Program Third Annual Convention MILLWORK INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA

San F'rancisco, November 18 and 19, 1926

Thursday Morning, November 18th

9:00 A.M. Registration of Dele-gates

9:30 A.M. Directors' lVleeting

10:30 A.M. General Meeting

1. President's Address

H. W. Genr;ew

2. Report of Managing Director r fl. T. Drorscn

3. Report of Treasurer

E. A. NrcnoLSoN

4. Report of Directors' Meeting

5. Appointment of Committees o-Nominating b-Manual of Millwork c-Resolutions

6. "The Fallacy of Price-Cutting"

W. R. RonrNsox

College of Commerce, IJniversity of California Berkeley

12:30 P.M. Temporary Adjournment

Thursday Afternoon, November lSth

2:15 P.M. General Meeting

7. Address

GBo. M. ConNwer,l

8. "Manual of Millwork-Section 3"

G. A. HuNrBn ' Research Department, M. I. C.

9. "Building Good Will Through Institute Membership and Ideals"

W. Gonlenn

Secretary, Alameda County Branch, M. I. C., Oakland

10. Report of Uniform Full Mill Bid Committee

Rerpn BurroN, Chairruan Button & Manning, San Francisco

11. "llow Can the New Association of Architects Cooperate with Millwork Institute Members ?"

J. J. DonoveN, A. I. A. Oakland

4:@ P.M. Temporary Adjournment

4:05 P.M. Cornmittee Meetings

Thursday Evening, November 18th

7:00 P.M. Informal Banquet and Entertainment

J. A. Henr, Toasttnaster

President, San Francisco Banch, M. I' C.

Fridav Morning, November l9th

10:00 A.M' General Meeting'l-6ost and Accounting Session

12. Report of Nominating Committee and Election of Directors

13. "Definition of Burdens"

H. T. Dronscrr

14. "Indirect Labor Costs"

H. E. Wpvlrn

Boyd Lumber & Mill Co., Santa Barbara

15. "Institute Accounting Forrns"

R. A. NIcms

Consulting Cost Accountant, M. I. C.

16. "Impressions of the IlvI. I. C. Standardized Accounts and Composite Statements"

C. P. CenaurHERS, C. P. A. Resident Senior Partner, Price Waterhouse Co., San lirancisco

"17. "Moulder Production Record"

P. J. McDoNero

Los Angeles Planing Mill Co., Los Angeles

18. "Credit Consideration Affecting the Millwork Industry" A Sem Fnexcrsco BeNrBn

12:15 P.M. Temporary Adjournment

Friday Afternoon, November l9th

12:30 P.M. Luncheon Meeting of Board of Directors for Election of Officers

2:15 P.M. General Meeting

19. Installation of Newly Elected Officers

20. Price Schedules o-Exterior ].-rames b-Casework c-Irregular Heads

21. Report of Manual Committee

22. Open Discussion

23. Report of Resolutions Committee

24. Place of Next Meeting

5:00 Final Adjournment

Character

Following The Signs

"Where is the manager's office, please?"

"Follow the passage until you come to the sign reading 'No Admittance.' Go upstairs until yoq seo ,:the Fign, 'Keep out.' Follow the corridor until you see the sign 'Silence.' , He'll be around there somewhere. Yell for him."

Line

Pierpont Morgan once said before a rhoney trust commission that in his opinion, character was supreme in the world of money, and money could not butt in. To build up a business or1 character is putting i3 on sure foundations. a- If the heads of a firm a,re men of , the business soon gains the respect of,all trade with it. Alconstant practice. ways to take the too busy watching our

Unfortunately we are neighbors, at the time ThiS'may be a policy of

Lay Of The Last Seagull

your wagon to a star," for if we do npt always realize oui ideals, we are better for having made the effort. As John Rusliin says,-"The entire object of education is not merely to rirakb iieople do the right thing, but to enjoy the right thing:ns1 merely, to be'industrious, but to enjoy industry -4ot merely to become learned, but to love knowledgenot melely to be pure; but. to love purity-not merely to be just, but to hunger and thirst after justice."

Elegy

1 The jackals howl, the serpents hiss, In what was once Per5epolis, be watching ourselves. but it is well to "hitch a trace, face. of lllium, s harp is dumb. The fleets and Tyre Are down wi Jones, Esquire, And all the oligarchies, kings, And potentates' that ruled these things Are gone. But cheer up; don't be sad; Think what a lovely time they had!

A sloop is a claft with a jib and a main, A yawl has I iigl6 behind. A schooner's allfG ONE with foam on the top, And increasingly harder to find.

Boredom

A distinguished Briton is quoted as saying:

"After all, the greatest of human miserigs, the most dehdly of diseases, is one we cannot with a knife, or save men, from by drugs. I M. There is more real wretchedngsS, more driving men to folly, due to boredom than to else. Men and women will do almost any fling themselves into lost hopes and ctazy ventures, ing to escape. They will drink, drtrg themselves, titute their bodies, and sell their up mad causes, organize absurd crupeople to torment themselves and torture other the misery of being bored. Any one who can a cure for that would put an end to more misbry and tragedy than all doctors put together."

That Road

The highway of success is the only one on which you can speed without running the chance of getting arrested for it.

Plywood

Interestin-g-cornm,ents !!, Mr.,Harry trl. Hanson, Secretartl of the Californi.a Panel-6nd. Veneei Cornpany, Los Angetis.'

The writer has been asked from time to time how old the plywood industry is. It seems to be the general impression that plywood manufacturing is whai might be termed an infant industry. True, plyriood has reallf come into its own, so to speak, in the iast few years, commer- cially' speaking.

Previous to 1900,_the manufacturing of plywood .was a craftsman's art, and was a difficult i"a tong drawn oul p,to..g.r., accomplished with the aid of hand-presses and the like, especially in the finer woods. The m6r" co-*on woods such as Fir, Gum, Cedar and Basswood were made on a quantity basis, but very crudely indeed. ^ A. jo the age of plywood, no one iee*. to know exactly. Day.by day, interesting information is produced relative to the. early us_es of plywood. For instince, a scientific Journal prlnts the item:

"The first twin beds known to history were used by the great grandparents of King Tut-ankh-amen,s wife. ihev were made of plywood and the mattresses were'stuffei with feathers."

All of which tends to show that even before King Tut,s time, plywood was known and used.

Cleopatra's Royal Barges, as well as the old war boats o,r barges p they were known, belonging to the days of rne. eafly fgyptrans, were constructed of plywood, con_ thin planks_glued and nailed togei6er in iayers at right angles to each other. Coffins unearthed rece-ntlv and containilg. tlrg mummified remains of these p.opf.q "ri, ot plywood, inlaid with rare and precious stonei, aird vari_ colored woods.

The war chest that Napoleon used and had with him in all his affairs dealing with his conquering .ompt.", ,"J of which we read about in all historiej of F[nc., *". L"J" of plywood.

Civilization, in its march oi progress, demands the ut_ most of everything, and puts forth rigid requirements,-plfryoo{ i1 meeting these requirements "answe?. with the fa;t that- rt has,strength with light rveight, beauty of finely fis_ ured woods with thei-r possibility of elab-orate a.Jign-", utility without end, and ail at reasonable cost.

New Kilns

The Coos Veneer .qld g9* Compaql are now installing one Moore's Reversible Circulatio' I.rt.rrr.l Fan Venee? ?ry..r for s",as.oning Port Orford Cedar Battery S"p";;;;; stock. The kiln is of fireproof construction wiih A;t.;a;; frotectef Metal. Dry Kiln Doors. An electric ,lift j;;k ;ili !e u;ed for Ioading and unloading veneers from kiins. Mr. Benj- Ostlind, Prisident and Gineral Manager, "lr. ;l_ vised that the.y- are making -changes in their S'.p;.;a;; D;_ partment, which will materially improve efficiency of their pfant. Th-ey_are also adding aadifionat automat-ic veneer stacker, which will take carJ of their new kiln.