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How Lumber Looks The California retail lumber volume co,ntinues light. It
seems almost certain that President Rooseveltts plan for gorr-
emmental financing of home building and mode*nization will soon be adopted. Funde to finance the reconstruction of fifty school buildings in twenty-one school districts in Loo Angeles and Orange cotrnties have been receivod ftom t{re Unified Rehabilitation Corporation on which it is expected that construc-
tion will soon start.
The coastwise longshoreanen strike a.t Pacific ports which started on May 10 is still on as we go to pr6s. The srike has slowed up to 6ome extent the discharge of lumber cergoes at California ports.
Ner+' business reported to the Vest Coast Lumbermeots Association by 586 mills for the wee& ended Mlay 5 totaled 102t 2851144 f.et, an increase over the prding week by about 1r100r0q) feet or 1.2 pe cant. Production for the weelc was 95rO58,45O feet and shipments 84ril2r199 f.et. Cunetrt sales were over productiotr by 7.5 per cent and shipments were under production by 11 pcr cent The Vestern Pine Association reported new busineso by 139 mills for the same week as 48r8r0r000 feet, shipmetrts 4Er5rrr000 feet, and production 5l,643rffiO f.eet. Orders wete 5.4 lrer cent below production, and .6 per cent above shipments. Shipmentr wete 6 p€r cent below production.
Lumber stoc&s on the public dockg at Loc Angeles harbor totaled 2rO77rOOO feet on l0,|,ay 7. Lumbet cargo arrivals at Loa Angeles harbor for the week ended l0'Iay 7 amounted to 11,662,000 fea which included 14 cargoes of Fir carrying 10r-
The California Redwood Association for the week ended April 28 reported production from 18 mills as 71116,OOO f.et, shipments 615921000 fet, and nen' businesa 5r535rfi)0 feet. Orders on hand at the end of the wee& were 37,732rOOO Lelgt. 563 hardwood mills for the week ended April 28 gave new business as 27rollr000 feet, ot 2 pe cent below production, and shipments 28r112rfi)0 feet, ot 2 per cent above production.
7; 38 vessels were laid up. ,
Production was 27,544,O00 fe€t.
669,000 feet, and 2 catgoes of Redwood with 96310oo fect. 6t vessels were operating in the coastwise lumber service on May
BUSINESS IMPROVING SAYS HARRY GRAHAM T. B. LAWRENCE ON NORTHWEST TRIP Harry J. Graham, Los Angeles, director of sales on the T. B. Lawrence, Lawrence-Fhilips Lumber Co., Los AnPacific Coast for the Pioneer-Flintkote Company, has regeles, left around the first of the month for the Northwest to visit the mills in the Portland. Grays Harbor. Coos Bay turned from a month's business trip which covered all the and Puget Sound districts. While in Portland, he made western states. He reports that he found a general imhis headquarters at the offices of Dant & Russell, Inc. He provement in business in all the states he visited. expects to return about the later part of the month. EMIL SWANSON MAKES ANNUAL FISHING TRIP Emil Swanson, Eagle Rock Lumber Co., Eagle Rock, RALPH CLARK VISITS CALIFORNIA general listed among the Southland's throng of anglers who sales manager was Bellingham, Wash., Ralph Clark, Lumber Mills, is for the Bloedel-Donovan on a business ushered in the opening of the trout season on May 1. Emil trip to California where he will confer with the company's is an expert angler, and this year as in the past, he took sales representatives, J. H. Prentice of Los Angeles and off a few days to go on his annual fishing trip. Tames L. Hall of San Francisco. GUY SMITH ON BUSI'NESS TRIP Guy Smith, San Francisco, general sales manager of the HARRY T. KENDALL VISITS CALIFORNIA a two months' Harry T. Kendall, general sales manager, 'Weyerhaeuser Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co.. 1S Sales Co., recently spent several days in California. He business trip calling on the company's representatives and arrived in San Francisco May 2, spent May 3 and 4 in Los the trade in the South and East. Angeles and returned to San Francisco to attend the meetC. M. "Friday" Freeland of Los Angeles, district sales ing of the Northern California Lumber Code Authority. manager of the Southern California and Arizona territories, He left San Francisco May 6 to visit Klamath Falls, Boise, will be in the company's home office in San Francisco durIdaho, and Tacoma. Chas. B. Shary, manager of water- ing Mr. Smith's absence. Charles P. Henry, Phoenix, the borne sales, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., Tacoma, arrived in company's Arizona representative, has been called into the San Francisco May 5 to confer with Mr. Kendall and re- Los Angeles office to fill in while Mr. Freeland is at the turned with him. home office.
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Arizona Retailers Discuss Code at Annual At the annual meeting of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona held at Phoenix on Friday and Saturday, May lI-12, 1934, it was voted to change the name of the organization to the Arizona Retail Lumber and Building Supply Association. Officers re-elected were John G. O'Malley, O'Malley Lbr. Co., Phoenix, president; Claude A. Hayes, Prescott Lumber Co., Prescott, first vice-president; C. J. Killen, Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Co., Yuma, second vice-president; Chris Totten, Phoenix, secretary-treasurer and Code Authority manager for Arizona, District 31. M. H. McCalla, Foxworth-McCalla Lumber Co., Phoenix, rvas elected national Code director. Claude A. Hayes, vice-president, presided at the business sessions as President John G. O'Malley was absent from the city. Governof Moeur of Arizona lvelcomed the visiting lumbermen. The retail lumber Code was the principal subject discussed at the meeting. Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association, Garden Grove, Calif.; A. W. Bernhauer and Lester G. Sterett, both of Fresno, Calif., president and secretary of the Tri-State Woodwork Association, administrative agency for the millwork Code of Arizona. California and Nevada: I\4. A. N{cCalla, Code Authority director for Arizona; W. A. Fults, Albuquerque, Code Authority member for New l\'Icxico; Paul Hallingby, Hammond Lumber Company, Los Angeles; A. T. Skluzacek, A. T. Skluzacek Lumber Co., Chandler, and others addressed the meeting. To interpret and clarify the Code as occasion arises, a Joint Interpretation Committee was elected, the committee including the following: M. H. McCalla, Albert A. Hayes, John G. O'Malley, Gene S. Cunningham, and H. M. Watson, all o[ Phoenix; R. A. Christy, F'lagstaff ; M'. A. Lamprey, Tucson, and F. M. Pool, Superior. Sub-committee members elected for the three Code divisions of the state were: Northern Division--Gradv Stubbs. ilolbrook: Iames
Olds, Winslow, and Frank Edens, Cottonwood. Central Division-R. V. Baker, Phoenix; Cecil I)rew, Mesa, and A. M. Schwarz, Miami. Southern Division-John N. Wood, Waugh and W. Killen. Tucson. E,ntertainment plans for the women visitors were rnade by N{rs. J. W. Tardy and Mrs. Francis W. Pool of Phoenix. There was a luncheon for the ladies on Frid;ry at the Rendezvous Gardens, and Saturday afternoon they lvere entertained at a tea at the Phoenix Cotrntry Club. Among the social affairs for the men was the stag dinner staged by the Phoenix Knot Hole Club at the Hotel Adams at 6:30 o'clock, Friday evening, with John A. Johnson of Phoenix presiding. Saturday afternoon was given over to golf. 'fhe annual banquet and dinner dance was held at 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening, at the Rendezvous Gardens. The Lranquet program was in charge of Francis W. Pool and Wiiliarn Warriner, Jr. A number of Southern California lumbermen attended the convention.
East B.y Club Meets M.y 21 East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39 will hold its regular monthly dinner meeting on Monday evening, May 21, at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland. The club will be host to members of the Oakland Port Commission. Ralph T. Fisher, president of the Commission, will talk on S. F. Bay Bridge and harbor developments, and his talk will be illustrated by motion pictures.
c. R. JOHNSON STrLL IN WASHINGTON C. R. Johnson, president, IJnion Lumber Co., and representative of the Redwood Division on the Lumber Code
Authority, is still in Washington, D. C., where he has
been for the past several months on Code business.
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V.gabond Editorials Bv JacL Dionne A wise man just returned from sojourning in Washington, where he had both the position and the opportunity to listen to worth-while opinions, expressed to me the belief that the time has finally arrived when we've got to let this patient-American business-loose for a while, and see how he will act and react without artificial stimulus. As this man expressed it, we've been giving this sick man medicine and treatment of every conceivable sort for the past year. He has been doped in every possible way, trying to give him strength, and build him up, and cure his pains. But sooner or later we've got to quit that and try him out under his own power. And my friend says that wise men in Washington think the patient has about arrived at this maximum capacity for medicine, and we've got to turn him loose and let nature take its course for a while. Which seems to me an interesting and practical sununary of the situation. rt*,i
Probably the announcement of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer recently of wonderfully improved conditions in England, will hasten this decision in Washington. For the most momentous business and economic pronouncement that has been made in this world in the last year was the report of Britain's condition. The Chancellor reported to Parliament that in the past year England has not only balanced her budget but built up a big surplus; the income tax has been reduced, along with many other important taxes; unemployment has reached a level lower than that immediately preceding the depression; and continued improvement along these and other vital lines is noticeable, and likely to continue in satisfactory shape. In other words-ENGLAND HAS LICKED THE DEPRESSION. I'm satisfied General Hugh Johnson wonders how it was done without his own pet Blue Eagle.
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In the "showboat Hour" Molasses tells of being thrown from a horse. January asks him, "Did it give you a headache?" and Molasses answers, "Quite the contrarY, January, quite the contrary." And, quite the contrary to our method of fighting the depression was that adopted by England. She decided that the way to beat the depression was to cut expenses. We decided that the way to do it was to raise them as they had never been raised before. England decided that the way to encourage business was to reduce the burdens of business. \Ve took exactly and identically the opposite route. England decided that men
will not contiru,re to risk their money and their time in business activities if active business is to carry all the accumulated burdens of recovery; so they lightened the burdens of business via the tax and other routes. And, it looks like England has come in under the wire before we have entered the home stretch.
Six weeks ago we **"..; tl"t business MUsr ""tirr" absorb more of the unemployed; that working hours must
be reduced and wages raised. Already that threat has passed, so we are told. Business couldn't and wouldn't stand it. Proving a statement made some time since by W. R. Hearst. Mr. Hearst said two men were discussing a third, and one of them said: "Did you know that Brown took his girl out in a boat, threw her overboard, and then hit her on the head with an oar every tirne she came up? Wasn't that awful?" And the other replied, "Yes, but wasn't she the fool to keep coming up?" Business, said Mr. Hearst, gets hit on the head every time it comes up, and some of these days it will get tired of coming up. *,t*
One criticism of NRA that we hear and read a lot about, doesn't seem to me to have any basis of fact, so far as the lumber industry is concerned. That is the oft-repeated statement that the codes have the effect of eliminating, oppressing, or discriminating against small business. Surely the lumber manufacturing code has acted as a most amazing incubator of small sawmills. I haven't the figures at hand as I type this for other districts, but as far as the Southern Pine territory is concerned it is certain and provable that the lumber code has been the rnotivating agent that brought into life and activity a tremendous number of small mills. And, they keep right on coming. In every dale and on every hill, in every nook and in every corner, the small mills spring into life and action. One day a sweep of territory is unmarked by saw or ax; the next day the landscape is dotted freely with little mill structures and their whining saws. Whence they come, no one seems to know. They are just there. And, their number keeps constantly increasing.
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Surprising, too! It has long been said that "politics make strange bed-fellows." It may be truly said that codes make strange thinking. Six or seven years ago the products of these so-called "peckerwood" mills on the av(Continued on Page 8)
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4.66olurt of the Bou$h" You can't sell tree trunks Laying on some remote and rugged hillside. Logs have to be snaked great distances, in many instances, to the railroad, loaded on cars and hauled to the mills. "Place utiLity" is the term brain trusters might apply to this transportation. We think of it more simply as just one of many steps we must take to be well qualified as a source of Redwood Products.
The picture above shows a "high line." This procedure is
an always interesting spectacle for visitors. Pacific developed the "high line" as a most efficient way to take great logs over hills, canyons and timber that must be preserved.
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Vagabond Editorials (Continued from Page 6) erage had to be priced anywhere from five to ten dollars
a thousand less than big-mill virgin-timber products in order to move it. The two dollar differential of today wouldn't have moved a carload of it in a year. Today it's moving plenty of it. The lower classed lumber has been continually taking the Class A lumber for a ride right along, with only the two dollar differential. Lumber which, if nailed into a fence, would be rotted out and gone in six
months time, is out-selling lumber that would occupy that same position for generations without deterioration. Get your pencil, and figure that out if you can.
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class lumber is hope-
lessly inferior, by any means. Lots of small mills have gotten hold of plots of high class timber, and make good lumber. But these thousands of little mills that are springing up in all the fence-corners, get mighty little of that sort of timber. Plenty of it is what we call "sea-weed." It is more weed than tree. But for some strange reason or another it is moving at its classified price to better advantage than lumber from virgin forests and splendidly equipped mills. (Understand that in these paragraphs I am speaking of Southern Pine conditions. Naturally, they vary in each district, and with each species.)
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The American Newspaper Publishers Association has issued a public statement declaring that certain forces in our Federal Government are engaged in a sustained effort to hurt and discredit advertising. They meant, of course, members of the so-called "brain trust." Well, if you'd been getting the kind of advertising the "brain trust" has been getting of late, you'd be agin it, too. *<*,i
Looks like even the members of the youthful "brain trust" would have more sense than to jump on the one and only source of income of all the newspapers, magazines, periodicals, and all of their adherents and adjuncts. Tickling the claws of the sleeping grizzly would be a safe pastime by comparison. This modern civilization of ours was built on advertising; and united they'll stand-divided they'll fall. tF ,1. *
I've been wondering for the past year how long it would be before the operators of moving picture theaters over the country raised a howl about the growing tide of objectionables in the "talkies." Sometimes I wondered if they didn't understand the hurt it was doing their business.
But they understood, all right. The Motion Picture Theater Owners of America convened for a week in Hollywood recently, and the chief topic of the whole meeting was their demand for immediate and complete elirnination of indecencies from pictures. They met with the picture producers, of course, and the boys who make the pictures "got told" what the American public is saying about the recent high tide of moving picture indecencies. 't** The protestants for the theater owners uttered what I have continually said rnyself, that it looks of late as though the picture producers go out of their way to interpolate into otherwise wholesome entertainment, splashes and dashes of often irrelevant things that range all the way from objectionable vulgarity to outright degeneracy. The American children who throng the movie houses have a right to protection against this recent predilection to inject into the movies continual depravity.
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I have long declared that what every moving picture studio should add to its executive force is some person of birth and breeding whose sole job it would be to point out the things that polite and decent people never say or do in public, and keep such things off the screen. The majority of movies testify all too stoutly that there is no such intelligent censorship in the production end.
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Some movies are just naturally dirty and vulgar. But many are clean, and clever, and interesting, with the exception of the apparent efrort of someone to every now
and then stick in something vulgar or smut, something generally entirely separate and apart from the trend of the story. Just dirt for dirt's sake.
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The Motion Picture Theater Owners of America deserve the thanks of the entire American public for the stout protest they made while in Hollywood, against this efrort to destroy motion pictures via the indecency route. rF,8*
Direct financial help for prospective home-remodelers and builders looms nearer. It's GOT to come ! It will fulfill a great need, and it will put millions of men to work.
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Reports from Washington up to the middle of April showed that Public Works Administration. created for the purpose of creating jobs for the jobless, had furnished employment to only 251,000 men. As a means of reducing
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unemployment this government activity travels the snail's pace. It wouldn't relieve the situation in a hun{red years.
As r have been sayin; ,; ;.".hs in this column, if they would just make the same offer to prospective home builders and remodelers that they have made for public works, exchanging government cash for sound mortgages, they would put so many men to work that it would need all the men PWA hds found jobs for just to carry water to the home-building army.
*** Yes, sir, I'm just a country boy, trying to get along, but you slip me three billion bucks, like they did pWA, and say, "put men to work," and if I couldn't put three million men to work at actual and useful employment in less than ninety days time I'll eat all the public works pWA has so far constructed-without either salt or pepper; and make every work-clothes and overall factory in the country put on a night shift.
Wholesalers' Annual May Zg-24 The annual convention of the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association will be held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C., May 23-24. The executive committee met in New York on April 24 to discuss plans for the Wholesale Division and other convention arrangements. Reduced railroad rates are in efiect on the certificate plan, and the Mayflower Hotel is providing special rates of $4.0O per day, upward. Marked interest is being shown in the convention and in addition to a large delegation of wholesalers from all over the country, there will be numerous representatives from the manufacturing and retail branches.
Redwood Log Produces Remarkable Cut
On Monday, April 30, 1934, the Dolbeer & Carson Lum_ ber Co. mill at Eureka, Calif., had the exceptional experience of cutting one Redwood log that produced 13 pieces of 6"x16"x28' Dense Select Structural timbers to be used. in the construction of the State of California Highway Bridge in the continuation of the highway south of Mon_ terey, Calif. Those who are familiar with the size of Redwood trees know that many large logs are brought into the mill, but even for Redwood, this is a remarkable record, especially when it is considered that Dence Select Structural Redwood is graded from the standpoint of density, slope of grain, size and location of knots. In addition to the 2g, timbers, this log produced a normal side cut. This log came from their new Elk River Camp where they have constructed a new railroad and logging camp which will serve their mill for many years to come.
H. '!(/. Ballinger Appointed to Lumber Code Authority Washington, D. C., Aptil 27.-Homer W. Ballinger, of Springfield, Ohio, now in Washington as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Retail Lumbqr and Building Material Code Authority, has been appointed by the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association to succeed Alton J. Hager, of Lansing, Mich., as the member of the Lumber Code Authority representing the retail branch of the industry. Mr. Hager resigned from the post a month ago because of the pressure of private business. The resignation of George D. Rose, of Dubuque, Iowa, as the alternate retail member of the Lumbei Coa. Authority, also has been announced, with his successor yet to be named.
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Ne* Executive Plan jor lnsuring Financing Will Stimulate Nation-\(/ide Home Building and Modernization \(/hen Adopted Washington, D. C., April 27.-President Roosevelt's insurance plan of financing a building revival and restoring the durable goods industries has been received with favor by the advocates of the various schemes for governmental financing of home building and modernization, inquiry here developed today. The Executive's idea varies from all the other plans in that it does not require the utilization of public funds. It is based on the assumption that if newbuilding loans are ins.ured and the interest rate is low and terms long and reasonable an abundance of private capital and applications for loans will be forthcoming. The plan provides for installments in small annual amounts' covering deferred payments, interest and loan insurance premium. Loans may nominally run f.ot N years. The bill authorizing the plan has been prepared and will go to Congress within a few days, and under it both modernization and new building will be pushed by a nation-wide drive. The Home Loan Bank Board will probably be the active administrative agencY. Of;ficers of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, which recently made a survey of the residence building requirements of the country, said today that they were certain that if the plan of the President's Executive
Council for insuring (1) horn" *odernization, and (2) original building loans were adopted, extensive modern' ization work would be promptly undertaken throughout the country. "There are 30,000,000 homes in the United States," said Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. "Of these 27,000,000 are single or two-family home.s. Of these, again, approximately 22,W,ffi are of wood construction, which lends itself easily to alteration. Owners of these houses are given to change and prone to modernization, and have gratified this inclination far less than usual during the years of the depression. Reasonable interest rates and terms will, I think, result in the quick provision and absorption of at least a billion dollars of rebuilding money. The insurance plan will put idle private money to work, give employment, insure low interest rates and yet avoid costly outlays of public moneys. We need more private, and less public, credit. New construction will be slower to develop, but there are at least 2,500,000 houses which will be demolished and replaced when financing permits. For many years to come there will be a backlog of such obsolescence, to say nothing of additional construction necessitated by population growth and the tendency to smaller families."
Sudden & Christenson Move Their
Redwood Industry Completes Quota
Los Angeles Office Sudden & Christenson have moved their offices from the
Petroleum Securities Building to larger quarters in the Board of Trade Building, Los Angeles, where they will handle their various steamship agencies and operations. These include the'Arrow Line, their own line of intercoastal steamers, the Klaveness Line, the HamburgAmerican Line, and the Reardon Smith Line.
The California Redwood industry has won the honor of being the first division of the lumber industry to complete its quota of the Lumbermen's Warm Springs Building Fund, according to a recent statement by H. Dixon Smith, chairman of the fund, who says that construction on the two buildings to be erected at Warm Springs in honor of President Roosevelt will be started soon, and urges that quotas be completed as soon as possible.
lmproved Knile lor High Speed Machines The California Saw Works has developed a new improved knife for high speed machines. They are calling this new product their SUPERSTEEL Knife. The company has been working on this new improvement for a long period and.it has been found very satisfactory where the hardest kind of service is required, such as, in box factories.
The knives are being manufactured at the company's plant in San Francisco.
C. Arthur Bruce Resigns From Control Committee Washington, D. C., May 1.-C. Arthur Bruce, who resigned some time ago as Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, resigned yesterday as a member of the National Control Committee of that body. His successor on the committee will probably be named at the forthcoming meeting of the Authority in June.
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A. A. Kayser in No*hwest J. Knox Corb ett, Pioneer Arizona H. \(/. Murphy in Charge
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During His Absence
J. Knox Corbett, pioneer Arizona lumberman and founder of the J. Knox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Co. at Tucson, died Sunday afternoon, April 22, 1934, He was 72 years old, and had been a resident of Tucson since 1880. Mr. Corbett was born June n, 1861, in Sumter, South Carolina. He was 19 years old when he arrived in Tucson by stage in 188O which was before the railroad ran into Tucson. During his early years there he filled various positions, and in 1884 he entered the cattle business. In 1890, prior to his appointment as postmaster of Tucson, he sold out his cattle business and started a lumber yard
A. A. Kayser of Los Angeles, California grading inspector for the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, left for the Northwest on May 5.' He plans to spend the next three or four months visiting the mills in Oregon and Washington where he will discuss with the manufacturers any problems they may have regarding their California business. Harry W. Murphy, supervising inspector for the West Coist Lumbermen's Association, will be in charge of the Association work in California during Mr. Kayser's absence. Mr. Murphy has been with the Association for a good many years working with the Association mills in the Puget Sound, Grays Harbor and Columbia River districts.
The Association's Los Angeles office is in the Architects Building-the telephone number is MUtual 6303'
Representing Hardwood Firm George R. Landreth of Los Angeles is now representing the American Hardwood Co. in the Los Angeles territory where he is calling on the retail lumber trade. Mr. Landreth is well known in the Los Angeles territory and for several years has been connected with the American Lumber Co., both in the office and at the yard.
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which was located on the company's present site. In lX)2, he incorporated the business as the J.. Knox Corbett Lumber Company, and in 1919 following the death of his brother, W. J. Corbett, the W. J. Corbett Hardware Company and the J. Knox Corbett Lumber Company were merged, forming a new corporation known as the J. Knox Corbett Lumber & Hardware Company. For sixteen years, Mr. Corbett served as postmaster of Tucson, having received appointments from Presidents Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. Mr. Corbett married Miss Lizzie Hughes of Tucson in 1885' She was the daughter of Sam Hughes who was active in the mining, real estate and mercantile businesses there in the early days.
Mr. Corbett retired in 1922 when the business activities were taken over by his son, H. S. Corbett. Following his retirement Mr. Corbett used to divide his time between his home in Los Angeles and in Tucson, but in recent years he remained most of the time in Tucson. He is survived by his wife; two children, H. S. Corbett and Mrs. W. A. Bell of Tucson; four grandchildren, Knox Corbett, Ruth Corbett, Mrs. William Cooper and W. A. Bell, Jr.; a brother and sister, L' W. Corbett and Mrs. Lizzie Mims of Ventura, Calif.; another brother, Dr. George Corbett of Tampa, Fla.; and two sisters, Mrs. C. R. Roland and Mrs. R. S. Hood, who live in Sumter, South Carolina. Funeral services were held at Tucson, Tuesday morning, April24.
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Both Ways They were a bunch of ex-service colored men sitting around and telling stories of the World War as they remembered it. Naturally they got to discussing that great wonderment, their first crossing of the Atlantic. Then the subject of seasickness naturally arose, and brought forth tnany experiences. "Mose,', said one of them to a former member of his squad, "if'n Ah remembehs coreckly, you wuz bout de sickes' nigguh in ouah entiah comp'ny.,' "Yassuh," replied Mose, rather proudly, ,.Ah specks Ah wuz de sea-sickes' nigguh in de whole ahmy; but Ah sut-
tinly enjoyed hit." "Whut?" exclaimed another of the group. ..you means t'say you wuz dat sick, en you enjoyed hit?" "Sho did," was the reply. "Mistuh," said the other, ..Ah mus, ax you to splain dat statement. How kin any man be seasick bad, an' still enjoy hisse'f?" "Well, suh," said the first, ,.when Ahse seasick dey gives me all de orange juice Ah kin swaller, an, Ah sho loves me mah orange juice, an' all de way ovah Ah gits hit goin' ant comin'."
Comparative Costs of 5-Room Bungalow From 1920 to 1934
Jim Tyrrell tVith Sudden &
Frank N. Gibbs, Gibbs Lumber Co., Anaheim, Calif., has prepared some interesting figures which show the com_ parative cost of a S-room bungalow in Orange County on which an estimate has been made for each year since 1920. The 1934 figure is based on the Retail Lumber Code prices that went into effect on last March 5. The figures show that the cost of the bungalow in 1934 under present code prices is just about one-half of what the house cost in
J. M. (Jim) Tyrrell has joined the Los Angeles sales staff of Sudden & Christenson and beginning May 15 will assist Girth Beyer calling on the Southern California retail lumber trade. lfe was formerly with MacDonald & Harrington. Jim has been connected with the lumber business in Calfiornia for a long period, both in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He is well known to the Southern California dealers and has called on the retail lumber trade in that territory for several years.
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The house bill totaled 9,?83 feet which included rough and finish lumber, siding, shingles, moulding, oak flooring and sash and doors. The cost of the S-room bungalow for the various years follows: October L, L92O October L, l92l 796.07 October l,1922 705.18 October l,1923 $2.63 October l, 1924 ZOt.32 October I,1925 625.75 October t,1926 $2.45 October l,1927 SgZ.32 October I, 1928 5Z6.9Z October I,lgD 56.40 October 1, 1930 October 1, 1931 441.32 October L,lg32 352.30 October 1, 1933 492.36 February 1, 1934 (Current Orange County Price) 534.18 I\farch 5, 7934 (Neu' Code Price) SZ3.Z5
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Code Authority Meets in S. F. Retail Lumber & Building Material Code Authority (Northern California) members met at the palace Hotel, San Francisco, May 5. Only two members were absent, and the attendance included the secretaries and a number of Northern California dealers. Ralph Duncan, Merced Lumber Co., Merced, presided. Elmore King, King Lumber Co., Bakersfield, national retail Code Authority member for Northern California, reported on his trip to the Retail Lumber Code Authority meeting in Washington, D. C., April 1O and 11. Harry T. Kendall, general sales manager, Weyerhaeuser Sales Co., addressed the meeting on the subject of Schedule "B", Rules of Fair Trade Practice, proposed by the Lumber Code Authority, and read the brief prepared by him and presented at the NRA hearing on Schedule ,,B', held in Washington, D. C., April 3 to 7. Mr. Kendall's brief appears in full elsewhere in this issue.
May 15, 1934
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Plans for the establishment by the U. S. Forest Service of the first Redwood National Forest in California were announced today by Regional Forester S. B. Show, chief
M.y 25 A big turnout is expected at the Lumbermen's RoundUp, which is being sponsored by the Lumbermen's Post No. 403 of the American Legion, on May 25,1934, at 6:30 P.M. at the Hamilton Club (Fourth Floor), formerly Masonic Club, 6231 South Grand Ave., Los Angeles. The Post is doing everything possible to arrange a program that will be entertaining to everyone, Harold W. Brown, chairman of the arrangement committee, announces. The Post is giving the party at the request of many lumbermen who attended their last hi-jinks and are anxiously awaiting the next one. Tickets are $1.50 and can be secured from members of the Lumbermen's Post.
Appointed General Manager ' Howard A. Libbey has been appointed general manager of Hobbs, Wall & Co., San Francisco. Mr. Libbey comes to his new position with a background of 18 years' experience in the Redwood industry, which has given him a thorough knowledge of both the manufacturing and selling ends of the business. At the time of the merger of the Hammond Lumber Co. and Little River Redwood Co. he was assistant to the general manager of the latter concern. Shortly after taking over his new duties Mr. Libbey left to spend some time at the company's sawmill and logging operations at Crescent City, Calif.
RAYMOND LEWIS VISITS CALIFORNIA Raymond Lewis, sales manager of Willapa Harbor Lumber Mills, Raymond, 'Wash., is on a business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
LUMBER OFFICE BURGLARTZED The Johnson Lumber Co., Pasadena, was recently burglarized and Earl Johnson, reports that they just about cleaned him out.
of the California Region, upon receipt of notice of approval of the project by the National Forest Reservation Commission at Washington, D. C., which is charged with the purchase of all national forest lands. This Commission, composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Interior and War, together with two members each from the Senate and House of Representatives, indicated that if a suitable area of redwood could be obtained under conditions equitable to the public it would be willing to consider its purchase.
"The natignal forests of California," said Mr. Show, "a1though covering one-fifth ol the land area of the State, do not have within their borders an adequate example of the redwood type of forest.. It is proposed, therefore, to acquire an area of 200,000 or more acres of virgin and cutover timber lands in the redwood region in order to secure through Federal ownership and management a planned development and stabilization of the economic life of the region, which is not attainable under complete private ownership. Offers of redwood lands have already been received from Sonoma to Del Norte counties, and field crews are at work making a reconnaissance of the region, but the location of the new national forest has not yet been s'elected.
"The national forests of California," concluded Mr. Show, "are not only of inestimable value to the State because of their natural resources of timber, water, forage and wild life, but they also play a large part in the good health and social happiness of more than three million of our citizens who annually visit these forests for sport and recreation. The Forest Service has tried for nearly 30 years to manage these national forests on the principle of : 'tlse me, but don't abuse me,'and our aim in the new redwood national forest will be to prove, as has already been proved elsewhere in California, that economic use and recreational use of forest lands and resources can successfully go along together hand in hand." VISITS SANTA ROSA ISLAND Jerome Higman, Reliable Lumber Co., Rosemead, was a recent visitor on Santa Rosa Island where he spent a week.
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R. D. Crowell Veteran Southern California and Louisiana Lumbelman Visits L. A. R. D. Crowell, of Long Leaf, Louisiana, a man whose family has .been prominently identified with the lumber business in Louisiana for three generations, and with business affairs as well as lumber in Southern California for forty-two years, was a recent visitor in Los Angeles. He came here to look after various properties and business interests of himself and family.
In 1892 his father, the late C. T. Crowell who died in Los Angeles in 1931, after having built, operated, and liquidated a series of sawmill operations in Arkansas and Louisiana, brought his family to Los Angeles to live. He had visited Southern California, fallen in love with it, seen the great future prospects of the district, and he brought a substantial fortune with him. Los Angeles was then just a village. Mr. C. T. Crowell established and named the little town of Downey near Los Angeles, and made his home there lor some years. Later he built a home at 901 South Union Street, in Los Angeles, where he lived until his death several years ago, and where his widow and two daughters still reside. One of his real estate investments was the purchase of the beautiful knoll on which the Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel now stands, which he called Mount Ida. He later sold this property to the hotel builders. To tell the story of C. T. Crowell's activities in Southern California would require a volume. He remained true to his afiections for this district, and never went back to Louisiana except for brief visits. But before leaving Louisiana in 1892, he bought a small tract of wonderful Long Leaf Yellow Pine timber south of Alexandria, in that state, built a small mill to cut it, and left it in charge of another man to operate. All logging was with bull teams in those days, so the logging radius was small, and he figured the mill would run about five years. But with time,came logging improvements and innovations, and they bought more timber, built a bigger mill, and began to see a great future for the plant. He had two sons, J. S. and R. D. Crowell. When the elder, J. S. got old enough his father sent him back to Louisiana to take charge of the rapidly growing business. Later when R. D. Crowell left school, he followed his brother back to Louisiana. In lm3 R. D. Crowell moved back to Los Angeles and went into the business of lumber brokerage in Los Angeles, remaining ten years. In 1913 he went back to Louisiana, for the little batch of timber and the small mill of 1892 had grown into one of the great lumber institutions of the entire South. His older brother died in 1923, since which time he has been exec,utive head of the Louisiana business. When C. T. Crowell died in Los Angeles in 1931 he became President of the Louisiana corporations, and head of a family now owning vast possessions. While other lumber manufacturers of the South were exhausting their stumpage, the Crowells kept adding to theirs. They specialized in Calcasieu Long Leaf virgin timber. The result is that today they own a huge tract of this virgin Long Leaf, and two 'of the biggest sawmills in
May 15, 1934
Wood Construction Revival in England Washington, D. C., April 23.-The Trade Extension campaign recently begun by lumbermen in the United Kingdom has been gairiing marked momentum of late, according to reports from London. In addition to trade extension methods familiar in this country, such as periodical and other forms of advertising, with a proper publicity efiort, British lumbermen are endeavoring to acquaint the public with the virtues of wood through the medium of lectures and stereopticon views. The lectures begin with proof of the durability of wood, and slides are shown of wooden buildings in Russia five to six hundred years old. The audience is then informed as to cost by comparison with competing materials, details being given of a house containing every convenience, built of wood for 600 pounds, which could not be duplicated in a competing structural material for less than 1000 pounds. Greater degree of insulation is shown by a comparison of building methods in Russia, where it was found that an 8-inch wooden side wall afforded better insulation than a 28-inch brick wall under excessively severe climatic conditions. Canadian and American methods of construction are also discussed. With reference to fire risk, the lecturers quote a survey of buildings made by the United States National Board of Fire Underwriters which covered I,254,192 buildings in this country. Of these, 75.3 per cent were of wood and the record showed only 1.65 fires for each 100 as against 2.43 fires for each 100 brick and stone structures. It is brought out that Lloyd's insure wooden houses against fire at the same rate as that for brick houses. The speed of construction possible with wood is then brought out, and the greater degree of comfort and health because of dryness. No contradiction was ofiered to the statement that whereas a number of cases of tuberculosis had occurred in brick houses, there was no record in the United Kingdom of a case being reported from a wooden dwelling. The possibility of slum clearance on a wide scale is advocated in the lectures, and the timber trade is urged to take advantage of the opportunities which might thereby be accorded for the fuller utilization of wood for dwelling construction. British lumbermen are quoted as being enthusiastic over
the results of the campaign to date and anxious to continue it on a broader scale. LESTER OAKLEY VISITS S. F. Lester Oakley, manager of the Portland office of MacDonald & Harrington, was a recent visitor to the head office in San Francisco. Louisiana will be ,cutting into this timber for many, many years to come. They also own their own railroad connect-
ing their mills with several railroad outlets. Mr. R. D. Crowell now has two sons actively engaged with him in operating the Louisiana industries. They also own large properties in Southern California which he comes west everv year to look after.
May 15, 1934
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
Launch Program to Promote Use of \(/ood in
School Construction in California A coordinated program to interest the public in the use of wood for school construction is now under way in California. The program purposes the promotion of the use of wood in connection with the expenditure of $50,000,000 of public funds for school reconstruction work in California as a result of the Southern California earthquake of March 10, 1933, and because of the rigid State building laws that have since been enacted. The program calls for two field men to contact architects, engineers, boards of education, etc., one in Northern California and one in Southern California; a publicity man, a test program to ascertain and demonstrate the earthquake
resisting ability of wood floor, roof and wall assemblies, the employment of an architect and engineer on a consult-
JOHN MOORE VISTTS CALTFORNTA John S. Moore, of Moore Mill & Lumber Co., Bandon, Ore., has returned home from a business trip to San Francisco and Los Angeles. LOOK OVER BOULDER DAM PROJECT Dave Gates and Percy Merithew, E. K. Wood Lumber Co., Los Angeles, were recent visitors at Las Vegas, Nevada, where they called on the trade and also inspected the Boulder Dam project.
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ing basis to design typical school building ,.units', and a series of local advertising campaigns. A. C. Horner, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, San Francisco, is in charge of the program which is sponsored by lumber manufacturers, California retail lumber dealers and others. J. E. Mackie, National Lumber Manufacturers Association, is already in the field and has been working in the Long Beach and Los Angeles district. T. C. Coombs, formerly assistant engineer and building inspector at Uplands, Calif., will also assist in the field promotion work in Southern California. Mr. Coombs will make his headquarters at the offices of the Lumber and Allied Products Institute, Fay Building, Los Angeles.
Hcnderson is Aide to Smith Washington, D. C., April 25.-Alvis C. Henderson, of Memphis, Tenn., who for the last year and a half has been a member of the stafi of the Hardwood Manufacturers Institute, has been drafted by the NRA, and will come to Washington as aide to Assistant Deputy Administrator C. Stowell Smith. Prior to his connection with the Institute Mr. Henderson was assistant sales manager of the Pearl River Valley Lumber Company at Hammond, La.
HERB KLASS IN EAST Herb Klass, general sales manager, The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, left May 4 for an extended trip to the Eastern states which will include visits to the company's Chicago and New York offices. On the first leg of his journey he attended a Code hearing in Washington, D. C.
RECEIVE MANY CONGRATULATIONS Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Kelley are receiving congratulations from their many friends on the arrival of a baby girl at the Alameda Sanitarium,, April April zy, 29, LyJ+. 1934. The t ne new airival arnval has been named Eilene, and mother and baby are reported to be doing very nicely. Mr. Kelley is with the the Santa Fe Lumber Co.
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THE .PLOW MAN OF OLD Hesiod, a great poet of ancient Greece, believed and taught that the wise tiller of soil goes hand in hand with diety in his efrort to produce food for the human race, and he so taught in his wonderful direction to plowmen, which is as follows: "Pray to Zeus of the Earth and to pure Demeter to make Demeter's holy grain sound and heavy, whgn first you begin plowing-when you hold on your hand the end of the plow-tail and bring down your stick on the backs of the oxen as they draw on the pole-bar and the ox-straps. Let a slave-fellow follow a little behind with a mattock, and make trouble for the birds by hiding the seed; for good managernent is the best for rnortal man, as bad management is the worst. In this way your corn-ears will bow to the ground with fullness, if the Olympian himself gives a good result at the end, and you will sweep the cobwebs from your bins and you will be glad, I ween, as you take of your garnered substance. And so you will have plenty till you come to gray springtime, and will not look wistfully to others, but another shall be in need of your help."
DO CONDITIONS TODAY REFLECT THIS SPEECH OF DANIEL WEBSTER'S? (From a speech made by Daniel Webster in the United States Senate on March 12th, 1838) "There are persons who constantly clamo'r. They complain of oppression, speculation, and pernicious influence of accumulated wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations, and all means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry, and dry all streams. In a country of unbounded liberty, they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality, they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where property is more evenly divided than anywhere else, they rend the air shouting agrarian doctrines. In a country where wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach'tEb laborer he is but an oppressed slave. Sir, what can buch men want? What do they mean? They can want nothing, sir, but to enjoy the fruits of other men's labor. They can mean nothing but disturbance and disorder, the diffusion of corrupt principles and the destruction of the moral sentiments and moral habits of society."
May 15, 1934
A BUREAUCRAT'S OPINION OF THE FARMER (As Told by a Humorous Soil-Tiller in Arizona) "One of the national recovery schemes deals with the reduction of surplus live stock by killing ofr a lot of hogs and other animals. In carrying out this plan' the government recently sent an appraiser into a country district to list the live-stock on hand, and set a value upon it, in order that the farmers could be suitably reimbursed for their losses in the reduction campaign. The young appraiser from the city did not know one animal from another; so he took a little book of instructions with him, describing the various classes of live stock, and telling how to value each according to age, condition and breed. But the very first animal he saw was a goat, and he was unable to find it described in the book. He immediately wired his superiors in Washington as follows: nHave found animal with a forlorn face, a long beard, a skinny body, and a bare rump. What is its name and what vdue shall I set upon it?' A few hours later he received this reply from headquarters in the national capital: 'The animal you describe is a farmer, and has no value."'
WORSE OFF got into an argument, which, since they Irishmen Two were frish, naturally ended in a fist fight. It was raining hard, and they were out in the road, but that made no difference. Soon Pat had Mike down and pummeled him hard. Finally he asked: "Ye hard-headed son of Erin, do ye give up?" "Not by a d-n sight," replied the other, fighting furiously. So Pat continued to beat Mike, and then asked him again if he gave up, with the same reply . But the third time he made the demand, after beating the under man unmercifully, and got the same reply from the never-say-quit Mike, Pat got disgusted: "Then change places with me, ye lousy shpalpeen," he cried, "I'm tired keepin' the rain ofr ye." FRIENDS ON THE SHELF Granting that we had both the will and sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have that power. Yet there is a society continually open to us, waiting all day long, king and statesmen, on our book shelves.-Ruskin.
HE \^rHO THREATENS "Threats may be dangerous to those who utter them," said Ho Ho, the sage of Chinatown. "A timid person may become so frightened that he fights in desperation."
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May 15, 1934
San Jose Club Holds Barbecue The barbecue staged by the San Jose Lumbermen's Club at Long Bridge on Saturday afternoon, May 5, was a most enjoyable affair, and everybody reports having had a good time. Much credit for the success of the affair must be given to the committee on arrang'ements, consisting of Irving Crabb, Milpitas Lumber Co.; M. J. Enos, Santa Clara Lumber Co., and W. F. Hayward, Pacific Manufacturing Co., and to "Baldy" Enos, who officiated at the pit. Those present were Otto E. Schnabel, Glenwood Lumber Co., San Jose; A. C. Hansen, J' F. Pye, Geo. H. Martin, H. Johnson, Elmer Hansen and M. Boyd of the S. H. Chase Lumber Co., San Jose; M. L. Doane, J. Herron and F. Hardenbough, M. L. Doane Lumber Co., San Jose; F. W. Burgers, TJnion Lumber Co., San Francisco; E. Enos, M. Dominick, F. K. Saunders and M. J. Enos, Santa Clara Lumber Co., Santa Clara; Roy Harker, Bill Button and I. M. Crabb, Milpitas Lumber Co., Milpitas; Geo. Wightman and L. M. Swiger, McElroy-Cheim Lumber. Co., San Jose; W. W. Peed, R. F. Martin and C. T. Blake, Los Gatos Lumber Co., Los Gatos; E. R. Haller, Sterling Lumber Co., Los Gatos; W. F. Hayward, Pacific Mfg. Co., Santa Clara; A. S. McKinney, Willow Glen Lumber Co., San Jose, and Ed. F. Larson, secretary, San Jose Lumber-
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Banning Piedmont Monrovia Arcadia Inglewood
Huntington Park Monterey Manhattan Burlingame Fullerton Sierra Madre San Mateo Santa Maria
1933
$1,129,630 $1,199,926
*Hollywood San Diego
Fresno Glendale San Jose
April,
.:....
.,... .. , .
155,374 194,622
153,714 79,037
r37,t55 lg2,g30 136,925 16,999
lla,44g 1,o72,ffi5
lol,37g 46,941 94,NI 67,92 g3,gr5 66,000 72,230 65,675 6L,n5 42,797 59,000 4,350 53,540 6,335 52,5n 3,975 52,170 D,797 49,597 19,76 46,777. 20,530 41,500 l7,gz5 39,779 65,699 34,420 75,770 34,265 13,615 34,243 490 31,7ffi 40,100 31,949 5,679 29,475 17,665 28,227 L4,795 26,ffi9 34,125 23,375 15,16 zI,W lI,690 19,998 40,199 t9,775 12,327 18,598 9,134 17,120 37,5N 16,97L 21,492 16,925 3,395 14,395 3,415 L4,240 7,270 14,224 23,1& 13,990 1,390 13,555 5,970 12,ffi0 5,090 lr,gg4 36,5@ lo,g32 52,519 ro,g27 4,053 10,609 9,100 lo,Do 14,100 9,167 l,gg 8,975 7,994 8,845 15,110 8,2n 16,110
CityWatsonville San Bernardino . +San Pedro Santa Paula Santa Rosa . El Centro Redwood City . San Gabriel .. .. Monterey Park .
Huntington Beach El Monte :.... .
April,
April,
1934
1933
7,635
5,94A
7,12O
' 7,OLl
35,430 7,793
6,990 6,746
2I,432
6,65
n,6x)
5,950
5,570
6,300 4,249
5,325
17,707
5,270
l,4go
Albany
Oceanside
4,950 4,575 4,394 4,375
Anaheim Redlands
Corona Calexico
4,000 3,650
Los Gatos Brawley
3,4ffi
Compton Gardena
3,395 3,372
Colton
3,m
San Fernando ... South Gate . Ventura Tulare South Pasadena Seal Beach Maywood
*Wilmington ....
Exeter Porterville Palos Verdes Estates Hermosa Beach Lynwood Hayward
4,875
7,2&
3,L75 3,175 3,135 3,040
2,994 2,325
1,099
615 845 12,972
6,755 4,165 1,000
6,500 100 67,357
7,419 3,000 644 28,X)3 2,970 1,110 L0,753 5,130
2,m
5,230
2,245
49,76A 1,450
2,lw 2,O50 1,847 1,900
650 250 6,900
1,600
16,175
1,590
2,lw
B.ell
r3n
Montebello Oxnard Culver City . Azusa Torrance .. .. . :. Oroville
1,310
8,285
1,2ffi
13,900
1,150
5,O77
1O0O
1,750 6,395 6,395
El Segundo La Verne Covina
600 580 390 300 300
Lindsay
n5
Glendora
275
*Harbor City .
275
Hawthorne
250
Orange
;.....
Upland
*Included in Los Angeles Total.
225 45
13,600
r,7IO 4,925 325 675 100
850 2,865 600
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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 19fi
Revigcd Definition of \Tholesale C. E. Lombardi General Counsel Trade Proposed bv NRA to Lumber Code Authority Washington, D. C., May 3.-A revised definition of wholesale trade, proposed by NRA as a substitute for Section 3, Chapter II of the Lumber Code Authority's proposed Rules of Fair Trade Practice in the Lumber Code, has been issued, and copies have been distributed by the Authority to its Divisions, Subdivisions, members and alternates.
Notice has been given that any objections to the proposed revision may be filed with NRA Deputy Adminis-
trator A. C. Dixon, Room n2,907 16th Street, Washington, D. C., prior to May 15. Any person filing an objection must state his dame, the persons or groups whom he represents, and the basis of his objection. The Lumber Code Authority has disclaimed any part in the drafting of the proposal, declares it has not assented to it, and has not in any way modified its own stand in respect to its own proposed definition of wholesale trade. The substitute definition as proposed by NRA follows: Wholesale Trade a. In the case of soft woods, wholesale trade is defined to include the sale of lumber and timber products, in carload quantities or more: (1.) To wholesalers and retail lumber yards. (2.) To and for U. S. government and state governments. (3.) To and for railroads and electric railways. (4.) To and for ship yards, docks, dams and bridges. (5.) To and for mines, except for building construction purposes.
(6.) To industrials for manufacturing and shipping purposes.
(7.) Sales in carload quantities shipped direct from the mill to the job, consumer or contractor by rail; or in the case of water cargo shipments, shipped direct from the mill to the job, consumer or contractor in not less than minimum carload quantities as determined by weights prescribed by railroad tariffs, rules and regulations, in any one delivery; or in the case of truck shipments, shipped direct from the mill to the job, consumer or contractor in not less than minimum carload quantities as determined by weights prescribed by railroad tariff rules and regulations in deliveries completed in 24 hours; (8.) And sales in less than carload quantities to retail lumber dealers, wholesalers and manufacturers of woodwork for resale. b. In the case of hardwoods, wholesale trade is defined to include sales of hardwood lumber and timber products:
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(1.) To wholesalers and retail lumber yards. (2.) To and for the U. S. government and state gov. ernments. (3.) To and for railroads and electrical railways. (4.) To and for ship yards, docks, dams and bridges. (5.) To and for mines, except for building construction purposes.
Washington, D. C., May 4.-C. E. Lombardi, of Kansas City, Mo., has been retained as General Counsel of the Lumber Code Authority and assumed his duties here with that organization May 2. Since 1922 Mr. Lombardi has been associated with the law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Wharton, of Kinsas City, being assigned to West Coast work for the firm until 1926. Since that year his residence has been in Kansas City. His earlier practice was conducted in New York City and Dallas, Texas. Obtaining his A.B. degr'ee at Yale College in 1911, Mr. Lombardi was graduated from Harvard Law School in 1914.
Create Specialty Wood Flooring Division o[ L. C. A. Washington, D. C., May l.-National Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson has approved amendments to the Lumber Code creating a division for the Specialty Wood Flooring Industry. The amendments set up minimum hourly wages for the division for the following sections: Southern, 26 cents; Appalachian, 29.5 cents, and Northern, 30 cents; and establish the Specialty Wood Flooring Manufacturers Association, of 185 North Yale Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, as the administrative agency of the Lumber Code Authority in the new division. The products of the new Division are defined in the amendments as "all blocks, plank, parquetry, herringbone and other specialty types of wood flooring not otherwise included under this code or any other code approved by the National Recovery Administration."
CALLS ON NORTHERN MILLS E. L. "Bud" Reitz, Los Angeles wholesaler, has returned from the Northwest where he called on the mills. "Bud" recently bought a new Ford V-8 which he used on the trip. (6.) Sales in carload quantities shipped direct from the mill to the jcib, consumer or contractor by rail; or in the case of water cargo shipments shipped direct from the mill to the job, consumer or contractor in not less than minimum carload quantities as determined by weights prescribed by railroad tariffs, rules and regulations, in any one delivery, or in the case of truck shipments, shipped direct from the mill to the job, consumer or contractor in not less than minimum carload quantities as determined by weights prescribed by railroad tariffs, rules and regulations in deliveries completed in 24 hours; (7.) And sales in less.than carload quantities to retail lumber dealers, wholesalers and manufacturers of woodwork for resale. The foregoing definitions of wholesale trade shall not apply to logs, poles, piling or railroad ties.
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 1934
\(/arren L. Prickett
Wood Conversion Co. Expands
Warren L. Prickett, vice-president and a member of the executive committee of the Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation, died on April 25 at his home in Ka.nsas City, Mo. He was 6O years old. Mr. Prickett had been connected with the Long-Bell or-
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ganization for thirty-two years. He was born at Fairmont, W. Va., and moved with his parents to Pleasanton, Kansas, when he was twelve years old. His first position with the company was as manager of their retail yard, the Minnetonka Lumber Company at Oklahoma City. Two years later, he was made auditor in charge of the western division of the company's retail yards and later was appointed auditor for the eastern division. In 1906 he was transferred to the King-Ryder Lumber Company at Bonami, La., and within a short time became treasurer and general manager of that company. In 1922 he was elected a director and vice-president of the parent company and moved to Kansas City. Since then he had devoted his time to the company's mill operations in the South. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Prickett; a daughter, Mrs. Thelma Gillican, Homerville, Ga.; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Prickett, Eldorado Springs, I\Io.; a sister, Mrs. B, F. Brabant, Pleasanton, Kansas, and a brother, E. T. Prickett, Kansas City, president of the Blaker Lumber and Grain Company. Funeral services were held at Kansas City, Friday morning, April 27. Interment was at Pleasanton, Kansas.
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54% in 1933 Continuance and expansion of the program which brought a 54/o increase in sales of its products during 1933-while the building industry as a whole declined more than 7/o-is announced by the Wood Conversion Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. According to Wood Conversion officials, this program uncovers new responsive markets for the lumber dealer in schools, restaurants, churches, hotels, stores, offices and hospitals, developing a demand for materials in both new and old buildings. To meet this demand successfully, Wood Conversion Company has developed a widely expanded line of improved and new products, many of them double and triple purpose. This complete line of insulating, sound deadening, acoustical and interior decorating materials is planned to meet a wide range of uses. All products are exclusively lumber-dealer items, it is stated, and are not sold in competition with any other item in the dealer's yard on which he might make a better profit, The Nu-Wood line has been expanded to include Tile, Plank, Wainscot, Mouldings, Board, Plaster Base, and Roof Insulation. Balsam-Wool has been improved and is now available in three thicknesses. so that a size and thickness will be available for any type of job and to fit any pocketbook. In accordance with the Weyerhaeuser plan of distribution, complete stocks are conveniently located throughout the country. Selective Selling Plan In a recent interview, L. H. Atkinson, Sales Manager of the Wood Conversion Company, outlined the principal features of the selective selling plan of which the new products are a part. "The background of this plan," Mr. Atkinson said, "was a nation-wide survey, uncovering for the first time vast building material needs which could be converted into sales and jobs for the lumber dealer. "The selective selling plan selects and develops these mslksf5-5qlects the best prospects in those markets-seIects from our new products the materials best suited to each need-selects and applies the best method of interesting and selling these prospects. "The plan means extra volume and added profits for the lumber dealer. It paves the way for the lumber dealer's selling methods, then follows through for him with extensive advertising reaching every field where he can sell."
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Addresses San Francisco Meeting on Schedule B of The Lumber Code By Harry T. Kendall, St. Paul, Minn.
General Manager, \fleyerhaeuser Sales Company and Chairman of the Lumber Code Authority on Trade Practice Committee Harry T. Kendall "The provisions of Schedule B dealing with wholesalers, retailers and wholesale trade is an effort to set out the position in the indus-
try's distribution picture of the manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer. The larger manufacturers sell their lumber direct through salaried or commission representatives, augmenting the volume received from these sources by sales through wholesalers. By far the largest number of mills market the largest volume of lumber through wholesalers and these wholesalers, in turn, sell to the same trade the larger manufacturers sell direct, namely, retail lumber dealers, railroads, industrials, certain governmental agencies, and under certain conditions to contractors.
"In order to permit the wholesale distributors to function for those mills which do not have organized sales departments, it is
necessary that the wholesaler be placed in a safe and definite position in the price structure. This necessity is a definite development of Code operation. Prior to the operation of the Code, the wholesaler received his remuneration in a number of ways, among which were: to a limited degree by a wholesale allowance similar to the provisions of the Code; through concessions in price; or through ability to 6nd a customer who would pay over the average market for the service rendered. Up to date, the cost protection prices in the lumber industry have been general market prices, so the whole-
saler has no trading chance either in purchasing or selling. If retailers and consumers of lumber, such as large industrials, railroads, and governmental departments, are allowed wholesale dis-
counts on all purchases, it is manifest that the wholesaler will not be able to function. This means that a greater part of the manufacturers would lose their sales outlets. It is, therefore. vitally necessary that the provisions of Schedule B clearly set forth who are wholesalers and that the allowance of wholesale discount be confined to wholesalers and to retailers functioning as wholesalers. "It is not necessary to recite here the troubles that have arisen since Schedule B has been in effect, due to the fact that it does not carry a clean, clear-cut definition of a wholesaler and some means of definitely determining who is and who is. not a wholesaler.
"In considering the lumber distribution problem, it should be
borne in mind that the product of sawmills is for all practical purposes the same in size and grade, that the product of the large mills is interchangeable with the product of the small mills, and that one species can be and is substituted for many others. It should also be borne in mind that, except in the case of very small mills, no one market, no matter how large. will take all of the product of the log, so that a comparatively small operation in Florida, for example, lh order to market its product, is forced to ship a part of it export and to scatter the balance of it over th-e territory -east of the Mississippi River to wholesalers, retailers, railroads, and industrial trade. This necessity of hunting over a widespread area for a market for a part of the product of the log places every operator. large and small, in competition with every other sawmill in the cointri which is trying to find a market for part of its product in the same territory. "This search for a chance to sell a part of the product of the log of every operation over a large territory and a variety of markets has foried the use of a large number of wholesalers, some of whom gather together the products of many mills and market them tocether; ofuers who make a specialty of handling some particular 'i-tem. such as railroad or car material, over a large territory; and others who handle a more general line in a limited territory. In the distibution of the product of even the smallest units, many types ol wholesalers are used and the product will go into many markets. "These are some of the reasons why the industry is anxious to preserve the position of the wholesaler, for without him the smaller brganizations would be without any means of distributing their product. -
"Not less important than designating who is a wholesaler is the desisnatins of ihe fietd in which the wholesaler shall operate. This is nEcessaiy for the protection of the retail distributors of tumber, who, unless they are protected in rendering distributor services to the public and the industry, cannot function.
"The distribution of almost every other article of commerce can be more or less controlled by the producer or the jobber. This is not possible in the lumber business because, as has already been pointed out, every sawmill is a competitor of every other sawmill, and every wholesaler distributor is a competitor of every other wholesaler in finding a market for a product which is identical in size and grade and use. It is in public interest that lumber be standardized as to grade and size, so that the public will be able to buy a standard product in and from any market. "The lumber industry has long recognized the necessity of pro-
tecting its retail distributors; first, for the reason that no one can sell a distributor and then sell that distributor's customers, and, second, because the merchandising of lumber has Always been left, to a large degree, to the retail distributors. There was a time when the retail lumber yard did practically nothing but a lumber business. Today, less than 50 per cent of the sales of the average lumber yard is lumber. "One of the reasons why the retailer has been willing, and even anxious, to distribute lumber substitutes is because of the ability and willingness of the manufacturer of those substitutes to protect the retailer in his market. The manufacturer of patent roofing, some patented insulation material, or any of the dozens of items now commonly carried by lurnber yards, can build into his product some particular feature which will enable the distributor to offer it for sale as a special article, and to a certain extent free from competitive influence of competing materials. The manufacturer of lumber substitutes can name his agent in a district and protect that agent. The lumber manufacturer cannot. The lumber indus-
try, with a standardized and interchangeable article manufactured at thousands of plants and sold through thousands of distributors, is not able to do this, ar-rd it would be against public interest for any large group to come out with special lumber grades or special sizes of building material which would limit the users' ability to purchase only from one source of supply. "With the inroads of substitutes. the lumber industry has found
itself greatly over-planted and competitive conditions have increased and the breakdown of old standard distribution customs has set in. The retailer found that he 'was going in competition more and more with the mills and wholesalers. So it was easy to persuade him to take on lines of lumber substitutes. This only served to heighten the competitive situation, "The definition of wholesale trade as offered in Schedule B follows, in the main, what have been general distribution policies
throughout the United States. The industry admits that there are and always have been variations from the proposed general rule, but in presenting the definition of wholesale trade, it has presented what it knows has the general approval of the industry and what
it believes is in public interest. "With few exceptions, which will be later commented on, the
dividing line between wholesale and retail trade is drawn between fabrication and construction. Generally speaking, lumber used for construction purposes is set out as retail business; and lumber for fabrication and operating purposes is classed as wholesale business which is to be competed for by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers alike. "The general exceptions to this major division are as follows: l. All purchases made directly by the Departments of the U. S. Governmeflt and by contractors doing government river and harbor work. 2. All purchases made by railroads and by contractors do-
ing railroad work.
3. Lumber purchased by operators of shipyards and by contractors for the construction of docks, dams and bridges, and also for use in underground work in mines. 4. All industrials for manufacturing or shipping purposes. "The business of the U. S. Government has always been competed for by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, but such
construction as the Government has let out to contractors for build. ings throughout the ceuntry has, by and large, been done through
THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
May 15, 1934
retailers. The manufacturer and the wholesaler are not able to properly -asserve a construction project such as post office, for exlmple, deliveries by retailers are generally made as the work progresses from stock in their yards. "The Government river and harbor work is frequently done at spots where there is no organized retail distribution and also is usually for a type of material not generally carried by retail lumber yards, so that it has been customary for all classes of distributors to compete for this business. "The railroads were largely built during a period when the lumber industry was expanding. These railroads, pushing out into
frontiers of the country where no organized distributor of any product existed, found it desirable to purchase all their materials directly from wholesalers and manufacturers. The railroad contractors were under the same necessities, and so all types of railroad business have been classed as 'open business' for many decades. "shipyards and contractors building docks, dams and bridges were in muCh the same position as the railroad contractors. and the retailer, recogni2ing that he was not in prime position to furnish the special requirements of this group of lumber users, saw the business gradually go to wholesalers and manufacturers. "Industrial uses for lumber are many and various. Box factories and box users bought lumber in large quantities and while, in times past, a major portion of this industrial field was supolied by the ietail lumber dealers, it gradually became customary for manufacturers. wholesalers, and retailers to compete for it. "There has been much argument in the lumber industry and out of it as to the position of the state, county and municipal governments in this distribution picture. Generally speaking, the municipal and county requirements are of a nature which requires the services of a retail lumber yard. This is also true in the construction of state buildings and, to a large degree, in highway work, where the material must be delivered on the job over a large territory. Local public officials also prefer to do business with local enterprises which pay taxes.
"It should be borne in mind that when a manufacturer or wholesaler sells a contractor, the ordinary delivery is f.o.b. cars, so the contractor must then provide the means of caring for the lumber until it is used, and also for its delivery to the job. Therefore. retail distribution charges, which include caring for the lumber until needed and delivery on the job, necessarily absorb part of the contractor's expenses, and are not completely in addition to the wholesale price of lumber. "The division in the purchases of mines between use underground and use above ground is the resutt of the application of the broad division in the industry between the use of lumber for fabrication and operating and for construction purposes. Such lumber as the mine uses in its operation is ctassed as wholesale business, the same as the tumber used by a wood fabricator in his factory. The mines and the wood fabricator are placed in the same position when it comes to permanent construction. "The lumber industry has weighed many methods of solving this problem. It has endeavored to sotve it on the question of the quantity purchased, but this method was discarded for the reason that it would be an injustice to the small producers who are not able to compete for large jobs on a wholesale basis for the simple reason that they could not furnish enough lumber to place them in competition for this business. Furthermore, what might be a very large order in a small town would be an everyday transaction in a big city. "As stated at the hearing, the basic reason for this division was
to keep as much lumber as possibte flowing through the retail lumber yards, which the industry needs in order to function, and which the public needs in order to be abte to buy lumber easily as and
when it comes to market.
"At the present time, there are about twenty-five thousand retail lumber yards in the country so located that lumber is easily available to the public and so grouped that there is atso ample competition to keep the price reasonable. Lumber history reveals that the retailers in every large city reach out over a very large area and keep the prices in the smaller centers at a very reasonable levet. This has been especially true since the truck has been a factor in the distribution of lumber. "The retail lumber yard is often the most important business enterprise in the smalt town. It frequently finances construction and more frequently secures adequate financing from outside sources which would not otherwise be available. "We have shown how the retail business has become more and more restricted. The retailer has had to take on the merchandising of competing materials in order to secure protection in his market and in order to keep down his distribution cost. If this volume of lumber going through the yards is further restricted. the cost of
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Addresses San Francisco Meeting on Schedule B of Lumber Code (Continued from Page 25) profit thereon. the large user will not be seriously injured a small by being compelled to use the services of the retail yard and the small user will be able to buy at a lower basis of price.
"The lumber industry needs the retail distributor because the manufacturers as a class are without the necessary capital to engage in retail distribution, which entails large investments for plant and stock, and the extension of long-time credits, both in the cities
and in the agricultural districts, Lumber is sold to retailers and wholesalers on what amounts to a spot cash basis, the longest terms being 60 days from date of invoice, which means 30 to 45 days from delivery of the goods. If the lumber industry were to lose the retail distributor, the public would have to buy lumber on the same basis and this would be a hardship to the public and definitely restrict the use of lumber. Only a few of the very largest organizations have any capital available for retail investment and
credit extension.
"The use of the wholesale distribution yard is increasing and
these large yards carry the bulk of the stocks for many retailers. This has enabled the retailers to use their capital for credit extension rather than invested in heavier stocks. In presenting Schedule B, the industry has, therefore. endeavored to make a place for them
in the industry by classing them as wholesalers. but in order to protect the retailer on small lots of stock sold out of wholesale distributing yards, certain iypes of wholesale trade are set up to be sold on the retail mode, which will give the retailer a chance at this business. "To further encourage a flow of business through the retail yards to assist in carrying the fixed yard expense, the retailer is granted a wholesale discount in the distribution of lumber in carload lots to certain types of wholesale trade and half the wholesale discount to other classes of wholesate trade. "The proposals that have been submitted will maintain competition within the industry so that the large users will not be penalized and the small users over-charged. "The result of highly competitive conditions within the industry has been clearly demonstrated in the wage scale the industry paid prior to the effective date of the lumber code. The average minimum wage scate which the industry is now paying is approximately double that existing prior to the Code. Every competitive influence which unreasonably lowers the price of lumber must eventualty work back to labor. The lumber industry stripped itself of its working capital and gave away its raw material before drastically
reducing u/ages, but having given away its raw materiat and having lost its working capital. there was nothing else to do but lower
wage tevels, and. if old-time competitive conditions return, the finat answer witl be the same. "The distribution problem of the lumber industry is unique. A competitive price war in one locality affects not only the producers of the stocks invotved. but every other producer in the industry. For all practicat purposes. the lumber produced at a sawmill in any state in the Union is interchangeable with the stock of anv other mill. Every selter is in competition with every other seller. and this must continue to be so if lumber is to flow freety through to the consumer, Therefore, tumber needs the protection of a dis-
Lumbermen's Golf Tournament
June 8 The Los Angeles lumbermen will hold a golf tournament at the Brentwood Country Club, Brentwood Heights, Los Angeles, Friday afternoon, June 8, 1934. The tournament is open to all lumbermen and their friends. Following the tournament, dinner will be served in the Club House at 6:30 P.M. As this will be the last tournament until fall. a big crowd is expected to attend. Lumbermen visiting in the Southland are especially invited to take in this event. The committee arranging for the tournament includes: Don Philips, Chairman; Ross Blanchard, Kenneth Smith, E. L. Reitz, ITarry Hanson, Ed. Seward, Walter Harris, C. M. Freeland, Frank Burnaby, Bill Chantland, Jack Thomas, Harry A. Graham, Roy Stanton and Ed. Martin. The committee states that the tournament announcement cards will be in the mail at an early date.
Locates at Pacific Gtove Jim Greenelsh, formerly with the Pacific Coast Coal Co., San Luis Obispo, is now manager of the Homer T. Hayward Lumber Company's yard at Pacific Grove. tribution system which in other lines is not necessary because of the ability of the .manufacturer to make his product a special product and completely control its distribution. "The industry has endeavored to make the division between wholesale and retail trade by classes so that all users in the same class are placed on the same basis. Except where custom has long been established, it has proposed a distribution system which will fairly and reasonably divide the cost of lumber distribution. It has endeavored to avoid the foisting on any one group of an unreason-
able portion of necessary distribution expense. "The Code provides the industry with production control and protection from unreasonably low prices. It sets up a wage minimum
protecting labor. It provides a forestry program and grade mark-
ing- provisions which are in public interest. To make all other pro-dis-
visions effective. the Code must provide some regulation of tribution, and the industry believes that Schedule-B as proposed wilt fairty accomptish this."
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