The California Lumber Merchant - November 1933

"Paul Bunyan's"

CALIFORNIA PINES

CALIFORNA WHITE PINE

Ponderosa Pine from certain localities

SUGAR PINE

The largest true white pine

I\ATURE put certain qualities into the cell growth of these giant soft pines that make ttrem particularly suited to the needs of the builder and manufacturer.

LIGHT WEIGHT-Lower handling costs.

SOFT UNIFORM TEXTURE-Easy to work by hand or machine. Cutting too'ls require lese sharpening and renewal. Cut cleanly to a smooth surface or sharp profile.

BRJGHT COLOR-Paints and enamels cover economically producing superior finishes with fewer coats.

FREEDOM FROM GRATN-RAISING-PainI and enamel finishes retain their original perfec. tion.

FREEDOM FROM DISTORTION-Minimum shrinking, swelling and warping. These pines are used for such exacting requirements as organ pipes, piano actions, foundry patterns, fine doors and panels solid or veneered.

NON-SPLITTING-NaiIs and screwE drive easily but hold strongly.

RED RIVER production (250,000,000 f eet, annual capacity) -assures a high stand' ard of ,narrufalture and seasoning. Variety of output provides attractive mixed car combinations, loaded at one ioint. Shippins facilities' on two transcontinental rail systems provide prompt deliveries.

"Ask the man who works in wood."

BUILDING AND INDUSTRIAL LUMBER, PLYWOOD, BOX SHOOK, MOULDINGS, CUT STOCKS, PATTERN LUMBER

M. ADAMS Circulation Manager

THE CALIFOR}.IIA LUMBERMERCHANT

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ANGELES, CAL., NOVEMBER I, I933

How Lumber Looks

Lumber production and orders received during the week ended October 14, lgtt, were slightly above those reported for the previous week and shipments were about the same, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association from the regional associations covering the operations of leading hardwood and softwood mills. The reports were made by lr2l7 American mills. In addition the Vest Coast Lumbermen's Association gave figures Iu 22 British Columbia mills.

Total production of reporting Amecican mills was 183'397rOOO feet; shipments 161,718,fi)0 feet; orders 166'190'000 feet. The Canadian mills reported ptoduction, l2r7o9r0o0 f.eetl shipments 9,6851000 feet; orders 11,535,000 feet

A total of 445 down and operating millg which reported to the Vest Coast LumbermentE Association fot the week ended October 2l produced 9313531000 feet. This was approximately the same as the preceding week.

New business reported to the Association by 134 mills fot the same week was 7211491271 teet against a ptoduction of 85r201r914 feet and shipmetrts of 8018641323 f.eet. Cunent sales were under production by 15.72/s, and shipmenta were under the cut by 5.O9Vo. The orders booked dudng the week by this group of mills were under the previous week by 1016o01000 feet, ot l2.E/s.

ATTEND CODE HEARINGS IN WASHINGTON

Frank J. Connolly, Western Hardwood Lumber Co.; C. M. Cooper, W. E. Cooper Lumber Company; Grover C. Gearhart, Hammond Lumber Company, and Henry W. Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, all of Los Angeles, have been attending the meetings of the Lumber Code Authority which ,convened in Washington, .D. C., on October 16.

LUMBERMAN HAS MINOR OPERATION

Ben Maisler, Maisler Bros. Lumber Co., Fresno, recently spent a few days in the Stanford Hospital, San Francisco, u'here he underwent a tonsil operation.

The Southern Pine Association for the week ended October 2l reported new business for 10O millg as 181731'000 feet; chipments 2lr911rfiX) feet; production 2trt09r000 feet" Orders were l9.64Vo below productio'n, and l4.1lqo below shipments. Shipfirents wete 6/s below production.

The Vestern Pine Association for the week teported new business for 139 mills as 31,E25r000 feet; shipments 3El60'000 feet; production 44g07r00/D fieet. Ordets were 2E per cent below production and 17 pet cent below shipments. Shipments were 14 per cent below production. **

553 hardwood mills give new business during the week ended October 14 aa 3116051000, or 4 per cent below production, and shipments wete 27r62Er000 feet, or 16 per cent below production. Production w* 32,837,O00 feet.

The California volume was light during t{re month of Octo$er, but some improvement in buying by the yards was reported during the last week of the month. Unsold stocl$ on the public docks at Los Angeles harbor totaled 524,ow feet o'n October 23. Catgo arrivals at Los Angeles harbor for the wee& ended October 21 amotrnted to 7r6f,4r000 feet which included 11 cargoes of Fir with 615831000 feet and 1 cargo of Redwood carrying lr021r0o0 feet. 52 vessels in the coastwise lumbet service were operating on October 18; 53 vesses were laid up.

FIRE DESTROYS LUMBER YARD

Fire of an undetermined origin destroyed the lumber yard of the Patten-Blinn Lumber Co. at 243 N. Garfield Ave., Alhambra, on the night of October 18. The loss is estimated at $25,000. As this is an excellent location and only a block from the business district, the company secure a desirable permit. For care of their business in this plans to rebuild if they can the present they are taking district from their yard at 2020 W. Main Street bra. Alham-

Lumber Code Authority Approves Minimum Cost Protection

Prices and Fair Trade Practice Rules

(Telegram to The California Lumber Mer'chant)

Washington, D. C., October 30.-Minimum cost prgtection prices and Rules of Fair Trade Practice approved by Lumber Code Authority. Prices of lumber not fixed but bottom level established with general average about the same as present wholesale prices. Forntula prescribes

method by which each branch of the industry. compu-tes delivered piices. Copy of prices now being printed efiejtive ten davi after publication. Schedule B, Fair Trade Practice Rules at to* in Code effective November 1. R"y Wiess will administer Schedule B.

Changes Company N.re Recommends Loan to Stimulate

The name of the West-King-Peterson Lumber Co., well known San Diego retail lumber 'concern, was recently changed and is now known as the Peterson Lumber & Finance Co.

The company desired a name that would be more fitting to cover the field of their business activities so decided to hold a contest which was open to residents of San Diego county. In addition to ,carrying ,complete lines of lumber and building materials, the company also assists in finan,cing the homebuilder. $100 in cash, divided as follows: first prize, $50; second prize, $25; third prize, $15 and fourth prize $10, together rvith 20 prizes consisting of merchandise running in value of from $1 to $5, were offered as prizes. One of the requirements of the ,contest was that each ,contestant who submitted a name had to accompany it with the name of a prospective homebuilder. Miss Amy Lyon sent in the winning name-The Peterson Lumber & Finance Co.-and was awarded the first prize of $50.

J. Harold Peterson, widely knorvn and progressive lumber merchant, is president of the company. Other officers of the ,company are: J. H. West, vice president, and H. E. Wyllie, secretary-treasurer. The above named, together with D. J. Peterson, J. Harold Peterson's father, who for many years was connected with the lumber business in Ohio with headquarters at Toledo, form the board of directors. The comp4ny's slogan is "The Materials Company That Helps Homebuilders."

CALIFORNIA

Wholesale Lumber Association

San Francirco Office: 260 California St.

F. J. O'Connor, Prcr. rnd Gca. Mgr. - Phonc GArficld 5815 Lor Angeler Oftce: Petroleunr Securitiec BIdg. Clint Laughlin, Dirtrict Manegcr MEMBERS Phonc PRorpect 2703

Home Building

With the idea of stimulating building activities, the Construction League of California, Southern Section, recently adopted the following resolution.

"WHEREAS, there exists the ownership in fee a tremendous number of unimproved residential lots upon which owners are desirous of immediately erecting homes for their own use, provided funds can be supplied at nominal interest rates under fairly long periods of amortization.

"NOW THEREF'ORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Construction League of California, Southern Section recommends that the Federal Government seriously consider the advancement of $4O0,000,m0, to be loaned to Building and Loan Associations and other proper corporations for the purpose of reloaning to individual home builders, in an amount not to exceed seventy-five per cent of the cost of the building, plus a reasonable appraised value of the site, such loans to be used exclusively for the cost of construction are to conform to the Federal Home Loan Act as to the maximum amount of the loan, rate of interest and the period of amortization.

"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be presented to the Board of Directors, State Chamber of Commerce, requesting their support; and also to Mr. Vorhees, President of the Construction League of the United States, and also to Mr. Kohn, Chairman of their Housing Division."

Commenting on the above resolution, A. W. Donovan of Los Angeles, Southern California representative for Hobbs, Wall & Co., states: "This approval seems to .me to be extremely sound economically and if monies could be made available in the immediate future, a tremendous volume of small home building would be stimulated. I think if some concerted action was taken by the industry, we might start the ball rolling."

Opens Offlce at Klamath Falls

A bran'ch office of the Western Pine Association has been opened at Klamath Falls, Ore., in the American National Bank Bldg. rvith H. E. Crarvford in charge. Mr. Crawford has been associated with the lumber industry in California for many years.

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V.gabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

The other night President Roosevelt went on the air to utter his tensely-expected dictum on inflation-or what have you. No printing of greenbacks for general distribution was announced. Rather a reduction of the gold content of the dollar was offered as an immediate program, with a "controlled" gold market.

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A well known authority has truly said that money is a difficult thing to understand. I know it is for me. Perhaps that's because I've never possessed enough of it to conduct extensive experirnents. I'll admit this money thing gets me almost as dizzy as reading the average NRA code and trying to figure how in ,Hades it can possibly work.

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So we will have no "fiat" money for the present; which makes me miss a guess, once more. I believed-and still do-that there never was a chance for NRA without some such huge relaxation of credit such as some generous type of infation alone could bring. I can't believe that the efforts at credit relaxation and increased purchasing power now being undertaken-or proposed-will furnish the customers for our goods of every sort from farm to factory products, who are now so conspicuously absent.

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I don't pose as an inflationist. I don't even pretend that f understand infation (which puts me in exactly the same class with most everyone else, including the wisehimers who say they DO). tsut I DO say that we have started something in this country that we have all been trying to help put over, that never had a chance from the beginning without some equally drastic infation of buying power. The increased buying power that comes from the number of people who have found jobs under the NRA, is not a drop in the bucket to what we MUST have, and have soon, to put over this national effort.

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I thought we would have to take down our money motto, "In God we trust," for a while, and substitute, "I hope that my Redeemer liveth."

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But Mr. Roosevelt says no. It has been most apparent from the beginning, I believe, that the President dreads genuine inflation, unless it be a very last resort. The man on the street believes that if things do not irnprove tremendously between now and January, Congress will take

the bull by the horns and begin printing and distributing greenbacks in carload lots. That looks like a safe prophecy right now. Everyone talks inflation. And Congress is going to respond to the popular clamor. *+*

As I say, everyone tries to figure out what infation means, and just how it would work to print a few billion dollars worth of money without any gold behind it. On every corner you hear the question asked: "What is the difference between a Government bond, and a Government greenback? Both have the guarantee of the United States Government, and that's all." Which, of course, isn't true. The Government sells those bonds, the money goes on the cash books, and is reflected as a cash off-set for the bonded indebtedness. We can't sell greenbacks for par. In order to get them in circulation they must be distributed much less conservatively than Government bonds. We would probably take these greenbacks and offer them at par in exchange for mortgages, bonds, and other frozen assets, that might, or might NOT, ever be paid. To do any good they would have to be forded into circulation in some much less formal rnanner than we distribute newly printed gold notes. ***

The past two weeks have been significant ones in the life of NRA. From discordant mutterings of weeks past, criticism of NRA has blossomed into big type broadcastings. Washington specialists who sell alleged inside facts to business men throughout the nation dropped all camouflage of late and bluntly declared NRA to be fast failing. Editorially various powerful financial journals pointed in the same direction. Great newspapers began declaring on front pages that NRA was doing more harm than good. And from the farm came a growing tide of complaint that sent our courageous President to the radio with another human, convincing, appealing, man-to-man talk that' won the continued confidence of millions. But what that talk did was convince us that our leadership is in good hands; NOT that the present plan is proving a huge success. ***

On Monday, October 23, President Roosevelt' made the rnomentous ahnouncement that exempted from the retailers' code of the NRA all communities of less than 2,500 people. When you stop to think that about 45 per cent of the population of this country live in comrnunities of less than that number, the irn-

portance of the exemption is understood. This exemption, apparently, does not apply to representatives of industries operating under a Presidential industrial code. But how easily the exemption might be used as a lever to disrupt the operations of even such business as that, is quite evident. That the employers of a lumber concern, or an oil company, operating under a national industrial code, must follow the code as to hours, wages, etc., while the other local merchants do NOT, is something to think about. As a lever of disruption, it appears ideal.

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But the exemption of almost half of our population from the provisions of the NRA furnish materials for almost limitless conjecture. General Johnson says it was done because the small town was so difficult to administer under the NRA. The roar of the farmer undoubtedly was the basic thing. They claimed everything THEy bought in their local towns had gone UP, but that what they had to sell had lost in exchange value.

Then came another important modification; one that shows the President has some advisers who tell him what the public really thinks and says. He wrote a letter to General Johnson on October 23, calling attention to the fact that the far-famed and fought Section 7 of the NRA does NOT "interfere with the bona fide exercise of the right of an employer to select, retain, or advance employees on the basis of individual merit." General Johnson allowed the automobile people to so declare in their code, but later stated that he did so in an unguarded moment, and would not do it again. The President now sets the matter

straight. And in so doing he silenced the grumbles of a great strata of our population.

It seems strange, indeed, to see industry engaged to the eyebrows all over the country trying to get their codes built, signed, and in effect, and at the same time witness the President and General Johnson both taking public cognizance of widespread criticism and dissatisfaction. One cornmentator speaks of the surprise the authorities at Washington felt at discovering that NRA is ,.unpopular,'. Wm. Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, points to the fact that between three and four million workers have had their buying power increased in the past sixty or ninety days. But there are forty million other workers in the country whose expenses have steadily advanced in that time, with no corresponding increase of income; and from this great body of people comes the vocal question mark. +*t<

A strange world, isn't it? fn Los Angeles, where HALF A MILLION PEOPLE ARE BEING FED AND CLOTHED BY CHARITY, nearly one hundred thousand people paid high prices for seats the other day to see a football game. That is true all over the country. These funny wrestling matches pack in their roaring crowds. So do the prize fights. Movie theaters are packed. And yet in every town there is a charity tist bigger than was ever dreamed of before. Think of a town like Houston, Texas, with 60,000 people living on charity. And a canvass of

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"Cullud Fu ntt - with its wealth of real negro humor, goes on and on . . . The orders still come in o . Every new book owner remembers Eome one else who loves a good darkey story-and so the story spreads

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MR. JACK DTONNE,

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driveaway theblues.

MEETS PALCO RED\(/OOD R@W

Sectional

Septic Ta nks

Max Cook engineered the septic tank for a hard iob. Long experience had taught him the specially selected grades of Redwood which are adaptable to underground use. The Palco Redwood Tank contains only these grades. Correct design is factory built-in.

Your ability to sell this highly serviceable tank so thorcughly pre-fabricated that an unskilled laborer can set it up in an hourts time is good nen's! LJse your demonstration model of the tank. It tells the story so simply anybody can understand it fully. Dealers rc' port the models are short-cuts to sales.

Sectional

Poultry F eeders

The Sectional Poultry Feeder, as well, is a highly en' gineered product of a modem factory. Existing designs were thrown into the melting pot and only the best salvaged. Recognized authorities were consulted. No compromise was tolerated until a feedet was created to satisfy the hen, the retailer and the buyer's purse.

Ag"ir use your demonstration model to show t'he prospect how six types can be made with standardized, interchangeable parts. The prospects particular needs can be constructed with the model. He SEES the whole story so clearly that there is no room left for doubt.

TANCE

PRE-FABRICATED PRODUCTS

Retail Acceptance

Already close to one hundred retail lumber merchants have been set up as distributors for Palco Redwood Pre-fabricated Products. Already the vision of larger gains thru greater service has come to them. It has been clear to prospective dealers that they and their problems have remained in the foreground while the Palco Redwood Pre-fabdcated Pr6ducts program t""" in the making. For years folks have been safng that things were wnong with retail lumber buying and selling. Pacific has dared to light a beacon. Yards up and dorvn the State are heralding it with enthusiasm.

Consumer Accepta nce

The consumer has been quick to place his con. fidence in the trade marked article. The accompanyrng Palco Redwood cross-banded pyramids are the symbol that identifies the organization back of the product. It is the makeds guarantee of satisfaction. ft assures selected materials. scientific engineering, standardized manufacturing-everything the prospective buyer wants to be sure about. Little wondet that such assurance coupled with easy-to-see utility of the finished product creates confidence. No pile of boards was ever half as convincing.

U. S. Government Accepts

Not only has the Sectional Septic Tank been built to California State Board of Health spaffications but to meet thos€ of the Federal Governnrent as well. The United States Forestry Service has, to date, placed orders for over 3O tanks for California alone. This is the last word in acceptance.

The Pacific Lumber Company

State Retailers Discuss Code in Annual

Convention

Code discussion and explanation of the provisions and rules of the various divisions of the Code by able speakers occupied the entire attention of the large attendance of retailers from all parts of the State at the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association held at the Hotel Whitcomb, San Francisco, on Thursday and Friday, October 26 and 27, 1933.

Harry A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co., Garden Grove, was re-elected president of the Association. E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn, was re-elected vicepresident for the Northern District; Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, was re-elected vice-president,

It was also decided to appoint a committee of two to arrange for incorporation of the State Association.

Decision was made that the Code Authoritv in each di-' vision will meet as soon as possible to elect a member to the National Code Authoritv.

A meeting of all the State secretaries was held on Thursday evening at 7 p.m.

Friday Morning

A joint breakfast meeting attended by the directors of the Association and the secretaries was held at 7:30 a.m. President Harry A. Lake presided. Those taking part in the discussion included Earl Johnson, Ira E. Brink, C. S.

Southern District, and Ross Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., North Hollywood, was re-elected treasurer.

The North.rr,

.natHiffJ'y;i$13,

executive committees held separate sessions on Thursday morning, presided over by E. T. Robie and Earl Johnson, vice-presidents.

Thursday Afternoon

Registration, which was in charge of Paul Overend, started at noon and continued throughout the afternoon.

Thursday Evening

,The State Board of Directors met at 7 p.m. President Harry A. Lake presided.

A resolution was passed by the board creating a Code Authority consisting of 19 members, one member from each of the 19 subdivisions, to administer the Code in Division 32 (Southern California), thus delegating the powers for administration of the Code conferred on the State Association by the National Code Authority.

A similar resolution was passed creating a Code Authority consisting of 21 members, three members from each of the seven subdivisions, to administer the Code in Division 2 (Northern California).

The resolutons provide that the Code Authority in each division is to organize soon as possible, electing a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer, and an executive committee. The executive committee in the Northern Division will consist of seven, and in the Southern Division of five members.

Incorporation of each subdivision was recommended in a resolution, which instructed the secretary to advise all subdivisions, and ordered the appointment of a committee to draft articles of incorporation.

Tripler, Chas. G. Bird, Jas. B. McKeon and E. Stefiensen, The regular business sessions began at 9:30 a.m. when the convention was called to order bv President Harrv A. Lake.

Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles, presided.

President Lake presented a brief report in which he announced that the Association has seven more members than they had a year ago, and that the financial condition is better than it was at the time of the last annual convention. The membership committee working in the south is making good progress, he said.

L. C. Stewart, vice president, Sudden & Christenson, San Francisco, was the first of an exceptionally competent g'roup of speakers who addressed the convention on the subject of the Code. Mr. Stewartts subject was "Manufacturers' Code-West Coast Division-Its Provisions and Operation as It Will Affect the California Retail Trade." He particularly discussed the effect on the retailer of the discontinuance under the code of transit shipments and consignments, orderly production and marketing by the manufacturer, and grade-marking (which goes into effect January 1, 1934). After reading the "Purposes of the Code" and discussing these he answered many questions. The questioners included Ira E. Brink, Diamond Match Co., Chico; Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield; B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; Mead Clark, Mead Clark Lumber Co., Santa Rosa, and M. A. Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco.

In reply to Mr. Harris' question about the practice of some mills selling direct to contractors through curb brok(Continued on Page 17)

H. A. Ldke Re-Elec t ed, P r e siilent

E. T. Robie Re-Elected Yice-President Northern District

Earl lohnson Re-Elected. Yice-Presiilent Southern District

Ross Blonchard Re-Elected Treasurer

Vagabond Editorials

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those 60,000 people developed the fact that more than 60 per cent of those dependent people ARE TOTALLY UNEMPLOYABLE. The same percentage will probably apply elsewhere. :t :k ,t

FIow can this be? Why, friends, we've been shaking the bushel of humanity now for four years, and we've finally shaken our population into two absolutely distinct classes; those who are still independent and traveling under their o\ rn power; and those who are frankly and openly on the charity lists. This shaking of the human bushel has sifted to the leffe;p-qrhich is the charity department-the aged, the infirm, the indigent, the cripple, the dependent of all sorts. Those who used to be supported by relatives; who used to shake cups on the corneis; who used to eke out an existence of some sort in some way; they are all on the charity lists now. And that huge percentage mentioned would not be benefited if we created millions more jobs. They are too old, too ill, too crippled, or for any number of reasons, unable to work. We've got that list on our hands for good. ***

The other forty per cent on that list, of course, awaits the day when they can again find useful employment. In that 40 per cent you will find humanity representing people of all walks of life. I have seen people ask for public charity in the past year who four years ago were as fine people as walked the earth. They have been forced through sheer desperation, and complete inability to find employment, to succor themselves, to put their names on the charity rolls. And to such people it is a heart-breaking, soul-tearing thing that has come to them. Such people will be off that list the minute it is possible. But the majority on our charity rolls today, are there a "J"t; *

Two years ago you couldn't walk a block on a business street of the average city without being solicited for alms by from one to five people, while today you can walk a mile on that same street and never see a single beggar. 'We've all noted that change with much satisfaction. The answer is that we used to slip them dimes on the street corners, while now we give them three squares a day on the charity rolls. They are all there.

'We're going into the winter tremendously better off than we did a year ago. It's the first time in four years that we are better ofr than we were the previous year. The

entire world is better-measurably and undoubtedly improved in condition from a year ago. The very fact that we no longer see the hand of beggary on every dorner, has greatly improved our morale. The fact that we are feeding them on the charity rolls doesn't depress us like it did when the streets were filled with vagrants. We've got to pay that bill some day, but we are not particularly worrying about it now. NRA has given us a lot to talk and think about besides the depression. It has done and will do a world of good. Where it doesn't work, it will be dropped, just as it was dropped this week in the rural districts. Where it is useful and helpful it will be used. We are slowly but surely climbing the hill. This will be a much better winter than last. No one need go hungry.

I can't bring myself to agree that our only hope to put people back to work in this country is by further reducing working hours and raising wages. I don't believe we have so reversed all our sound economics that men shall get a premium for the work they DON'T do. I believe that when this is over we will still have provable confidence in the good old adages of our fathers; that "early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"; that "honesty is the best policy"; that "the eady bird catches the worm"; that thrift and frugality, and application are cardinal virtues and the basis of success; that "by the sweat of thy brow shalt thou live"; and various others of like sort will still hold water.

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Japan has a grand old man named Korekiyo Takahashi, Minister of Finance. He has been watching our recent efforts with keen interest. He is quoted as saying "Vfhat' all nations need now is MORE uiork, not LESS work." And deep down in my heart a wee small voice steals the time-emblazoned words of the wife of the Mayor of New York to the Queen of Belgium, and says-"Takahashi, you said a mouth full."

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Looks like we're going to recognize Russia. Too bad. I wouldn't recognize the Communist Government in an alley. It is no more fit to be on calling terms with us, than Hell's fit for a powder house. The papers say that Russia is going to ask Mr. Roosevelt this question: "In case of war between Japan and Russia, what would you do?" I'll tell you the answer to that, Franklin. Just say, "We'd encourage it."

MY FAVORITE

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STORIES

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This Story is Fishtins Talk in Ensland

The traveling circus going overland from city to city in Scotland, lost a huge ape through disease. The carcass of the great, brown-haired beast was thrown alongside the road in a wooded district, and left there.

Along came two sharp-tongued Scots, McTavish and McPherson, saw the beast, and stopped to examine it most

Plywood and Veneers Included

curiously. Said McTavish: "He's nae a MacPhairson fer th' MacPhairsons hae red hair." McPherson replied: "An' he's nae a MacTavish, fer th' MacTavishes are black as coal."

There was silence, then one of them said: "I'll tell ye. Let's gae up tae th' big hoose on th' hill an' ask th' rich MacGregor if his English butler's missin'."

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Pregident of

in Lumber Code Mining Company in Philippines

Washington, D. C., Oct. 7.-President Roosevelt today approved two amendments to the lumber code, thereby bringing the many concerns engaged in the manufacture, importation and distribution of plywood and commercial veneers under the provisions of the code.

Wages and hours are the same as for the face veneer manufacturers, already under code jurisdiction. Employees are limited to a maximum of forty hours per week, and wage scales run from a minimum of 23 cents per hour in the South to 4212 cents per hour in northern congested areas.

A nelv division, called the "Veneer and Plywood Division," is created under the Lumber Code Authority, taking the place of the present veneer division, which becomes the Face Veneer Subdivision of the new group, and which will continue under the administration of The Veneer Association, 616 South Michigan Ave., Chicago. The Plywood and Veneer Association, 176 West Adams St., Chicago, has been named to administer the code for the plywood subdivision, while the administrative agency for the Commercial veneer subdivision will be appointed by a committee to be named later. The three subdivisions are to name a co-ordinating committee, which will be designated as the administrative agency of the Lumber Code Authority for the entire division.

H. J. Ford Appointed Secreta ry oj San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club

H. J. Ford, who has been in the insurance business in Fresno for the last two years, and for eight years prior to that was associated with the Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Pinedale, has suc'ceeded Forrest K. Peil as secretary of the San J,oaquin Lumbermen's Club, with headquarters in Fresno.

The friends of B. W. Cadwallader, formerly well known Philippine mahogany manufacturer, will be interested to know that he is back in the Philippines in the mining business. He is President of The Florannie Mining Company, in Manila, and is engaged in mining Chromite ore for export to the United States. His company have extensive holdings of this ore a few miles from Sabanag. The ore is shipped to the U. S. for refinement. From this ore Chromium Steel is made, and newspapers in the Islands predict a great future for the mines being developed by Mr. Cadwallader.

He founded the Cadwallader-Gibson Company in the Philippines 34 years ago, and was for thirty years engaged in the business of manu{acturing Philippine hardrvoods.

Annual Golf Tournament Nov. 15

The monthly golf tournament of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club was held at the Hacienda Country Club, Whittier, on Wednesday afternoon, October 18, with a large attendance. C. C. Barr, Barr Lumber Co., Whittier, had the low net score, winning a leg on the "Blue Diamond" cup. C. C. Barr also tied with Ross Hostettler of the Costa Mesa Lumber Co., Costa Mesa, for low gross. Ross Hostettler was the winner of the Blind Bogey.

The annual golf tournament and final play for the "Blue Diamond" cup will be held at the Santa Ana Country Club on Wednesday afternoon, November 15. All lumbermen are invited.

Joins Hammond Sales Force

Forrest K. Peil, formerly secretary of the San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club, is now a member of the sales staff of the Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, covering the East Bay and Coast Counties territories.

S toe k up FOR TIIE RAINY DAYS

The rainy season will awaken thousands of home owners to the need for re-roofing . the Flintkote Time Payment PIan will turn these prospects into sales.

Re-roofing sales on the Fintkote ttRe-roof Now and Pay Latei' Plan, bring big profits to the t'live wire" dealer at the time of 'year when he needs them most.

For minor repairs, be srre your stock is complete with Flintkote Reroofings: Flintkote Asphalt Shingles, Flintkote Static Roof Coatirg, Flintkote Plastic Cement, and Flintkote Arphalt Saturated Fabric.

Flintkote has the right product for every roofing problem.

BT]|Ill|D TlJTRY RAI

T]lTR['$

E ROM every indication, this fall and I winter will be an extra heavy buying Eeason for roofiog products. Owners of homes and commereial buildings have neglected their roofg through three successive years. When heavy rains begin, troubles will start.

There will be a host of leaks, cracks, gaping seams in roofs, skylights, gutters and many other roof troubles. Be sure your stock of Pioneer Roofings,

CTOUD

Pioneer Static Roof Coating Pioneer Plastic Cement and Pioneer Asphalt Saturated Fabric is ready for the hundreds of repair jobs that will develop oy€r-night.

For the homes that need new roofg...and there will be many this yean..be prepared with a

stoek of Pioneer Asphalt Shingles to meet the demand for the different stiles and eolors that home owners will order to apply right over the old wood shingles.

NB OODIPANY

Angeles, Calif.

LAfayette 2111

621 Northcrn Lifc Torcr

SEATTuS, \TASHTNGTON

"The City of Neglected Roofs"

By Jack Dionne

The Pioneer Paper Company is well named.

For truly it has been, and continues to be, a pioneeras well as a forceful specialist-in the propagation, de-. velopment, and successful implanting of business-getting, money-making merchandising plans and campaigns by, through, and for the retail lumber dealer who is live enough and on the job enough to grab them and put them to work.

Ever since I have been associated with the lumber industry of California I have watched with interest and viewed with admiration the procession-like merchandising efforts of this great concern. They find a thought or a thing, they develop it, they work it over, they get it hot for handling, they put it on the market, they put all their punch and enthusiasm behind it, and send it on its business-getting way. And the minute it starts to get cold, or to have traveled its first course and is losing its novelty -Bang ! Here comes another, new, different, attractive, workable, well oiled and greased and ripe for operation.

The procession never ceases. Their dealers do not have to stock a commodity and then settle down to trying to sell the same thing in the same way, forever. There's a new one coming up all the time. And they're all good. They haven't pulled a "dud" yet. Each successive product, or service, or combination of both, is something that the live merchant can go out and offer his trade with enthusiasm, and with sound hope of good profit on his investment and on his effort.

The pages of The California Lumber Merchant down through the years reflect this series of intelligent processional efforts to keep their business alive through constant variety of products and merchandising plans.

Right now they are ofiering the live dealer an active partnership with them in an effort to bring in the building dollar, put men to work, make a profit for the dealer, and create business for Pioneer products, by a campaign toright now before winter sets in-give specialized attention to the tens of thousands of neglected roofs throughout the state of California. Everyone knows that for the past six years there has been a dearth of building, and likewise a distinct falling off in the actual upkeep of homes and other buildings. People have put off and put off the re-roofing of homes, and the repairing of leaky and defective roofs. And so with every season that passes the list of necessities grows.

"The City of Neglected Roofs," is what the Pioneer ads call the territory surrounding every lumber dealer. They point out the fact that hundreds of roofs in every direction from every lumber yard, need attention. There is opportunity to repair, and to re-roof. Both can be done with profit to the dealer. And in creating work of this kind he is helping the entire situation by creating jobs for needy men.

The Pioneer plan for re-roofing homes has never been equalled by any m,erchant. Sold strictly through and by the lumber dealer, they offer to re-roof the homes of worthy people for the smallest down payment ever offered, and a modest interest, without brokerage or anything of the sort, for carrying the paper.

There is another great dealer angle to this plan. It puts the lumber dealer in the saddle, and gives him control of the re-roofing business in his territory. The roofing contractors work for him. He sells the new roof, gives the rogfing contractor the job at an agreed price for application, and pays the contractor himself. For it is through the dealer that this line of credit is to be had, and the roofing contractor only gets the opportunity. of working on these credit-built roofs by working under the dealer.

The dealer sells a re-roofing job. He hires the contractor to apply it. He puts the particular risk up to Pioneer, who investigate, and if the owner is a good man with a decent record, Pioneer O.K.'s the deal and agrees to take the paper. The dealer arrang'es the terms. He can take as low as l0 per cent cash on a good risk. Pioneer takes the paper, payable in twelve months, and gives the dealer a check. It is cash business for the dealer. It is cash business for the roofing contractor. And it is fine business for the home owner who gets a splendid roof in a way he can pay for. Of the thousands of these deals Pioneer has made, their loss is so small as to be negligible. They get their money.

They have many dealers who devote much of their time to digging up such business as this for themselves and for Pioneer, having found it the finest sort of cash business, and something that brings them in the long run a better return on their effort and investment than anything else they sell. Every good dealer can make such arrangements with Pioneer, and through this arrangement go to selling people that could not possibly be sold under normal arrangements.

Right now Pioneer is making a strictly REPAIR drive for roofs through the dealer, offering a remarkable new coating product for roofs, and a red-hot sales campaign all ready for the effort. Pioneer Static Coating they believe to be the most remarkable and practical roof. coating ever made. They ofier the dealer a complete campaign telling and showing them just horv to proceed. There is attractive and punchful literature to show the prospect, there is literature showing how to use the Coating, there are window displays, display racks for the office, samples, etc.

Pioneer says to the dealer who is doing too little new building fssi11s5s-"Why wait for new buildings? Your town is full of old buildings that rvill make you money. Ask us, and we'll tell you how."

Just another of the Pioneer procession of products that produce profits--for the dealer.

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ers, Mr. Stewart said the large majority of mills don't countenance such practice, and pointed out that by organ- ization the retailers can control this situation. In the course of his comment Mr. Harris urged the importance of the retail lumber industry working on the proltlems of credit and unfair practices.

H. W. Cole, vice-president Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, president of the California Redwood Association, spoke on "Provisions and Operation of the Manufacturers' Code, Redwood Division. as It Will Affect the California Retail Trade."

Mr. Cole, rvho is also Executive Officer of the Redr,vood Division of the Lumber Code Authority, and spent two months in Washington when the National Code was being formulated, took time to commend the work of Al Hager, prominent Eastern retailer, on the Nrational Retail Code. He referred to the harmonious relations prevailing between the manufacturers of Redwood and the CaliforniJ retailers, and outlined the important provisions covered by the Sup- plementary Redwood Code. He discussed the increased cost of producing Redwood under the Code, which may be anywhere from six to twelve dollars per thousand, terms of sale, fixed price, the prohibition of blanket orders, transit rail or_ cargo shipments, grade marking, etc. Following his talk Mr. Cole answered a lot of questions. Some of these were: Why are industrial buyers favored over retail buyers? How does the'Code define a wholesaler, and a commission man? Can tvholesalers or sawmills sell to contractors ? How about price to wholesaler rvith retail yards ?

&tr.*tBinn$m"[nreo.

Mr. Cole said the contractors were well represented at Washington and made a good plea for their right to buy direct. The paragraph prohibiting this was deleted but may be restored to the Code. In answer to other questions he said that sub-standard lumber must be marked substandard; that the wholesaler must sell his retail yards at the same price as to other retailers; that small sawmills selling retail trade only can give commissions up to 10 per cent.

Questioners included Frank L. Fox, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co., Glendale; Kenneth Smith, Los Angeles; Mead Clark, Santa Rosa; E. T. Robie, Auburn; C. S. Tripler, Stockton; Paul Hallingby, Los Angeles, and Earl D. Minton, Minton Lumber Co., Mountain View.

Arthur W. Bernhauer, president Tri-State Woodwork Association, Fresno, spoke on "Manufacturers' National Code-Millwork Division-as It Will Affect the California Retail Trade." Mr. Bernhauer spoke at short notice in place of L. G. Sterett, secretary of the Association, who has been in Washington for the past five weeks. He explained the three divisions of the Association, which is charged with the responsibility of administering the Code, and which is really the old Millwork Institute, embracing larger territory. The speaker told the retailers some of the difficulties of interpreting the Millwork Code. Lumber yards manufacturing woodwork come under the Millwork Code, he said, and yards buying millwork and reselling it

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"Red"Wood Says.'

"I certainly enjoyed seeing you at the convention and hope you had as good a time as I did!

"Don't forget that tNoyo' brand is all you have to say to get dependable grades and unequalled service."

WHO KNOWS THE FARM?

Who knows the farm

But he who, wandering there, On windswept hills, brown and bare, And drinking deep of early morn, Sees the loveliness of corn; Only he, calm and strong, And loving all surrounding him, Knows song of birds, knows twilight dim' Setting sun and rippling wheat; Knows the occasional plaintive bleat Of sheep passing down the lanes, Knows and loves the summer rains And lifting scent of fresh-tilled soil. He who knows the joy of the farrner's toil Through winter storm and summer calm, He, and he only, knows the farm.

-Russell Stark.

NOT THAT

Landlady: "So that new boarder has found something fresh to complain about this morning?"

Waitress: "No, ma'am, it's the eggs."

TOO TRUE

We all admire the man who knows. But we hate the man who knows he knows.-Exchange.

DIFFERENT

"What does it cost to have your car overhauled?"

"You mean by a mechanic, or a motor cop?"

INGENUITY

A New York retailer takes the prize for cheap advertising that brought 'em in. He put a large fish bowl full of water in his front window with a big sign that read "Invisible gold fish from the Argentine." The sidewalks were packed by the curious throngs, trying to see the fish.

MY LIFE

My life is a wayside flower, A coqnmon, uncoveted one, But its roots grow glad for the shower, And its heart turns gold in the sun. And never in vain, oh never ! Has it held out the empty cup, But that God in some way, and ever, With something has filled it up.

-J. P. Sjolander.

ATAXIA

"Yes sir. He's in a very bad way, poor man. We was working on the railroad line the other day and a locomotive came along and cut his legs off. It's what the doctors call locomotive attacks you, I believe."

SILENCE

When trouble is brewing, keep still. When slander is getting on its legs, keep still. Silence is the most massive thing conceivable, sosnetimes. There is strength ih its very grandeur. Imprudent speech has done more harm than gun powder.-"Spokes," Portland, Oregon.

THE LAND

Man is a land animal. A land animal cannot live without land. All that man produces comes from the land; all productive labor, in the final analysis, consists in working up land, or materials drawn from land, into such forms as fit them for the satisfaction of human wants and desires. Man's very body is drawn from the land. Children of the soil, we come frorn the land, and to the land we must return.

Take away from man all that belongs to the land, and what have you but a disembodied spirit? Therefore, he who holds the land on which and from which another man must live is that man's master; and the rnan is his slave. The man who holds the land on which I must live can command me to life or to death just as absolutely as though I were his chattel.

-Henry George.

East B.y Hoo Hoo Meet Nov. 13 Coos B.y Lumba Co. lssues Publk

H. J. Brunnier, engineer of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, will address East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, on Monday evening, November 13. His subject will be "Prosperity Via the San Fran'cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge." He will particularly deal with the manner in which lumbermen of the Bay district will benefit by the constru,ction of the bridge.

Dinner will be served at 6:09 p.m. at the usual price of 85 cents plus tax.

Makes New Connection

C. G. "Jeff" Corkran, well kn,own lumber salesman, is now representing MacDonald & Harrington, San Francisco, in the Sacramento Valley district with headquarters in Sacramento.

This firm recently installed teletype instruments, establishing direct connection with their Portland office and all other offices having teletype equipment.

Receive Many Congratulations

Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. Bowe are the recipients of many congratulations from their friends on the arrival of a baby boy, James Faulkner Bowe, born at Los Angeles on October 8. Mr. Bowe represents the Reilly Tar & Chemical Corp. in the Los Angeles territory.

HOLE SALE

W. R. CHAMBERI.IN & C(l.

Califomia Saleg Agcntr for

Pohon Lumber & Shinglc Co.

Hoquien, Verh.

Andenon a Middl*on Lumbcr Co.

Aberdcco, V{h.

Prcuty Lumbcr & Bor Compeny

Varrenton, Omgoa

Operrffng Steamcn lV. R. Chrnbcdin, Ja Criclet

Strnrood - Brrben C. Pbyllit

Statement Condemning Enforced Unemployment of 7OO MenEmployes Wirc Washington

The Coos Bay Lumber Company, of Marshfield, Oregon, have been vigorous protestants against any regulations of the lumber code that curtails employment. On October 21, they issued a public statement, of whioh the following is a part:

"Of course we greatly regret having been forced to discharge nearly 700 of our workmen on October 18th be,cause of the restrictions imposed upon us by the NRA lumber code.

"We have consistently opposed the provision of the lumber code allowing restri.ction of production. We have insisted all along that it can but create unemployment. Everybody now knows that it does. We have therefore refused to share any part of the responsibility for denying men the right to earn a living.

"Self presbrvation is the first law of nature. That law .cannot be repealed by mere men, even though temporarily clothed with governmental authority. Any authority that attempts to prevent American citizens from working in support of themselves and their dependents when they have the opportunity to do so, will fail."

The 4L Lumber News publishes the gist of a telegram employes of the Coos Bay Lumber Company sent to Washington, protesting against their employer being forced to lay them oft against his will, and asking what provision is being made to care for these seven hundred men and their families thrown out of employment at the beginning of winter.

The Company claims it could have secured foreign orders sufficient to have kept its mill going and its men employed.

Lopes Radio Football Chart

Manuel S. Lopes, Jr., of Los Angeles, in charge of California sales for the Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills Box Department has invented a radio football chart which enables radio listeners to follow the game play by play. The chart is speedy, efficient and easy to operate. The chart has a diagram of the playing field and by means of the indicators it is easy to follow the progress of the game. On the reverse side of the chart is a complete football schedule of the Pacific Coast football games to be played this season. The chart is now available in many stores throughout the state.

LOS ANGELES HEAD OFFICE

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BACK FROM EASTERN TRIP

George W. Gorman, sales manager Hammond Lumber Co., San Francisco, returned to his desk October 23 from a five weeks' business trip to Chicago, New York and other Eastern cities.

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will in his opinion have to maintain the price set by the Millwork Code.

In conclusion hd said they must cooperate .and forget selfish interests to make the Code operate, and expressed the belief that lumber dealers and millwork m'en by working together can do a lot to put the industry back on a sound foundation. He pledged himself to work wholeheartedly with the lumber dealers in solving the problems they must face together.

J. G. Kennedy, vice-president Pacific Manufactu-ri"g 90.' Santa Clara, who recently spent four weeks in Washington on Code work, in a brief talk said he believed the lum-

are just the same as before the Code was signed. He characterized the Code as a challenge to retail lumbermen to merchandise lumber and building materials. The great merit of the Code is that it provides rules that tie the hands of the chiseler, and by which the vicious violation of the Code can be stopped.

He sounded an optimistic note at the end of his talk when he said "I believe we are on the way out of the depression. Business is now 30 per cent above the low p-oint, not only in this country but in many other countries."

Questions of all kinds were asked, and answered in rapid-fire succession by Mr. Smith. These included re-

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ber dealers and millwork work in perfect harmony. tails be overlooked until out.

men are ready to go ahead and He suggested that minor dethe major problems are ironed

Frank O'Connor, president California Wholesale Lumber Association, addrlssed the convention on the proposed Wholesalers' Code, explaining its provisions and rules and how these will afiect the California retail lumber trade' The Code, he said, was submitted at the request of-the West Coast Logging and Lumber Division. Mr. O'Connor concluded by saying that the wholesalers are willing and eager to work irarmoniously with the retailers. He then aniwered a number of questions.

M. A. Harris, San Francisco, expressed appreciation of Mr. O'Connor's assurance that the wholesalers want to cooperate fully with the retailers. He said he believes the time is here when they must sit down and talk over their common problems.

Dr. Tully C. Knoles, president of the College of -the Pacific, Stockton, was the speaker at the luncheon- His topic was "Value of the Dollar". The luncheon was well atiended. Chas. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co', Stockton,

presided.

Friday Afternoon

"The National Retail Lumbermen's Code-Its Provisions and Operation as It Will Affect the California Retail Trade"-was the subject assigned to Kenneth Smith, secretary-manager, Lumber and Allied Products Institute; Los Anieles. Recognizing the importance of this address a full- hour was allowed for it on the program. Mr. Smith rexplained in detail how the code operates and its many inrovisions. He said that many are inclined to expect too much from the Code, but pointed out the fundamentals

quests for information on wages and hours of various classes of employees, status of wrecking yards, joint dealers in lumber-and other building materials, grade marking, penalties for violations, etc.

- Among the questioners were the following: Cha_sr Qralrison. Two Rock Commercial Co., Two Rock; W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co., Stockton; Roy H. Myers,- Peoples Lumber Co., Ventura; J. E. Suverkrup, JoLn Suverkrup Lumber Co., San Bernar{lll_iJ"-tt Tully' General Supply Co., North Sacramento; William Chatham, Loop Lumber- Co., San Francisco; Tom T. Branson, Melrose'Lumber & Supply Co., Oakland; Clem Fraser, [-oop Lumber & Mill Co., Aiameda; H. F. Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., San Francisco; Earl D. Minton, Mountain View; Ira E. Brink, Chico; E. S' McBride, Davis Lgmber Co., Davis; Chas. G. Bird, Stockton; Paul Hallingby' Los Angeles..Dee

Essley, manager of the State Association, was the next speaker. His subject was "The State Code-Its Provisioni and Operations-What Does It Give Us and What Does It Take Away?" Mr. Essley announced that an effort has been made to have the State Code made a Supplemental Code to the National Code, and read a letter requesting that this be done written by George Creel, Administrator, District Recovery Administration, San Francisco, to Donald Renshaw, Liiison Officer, Bureau of District Offices, and N.R.A., Washington, D. C. Following this he read and explained some of the most important provisions of the Stite Code, and read the resolutions passed by the directors creating a Code of Authority in both Northern and Southern California, wliose members are to be selected by dealers in each division.

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Dee Essley

Kenneth Smith

Paur orerenir A' v' Bernhauer

Frank I. O'Connor

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"IIome Financing',' was discussed by T. H. Kewin, United Lumber Yards, Inc., Modesto, who emphasized the need of cheaper money for home building, advised the organization of Federal Home Loan mortgage companies, 'and rapped the high cost of State and County government.

At the request of President Lake the entire gathering stood for a few moments as a mark of esteem for George Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co., Tulare, who has been ill for several months. The secretary was instructed to send ,flowers and a resolution of sympathy to Mr. Burnett. I Paul Overend, who for a number of years acted as field

Co., and Northwestern Mutual Fire Association; Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland; Paraffine Companies, Inc.; Ceitain-teed Co., and Johns-Manville.

The annual or"no.ll"u?il.ti:r1'lt:tion was held at 6:p p.m. Matt Harris was toastmaster, and all of the big crowd that was present can testify that he did an excellerit job.

Jack Dionne, publisher of The California Lumber Merchant, who was the speaker of the ,evening, enhanced his national reputation as an ace story-teller. He was alter-

ELECTED DIRECTORS

man for the Association, spoke on "Group Compensation .Insurance." Mr. Overend said that the group compensation policy written for the California Retail Lumbermen's Association through the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co., had returned in dividends in three years approximately 69 per cent, or 23 per cent a year. This insurance is available to all retail yards in California. The initiative was originally taken by the State Association so that all might benefit, he explained.

The election of directors resulted as follows: San Fernando Valley District, Ross Blanchard, Blanchard Lumber Co., North Hollywood; Oakland District, B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co., Oakland; Santa Barbara District, Francis Boyd, Boyd Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara; Los Angeles District, Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber .Co., Los Angeles; San Francisco District, M. A. Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco; San Diego District, Glenn Miner, Whiting-Mead Co., San Diego; Orange County District, C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier. Lumber Co., Whittier; Sacramento District, J. H. Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; Central Valley District, Warren Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co., ,Modesto. These nine directors are elected for three years. The full board consists of 27 directors.

" Frank G. Duttle, Sterling Lumber Co., Oakland, and tra E. Brink, Diamond Match Co., Chico, were elected di'rectors-at-large for Northern Califorhia, and Roy L. San.defur, Dill Lumber Co., Riverside, was elected directoriatJarge for Southern California.

Exhibits

. A number of exhibits installed in the.,convention room in tho Ro'df Garden of the hotel attractgd the attention of thb dealers. Firms exhibiting were: Union Lumber Co., San Francisco; Elliott Bay Safus Co., O4kland; Loop Lumbet & Min Cb.; Alamedii Lumbermenrs Mutual 'Casualtv

nately humorous and serious, and ended on a serious note.

Mr. Dionne said: "This nation will never prosper until the building industry recovers. The Government is now trying to put people tiack to work with a $3,30O,000,000 Public Works program, which offers money for public works at 4 per cent interest for 3O years. If they will offer money, not for 30 years, but for 15 years, at 4 per cent for home building, the depression will end quickly. For millions of citizens will take advantage of the cheap mor€/r and it will take millions of men to build the homes."

New Board Meets

Following the banquet the new State Board of Directors held their meeting instead of waiting until Saturda/ morning as has been customary in tf;e pas!. There was an attendance of 19 out of the total board membership of 21.

In accordance with a recommendation by a committee hepded by E. T. Robie, President Lake appointed a Policy and Finance Committee consisting of F. Dean Prescott, Ray Clotfelter, Paul Hallingby, Earl Johnson and the president, whose functions win be to readjust the financiil program of the Association after Jaguary I, 1934, and t9 recommend to the State board from time to time the polic| to be pursued in view of the changing conditions brought about by Code operation in the building industry.

Registration

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

Geo. K. Adams. N,oah Adams Lumber Co. ..Walnut Grove

Noah Adams. Noah Adams Lumber Co. .. .Oakland

Wm. L. Aisthorpe, Aisthorpe T. umber Co. ....Chico

W. H. Anderson, Brentwood Lumber Co. Brentwood

O. H. Barr, Barr Lumber Co. . Santa Ana

R. C. Barr, Lumbermen's Mutual Cas. Co...San Francisc,g

Chas. G. Bird, Stpckton Lumber Co. . . Stocktoh

M. D. Bishop, Coast Counties Lumbermen's cldb

Francis Boyd,

Iru E. Brink

t. H. Shepard'

C. V. Pinkerton

Paul Hallingby

W. T. Black, The California Lumber Merchant .... San Francisco

B. J. Boorman, Boorman Lumber Co. . ..Oakland

Berton Boyle, Cross Lumber Co. Coalinga

Tom T. Branson, Melrose Lumber Co. Oakland

Ira E. Brink, The Diamond Match Co. . . Chico

Roy E. Burnett, Tracy Lumber Co. ......Tracy

Roscoe L. Burns, Fox-Woodsom Lumber Co.. Glendale

R. J. Bryson, Hammond Lumber Co. ....San Francisco

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

O. W. Carr, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co. Exeter

O. H. Carter, Palo Alto Lumber & Roofing Co.. Palo Alto

W. M. Casey, Redwood Manufacturers Co. Pittsburg

Fred Chapin, Chapin Lumber Co. San Bernardino

Mrs. Fred Chapin ....San Bernardino

C. H. Chapman, C. H. Chapman Lumber Co. Santa Ana

William Chatham, Loop Lumber Co. San Francisco

Isador Cheim, Union Lumber Co. ............Marysville

C. P. Christenson, Linden Lumber Co. . Linden

Mead Clark, Mead Clark Lumber Co. Santa Rosa

Ray Clotfelter, 'W. R. Spalding Lumber Co.. Visalia

H. M. Cochrane, Cochrane Lumber Co. . Petaluma

C. E. Colburn, IJnion Supply Co.. . Monterey

E. D. Connolly, Spring Valley Lumber Co.. San Francisco

John Creath, Central Coast Lumber Co.........Morro Bay

H. M. Derr, Derr Lumber Co. Elk Grove

F. L. Dettmann, Allen & Dettmann LumberCo... ..SanFrancisco

H.J.DeVries... .SanFrancisco

Jack Dionne, California Lumber Merchant...Los Angeles

Destruel Elie, Mead Clark Lumber Co. Santa Rosa

Elmer Ellis, Peninsula Lumber Club Palo Alto

Clarence Ellsworth, Martinez Lumber Co... ... .Martinez

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

W. H. Enlow, Hammond Lumber Co.........Watsonville

\(/HEN YOU SELL

Booth-Kelly Douglae Fir, the Association grade and trade mark certify to your cuetomere the quality of the stock you handle. Builders quit guessing about what they're buying, and buy where they know what they're getting.

D. C. Essley, California Retail Lumbermen's Assn. . ..Oakland

W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co......Stockton

H. J. Ford, San Joaquin Lumbermen's Club Fresno

Frank L. Fox, Fox-Woodsum Lumber Co........Glendale

J. R. Freeman, Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.. .San Francisco

Herman Freese, Acme Lumber Co.. . San Francisco

R. P. Fuller, Home Lumber Co.. Manteca

R. S. Fuller, Valley Lumber Co.... .....Lodi

Paul Galle, Western Lumber Co.. . Reedley

General Saler Oftce: Eugene, Ore.

Millr: Wendling, Ore., Springfield, Ore.

CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVES

Northcra Celifornie

Hill & Morton, Inc.

Dcrniron St. \[/harf

OeLlrnd

ANdovcr 1077

Southcrn California

E. J. Stantoa & Son

2I,50 E. 3Eth St., Lor Aagcler

AXridge 92lt

Chas. Garrison, Two Rock Commercial Co... .. .Two Rock

Lewis Godard, Hobbs Wall & Co.... .San Francisco

Geo. W. Gorman, lfammond Lumber Co.. San Franlisco

C. H. Griffen, Jr., Calif. Redwood Assn.. San Francisco

J_. B: Hall, Owens-Parks Lumber Co.. Los Angeles

Paul llallingby- Hammond Lumber Co.. Los Angeles

H'ii ",1:l,tl'#1f,?,;;"L-ri"iii.'L;;;;' Los Anleres Co. ...;San Francisco

Lloyd Harris, Elliott Bay Sales Co.... .....Oakland

Jas. A. Harris, Jr., Hebbron Lumber Co.. Santa Cruz

Matt Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co. .. ..San Francisco

S. J. Hauge, Redwood Empire Lumbermen's Club . Santa Rosa

Arthur Hayward, Homer T. Hayward Lumber Co. .. ..Salinas

S. T. Hayward, Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. .. .....Los Angeles

W. F. lfayward, Pacific Mfg. Co. Santa elara

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

Henry M. Hink, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber

Co.

M. L.

C. V.

T. L.

Thos.

H. M: Co. ...:.... ....San Francisco

W. B. Jefferson, Greater City Lumber Co....San Francisco

A. R. Johnson, Johnson Lumber Yard. Benicia

Earle Johnson, Independent Lumber Co.. Livermore

Earl Johnson, Johnson Lumber Co.... ....pasadena

J. E. Johnston, White Brothers San Francisco

W. P. J_oq-e., O_wens-Parks Lumber Co.. Los Angeles

A. A. Kelley, Santa Fe Lumber Co. .......San Franiisco

T. H. Kewin, United Lumber Yards. Modesto

E. W. King, King Lumber Co.. ...Bakersfield

$o1l^ Klinker, ^Henry Hess Lumber Co. Sebastopol

H. A. Lake, Garden Grove Lumber Co.. Garden Grove

Ed F. Larson, San Jose Lumbermen's Club. San Tose

Henry Laws, Henry Laws Co.. ...Santa Fosa

C. D. LeMaster, Northern Counties

Lumbermen's Club Sacramento

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Iach Dionne Speaker at Banquet

M, A. Harris Toastntaster at Banquet

Redwood Mfgrs. Disappointed at Reduction in Production Allowable

The Redwood manufacturers were running round in circles for several days last week on account of the announcement of a sharp reduction in their allowable production frbm the Lumber Administration. They had been grantedian allowable for September and October of 30,000,000 for each month, and 40,000,00O for November. Notice that they had been given a new production allowable of 57,000,000 for the combined months of October, November and December was a shock. They cut about 27,m,' 000 in October, which would have left them a very small allowance for November and December. Meetings were held and a vigorous protest was made, which resulted in the allotment being increased to 65,000,000 for October, November and December.

With 27,000,000 manufactured in October this will leave about 38,000,000 feet for November and December combined, which means a very heavy curtailment of mill operation and of employment in the next sixty days. Redwood manufacturers feel that their previous allotment would have been low enough considering conditions. Much Redwood requires months and even years to prepare for market, and right now tank stock, which takes a long, long time to get ready for market, is at a premium. They think a generous operation of the Redwood mills at this time would be the best of wisdom.

Guy L. Dartnell

Guy L. Dartnell, of San Gabriel, Calif., for the past twenty years connected with the Northwestern Mutttal Fire Association, died on October 1.

He joined the Northwestern organization in 1913. He was a native of Canada and for some years prior to his joining the Northwestern was interested in mining and other activities in the vicinity of Mexico City. During his connection with the Northwestern the major portion of his time was spent in Los Angeles, although he did special work for the company at Salt Lake City, Denver, Spokane and at their Vancouver, B. C., office.

Mr. Dartnell was held in the highest esteem by the entire executive staff of the Northwestern and commanded the effection and regard of his associates in Los Angeles to a remarkable extent. He had an extensive acquaintance among the California lumbermen, especially in Southern California, and his activities with the company for many years brought him in close association with the lumber group.

Funeral services were held on October 3 at the Church of Our Savior, San Gabriel, and were largely attended.

PINE OPERATORS VISIT S. F.

E. P. Ivory, Ivory Pine Co., Klamath Falls, was a recent visitor to San Francisco.

Community Chest Drive to Meet Human Needs

Assigning to Community Chests the direct responsibility of meeting human needs other than those growing directly out of unemployment in his national recovery program, President Roosevelt, through two organizations, the National Committee for the Mobilization of Human Needs, headed by Newton D. Baker, and the National 'Woman's Crusade, of which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is chairman, has accomplished a tremendous massed movement for the betterment of thousands of victims of the depression. These committees are not fund-raising in nature, but purely inspirational and for the purpose of lending a national significance to the various local Chest campaigns'

In his White House speech during September, the President said:

"The government cannot get along without you (the Community Chests). Your work has a two-fold purpose. You are meeting the emergency and at the same time building for the futnre. Community Chests are going to keep on as long as any of us are alive, and a mighty good thing they are, too."

Conservative figures released by the research and statistical bureau of the Los Angeles Community Chest, as an example of these "other human needs," indicate that during the coming year Community Chest agencies in that community must furnish aid or guidance to 75,000 children in hospitals, clinics, and health agencies; 9500 orphans, half-orphans, and children from broken homes; 18,000 undernourished school children needing food (through the Parent-Teacher Association), in addition to the care of the aged, the poor, the crippled, the sick, the handicapped, and many others for whom assistance from federal, state, and county funds is unavailable, due to iron-clad, legal restrictions limiting such aid.

Throughout the stateand the nationCommunity Chests are stressing the great need of protection of thousands of children of the depression who now, more than ever, are endangered by the many vicious forces that thrive during extreme periods of economic disturbance. There are also scores of thousands of poor children in the nation who should be given medical examinations and treatment in order to prevent lingering or permanent illness which rvill cost millions of dollars in future health bills' if neglected.

RETURNS FROM OREGON TRIP

Homer W. Bunker, president Coos Bay Lumber Co', returned to San Francis'co October 24 ftom a visit to the mill at Marshfield, Ore.

Guide for Heating Technique

Lumbermen and engineers interested in the design and operation of lumber mills, woodworking plants and the like will find much of interest and advantage to them in the Guide of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, the 1933 edition of whi,ch has just beeq issued. It is a 700-page handbook of condensed information for the particular benefit of insulation manufacturers, distributors and users, and for those interested in the designing of heating and piping plants and of buildings from the viewpoint of comfort and fuel economy.

The Guide also 'contains much up-to-date information regarding air conditioning, both in dwellings and industrial plants. It has a chapter on ventilation fans and their motive power, another ,chapter on the use of exhaust steam for heating, and a chapter on the design of chimneys.

New Hardwood Company

A new hardwood firm, The Thompson Hardwood Lumber Company, was recently organized at Los Angeles. The temporary office of the company is at 3557 So. Hill St. and the company warehouse is located at 3761 So. Hill St. The new company will be directed by Howard Thompson, who has been connected with the hardwood business in Los Angeles for a long period. They will specialize in hardwood flooring.

tvAPPAT ELECTNIG

There's No Such Word as Fail

Tunc--Battle Hymn of thc Republic

We've enlisted in an army that is out to win the day, And we follow with assurance where our Captain leads the way;

And we'll drive old man Depression from the land without delay;

There's no such word as. fail !

ChorusPut the eagle in the window, put window,

Put the eagle in the window, there's fail !

the eagle in the no such word as,

We are fighting for the glory of the years that are to be, And the eagle is our symbol as we march from sea to sea; We will neither rest nor falter till we've gained the victory; There's no such word as. fail !

ChorusPut the eagle in the window, put the eagle in the window, Put the eagle in the window, there's no such word as, fail !

There's a rift in clouds above us, and the sun is smiling through, Hearts oppressed by fear and sorrow, feel the thrill of hope anew;

So we'll still be pressing onward with a purpose firm and true; There's no such word as, fail !

ChorusPut the eagle in the window, put the eagle in the window, Put the eagle in the window, there's no such word as, fail ! -A. Merriam Conner.

Bob Leishman with Holmes-Eureka

R. R. (Bob) Leishman will be associated with the Holmes-Eureka Lumber Co., redwood manufa,cturers, starting November 1. He will carry on trade promotional work for the ,company calling on the architects and engineers. For the past two years, he has been a fieldman for the California Redwood Association working out of their Los Angeles office, and prior to that was connected with the Redwood Manufacturers Company at Pittsburg, Calif.

New Yard at N.pa

D. G. Penzotti recently opened a new lumber yard at Napa under the name of Napa Builders' Supply Co. Mr. Penzotti is a well known retail lumberman who was for some years secretary of the Peninsula Lumbermen's Club, with headquarters at Palo Alto.

Table Saws . Jointerr Glue Pots Band Saws - Vood Lather - Shaperr Flexible Shafts - Grinderr . Sanders Concrete Surfacers Electric Drilla

WILL SACRIFICE

Owner will sacrifice clean, well established yard. Good location. Attra'ctive leads. Small investment. Address Box C-495, California Lumber Merchant.

\vANTED

Commission salesman for lumber and solicit building prospects. Address Box Lumber Merchant.

materials. Also C-497, California

LUMBER YARD FOR SALE

Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480, Care California Lumber Merchant.

ACCOUNTANT WANTS CONNECTION

Competent Lumber Accountant with 24 years successful record, including management of large yard in Middle West, seeks connection in either capacity in California. Highest references. Address Box C-498, California Lumber Merchant.

Retailers' Annu.l Convention

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S. Lindroth, Capital Lumber Co.. ..Sacramento

A. N. Lofgren. . .San Francisco

E. S. McBride, Davis Lumber Co.... ...Davis

E. V. McClintock, Redwood Manufacturers Co.. Pittsburg

J. B. McKeon, Sacramento Lumbermen's Club. Sacramento

A. McNair, McKinnon-McNair Lumber Co.. St. Helena

P. G. Maier, Roth-Maier Lumber Co........San Francisco

J. H. Martin, San Carlos Lumber Co.. . San Carlos

W. O. Mashek, United Lumber Yards Modesto

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

O. H. Miller. Knox Lumber Co. Sacramento

Earl D. Minton, Minton Lumber Co.. Mountain View

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

N. E. Nelson, Hayward Mill & Lumber Co.......Hayward

Frank J. O'Connor, Calif. Wholesale Lumber Association ....San Francisco

Frank T. Olson, Olson Lumber Co.. . Alhambra

J, W. Pearson, Redwood Manufacturers Co.. Pittsburg

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

W. E. Peterson, Bakersfield Building Materials Co. .. ...Bakersfield

Gordon Pierce. Boorman Lumber Co... . ...Oakland

J. L. Pierce, Pacific Mfg. Co. Santa Clara

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

H. A. Porter. Patterson Lumber Co.. Patterson

F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co.... .....Fresno

Nils Quist, Quist Lumber & Mill Co. Hayward

E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co.. . ..Auburn

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

A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co.. San Francisco

E. P. Ruth, Reedley Lumber Co.. Reedley

A. L. Sailor. E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. San Francisco

Roy L. Sandefur, Dill Lumber Co.. . Riverside

H. M. Schaur, Good Lumber Co. .Tracy

Ray Shannon, IJnion Lumber Co.. San Francisco

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

W. N. Shifflett, Napa Lumber Co. Napa

H.H.Smith ....DalyCity

William Smith, Smith Lumber Co.... .San Francisco

Stuart Smith, Lafayette Lumber & Supply Co.. Lafayette

E. Steffensen, Orange County Lumbermen's Club . .Santa Ana

R. B. Stevens, A. F. Stevens Lumber Co.. Healdsburg

A. Stoodley, Sunnyside Lumber Co.. Santa Cruz

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

H. F. Suverkrup, John Suverkrup Lumber Co.... ..SanBernardino

J. E. Suverkrup, John Suverkrup Lumber Co. '. ..San Bernardino

I. J. Symons, Hales & Symons Sonora

Z. T. Thorning, Gray-Thorning Lumber Co..Redwood City

Waverly Tilden, Tilden Lumber Co.... ...Berkeley

Warren E. Tillson, The Modesto Lumber Co.. Modestb

S. G. Truitt, Pacific Coast Coal Co. San Luis Obispo

James Tully, General Supply Co.. North Sacramento

James L. Venn, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co.. Porterville

H. F. Vincent, E. K. Wood Lumber Co.. San Francisco

D. O. Wenrich, Wenrich Lumber Co.... ....Merced

A. B. Wilson, Noyes Lumber Co.... ....Napa

O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Co.. Stockton

W. E. Wilson, Monolith Portland Cement Co.. Oakland

F. A. Witmer, Monterey Lumbermen's Club. Monterey

W. C. Woodward, Cotati Lumber Co.... .....Cotati

J. F. Wright, Brey-Wright Lumber Co.. Porterville

W. T. Wallace, Hammond Lumber Co.. San Francisco

F. H. White, Hammond Lumber Co.........San Francisco

William G. Wright, Wright Lumber Co. .. Stockton

M.y Include \(/ood Products

Under Lumber Code

Washington, D. C., Oct. ll-At a meeting of the National Control Committee of the Lumber Code Authority, in session here this week, a number of applications were received from groups of manufacturers of wood products seeking admission under the Code.

The Committee agreed that applications f rom such groups for admission would be considered and if approved presentation by the Authority would be made, after which public hearings will be held. Disposition of individual 'cases would await such development of the facts. The Committee then approved the presentation to the National Recovery Administration by the Executive Offi'cer of the Authority of the following industries : Picker Sticks, Persimmon, Dogwood and Hickory Products, Hickory Golf Shafts. Carriage, Wagon and Implement Wood Stock and Brooms and Mop Handles.

with justifiable pride to his new oak floors he sees only their finished beauty.

floor and oak flooring of unquestionable integrity of manufacture. And such oak flooring,known always by its trade-mark, is profitable alike to the dealer, the builder and the owner, for it sells and stays sold,

Efcctioe dealcr selling aids in oar scraicc incladc literztarc in color, slidcs and dealer cuts, lYe utould liAe for yon lo sec for yotrself bout ttscful tbcy ntotld hc to yoa-just uritc for tbcnt,

LONG-BELL LUMBER

R. A. LONG BUILDING SALES CORPORATION

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI r87, Luntbermen sinie