If business a rs slow, don't holler-hustle!

(Continued from page 5) the offices in the Lumbermen's building, San Francisco, will remain in charge of Jessie Eggleston, assistant secretaryEsnager.

Acloption of the constitution and election of officers at lhe afternoon session followed brief opening preliminaries in the morning and a few snappy talks by retailers from vqrious parts of the state.

By way of getting the boys better acquainted, President Conner introduced a song leader &s soon as he had fired the opening gun. This made everybody feel at home.

Ben Reed, well known San Francisco wholesaler, told of the hard ffght that still lies before the lumbermen to defeat the Housing biU with its vicious anti-shingle provisious. "Most of you fellows are too busy sawing wood to give attention to something that is eating at the very foundaiion of your business," he declared.

_ The only formal talk of the session was by Arthur Dunn, San Francisco attorney and counsel for many important industrial and merchandising assoiations. He gave i world of practical advice on what associations can and cannot do.

, "To most people," he said, "co-operation in a trade association is spelled P.R-I-C-E. As a matter of fact the price consideration should be the last consideration,,' and he went on to explain the provisions of the Cartwright act and other Oalifornia laws governing the operation of trade associations.

1'Of cours^e," he pointed out, "association membership is no eure-all for your economic and industrial ills. But too m-any folks look upon membership dues as a liability instead of an investment.