The California Lumber Merchant - December 1937

with Friendlv Deal ets Service

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Distributors of Quality Building Materials

qnd Kindred Lines

NATIONAIJI,Y KNOWN BRANDS

Celotex Insulcrtion, Hcrd Bocrds qnd Interior Finish Products

Thermox-Fire Resistcrnt Insulction

PdB Roofing Products, Felts ond Commodities

Gold Bond Products-Gypsum

lVcllboord, Perforqted Lcth, New Arch Beod, Metcl Loth

Columbic Steel ProductsGqlvonzied Steel Sheets qnd

Tenneseal Roofing

Sqsh cnd Doors

Super Hcnbord Plywoods ond Wclllbocrds

Horbord Sog-Nott Doors

Hqrbord Redwood Plywoods

Upson Processed Wollboords

Sisolkroft Building Popers

White Cements

Poultry Nettings-Ncils

Fencing qnd Wire Products

Stucco Nettings

Yosemite One-Doy Cement

Anderson & &Iiddleton Lrumber Co.

Manufacturcrs

Ed Horr With Pickerins

Edward A. Horr was recently appointed general sales manager for the Pickering Lumber Company, with headquarters at Standard, Calif.

Mr. Horr was sales manager for some years for the Chicago Lumber Co. of Washington, Oakland, and later sales manager for Shaw-Bertram Company, Klamath Falls, Ore. For several years before being appointed to his present position he was associated with a leading manufacturer of Venetian blinds.

The Pickering Lumber Company is one of the largest producers of Sugar and Ponderosa Pine in California.

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L. A. Hardwood Industry Meets

The Hardwood Industry in Los Angeles held their regular monthly meeting at the Jonathan Club, Thursday, November 4. The following members attended: Clarence Bohnhofi, Clarence Boyle, John Clugston, Frank Connolly, Arthur Harff, W. B. Jones, A. Pierce, E. G. Reel, James Ryan, Henry Swafford, C. R. Taenzer, Milton Taenzer, C. W. Wuest and H. H. Whiteside.

Following the lnncheon, there was a discussion of matters pertaining to the Hardwood Industry. H. H. Whiteside presided. The next luncheon meeting is scheduled for the first Thursday in Decemher.

fnsulite Company, The -------------.-

Johneon Lumber Corporation, C. D. -----------r

Koehl & Sons, Inc., Jno. V. ----------,----------- 2

Kuhl Lumber Co. Carl H.

Lamon-Bonnington Company ---------------------..25

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. ------------------------ E

Lofgren, Alvin N. -----------------13

Lumbermetrs Credit Asociation ---------------*

MacDonald & Harrington, Ltd.

Marie Plywood Corporation -------------------------t

Marshall, Inc., John E.

Mclntyre & Son, V. P.

Michigan.California tumber Co. -----------------*

Monolith Portland Cement Company

Moore Dry Kiln Co. --------------.26

Moore Mill & Lumber Co.

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Cooper, Vilfred T. -----------------------------------------13

Curtis Companies Setvice Bureau

Forsyth Hardwood Co. --

Gorman, George W. ---- --

HalI, James L. ------------------ -27

I{ammond Redwood C,ompany ------------ O.B.C.

Flarbor Plywood Corporation

Flemmings, E. W.

Hill & Morton, Inc.

Hogan Lumber C.o. - - -- - ------------------------15

Floover, A. L. ------ ---- -----------'

National Oak Flooring Manufacturers - Association

Pacific Lumber Co., The Patten.Blinn Lumber Co. ---------------- ----------------23

Peerless Built-In Fixture Co. -- -

Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' --. Import Association

Pioneer Div., The Flintkote Co. .----------------*

Ream, Geo. E., Company , O.F.C.

Red Cedar Shingles Bureau ------------------------15

Red River Lumber Co. --------------- ----------------- 9

R. J. M. Company, The -------------------------------.29

LOS ANGELLS, CAL., DECEMBER I, 1937 Advertiriag

President Roosevelt Proposes Amendments to Housing Act to Speed Up Buifding

Washington, Nov. 29-President Roosevelt today submitted a special message to Congress calling for revision of present housing legislation to stimulate a 12,000 million dollar to 16,000 million dollar construction boom to be financed by private capital over a five-year period.

The message was accompanied by specific recommendations for changes in the National Housing Act. Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, immediately introduced a bill embodying presidential recommendations.

The President, in his message, said:

"Housing construction has not kept pace with either the needs or growth of our population. From 1930 to 1937, inclusive, the average annual number of new dwelling units constructed in the United States was 180,000 as contrasted with an annual average of 800,000 in the seven'years prior to 1930.

"In addition, much of our existing housing has seriously deteriorated, or has been demolished.

"ft is estimated that an average of 600,000 to 800,000 dwelling units ought to be built annually over the next five years to overcome the accumulated shortage and to meet the normal growth.in number of families."

'Ihe President proposed these amendments to the housing act:

1. Expiration date for Federal Housing Adniinistration activities would be extended indefinitely from July l, L939when present insurance features end-and the limitations of 2000 million dollars on the amount of mortgages insurable would be modified.

2. Encouragement of national mortgage associations by allowing sale of debentures up to a 20-to-l ratio to their capita'L. Financing of a 5O million dollar association by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to "provide the basis for 1000 million dollars of private funds obtainable through the sale of national mortgage association debentures."

3. Extension of FHA features to allow increase of small property loans from 80 to 90 per cent arnd reduction of interest rates from 6r/a to 512 or 57/a per cent, depending on the property evaluation.

4. Expansion of Federal Housing Administration to cover loans up to $200,000 on large-scale building projects instead of the present $16,000 limitation. This extension would be contingent upon the requirement that the mortgage does not exceed $1000 a room on the structure or structures.

5. Liberalization of existing limited dividend requirements of the act, releasing dwellings in this category from blanket mortgages where the mortgage does not exceed $1200 a room and the value of the dwelling is not in excess of $5000.

6. Revival of insurance provisions for repair and modernization loans similar to those provided by Federal Housing Administration up to last April 1.

To facilitate this co-operation, the President said:

"It is my intention to initiate a series of conferences with representatives of industry, labor and finance, with a view to giving housing construction a fresh start in the coming building year."

How New Housing Act Would Aid Builders

Washington, Nov. 29.-This is how President Roosevelt's proposed amendment of the National Housing Act would help the man of moderate income build a home:

The necessary down payment for Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance would be cut in half. On a $5000 house the down payment would be g500 instead of $1000, as at present.

Carrying charges on the mortgage would be cut. payments on a $5000, 2o-year mortgage would begin, for instance, at $34 a month instead of. $37.14, as under the present Federal Housing Administration schedule. Ih addition, the total monthly payment would be reduced more rapidly because the insurance fee, now a flat $2.08 a month on a $5000 mortgage, would decline as the principal of the mortgage outstanding was reduced.

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Vagabond Editorials

Bv JacL Dionne

I would like to confine my thoughts, as I start these vagabondings today, to that grand little fourJiner of Frank Stanton's:

"The world that we're a-livin' in Is mighty hard to beat; You git a thorn with wery roseBut ain't the roses sweet?" ***

But I've just finished reading a dozen newspapers from various parts of the country and, instead of the four-liner that comes most trippingly to my tongue, is this one by Butler:

"Authority intoxicatesAnd makes mere sots of magistratesThe fumes of it invade the brainAnd make men giddy, proud and vain." ***

I've been reading about what's going on in Washington, mostly. And I read what President William Green, of the American Federation of Labor, said yesterday in the Capital City about the National Labor Relations Board. He said he was opposed to the proposed wage and hour bill which Mr. Roosevelt asked Congress to pass because, he said, recent experiences with the National Labor Relations Board have convinced the Federation "it is no longer safe" to permit a governmental board "of that kind" to decide vital matters.

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The fact is, that all thinking men in this country had come to that conclusion long before Mr. Green did. I've just finished reading what Carl Crow, of Portland, Oregon, has to say about the recent hearing of the National Labor Relations Board, in Portland. It would almost require asbestos print paper to stand the heat that Mr. Crow put on that Board. He said, in part: "The National Labor Relations Board is as Russian as caviar, and needs only a firing squad to close the last link in the chain to Communism and Fascism." ***

And concerning the hearing, Mr. Crow says: "Witnesses called in defense of the position of I. E. U. (Industrial Employes Unio,n is an independent union of mill and woods workers in the Pacific Northwest) are treated like criminals on trial, without being shown as much courtesy as is af-

forded a stew bum in police court. The A. F. of L., having recently withdrawn from the case, the C. I. O. attorney continues to sit right alongside the NLRB prosecutor, and they carry on whispered conferences, obviously as colleagues collaborating for a common cause." And much else, says Mr. Crow. Did someone say it couldn't happen here? *r8*

I have been highly amused at my own efforts to keep down "depression" talk by soft-pedaling present conditions in my recent vagabonds. I thought the less said the better. And now all the news and publicity agencies in the country are trigtr-tighting and headJighting just one vital subject today, and that is the present business slump. They are all asking and trying to answer the same question, namely: Is this just a temporary dip, or is it the beginning of another depression? One man's guess is just as good as another's.

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A stupendous array of facts are daily offered to demonstrate and illustrate the fix in which we find ourselves. The thing started about the middle of August when the stock market began to slip, and it has been going down ever since. Today American owners of listed stocks are worth more than twenty-five billions of dollars less than they were in August. Just a small matter of twenty-five billions ! That business could do anything in the face of such a battering but slow down to a walk, was not to be expected. And that's where business is today-just barely walking. And that means ALL business. Steel, the common measuring stick of business in this country, is back to about the 1935 level of sales volume. Car-loadings, etc., are miles ofr.

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The special called session of CongresS serves as a mighty loud speaker for the business situation, for it looks as if half the people who have gone to Washington are crying aloud like John. the Baptist in the wilderness, and asking what is going to be done to help business. The army of business talkers seems to be abs,ut evenly divided between those who are asking what can be done, and those who are trying to answer. * *

I am reminded of the Western man who heird a terrible squealing in his back yard one day, and called out to his

Chinese cook to know what all the noise was about. The Chink answered: "Butcher killee piggee; piggee no likee." That's what's going on today. Business has taken a terrific nose-dive and, with the exception of the New Deal bosses, everyone seems to want something done about it. Mr. Roosevelt in his message to Congress suggested a mild and unimportant modification of the surplus and capital gains taxes. Many others at Washington are loudly demanding the entire repeal of those recent laws. You would think, to hear the emphasis they put on this particular thought, that it would pull business out of the dumps, and send it rushing out into the highways and by-ways to hire a lot of unemployed, just to show their appreciation. And I would quote the words of that versatile columnist, Westbrook Pegler, and say, "Nuts to that stuff."

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I can tell you that it is going to take something more than the repeal of those two punitive laws that were rushed through Congress with all the might and power of the administration behind them, to awaken business from its present lethargy. Because they are only one of the numerous trip-hammers that have been slamming business on the head until they finally knocked it flat on its face. And they are not the most important of the slammers by any means. I think Chairman O'Connor, of the House Rules Committee, just about covered the entire trouble when he said:

"The trouble is that no one in this country gives a thought to the five million employers. We are picking on them, abusing them, and snooping on them. Yet the only place anybody can get a REAL job is from a private employer."

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H. I. Phillips, writing for the Associated Newspapers on the subject, "That Fiend, the Employer," says in rhyme: "Oh, the rattlesnake has good points, And the white shark isn't bad; Even polecats have their virtues, As have buzzards, too, my lad; But employers ! Why, they're nothing ! They're the lowest of the low, As must be apparent, dearie, If you own a radio !"

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The employer has been continually beaten over the head for the past several years with the Wagner Act, the NLRB, the sit-down strike, higher wages, shorter hours, reduced efficiency, loss of authority over his own business, regulation, and the continual threat of more of same, continually mounting and pyramiding taxation, punitive taxes, blame for troubles created by the philosophy of scarcity, and with which he had nothing to do, bureaucratic bothers of all sorts, an unknown and unreliable money situation and, on top of these and many other things, continual criticism and harassment.

At present we are taking a census of the unemployed men and women of this country. If it were possible to take a correct census of the unemployed MONEY and the unemployed but valuable BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES going begging all over this country, it would be found that the latter would completely swallow up the former, if put to work. From my own experience I can name a number of business opportunities of importance that would employ a tremendous number of men, that are just as dead as Napoleon at the present time, because their authors are sitting and waiting. For what? For the time when they will consider it wise to take good money and expose it to the present day hazards of business, labor, control, taxes, harassments of all sorts.

BUsrNEss wrLL "JJI;E ro Acr AccoRDING TO THE FEARS OF BUSINESS MEN. WHEN CONDITIONS DEVELOP THAT AFFORD BUSI. NESS MEN A SENSE OF SECURITY, OF' CONFIDENCE; WHEN THE CONTINUAL BITTER AT. TACKS ON BUSINESS AND BUSINESS MEN CEASE; WHEN THOSE IN AUTHORITY LEARN WHAT ALL MEN OF ORDINARY INTELLIGENCE KNOW NAMELY: THAT FRIGHTENED CAPITALISTS WON'T INVEST AND JITTERY EMPLOYERS WON'T EMPLOY, THEN FEAR WILL DISAPPEAR AND BUSINESS WILL IMPROVE. AND THE IMPROVEMENT WILL BE IN EXACT RATIO TO THE FEAR REDUCTION. AND VICE VERSA. KEEP ON THE PRESSURE AND YOU LOWER THE BUSI. NESS TEMPO. ***

Today, on top of all the other harassments that have kept the business men of this country somewhat jittery, even during their best business periods in the past two years, came along more legislative threats. The administration asked for a wage and hour law. More control. Another NLRB only worse, if such a thing could be. More prying into business affairs. More snooping. More trouble.

Also there is asked governmental reorganization. More centralized control of business and citizenship. A crop control law is demanded. More control over a great group of our population. Control<ontrol-control ! Taxes ! Taxes ! Taxes! Is it any wonder business became ill? The minds behind the businesses became jittery. That's all on earth that happened. And, Presto! ***

Now the question is, are we going to do the plain and sensible thing and take the shackles and the fears off of business, and give it a chance to "increase and multiply;" or, are we going to pursue the same course we have been pursuing, sweeping along toward more control, more regulation, more taxes, more fears, more jitters, and more depression? Senator Vandenberg, of Michigan, offers a series of suggestions for helping business out of its present slump, and at the top of his list of suggestions is THIS one: "An end to governmental 'hymns of hate' and bitter attacks on business which have created a jittery state of mind among business men."

The Houston Post (Democratic), sums up the situation very nicely, when it says: "Nothing is to be gained by denying that the country is again facing a serious situation. There is good reason to believe that the trouble can be speedily cured if sane, constructive measures are taken promptly." Right ! All on earth we have to do to give us a boom winter is to take the pressure off of moneyowners and employers. And all we have to do to dig us into plenty of trouble, is to keep the pressure on business. Which road shall we take?

AL HART VISITS CALIFORNIA

Al Hart, of the Hart Mill Company, Raymond, lVas in Los Angeles last week on a business trip. His company is represented in Southern California by Tacoma Lumber Sales, Los Angeles. Mr. Hart attended the big game between California and Stanford, at Palo Alto, November 20.

Lumbermen's Mid -I(/inter Hi-Jlnks to be Bigger and Better than Ever

The Lumbermen's Mid-Winter Hi-Jinks is going to be bigger and better than ever and will be held Friday evening, December 17, 1937, at the Club de Paree, 2312 West 7th Street (opposite Westlake Park), Los Angeles. The party is sponsored by Lumbermen's Post No. 4O3 of the American Legion. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m.

A fine entertainment program has been arranged {or and two complete shows will be put on during the evening. Among the entertainers who will appear during the dinner hour are: Bernice Lynn, one of Los Angeles' finest tap dancers, who was recently held over for eight weeks by popular demand at the Biltmore Bowl; Johnson and Worth, hand balancing team dressed as sailors, who will present their funny act, "Two Gobs of Giggles;" Cantu, the magician, and a group of five beautiful girls in specialty numbers.

The second show will follow the dinner. Joan Manners will put on her hill billy act; IVlcCormick, the ventriloquist, who will be remembered by those attending the last HiJinks, is on the program again by special request; and the concluding number will be specialty acts by a group of well known girl entertainers.

A four-piece orchestra will render music during the dinner hour and for the entertainment prog'rams.

Tickets are $3 apiece and include dinner and the two floor shows. Tickets can be secured from members of Lumbermen's Post, by calling Milton Taenzer, American Hardwood Co., PRospect 4235, or Ed Biggs, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., JEfferson 3111.

NEW TECHNICAL BULLETIN ON DOUGLAS FIR PLYWOOD

A new technical bulletin entitled, "Sheathing and Subflooring of Douglas Fir Plywood," has been published by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wash.

The eight-page bulletin contains complete information, with photographs, drawings and charts, on the use of the giant fir plywood panels for residence and industrial construction. Rigidity values, deflection tables, nailing schedules, and short-form specifications, are included.

Copies of the bulletin are available to builders,, contractors, engineers, architects, and dealers, from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma, Wash.

WITH ANGLO-CALIFORNIA LUMBER

Percy 'Winsor, formerly with the W. E. Cooper Co., is now with Anglo-California Lumber Co., geles, as salesman.

OBSERVES 27TH ANNIVERSARY

CALIFORNIA

Soft Ponderosa LUMBER . MOULDING

PINES

Sugar Pine PLYVOOD

Continuous year round production. Kiln dried or air dried lumber. Straight cars or mixed cars of lumber and plywood products.

Lumber Los An-

The San Joaquin Lumber Company of Stockton, org.an_ ized in 1910 by the late Robert Inglis, observed its twentyseventh anniversary on November 16. Officers of the company are: Dan Schroebel, president; Newton Rutherford, vice-president, and Dewey Bowen, secretary. The annual report states the company has enjoyed a good year.

MILL, FACTORIES AND GENERAL SALES

LOS ANGELES

Sales Ofice: 715 Vestern Pacific Bldg, 1031 So. Broadway

Varehouse: L. C. L. Vholecale, 7O2 E. Slauson Ave.

SAN FRANCISCO

Saler Ofice: 315 Motradnoc& Building

Barr Lumber Company Has Attractive Holiday Display

Wilbur Barr, treasurer of the Barr Lumber Company, Santa Ana, Calif., writes: "We have thought for a long time that something should be done to strengthen the lumber dealers' volume during the Christmas season, and this year we are using. the billboard display shown in the accompanying photograph."

"This Christmas Give Better Living" and "Delight Her With a Modern Kitchen" are splendid thoughts for the holiday season.

Selling comfort and happiness is what appeals to and interests the buying public. They appreciate the convenience, the luxury, thorough satisfaction and attractiveness that comes from a modernized home.

This is a real building service to prospective customers and should create considerable holiday business for this firm.

Two years ago at Christmas time, the Barr Lumber Company distributed 17,00O Redwood seedlings, together with an eight-page folder, which carried on the first page a photograph of a Redwood forest and the following *"rr"g. under the title, "Greetings from the Big Trees:"

"Pinch a leaf of this tiny Redwood tree and whiff the perfume of the big woods. With the tree and the big woods perfume we send you our hearty greetings.

"If you plant this little tree in your garden (just remove the wrapping and moss, shake the roots out straight, form the earth well about it and keep it moist) you can expect it to grow four or five feet by next Christmas. Or,

if planted in a large pot, it rvill be big enough for a table ornament at your Christmas festivities next yea{.

"This little tree was grown in the nurseries of a great lumber company interested in refqrestation in order that future generations of Americans may enjoy the beauty and comfort of wood homes."

'This folder carried illustrations and descriptions of many suggestions for Christmas gifts. These included: sketches of modern homes and floor plans; a modern kitchen; recreation rooms for boys and girls; outdor barbecue fireplace; Red Cedar chests ; closet; fireplace ; modernized colonial home and floor plan.

PHILIPPINE MAHOGANY ASSOCIATION ISSUES ATTRACTIVE BROCHURE

The Philippine Mahogany Manufacturers' Import Association, 111 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, has just issued a new and very attractive booklet on "Philippine Mahogany." It covers the production of Philippine hardwoods, with maps showing where it grows, and pictures showing logging and timber. It is interestingly explained that because these woods grow in thick stands of the same timber like our United States softwoods, the trunks grorv tall, straight, smooth, cylindrical, thus furnishing a huge percentage of straight quality lumber unknown in cabinet woods that grow otherwise. l'he use of Philippine is shown in very attractive fashion through the sixteen pages of the booklet.

James G. McNary Efected President of NLMA Leonard C. Hammond Named Vice-President

James G. McNary, president of Southwest Lumber Mills, Inc., McNary, Ariz., was elected president. of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association at its annual meeting, held jointly with the Southern Pine Association, at New Orleans, November lQ 11 and IZ. He succeeds W. B. Nettleton, president of the Nettleton Lumber Co. of Seattle. Leonard C. Ifammond, president of the llammond Lumber Company and Hammond Redwood Company, San Francisco, was elected first vice-president. Ralph McCartney, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Klamath Falls, Ore., was elected a director, and J. F. Coleman, Kinzua pine Mills Co., Kinzua, Ore., a member of executive committee. All other officers and directors will continue to serve.

Resolutions were adopted opposing the proposed Black_ Connery wage and hour law after its purposes and provisions were outlined by a group of speakers.

In other resolutions, the meeting opposed the executive reorganization bill, increased freight rates on lumber, the proposal to transfer the forestry service from the depart_ ment of agriculture to the department of the interior, and renewal of the Canadian reciprocity treaty unless adjust_ ment is made of present differences now entirelv advantageous to Canada.

An important matter given consideration at the meeting was continuation and further development of the small homes campaign, inaugurated this year by the National association. The model home-building program embraces construction of houses, ranging in construction cost from $1800 to $4000. H. R. Northrup, assistant secretary of the National, stated that about one million homes will be needed during the next five years. This need can be translated into an economic demand, he said, if the lumber industry will concentrate on the problem. Lower construction costs, loans up to 90 per cent with a down payment of 10 per cent, and lower mortgage insurance charges are a part of the solution to the problem, he said.

I. N. Tate, of St. Paul, Minn., president of the American Forest Products Industries, an affiliate of the National, declared that the lumbermen of the country can lead in the building of thousands of lower priced homes if they will make use of the promotion facilities of the national, state and regional organizations. Charles R. French and H. G. Uhl, both of Washington, D. C., in the technical department of the National, were speakers on this phase of the meeting. The remainder of the three-day session was devoted to a number of routine matters.

MY FAVORITE STORIES

Bv Jack Dionne

Ag. not guaranteed---Some I have told lor 20 yeats---Some less

)ose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonrales

The following famous Mexican story has been so badly garbled in recent years, that I have been asked to re-print it in its original form.

A Judge in New Morico, in whose court a Mexican had just been found guilty of first-degree murder by the jury, pronounced sentence on the condemned man, in the following fashion:

"Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, in but a few weeks it wiU be spring. The snows of winter will fee away, the ice will vanish and the air will become soft and balmy. In short, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, the annual miracle of the year's awakening will come to pass-but you won't be here.

"The rivulet will run its purring course to the sea, the timid desert flowers will put.forth their tender shoots, the glorious valleys of this imperial domain will blossom as the ros+but you won't be here.

"From every tree top some wild woods songster will

RETURNS TO NORTHWEST

F. E. Frost, Bellingham, Wash., treasurer and assistant manager of Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills, left for the North on November 19 after spending a few days at the company's Los Angeles office where he conferred with J.

H. Prentice, Southern California representative. Mr. Frost has just completed a business trip through the East.

carol his mating song, butterflies will sport in the sunshine, the busy bee will hum happily as it pursues its accustorned vocation, the gentle breezes will tease the tassels of the $"ild grasses, and all nature, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, will be glad but you, and you won't be here to enjoy it because I command the sheriff or some other offrcer or officers of this county, to lead you out to some remo'te spot, swing you by the neck to some nodding bough of some sturdy oak, and let you hang until you are deaddead-dead.

"And then, Jose Manuel Miguel Xavier Gonzales, I further command that such officer or officers, retire quietly from your swinging, dangling corpse, that the vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body and pick the putrid flesh therefrom until nothing remains but the bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded, copper-colored, blood-thirsty, chile-eating, sheep-herding, guilty, Mexican So-and-So."

SCHAFER BROS. HOLD SALES MEETING

Floyd Elliott, manager of the San Francisco office of Schafer Bros. Lumber & Shingle Co., P. W. Chantland, manager of the Los Angeles office and Ray Klotz of the Los Angeles office, attended a sales meeting at the company's head office in Montesano, Wash., November 16. Mr. Elliott also visited the Marshfield offrce on his way north.

West Oregon Lumber Co. Opens Los Angeles Sales Office

The West Oregon Lumber Co., Portland, Oregon, wellknown Northwest lumber manufacturing firm, announces the opening of a direct mill sales office at 427-4n petro_ leum Securities Building, Los Angeles, on December 1.

With the opening of the Los Angeles office, the company will cater particularlv to the California trade, speci alizing in general yard stock, and both green and dry clears. The company cuts old growth Douglas Fir, the mill having an annual capacity of 100,000,000 feet. The firm has been active in the California market for years, making both rail and cargo shipments.

A. E. Mclntosh, prominent Northwest lumberrnan. is president of the company.

C. H. Ditewig, who has been the company,s sales man_ ager wrth headquarters at the mill, will be in charge of the Los Angeles office. Mr. Diter,r,ig has been connected with the lumber industry in the Northwest for years and is well known in California lumber circles.

Stuart Smith will be outside salesman working out of the Los Angeles office. Mr. Smith has been associated with the lumber market here for many years and has a large ac_ quaintance with the Southern Califor.nia retail lumber trade.

The Chamberlin Steamship Co. will continue to freight its lumber to California ports.

Mead Clark Elected President of Redwood Empire Lumbermen's Club

The Redwood Empire Lumbermen's Club held its annual meeting at the Gallo Cafe, Santa Rosa, November 9. Louis F. Erb, deputy registrar of the Contractors, License Bu_ reau, San Francisco, was the speaker of the evening.

Mead Clark of Santa Rosa u,as re-elected president for the seventh consecutive year. Vice-president R. B. Stevens of Healdsburg, and Treasurer Henry Laws of Santa Rosa were re-elected, and Fred Sayre of Oakland was elected a member of the board of directors.

President Mead Clark, and I. E. Brink of the Diamond Match Company, Chico, addressed the meeting. Thirty_five memberq of the Club were ,present.

J. B. POWER CALTFORNTA vrsrToR

J. B. Power, general manager of the Vancouver plvwood & Veneer Co., Vancouver, 'Wash., was in California re_ cently on business. He attended the annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association at Del Monte, and conferred with George C. phillips, salesman for the company in Los Angeles. While in Los Angeles he made his headquarters at the office of Tacoma Lumber Sales.

APPOINTED YARD MANAGER

Fred M. Johnson, formerly with the palo Alto Lumber & Roof ng Co., Palo_Alto, has been appointed manager of the Citi'zens Mill & Lumber Co. yard al Santa paulal

\(/OODS THAT \rEAR PANTS-II

Ironbcrrk is the toughest wood that cuts into lumber. Ock is cr Ilyweight, Hickory iust <r middleweight beside the Austrclicrn chcmpion

This tough citizen comes from q species oI Austrcrlicn eucclyptus, too tough to bounce, too hecvy to lloct. It will tcrke cny wcrllop-enotxnous streises, or the most grinding wecr. Still it is workcble,'and though it weighs 7 lbs. to the loot. easier to hcndle than steel it often replcces. Shipwrights cnd engineers employ it lor the hcrrdest iobs, keels, skids, wcrlking becms. It stcnrds up.

Stqnton's stocks Ironbqrk up to 8,, x 8,, x 32, and l0S other hcrdwoods, ecrch lor your cuslomer,s specicl use.

E. J. STANTON a soN

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ECONOMY-Though Snider Shingles, origincl c-ost ig slightly higher thcn other shinlles, !1"* ft_ true €conomy in buying c ehiigle thct will give loag kouble-Iree service.

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Nu-Cut Shckes

eali4olnia 9a2il 044irt,

Alvin N. Lolgreu 2l0I Cql, St. Fillnore 6176 Scu Francisco, Cct.

Willred T. Cooper 7I{ W.pOlympic ttvd. Los Augeles, Ccl.

Where Are We Heading?

By Leonard E. Read \Western Division Manager, United States Chamber of Commerce

Retail Lumbermen's 6efore the Annual Associotion at Del Convention of the California Monte, November 5,1937

Address delivered

This is an interesting subject, as likewise are the two questions appearing under it in the pro-gr?.T, "'Where are Competition-and I-egislation Leading-Us?"

One might assume from reading thesg questions that competition and legislation are twin villains, but my contention is that tegi-slation is the villain leading Our Nell, competition, into the evil by-ways. In other words,- comqetitioir is a benefit, not an Lvil, to commerce' but it is the unhealthy legislative things that have been done to the competitive processes that are causing us to think of comoetifion as a commercial evil. '

You people her'e tbday are discussing ways and means of making each of your individual businesses profitable endeavor-s. That is a laudable purPose' but let us remind ourselves that such a program blcomes increasingly impossibleas the national iniome is diminished. In other words, if we as trade association and chambers of commerce are to approach this broad problem correctly, we will .see to it tfral the economy in which we operate our individual businesses is in good working'order and that it is-producing a sufficient inco-me so that ill of us who are efficient producers and distributors may have what seemingly is a fair share.

Because we are headed in the rvrong direction, becauSe real national income is diminishing, and because legislative circumstances are forcing a conditioh of less profitable business, it behooves us, if wJ are to approach the problem intelligently. to fix our attention on the national economy in i"ttici we each exist, and to see what can be done to remedy it.

In America today we are witnessing a portentous and threatening discontLnt. This discontent, if it continues or if it increaies, stands to alter seriously our form of government and to overthrow completely the American economic svstem. which. in spite of all of its faults, has done more for mote people thin any system \-t9*" in all history.

This distontent is evidencing itself in a multiplicity of labor disputes-disputes between , factions of labor as though these factions of labor had no common purpose; dispites between labor and business as though labor and buiiness had no common purpose-and this discontent is evidencing itself in all sorti of perfectly silly political animosities ind vindictiveness, as though we as citizens had no common pufpose.

This disco-ntent is born of a different cause than has characterized discontent in previous eras of history. For instance, it is not like the discontent in England some centuries ago born of a religious issue, where there was a fight on betwlen the church and the state' nor is this discontent born of a moral issue, strictly speaking. Rather, it is born of a material and economic issue' It is born of a dissatisfaction on the part of millions of people who are dissatisfied with their material condition in a countrv which they believed to be so bountiful. They do not like their po.itiott when they compare it to others of us who are better Drovlsloneo.

Nbw then. if this discontent is born of this economic

issue and if the discontent is a threatening and portentous thing, is the challenge not before us to see if something senJble cannot be ddne about it? Does it not behoove us to determine a way of relieving this paradox of impoverishment in the midst of plenty? Should we not see if we cannot create a greater national plenty, or putting it another way, should rie not determine the feasibility of developing a gieater general prosperity. I should like to define a "gieater gJneral piosperity" as -a condition consisting of ai abundince of goods and services widely distributed'-

If we will attaih ourselves to that problem for a few minutes, we will readily see that we have no lack of physical facilities for its solution. For instance, we admit of no shortage of natural resources. Our p-r9s-ent unemployment wouldtindicate that we have no lack of labor resources. We have friendly climates and we have fertile soils. All of the physical elements for the solution of-the.problem are at hind and all that we can possibly lack then is the knowledge of how to cause these ptrysical facilities to create this .of,dition of an abundance-of goods and services widely distributed.

Is there then a factor which can be definited and which, if it were promoted would tend to bring about this condition?

I contend that there is, and without going into the elaborate detail necessary for its explanation, this factor is a combination of three things:

1. The ability to reduce costs.

2. The ability to organize idle land,,labor, capital and manage to produce additional goods and services'

3. "fhe fiee play of economii forces that will compel an exercise of these first two abilities.

This last point is a Yery important one-one that we cannot discuis here beyond-the slatement that the fact that you have the ability io reduce costs does not mean that vou will reduce cosis unless there are economic forces at ivork compelling you to do it. You won't do it-neither would t. ttrat ii iimpty human nature in operation

I can illustrate this factor briefly: Seven years ago r bought a car for which I paid $2,000. A few weeks ago I touitrt another car of the same make, ever so much better in ail respects, for which I paid $1,200. The economic practice of the automobile manufacturers to produce a constantlv better product for a constantly lower price has given *. not only a good but a better service than I had seven 'rn""r, "so lirt tri's left me $800 with which to purchase other Loods a'nd service which are the only things that compose wealth, other goods and services which perhaps. you produce oi distrib"ute. In other words, this economic practice has enhanced my capacity to acquire wealth to the tune of $800.

Needless to relate. a great number of American produc,ers and distributors are iot engaging in this e-conomic pracfi.". n"tner they are doing wtrat f term, "N.ra-ing"; -artinciattv freezing markets, piices and production sct'edules d;; undeveioped demand constantly creating -11:w.- impossibilities of tie goods which they produce and distribute

reaching down into lorver and lower brackets of purchasing power.

If this factor is correctly defined, and if in fult operation it would cause a general prosperity, and if this in turn would tend to relieve discontent-the discontent which is so threatening-and if this relief would tend to put Americans to economically sound productive work again, does it not fall to our lot to organize to determine the practices and behaviors of ours that tend to subvert and that tend to promote the operation of this factor?

I contend that if we merely determine the practices and behaviors that promote this factor, even if we do nothing about it, that we would make a measurable gain. We would be less likely to do the wrong thing. WJ could, at least, lend encouragement to the promotive factors and discouragement to the destructive ones.

Let me give an illustration of how this factor can be destroyed: You manufacture brick. You run a reasonably efficient plant and are able to compete with your two types of competitors, other brick manufacturers and those who fabricate lumber, concrete and the twenty other building materials. Your ability to keep your costs down enablei you to engage in this lusty competition and therefore to maintain your employment.

Let us assume that you have one cost which makes up 5 per cent of your overhead, clerical help, for instance. Nbw because of sheer carelessness, business ineptitude or because you h-ave been politically sold the proposition that industry should increase employment whether that employment is neede9 or not, you permit this item of overhead to increase eight times. Absurd? Don't get ahead of the example, we shall examine that later.

Anyway, you let this item of your overhead increase 800 per cent. You do not require the extra help. How will this new, unnecessary cost react? Where will it find,its pavment? Out of surplus iapital? That won't last long. Out oi frofits? There are not enough in the first place and besides, no one will give of his best without some hope of legitimate reward. fn an increased price for your product? Eventually, it has to land there. Will you be able to compete against your efficient competitors? No, the market won't reward your'carelessness, your ineptitudes nor your fallacious theories. The consumer will not buy your bricks. You will go out of business. Your employees will lose their jobs. You will have subverted this factor !

By this time this speaker is sounding a little "cracked." "How," you might naturally ask, "could we do anything as foolish as this ?" Well, let us look at some other facts.

In 1890, all units of government, federal, state and local, took only 5 cents of each income dollar. By 1929 they were taking 16 cents of each income dollar. Political agents in 1936 spent 40 cents of each income dollar !

It is conceded that government has a legitimate claim to growth with the increases of population and wealth. An industry or a farm adds overhead as its business inereases, but business management never permits a disproportionate ratio of overhead to production. If it does it fails. Governments, however, have not only permitted but encouraged an overhead out of all proportion to necessities.

The national income was many times larger in 1936 than in 1890. Why should not government overhead be maintained, somewhat in that ratio?_ Why should governments today be taking much more than 5 cents for each income dollar? Why 40 cents ? Why this 800 per cent increase in political overhead?

A previous statement implied as an absurdity the example of any business letting an item of overhead increase 800 per cent when the business warranted no necessity for such increase. I't was demonstrated that any such practice would force that business to close it-s doors and to place its workers among the ranks of the unemployed.

@-rHE MARK OF A OUALITY PRODUGT

CERTIGRADE Red Gdar Shingle manufacturers arc proud of their produa. They gilardntee the grade arrd quality of, every bundle of Certigrade Shingla. Behind that guarant€e is careful manufacnrre from the f,nest red cedar grown-rigid grading rules -independent inspection-and the prestige of mills representing a f50,000,000 investrnenr.

RED CEDAR SHINGT,E BUREAU

H eadquatas, *anle; Canadian officc,Vancouver, B. C

Yet, every business in Amcrica has and is participating to a marked extint in this type of an absurdity. Every business has increased its item of political overhead more than 800 per cent ! Government employees are on the payrolls of every business on an 800 per cent greater scale than 1890 !

Demonstration has been made of the way unemployment is created by an individual business permitting exce-ssive- costs. When thi ccist of government is excessive the effect is precisely of the same kind. It creates unemployment to the extent ihat government is excessive. It difters in its results only in that instead of bankrupting one or a few businesses, it filters its effects through all the units of production and distribution, partially harming them all. The aggregate unemployment resulting from excessive cost of government is the same as the aggregate unemployment resulting from a comparable excessive cost of a comparably sized business. The Lad efiects are merely better dissipated-the burden is more evenly borne. The total devastation is the same !

If the incidence, that is the shift, of these political excesses were more generally understood, if the unemployment and the discontent they create were blamed to these excesses' blamed where much of the blame really belongs, public opinion and public action would soon make short work of them. fnstead, ihe public has been made to believe there is economic virtue in theie excesses and has joined in support of the trend that insures its own destruction- Any government beyond the minimum of necessity is excessive and to the extent it is excessive. to that exteni is the factor subverted that would cause our plentiful physical facilities to create a condition of an abundance of goods and services widely distributed.

It is not my contention that the excessive waste in government is the only behavior of ours that destroys the operation of this factor. It is merely one of them. I have used it simply to illustrate the character of the problem. I use it to encourage vou to examine the thousand and one other things that we do in the light of their effect upon this economically sound -objective oJ -ote goods and services for more people. That, io -y way of thinking, is going to be the type of _program that will be prosecuted by the trade association and the chamber of co-rne.ce of the future. Without it, in my opinion, our place in the sun is about over and furthermore it should be.

I want to conclude with one more idea and that idea has to do with the "why" for the ineffectiveness of business organizations. May I use the Chamber of Commerce of the United States for my example? I prefer it because I sincerely believe that during ihe past twenty-five years, the National Chamber has honesily .ttd faithfully represented the best of organized business thought in America.

We in the Chamber have always contended that the public interest and the business interest were identical, that they were compatible interests. We have always contended that nothing couli be in the interest of business that was not in the public

interest. We believe that to be true today. Ih other words, our position, all the time, has been an economically sound one'

However, there were those who came along in re-cent years and who s"id th"t the business interest and the public interest were antagonistic. They did a mighty- fine job of. getting the American"public to beli-eve that when the business interest was harmed, the public interest was enhanced' So, therefore, when an orsaiizatibn like the National Chamber representing American dusiness went before the Congress or before the public and argtred iis position from the piemise of the business interest, ih. Cottgt.ss and the public have immediately l:aped to the indefens-ible conclusion- that because we were for it, it must be wrong, and therefore we have created antagonisms rather than hospitality for our views.

Now, this condition should not be so, but it is. It is a condition with which we must realistically deal. Should we not, therefore, attempt to find a premise from which to argue our cause that is at once economically sound and publicly acceptable ?

I believe this can be done and I think it can be done by our business organizations thinking of themselves in terms of crusades. Crusiders for what? For more goods and more services for more people! Crusaders against what? Against poverty and unemplo)'mentl These are two ways of saving precisely the same thing, for any intelligent man knows that the only way poverty and unemployment can be relieved is for the people in those classifications to have more goods and more seryices, which are the only component elements of wealth.

This is a load-star or an objective that is wholly acceptable, and that has a common appeal. For instance, is the business man interested in anything more than he is in producing more goods and more seryices for more people? Of course not. fs thete a Republican or a New Dealer, a laboring man, a Communist or a consumer, and the latter represents all of us, interested in anything more than having more goods and more services, or in other words, more wealth? Again, of course not.

Now then, if we will accept this position as our objective, we will then examine our practices and our behaviors and all of the proposals that come before us in the light of their effect upon this objective. If these practices and behaviors and proposals in our opinion, tend to destroy the furtherance of this objective, we will then be against them and against them for this reason. If they tend to promote this objective we will be for them and for them for this reason, and if we will proceed on that basis we can go ahead pursuing the case for sound economics and good business practices with all of the vigor we possess-a thing which we must be able to do if American business leadership is to make any contribution whatever to the solvency and the well-being of this magnificent edifice which we have been so fortunate as to inherit.

\(/hv Dealers Should Sell "Rigi d" Insulation

By Geo. E. Reom Geo. E. Ream Company, Los Angeles

Today's dealer of tomorrow is fully cognizant of the Jact that he must stock and sell many new building commodities that are being developed by the'manufactureiand required in modern day construction.

In order to sell the 2x4's of yesterday, it is necessary !o add many of the new building material items to his line in order to iompletely serve the demand of the territory in which he operates. They increase his volume of sales and enable him io continue piofitably. I-ack of foresight on the part of any dealer to do-this onfy invites competition that sooner or latlr will have a tendenqv to destroy his business.

One of the outstanding building products of modern .day construction is rigid insulation. In looking back over the short span of years sinie its introduction into the construction field no othei product hap made such rapid progress' - Skeptical dealers failed to recognize the possibilities it offered, and because of this, lost a nice volume of business; today, these same dealers are insulation enthusiasts.

Rigid insulation is a lumber dealer's product and should be sold iy him. Many other types of insulation require special applicition and are?nding their way into the hands of "appliciiors" with a loss of buiiness to the lumber dealer'

I-ookins into the future the development of the sales of rigid insuiation by the lumber dealer is only in keeping with

the progress of the newer ideas to come, which will prolong and make living the value of his efiorts.

Research and testing go on constantly in the manufacturers' laboratories and in the field to find better solutions of insulation problems.

Today the lumber dealer should sell rigid insulation because he is selling comfort, and the buyer is really spending his money with this idea in mind.

We believe the time is not far distant when many homes of the nation will be heated electricaJly and the electrical engineers tell us the only way this can be made -possible----even wittr the reduced price of kilowat hours-is through insulation.

Air conditioning is with us, but only in its infancy. Air conditioning expeits say that proper results can -only lg q9tained by t6e use of iniulation. We predict the future holds the building of practically all homes with air conditioning features,

Further, lve would not be surprised to hear science announce the span of life may be lengthened for.those who live in air condiiioned homes--work in air conditioned offices and factories. Such a statement, plus the features of electric heating, will tend to promote thA building of many new homes and crEate a new building program throughout the entire nation.

LOST TALENT

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort; whq if they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame. The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. It will not do to be perpetually calculating risks and adjusting nice chances; it did very well before the Flood, when a man would consult his friends upo,n an intended publication for a hundred an4 fifty years, and live to see his success afterwards; but at present, a man waits, and doubts, and consults his brother, and his particular friends, till one day he finds he is sixty years old and that he has lost so much time in consulting cousins and friends that he has no more time to folloryr their advice.-Sydney

Smith.

HE'S THE MAN

The failures of life sit around and complain

That the gods haven't treated them right; They've lost'their umbrellas whenever it rains, And haven't their lanterns at night. Men tire of the failures who fill with their sighs

The air of their neighborhoods, But the man who is treated with loveJighted eyesHe's the Man Who Delivers the Goods.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things which differ, and the difference of things which are alike.

De Stael.

..OR EVER THE KNIGHTLY YEARS WERE GONE''

Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, f was a King in Babylon

And you were a Christian Slave.

I saw, f took, f cast you by, I bent and broke your pride. You loved me well, or I heard them lie, But your longing was denied. Surely I knew that by and by You cursed your gods and died.

And a myriad of suns have set and shone

Since then upon the grave

Decreed by the King in Babylon

To her that had been his Slave.

The pride I trampled is now my scathe, For it tramples me again. The old resentment lasts like death, For you love, yet you refrain. I break my heart on your hard unfaith, And I break my heart in vain.

Yet not for an hour do I wish undone

The deed beyond the grave, When f was a King in Babylon

And you were a Virgin Slave.

-William Ernest Henley.

HOW POPPA KNOWS MAMMA

-Madame

EVERYTHING MODERN

Mr. Newly-Rich was showing a friend over his elaborate new home.

"But what is thar round hole in the front door asked the puzzled, visitor.

for ?"

"That," said Mr. Newly-Rictr, proudly, ..is for circular letters."

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

-Channing.

The club members were bidding farewell to one who was leaving for India. In the conversation a friend said: ..It gets pretty hot in India at times. Aren't you afraid the climate might disagree with your wife?',

The man looked at him reproachfully. ..It wouldn,t dare."

Patience is bitter, but its fruit sweet.-Rousseau.

A FISH STORY

"Are the fish biting?"

"I don't know," replied the weary angler. ..ff they are, they're biting each other."

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'/shares of Happiness" San Francisco Vigitors

Lumbermen of the San Francisco Bay District are again being invited by East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No.'39 to subscribe to "The Good Fellowship Christmas Fund." The cost of the "Shares of Happiness" in this fund is $1.50 each. Checks are to be mailed to Jas. B. Overcast, Strable Hardwood Company, 537 First Street, Oakland, chairman of the 1937 campaign committee. The fund is administered by a special committee for the benefit of anyone in the lumber industry needing help.

The campaign committee for 1937 is as follows: Jas. B. Overcast, chalirman; Clement Fraser, Henry M. Hink, L. J. Woodson, Carl R. Moore, G. W. Sechrist, C. I'. Gilbert, Ross Kinney, Gordon D. Pierce.

The administration. and disbursement committee for 19371938 consists of Henry M. Hink, president; Miland R. Grant, past president; Carl R. Moore, secretary-treasurer; C. I. Gilbert and B. E. Bryan.

BUYS CORNING LUMBER CO. YARD

Robert M. Close of Sutter City has purchased the Corning Lumber Co. The entire personnel of the yard has been retained, Newton E. Isaac, Bert Elliott and N. Roy Close.

Mr. Close is associated with his father in the lumber business in Sutter City. The Corning Lumber Company is one of the oldest established firms in Southern Tehama County.

VISIT SOUTHLAND

W. B. Nettleton, president of the Nettleton Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash., with his wife and daughter, spent a few days in Los Angeles around the middle of the month. They were returning from New Orleans where Mr. Nettleton attended the annual meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. Mr. Nettleton served as president of the National association last year.

Harry Aldrich and H. B. Cooper of Aldrich-Cooper Lumber Co., Portland, Northwest representatives of WendlingNathan Company, San Francisco, were in San Francisco recently on business. While there they attended the big game at Palo Alto between California and Stanford, November 20.

Louis K. Beach, of the Newton Lumber Co., Pueblo, Colorado, left for home November 29, having been a month on the Pacific Coast. He spent some time in the Northwest visiting the mills, and made a number of calls on lumbermen in the San Francisco Bay district. Mr. Beach is a football fan and was able to arrange his trip so as to see the big CaliforniaStanford game on November 20.

Charlie Miller, president of the Young's Bay Lumber Co., Warrenton, Ore., was a recent California visitor. He was accompanied by Mrs. Miller, and they spent Thanksgiving in Ojai with their son, who is in school there.

P. J. Van Oosting, of E. J. Stanton & Son, I-os Angeles, was in San Francisco and Oakland recently on business.

LeRoy H. Stanton and Henry Swafford of E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, attended the California-Stanford big game at Palo Alto, Novernber 20.

Graham Griswold, Portland, was in San president of the Griswold Lumber Co., Francisco for a few days last week.

FIRE DESTROYS LUMBER

Damage estimated at $60,000 was done by a fire that burned more than half a million feet of lumber and dry sheds of the Merit Lumber Company at Massack, Calif', November 9.

SheYlin Pine Sales Gompany

Every Human Has Something to Sell

Bv Ju.k Dionne

Every humqn hcs something to sell

Whether it bb mcrn or womcn, boy or gLl, child or grownup.

As we mcke our wcy through IiIe we crre constcmtly engcged in the gcrme oI "selling" to the rest of the world.

We crre crll trying to "sell ourselves" to those with whom we come in contcct, in the best possible wcy.

We cre trying to sell our stock on the mcrket o! humcn opinion in the most constructive mcrrurer.

We cll wcrnt the "other lellow" to cpprecicte our best points,. to grcsp the best possible opinion of us.

Therefore the lundcmentals oI sqlesmqnship cre of interest to AI.L oI us.

The cvercae m(m, and the <rvertrge womqn, crrbilious though they mcry be, cnd intensely interested in mcrking the best possible impression, whether it be oI cr business or personcl chcrrccter, does NOT cpprecicte the possibilities of the situqtion from c SELIJNG stcndpoint, qnd lecrves q whole lot to chance.

Whereas the wise mcrn lecrves NOTHING to chcmce thct he ccrn humqnly help. Chance mcry get you something, but it mcry not be whcrt you crre looking lor.

The mqn who tqkes the most prccticcl view of the thing does two primcry things: he tckes unbiqsed inventory to see whcrt he has to sell,. and he decides thoughtrully cnd intelligently whct impression he is going to try to creqte.

He checks up his cssets cnrd his licbilities.

H9 _lcrys his plcrns for bolstering up his discovered low spots, crnd intensilying on his hish lishts.

He decides whct he wcnts ihe world to think of HIM; whct impression he wcnts to CREAIE' cnd then he goes out with his selling ccmpcrign.

The womcrn whose lo-ily hcrs moved into c new town to reside, does the scrme thing. She cpprecicrtes the lcct thcrt she is going to be crpprcrised and inventoried-criticclly.

Her crppecrclnce genercrlly, her clothing, her manner, her mcnners-everything is go- ing to be weighed in the bcrlcnce.

Therefore, c "selling" ccmpcign is valucble to her crs it is to her husbcnd who invcdes c new business circle cnrd wcnts to do his best in it.

Remember the selling thought cll the time.

Secure ATTEMION.

Creqte INTEREST.

Sustcrin thqt interest by some qttrcctive thought, idecr or crct.

MAIE YOI'R SAI.E.

Whether you cre c new boy in <r new neighborhood, cpprocrching for the first time the'neighborhood "gcmg," or cr little girl who is invited to "iump rope'; lor the first time in the new school she slqrtrs <rtt*rding; the young Lgdy who is mcking her debut in society,. or her fcther or mother in whcrtever thing TIIEY crre trying to crccomplish, the 1undcrmentcrls qre the same.

We cll hcrve something to sell.

And the more intelligently _cnd impressively cnd interestingly cnd enthusicsticclty we hccrdle the efforL the grecter will be the rewqrd.

Attempts Cement Price Stabilization Foreign Trade Conference Protests lniury

The Monolith Portland Cement Co., Los Angeles, has sent a letter to the lumber dealers in Southern California for their acceptance, which represents the company's agreement to become effective December lO, 1937, regarding the resale of products bearing its trademark or name by the dealers.

The name and address of each dealer was placed at the head of the letter, and the prices listed under carload and less than carload lots were determined by the yard location. A minimum margin of. SZc per barrel is allowed for less than carload sales, and a minimum margin of 20c per barrel for cafload sales.

The dealers to agree not to resell any of the products named to those classifications reserved for dealer sale at less than the minimum prices set forth. The products listed are Standard Portland Cement; Plastic Waterproof Cement; Tufa Cement, and Velo Cement. The company reserves the right to add other products to this list, and to change prices, such additions and changes to be binding on the dealers.

It is understood that the dealers will not resell the company's products in combination with the sale of any other commodity, render or furnish to the purchaser of the company's products any services, which will result in the sale , of the product below the minimum price stated.

The agreement may be cancelled by either party on ten days' notice, and is subject to immediate cancellation upon any violation of its terms on the part of a dealer, in which event the company may at its option, by refunding the dealer the amount paid, take back any goods manufactured by it.

R. B. Soldini, sales manager of the Portland Cement Company, says that this is, without a doubt, the most constructive step taken in the resale of cement throughout California, and if properly supported, will establish cement sales on a sound merchandising basis.

BUYS PARTNER'S INTEREST

J. Walter Kelly has acquired the interest of Stuart C' Smith in the Kelly-Smith Company and will continue the business, operating under the same name. Smith-I(elly Company, lumber wholesalers, have offices at Outer Harbor. San Pedro.

to Lumber Industry

Washington, Nov. I7.-A resolution of protest at the harm being done to America's lumber interests industry by preferential tariffs was passed at the twenty-fourth National Foreign Trade Convention of the National Foreign Trade Council, Inc., held in Cleveland last week.

"IJnder the present program," runs the text, ttpreferential tariffs in foreign countries have reduced the world trade of American lumber by two-thirds, and its trading position from first to fifth rank, respectively.

"The reopening of overseas markets is essential to the recovery of this industry in production and employment and to the economic use of our forest lands.

"This is of special importance with reference to British Empire markets wherein the American proportion of imports of Pacific Coast lumber has dropped from 74 per cent in l9D, to 9 per cent in 1937.

"The convention fully endorses the recognition given to lumber by the Secretary of State as fundamentally an export industry and recommends that the Government grant to this basic industry earnest consideration in the negotiation of reciprocal agreements."

With- an eye on the general situation regarding interna' tional trade,.the Convention stressed the fact that national prosperity is dependent on world prosperity, noting that international trade since 1932 has recovered from 73 pet cent of the maximum l9D attainment to.92 pet cent in the first half of 1937, in spite of "tariffs, quotas, exchange controls, bilateral conventions and other barri6rs'"

This convention. strongly supports the Reciprocal Trade Agreements program based on the unconditional mostfavored-nation principle, saying: "Our foreign trade has grown from 4,330,000 in 1935 to 4,872,M in t936, in which increase this program has played an important part with benefit to American agriculture, American industry and American iabor. Our exports to trade agreement cogntries during 1936 gained 14 per cent over 1935 and in 1937 (first nine months) 44.5 per cent over 1936. The increase to nonagreement countries was 4 ,per cent over 1935 and 33 per cent over 1936. Imports from trade-agreement countrieS during 1936 gained 22 per cent over the preceding year, while imports from other countries were greater by 16 per cent."

Northwest Lumb ermen Oppose Transler of Forest Service from Department of Agriculture

The Trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Associa_ tion strongly oppose two provisions of Senate Bill ZZn, on Reorganization of the Public Service.

Section 2O3 of this Bill directs the president: ..To fill any vacancy in any office or position which the president finds is policy-determining in character.',

The activities of the Federal Government are constantly expanding. More and more powerfully do they afiect all industry, and particularly industries utilizing natural resources. It is more urgent than ever before that Government employees be able, conscientious and free from political bias. These arc the objects of the Civil Service System of recruiting and promotion.

The proposal in the pending Bill destroys the basis of public service founded upon merit and efficiency. It would make the President sole judge as to what Federal positions may be taken out of the Civil Service. Plausible grounds could readily be found for extending Presidential appointment to all Federal employees except those of a purely clerical or routine character. At least as to all responsible positions in every Federal establishment, political preferment would displace merit as the primary qualification for appointment and advancement.

We are opposed to this reversal of the merit system in public business, without regard to any political party or political personality. It would be as dangerous in the hands of one political party as another. It would wreck the morale of the Public Service and do irreparable injury to the splendid professional and technical rvork now done by many Federal departments. A means would be created for concentrating personal political power in the hands of any Chief Executive who chose to exercise it such as has not existed in the United States for many years. It would throw open the whole scientific and engineering functions of the Government to the spoils system. It is opposed to a stable and efficient administration of public business, now more necessary than ever as the functions of Government expand.

Section 2 of the Reorganization Bill authorizes the President to transfer, break up or abolish any Federal agency, with certain named exceptions. It is an understood purpose of the legislation to transfer the United States Forest Service, in whole or in part, from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior. This is a practical issue of Reorganization.

The lumber industry of the Pacific Northwest has been closely associated with and powerfully influenced by the activities oI the Government in forest conservation. It has cooperated directly with them. With its background of experience, tle industry is strongly opposed to shifting the Forest Service out of the Department of Agriculture.

In 1905, Congress placed all major forestry activities in this Department. It did so because forestry is the productive use of land for growing timber crops. It is applicable

to one-quarter of the soil in the United States. It is a national undertaking in the use of land, second only to farmit g.

At least half a dozen bureans in the Department of Agriculture have an active part in forestry. These include Soil Conservation, the Bureau of Entomology in dealing with destructive insects, the Bureau of Plant Ind.ustry in dealing with tree diseases and cultural methods and the Agricultural Extension Service which deals with farm woodlands, over one-third of the forests in the United States. The work of all these forest agencies must be closely coordinated to deal efficiently with the forest problems of the country as a whole.

The growth and vitality of forestry in the United States date from this concentration of Federal activities in the Department of Agriculture. Since 1905, national undertakings in forestry have been greatly extended. The Weeks Act of 1911 instituted purchases of land for National Forests where required for the most effective use of land resources. The Clarke-McNary Act of 1925 set up a nationwide policy of cooperation with the States in the prevention of forest fires, in forest planting on farms and in the study of forest taxation-all for the purpose of extending forestry by State and private agencies. The McNary-McSweeney Act of 1928 established a comprehensive program of research in forestry, forest utilization and forest economics.

These and other basic Federal statutes are administered by the Forest Service; but only as part of the all-round function of the Department of Agriculture to develop forestry as a use of land. As Federal activities enlarge, there is all the gteater need for their coordination under the Federal Department which deals with the productive use of land.

The Forest Service studies timber culture and timber utilization, cooperates with the States in forest protection, tree planting and the enlargement of State Forests, educates forest owners in timber-growing practices and administers the National Forests. These different jobs are all parts of one whole. They should all be directed to the common end of progressive national forestry" To parcel them out among different administrative agencies would break down the effectiveness of the national undertaking.

As lumbermen in the Pacific Northwest, where productive use of land and stable employment depend more upon forestry than anything else, we believe the Reorganization Bill should exclude the United States Forest Service from permissible transfer, dismemberment or abolishment. This course is followed as to some other Federal agencies. The place of forestry in the Government structure is of sufficient importance to likewise be fixed by Congress itself.

The Trustees of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association. By h.esolution Adopted September 21,1937.

.W. B. Greeley, Secretary-Manager.

Redwood Panels Used For Settings in M-G-M'S Production "Conquest"

bine adaptability with the beauty desired in the Napoleon suite at Castle Finckenstein. In all of the elaborate settings, in which Clarence Brown directed Garbo and Boyer, natural Redwood paneling, rubbed down only with wax, and huge doors of the same material gave an unusual effect, desired to depict the splendor which Napoleon is known to have enjoyed..

A blend of natural redwood and white was found to be a successful combination for photographic effects. Casement windows with small panes are in white enamel, walls are in white paneling and white paper, and white is used in fireplace, shrine and such details. Heavy velvet draperies of the period separate the rooms, and Persian rugs are used on polished floors. The furniture is all in the period of 18O9, including a walnut, bronze-trimmed desk brought from France, and which was once actually used by Napoleon at his chateau in Fontainbleau. Candelabra, carved four-poster bed, tapestried window hangings, were all in authentic period, the entire set being worked out from intensive research by Cedric Gibbons with his associates, William Horning and Edwin Wallis of the M. G. M. staff.

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No phase of motion picture pro<iuction draws more attention from directors and producers than the authenticity of sets and the materials used to depict the locale of a story. Hence it is of unusual interest that California Redwood panels served as the basic material for the elaborate settings in Metro-Goldrvyn-Mayer's current super-production, "Con: quest," starring Garbo and Charles Boyer in the roles of Countess Walewska and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Naturally California Redwood panels were not in use at the time of Napoleon but to lend the desired authenticity it was necessary to call upon the wood which could com-

Lee H. Eubank, of L. H. Eubank & Son, manufacturers of cabinets and millwork, 1010 E. Hyde Park Boulevard, Inglewood, Calif., reports a steady improvement in his firm's business in the last 6O days.

This concern manufactures the well known Eubank Ironing Board, which it is claimed will wear indefinitely, having only two moving parts, both made of metal. The cast iron swivel is so constructed that the brace slides in the swivel, instead of the usual practice of the brace sliding in grooves in the wood.

All Eubank ironing boards are built up of two or more pieces of Ponderosa Pine, making a board that will not warp or split.

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of Sugar Pine Protests Misstatement About Availabfe Supply

WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION

Portland, Oregon, November 9, 1937, Editor, The California Lumber Merchant.

For your information, we are attaching hereto a copy of a letter sent out today by C. S. Martin, Forest Engineer for the Western Pine Association, to Hon. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C.

This letter has been prepared to call attention to misleading and incorrect statements relative to the available supply of sugar pine, contained in a press memorandum released by the Department of the fnterior on July 19. The release incorrectly assumed that western pine lumbermen left their cutover lands in a desolate and despoiled condition, particularly as it applied to the sugar pine forests of California.

You are at liberty to make use of this information as you see fit.

Very truly yours, A. K. Roberts.

. November 9, 1937.

The Hon. Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary:

On July 19 a press memorandum was released by your department which contained many misleading and incorrect statements relative to the available supply of sugar pine and assuming that western pine lumbermen left their cutover lands in a desolate and despoiled condition.

I am sure that you have no wish to sanction the misstatement of facts or to create in the public mind an erroneous conception of the part western pine industry is taking in conserving and protecting its timber resources. Therefore, I am taking the liberty of quoting certain statements contained in this press release and following such quotations, presenting factual data taken from Government

surveys and our own records, all of which are open to check and investigation by any competent and impartial authoritv.

Paragraph l-"dwindling supply of rare, giant sugar pine."

Paragraph 3-"Sugar pine trees which are rare and becoming rarer."

Paragraph lF'Because of its limited distribution and fine, clean, white lumber that the sugar pine supplies, it is definitely an exhaustible resource.',

The sugar pine, a genuine white pine, is found through- out the Sierra in California and runs well into the Cascades in Southern Oregon. According to the latest figures there now exists a merchantable stand of mature sugar pine amounting to more than 39 billion board feet. Based on the average cut of this species for the past ten years this supply of mature timber would last for 198 years, totally disregarding growth.

Merchantable sugar pine may be grown in from 8O to 100 years and as our operators generally leave all young sugar pine trees below 24 inches in diameter, the species as a whole is not only on a sustaining basis but less volume is being cut than is grorving each year.

The supply is therefore not "dwindling;" it is not "r4re," being found over millions of acres; and it is not "an exhaustible resource" as it is now being handled on both private and Government lands.

True conservation should mean the wisest use of our natural resources for the long-time benefit of the greatest number of our people. If we cannot have a stable and widespread demand for the products of our forests we cannot afford the cost of perpetuating them, either public or private. Therefore, when responsible public officials issue statements leading the public to believe that there is likely to be a diminishing supply of a particular timber product it does definite harm in discouraging the use of that prod-

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uct and incidentally retards the development of forestry on privately owned lands.

Paragraph 6-"owned by a private lumber company which was preparing to turn the two and three century old trees into lumber and leave only the desolate shearedoff stumps and broken tops as a memorial to despoiled nature."

The truth is that there is much more land in the sugar pine belt coming back to a healthy young growth of pine trees than is being devastated. Fire is the principal devastator at present, not logging, and the western lumber industry is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars each year in protecting its timber and cut-over lands from fire. It is true that the rapid advance of infection with blister rust threatens destruction of the coming generation of five needled pines, which include the sugar pine. But this can be controlled by adequate and sustained action by the Federal Government such a.s is being taken in preventing the spread of the Mediterranean fruit fly and the gypsy moth. The mature trees, being more resistant to blister rust, can be cut before they are destroyed, but efforts to protect and preserve the crop of young trees which will make up the future stand will be in vain unless the Government completes its control program within the next few years.

A corn or wheat field is not beautiful just after harvest, nor is a timber stand after logging, but as the new crop of young trees develops the land takes on a new beauty-and unless the mature and over-mature crop of timber is harvested and used the land 'produces nothing, as decay balances growth. There is no beauty in beetle killed, rotting snags and wind falls.

In the particular instance referred to in your release less than five per cent of the lands are being cut clean, and this only around landings. On the greater part of the cut-over lands several thousand board feet of mixed species and hundreds of small trees are being left on each acre.

It should not be necessary to make misleading generalized statements to prove a particular point, especially when to do so damages an industry which has voluntarily adopted and is conscientiously carrying out a nation-wide program of forest conservation, one which, if given Government and public cooperation, would insure to our country a continuous supply of forest products, protection for our water-sheds and supplies of water for irrigation. If industry could only be given a little re'cognition for its good

works instead of general condemnation for its faults we would progress much more rapidly toward a sound economy.

I enclose a booklet showing some of the good works. Very sincerely yours,

C. S. Martin, Forest Engineer.

Los Angeles Ranks Second in Building

Los Angeles is in second place among the cities in the United States in building for the first ten months of. 1937 with a total of $55,8&,147. San Francisco ranked seventh with $18,162,124, San Diego was nineteenth with $7,330,579, and Oakland was twentieth with $7,256,302. New York with in first place with a total of $211,65Q8O2.

Building permit valuations for the twenty leading cities for the first ten months of the current year and cornparative figures for 1936 as compiled by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.. follows:

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Two Model Homes Attract Attention for Beautiful Walls and Ceilings

dell over 200,000 people have admired the beauty of the furnishings and decoration of the two model houses, one traditional and one modern, that stand completely built and furnished in every detail on Field's main furniture floor, Chicago.

These houses, designed by John Root and Alfred Shaw, two of Chicago's best known architects, illustrate the best in modern and traditional architecture and furnishings. '{They were planned," says Field's book "Two Houses," "for people who like to live simply, comfortably and well. They could be built in Maine, Illinois or California."

fn selecting construction materials, Field's investigated every modern development and called in experts for guidance in building houses with every possible convenience and living advantage.

Recessed-edge Sheetrock and Perf-A-Tape were chosen for these two houses because together they provide a method for easy and economical erection of strong, smooth walls. The continuous sheet of fireproof material this gypsum wallboard provides gives added fire protection to the framework, while its surface permits the application. of any desired type of decoration.

Texolite casein wall paint gives to the walls and ceilings of these houses the high light reflection and soft glareless sheen so much in demand for modern interiors, especially where indirect lighting is used. Texolite gives excellent coverage, and hides ordinary surfaces in one coat. The surface of Sheetrock is low in paint absorption, and the use of Texolite over Sheetrcok, as in these houses, means real paint economy. A further advantage of Texolite to the interior decorator is the exceptional clarity and trueness of the colors-and they do not fade or yellow.

To demonstrate the modern methods and materials for providing year-round comfort in the home, both of these Marshall Field houses are insulated with red top insulating wool and completely air conditioned. Red top insulating wool is clean, uniform, light as cotton, and one of the most efficient of insulating materials. Because it is made of silica, the same material from which glass is made, it is also fireproof.

Architecturally, the two houses represent the best types of modern and traditional design. They are practical, comfortable and livable. Embodying, as they do, modern equipment and materials, they illustrate the progress that has been made in home construction.

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Appoints New Sales Promotion Manager

Paul A. Ward, general sales manager of Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Mi4nesota, announces the appointment of E. T. Holmgren as sales promotion manager. Mr. Holmgren has had considerable experience in sales and advertising in the construction field. He was recently associated with The Celotex Corporation where he. directed Public Relations Activities and Publications. past association with other nationally known manufacturers of build_ ing materials gives him a broad background against which to base his sales promotion activities.

At the time of the announcement, Mr. Ward stated that plans for the 1938 sales promotion campaign on BalsamWool and Nu-Wood were near completion. They included much new literature and plans for more closely tying in with jobber, dealer and contractor sales efforts. A sub_ stantial program of national farm and consumer magazine advertising is also planned.

MERLE BENNETT WINS AUTOMOBILE

Merle P. Bennett, manager of the Frost Hardwood Co., San Diego, held the lucky number a few weeks ago and won a new Pontiac automobile which was given away by the Fox Theater at San Diego. Merle says he expects to run down a lot of new business with the machine.

CALLS ON TRADE

Ray Julien, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., was at Nev., on Tuesday, November 30, calling on the Las Vegas, trade.

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Los Angeles Visitors

J. C. Rodahaffer and A. J. Heidt of the Penrod, Jurden & Clark Company, recently arrived in Los Angeles on business. While here they called on the trade with their Southern California represerrtative, H. H. Whiteside. Penrod, Jurden & Clark Company are large manufacturers'of walnut lumber and walnut and fancy wood veneer, both domestic and foreign. Headquarters are at Kansas City, Mo., with mills at Kansas City, Mo., Des Moines, Iowa, and Norfolk, Va. They also maintain a walnut veneer warehouse at Kansas City, Mo., and a fancy wood veneer warehouse at Cincinnati, Ohio., which places them in a splendid position to serve the buyers.

A. A. Kelley, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, was a Los Angeles visitor over the Thanksgiving Day holiday.

Harry Hood, Dolbeer & Carson Lumber Co., San Francisco, spent a few days in Los Angeles the early part of the month. -With Ed Seward, Los Angeles representative, they called on the trade.

BATTERY SEPARATOR PLANT WILL REBUILD

The Standard Battery Separator Company plant at I-os Angeles was destroyed by fire Thursday night, November 25, the loss being estimated at $200,000. Plans are under way to rebuild the plant.

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CHARLES G. WOLOHEN

Charles G. Wolohen, widely known official of the Diamond Match Company, passed an'ay November 15 at the Enloe Hospital, Chico, as the result of a heart ailment. He was 49 years of age.

Mr. Wolohen was born in Chico, February 25, 1888, the son of Patrick Wolohen, one of the pioneer lumbermen connected with the Diamond Match Company mill at Sterling City.

His first work was in the sawmill for the Sierra Lumber Company at West Branch. He was transferred to Lyonsville where he worked as a setter and was later promoted to a scaler.

He attended business 'college for a year and in 1911 he accepted a position as yardman for the Diamond Match Company at Gridley. Later in the year he was transferred to the main office at'Chico, starting as a clerk for the late W. B. Dean.

When F'rank W. Terstegge, auditor and assistant to Mr. Dean, resigned, Mr. Wolohen was promoted to this position. In 1918 he became purchasing agent for the company's Branch Yards department and traffic manager for the Chico yards.

He was married March 18, 1916, to Miss Alma Meyhem.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Alma Wolohen, and the following children, Raymond, Pat and Patricia Ann, all of Chico; his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolohen, and a brother, Albert Wolohen, both of Sterling City. Mr. Wolohen was a member of the Woodmen of the World.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, November 18. Interment was in the Chico cemetery with fellow workers of the deceased as escorts. They were M. G. Atchinson, I. E. Brink, R. A. Colgan, S. Ifassel, David McFarlane and W. H. Henderson.

A. W. CLARK

Alfred W. Clark, pioneer lumberman and for many years prominently identified with the lumber industry on the Pacific Coast, passed away suddenly from a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles on November 12.

Mr. Clark was born at Woodstock, Ontario, Canada, in 1859. He operated a sawmill at Menominee, Mich., for many years, coming to California in 1904 where he 'uvas connected in an ofllcial capacity with the Diamond Match Company at Chico for two years as production man. I-{e went to Oregon in 1906, going into the logging business at Marshland, and in 1910 he built a sawmill at Wauna, which he sold to the Crossett interests the following year. He then operated a sawmill at Vancouver, Wash., and in 1930 he retired, coming to Los Angeles to reside.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Catherine Clark; a daughter, Isabel, and a son, Alfred B. Clark, all of Los Angeles.

Funeral services were held at Los Angeles, Monday, November 15.

J. M. BUHLER

J. M. Buhler, owner of the J. M. Buhler Lumber Co., Los Angeles, passed away on November 18, following a heart attack. He was 48 years of age.

Mr. Brihler was a native of Minnesota. He spent several years in Polson, Montana, where he was manager of the Dewey Lumber Co. He came to Los Angeles in 1921, entering the retail lumber business, and was a partner in the Buhler-Sisson Lumber Co. Three years later he went in business for himself, starting the J. M. Buhler Lumber Co.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ann Buhler; a son, Donald F., and a daughter, Marjorie E. Buhler; three brothers, Ben D. of Los Angeles, J. W. of New York City, and David A. Buhler of Huntington Park, who is manager of the J. M. Buhler Lumber Co.; three sisters, Mrs. C. H' Boothe of Los Angeles, Mrs. J. W. Howe of Great Falls, Montana, and Mrs. J. F. Sherman of La Canada.

Funeral'services were held at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Monday afternoon. November 22.

PHILETUS BELL

Philetus Bell, 80, one of the pioneers of the California Redwood industry in Humboldt county, died October 29 at his home in Arcata. A native of Connecticut' he came to Humboldt in 188O to become affiliated with the Trinidad Milling Company. Later he was superintendent of the California Redwood Company, a position he resigned in 1896 to enter business for himself.

Long a holder of redwood timber lands he became an authority on timber values. Elected county assessor of Humboldt nearly 4O years ago he set u'p new rolls on timber property assessments and was called upon many times in later years to evaluate important holdings in the redwood area.

Funeral services and burial rites were conducted in Eureka. October 31.

MARTIN MEIER

I{artin Meier, pioneer Hemet lumber dealer, died on November 4. He was 77 years of age.

Mr. Meier was born in Germany and came to America when a young man. He was a resident of the San Jacinto Valley for over fifty years. He started a lumber yatd at San Jacinto in 1891, and later moved the business to Hemet. He operated the Hemet yard for 4O years and was still its owner at the time of his death.

He is survived by a son, Iferman Meier, and a daughter, Mrs. Dorothea Hawthorne of Hemet.

Funeral services were held at Hemet, Monday afternoon, November 8.

FHA Cooperates with Lumber Dealers Through Forum Meetings

Many contractors feel that they have a problem when attempting to build dwellings in conformity with the property standards as set up by the Federal Housing Administration. At first reading this may appear to be a fact to a large number, but when specific instances are traced down it is found that the difficulties are really very minor and due primarily to misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the FHA requirements on the part of the individual contractor.

For the purpose of ironing out these difficulties and to meet an insistent demand for more detailed information regarding FHA practice and procedure as related to the problems of the construction and allied industries, the FHA is cooperating rvith lumber dealers, for the mutual benefit of the dealer and contractor, through the mediurn of forum meetings held in the various communities.

These meetings are sponsored by a local lumber dealer in his respective community for his contractors, and to date have been very successful in clearing up the misunderstandings. Federal Housing Administration representatives are present at these meetings, first outlining the plan as a whole, and later throwing meetings open to discussion.

Each meeting has engendered considerable interest and brought out many points for discussion and clarification. They have also clarified the inspection processes of the Federal Housing Administration and given the individual contractor a clearer knowledge of its purposes and necessity. Every attempt has been made, and will be made in any meetings in the future, by the underwriting staff of the FHA, to give the contractors and builders the fundamental basis of sound underwriting practices so that they can measure and appraise the construction business which comes to them.

The Associate Director, W. G. Bingham of the Southern California District, FHA office, has assured The California Lumber l\{erchant that his office will gladly cooperate with any lumbcr or brrilding n.raterial agency in the holding of such meetings.

ON MEXICO TRIP

Mr. and Mrs G. C. Burnett, Tulare, and Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Barber, Fresno, left on November 14 to spend a vacation in Mexico City. They expected to visit Phoenix, Ariz., El Paso and San Antonio, Texas, as 'n'ell as numerous points in Mexico. While on this tour they hope to gain some valuable information as to how the building material business is conducted at other places.

Mr. Bur,nett is president of the California Lumbermen's Council and Mr. Barber is secretary.

MYRON BIRD VISITS L. A.

Myron Bird, president of the California Saw Works, San Francisco, was in Los Angeles recently conferring with G. L Fischer, manag'er of the company's Los Angeles branch.

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Ten Years Ago Today

From December 1 ,1997 lssue

The anntral mecting of the l\Iillwork Instiute of California was held at Oakland on November L7-18. Officers elected were: H. W. Gaetjen, president; A. W. Bernhauer, first vice-president; C. I. Speer, second vice-president; E. A. Nicholson, treasurer; H. T. Didesch, managing director.

The Schumacher Wall Board Corporation, I.os Angeles, announces that work will start on a new and separate rrnit at its plant, which will double the company's present production.

Jerry Sullivan, Jr., Western Lumber T'Iardwood Co., San Diego, was elected San Diego Chamber of Commerce.

Co. and Sullivan president of the

Gustine Lumber Co., Gustine, has built a new shed, 40x lOC feet, u'hich doubles its shed capacity.

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Hoo-Hoo Club No. 2 is arranging for on December 22. A. L. (Gus) Hoover arrangements committee.

WHOLESALE SALESMAN WANTS POSITION

Experienced wholesale salesman open for a position. Has covered the Southern California territory for several years and knows the retail trade. Good references. Address Box C-698 Califonia Lumber Merchant.

RETAIL YARD FOR SALE

Los Angeles lumber yard for sale. About $7,000 will handle. Ground leased. Twohy Lumber Co., Lumber Yard Brokers, 801 Petroleum Securities Building, Los Angeles. Telephone PRospect 8746.

Retail News

Arthur E. Heath, formerly with the Van Nuys Lumber Co., and Irwin W. Bluhm, formerly with E. J. Stanton & Son of Los Angeles, are the new owners of the 'Encino Lumber Co., having purchased the yard from J. & W. C. Shull. Inc.

At the annual meeting of the Atascadero Mill & Lumber Co., Atascadero, Calif., the following officers were elected: Earl Kinney, president; W. A. Corbett, vice-president, and W. E. IIanson, secretary-treasurer.

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Paul M. P. Merner, Merner Lumber Co., Palo Alto, has been appointed vicegerent snark of the Peninsula Hoo-Hoo District.

J. D. Halstead Lumber Company is opening a yard at Flagstaff, Ariz.

Prescott Brick & Lumber Co., Fresno, has purchased the Sanger Lumber Co. at Sanger

Dan H. Schroebel has been appointed manager of the San Joaquin Lumber Company, Stockton, succeeding the late Robert Inglis.

Olds Bros. Lumber Co., new building and store.

Winslow, Ariz., have erected a

A large amount of new machinery has been added to the cabinet mill of the Wightman Lumber Company, Sunnyvale, in a new building recently completed. The new equipment will enable the company to do cabinet work, manufacture sash, doors and screens, kitchen cabinets, etc. The new mill is now in operation. George C. Wightman is president of the company. Wightman Lumber Company recently opened a yard at Los Altos.

E. C. Parker, Patten-Blinn Lumber Co., Los Angeles, and Mrs. Parker have returned from a three weeks'trip through the Middlewest and South.

Syd Smith has opened a retail lumber yard at National City. He has been connected with the retail lumber business for many years and was formerly with Whiting-Mead at San Diego.

Hayrvard Dill, manag., of ,n. Dill Lumber Company yard at Banning, and Mrs. Dill have returned from a trip around the world. Thev were away about four and a half months.

The Knot-Hole Club held a dinner dance at the Westwood Ho Hotel, Phoenix, Ariz., Saturday evening, November 13. About 150 were Dresent.

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LUMBER

Atltaro-Stutz Cmlnqr, llll Marhot StEt ................GArfield ltl0

Cbanbcrlin & Co. W. R., lth Floor, Filc Bldg, ...,........DOug|ae 5,1?0

Dolber & Cam Lmbcr Co, ?i| Mmbmt Excbangc Bld8.......Suttcr ?,tsa

Gcman Lumber Qo., ,lt! Califmia St. .... .........,,...GArf eld 5O{1

Hall, Jams I-, r0:n Milr Bldc. ..............,.......SUtt6 75m

Hamnod Rcdvoil Copruy, ll7 Motgomery St. ..,..........DOug|ae !3tl

Holmes Eureka Lumber Co.1505 Financlal Centa Bldg.......GArficld l02l

C. D. Johm Lumber Cor1r. 2.|0 California Strot..,.... ........GArfic|d 625E

L*i-gmngt- Coprny, ra Califmia Strut ...............GArn.!d C$f

Iafgm, AlviD N., 2r0r Cafifmt! Strut ........,...F111morc 6l?5

MacDoneld & Hanin3tm Ltd., It hllirnia Strcct....,.. .. ,. .. ., .GArfrcld t393

LUMBER

LUMBER

Pacific Lumbcr Co Tbc 100 Burh Stroci.,.....,............GArfidd lltl

Peggs, J. E., I Drumm St. ....................Dorrgh! ttst

Red River Lumber Co, 3r5 MomdDck 81ds............,.,GArfic|d C22

Santa Fe Luber Co16 Califomia Stret ....,....... EXbrook 2074

Schafer Bru. Lumber & Shiaglc Co- I Drumm St. .,.....................Sutter lnr

Shevlin Pine Sales Co., 1030 Muadnck Blds. ...........KEmy tatt

Sudden & Christ:ncon, 310 SeBmr Strect................GArficld 2!al

Llnion Lumber Co., Crockcr Building,..........,........Suttcr 6l?0

Wendling-Nathan Cc, ll0 Mark.t Street ................,.Sutter 5:t03

E. K. Wood Lumbcr Co., I Drumm Strcet...........,........KElmt '7t0

Wcyerhaeuscr Salea Cq- l4t Calilonir Strot,..........,...GArficld !'?{

Zlcl & Co., 16 Celifornia Strut ............,EXbrooL sflf

OAIILANI}

Hlll 1l Morto, ln, Dmnbon St Wtr* ............ANdwc ll7l

Honn Lunhcr CmnuY' -2nd & Alie gbcb....'........Gbnilrt atal

E. K. Wood Lmbcr Cc. Frcdcrlc} & Klu3 Str.........'..Froltvrlc lll2

HARD!1|OODS

stnblc Hrrdvood Co, 5t7 Firt Str.ct......'..........TEmplcbar 5501

White Brotben. 50. Hlgb Strut ..................ANdoc 1610

LUMIER

HARDWOODS AND PANEI.S

Fmyth Hardnod Co. t55 Bryrhorc Blvd.,,.............ATwrtar tttl

Maris Plywood Crpcationn 5/(| loth Street ...,.MArk€t fr05-6703

Wbite Biothers. Fifth rnd Brannan Stretr .Sutter l!a5

SA.sH_DOORS-PLYWOOD

Niolai Doc Salo Co., 30ls ltth Strect ,. ...Mlado ?r2r

Uuited Strtcr Plywood Co., lnc.. ll9 Kuru Street,............,....MArket lt&t

Wbeler-Osgood Salcr Corpontloo" 30{!i trtb St, ......................VAlencta 220

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES_PTLTNGTIES

Anerican Lumbcr & Treatint Co., , ut N6v Montgomery St ....:....,Surter lzr5

Buter, J. H. & Co., 3it3 Montrgmery St. ........,.....DOuglac t!!!

Hall, Jemcr L., 1026 Mlllr Bldg. ..............,,.,.SU[.r t:t!t

PAN EIJ-DOORS_SA:'H-SCREE NS

CditmL Buildon Supply Cc, ?10 fth Avc. ....,.Hlgrtc c|ll

WcrtGn Doc & Sarh Co.. Stb & Cyprctr Str ..............LAkoidc &00

BUILT-TN FIXTURES

Pamrt Buih-ln Fixtrrrc Co. ltl? Eat r2rh SL ................ANdwcr t{l|

Perbsr Buflt-In Fb<turc Co. (Berlelev) 2it Su Pablo Ave. .........,,.Tl$mmlt 0@O

LOS AITGDLDS

Aulo Calllmh Lumbcr Co. -3{20 Avrhn Blvd. ........'......THmwell llll

Buru Lunbrr Co., 550 Chenbcr ol Cormcru Bldt...PRoo.ct |Ztl

Bruh bdltrirl Lunbcr Co.

sOOf So. Catrrl Arc. .'.........,CEntury 2!ttt

Gbrnbcrlin I Co. W. R. trt w. Nbrh 3L ..................TRtr|ty rsu

Cooor, Wllfnd T., al2 P.tr.lm ltcqriti.t Bldt...PRcpcct r$r

Dolbcor & Cano Lubor Cc, t|r Fil.lltl Bldt. ................VAnd|ltc t7t2

Dou4 D6 H., AS Pdrdam SGcuridc. Bldt. ...PRo.D.ct 23t{

Hunod Rcdwood Cmprny. tGf So. Bnd*ry ............'..PRxFct r||

Hcmhl+ E. Wtrr Fhud.I cah Bldr..........TRbttr tEr

Holncr Eurclc Lubcr Go. 'lf-?!2 Arhlt ctr Bldt. ..,.......Mutur| trtr

lloYc, A. L.. 7t Sc h Brcr Ave. ..,.....,.......YOrk ll3t

C D. Johnro Lunbcr Ccp, .cl PrtrclcuD Scflritc. Bldt....PR6pGd lfao

Kclly-Snlth Co., Berth 5it Su Pedn .............Pl.asnt 3123 Su Pedrc Glll4

Kuhl Lumbcr Cmpany, Carl H., t!! Chrmbor of Cam BldS...PRoFct tfSa

bwme-Philipr Lubcr Co,

|ilt Pctrolm Ssltlar Bld3....PRorpcct fU{

MlcDorld e Hrnrntto, Ltd.,

5{?'Pctrclun Sacurltlcr Bldg.,..PRcp.ct !t?

Pacific Lumbcr Co.. Thc

?O So. Lr Bm Avc. ...,,..........,YOrk llfr

LUMBEN

Prttcn-Bllnn knbcr Co.

5a E. lth St. .........,...'......VAndlG aa

Rcd Rlvcr Lunbor Co..

7Ol E. Sleurcr .CEntury DO?t l0tll So. Broadway .,..............PRaprct GU

Rcltz Co., E. L, !!l Petrclm Sccwldcr Bldr. ..PRorpet Ae

Sen Pe&o Lunb.r Co- S!! P.ib'o' It0.A WllnlDtto Rcd........,3u PGdr 22ta

Slntr Fa Lmbcr Co.

lll Fimclrl Canr.r Bldr.......VArdltc ll?l

Schafcr Brn Lunbcr & SDttr3h Co, l22l lV. M. Gerland Bldt.........TRhlt l?l

Shcvlin Pinc Salcr Co.

32t Pctrolcum Sccurltlcr Bldf. PnaFGt l3l3

Sq*hland Lurnbcr Co. Ol Pctrolcum Sccurltiar Bldj. ,..PRo4oct t|l3

Suddcn & Cbrbtcnaoa, tlo Bard of Tn& aHt.

Taoma Lumbcr Salcr, ,123 Petroleum Smrltlcr Bldg...PRcFct lfat

Twohy Lumbcr Co., tOl Pctrolon Sccurltb. Blt....PRo.D.ct ttll

Union Lunbcr Cot23 W. M. Garlud Bld3...........TRhtitr 22O

Wcndling-Nethan Ca?00 So b Bg Aw. .,............YOrb lr||

West Orego hmber Co.

4? Petrolam Smriti$ Bldg... Rlchmond 02tf

Wilklnmn and Buoy, 3lE W, gth St. ....................TRinity ||r3

E. K. Wood -umbcr Co.

47tl Sente Fc Aw. ...,..,.......JEfrcndt lUl

Wcluhecuar Salcr Cat20 W. M. Garhnd Bklr.........Mlchkrn |E5{

HARDWOODS

Cadwalladcr-Gibon Co.. hc.. 3l2t Eert Olymplc Blvd. ,.......AN3ctur nl3l

Strnton, E. J., ll Sm. 205t Eut ltth Str6t, ,.. .CEnrurr :t2ll

HARDWOOD FLOORING

S*!!gtq Hardwod Cmpany, tt2 Eut 59th Strcct.-. ,...'. .ADamr ttlt

SASH_DOORS-MILLWORK PANELS AND PLYWOOD

Crlilmh Prml & Vcmrr Co.,. 155 So. Alamc& St...,..,........,.TR|nrty tli?

Koohl Jno W. e Soo, 35il So Mycn St. ................ANgc|ur llrl

Orcgon-Wlhlngton Plywod Co., tlt W6t Nlnth Strct .TRhlty ||rr

Red Rivcr Lumbrr Co.

702 E. Slaum ..CEntury |tftl

Sanpco. Coenpry (Pasdm)

715 So Raymod Are. Blarchrrd ?ztla

Unltcd Statcr Plywood Co. Inc,, ll30 E!!t lsth St. .,.....,.,......PRopcct lll!

W.st Cdlt Scran Co., rl|S E. t3rd Strut ..............,...ADur llllE

Wat Cort Plvwood Ca, 3r5 l1'. Nlnth SL .....,.......,....TRinity r5rt

Wbceler-Os3ood Salcr Coramtle, zls:l Sacramento St. TUcka|ol

CREOSOTED LUMBER-POLES-PILINGTIES

Ancrian Lmber & Trcetln3 Co.' t03l So. Broedwey .,........,... PRorpcct frs5t

Butcr. J. H. & Co., --rii' ri,"J'sd 5i.' Mtchlsan .a,|

FOR POULTRY HOU'EI AND OTHER FARM U'E'

Qucrlity Redwood is perfect {or poultry houses, becouse it permits close fitting joints thot stoy tight. Verticcl siding is recommended. Freedom from shrinkcrge is qssuronce qgqinst "open seqms" ctrld hormfui drofts. Procticolly every port of the poultry house cclls {or Redwood-roof shingles, perches, nests, siding, floor qnd fromework. Quolity Redwood is protected by Noture ogoinst decoy ond wood boring insects.

It poys to mqintqin Hqmmond Quolity Redwood in oll the grqdes -for immediote delivery.

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