One Sure Market

(Editoriol lrom Four L Lumber News)

That the lumber industry is somewhat behind the times, t_o pyt it most mildly, was made painfully clear by W. C. Geddes, chairman of the research-commiitee of the Western Pine association, at the recent meeting of the group. In the matter of research work alone, Mr. Geddes pointed out, the du Pont interests employ 1300 persons; the General Electric has 950; the Aluminum Company of America has 18O; the Johns-Manville Company, which manufactures a roofing that has cut deeply into shingle sales, has 200, and Celotex has 26 men finding new uses for that product.

The great lumber associations, covering the natibn from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf and Mexico, employ a total of two research technicians and one assist- ant. These three men, mind you, are ALL that are employed in this work by the lumber associations of the entire country.

As though this were not indictment enough, David Mason, manager of the Pine association, piled up what he rightly termed "more embarrassment." He reported that

S. F. TO L. A. IN TWO HOURS

D. S. Painter, general manager of the lumber division of the Fruit Growers' Supply Co., recently made two air trips to Los Angeles. The last one was on March 7, when he left his own office in San Francisco at 11:4O a.m.. flew by the Varney Air Lines noon plane to Glendale, and arrived at his.company's Los Angeles office at 2:30 p.m. The actual air trip occupied only two hours.

Mr. Painter travels more by air than any lumberman on the Pacific Coast, and his relord of more- than lOO hours in the air in commercial planes puts him in the top class for air travel.

TUMBER MEN'S

compared with the five cents per thousand feet cut, proposed as an assessment to advertise western pine products, the drug and toilet articles business was spending $4 for advertising; chemicals, $1.22; food products, $1.14; hardware, 95 cents; clothing, 74 cents; and paper and paper products, 52 cents. The production footage, or mileage, of the macaroni industrv has not been estimated but the Macaroni Association-last year spent $109,00O for advertising alone.

These figures, together with the numbers of research workers given above, would indicate r,r'hy we battle halitosis; watch for pink tooth brush; buy food packed in paper boxes; live in a stucco house roofed with composition material; sit on an aluminum chair to write on a steel desk; and eat miles and miles of macaroni.

However, there will always be a demand for wood no matter how little it is advertised nor how little lumbermen know about it. The crossroads store philosophers will always want to whittle.

T. B. LAWRENCE AND D. R. PHILIPS VISIT SAN FRANCISCO

T. B. Lawrence and D. R. Philips, Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co., Los Angeles, were San Francisco visitors around the first of the month on a business trip.

Arthur Twohy Back At His Desk

Arthur Twohy, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, who underu'ent an operation at the Monte Sano Hospital, Los Angeles, the early part of February, is back at his desk agaln.

G()LT' T()URNAMENT

Dinner and Entertainment

FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, r9r2

Hollywood Counry Club (f2S50 Ventura Blvd.)

Hollywood, California

OPEN TO ALL LUMBERMEN

EVENTS

Frank Burnabv cup (c6, a;;;;;;;;;;;t-;Gi.y* ;d;il;i;; Tl:"futt"'nia

Four Flight Events-Fitst and Second Prizes EXPENSES

Lumbet Merchant cup

Come to first tee with .13.00. Lunches and ,caddies to be paid by playet direct. Those playing but not staying for dinner will be refunded f1.00. Those not playing but staying for dinnlr will pay $2.OO. Get ihere eatly, l2zod "tloct if poesible.

Lunch will be served at the Club Ffouse. Dinner at 6:30 P. M. Sharp.

Committee

Appointed by Los Angeles Hoo Hoo Club Harry Ffanson, Chairman Don Philips - Kenneth Smith

Ed Martin