THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT
June 1, 1925
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J. O. MEANS WHOLESALE LUMBER IOOI CElrfTRAL BT.'ILEING I-c'S AIIGELES. CALIFORNIA
A Neru TELEPHONE-GRaniIe 3642 A New LOCATION-4046 Carlor Ave. BUT the Same SUPERIOR BRAND "America's Fined" OAK FLOORING
ROLLINS A. BROWN Dirtributor for So. California
J. H. BAXTER & CO.
WHOLESALE LUMBER Polcr-Pilcr-4rcorotcd Mrtorid Cobel Bldg. TRinity 6332
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WENDLING NATHAN CO. PACTFTC LUMBER @.
A. L. HOOVER - 706 Stsndard Oil Bldg. PHONES VArdlkc E5it2 TUckcr lr02
MARKWHOLEIALE VI''. LILLARD
L. H. IVES & CO.
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71I VAN NUYS BLDG"
Southern Crlifornie Dirtributor
Nicohi Dor Mfg. Co., Portland, Orcgo Wlitncr Jrclror Cc., Albuqucrqlc, lf. I. 6El Stanford Ave. Lor Angelc, Crl.
(Continued from Page 54.) A few examples of the saving effected by simplified practice will be enough for my hearers to give their own industry careful investi-
gatron.
One of the most striking is the standardization of electric light
bases and bulbs. Twenty years ago there were 180 styles and sizes
but 6-one of which is common for all general lighting pur-
-today poses. Undoubtedly this has effected a vast saving in machinery, stocks of goods and investment, and increasing the use of electric
light in all types of buildings. When the American Society of Mechanical Engineers made its report to Secretary lloover on opportunilies for simplification, they
pointed out 115 opportunities in the building or construction field. The list included face and common brick, lumber, electric wiring fittings, conduits, outlet boxes, etc., hardware, sash doors and millwork, reinforcing bars, I-beams and channels, bolts, nuts, rivets, roofing and sheathing papers, paints, oils and varnishes, window shades and shade cloth, metal lath, concrete blocks, etc., etc., etc. The Department of Commerce, through the Simplified Practice Division, has. cooperated with the manufacturers, the building supply dealers, architects, engineers, constructors, and others, in simplifiiation projects touching this field. Sixty percent of the variety in finished sizes of soft wood lumber; 81 percent of the variety in metal lath;98 percent of the variety in brick sizes;47 percent of the variety in hollow building tile, and 5l percent in roofing slate have been eliminated. Other miscellaneous construction materials which have been simplified-with the aid of th€ Simplified Practice Division are: paving bricks reduced from 66 to 5 varieties; asphalt from 102 grades-to 10; woven wire fence from 552 varieties to 69; and hot water storage tanks from 120 to 14. The average elimination is around 80 perce-nt that the bulk of the business is done in only about 20 -showing percent of the varieties offered for sale. Practically all of these results have been brought about by the industries cooperating with the Department of Commerce and Secretary Hoover, and working in conjunction with the United States Chamber of Commerce. One group of manufacturers so working reported a saving in one of the major industries of over twenti million dollars per year. It has been said that the total savine in production costs to industry by this determination of standard s-izes in such commodities as have been considered and agreed uoon reaches already the enormous total of two hundred million doliars yearly-all done without an.additional law on any statute book and
TRinity 759r Lumber-Lath-Shinglee most, if not all, of such saving should be credited to the
rndustry of wrth industry cooperatlon cooperation ol Secretary Herbert lloover. Floover. 'We cannotwith have a prosperous country unless we have
industries. If industries are not prosperous, we have ihutdor
unemployment, and other great industrial disturbances. ln 1922, had over 19,000 business failures, with liabilities of Many -of these failures were - caused through frozen capital, due excessive stocks or inventories resulting from carrying too ma varieties of the same thing. Simplification keeps stocks -liquid-tt
turn faster. Capital otherwise deld or inactive is releasedior
lng purposes.
In manufacturing it has been well demonstrated that var creates expense, and quantity creates income. In conclusion I can only hope to stress to those gathered her that modern industry means more than the prevention of waste i actual process of manufacture-it means moie than makine uslf the by-products-it means, when properly administered, thJ savir of waste and extravagance by prlvehting the needlesj and costl duplication of sizes and designs_ of commodities, thus releasing fc other investment vast sums uselessly tied up in duplicate stocl b manufactur_ers,- dealers and_-consumeri, and tv OeciJisini- pi"ai; costs for the benefit of all those who laboi-and that- rireans, our country at least, nearly all of us."
M.. J. A. Johnson, of the Johnson-Koch Lumber Com pany, Flagstaff, then spoke for a few minutes, dealing main ly with business conditio_ns in Arizona, and sounding th same note stressed by Mr. Weaver, the need for carefu
thought by all merchants. Mr. Johnson mentioned th great good being done by the National-American Whole sale Lumber Association, and suggested the need of a simi lar organization. by the retailers.-Mr.J. A. Swearingen, of the Southwest portlancl Cemen Company, El Paso, was called on for a few remarks abou. past-president generat buslness condrttons, conditions, tollowed geg_er,1l business followed _by by Past_Presidenl J J. Halloran, of Phoenix, who convulsed fhe meeting with impromptu humorous talk, about nothing in parti"cular. The session ended after an announcemlent Lv the presi dent of the Saturday evening banquet, to be l.reld across th, International Bord6r. Saturday morning a number of the delegates we