Lumber Code Authority Passes Upon Many

Appeals, proposals involving the creation of new Divisions and Subdivisions, other code amendments, trade promotion, conservation and sustained yield of forests, grademarking and branding of lumber, prevention of the erection of new millp, cost protection prices, and the question of export markets were among the important matters which engaged the attention of the Lumber Code Authority at its recent session in Washington.

A decision by the Authority donated all lumber needed for the new buildings at Warm Springs, Ga., as a birthday gift to President Roosevelt. The Authority adopted an amendment to the Code to be submitted to the N.R.A. which will authorize the assessment by the Authority of additional code fees of not to exceed 5c per thousand, or its equivalent, for national trade promotional Purposes.

'The Atrthority voted to sustain the appeal of the Hardwood Coordinating Committee, and also directed that a committee be appointed to study this broad question of exports. The Hardwood Coordinating Committee appealed from a decision of the National Control Committee which exempted 50 per cent of all lumber cut for export from production control.

The Authority voted to grant the appeal of the M & M Woodworking Company, Portland, Ore., with which was associated in the appeal three other large Douglas fir door manufacturers of the Northwest, who asked that lumber purchased by them for manufacture into doors for export be exempted from minimum cost protection prices.

The Authority adopted basic forestry rules for all commercial timber lands subject to the Lumber Code. Divisional rules and regulations must be submitted by April 1, and their administration is to begin June 1. The future marking of lumber and timber products to indicate plainly the grade, size, species, source of manufacture and whether seasoned or unseasoned was provided for by action of the Authority, which voted to submit to the Administration provisions governing this undertaking on the part of the industry as a rvhole. The proposal to prevent the erection of new mills and the addition of new productive capacity came up on the petition of the Hardwood Division. The Authority resolved by a vote of 14 to 11 to recommend to the N.R.A. an amendment to the Code which would check the building of nerv sawmills.

Upon its application the production quota of the Plywood Package Division which had been set at 100 million feet for the first quarter of 1934 was reduced, to 70 million ' surface square feet of plywood and cleats. The Executive Officer was directed to subnrit to the Administrator an amendment to Schedule A which would more clearly define the eligible persons who might apply for allotments to the Mahogany Subdivision. The Maple Flooring Division was given a 10 million foot increase for the first quarter of 1934.

Minimum cost protection was extended to export sales of products of the Maple Flooring Division and the Southern and Appalachian Hardwood Subdivision. Cost protection was also extended to Subdivisions of the Wooden Package Division. Existing cost protection schedules were revised and corrected, most changes being of a minor nature, except in the case of the Oak Flooring Division, which increased its prices about 5 per cent.

The Southern Pine Division introduced new freight formulas designed to remove inequalities in price caused by distance from or proximity to the Division's chief markets. In order to provide in the future for proper coordination of prices, Chairman Tennant stated, a standing committee on Price Coordination would be established, made up of representatives of each Division who would elect their own Chairman; this committee will meet one week in advance of the meeting of the Lumber Code Authority and cost protection price schedules will not be submitted to the Cost and Protection Committee of the Authority until approved by the Price Coordinating Committee. A comrnittee to devise a form for cost questionnaires was appointed'

Thus far in the session the Authority has refused to consider any reductions in existing wage scaleq. Upon receipt of a telegram from the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, requesting that wages in the Northwest be increased, the Authority wired the organization that it would grant a hearing to any of its members who wish to appear in favor of such a change in the wage schedule.

The Authority approved amendments which would add California to the jurisdiction of the Douglas Fir Subdivision. An agreement between several Subdivisions of the Wooden Package Division and the Southern Rotary Cut Lumber Division settling disputed questions of jurisdiction, was approved. The County of San Francisco was added to the jurisdiction of the Redwood Division. All sessions of the Authority, except during a vote, have been open to the public.

Wholesale Yard Distributors

Elect Officers

Officers elected by the National Wholesale Lumber Distributing Yard Association, Inc., at a meeting recently held in Washington, D. C., were as follows: D. Carlysle MacLea, Baltimore, president; Theodore Fathauer, Chicago, first vipe-president; Henry Swafford, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, second vice-president; J. Jackson Kidd, Jr., Baltimore, secretary-treasurer.

Included in the directors elected were: C. H. White, White Brothers, San Francisco, and D. J. Cahill, Western Hardwood Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

John H. Plunlcctt

John Homer Plunkett, one of the country's outstanding figures in the asphalt roofing industry, died suddenly from a heart attack at his home in New York City early Friday morning, February 16, 1934. His passing was a great shock to his many friends on the Pacific Coast where he resided for many years.

At the time of his death, Mr. Plunkett was President of The Flintkote Company, whose headquarters are in New York, as well as Chairman of the Board and General Manager of the Pioneer-Flintkote Company (formerly the Pioneer Paper Company) of Los Angeles.

His early business career started with the Pioneer Paper Company. For many years he acted as their district sales representative in the San Francisco and Northwest territory. In 7923, he was transferred to the company's Los Angeles office as director of sales, and in 7926 became general manager of that organization. About five years ago the Pioneer Paper Company became associated with The Flintkote Company, and a year and a half ago Mr. Plunkett was elected President of that company at which time he went to New York City to make his headquarters, but he still retained his active interest in the Pioneer Paper Company. The first of the year, the Pioneer Paper Company and The Flintkote Company were consolidated, at which time the name of the Los Angeles concern was changed to the Pioneer-Flintkote Company.

Mr. Plunkett was progressive, possessed rare executive ability, and contributed greatly to the upbuilding of the asphalt roofing industry in the West. He was a tireless worker, and his ,counsel was frequently sought. He was popular and held in very high esteem by his many friends. While living in New York City he still continued to maintain his home at Beverly Hills, Calif., and kept in close contact with business conditions on the Pacific Coast making periodic trips to the company's Los Angeles offices.

Mr. Plunkett was a member of the Jonathan Club of Los Angeles, and was widely known in Masonic circles on the Pacific Coast.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Esther M. Plunkett, and two children, John, 7, and Faith,2. Funeral services were held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Church, New York City, Sunday afternoon, February 18.

The House of Friendly Service

Henry George On Liberty

Only in broken dreams and partial light has the sun of Liberty yet beamed among men, yet all progress has she called forth,

Liberty came to a race crouching under Egyptian whips, and led them forth from the House of Bondage. She hardened them in the desert and rnade of them a race of conquerors. The free spirit of the Mosaic law took their thinkers up to a height where they beheld the unity of God, and inspired their poets with strains that yet phrase the highest exaltations of thought.

Liberty dawned on the Phoenician coast and ships passed the Pillars of Hercules to plow the unknown sea.

She broke in partial light on Greece, and marble grew to shapes of ideal beauty, words became the instruments .of subtlest thought, and against the scanty militia of all free cities the countless hosts of the Great King broke like surges against a rock.

She cast her beams on the four-acre farms of Italian husbandmen, and born of her strength a power came forth that conquered the world.

She glinted frorn the shields of German warriors, and Augustus wept his legions.

Out of the night that followed her eclipse, her slanting rays fell again on free cities, and a lost learning revived, modern civilization began, a new world was unveiled; and as Liberty grew, so grew art, wealth, power, knowledge, and refinement.

In the history of every nation we may read the same truth. It was the strength born of Magna Charta that won Crecy and Agincourt. It was the revival of Liberty from the despotism of the Tudors that glorified the Elizabethan Age. ft was the spirit that brought a crowned tyrant to the block that planted here the seed of a mighty tree. It was the energy of ancient freedom that, the moment it had gained unity, made Spain the mightiest power in the world, only to fall to the lowest depths of weakness when tyranny succeeded Liberty.

See, in France, all intellectual vigor dying under the tyranny of the seventeenth century to revive in splendor as Liberty awoke in the eighteenth, and on the enfranchisement of the French peasants in the great revolution, basing the wonderful strength that has in our time laughed at disaster.

What Liberty shall do for the nation that fully accepts and loyally cherishes her, the wondrous inventions which are the marked features of this century, give us but a hint.

HERE'S A THOUGHT

Given a government with a big surplus and a big majority and a uteak opposition, and you would debauch a committee of archangels.-Sir John A. Macdonald.

A LONG, LONG TIME

"Darling, it wiil have to be a long engagement."

"Dearest, I will wait for you until even the farmers are satisfi ed."-Burdette Brevities.

Taking The Joy Out Of Life

Some woman in Greensburg was granted a divorce after testifying that her husband dropped snakes down her back. It's getting so a married rnan can't have any fun any more.

-Buffalo Evening News.

Softly The Rain

Softly the rain slants in From the south, with fragrance blown, From crystal, over the roofs. And I wonder if the rain Falls softly there todayOn the old barn staunch through the years, With its drowsy mow of hay.

Softly the rain-I hear The pigeons under the eaves Once more, and the sound of dreams Rich as the stir of leaves, Patterned with lifted light Spring's banners under the plain Beyond that roof, though it sags With years-and softly, the rain.

-G. W. Dresbach.

"And has she made him a good wife?"

"I don't know about that. But she's sure making him a good husband."

DON'T ALWAYS BE RIGHT

"To be right in every argument," said Ho Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "would make a man unpopular, with no friends willing to converse with him."