Millwork Institute Annual Meeting

(Continued from Page 29) more than ever that the members should support the activities of the state organization and cooperate wholeheartedly in the future.

Director H. E. Weyler led a discussion on uniform selling price methods and Certified Architectural Woodwork. He stated that he expected the mills in his locality would adopt the Standard Millwork Schedules in the very near future. Regarding Certification, he stated that the architects and school board in his territorv were sold on Certification and that recent jobs there,- specified under the the millmen to report to his bureau all violations of contracts and other provisions of the law. Histalk was intensely interesting and he is to prepare a written draft of the law for circulation to Institute members.

"Cooperation in the Building Industry" was the subject assigned to Henry H. Gutterson, architect, of San Francisco, chairman of the Northern California Chapter, American Institute of Architects. "Cooperation is distinctly the subject of the day," Mr. Gutterson said. "It expresses the woild's greatest need. Furthermore it is being iecognized as basic the world over." The speaker then proceeded to tell the story of the development of cooperation in the local group of the American Institute of Architects, and of the more progressive, democratic group that has taken control of the American Institute of Architects, the organization of the Small House Service Bureau, the Producers' Council, the Building Congress, and the Building League. He also told of the formatiorr of the State Association of California Architects, and of the "Unification" prog'ram adopted at thelast annual convention of the American Institute, which will include every architect and through them all the contractors, manufacturers, salesmen and mechanics, in fact the whole building industry.

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Certification Program, had produced some results in a definite way for the best interest of the owners and mills engaged in producing high class millwork.

W.I. Garren, architect, San Francisco, presented the program of the architects concerning small home construction, stating that as yet there was no definite program working but that the architects had come to realize that they should take a leadership in th,e field of small house construction and formulate a plan whereby architectural service in some form would be available at small cost. The architects are working in their association on various plans at present and would have some program later. He said thatthe millmen had a definite place for cooperation in the plan and should by all means be included in the program. It would be worked out to include banks, associations and material dealers.

Orman Lutz, Chief Examiner Northern District, Regis- trarof Contractors, State of California, reviewed the California Contractors' License Law, explaining its requirements regarding responsibility of contractors. He urged

Geo. Cornwall, editor "Timberman", Portland, in his characteristic manner summed upthe modern trend towards mass production and discussed at some length the place home building is occupying in the present economic situation. It is the barometer of business and home building is on the front page of every newspaper. The government is recognizing it as basic and is endeavoring to correct som'e of the building industry's problems in this respect. He urged the planing mills to take up modernization, installation of millwork, trim, doors and the like. The millman must become a merchandiser of building materials of all descriptions as his former job as a refiner of lumber has, like the Arab of old, "silently slipped away", probably never to return in its old form. He advocated collective purchasing of material, through associations. He urged the millmen to get behind their Institute and help put over the programs which are so well under way, as the place of the individual alone is an impossible one today.

The following resolution was adopted by the convention:

WHEREIAS, The State Association of California Architects are doing a constructive work for the building industry in formulating a plan of servicing the builder of small houses; therefore be it

RESOLVED, That the members of the Millwork Institute of California offer to the State Association of California Architects the support of our state organization and its membership in the furtherance of the Small House Service Bureau and that a committee be appointed to assist in the furtherance of th'e work of such a bureau.