno, presided at the luncheon, and M. A. "Matt" Harris, Van ArsdaleHarris Lumber Co., San Francisco, was the speaker. The large audience enjoyed Mr. Harris' fine talk, alternately humorous and serious, which ended in a plea for true Americanism in the working out of present difficulties.

Friday Afternoon

Steve Ross continued as chairman of the afternoon program in place of George Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, who was unable to be present.

Spencer D. Baldwin, president of the National Retail Lumbermen's Association, with headquarters at Washing- ton, D. C., and now on a speaking tour of the United States, was the next speaker.

He told first of the rebirth of the National Association, now stronger than ever before, of his hope that it will soon have a 'Western office, and of his desire to see the secretaries of the state and regional associations become airtomatically directors of the National, for the reason that these men are best acquainted with the problems of the members of their associations.

Then he sketched quickly the history of the Housing Bill, and the big part played by the National Association in getting the act through Congress. He urged the dealers to get out and get the business made possible by this legislation and not leave it to the banks and chambers of commerce to do the job. He also advised more effort to sell lumber and less effort on the part of some dealers to sell other than building materials.

Speaking on the NRA Mr. Baldwin said the code was written to protect the small lumber dealer, who, strange to say, is often the chiseler. He suggested that the retailers write to the manufacturers, asking them to keep minimum prices in the code.

In conclusion he pleaded for more friendship in the lumber business, for kinder thought for competitors, more cooperation.

Henry S. Patten, Patten-Blinn Lumber Cd., Los Angeles, reported on the formation of the Federated 'Western (Continued on Page 12)

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Retailers' Annual Convention

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Retail Lumber Associations at Denver, Atrgust 24-25, which he described as an "indignation meeting" on the question of distribution at which I2,I2O retailers were represented. He read the resolution on distribution passed at that meeting.

Mr. Patten also reported on the meeting he attended in Washington on September 12, and stressed the need of real cooperation and teamwork, reminding the retailers that they have a lot of power if they will only stick together and use it.

Answering the talk that is heard that many dealers are dissatisfied with the code, he told of a questionnaire sent out in the Southern California division and the answers received, showing an almost unanimous vote that the code is a good thing both for employers and employees; a very heavy vote in favor of minimum prices; a 2/2 to 1 vote against the statement that the code is more benefit to the big dealer than the small dealer, and about a 13 to 1 vote against the abolition of the code.

D. C. McGinness, executive assistant to the State Administrator, talked on "The Federal Housing Program," and exhibited a talking picture on the subject.

President Lake called for a standing vote of thanks to Spencer D. Baldwin for his splendid address.

Following the invitation of Glenn Miner, Whiting-Mead Co., San Diego, to hold the 1935 convention in San Diego, it was unanimously decided to accept the invitation.

C. W. Pinkerton presented the report of the resolutions committee.

The convention then adiourned.

Friday Evening

The annual banquet of the Association was held at 7:3O p.m.

This was followed by an entertainment program of RKO vaudeville acts and NBC radio entertainers from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Entertainment for ladies was provided throughout the dav.

ben Maisler, Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno, had charge of the luncheon, the banquet and the entertainment.

The program committee consisted of Warren Tillson, chairman; W. K. Kendri,ck, Ralph Duncan and Chas. G. Bird.

Saturday Morning

The new State Board of Directors held their organization meeting at 7:30 a.m.

Resolutions

RESOLVED. That the California Retail Lumbermen's Association in Convention assembled at Fresno this 12th day of October, 1934, do hereby:

"Reaffirm their belief in the necessity for the maintenance of the cost protection clause of the Retail Lumber Code.

"Endorse the proposed $30,000,000 Veterans Home Bond Issue on the November ballot, and recommend that such changes be made in the procedure of the welfare board as to enable contractors and material dealers to build and furnish materials with definite assurance of the state accepting the property.

"Endorse the candidacy of Frank Merriam for Governor and George Hatfield for Lt. Governor, and dedicate our best efiorts individually and collectively to combat through the ballot any activities ultimately leading to social upheaval and industrial and financial chaos.

"Commend the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association upon their constructive program for the promotion and use of timber products as follows:

Legislative efforts looking toward a fair opportunity for lumber in school buildings particularly and in all types of buildings so far bulldlngs an( as earthquake safety is concerned;

Furnishing of technical and con construction information on the use of lumber and allied products to Boards of Education engineers, architects, state 4nd city building officials and others;

Organizing and conducting full size tests of portions of buildings, such as floors, partitions, etc., for the purpose of demonstrating their suitability for earthquake resistant buildings, preparation of pamphlets and other publicity setting forth the desirability of wood frame school buildings.

Demonstration to school boards, engineers, architects and others that wood frame cohstruction and wood sash is equal or superior to certain other types of construction activity advocated by the proponents of other materials.

Be It Further Resolved that we express our sincere appreciation for the efficient and intelligent.manner in which Mr, A. C. Horner and Mr. T. E. Combs have untiringly devoted their time and efforts to the promotion of this program.

"Petilion the proper authorities at Washington, D. C., to instruct the various governmental purchasing officers to recognize and be governed by protests offered by the State NRA Compliance Directbrs for California against awarding business of any kind to bid-

ders who are violating provisions of the Retail Lumber and Building Material Code.

"Heartily thank the following contributors to the success of our convention, namely:

Warren Tillson, who arranged a program which has not been exceeded in interest in any previous convention;

Ben Maisler, who has worked untiringly for the entertainment of those in attendance:

The Hotel Californian for providing exceptional hospitality; California Lumber Merchant and the ?acific Retail Lumberman, who have given unsparingly of their space to publicize the Convention:

And to the many others whose efforts contributed to the success of the Convention.

"Wish to express their deep feeling of appreciation.to Harry A.

Lake, Earl Johnson and E. T. Robie for their enthusiastic and unselfish devotion of time to the afiairs of the association.

"Express by a standing vote their very deep appreciation to Mr. Spencer D. Baldwin, President of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association for the wonderful address presented, and his uqllrjng efforts for the betterment of the retail lumber industry.

"That the President of this Association be instructed to present a copy of this resolution to Mrs. Baldwin."

Registration

Carl W. Watts . .J. E. Higgins Lumber Co., San Francisco

Ben M4isler Maisler Bros. Lumber Co.. Fresno

!4. I-. Euphrat ...Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco

J. C. Snead, Jr. ...Wendling-Nathan Co., Fresno

R. E. Hills ,...Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco

D. H. LeBreton Coos Bay Lumber Co., San Francisco

John V. Creath ...Central Coast Lumber Yards, Morro Bay

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Kennedy ..Wholesa1er. Fresno

Jim Farley .The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco

Harold J. Ford. .....Sec., S. J. Lumbermen's Club, Fresno

G. A. Kramer ...The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco

Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Kendrick ..Valley Lumber Co., Fresno

Warren S. Tillson ...Modesto Lumber Co.. Modesto

Lon S. Garrett .....The Pacific Lumber Co.. Fresno

Geo. W. Robinson ....Retail Lbr. Code Authority, Stockton

Bill Morrison Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Sacramento

W. G. Kahman ...........Shev1in Pine Sales Co.. San Francisco

Chas. T. Gartin ...Schafer Bros. Lbr. & Shingle Co., San Francisco

Francis E. Boyd ..Boyd Lumber & Mill Co. Santa Barbara

Burton Boyle Cross Lumber Co,, Coalinga

Mead Clark .Mead Clark, Santa Rola

John H. Tyson ..Sunset Lbr. Co.. Oakland

H. M. Isenhower... ..Holmes Eureka Lbr. Co.. Sacramento

Glen M. Miner. ..Whiting-Mead Co., San Diego

H. L. Miner ...Whiting-Mead Co., San Dieso

Frank F. Minard .C. S. Pierce Lumber Co.. Fresno

J, B. McKeon .........Retail Code Authority, Inc., San Francisco

F. W. Burgers .... ..Union Lbr. Co., San Francisco

I. E. Brink Diamond Match Co.. Chico

F. H. Dettmann........Allen & Dettman Lbr. Co.. San Francisco

Mrs. Ada H. March ...W. B. March Lumber Co., Ivanhoe

C. Reenders ..Inland Lumber Inst., San Bernardino

C. Hexberg ......Union Lumber Co., San Francisco

Mason E. Kline ...Union Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Henry M. Hink ........Dolbeer & Carson Lbr. Co., San Franiisco

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rogers. .Square Deal Lumber Co., Salinas

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Rathbone . , ;. Sec., San Fernando Lbr. Club, Van Nuys

Lew Love .......Sec., Lumbermen's Service Bur., Modesto

S. J. Hauge .Sec., Redwood Empire Lbr. Club. Santa Rosa

M. A. Harris ..Van Arsdale-Harris Lbr. Co., San Francisco

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C. V, Pinkerton Presented Resolutions

M. A. Harris Spealeer at Luncheon

Retailers' Annual Convention

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A. D. White ' f,side Group, Riverside

Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Batdwin .....'t President, National Assn', Washington, D. C.

Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lake ...Garden Grove Lbr. Co., Garden Grove

W. R. McWilliams.......Sec., Ontario-Pomona Lbr. Club, Ontario

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hallingby ..Hammond Lumber Co. Los Angeles

Ken Bartmess ..............The Paraffine Co., Inc', San Francisco

H. S. Morton ...Hill & Morton, Inc., Obkland

Chas. G. Briggs. .....Booth-Kelly Lor. Co., Eugene, Oregon

Bob Parker......Pacific Coastwide Lbr. Conference, San Francisco

Earle E. Johnson ..l..Independent Lumber Co., Livermore

H. E. Milliken..... ...Viney-Milliken Lumber Co., Covina

C. H. Chapman.... ...C. H. Chapman Lbr. Co., Santa'Ana

C. W. Pinkerton ..Whittier Lumber Co., Whittier

Wm. A. Viney. ..Viney-Milliken Lumber Co., Covina

F. K. Peil Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco

S. P. Ross ....Central Lumber Co., Hanford

C. G. Bird. ..Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton

Paul M. P. Merner. ....Merner Lumber Corp., Palo Alto

Phil Curran.

B. J. Boorman... ... ,,. .Boorman Lumber Co, Oakla-nd

J. F. Wrisht...... .Brey-Wright Lqmber Co., Porterville

Alberta R.Erey. ......Brey-Wlight Lumber Co., Porterville

Roy H. Myers.. .......Peoples Lumber-Co.,-Ventura

W: H. Falconbury. ....San Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockt-on

Paul G. Galle., ......Western Lurhber Co., Reedley

Henry Laws. ...Henry Laws Co., Santa Rosa

J. O.'Handley ' ....M. J. Murphy, Inc., Carmel

Geo. M. Gibtis . ...Spalding Lumber Co., Strathmore

Fred Witrner, Secretary, Monterey Peninsula Clulr- Pacific Grove

E. Stefiensen...Secretaiv. Orange Countv Lumber Club,-Santa Ana

Clyde F. Surtzer

Riy Clotfelter...... ...W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia

R. P. Daggs. .Willard Lumber & Supply Co., Fresno

E. H. MiNear..... .The Parafiine Co., Inc., Fresno

Raloh E. Bacon ...Strable Hardwood Co.. Oakland Lancaster-Pioneer Lbr. Co.. Lancaster

E. L. Schedin .......Lancaster-Pioneer Co..

Fred A. Chapin Fred A. Chapin Lbr. Co., San Bernardino

Max E. Cook . ......The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco

Chas. L. Marsh. .....Hammond Lumber Co., Madera

Wm. Harrison Enlow Hammond Lumber Col, Watsonville

J. S. Webb .....Watsonville Lbr. Club, Watsonville

Earl Johnson ......Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena

Henry S. Patten . Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles

E. C. Parker

Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles

Walter E. Peterson....Bakersfield Bldg. Materials Co., Bakersfield

W. F. Hayward ...Pacific Mfg. Co., Santa Clara

O. W. Carr ..W. R. Spalding Lbr. Co.. Exeter

H. M. Adams .....Henry Adams Lbr. Co., Anaheim

H. C. Ctark .....Rio Linda Lumber Co., Rio Linda

R. Netson .Buena Park Lbr. Co., Buena Park

Leonard Routt Routt Lumber Co., Fresno

E. A. Carlson .Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco

Frank J. O'Connor Donovan Lbr. Co., San Francisco

E. P. Ruth Reedley Lumber Co., Reedley

Kenneth D. Sbeley .....Seeley Lumber Co., Fresno

B. F. Bondurant ...Reedley Lumber Co., Reedley

Earl E. Bowe Reillli Tar & Chemical Corp., Los Angeles

S. J. Hathaway .... .Sunkist Lumber Co., Monrovia

"Chuck" Griffen .Monterey Bay Redwood Co., Santa Cruz

Geo. W. Gorman. ..Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco

Fred Holmes ...Holmes Eureka Lumber Co., San Francisco

J. C. Ferger. ..Swastika Lumber Co., Fresno

Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Bishop....Coast Counties Lumbermen's Club, Watsonville

R. M. Engstrand... ..Pasadena & San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Club, Pasadena

O. H. Miller .Knox Lumber Co., Sacramento

Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Elton.....Sec., Ventura County Club, Ventura

E. E. Schlotthauer.. .Willard Lumber & Supplv Co., Fresno

Mitch Landis..........Noah Adams Lumber Co.. Walnut Grove

J. H. Shepard........Friend & Terrv Lumber Co., Sacramento

E. W. King. .....The King tumbcr Co., Bakersfield

A. J. Russelt ..Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco

H. A. Libbeyi..... .....Hobbs-Wall & Co., San Francisco

P. T. Burns. Vallejo Lumber Company, Vallejo

.W. O. Mashek. ......United Lumber Yards. Inc.. Modesto

Jerry Stutz......Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco

Jas. E. Atkinson..Chas. A. McCormick Lumber Co., San Francisco

J. U. Gartin ......Stanislaus Lumber Co., Modesto

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LUMBER'CO. CAMINO, CALIFORNIA

Robt. S. Grant........National Mill & Lumber Co., San Fraucisco

Chas. B. Cross.. ......Cro3s Lumber Co., Coalinga

L. L. Walker .r.. ..Valley Lumber Co., Fresno

Joseph H. Billeci. .. Redwood Manufacturing Co. Pittsburg

E. M. Prescott...... .Prescott Brick & Lumber Co., Sanger

A. Maisler. ......'Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno

C. J. Bush. ' Maisier B-ros. Lumber Co., Iresno

A. L. Jacobsen...... .....Maisler Bros. Lumber Co',-Fre-sno

Dean took.

Ward Wilson..,.....Monolith Portland Cement Corp., Oakland

Robert Hume. ..,...Malm & Angle Lumber Co., Dos Palos

Louis P. Fox... 'Blue Diamond Corp., Los Angeles

Tom Travis. ......Monolith Portland Cement Co., Monolith

T. J. Bone. ....'.Y"].1"v Lumber Co., Fresno

E. i. Stewart...... .....Y4!gv l.umber C-o., Eresno

Riley Hallmark..... ...'.Y"1!"v Lumber Qo., Fresno

Bob'Kimble. .....Valtey Lumber Co', Fresno

tFii.i"y" Freetand.Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co-., San Francisco

C. P. Henry........Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co',.Los Altgeles

L. G. Sterett ....Tri-State Woodwork Assn., Fresno

W. t. Wattace..... .'....Hammond Lumber Co., Stoctton

Ed. La."on ....,.Secretary, San Jose Lurnb-ermen's Club' San f-ose

tr.fi. ""a Mrs. S. E. Luke. ..........Cox Lumber Co.' Tulare

W. L. Arbuckle........Pacific Portland Cement Co., San Francisco

Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Mathison. rvannoe

M.. ind Mrs. EImo Polly'. 'Ivanhoe "Red;;Grimes......

W. F. Marmion...... San Gabriel Valley Lumber Co'' San Gabriel

S. M.' ttauptman...California Wholesale-Lbr. Ass'n., San Francisco

j- D. Or*.'. ....Silvercote Products Co.. Los Angeles

fr. i. nt".t ......The California Lumber Merchant, San Francisco

SCOTCH GOLF CHAMPIONS

Francis Boyd, Boyd Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara, and member of the La Cumbre Golf and Country Club, and Mrs. Kenneth Carter of San Dimas, a member of the San Gabriel Golf Club, were the winners of the first prizes in the First Annual Southern California Mixed Scotch Foursome Golf Championship Tournament recently held at Santa Barbara.

VISITS NORTHWEST

B. W. Bookstaver, in charge of the San Francisco omce of Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., made a lo-day business trip to the Northwest in the latter part of September. He visited the plant of the Port Orford Cedar Products Co. at Marshfield, Ore., and the offices-of Dant & Russell, Inc., for whom his company acts as agents in the distribution of Port Orford Cedar and Philippine Mahogany.

GEORGE McLEOD VISITS CHICAGO

George B. Mcl-eod, vice-president and general manager of the Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned October 8 from a trip to Chicago, where he attended. the Lumber Codd Authority meeting held there October 3, 4 and 5.

Pacific Coast Hardwood \Tholesale Distributors Hold Annual Meeting at Santa&ttlina lsland

A large group of Pacific Coast wholesale hardwood distributors left by boat from Wilmington, Thursday morning, October 11, for Santa Catalina Island, to attend the annual conventions of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Flooring Wholesale Distributors Association and the .Pacific Coast Hardwood Wholpsale Distributors Association which 'were held at the Hotel St. Catherine, Avalon, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October ll, 12 and 13.

- The Pacific Coast Hardwood Flooring Wholesale Distributors Association convened on Thursday afternoon, with President Frank Connolly of Los Angeles presiding.

The business sessions of the Pacific Coast Hardwood Wholesale Distributors Association were held on Friday and Saturday. President H. W. Swafiord of Los Angeles opened the convention with an address of welcome. Among the principal subjects discussed were the lumber codes and the Federal Housing Act. J. Fyfe Smith of Vancouver,

VISITS CALIFORNIA

H. W. "Tim" Prestono sales manager, Silver Falls Timber Co., Silverton, Ore., was in San Francisco, October 8 o! his way home from Southern California, where he was called to attend the funeral of his mother, who recently passed away in Hollywood. Mr. Preston was accompanied by Mrs. Preston.

"Red"

B. C., D. J. Cahill and Kenneth Smith of Los Angeles, C. ' H. White of San Francisco and A. A. Frost of San Diego addressed the convention.at the Friday sessions. Fred W. Marlow of Los Angeles, district manager of the'Federal housing program in Soutliern California, discussed the National Housing Act at the business session on Saturday morning.

The annual banquet was held Friday evening with an excellent entertainment furnished by Fanchon & Marco, Inc. Many of the delegates played golf Saturday afternoon and Sunday, while others took in the various'attractions on the Island. Delegates in attendance were registered from Vancouver and Victoria, B. C., Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.

A complete report of the conventions will be published in the November I issue.

Gr"en Package Wallboard

Announcement is made by the Wheeler Osgood Sales Organization, Tacoma, manufacturers of Laminex plywood, that they are now putting out their Laminex Wallboard in a distinctive green package which has real "sight appeal."

The green package bears on its end a red label,-thus conforriing to- the iolor scheme of red on a green background used by the corporation on all its stationery and advertising matter in connection with the Laminex line' They feel that the innovation will be a factor in creating more business for Laminex dealers throughout the country.

There are 10 sheets of wallboard in each package, 48 inches rvide, and in lengths of from 5 to ll feet.

The Whpeler Osgood- Sales Corporation has sales offices at 2153 Sacramento Street, Los Angeles, and 3045 Nineteenth Street, San Francisco.

BACK FROM NORTHERN TRIP

H. A. Libhey, general manager of Hobbs, Wall & Co., San Francisco, returned October 8 from a lGday trip to the company's sawmill at Crescent City.

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Lumber Code Authority Votes to Retain Minimum Prices

Chicago, Ill., Oct. 6.-After three days of tense deliberation the Lumber Code Authority voted yesterday afternoon 34 to 1 for the continuation of cost piotection prices. On a previous_motion the Authority rejeited D to 6 @nd then on a motion to make it unanimoui 34 to 1) a resolution to suspend price control. The affirmative-resolution is as follows:

WHEREAS, the Lumber Code Authority at a joint meeting_ of the_ several Division and Subdivision agencies, to which members of the industry also were invitdd, held in Chicago on October 3,4 and, 5: 1934, has received from all Divisions and Subdivisions of the industry detailed reports and recommendations which evidence that the Lumber and Timber Products Industries desire, by an overwhelming majority to continue the minimum piices established by tltg Administrator and that the opp6sing minority's opp-osition to such continuance has arisen principally from difficulties and delays encountered in secdting iompliance and in organizing for and establishing efiectfue and aggressive measures of enforcement, and has not aris,en from any substantial objection to the principle involved.

BE IT RESOLVED, that the Lumber Code Authority affirms its faith in the sincerity of the National Recovery Administration in its assurancei to the Lumber Code Authority that all provisions of the Code, including the price and trade practice provisions, will forthwith be vigorously enforced against all violators and affirms its fait[ in thl early success of the present campaign of the National Recovery Administration to enforce compliance, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Lumber Code Authority rgaffirms its belief that the principle of minimum prices established by the Administrator musi be maintained during the present emergency and calls on all members of the industries to give their earnest support to the maintenance thereof. The Executive Officer, the stafi, and the several administrative agencies are directed to use every means to secur'e the fullest measure of voluntary compliance, and to lend every assistance within their powers to the efforts to enforce compliance against violatori of the National Recovery Administration.

"In taking this action the Lumber Code Authority chose between two hard roads," Executive Officer David T. Mason explained. "It turned away from the road marked 'Abandonment of price control.' It realized that such abandonment would lead promptly to tremendous losses to manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers; ruin to many establishments, .unemployment for many people, a period of chaos in the industry, and a serious set-back to the Federal Housing Administration campaign for modernization and the building of new homes. The Lumber Code Authority chose the road labeled 'full code maintenance including price control' in the earnest belief that it was serving the best interests of the most far flung of American manufacturing industries. The course chosen is admittedly a difficult one to follow but it involves less hardship- all around than the other. In making this choice we eipect to have vigorous support from NRA in dealing with code violations. We recognize, however, that primaiily the success of the code in serving the interests of the industry and the public.depends upon the voluntary compliance of tne vast majority of our industry who believe in, the code and who desire its success with all the benefits, particular and general, flowing therefrom ; this voluntary, cooperative compliance we confidently expect to secure."

The attendance at this meeting was extraordinary in the annals of the lumber and timbCr products industiies, for

both size and intensity of interest. Nearlv 60G-manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers-registered and all sessions of the three days, Oct. 3-5, were crowded.

The first session was called to order Wednesdav morning by.Chairman John D. Tennant. Mr. Sheppar<i, Chairman of the National Control Committee, reviewed nego- tiations between the committee and the Recoverv Administration since September 10, particularly in regird to eftorts to_get approval of amendments to extend jurisdiction of the Code to embrace wholesalers and to dehne wholesale trade.

David T. Mason, executive of6cer, presented a detailed r-epo_rt.of important features of the pioblems confronting the industry today in the adaptation lnd administration ol the Code. Major Mason pointed out that at the meeting of the Authority in'June and July it was recognized that enforcement of the Code was absolutely necessary; that an am,endment to Article IX, making prices legally enforceable, was indispensable; that a wholesalers division under the Code was essential; and that voluntary cooperative compliance must be secured.

_ Mlpr Mason reported that the Lumber Code Authority had 67 active cases in the hands of the National Recovery Administration at Washington. Nineteen involve labor violations and 49 trade practice violations. Of the latter approximately 35 involve price provisions of the Code.

Encouragement From NIRB

In regard to the attitude of the Administration a timely telegram was received by the Lumber Code Authority from the new National Industrial Recovery Board, which gave great encouragement to the advocates of continuation of mlnrmum prtces.

Incident_ally-, it having been headlined in the Chicago papers that Mr. Richberg had said in effect that price contrbl was "on its way out," he voluntarily telegraphed Mr. Mason on Fridav. as follows:

"lJnderstand Chicago papers interpret my speech yesterday as indicating end of price fixing and pioduction iontrol which may be disturbing to lumber conference. Fact is I denied any suggestions of sweeping changes but state-d many business men were disillusioned conierning production control and price control benefits and that industrv by industry these problems would be worked out. Ti, which I added: There is no doubt of the necessity in some s_pecific instances of preventing destructive price cutting there is no doubt of the necessity sometimes of putting some controls on production. Most important of all I ex-plained that new Recovery Board was primarily charged with administration and recommendations of polity so that no one should be disturbed by correct or incorrect reports concerning my individual opinions."

_ Continuing his report the executive officer pointed out that reorganization of NRA had slowed up administrative functions. In conclusion, however, he deciared that NRA was not going to collapse, but was being reorganized in order to clear up the rather generally re-ognizEd chaotic conditions that had existed and to bring about vigorous enforcement.

Four Alternatives

Before concluding, Mr. Mason said that while the meeting had been called for a specific purpose, no hard and fast program had been planned, yet, the National Control Committee urged that the Divisions and Subdivisions before formulating their recommendations to the Lumber Code Authority consider the many alternatives, of which as examples four were named as follows:

1. Abandon the Code, as a defeated army-routed.

2. Make no retreat but enforce the Code as it now stands.

3. Eliminate wholesale discounts but in other respects keep the Code as it is.

4. Eliminate Article IX, abandon cost protection prices and maintain the remainder of the Code.

Wednesday afternoon, following the general meeting, the various Divisions and Subdivisions met and canvassed their respective stands on the vexed question of the maintenance of cost protection minimum prices. The most contention and difference of opinion developed in the West Coast Division and the Appalachian Southern Hardwood Subdivision. In the former no vote was taken in view of the fact that the trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association had voted in favor of cost protection prices at a meeting in Portland the previous week. But it was also taken into consideration that the industry as a whole in that region r,r'as sharply divided on the subject of prices. Consequently, it was decided to let each of the two groups present their positions to the Code Authority in open session, without prejudice. In the case of the Appalachian and Southern Subdivision the vote was 7 to 6 in favor of price control, but the Hardwood Coordinating Committee was able to report that all Subdivisions had voted for the retention of cost protection prices.

In the general meeting Friday morning spokesmen for all Divisions and Subdivisions stated the positions of their respective bodies. These were overwhelmingly in the affirmative, but some indicated that their position was determined by the hope and belief that there would be more compliance and better enforcement.

The Southern Pine Division urged that wholesalers should be made subject to the Lumber Code and their function definitely defined, as a necessary condition of the maintenance of cost protection prices. Should it not be possible to include the wholesalers it was recommended that all wholesale discounts be eliminated. The opinion was also expressed that a clear cut statement of policy regarding prices should be obtained from NRA and that present prices should be continued until NRA terminates, June 16, 1935. It was also insisted that NRA must place a large force behind the enforcement of the Lumber Code.

Among those speaking for the West Coast Division in opposition to price control were Messrs. Frank Ransom, C. H. Krienbaum, A. W. Clapp, A. E. Maclntosh, Morris Jones, G. E. Karlen, M. A. \Myman, and Hugh Brady. Bloedel Champions Protected Prices

The West Coast men speaking for the upholding of prices were J. H. Bloedel, Hans Bratlie, C. D. Johnson, and Major E. G. Griggs. Mr. Bloedel declared that the Lumber Code offered the first opportunity for thorough-going cooperation in the lumber industry. He pointed out that the five year average price for his company's lumber from 1925 to 1930 was $21.00 and that in 1932 and the first part of 1933 the

price dropped to $1O.8O. The average wage in the mills 'and woodi^on the West Coast today iJ $4.95 per day, which is only 5/o less than at the peak of the prosperity.period, yet the present price of his lumber is $17.@ and this price tannot go lowei u'ithout demoralization in the industry. He felt there is no reason to believe that if cost protection is removed prices would not drop to the disastrous levels of. 1932. Mi. Bloedel pointed to the increase in mills registered with the West Coast Association from approximately 350 at the beginning of the Code to about 550 at the present time as evidence that the Code is not discriminating against small mills. He stated' further, that the Code hat risulted in changing the position of certain products such as shingles, doors, plywood and millwork from that of by-producis, so that now those items carry their fair share of the costs of operation and are selling at a much better price than in pre-code days.

Mr. Bratlie, representing manufacturers of Western Red Cedar Lumber, stated while there may be some question about workability of cost protection prices there is none about what will happen in the lumber industry thir winter if the protection of a minimum price is removed. The immediafe resultant drop in prices will bring hand to mouth purchases as buyers refrain from building up- stocks in a time of falling prices. Many mills will close within a short time, gradually reducing employment and confidence in the Code will be shaken to such an extent that progress made in the past year will be largely swept away. Until now no fair test has been made under enforcement conditions. Neither the Recovery Act nor the Code is designed to keep alive the inefficient. High costs of enforcement rvill dihinish rapidly as convictions are obtained.

Col. Greeley, Secretary and Manager of the West Coast Lumbermen'iAssociation, presented petitions from several thousand employes of West Coast lumber companies urging that cost protection prices be retained.

Although the Wesl Coast Division as a whole did not officially take a position before the Lumber Code Authority, the tiustees of the Pacific Northwest Loggers Association stated that in their opinion cost protection prices on lumber should be immediately discontinued.

On Thursday, as well as at the open meeting Friday' there were numerous speeches pro and con on the matter of prices and regarding other matters, particularly the wholesaler problem.

Concerning the latter, Major Mason laid before the meeting a proposal favored by NRA for an ordler designed to stibiliie price quotations by wholesalers. The gist of this proposal is that wholesalers shall bind themselves by conlacf to manufacturers'to observe established prices under penalty of the imposition of liquidation damages to the extent of 25% of. such established prices, but not exceeding $500 in any single transaction. Representatives of the wholesalers, including W. W. Shupner, Secretary and W.

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JUST HER SHADE

"Liza," said the young white woman to her rather new colored maid, "where is that tar soap I sent you to the drugstore for yesterday?"

"Mah goodness, Missee !" exclaimed the surprised colored girl. "\ll/huts a blond lady like you gwine do wid dat tah soap? Ah thought you had me get hit fo mah pussonal use."

FRIENDS

Ain't it fine when things are going Topsy-turvy and askew, To discover someone showing Good old-fashioned faith in you?

Ain't it good when life seems dreary, And your hopes about to end Just to feel the handclasp cheery Of a fine old loyal friend?

Gosh ! one fellow to another Means a lot from day to day, Seems we're living for each other In a friendly sort of way.

When a smile or cheerful greetin' Means so much to fellows sore, Seems we ought to keep repeatin' Smiles and praises more and more.

-Eddie Guest.

NOT FREE SURELY?

Rastus-"Mah poppa is de mos' high Gran' Panjandrum of de Lodge o'de Mistick Nights."

Hambone-"Lawdy, me, boy ! Whut do it cost to see him?"

NOT COME_WENT

"Ah suttingly is gwine whip dat no-count boy o' mine when Ah gits mah han's on hirn."

ttHow come?"

"Ife done lef de chicking coop do'.open and dem chickings all got out."

"'Well, they'll come home to roost, won't they?"

"COME home? Whut you mean, fool? Dem chicHngs WENT home."

ARROGANT MAN

Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is toward egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. For several ages he saw, in the countless worlds that sparkle through space like the bubbles of a shoreless ocean, only the petty candles, the household torches, that Providence had been pleased to light for no other purpose but to make the night more agreeable to man.

Astronomy has corrected this delusion of human vanity, and man now reluctantly confesses that the stars are worlds, larger and more glorious than his own-that the earth on which he crawls is a scarcely visible speck on the vast chart of creation.

But in the small as in the vast, God is equally profuse of life. The traveler looks upon the tree and fancies its boughs were formed for his shelter in the summer sun, or his fuel in the winter frosts. But in each leaf of these boughs the Creator has madb a world-it swarms with innumerable races. Each drop of water in a moat is more populous than a kingdom is of men. Ever5rwhere then in this immense design, science brings new life to light. Life is the one pervading principle, and even the thing that seems to die and putrify, but engenders new life, and changes to fresh forms of matter.-Bulwer Lytton.

SHE MIGHT

"Could I interest you in a one-piece bathing suit?" asked the goodJooking blond saleslady of the gentleman shopper. "I really couldn't say," replied the gentleman shopper, rather blase; "you see f've never seen you in a one-piece bathing suit."

LCA Votes to Retain Minimum Prices

(Continued

H. Schuette of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, and Alexander and Fred Ludwig of the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association, spoke at various times during the meeting from the point of view of their groups.

In one of his talks Fred Ludwig made the point that the breaking down of lumber prices at this time would lead to a long period of chaotic markets which he believed would have the effect of setting back the Federal Housing Administration's campaign for stimulation of modernization and the building of new houses. He said that once the market broke the public would naturally wait until it was sure that the bottom had been reached and stabilization again attained before it would risk investments in building.

Messrs. Carl Faust and P. P. Joyes, directors of the Hardwood Institute, spoke in opposition to the continuation of cost protection prices, and Frank Turner, another director, advocated prices. The latter remarked that his company had a price level of $44.58 per thousand in 1926. This dropped to $19.81 in 1933, but so far this year had averaged $n.n. He said that he thought no hardwood concern in the South could pay the wage schedule required by the Code and hold production down to two 7-hour days a week if hardwood prices were reduced one cent belorv where they are now.

J. D. McNary of the Cady Lumber Company, Cady, Arizona, made an eloquent appeal for the retention of cost protection prices, basing it on the experience of the village of Cady, Arizona, which he depicted as having been rescued from extreme deprivation and actual suffering by the restoration of prices. So great had been the recovery through the returns enjoyed by the lumber company and the municipality as a result of the living prices the Code

from Page l7) had brought them, the town was now in a sound social and fiscal condition without a single family on the relief roll.

After the conclusion of the meeting Friday afternoon Mr. Maclntosh announced that the West Coast opponents of price control would continue their campaign to secure the suspension or elimination of Article IX-both at Washing- ton and at home. Messrs. Ransom, Nettleton, Jones, and Bunker rvere appointed as a committee to proceed at once to Washington to take the price subject up with NRA.

_ Ag,ong othe_r matters disposed of was the over-ruling of the National Control Committee proposed method of production allocations for the Red Cedar Shingle Division. The Authority voted to revert to the formula followed in allocations for the third quarter, but called upon the Shingle Bureau to sumbit a more suitable formula by December 1.

Compton Points to Cause of Price Crisis

It was voted to instruct each lumber division that it must exert every effort to balance production lvith consumptron.

In connection with the question of compliance and enforcement of cost protection prices, it was pointed out by some speakers that the precarious situation in regard to prices was partly due to the lack of sufficient limitation of production. Wilson Compton dwelt on the fact that surplus stock had increased approximately a billion feet since the Code was adopted and that this was due to a benevolent desire to serve the public interest and provide maximum employment. But he insisted that hereafter the industry must vigorously demand a balance between produc- tion and consumption.

An especial appeal was voted for voluntary compliance as follows:

RESOLVED that the Divisions and all persons therein be assured in terms that will admit of no misunderstanding that the ability of the industry to sustain the present or any other reasonable system of cost protection depends on the ability of the industry agencies and the Government acting together to enforce the Code against violators; and that it depends much more upon the remobilization within the rank and file of the industry of the spirit, the purpose and the determination to observe the Code, and encourage its observance by others.

Investigation was ordered of the situation alleged to exist in the Southern Hardwood region, where the mills are .largely of the log-buying type, complaint having been made that the logging employees are often paid less than established code wages..

Mark Fleishel of the Southern Cypress Division, was elected to the National Control Committee to succeed A. W. Clapp, St. Paul, resigned. The application of the Southern Rotary Cut group for representation on the Authority was denied on the ground that its operations were not extensive enough to justify such representation. The application of _the lumber commission salesmen for repre- sentation on the Authority was held up pending action on the question of their inclusion in the Lumber Code.

IVIembers of the Code Authority attending the meeting were: Tennant, Chairman; Fleishel, Bruce, Ford. Brin-gardner, Goodman, Walker, Coy, Hines. Brownell, C. R. Johnson, Fields, Green, Kurth, Berckes, Demarest, Irving, Murphy, Macartney, Lakin, Walter Johnson. Moore, Cui- tis, Tibbetts Jones, Bergstrom, Dunning, Schaack, Galbraith, Stocking, Austin, Sheppard, Ritter, Compton, Myers, Alexander, Force. Messrs. Dixon and Selfridge attended as representatives o.f the National Recovery Administration.

Statement of A. '\(/. Clapp in Bchalf of Weyerhaeuser and Shevlin Interests Belorc Lumber Code Authority Mecting in Chicago, October 3, Condemning Lumber

I wish to make a statement on the general subject before this meeting on behalf of the Weyerhaeuser an-d Shevlin lumber interests.- These Weyerhaeuser interests may be generally- described as those companies,-four in number, whose products are sold through Weyerhaeusel Sales Company, plus two other companies -operat- ing-in the State of Washington. The'se-companies altogether opetite fi.re fir plants with twelve mills. They operate two -pla-nts .in the Ponderosi Pine region of Oregon and Idaho; four. in the WhitePine region of ldaho- and one in the Northern Pine region of Minneso-ia. The combined capacity of these plants is in the neighborhood of 6 per cent of what is said to be the capacity of all softwood plants of the United States.

The- operations of the Shevlin group consist of- four- plants, all producing pine. These four plants .sell .their produc-t through the r"*" r.Gs- organization. The combined capacity of -these .plants is in the neig[borhood ol lrl per cent of what is said to be the total softwood capacity of the United States.

The two groupJ have nothing in common gxcept- in -their hi'story of cooperatlon with others in all phases of the lumber business, including the promotion of the use of lumber, -a1{ now -in their commoriviewpbint with respect to the subject which is before the meeting; a viewpoint which they have asked me to express.

I thi;k that ii is entirely appropriate that this should be done, and done with entire candor. No organizations were more active in the formative states of the Lumber Code; none have been more anxious that its administration should be free from criticism; none have contributed any more in man power from their respective organizations in its administration, up to this,date. -I mys-elf sat with the Emergency National Committee of the lumber industries during those tirrific and sometimes disheartening days in July and August last year when the Code was being written. I have been, eiiher as an alternate or as a member, until very recently, connected with Lumber Code Authority and present at all of its meetings since the Code was adopted; and-betwe,en June 10 and the latter fart of August I was a member of the Control Committee. Other - members of the Weyerhaeuser and Shevlin organizations have taken active parts both in the framing of the Code and in its administration, noi only through the Lumber Code Authority and the Control Committee but upon numerous boards and committees of several of the softwood divisions. These services, like the services of others in the industry, while arduous, were rendered cheerfully, and with the desire and hope that industry self-government under the terms of the Lumber Code and the Code itself would iustifv themselves.

' I make these preliminary remarks as justification for what you may feel is a rather extended statement of the attitude of these two groups at the present time and the reasons for that attitude.

Alf experimens such as that upon which industry and the government embarked under the NIRA, and specifically such as the Lumber Code, must proceed by trial and error. We have now had a little over a year in which to judge of the wisdom and the practicability of the various portions of our Code. It is now our settled conviction that minimum prices must be abandoned, that they are impracticable and economically unsound in the lumber divisions; that any continued attempt to administer Article IX in those divisions iJ not only an economic mistake, but a subversion of justice; that it has created and is festering a canker sore of dishonesty in our industry; that the failure to recognize this is resulting in moral chaos which will destroy the already weakened bonds of cooperative efiort by which alone the other portions of our code may be salvaged; and finally that those other portions of our code shoutd be salvaged.

During the period that the Code was under discussion in Washinston list year, there was a considerable element in the NRA wfiich did not believe that cost protection or minimum prices were either necessary or advisable. This element was perfectly willing to allow production control; their chief reason for thinking that control of prices was not necessary was that control of production 'would have practically the same effect and would bring that effect about in a much more natural way. At the time I was acting as a sort of legal adviser and draftsman and all-around-hack for the Emersency National Committee. A large majority of that Committet wai in favor of having in the Code provision for cost protection prices, and at their request I wrote a brief in an attqmpt to demonstrate that cost protectlon prices were necessary even

Price Fixation

though we had control of production. That was not an easy brief for me to write because I was not myself entirely convinced that the element in the NRA to which I have referred was not substantially correct. However, the brief was written and was said to be a good one, and I think was filed with the NRA; it may be that I had some small part in the inclusion in our Code of an Article which we think trial has shown to be extremely unwise and unworkable.

Up to the last meeting of the Control Committee which started on September 10, I sat in every meeting of the Lumber Code Authority and of the Control Committee. I don't think that it is an exaggeration to say that not less than four-fifths of the time of the Authority and of its committees has been taken up with the determination and fixing of so-called cogt protection prices, with adjustments in them, with complaints against them, with differentials, with a multitude of correlated matters such as the major part of Schedule B and the "Wholesaler" question, and with a multitude of problems, some of them foreseen but most of them unforeseen, which inhered in or followed upon the attempt to create and administer a wholly artificial restriction.

That the Lumber Code Authority and the Control Committee have exerted their very best efforts to administer this part of the Code, I know. No just criticism can be made of those efiorts; they failed of success for a number of reasons:

l. A system of set prices-and what we have called minimum or cost protection prices based on weighted average cost were bound to be maximum prices-in any industry of as many units, of such variety of size, kind and quality of product and mediums of distribution as in the lumber industry is just an economic robot, and no kind or amount of differentials, or of tinkering, or of exemptions can ever breathe life into it.

2. It seems to be impossible to repeal by legislative fiat the simplest of the natural economic laws-that of supply and demand. An assumed level of prices which does not take into account and does not respond to the pressure. of overproduction or oversupply is like an earthen dam in a mighty 1iy61-x dam without floodgates. We have permitted overproduction ev€n since the Code to build up a pressure that was too much for any artificial barrier.

3. The number of what I would call natural or born chisellers in our industry is probably greater in percentage than in most industries. Chiselling on prices commenced immediately after the adoption of minimum prices. It increased in momentum, slowly at first, and indulged in for a number of months targely by those who would chisel under any conditions. Then starting in the late of 1934 there rny conditions. Then late spring up another kind of price violation which I hesi- ot lyJrt tnere grew up anorner Klnq or pflce vlolauon I hesrtate. to call chiselling. There were two major causes, first the tate to There undue pressure which excessive excessive production exerted upon our artificial price structure, and second, the lack of enforcement againstagainst the real and chronic chiseller-I shall return later to the matter of lack of enforcement. For these two major 1s4s6n5-2nd the first was the more impelling, the ranks of those who violated code prices by every artifice imaginable grew by leaps and bounds. It was more or less common by June l; it probably increased when certain inadequately qualified executive orders and announcements came from NRA in June; it increased during the period when there tvas some doubt during the latter part of June and the early part of July as to whether NRA would approve prices desired, we thought it would decrease when the new prices, with the NRA's assurance of their legality and their enforcement, went into eftect; violation of code prices has steadily increased since then. And increased up to this point, and while these statements are difficult of exact proof, they are easily proven by the common knowledge of the advised and candid members of the industry; there is no substantial proportion of the West Coast products sotd on the Attantic Coast or in the back-haut territory at code prices; there is no substantial proportion of West Coast products sotd in California at Code prices. These two markets normally absorb a major part of West Coast domestic distribution. In the third market-the rail market-conditions have not been so bad but a very targe portiort of sales in this territory are at less than Code prices, and the situation is rapidly growing worse. Almost any retail line yard in the Middle West will admit that it is being offered wholesale discounts, or grades higher than those invoiced, or dry lumber

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BT]YDBS9 GT]IDD SAN I.BANOISOO

LUMBER

Chamberlin & Co., W. R.' ttb Flor, Fife Bldg. ,...........DOusla! 5'170

Dolbeer & Carson Lubcr Co?30 Merchantg Exchange Bldg......,Sutter 7156

Hammond Lumber Co., 310 Sancome St............'.......DOuglaa 3389

Hobba, \lrall & Co.'

2350 Jerrold Ave.,..'.....'........Mlsim 0001

Holmec Eureka Lumber Co.,

1505 Financial Center Bldg. .......GArfield l92r

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co-

206 Fife Building...'.'...,.........EXbrok Il93

Loop Lumber Company' Ft. of 16th st........,............'EXbruok a$r

Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, !25 Markct Street ...........'...GArfield rtl:'g

Mulllgan & Co., W. J,, 520 Montgomery St. ....',........GArfield 6t90

LUMBER

McComick, Ch*. R., Luber Col

16l Market Street .................Doug|as 2561

More Mill & Lmbcr Co.. 525 Market Stret .,,..............EXbrok 0173

Pacific Lumber Co., The 100 Bush Street'..........'.....'GArfield llEl

Red River Lumber Co315 Monadnck BIdC. .............GAr6e1d ll9z2

Santa Fe Lumber Co. 16 Califomia Street .........'.".KEamy 2074

Schafer Brm. Lumber & Shingle Co"

1208 Fife Btdg. ....,.....',........'Sutter l7lll

Sudden & Cbristenson, 310 Sansome Street ......,........GArfreld Zt4t

Union Lumbcr CoCrcker Buildinl ..SUtter 6170

OAITLANI)

LUMBER Hill & Motoq Inc.' -- Dinnioa Si. Wf,rrt ...........'.'ANdryq l0[7

T. P. HoSan Co.' ta e lU stntr....'........Gl-dffit atal

LUMBER'

Bookrtrvcr Bumr Lunbcr Co,

HARDWOODS

LUMBER

Van Arudale-Haris Lumber Co., lnc., Fifth & Brannan Streets..........GArfield t.o.

Wendling-Nattan Coll0 Market Stret ..................SUtter 5!Gl

E, K. Wmd Luniber Co., I Drumm Street...,...... ......,....KEamy !ill0

Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., l,lt Califomia Street .......,...... GArfield ElTl DOORS AND PLYWOOD

Nicolai Drcr Sales Co., 3045 19th Street ..........,.........Mlrc|on ?t20

Wheler-Osgood Saler Corporation, 3045 l9th st. ...........,..........VA|enc|a 22{l

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PTLING_ .TIES

McComick, Char. R., Lmbcr Co., 16l Market Stret .................DOug|ar 2501

PANELS

Elliott Bay Sal!. Co., Ital Bmdny ....Hlaalo zaa?

Califmia Builden Supply Co. 501 29th .A,venuc ......,,,.........ANdovcr lltt

Strable Hardwood Cc, 5:t? Fint Strc.t ...............TEuplobu ttll

LOS AITGELDS

LUMAER

Prttm-Bllu Lubor Co.

Ghmbcr of Comnrcc Bfdr..""PRoefcct 'zll

Ghubcrtln & Co.' W. R.'

tlt WGtt Nlnth SL ........'..'."TUcLc l€l

Dolbrcr & Cam Lunbcr Co"

|, SbCl Buift||lrl.................'VArdkr 3?'t

Hoho Eunka Lunbcr Co.'

?u-?12 Architatr Btd8. ..' ...' ...Mutual tltl

Humd Imbcr Co..

fafa Sc Ateoeda St .....'....'.'PRo.D.Gt ?Uf

Hoocr, A. L,,

tL ltc L Brr Am. ................YOrL 111t

l:rocc-PLlllp Lunbcr Co.

CB Pctrclm Scqrld.. Bldr....PRcpcct ttt

Loo3-Bcll Lmbcr Sdcr C4cadoo'

?21 Potrclm S.curtd!. Bldt....PRoQ.ct taat

}tcGmfcfr, Cb.& R- Luoba Gc,

lU W..t Xh St ................TR1dV e|r

Mulllru & Cc, W. J.

llt W..t ttl 3t ..........,.......Y^rd&c aata

Prclfic Lulldr Cc, Th.

tL 3o. L. Bnl Avr.................,Y(H3 rr|!

52r E. srh SL ,......,............vAnd|}e Ztzl

Rcd Rlrcr Lubcr Cq'

?U E. Shtrtc ..'AXridrr to?r

Salta Fc lanba Co,

3rt Fturcl.t Catcr Bldg. ........,VAndike alTt

Scf,ilcr Bn LEb.r & Shhllf. Cc'

IZU W. M. Canland Blds.........TRini9 aZn

Suddca & Chrlrtano.

arC Bcrd of Tn& Bl&. .........TRbfV &4a

Unim Lubcr Co., ta W. M. G&hnd Bldt ........,.TR1n1t Zrlt

Wcndling-Nrihu Go.

?O Sa Ia Bs An .........,.,.....Yd. lf||

E. K. l\/od Lmbcr Ce., {701 SdtN Fe Avc..............,.JEfrcnm llll

Wcyulecus Sdc Co., tll Pctrolcu Serft|or Bl&....PRoecct 5l||

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLEII.-PILINGTIES

McGmicL, Chs. R., Lunbc Gc, u? wct trL sr. ..,..,...,.....TR!a|tt 5lrr

HARDWOODS

Coopc, W. E., Lmber Cc' A5 E. rSrh 3L ..................PRCD.ct llll Hmod hhbc C^, 2lrf Sq Almcda 3t........,.,...PRoprct ?l?l

hughlir, C J., @5 Petroleu Smrldcr Blft....,PRorpcct 2fl8

Stnto, E. J., & Son, t5C Est !t& StEt .......,.....4xr1d3. t2lr

SASH-DOORII-MTI.I.}I'ORK

Hemod Ltmbcr Co20la So. Alenc& Sr...........,..PRoOrct trtf

Kehl, Jno W- & So+ 152 So Myrn SL .........,..,,...AN'c|ur l?t

Rcd Rlvcr Lmb.r Cr., ?02 E. Sletm ..AXrl&rr t?l

lVhelcr-Oegod Sdc Corpontio, l0ll So. Brodwey .....,..........PRosFct 5arl

PANELII AND PLYW(X)D

Aberden Plywood Conpany, 3?aZ West ?th Stret,,..........PArkrry t|S!l

C.ltrmir Pla.l & Vmrcr Co., t55 So Almda St. ..,...........TR1r1ty 106?

Coqer, \f,t. E., Lunbcr Co, 2ct5 E. lsth St. .......,......,..PRocpcct 3t!t

Prific Muhral Dq Co., CADitol ?f0S It2l W*hiuttr Are. (Alhubn)

lVhcclc-Orgood Salar Corecatlo, a$ Sammto St ....,.........,Tuclrcr ffi

Statement of A. W. Clapp Belorc Lumber Code Authority Meeting in Bchalf of Weyerhaeuser and Shevlin Interests

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invoiced as green, or all three. About the same condition as in the West Coast rail market exists in Ponderosa Pine. Of the other divisions I will not speak, because I cannot do so authoritatively, other than to say that we hear of countless violations and complaints. With respect to Southern Pine, perhaps a fair inference may be drawn from the fact that, although in the competitive territory the average market price of West Coast fir is at least two dollars under Code prices, Southern Pine has nevertheless marketed a much larger percentage of its quota than has the West Coast.

4. It has been quite generally agreed that reasonable compliance with and enforcement of minimum prices was impossible unless the wholesalers were brought under the Code. This is true. About one-half of our lumber is marketed through wholesalers. Wholesalers are no better and no worse than manufacturers. But so long as the rules and machinery necessary to enforcement are inapplicable to one-half of the sale transactions, the difficulties of obtaining compliance or enforcement are insurmountable. For months we have been trying to get wholesalers under the Code-a definition of wholesalers, a definition of wholesale trade. We are just where we started from, perhaps a little farther back. It is unnecessary to fix the blame for this failure of our plans. Certainly ure cannot place the blame on the wholesalers. The only pertinent fact is that our plans have failed, and that we are in a greater state of uncertainty than ever about these necessary correlatives of any price maintenance system,

5. A great deal has been said about enforcemeut and lack of enforcement and a great deal of criticism has been leveled at the NRA. I should like to make a distinction between compliance and enforcement. Compliance cannotes voluntary cooperation.. In this, with respect to price maintenance, our industry has signally failed. My own personal belief is that lack of enforcement has had very little to do with this. At any rate, we were allowed to have a Code under.which the industry itself was for the first ten months permitted to fix its own minimum prices. We had always said that if our industry could be freed from the restrictions of the AntiTrust laws and permitted to make fair voluntary agreements we could rescue it from the depths to which it had sunk. I think it has been fairly well proven that this is not true. I do not believe that there would have been or would be any more compliance with a voluntary agreement than there has been with the code provisions. At any rate I do say that there has been and is such a lack of the spirit of compliance that no amount of enforcement could now possibly save the situation. I have heard it stated from an authoritative source that President Roosevelt's attitude with respect to fixed prices, including those in the natural resource industries, is substantially this: That he witl not interfere'with them so long as they are fair in the sense that they do not impose on the consuming public, and so long as they are acceptable to and proven workable by the industries themselves, but his own personal judgment is that they cannot possibly be made workable. I say that our industry has not only failed to prove that fixed prices are workable, but they have pretty definitely proven that they are not. We have done

pretty nearly everything imaginable to n: the first place instead of adopting price pretty i the of

make them unworkable. In attempted to remove the

prices which might have been minimum prices as distinct from market prices, we made our system artificial in the extreme. Then we efiects of this artificiality by hundreds and thousands of difierentials, rulings and exemptions, and got some of our divisions in such a maze that the average lumberman on some classes of business actually does not know how to quote. Then we turned on to this artificiat patchwork barrier a pressure of overproduction which it could not possibly stand. Then we had our relatively large proportion of chisellers who speedily made it impossible for a much greater number to be honest and sell their lumber at the same time.

It is true that there was no enforcement at all for nearly a year, but at least up to July of this year this cannot be charged to the NRA or the Government. Whatever legal difficulties there were in enforcing prices not approved by a governmental agency. we made it doubly sure that they could not be enforced by failing to follow the price formula of the Code. This failure was not deliberate. It was just impossible to follow the formula to the extent which would make the resulting prices the basis for legal action. Since these conditions were removed what actual price enforcement have we had against the real chiseller? I put it to you that we have had substantially none; and that again I do not think can be charged to the NR.A or the enforcement omcers. There are so many ways of selling below code prices without leaving a record of it, so many ways that are absotutely undetectable; that substantial enforcement never can be attaincd. It would cost more to make

the attempt than the cost of the attempt to enforce the prohibition law, and the results would be much the same.

The situation has become absolutely impossible, By attempting to retain price control we are penalizing the honest, or those who desire to be honest, beyond all endurance. You cannot enforce a sumptuary law in the wisdom of which a majority or even a large minority of the people do not believe, and which they do not desire. It is too much to ask the federal government to try to enforce in the West Coast Division, for instance, a law which is repudiated by the majority. It doesn't seem feasible to put the ma- jority of people in jail by any system of enforcement with which I am familiar. There is one thing that can be done, one kind of enforcement that can be used, not to secure general compliance with the code, not to punish chisellers, not to do justice, but to obtain glorification of enforcement as such. An illustration of this is presented on the West Coast. Most of you lumbermen knew Mark Reed, knew his solidity, his honesty and his independence. He was one of the few real leaders of our industry. He left an organization at the lead of which are sons of the same calibre. At a meeting late in August of the Trustees of the West Coast Association, in spite of a fairly conclusive showing that the majority of the industry was not observing the price features of the Code, and that a majority (though not entirely the same individuals) no longer wished to continue the price provisions, the Trustees nevertheless voted to do so. I think that no one will question that up to that time the Reed organization and the mills whose selling policy was guided by that organization had been in compliance with the Code. But after that action was taken, apparently despairing of a situation and policy which put dishonesty at a premium and directly and eftectively penalized honesty, these mills announced that they would sell on the market. If they did sell .below Code prices, it would be in the open and they might have been punished under the penal provision of the Code. Was that course followed? No. Instead, there came, to the intense gratification no doubt of most of those who were selling below the Code, but I take it from what I hear, to the intense disgust of the most honorable opera- tors, this glorified and publicized attempt-the injunction against the Reed Mills-to serve the cause of justice by doing an injustice. Reed had been selling on the Code, with perhaps a few others, and thus limiting the amount by which the chisellers had to go below the Code prices; very well, let him continue to sell on the Code! Tie his hands and don't permit him to sell his lumber, so that the rest of us may the more advantageously violate the Code. The majesty of the law must be vindicated! And how much sweeter is the vindication when it becomes a shelter for the chiselters and those who from necessity must follow them below code prices. I say, shame upon those who would prostitute law enforcement machinery and personnel to such ignoble uses!

But it is said that to abandon minimum prices means that it will be impracticable to administer or enforce the remainder of the Code. This we vigorously deny. During the past several months when compliance with code prices has been more or less negligible there have been few instances of failure to comply with control of production or the labor provisions of the Code. Except in extreme instances, it is impossible for operators to chisel on production or on wages and hours without immediate detection, and we have not the excuse that it is impossible or even difficult to .enforce these provisions of the Code. We are in favor of continuing the administration by the industry itself of all portions of the Code except Article IX. To fail to do so would be a confession of the inability of the industry to cooperate in its responsibilities to labor and to the public, and in measures advantageous to itsetf.

If you will permit me I will review as rapidly as possible the major provisions of the Code other than Article IX.

The provisions of the Code relating to labor are those in Article V, VI and VII. Article V is nothing more than a prescribed incorporation into the Code of certain of the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. Article VI, as you know. relates to hours of labor, and Article VII to minimum wages. Obviously our industry cannot, any more than any other, avoid the impact of the general labor provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act. We could not even if we wished avoid the provisions expressed of Article V of our Code. Those provisions even with the abrogations of the Code as whole, would still exist as law applicable to this industry. When this is once understood, I think it is vain for us to talk of the possibility of abandoning those provisions in the Code which relate to maximum hours of tabor and minimum wages, Article V of the Code provides that "employers shall comply with the maximum hours of labor, minimum rates of pay and other conditions of employment approved or prescribed bf' the President."

and the National Industrial Recovery Act gives to ample power, if that there is no mutual agreement dustry, to prescribe hours, rates of pay and other employment.

the President within an inconditions of

I wish to go further, however, and discuss briefly the question as to whether the labor provisions in the Code should be voluntarity agreed to by the industry, whether they should be still accepted and administered by ourselves as provisions advantageous to the industry. All of these provisions, of course, have social as well as economic implications. While I cannot personally concur in all of the labor provisions of the Act as interpreted, I do think that all industry, including ours, had failed in its relations with its employees to effect that social justice which must necessarily be a condition of the perpetuation of an industrial system which recognizes the rights of capital as well as those of labor, I think that our failure in this respect grew more pronounced as we entered into the depression and increased as the eftects of the depression became more acute. It may be said that no one industry by itself, especially if its product was in competition with that of other industries, could have done much better by its labor than the lumber industry did. I will be frank to say, however, that as the combined effect of lack of demand and over capacity exerted its pressure and from necessity or otherwise we permitted prices to tumble, some members of the industry did take too much out of labor, To express this thought in a difierent way, I am afraid that when some of the industry members thought they could sell their bulging stocks only by cutting substantially under competitors' going prices, one of their first moves was to cut the rates of pay of their workmen and pass that cut over to their customers. This was not only wrong from the social standpoint but from the economic standpoint. I venture to say that there has been no factor so disturbing in price competition within our industry, and that nothing has contributed so much to cut-throat competition, as the fact that wages were not maintained at a fair level, and particularly the fact that there was no common rate of wages even within the regional divisions of the industry. If we are by cooperative eftort to save ourselves in the future, whether under a Code or without a Code, I should say that the most valuable element of any mutual agreement between lumbermen would be the maintenance of fair rates of wages at a uniform level within each of the various producing regions. And so without saying that we are in agreement with all of the labor provisions in our code, we do say that it is better for the industry not only from social but from the economic standpoint that there be a con-

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trol of maximum houis and minimum wages. Therefore on the mattbr of the labor provisions of our code we say by all means preserve them no matter what else you preserve.

Article VIII of our Code has to do with control of production. I need not recite the statistical facts whi,ch made it seem to the industry at the time of the adoption of the Code that control of production was necessary. The installed capacity in the tumber business was so entirely out of proportion to what might reasonably be predicted as a normal demond that it seemed imperative that we adopt measures that would tend to balance production with consumption; limit the baleful effects of the piling up of inventories which could be sold only at ruinous prices and thus make possible the maintenance of fair price levels. The proposed increases in hourly rates of wages taken in connection with the provisions as to maximum hours of labor made it certain that the costs of producing lumber in all regions would be radically advanced. Unquestionably the failure to maintain in the past a decent level of prices and the violent fluctuations which took place in those levels, were mainly due to overproduction. Aside from the fact that at the inception of the Code inventories were somewhat too high, control of production, if it had been administered in accordance with the dictates of the Code, would have been an almost perfect remedy for all of the evils which had prevented the maintenance of fair prices. If we had started with inventories which bore the proper relationship to- current use the proper application of the provisions of Article VIII would certainly have prevented any condition that would have made price dutting either necessary or attractive. What the industry itself has done in the administration of Article VIII is now a matter of history. We cannot go back and correct the past mistakes or the efiects of them. The fact of the matier is, however, that we did agree upon and were permitted a weapon, if it may be called that, which would substantially have cured most of the evils in our industry and permitted us to pay the increased wages upon which we agreed. That this weapon has not been properly used is not the fault of the NRA or of anyone but ourselves. Our motives in fixing production quotas larger, not only than what consumption turned out to be, but larger than any considered thought should have predicted them to be, were largely to give labor more hours of employment. That was a laudable motive, but we should have considered that failure to get the best results from Article VIII would, in the long run, be as bad for labor as for ourselves. While control of production of itself probably cannot, Ior the reason that we have permitted inventories to be unduly increased, be for several months wholly effective to accomplish the purposes fot which it was adopted, nevertheless to throw overboard control of production, and thus further aggravate inventory conditions which make the maintenance of a remunerative price so difficult, would in our judgment be a mistake

It is, however, our belief that neither wisdom nor necessity calls for a continuance of production control beyond the period of the present emergency. Furthermore, production control in order to be either fair or effective must be carefully administered, with due regard to the right of individuals to retain, generally speaking, that place in the industry which they demonstrated belongs to them.

Article X and the amendments to the Code which have been madb pursuant thereto should be retained permanently, The principles of forest management and conservation which are embodied in these amendments and the rules which have been drawn to carrv them out are not an undue burden upon the industry so tong ai they are enforced upon all alike. These principles and methodJ are those which many lumbermen would have liked to have put in force years ago. So great, however, has been the stress of com- stress petition, that it was wholly impracticable for individual operators to adopt these methods when their competitors did not. We think that the larse maioritv of the industrv not onlv recoqnize such that public responsibili large majority industry only recognize such ponsibilities as are involved. but are not averse to under- involved, undertaking reasonable measures which look to the perpetuation of their own industry.

The elimination of fixed minimum prices will make unnecessary and to some extent meaningless many of the present and proposed provisions of Schedule B. There are, however, portions of Schedule B and of the proposed amendments to it which are not concerned alone with price maintenance but which are valuable rules of fair practice. These should be retained.

What we desire to urge is the immediate elimination of fixed minimum prices, at least in the lumber divisions. We insist that this is necessary in the interest of fair play, fair competition, common honesty and moral integrity; that minimum prices are unworkable because of their basic economic unsoundness, because of the impossibility of stabilizing price relations between 'species and grades and still preserve the price fluidity which will permit free correlation with the ever changing current demand, and because of the impossibility of obtaining compliance through enforcement or otherwise; and more than all because we are sacrificing all that is good in our code, and all that is desirable in self government of our industry, by blindly striving to achieve that which economic laws and the character of our industry makes impossible of achievement.

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Years Ago Today

California Lumber Merchant, Octo6er 15, 1924

"Andy" Donovan will be chairman of the day at the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo meeting on October 17.

This issue carries a sketch with photographs of several of San Bernardino's retail lumber yards. *!F*

Allan Turner of San Francisco, Northern California representative for the Gerlinger Lumber Co. of Portland, has been appointed California sales representative for the Metropolitan Redwood Co. ***

William A. Peck, formerly Pacific Coast sales manager for the Haynes Automobile Corporation, has taken the position of general sales manager for Glasby & Company of Los Angeles. ***

Lumber imports to San Francisco showed a gain over August. Total imports for September including the interior, coast ports and Washington and Oregon, were 75,203,000 feet as compared with 67,367,000 feet for the month of August.

San Francisco building permits for the first six months of. 1924 totaled $26,157,670. Oakland's building construction for the same period amounted to $14,392,135; Berkeley $4,330,675 and, Alameda $1,717,462.

There is an article and photograph of the attractive booth of the Kerckhofi-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co. at the San Fernando Valley Fair. ***

W. J. (Bill) Lawrence, who has been Los Angeles manager of the Albion Lumber Company, has resigned and will go east to represent the California White & Sugar Pine Company.

Fresno Hoo-Hoo organized a Club on October 9. Martin D. Johnson is president of the Club. Frank Minard is the new Vicegerent Snark of the Fresno District.

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Jack Rea announces that the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo dinner dance will be held at the Vista Del Arrova Hotel. Pasadena, the evening of October 30. **:k

J. C. Ferger, president of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, has called a meeting for Saturday noon, October 18, at Fresno.

The Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. of Los Angeles has purchased the Escondido Lumber Co. at Escondido. ***

R. E. Seward, popular Los Angeles lumberman, was married to Miss Constance Mitchell of Seattle on September 17. The ceremony took place at the bride's home in

Seattle, after which they through the Northwest. spent their honeymoon touring ***

Walter P. Medill of San Francisco was married to Mildred L. Cutten of Oakdale, Calif., at San Francisco on October 1. Mr. Medill is sales manager for McKay & Co. *,F*

Joe Restine, new Vicegerent Snark of the San Diego District, is making plans for an active Hoo.Hoo year and has already completed the appointment of his Hoo-Hoo Nine. t*rf,

Hoo-Hoo Club No. 9 of San Francisco held their regular luncheon at the Palace Hotel. Rod Hendrickson, the newly elected president for the ensuing year, presided. ***

The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club held a golf tournament at the Rancho Club on October 10. Joe Chapman of the La Brea Materials Company was the low gross winner and gained permanent possession of the silver trophy donated by the Hipolito Company.

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Frank J. O'Connor was re-elected president of the Shipowners' Association at the Association's annual meeting held in San Francisco. L. C. Stewart was elected vice-1 president.

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Charlie Ward, who has followed the wholesale lumber business in the San Francisco Bay District during the past year, has joined the sales force of the Redwood Manufacturers Co. at Pittsburg, Calif. ,f**

The Cloverdale Lumber Co. has been sold to the A. F. Stevens Lumber Co. of Healdsburg. :ftrf,

In the leading editorial, "That Knew Not Joseph," Jack Dionne says: "I am indebted to that excellent writer of business philosophy, Bruce Barton, for this wonder little advertising thought. He used it one time in illustrating a talk on the necessity of keeping eternally at it in the business of publicity." r * )f,

A. B. Wastell, manager of the State Retail Association, states that a record attendance will be present at the annual convention to be held at Los Angeles on November 7th and 8th.

Heads Creo-Dipt Co.

The Creo-Dipt Company, Inc., of North Tonawanda, N. Y., has reorganized and H. P. Kendall, Jr., has resumed active management of the business as president and general manager. Mr. Kendall was one of the principals of the original Creo-Dipt business, almost from its inception, becoming president and general manager.

In 1927 Mr. Kendall disposed of his interest and resigned as president and general manager. During the past four yearsr he has been a general supervisor in the group insurance division of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, at their home office in New York City.

Associated with Mr. Kendall will be Fred Engelking, chairman of the board, Stephen R. Kiehel, vice president, and W. W. Faulkner, secretary and treasurer. , Headquarter offices will be maintained at North Tonawanda, N. Y., and plants will be operated in North Tonawanda, N. Y., Cleveland, Ohio, and Seattle, Wash.

E. L. Fifield

Eugene Langdon Fifield, well known Pacific Coast lumberman, died in San Francisco, October 8. Mr. Fifield was born at Lee, Maine, in 1872. His parents moved to Gold Run, Calif., when he was six months old and then to St. Helena, Calif., rvhere he passed his boyhood and school days.

He entered the lumber business in San Francisco in 1892 as, an employe of the late C. A. Hooper. going to San Pedro in 1896 to work for the San Pedro Lumber Co. In 1899 he went to Olympia, Wash., as manager of the West Side Lumber Co., three vears later becoming foreman of the Pacific Tank & Pipe Co. plant at Portland. In 1896 he became manager of the Pittock & Leadbetter mill at Vancouver, Wash., later starting his own wholesale lumber business at Portland. Ife came to San Francisco in 1915 where he maintained a wholesale lumber. door and veneer business.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ann Fifield, and four children, Eugene J., Harold, Ralph and Margaret Fifield; a sister, Mrs. Alice Howell, and his mother, Mrs. Ella Fifield, both of Los Angeles. Funeral services were held on October 11.

Will Open Los Anseles Office

The Silvercote Products Inc. of Chicago, I11., manufacturers of insulation products, is opening an office in Los Angeles with J. D. Dux as Pacific Coast manager. His territory will include the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. C. E. Steadman is president of the company, and Tom V. Sawyer, vice-president and sales manager.

CHANGE OF OFFICE

, Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co. and Schafer Bros. Steamship Lines announce the removal of their Los Angeles office to 1226 W. M. Garland Bldg., 117 West 9th street, effective October 15. Their new telephone number is TRinity 4271.

Blubber Bay Lime

Blubber Bay Lime, distributed by The Kingsley Company of California, Pier 17, San Francisco, is a wood burned product 'of exceptional purity, which is manufactured in several forms to meet the general and special requirements of building, agriculture and industry in California.

The principal forms in which it is made are lump quicklime, crushed quicklime, processed quicklime, builders and chemical hydrated lime, and agricultural lime.

Blubber Bay processed lime is their fresh white lime, pulverized and processed to uniform fineness. Packed in 9O-pound airtight iron drums and 6o-pound five-ply paper bags, it is suited to the needs and preferences of large and small users in building and industry.

For the building trade it slakes quickly, at uniform temperature, to a smooth plastic putty. All waste is eliminated and screening is optional.

For chemical and industrial use, the constant volume of this processed lime and the ease and accuracy with which quantities may be measured and formulae determined, make it particularly desirable.

All country. dealers will find Blubber Bay processed quicklime in 9O-pound drums a most convenient and desirable product for their trade.

It meets every requi.rement of lump lime-is a clean, air-tight "one man" package which can be easily carried in the customer's car. It will keep in good condition for an indefinite time and occupies a minimum of warehouse space.

The Kingsley company has warehouses at 96O Seventh street, (corner Berry) San Francisco, and at Grove Street Dock, Oakland.

H. L. Hunter is manager of the company, and R. M. James is the salesman who calls on the trade throughout Northern California.

BACK FROM EUROPEAN TRIP

William Smith, president of the Smith Lumber Company, San Francisco, returned recently from a threemonths' European trip, on which he was accompanied by his daughter. Mr. and Miss Smith visited England, Scotland and France, and saw many places of historic interest in each country. They made the return voyage through the Panama Canal.

Mr. Smith says a considerable measure of prosperity has returned to England, in spite of the fact that they still have a serious unemployment problem. The people seemed to be happy, and he found that railway holiday travel was heavy, indicating that many people had money to spend.

IJUMBERMEN ATTEND BASEBALL GAME

A group of lumbermen were the guests of Joe Means at a "Little World's Series" game at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, on Friday afternoon, October 5, when the Los Angeles team, winners of the Pacific Coast League baseball championship, played the Pacific Coast League AllStars. Before the game started everybody handed in their score of the game but there was su,ch a variance of scores, Joe says it will take at least a couple of weeks to figure out who won the contest.

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Lumbermen's Post Meets Home Modernization Active

Lumbermen's Post No. 403, American Legion, held their monthly meeting at the Rosslyn Hotel, Los Angeles, Tuesday evening, October 9. Commander Leo Hubbard presided. Nelson G. Welburn, assistant lecturer, Bureau of Public Relations, Emergency Relief Association State of California, was the principal speaker and gave an interesting and instructive talk on the activities o{ the SERA' Lumbermen's Post rvill hold another "Lumbermen's Frolic" on the evening of December 14. Stuart Smith, Coos Bay Lumber Company, has been appointed general chairman of the arrangements committee. Tickets will be $1.50 each.

The Post is taking a block of tickets for the St' Mary-U. C. L. A. football game that will be held at the Los Angeles coliseum on Armistice Day. Theodore Stearns, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co., Los Angeles, is chairman of the ticket committee. The St. Mary-U. C. L. A. game is an annual attraction and is sponsored by the American Legion posts in the Los Angeles district. Lumbermen who are planning on taking in this game can secure their tickets from the members of the Lttmbermen's Post. The tickets for the game are $1.65 each.

The Post is taking an active part in the campaign regarding Proposition No. 1, the $30,000,000 Bond Issue for Veterans' Ifomes, which will appear on the November ballot. It was voted to send telegrams to the California Retail Lumbermen's Association who were holding their'annual meeting at Fresno on October ll, 12 and 13, and to the Hardwood Wholesale Distributors who were also in annual session at Santa Catalina Island on the same dates, urging the passage of Proposition No. 1.

Six new members were admitted at the meeting. The next meeting will be held Tuesday evening, November 13.

In Long Beach

Home modernization was responsible for more than half the building permits issued at Long Beach during the month of September, according to city officials. Permits for September totaled $120,125, with $70,000 of that amount expended on dwelling modernization. Permits for the first nine months of the year total $1,596,790.

Committee Chairmen Named

The following have been chosen as chairman of the various committees for the coming year by East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39:

Public Affairs, Larue Woodson; Membership, Gordon D. Pierce; Finance, Earle E. Johnson; Attendance, Jas. B. Overcast; Entertainment, C. I. Gilbert; Reception, Bert E. Bryan; Fraternal, Chas. S. Lamb; Publicity, Clement Fraser; Sport, Henry M. Hink; Educational, Prof. Emanuel Fritz.

Dr. Compton Appointed Lecturer

Washington, Sept. 26.-The Washington Evening Star announced on September 9 that Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, had been appointed a special lecturer in economics at the George Washington University. The Star article further said that Dr. Compton would give a seminar on government control and industry planning which would deal with contemporary problems in the relationships between business and government. A number of government officials are atready registered for this unique course.

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