When wall panels are specified for homes in the one hundred thousand do'llar class, it is the result of a discriminating selection in which beauty and quality are the only considerations. . You will find Red River California Pine Plywood Panels in many such installations-and also in small cabins and cottages where every construction dollar is split into one hundred cents.
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Due largely to purchases in anticipation of t{re minimum prices going into efiect, lumbet orders received at the mills iuring-the-week ended November 18, 19t3, as well as those of the preceding week were the heaviest booked since 1930' this w€ekts tu"otd surpassing any week since October, 1930, and the preceding week, since May, i930, according to reports to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
. The reports made by 11772 Aneican mills for the week ended Novimber 18 gave production as l82r522rOOO feet, ship' rtrents 164,610,000 feet' and orders 27315491000 f.eet. The pre' vious weekts orders w*e 3l5r 884rO0O feet, with a production af 178,783,000 feet. Production of 22 British Columbia mills also reported by the Vest Coast Lumber'tnents Association for the same week was t4'2O5rOOO feet; shipments 9ro13r000 feet; orders 20,792,OOO ft.
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' New business reported by 48 mills to the Vest Coast Lum' Berments Association for the week ended Novernber 18 was l2gr853r6t4 feet against a production of 93 8!2,421 feet and shipments of 77r)891848 feet; Shipmene were under produc' tion by l7.5flor and current sales were over production by 38.aVo. The o,rders booked for the week by this group of mills were under the preceding week by 6014001000 feetr or 3l.7Vo. This report t.f..tt the first week following the estab' lishment of minimum or cost return prices fot Douglas fir and Vest Coast hemlock.
The California Redwood Association for the week ended
November 16 reported production from 21 mills as +rg'SlrOOO feet, shipments 64061000 feet, and new business 9r207rOO0 feet. Production of 18 mills was 40 per cent of normal production. Eleven identical mills reported production 25 pet cent greater and new business 151 pet cent greater than the same week last Yeef ' * {. {< !r
The Western Pine AssociStion for the same week reported new business for 135 mills as 69'200'000 feet, shipments t6'; 6001000 feet, and production tgrtgzr000 feet. Orders wete 76 per cent above production and 89 per cetrt above shipments. Shipments were 7 per*cent *below production.
648 hardwood mills gave new business as 671179ro00 feet' or 117 per cent above production, for the week ended Novern' ber 18 and shipments is 26r466r0fi) feet, or 14 per cent below production. Production was 3019201000 feet. i
Since the rush in buying prior to the establishment of the minimum cost protection prices, the volune of buyrng Uy 4a retail trade in the California market has been very light. Un' sold stocks on the public docks at.Los Angeles hatbor total{ 4fi2rOOO feet on N6vember 20. Cargo artivals at the port of Los Angeles for the week ended November 20 totaled 5r295rOOO feet, which included 12 cargoes of Fir with 510701000 feet, and one cargo of Redwood carrying 225roOO f,eet. 57 vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on Novembet lli 48 vessels were laid up.
(Telegram to The California Lumber Merchant)
Washington, D.C., November 27.-Ihe War Department has definitely instructed the military authorities of the Thirp Corps Area to disregard all offers to furnish lumber at prices under the minimum cost-protection levels recently established by the Lunibcr Code Autholity, it became knolr'n today. Similar instructions r,vill be sent to other corps areas.
This action .came about in connection r,vith the contemplated purchase of more than 4,00O,000 feet of lumber for 185 CCC camps in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Over eighty bids, received in response to the Department's circular proposal of November 10, were opened at the headquarters of the Third Corps Area in Baltimore, November 2o, and it was found that some
of these reflected prices below established legal minima' Communication with Washington resulted in an order to withhold arvards until the departrnent had ascertained just rvhat thc lowest legal priccs lvere, and to throw out all proposals unclcr that figure. Each carnp requires 22,173 f.eet of lumber. The camps are widely scattered over the three states, many of them requiring delivery at points little known. Rate experts have figured the amount of freight to each destination and added this sum to the base price of the lumber, thereby establishing the lowest permissible price at the railroad delivery point for each'camp' This information is being forwarded to Baltimore to enable the Thircl Corps Area to eliminate the bids reflecting illegal prices.
Announcement is made by the Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Fran'cisco, that they are opening an office in Los Angeles De,cember 1. They will do a rail and 'cargo business and will handle California White and Sugar Pine.
Robt. "Bob" Forgie will be in charge. Mr, Forgie is very well known in Los Angeles and Southern California, having been for several years Southern California representative of Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills, and prior to that was associated lvith the Baxter & Iordan interests. with whom he started back in 1915.
Arthur Bevan, secretary of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau at Seattle, Wash., for the past several years, has been appointed Chief of the Production Control Section, Lumber Code Authority, Washington, D. C. He will have charge of the Production Control of all kinds of lumber, and will work directly under C. Arthur Bruce, executive secretary of the l-umber Code Authority.
Mr. Bevan was associated with the shingle industry in the Northwest for many years. He joined the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau in 1920, was made assistant manager in 1925, and was appointed manager of the Bureau in 19D.
Mrs. Lillie M. Miller, wife of Oscar H. Miller ,manager of the Knox Lumber Company, Sa'cramento, passed away in Sacramento on Sunday, November 12. She is also survived by a son,.Walter F. Miller, and a brother, William F. Klewe of Colusa.
S. M. Law has been appointed secretary of the United Sash and Door Dealers of Lod Angeles county with headquarters in the Association's office in the Fay Building, Los Angeles, succeeding Lester G. Sterett, who resigned to take over the position as secretary of the Tri-State Woodwork Association, the regional administrative agency for the states of Arizona, California and Nevada, for the Special Woodwork Subdivision of the Woodwork Division of the Lumber and Timber Products Code. Mr. Laws was formerly with Southern Door & Millwork, fnc., of Lomita, Calif.
Guy E. Smith, general sales manager, Chas. R. McCormi,ck Lumber Co., San Francis,co, returned to his desk November 2O irom a two weeks' trip to the Northwest. While there Mr. Smith attended Minimum Price and Trade Practice meetings in Seattle, and also spent some time at the company's sawmill at Port Gamble.
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By Jack Dionne
They fixed a Code for all the animals-so the story goes. And the first provision of the Code was protection and safety for all animals, large and small. No more killing and eating one another. No more law of tooth and fang. The lion could lie down with the lamb in safety; the fox with the rabbit. All the animals signed the Code.
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A few days after the Code went into effect a rabbit, ambling through the woods, saw a fox in his path, and started to run. The fox called to him, "What are you running for? I can't hurt you. Have you forgotten the Animals' Code?" The rabbit stopped and looked sheepish. "I sometimes forget the Code, and start to run when I see someone like you," he said. And they sat down and talked over how fine it was to have a Code to protect them.
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Just then from over the. hill came the baying of a great pack of hounds. The air was filled with their cries. As they drew nearer the fox bounded to his feet, tail up, ready to run. "What are you scared of ?'l asked the rabbit. "flave you forgotten the Animals' Code? Those hounds are under the Code the same as we are. They can't hurt you."
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"Maybe you're right," said the fox, "but in a pack as big as that one there's always at least one So-and-So that you can't trust. I'm taking no chances." And away he went.
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Even a Code doesn't destroy the old timey belief that "there's at least one in every crowd."
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Definite difference 'between our psychology last year and now: last year most of us were afraid to appear in a new suit, or a new hat. We hated to look conspicuously prosperous in the midst of poverty. Today everyone is trying to dress up. And that's how the psychology of the nation has improved.
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Last fall a man wouldn't put needed new paint on his automobile because he didn't want to act conspicuously prosperous. It was the same way with his house and the buildings. He wouldn't paint them even if he could well afford to. With tragedy on all sides and the withered
hand of beggary held out on every corner, a man didn't dare to look the least bit prosperous. THAT feeling is gone. Everyone is trying to put on a better front. Heads high, chins up, smiles bright-we're trying to get somewhere.
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Secretary Wallace says that if Chicago doesn't approve his farm relief plans it may become just an ash heap. Now THERE'S a modest man !
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The Sunkist orange folks report that "beer and hard liquor" are giving their product "strong competition." Well, wouldn't mixing more freely and more frequently with its competitors help solve that problem? ***
President Roosevelt has recognized the Russian Government. But if George Washington were to drop into Washington for a call today, what a job he'd have recognizing ours.
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I haven't read all the details of the Russian agreement. What provisions have we made for raising whiskers like our new neighbors? If our farmers donlt get more for their crops soon, they'll go to raising whiskers instead of wheat. ,f**
And lumber? Someone out of Washington recently suggested that we import Russian lumber and so preserve our forests. Well, if they turn Russian lumber loose into this country THAT will be the effect, and none other. For American lumber producers will hardly be able to meet the competition of lumber made from stolen timber, and manufactured for costs and under conditions that would horrify American mill workers. Turn in the Russian lumber and the labor problem for the American lumber industry will be automatically solved. There won't be any labor problem. Or any labor. Or any lumber. :F >F t<
You'll never convince the railroads that run to and from Washington, or the hotels of the Capitol City, that the New Deal isn't a huge success. {<+*
The retail jewelers' Code defines diamonds as "consisting essentially of pure carbon crystallized in the isometric
system, generally in octahedron form." Sho nuff? you know, I had no idea !
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"Don't you believe that you are your brother's keeper?', asked a Community Chest worker of a hold-out. .,I,ve only got one brother," said he who wouldn't give, ,,and the warden at the State Penitentiary is keepin' him in good shape."
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Two salesmen were dividing up a territory they were getting ready to work. One of them kept making suggestions as to the particular prospects he wanted to call on. "!l/ait a minute," finally said the other; ,,all you want is the cream." "Well," replied the first, ,,what's wrong with the cream?"
And now the lumber world is frenziedly engaged in trying to fix the rules and regulations for lumber rninimum price fixing. And I hazard the guess that nothing that has been or will be attempted in the operation of any code that will present so complex and difficult a problem. So many varying quantities and qualities never before faced a measuring stick. ***
Personally I have been marveling for months at the courage of any man who, knowing lumber, would tackle
so devastating a problem. The many problems of species, and of location; the multifold divisions of each species; the various sizes, kinds, and characters of mills; the marketing problems, trying, for example, to riake fair rules covering lumber ready for marketing twenty-four hours after it leaves the stump, and lumber that requires years to dry; a thousand and one difficulties that they are bumping into head-on every day now, the very consideration of which is dizzying to my thick skull.
Regardless of how wisely and painstakingly the rules may be created and placed in execution, the opportunities for "chiseling" will be as innumerable as the sands on the. seashore. The loop-holes can never be plugged. The will of the lumber people themselves to put the thing into operation and keep it tight, must and will be the hope of making it go. Thousands of good men and true all over the country today are apptying their brains and ingenuity to the problem. But its best hope of successful operation lies in implanting throughout the industry the sentiment that the thing must succeed, and that he who seeks loopholes for its destruction is the enemy of the industry. ***
God knows I rejoice at every man who wants a job and gets one, regardless of what or where or how. And the
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countless thousands that the Government has put to work of late have had relief of soul and mind and body. But I can't dodge the thought of how much better it would be to put these men to work BUILDING SOMETHING. fnstead of sending a thousand men out to clean out ditches, dig up weeds, improve rights-of-way, etc., why not have them build things that people may use-things that will be there when they get through?
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Most of the new work consists simply of employing men and paying them. But instead of digging holes and filling them up again, it seems that so many human needs could be served by having them build things that could be used; highways, roads, houses, shacks, or what not. And the workers would like it better. Driving nails or laying bricks or pouring concrete is really doing something for somebody.
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A million dollars spent in building five hundred small houses at two thousand each would employ just as many
men as a million dollars spent in scraping land or cleaning out ditches, and those houses would serve the human race. Sell them to working men cheap, at low rates of interest, over long periods of time. Most of THAT money would be repaid. And humans who would never otherwise own homes, would get homes of their own.
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I'm going to keep on harping on this theme until someone listens to me. We are wasting the opportunity and the money to house the poor of this nation better than they have ever been housed. And we're NOT doing it' Build homes for the poor with that Government money ! ***
William Allen White, famous Kansas editor, is booming Al Smith for head of NRA. If Mr. Roosevelt could get the famous wearer of the Brown Derby to take the job, it would be the master-stroke of his administration to date. What NRA needs is enthusiasm and cooperation, instead of submission and compliance. And Al Smith woulcl rally the nation around him in a recovery drive, as could no other man outside of the President himself.
A public hearing on the proposed ordinance to the Los Angeles building code which would require that all lumber for the foundations and underpinning of all types of buildings t,o be pressure-treated with creosote as a protection against termites will be held in the Los Angeles City Council chamber on December 13.
At a meeting of the City Council on November 15 final action on the measure was deferred and a public hearing was ordered for Wednesday morning, November 22, to discuss the proposed amendment. At its meeting on November 22, the Council voted to postpone the public hearing until December 13. A number of lumbermen representing retail and wholesale firms and lumber manu,facturers attended the meeting on Novembet 22.
California Lumbermen's Council met at Hotel Stockton, Stockton, November 17. In the absence of Geo. N. Ley, president of the Council, Elmore W. King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, presided.
Roy Barto, president of Cadwallader-Gibson Co., Inc., of Los Angeles, talked to Frank Fulcahy, an executive in their Manila office, over the telephone on Wednesday afternoon, November 15, when he explained the workings of the Philippine Mahogany and Philippine Hardwoods Code so that Mr. Fulcahy could pass the information along to the other producers and manufacturers on the Islands. Mr. Barto's telephone conversation lasted ten minutes and the call came through very clearly. It was a 900Gmile call and when Mr. Barto talked at 4:30 in the afternoon, Los Angeles time, it was 8:30 the following morning in Manila.
C. A. Kennedy, formerly manager of the Hayward Lumber & Investment Co. yard at Riverside, Calif., has been appointed secretary of the Inland Lumber Institute with headquarters at San Bernardino. Mr. Kennedy succeeds Paul M. Parsons, who has resigned on account of ill health to spend the winter in the Imperial Valley.
In a talk before an attendance of more than sixty lumbermen at the regular monthly dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, November 13, H. J. Brunnier, member of the board of consulting engineers of the'San Fran,cisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, expressed his opinion that prosperity is right at the front door of the San Francis,co Bay district, and that the building of the bridge marks the beginning of a greater San Francis,co. He based this opinion, he said, on the fact that estimated expenditures on building projects, including the bridge, will be about $65,000,000 a year for the next three years, each yearly total being greater than in any one previous year.
Introduced by H. Sewall Morton, entertainment committee chairman, Mr. Brunnier gave a brief history of the Bay Bridge proje,ct, brought ab,out he said, by community cooperation, and a fine example of what can be accomplished by such cooperation His talk was illustrated by slides and his ,clear explanation of the various construction processes answered many of the questions now being asked by the average man regarding them. He said 1900 men were now employed on the actual bri.dge construction and that this number will gradually increase until next July when lz,W will be employed. The bridge will be completed by January, 1937. When it is completed those crossing the bay by automobile will save 30 minutes in going from downtown San Fran.cisco to downtown Oakland, and commuters will save 15 minutes.
President C. I. Gilbert presided. He held an old {ashioned roll 'call and assessed a few fines
Secretary Carl Moore re,ceived a number of checks for dues from members. He said this is a good indication that conditions are on the mend.
Professor Emanuel Fritz, edu.cational,comrnittee chairman, continued his talk on "How Wood Looks Under the Microscope", and' also told the lumbermen how to select timbers for strength by choosing those that had the largest 'amount of summer wood layers in their annual rings. He illustrated by passing around samples of two sections of timber, one with 25 per,cent and the other with 52 per cent summer wood, and citing the great differen,ce in the strength of each.
Fred Cooper was the fortunate winner in a raffle for two tickets for the Big Game between Stanford and California.
W. R. Chamberlin, president of W. R. Chamberlin & Co., San Francisco, and Mrs. Chamberlin, returned to San Francisco on the Dollar liner President lfoover, November 27. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin sailed from San Francisco on the President lloover for Yokohama on September 8, and also visited Kobe, Shanghai and Manila.
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Washington, D. C., November 15.-One single development which promises to outweight in far-reaching consequences the original Purposes of the Administration's hearittg o. the suspended portions of the Retail Lumber Code came when Wiison Compton, Counsellor of the Lumber Code Atrthority and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, stated that it was the declared policy of the Lumber Code Authority and the Retail Code Authority to settle contested questions of jurisdiction by mutual agreement after conference between the two bodies' To further this end and after consultation with the Retail Lumber Code Authority, he suggested to the Administration the following addition to Arti'cle VII of the Retail Lumber Code, which was then read into the record:
"The Code Authority shall be empowered, in consultation with the Lumber Code Authority, established under provisions of the C'ode of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industries, to exclude from jurisdiction hereunder any person or persons engaged in the production or wholesale distribution of lumber and timber products (such as hardwood distributing yards, and lumber manufacturer engaged incidentally in retail distribution of lumber in locality where sawmill is located) where and to the extent that the establishment of such jurisdiction is not necessary to the maintenance of fair competition in retail distribution of lumber and timber products or to the ac'complishment of the purposes declared in Article I hereof."
The protest against certain sections of the Retail Lumber Code, whi,ch caused the suspension of the Code's distributional features and transit-shipment provision pending the result of the hearing, simmered down to a tempest in a teapot. Of the twenty-two hundred wholesalers in the country but three attacked the distributional provisions'
The three wholesalers were supPorted by the Associated General Contractors, but this support was offset by stacks of telegrams received by the Retail Code Authority from small ,contractors all over the country expressing approval of the present Code language, which limits the right to sell to contractors and consumers.
The hearing was divided into two parts. Deputy Administrator Ralph Fogg, who presided, gave consideration, first, to the suspension of Article III and Se'ction 2 of Article II. B. L. Knowles, who represented the Associated General Contractors, read a brief which 'claimed that the average retailer is incapable of rendering the sort of service the large contractors must have; and that the systems of prices to be established under Section 8 of Arti'cle VIII of the Retail Code would force the contractors who bought in large quantities to pay retail prices.
W. Gerrity, a Boston, Mass., wholesaler, confirmed Knowles' statements and added that certain New Eng-
land large-scale home building projects could not have been consummated had not the privilege of buying at wholesale prices been extended to the builders.
Harris H. Gillman, an attorney representing H. A. Lawrence & Company of Fitchburg, Mass', added the endorsement of his clients and declared that any provision of the Retail Lumber Code afiecting wholesalers constituted regulation without representation; he demanded that the jurisdi'ction of the Code be confined to those who made the application for its approval. Mr. Gilman deplored the fact that wholesalers were under no Code jurisdiction and expressed a wish they might soon be included under the Lumber and Timber Products Industries Code' M' G. Truman of the Marsh & Truman Lumber Company, Chicago, added his endorsement to the Gerrity statement. The claims of the General Contractors were further stressed by George W. Samson, purchasing agent of the H. Wales Line Company and George Hyatt of Wiley and Foss.
Deputy Administrator Fogg recessed the hearing and directed that the protestants 'confer with the Retail Code Authority in a hope that some compromise might be effected rvhich would meet the Administration's approval, but it was announced after the recess that a satisfactory compromise had not been reached.
Ilomer Ballinger, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Retail Code Authority, stated that in an attempt to meet the views of the protestants it had been agreed to submit an amendment to Article III which would cause the Article to read as follows:
"All persons engaged in the business of selling lumber' lumber products, building materials, and building specialties to contractors or consumers shall be subject to the provision of this Code and of the approved rules and regulations issued thereunder and shall be compelled to adhere thereto under such penalties as may be prescribed by the law, except as to sales in carload quantities direct to the follolving:
"I. To and for the Departments of the United States Government, and for intra-state movement to and for departments of State Government;
"2, For shipyards, large dams, docks, and bridges;
"3. To and for Railroads;
"4. To large users of industrial lumber, including mines; except purchases for construction purposes."
In addition to this amendment the Retail Code Authority proposed to issue interpretations of Section 2 of. the Article, which would provide that in quoting on sales of lumber and other products in carload lots for direct shipment to contractors and others, the retailers must eliminate any element of yard or handling expense when figuring their prices, that no territorial restrictions should be made as
to purchases and sales and that logs, poles and piling are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Retail Code. Another interpretation provided that the wood preserving industry be exempted from any distributional provision.
Mr. Ballinger read a brief in which he contested the statements of the protestants and stressed the point that if retailers were to be denied the privilege of handling business in large volume their overhead would have to bc applied in such a way as to unduly enhance the price of small retail sales.
The Deputy Administrator then turned to the question of transit shipments. J. W. Gerrity and Harris H. Gilman attacked Section 11 of Article VIII, claiming that the elimination of transit shipments gave the large retailer an advantage over the small, and claimed, further, that it would result in business being diverted to Canadian Spruce.
William S. Bennet of New York, Vice-President of the Edward Hines Lumber Company of Chicago, whi'ch he declared to be the largest firm of wholesalers in the world, then stated to the Administrator that the transit shipment was "the most destructive influen,ce" in the lumber business. He contended that present ,cost-protection prices established by the manufacturers under their Code did not reflect costs and that unless these manufa,cturers could sell for more than minimum prices they were on the road to bankruptcy. He then denounced the transit shipment as the only instrument which could prevent their selling at a higher price and asserted that the practice of putting unsold lumber in transit by water was just as vicious as shipping it by rail.
Frank Carnahan, Secretary of the Retail Lumber Code Authority, then submitted a brief which outlined the history of the transit shipment practice and gave statistics to show its ill effects upon the lumber business over a long period of years. The Carnahan brief was an exhaustive presentation, which 'covered every phase of the case.
Vernon M. Hawkins of Boston, de.clared that resumption of the transit shipment pra,ctice would tend to constitute a monopoly.
Deputy Administrator Fogg gave interested parties until noon of November 21 to submit additional briefs. He stated that all the material would be submitted to the various advisory boards, upon whose recommendations a decision should be predicated. Deputy Administrator Fogg was assisted by Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge and by Industry Advisor George W. Dudley, Jr.
The hearing began at 10 a.m., November 13 and was adjourned at 6 p.m., November 14.
Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Philips are receiving congratulations from their many friends on the arrival of a baby boy, Lawrence Philips, at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Los Angeles, on November 15, 1933. Both Mrs. Philips and the new arrival are reported to be doing very nicely. Mr. Philips is a member of the firm of the Lawrence-Philips Lumber Company, well known Los Angeles wholesalers.
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Parson Zeke Swinney was expounding the doctrines of Democracy to an admiring group of friends. It has been well said that when you find a darkey who is not a Baptist it is a certain sign that some white man has been expounding the Scripture to him. And when you find one who is not a Democrat, he must be North of the Mason and Dixon Line. THIS was South of the Line.
"De histry of de Republican Pahty ain't no secret," he said. "You kin trace hit down thu de Scripchah. In de Scripchah dey called dem "Publicans an' sinnuhs". Today we has de same folks wid us. But dey been thu reincarnashun. An' sense dey bin reincarnated we calls dem RE-Publicans, stead of jes Publicans. Dass all de change dey is in Publicans; and deys jess de same sinnuhs dey allus wuz."
Harry A. Graham, Long Beach retailer, was in his usual good form at the monthly golf tournament of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club held at the Santa Ana Country Club on Wednesday afternoon, November 15, 1933, and batted out a round ln 79 rvhich gave him the lorv gross prize. E. Steffensen, the popular se.cretary of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club, was listed among the winners and walked off r.vith the bogey prize. The Blue Diamond Golf Trophy, open to Orange County lumbermen, was won by Di,ck Emison, Santa Ana retail dealer.
A. E. Fickling, Long Beach retailer, and Jim Deatherage, one of his sales representatives, drove down frorn Long Beach to take part in the tournament. C. C. Barr, O. H. Barr Lumber Co., Santa Ana, rvho vi'on the Blue Diamoncl trophy at the O,ctober tournarnent, took part in the afternoon's play and W. P. Wright, Smith Lumber Co., Anaheim, was also listed among the retailers present. Walter Spicer, Newport Beach retailer, who has always been a top-notch lumberman golfer but who has not been seen on the links very much during the past several months showed up to try his luck at the game again; Walter says it will probably take a couple of months' play before he reaches his old form.
D. E. Liggett, Santa Ana retail dealer, was out there trying to rvin the Blue Diamond trophy for the fourth time. As he has already won the cup the most number of times, winning it in the June, July and August tournaments, he will be able to add the trophy to his long list of prizes after November 28, when he will be awarded permanent possession of the cup at the annual meeting of the Orange County Lumbermen's Club which will be held on that date. Following the tournament, dinner was served in the Club House. The tournament brought out a good turnout of lumbermen golfers.
The next meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 rvill be held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, ou Monday evening, December 11. Dinner will be served at 6:09 p.m. at 87 cents a plate, including tax.
Fred E. Reed of Oakland will address the club on "Building-Our Way Out," and in his talk will dis,cuss methods of selling lumber and building materials. There will also be a turkey raffle. Music will be supplied by a trio of U. of C. boys.
The directors will meet December 18 to make all arrangements for the distribution at Christmas of nail kegs which East Bay lumbermen will again fiU with food for needy families in the East Bay district. Kegs will be distributed to some families known by lumbermen to be in'need, and clistribution of the rest will be made as in former years through the Salvation Army.
Pyramid Lumber Sales Co., 415 Pacific Building, Oakland, has be,come a member of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.
White Brothers, hardwood dealers, San Francisco, recently remodeled their office and painted all the buildings of their San Francis,co plant. In remodeling the office separate offices were made for the heads of the various departments, and Nu-Wood Bevel-Lap Tile was installed throughout for sound deadening purposes.
Vhether it's on a vaudeville bill or a bill of goods . . whatever appears is the result of public demand. It has to be good, or it wouldntt be there.
On every FLINTKOTE bill whether it's an order for a bill of goods . or the bill itself on the first of the month there always appears six big feature items.
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I believe the Pioneer Paper Company's Handy Roof Patching Outfit will prove to be one of the best sellers in the history of that excellent outfit. It should. Because it is aimed and able to answer so many troublesome roof patching and repairing questions in every town and territory, everywhere.
The "Outit" is a handy sized can of their Static Roof Coating, which, as every dealer and builder in California knows, is cold-laid black asphalt emulsion, a non-cracking, non-checking coating, easily applied for protection to all roof surfaces. Around the can and inside the wrapper is a roll of fabric. That's the "patch". For a leak or a crack in a roof you open the can, apply the Coating with a brush, cut a slice of the fabric to cover or surround the leaking place, then apply another coat of the Coating-and there you are. The fabric takes care of expansion or contraction of the crack or leak-that was. THAT leak is closed for good. It takes only a minute to fix that up. It beats any roof patch ever thought of before. These Handy Roof Patching Outfits ought to be stocked, displayed, pushed, and sold in every lumber yard, everywhere. They almost sell themselves. All you've got to do is show them. They fill a universal need for patching purposes.
And is that Static Roof Coating making good ! I remember r,vell when Pioneer brought that stufi in here a
few years ago with a great blare of trumpets. Cold laid asphalt ! Non,e of the trouble of the heating kettle. Just comes like paint, in containers of all sizes for all uses. All the uses of hot-laid asphalt, and none of its troublesome checking and cracking.
For better merchandising purposes they changed the name of the fast-moving product to Static Roof Coating. Everywhere it has been tried it has met with immediate success. Take Lake Floren,ce Dam in the High Sierra, the first flume of the hydroelectric system of Los Angeles. They put 25,000 gallons of this stuff on the concrete face of that dam three years ago, and the reports today show it to be in perfect condition. For really and truly waterproofing concrete, this Static Coating has no equal. It solves many desperate problems of waterproofing.
The Southern Sierra Power Company is using it at Lake Florence and other places. On Boulder Dam they are using this same material to waterproof the cracks where the blocks of concrete join. Large quantities of it are being used in this way.
Verily this great material goes marching on. New and varied uses are continually developing. And everywhere it is intelligently used, it gives satisfaction. As a waterproof covering, easily applied, it has absolutely no rival.
The Board of Directors of the Lumber Retailers' Code Administration of Southern California at its meeting held at the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, on November 13, elected the following to serve on the Executive Cornmittee: Chairman, H. S. Patten; Vice Chairman, O. H. Barr; Secretary-Treasurer, Guy L. Cuzner; A. E. Fickling and Earl Johnson.
The Board of Directors, the governing board of the Association, will administer the provisions of the Code in Southern California; Southern California is designated as Division 32 in the National Retail Lumber, Lumber Products, Building Material and Building Specialties Code.
The Lumber Retailers' Code Administration for Southern California for jurisdictional and administrative purposes is divided into 19 divisions, which are listed below together with the directors who will represent the various divisions:
Division No. 1, San Diego Lumbermen's Service Bureau-D. Frank Park; Division No. 2, Northern San Diego Lumbermen's CIub-H. G. Larrick; Division No. 3, Orange County Lumbermen's Club-O. H. Barr; Division No. 4, Long Beach Lumbermen's Club-A. E. Fickling; Division No. 5, Compton Lumbermen's Club, Centinela
l-umbermen's Club (Inglewood), and South Bay District Lumbermen's Club (Redondo and Hermosa Beach)Geo. Learned; Division No. 6, Bay District Lumbermen's Institute (Santa Monica Lumber & Allied Products Institute)-A. J. Stoner; Division No. 7, Los Angeles (Down Town Division)-H. S. Patten; Division No. 8, Los Angeles (Northern Division, Glendale)-T. H. Hudson; Division No. 9, Los Angeles (West Division-Hollywood), Guy L. Cuzner; Division No. 10, Los Angeles (South Western Division)-G. E. Wittwer; Division No. 11, Los Angeles (South Eastern Division)-F. C. Osgood; Division No. 12, San Fernando Valley Lumbermen's ClubRoss Blanchard; Division No. 13, Ventura County Building Material Dealers' Club-Roy Myers; Division No. 14, Santa Barbara Building Material Dealers' Credit ClubFrancis Boyd; Division No. 15, Pasadena-San Gabriel Valley Lumbermen's Club-Earl Johnson; Division No. 16, Pomona Valley Lumbermen's Club, Ontario-Uplands
Lumberm€n's Club-C. I. O'Neil; Division No. 17, Inland Lumber Institute (San Bernardino)-Fred Chapin; Division No. 18, Riverside Lumber Institute-Roy Sandefur; Division No. 19, Lumberrnen's Service Bureau of Imperial Valley-Chas. Sones.
In accordan'ce rvith the resolution passed by the board of directors at the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, creating a Code Authority consisting of 21 members for administration of the Code in Division 2, Northern California, these members were elected without delay, and a meeting was held for the election of officers and an exe,cutive committee at the Whitcomb Hotel, San Francisco, November 8.
The name of the new organization, which is the authorized agency to administer the Code of Fair Competition in Northern California, is "Retail Lumber and Building Material Code Authority, In'c., and the offi,cers are as follows : Chairman, Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced; vice-chairman, F. L. Dettmann, Allen & Dettmann Lumber Co., San Francis,co; secretary, D. C. E,ssley, San Francisco; treasurer, M. A. Harris, Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco.
National Code Authority Member, Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield.
Exe,cutive Committee: Ralph Duncan, chairman; D. C. Essley, executive secretary; F. L. Dettmann, subdivision No. 1 ; C. I. Speer, Zenith Mill & Lumber Co., Oakland, subdivision No. 2; Geo. Ley, Santa Cruz Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, subdivision No. 3; Ralph Duncan, subdivision No. 4;
\THOLESALE LUMBER ASSOCIATION
San Francisco Office: 260 California St.
F. J. O'Connor, Prer. and Gen. Mgr. - Phone GArfield 5645 Los Angeles Ofrce: Petroleurn Securities Bldg.
Clint Laughlin, Dirtrict Manager . Phone PRospect 2703
MEMBERS
!Y. R. Chuberlin & Co. ., , , .San Franciro and Los Angeles
Donovu Lumber Co. .,.......,....,.,,.,..,.....San Fnnclgco and Los Angelea
Easteru & Westem Lmber Co.........,............Port|ud and San Franciro
J. C. llamilton .San Franciso
Hmmod Lumber Co. ..,.,...San Fnncixo and Lc Angeler
J. R. Hanifu Co. ..San Francirco ud Lc Angeles
Hrt-Wod Lumber Co. .......,.Su Fnnciso
A. B. Jqhnson Lumber Co. ,....San Fruciso
C. D. Johnson Lumber Co. ,...San Fnncieco and Lc Angeles
Alvin N. Lofgren........ ..,.....SanFnnci*o
MacDomld & Harrington .....San Fnncicco and Lc Angeler
A. F. Mahony Lumber Co. ......San Francirco
Chas, R. McCqmick Lumber Co. .,..San Francisco and Lor Antelec
McCqmick Supply Co.. ......,.Su Fluciso and lac Angales
W. J. Mulligan & Co. ...........................San Fnnic*o and Lq Angeles
Charles Nelsd Co. ....,...,.,.. SuFrociroandlosAngeler
Peramino'Lmber Cq ........,.SanFranciso
Santa Fe Lumber Co. ........San Francisco and Los Angeleo
Sudden & Cbrictemon ...Su Francirco and Los Angelcr
Trcwq Lumber Co. .........,.......SanFranciso
Wendling-Nathan Co. ...........................San Franci*o and Los Angclee
R. O. Wilson & Son ... San Francicco
Wilson Bru. & Co. ..SanFnnc'sco and Lc Angeles
E. K. W@d Lumber Co. .....San Francisco and Los Angeles
Hill & Morton, Inc. .........,..
Pyranid Lumber Sala Co.
Bloedel-Donovan Lumber Mills
Brckstaver-Bums Lumber Co. ...,........,
Brooks Lumber Co. ,...........
Gripper & Haglind
Kerckhoff-Cuaer Lumber Co.
Lawace-Philips Lunber Co.
Patien-Bl'nn Lmber Co.
E. L. Reltz Compay
Su Pedro Lumber Co.
C. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, subdivision No. 5; E. T. Robie, Auburn Lumber Co., Auburn, subdivision No.6; R.B. Stevens, A. F. Stevens Lumber Co., Healdsburg, subdivision No. 7.
Code Authority Members: Subdivision No. 1, F. L. Dettlnann, San Francisco; F. M,cNulty, McNulty Lumber Co., San Bruno; T. L. Hubbard, Hubbard & Carmichael Bros., San Jose.
Subdivision No. 2, C. I. Speer, Oakland; Jas L. Tyson, Sunset Lumber Co., Oakland; H. F. Vincent, E..K. Wood Lumber Co., Oakland.
Subdivision No. 3, Geo. Ley, Santa Cruz; Joe Kirk, Pacifi,c Coast Lumber Co., San Luis Obispo; L. M. Tynan. Tynan Lumber Co., Salinas.
Subdivision No. 4, Ralph Duncan, Merced; F. Dean Prescott, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; Elmore King, Bakersfield.
Subdivision N,o. 5, C. G. Bir,d, Stockton; Warren Tillson, Modesto Lumber Co., Modesto; L. H. Elliott, Lodi.
Subdivision No. 6, E. T. Robie, Auburn; J. H. Shepard, Friend & Terry Lumber Co., Sacramento; fra E. Brink, The Diamond Match Co., Chico.
Subdivision No. 7, R. B. Stevens, Healdsburg; Mead Clark, Santa Rosa; Chas. Lund, San Raphael.
Ofiflces have been opened at 603 Newhall Building, 260 California Street, San Fran,cisco.
Dee Essley is in charge. Telephone number is GArfield 7r83.
Morgan Doyle, of the firm of Humphrey, Searls, Doyle & MacMillan, has been appointed to serve as attorney and legal advisor to the new organizatton.
The executive committee meets ea,ch Saturday in the offices.
Walter J. Mulligan, of W. J. Mulligan & Co., San Francisco, arrived back in San Francisco on Wednesday, November 22 alter a lveek's absence on a round trip by air to New York, Chicago and Washington. On the return half of the trip he left Chicago Tuesday evening at 9:30 p.m.. l>reakfasted at Cheyenne, Wyo., and had lunch in San Francisco at noon on Wednesday.
Angeler
Angeles
Angetc
Angele
Angeles
Angeles
Angeler
Angeles
Schafer Brc- Lumber & ShingleCo. ,..........,...Montesano md Lc Angeles
Tacoma Luber Sales Agency
and Los Angeles
This was Mr. Mulligan's Secord transcontinental jaunt in a period of three weeks, the first being some kind of a record for conservation of time. On this journey he left San Francisco on a Monday evening, spent a night and a day in Chicago, and two nights and two days in Nerv York, and was back at his desk in San Francisco first thing Saturday morning, having been away only four days and five nights.
Trrohy Lumber Co.
Angelc St-Paul & Tacma Lumber Co.
E. U. Wbe1ck.................
Angetes
It is interesting to recall that Mr. Mulligan holds the distinction of having been the first passenger to travel all the rvay from the United States to Buenos Ayres by air. This trip to the Argentine was made two years ago.
The minister called at the Smith home on Sunday afternoon and asked for Mr. Smith. Little Johnny, who answered the door, told him:
"Pa ain't home. He's gone over to the golf club for the afternoon."
Then, seeing the clergyman's brow darken, he.saw that something should be said in explanation, so he hazarded:
"Oh, Pa didn't go over there to play golf. Not on Sunday. Pa never plays golf on Sunday. He just went over there for a few highballs, and some stud poker."
When I am gone I know the earth Shall still with blossoms bloom, And lilies open wide their hearts
And spill their pale perfume; f know the moon shall still arise
And sunsets fade alvay, And stars shall burst in sudden light
When starlight closes dayOver fields and over hills
Where purple breezes sing, But I shall be afar, asleep, Lost in some far-flung spring.
When I am gone I wonder if You'll go the same old ways
And sing and laugh through happy hours
As in the olden days-
When you and I, as sweethearts, trod Moonlit field and heatherI wonder if you'll sing the songs
We long have sung together; And if your dreams will be of me, Or will you gaily go
Another way, without a care-?
(Deep in my heart I know !)
-Daniel Whitehead Hicky.He-"A month ago my wife left me without any reason."
She-"I noticed it was gone, but didn't understand why."
frate Church \i[/srn3n-"Why don't you arrbst that Nudist Colony that is disgracing this neighborhood?"
Sheriff-"I would, but it's mighty hard to get anything on tem.tt
There is nothing so interesting or so important in business as the development and the growth of the people engaged in it. When a group of well trained men and wornen make a planned, coordinated effort toward any objective, are sincere in their ideals, do whatever they are doing in a happy, cheerful, confident way, they are bound to succeed. It does not matter what line of business they follow. They cannot fail !-T. H. McCracken.
"What happened in 1483?" asked the teacher.
"Luther was born."
"Right. And what happened in L487?"
"Luther was four years old."
My entire span of life is from the time I awake in the morning until I go to sleep at night. The past is over; the future hasn't come. I do not worry over the one, or fear the other, for my concern is making a fine job of today.-Vash Young.
Press dispatches from Portland, Ore., state that a suit has been filed in the Federal Court there by the Willamette Valley Lumber Company of Dallas, Ore., directed at members of the board of trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the administrative agency for the lumber code in the West Coast logging and lumber division, which demands an injunction prohibiting the administration from imposing a working limitation of 120 hours a month.
The Willamette Valley Lumber Company re'cently appealed the Lumber Code Authority from a de'cision of the board of trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, the divisional governing body, to run 60 hours weekly instead of the allotted 120 hours monthly because of the necessity of fulfilling certain contra'cts with reference to the operation of a leased power plant bqt the Authority denied the appeal voting to sustain the division trustees. The company then appealed their case to the National Recovery Administration and Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery adminstrator, in a ruling upheld the Lumber Code Authority.
The company since February, 1933, has operated on two forty-eight-hour-week-shifts, employing about 350 men. Under the Lumber Code the hours have been reduced to 120 a month.
Wood is returning in a new guise as decorative finish for walls and ceilings. This time it is a warm, soft tiling made of wood fiber.
The new product, known as Nu-Wood Bevel-Lap Tile, is proving increasingly popular both for homes, and for offices, halls, libraries, and other public buildings, according to Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., San Francisco, distributors for San Fran,cis'co Bay district and Northern California. Examination of samples and first installations in California disclose obvious reasons for its wide appeal. A natural wood color in varied tones from light tan to ri,ch dark brown, a variety of shapes and sizes, and two surface textures-one'side being rippled and the other smooth-make possible a great many variations in decoration. Attention is also dire'cted to its I'ow cost.
However. it is learned that this wood fiber tile has at least two other virtues: effective insulation against heat and dampness, and acoustical correction. It is claimed to be unusually effective in muffling discordant noises and preventing reverberations. This is said to make it especially applicable for use in public buildings, such as gymnasiums, theaters, chur,ches, and libraries.
Installation of the tile is declared to be very easy and free from muss, as it is applied over existing wall and ceiling surfaces. The bevel-lap feature assures a perfect seal at each joint, at the same time providing an attractive g'roove around each panel. While the natural color is usually preferred, it may be painted, enameled, stained, or ,calcimined if desired.
' California Sales Agcnts for
Polson Lumber & Shingle Co.
Hoquiam, Warh.
Anderon & Middleton Lumber Co.
Aberdeen' \Farh.
Prouty Lumber & Box Company
Varrenton, Oregon
Operating Steamers
An installation is now being made in the San Mateo County Court House, where Nu-Wood Bevel-Lap Tile is being used in the Supervisors'chambers and the courtroom for the triple purpose of acoustical correction, insulation and interior de'coration.
Another recent installation was in the private ofti,ce of Frank H. Harris, vice president and general manager of Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., where Nu-Wood BevelLap Plank was used on the walls and Bevel-Lap Tile for the ceiling.
SALE LUMBER-'TI9P lY. R. CHAMBERIIN & C().
Washington, Nov. 9.-The United States Timber Conservation Board's lumber survey committee today recommended a further reduction in national lumber stocks of two billion feet. This recommendation appears to be at variance with the action of the Lumber Code Authority last week in publication of regional production quotas for the last quarter of 1933 which total about a billion feet larger than production in the corresponding period of 1932. The Timber Conservation Board is a public advisory body. The Lumber Code Authority represents the manufacturers who must take risks in the endeavor to comply with the spirit of the National Recovery Administration, especially in regard to maintaining maximum employment. The Lumber Code Authority anticipates a marked recovery o{ building next spring.
The Timber Conservation Board Committee points out that during the third quarter of 1933 lumber stocks increased. This is the first time since 1930 that a net quarterly increase has been shown. The advance was moderate, amounting to l7l million feet for softwoods and 62 million feet for all lumber. The Committee recommends net stocks reduction of over two billion feet as a means of strengthening the ability of the industry to continue operations under the conditions imposed by the Code of Fair Competition. Stocks accumulations, it finds, should not be encouraged. It calls attention, however, to the unbalanced condition of inventories in some regions, and to the continued need of exchanges of stocks by manufacturers to avoid unnecessary accumulations of items already in industry surplus.
National lumber consumption, the Committee finds, has increased during the third quarter but not so rapidly as shipments. It promises, the report says, to be of substantial volume during the fourth quarter for public works and projects but the relatively slow recovery of industry and of public purchasing power suggests the wisdom of conservative planning and output, at least until signs of a general building and industrial upturn are more impressi'i'e and dependable.
The report points out that the drastic advance of lumber prices during the last six months and especially since May (the Bureau of Labor Statistics lumber price index rising of 82.O in September from 59.6 in May) has resultecl in some regions and species in the depletion of many moderately priced items and in surplus in higher priced upper grades. Contrasted with the advance in lumber prices is the more moderate increase shown in prices of all building materials by the Labor Bureau from 71.4 in May to 82.7 in September. Lumber will find it increasingly difficult to compete with other materials under present advances. IJnder cost conditions imposed by the codes, in-
cluding "cost protection minimum" prices expected to be published, and established, manufacturers will find it necessary to exercise every reasonable precaution with respect to costs and to increase efficiency in management and planning.
Committee recommends as an immediate pressing need an up-to.-date national survey of lumber consumption in construction and by the various wood-using industries, to be made with the cooperation of the U. S. Forest Service and Census Bureau.
In making comparative analysis of lumber consumption and stocks the report disclosed that while the first six months of 1933 showed new business in excess of production by 4O per cent, third quarter reports indicate a reverse relationship, or production in excess of orders by 16 per cent. In the third quarter, according to reports to the National Lumber Trade Barometer, orders fell 13 per cent and production rose 50 per cent as compared rvith the second quarter.
The report summarizes its findings as follows:
"Although the fourth quarter of the year is encouraging in its prospect of increased public works and other programs to accelerate purchasing power, and although the spring of 1934 is confidently expected to show revival in building and industry, the lumber industry should not encourage stocks accumulations. It should continue its effort to adjust its production and its stocks to current consumption and not to uncertain future prospects; to improve the manufacturing and marketirig of its products; and to promote and extend their uses."
The Lumber Survey Corrimittee was appointed on July 9, 1931, and consists of Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager, National Lumber Manufacturers Association; Thomas S. Holden, Vice President, F. W. Dodge Company, New York; M. W. Stark, Economist, Chicago, Ill.; Calvin Fentress, Chairman of the Board, Baker, Fentress & Company, Chicago, Ill.; and Axel H. Oxholm, Chief. Lumber and Paper Division, Department of Commerce. This Committee serves voluntarily in cooperation with the work of the Timber Conservation Board in its study of the economic situation in the forest products industries.
Lumber production in 1932, according to report just released by the U. S. Census Bureau, totalled 10,159,465,000 feet, as compared with 16,522,643,000 feet in 1931, a drop of 38.5 per cent. This is the smallest production of any year for which volume figures have ever been reported, the total output in 1869, the first year of record, being 12,755,543,000 feet. The Census repert f.or 1932 also gives volume of stocks on hand at the mills as of the first and last of the year, for the first time completely segregating hardwoods and softwoods.. The stock figures represent 75.7 per cent of the total production reported and indicate a decline of 16.8 per cent in softwoods and 16.3 per cent in hardwoods during the year,
Southern Pine Again in the Lead Analysis of the Census report by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association shows that Southern pine resumed the leadership in the production of important species which it had held since species reports have been compiled, up to 1931, when production of Douglas fir was greater. In 1932 Southern pine production was reported as 3,068,898,000 feet; Douglas fir, 2,912,425,000 feet. In 1932 Southern pine production was 30.2 per cent of the total cut; Douglas fir was 28.7 per cent. In 1931, Southern pine was 26.8 per cent of the total ; Douglas fir, 28.1 per cent.
Nineteen states reported production of Southern pine in 1932, the four states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas contributing 52.5 per cent of the total output of that species. Douglas fir was cut in 1.0 states, Washington and Oregon reporting 95.8 per cent of this total. Ponderosa pine, the third most important species in production, was reported by 11 states, Oregon, California and Washington reporting 79 per cent of the total. Idaho is the leading state in production of white pine, which is cut in 25 states; Tennessee of oak, whose production is reported by 36 states.
Comparison with 1931
In comparison with 1931, the 1932 record shows that hemlock and cypress production suffered greater proportionate decline than did any other important softwood species, namely 65 and 5O per cent, respectively. Ponderosa pine shows the least relative decline, ot 29 per cent. Southern pine output was 31 per cent less than in 1931 ; Douglas fir output was 37 per cent less.. Of the hardwoods, maple and birch showed 51 and 58 per cent decline, respectively; tupelo has the best record of six lbading hard'wood species, showing only 34.5 per cent decline as compared with 1931.
' Leadership of States
Washington and Oregon were still leading states in 1932 in lumber production. Californib as in 1931, was third. The output of these three Pacific Coast states was 44.8 per cent of the total of the country in 1932. Louisiana
ranked fourth. Mississippi, which was third in t926-7-8-9 and fourth in 1930, dropped to sixth place in 1932, being outdistanced by Alabama. Louisiana, as in 1931, was the leading hardwood producing state. West Virginia was second in hardwood production in 1932; Tennessee was second in 1931.
Important lumber states showing'the least proportionate decline in 1932 production as compared with 1931 were California, loss of 28.1 per cent; Alabama, loss of. 25.7 per cent; Texas, of 27.1 per cent, and South Carolina, 2I.4 per cent. Those states showing greatest relative decline from 1931 were Idaho, 50.3 per cent;' Virginia, 45.5 per cent; Florida, 44.4 peldent; Georgia, 42.6 per cent, and Washington, 42.2 per cent.
The 1932 Census report includes volume of stocks of hardwoods and softwoods separately, on hand January 1, and December 31, 1932, at mills whose production totalled 7,688,541,000 feet, or 75.7 per cent of the total reported production. of the country. The states showing the most complete coverage in the stock reports are Idaho, New Mexico, Orefon, Washinlton and Minnesota, whose figures cor/er from 91.6 to 9€.6 per cent of their production. The output of mills rpporting stocks in California (and Nevada) was only 52.2 per cent of the total output of the state. In the South, the softwood coverage is most complete in the states of Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Texas and Florida. The hardwood coverage is most complete in Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama; Arkansas, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The total decline in softwood stocks at the milis is given as 16.8 per cent during the year; the decline in hardwood stocks was 16.3 per cent. This compares with 23.1 per cent for softwoods and, 25.6 per cent for hardwoods as reported to the Timber Conservation Board. In the Census report, the leading states show the following percentage of stock decline during 1932:
Per Cent
Stockdecline coveredby during 1932 stock reports
19.4% 93.5%
Production of lath and shingles increased slightly in 1932 over 1931, shingle output at 2,905,493 thousands showing gain of.7 per cent and lat-h production'at 61.5,879 thou-
sands being a fraction of one per cent above that of the year,before
A DEFINITE RESPONSIBILITY!
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT says: ..COMMUNITY CHESTS MUST CARRY ON''
Federal, State and County Funds are available ONLY to t{rose who are the direct victims of unemployment.
Community Chests must care for dependent children, provide health activities, all preventive work, and telief of those who are ineligible for Governmental Funds.
+Includes also Balsam Fir, Lodgepole Pine.
**Includes also Alder, Ash, Basswood, Cottonwood, Elm, Magnolia, Walnut
Washington, D. C., Nov. 21.-Deputy N.R.A. Administrator Thomas M. Glasgow, who has been in charge of the lumber code,' has resigned, effective December 1, according to an announcernent by General Johnson. Mr. Glasgow is anxious to resume direction of the GlasgowStewart Co., Charlotte, (N. C.) wholesale automobile supply dealers, from which he had obtained leave of absence at the rbquest of the General.
In acknowledging the resignation General Johnson noted the fact that Mr. Glasgow came to Washington at a sacrifice, and stated that it was with reluctance that he acceded to Mr. Glasgow's, request that he be permitted to return to his own business. "I want to express my full appreciation," the General's letter of acknowledgment stated, "of the intelligent and faithful service you have rendered in assuming and carrying forward toward solution the many problems involved in the lumber code."
Washington, D. C., Nov. 2t.-A weekly report on "Movement of Timber .Products" to the Divisions, has been undertaken by the Lumber Code Authority.
The initial report, which covers the weeks ending October 7,14 and 21, shows a marked increase in sales over the corresponding period in 1932, for Douglas fir doors and Douglas fir plywood, In addition to these items the report covers Southern Rotary Cut Lumber, Pacific Wooden Box, Inland Empire Wooden Box, Sawed Box, Plywood Package, Washington-Oregon Shingles and Stained Shingles, and calls attention to the fact that similar data on Lumber and Hardwood Flooring are issued weekly in the National Lumber. Trade Barometer prepared by the National I umber Manufacturers Association.
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Washington, November 23.-Corrdspondence between the National Lumber Manufacturers Association and American Forest Produ'cts Industries on the one_hand, and on the other R. H. Aishton, Chairman of the Board of the American Railway Association and Joseph B. Eastman, Federal Coordinator of Transportation, has brought out the fact that standardization of railway freight cars in no way restricts the present use of lumber in the construction of such cars. Contrary to an impression that got abroad, it is now offi,cially confirmed that individual carriers will conform to the Railway Association's standardization policy in using any or all of the following types:
1. The existing standard single wood-sheathed design, the sheathing serving also as the lining, with wood floors and running boards.
2. The existing standard double-wood sheathed design with wood lining, floors and running boards.
3. The new standard steel exterior design which uses per,car about 1500 board feet of lining, 1000 feet of wood flooring, and 20O feet or wood running boards. This car has steel exterior sides, ends and roof ; and in the interior, wood fl.oors and'wood lining, which in contrast to many cars of existing types, extends solidly from floor to eaves. The metal roof, however, is not wood lined.
Each Railway to Chooee Its Own Type
Under date of November 14, Mr. Aishton writes: "The adoption by the Mechanical Division of the American Railway Association of the new steel sheathed wood-lined box car simply establishes a standard for this type of construction and in no way restricts the production and use of other types if desired. The Committee on Car Construction has not made any ,change in connection with the recommended pra,ctices designs of single sheathed wood sheathed box cars or double sheathed wood sheathed box cars. The choice of a car, therefore, as you will appreciate, lies with the individual railroad, and it is for these reasons the various standards are available for su,ch use as they wish to make of them."
In an earlier letter to American Forest Products Industries, Mr. Aishton says that the rumor that henceforth all new box car rolling stock shall be built of steel super-structure "to standards now before the railroads for consideration and appr.oval", is possibly due to the fact that a press notice concerning five sample box cars recently,constructed for the American Railway'Association referred to them as all steel. "As a matter of fact", he says, "they are not, a very 'considerable amount of wood being used in their construction, sides, flooring, and ends, as you will note from the attached photograph showing the interior view of one of the cars. In addition, they are equipped with wooden running boards. So far as cars of this particular type are concerned, as you no doubt kn,ow, they have been in use for many years, steel outside and wood inside In these sample cars some refinements and improvements have been made in various phases of their construction, hen'ce the resultant publicity."
Association Information Useful
Mr. Aishton adds: "You may be assured that the rail-
California Redwood has been chosen for a plaque on which is to be carved a bas-relief of Miss Byrd Mock, authoress of the Olympic Ode. The plaque will be placed along with the Ode, done on fine parchment, in the Olympic archives at Lausanne for all time, in commemoration of the Tenth Olympiad at Los Angeles.
This is another great tribute, not only to durability, but to the beauty and workability of California Redwood.
The piece of California Redwood used for the plaque is of beautiful, satin smooth, Clear Heart Redwood measuring
Piece ol Clear Heart Calilornin Reduood, 24"x24"x2V2", to be caroed and rtIed at Lausanne, Suitzerland., in the Archiues ol the Olympic Games. Donated by Dolbeer & Carson.Lum ber Company through the California Reduood' Association.
24 inches by 24 inches by 2l inches, and was furnished by Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Company, San Francisco, through the California Redwood Association. It has been ient to Theodore Morales of Chicago, a noted Greek artist, who has asked the privilege .of doing the carving. l
The Ode, which glorifies California as "The New Hellas", reviews the history of the development of the Olympii Games from 776 B. C. down to the Olympiad in Los Angeles in 1932.
I Much national and international publicity for California Redwood will result from the choice of this wood for the plaque.'
roads have a very keen appreciation of the statements con. tained in the memorandum accompanying your letter, concerning the merits of wood for use in equipment construction purposes. They have used it extensively in the past for this purpose and we have no knowledge at this time as to any change in that policy."
Mr. Eastman explains in his letter that the new standard 50-ton ste.el box car has ,been designed to benefit the rail. roads through reducing the existing variety in steel box car design and construction. He says that there is nothing in the re,commendation which prohibits the use of other materials for box ,cars,.but tha; it does. mean that the new standard design is recornmended to the railroads for the purchasa qf all new steel cars of So-ton cap4city..
Washington, Nov. 21.-The National Lumber Manufacturers Association still has some sets of block samples of the commercial woods of the United States. These 48 samples of as many species are of particular interest to public school classes in natural science, economic information regarding raw material sources, and in woodworking and architecture. The blocks are only large enough to fit into a neat little packing box lV/ax7fu" and 6" deep. The box has a lift top, on the inside of which is a printed key to the contents. Labels on each block set forth the approximate amount of lumber of its species produced annually in the United States, its habit of growth, its general and peculiar qualities, and the variety of uses to which it is put.
As a form of industrial education the samples are sold to schools, museums and other interested agencies at the cost of production including incidental overhead-that is, $1.95 Ior the set. Postage or other shipping charge is additional.
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1337 Connecticut Avenue, Washington, D. C., has found from its experience in a previous offering of these blocks that lumber dealers, millworking establishments, lumber mills, and other business groups are often delighted to receive a suggestion that they purchase sets of the wood blocks for presentation to the schools.
I grew by a graveled pathwayA young and a verdant tree, And the dew, the rain and the moonbeams Came often to play with me; My voice was a lisping whisper, But I longed to be strong and tall
Like the towering pines on the hillside
That sing when the wild winds call.
And then on a winter's morning
I stood neath a leaden sky
And trembled in fear and sorrow
As the slain of my race passed by; Chill winds went sighing by me
And afar on the wooded hill, The great trees brooded darkly In a silence deep and still.
Ere long my dread grerv greater, For warm hands fondled me, And a child's voice' shouted, "daddy, Here is our Christmas tree !"
I knew that my days were numberedThat my fond, young hopes were dead; But they jeweled my living branches And placed a star on my head.
And so bedecked and bejeweled, By the graveled path I stood, A creature of life and beauty Akin to the field and tlie wood; And each throb of rny earth bound spirit
To those gentle 'hearts I give, Who decreed in love and in mercy
That a little tree should live.
A. Merriam Conner.Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3, American Legion, will hold their annual Hi-Jinks at the Hayward Hotel, 6th & Spring Streets, Los Angeles, on Friday evening, December 15, 1933. The committee has arranged for several special attractions and entertainment features. Tickets whi.ch will include dinner and entertainment will be $1.50 each.
The Arrangements Committee includes the following: T. B. Lawrence and Don Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co.; Russell Gheen, C. D. Johnson Lumber Co.; Fred Morehouse, Hamrnond Lumber Company; Herman Rosenberg, Hipolito Company; Stanley Moore, Fir-'fex of Southcrn Califbrnia; Tom Tomlinson, Pacific Door & Sash Co.; H. W. Brown, The Celotex Company; Ed Biggs, Union Lumber Company; Jack Brush, W. E. Cooper Lumber Co.; D. J. MacDougall, MacDougall & Cole; Bill Cuzner, Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Co., and J. A. McNeill, Lounsberry & Harris.
A big turnout is expected to attend this annual party. Telephone your feservations to T. B. Lawrence, LawrencePhilips Lumber Co., Los Angeles-PRospect 0229.
Rate---$2.50 Per Column Inch.
Los Angeles and Southern California lumber yards for sale. Address Box C-480, Care California .Lumber Merchant.
Manufacturer's Account wanted for White Pine Lumber and Moulding for Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, territory. Address Box C-499, California Lumber Merchant.
Washington, Nov. 13.-The Department of l.abor and Industry of Pennsylvania, being in a hurry for a code of regulations for grandstand ,construction, has adopted and published a State safety ,code whi'ch will also be considered later by the American Standards Asso'ciation as a national safety code. S. W. Homan,. oJ the fennsylvania Department, is Chairman of the Sectional Committee on grandstands and thus rvas in a position to anticipate final actioqt of the A. S. A. His action was approved by a majority o{ the Committee. In applying the tentative code to Pennsylvania some revisions were necessary in the general clauses.
The National Lumber Manufacturers Association has been represented on the A. S. A. Grandstand Committee for many years, and due to its advice the committee'has dropped basic grades and stresses and substituted for them commencial grades and stresses. The code also incorpg.rates several of the National Lumber Manufacturer"s Association engineering clauses and mentions modern connectors as an approved method of fastening. Moreover, the painting provisions have been brought into accord with the facts.
Specifications for lumber for freight cars and locomotives which have been in preparation for some years by the mechanical division of the American Railway Association, -have been submitted to all member railways for approval. The National Lumber. Manufacturers Association'.and .the regional lumber manufacturers asso'ciations have'eooperated with the Me'chanical Division of the Railway Association in the preparation of these master car lumber specifications, with much mutual benefit. It is expected that the Federal Coordinator of Railroad Transportation will urge the different railways to adopt the new standards immedi-
Competent Lumber Accountant with 24 years successful record, including management of large yard in Middle W9st, seeks connection in either capacity in California. Highest references. Address Box C-498, California lumber Merchant.
Washington, November 21.-So many thousands of requests for "Poultry Flouses and Equipment" have been received that the cost has be'come an unexpectedly heavy item in the National Lumber Manufacturers Association budget. It has .consequently been found .necessary to ask applicants for the booklet hereafter to forward 10 cents in stamps or coin with their requests. A single paragraphic review of the booklet in the Farm Journal brought in over 2,ffi inquiries. Owing to the depression and the widespread interest in "subsistence homesteads" hundreds of thousands of people are becoming interested in keeping a small number of poultry and are eager for helpful information.
Washington.Announcement that American Forest Products Industries had arranged for the distribution of plans and specifications for a modification of the Lumber Industries Sunlight Exhibit House at the Chicago World's Fair, has evoked a flood of applications for copies, The exhibit house itself necessarily had to be adaptedi in respect to halls and somewhat in respect to the size of the rooms, to meet the necessities arising from accommo: dating thousands of visitors. The plans and specifications how offered not only follow the pattern of the exhibit house but provide alternative room arrangements. Moreover, these plans can be used as the basis of further' changes on the advice of local architects.
Several hundred lumber dealers have already asked for 'plans and specifications, and it is now certain that the course of several thoqsand proprietors and employees in ,the lumber business in providing the funds for the lumber thouse uras one of the best trade extension efforts ever undertaken.
The lumber retail'er3 everywhere ale ilso showing keen interest in the renewal bi ttre offer to provide wood block samples of. 48 species of American woods used in building. Boxes of these'sarnples are provided at cost, nainely, $1.95, plus postage. Many lurnbermen are ordering as high as half a dozen sets with the intention of presenting them to as many schools in their localities, ately.
68,000 SQUARE FEET, AREA
Framed and Roofed with 166,000 feet B. M. Structural Grades of California Redwood, this excellent example of Redwood construction was designed by Mr. M. R. Bowen, City Engineer of Whittier. Mr. Bowen made Redwood his selection after weighing the merits of all other materials.
