The California Lumber Merchant - June 1929

vol-. 7.

NO. 24

Irtdex to Aclvertisenrents, Page 3

JUNE r 5, 1929

We also publish at Houston, Texas, The Gulf Coast Lunrberman, America's foretnost retail lumber journal, rvhich covers the entire Southrvest and Middlewest lilie the sunshine covers California.

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PLYWOOD PANELS and TOPS ROUGH aNd SURFACED LUMBER MOULDINGS Quality products for the retail lumber dealer. With a wellbalanced stock of from four to six million feet of lumber at our Long Beach yard, and our large modernly equipped manufacturing plant at Los Angeles, we are always rcady to supply the retail lumber trade with its requirements. Bataan and Lamao are our own registered

trade names.

Dornestle Hardwood Panels WATNUT-OAK-GUDI We also cafty well assorted stocks of Domestic Hardwood Panels.

Ve particularly feature Walnut Panels. At our Los Angeles plant we are prepared to manufacture on short notice domestic hardwood panels of various designs specified. With this supply and service available we guarantee promPt shipments.

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Los Angeles, California

3628 Mines Avenue

Telephone-ANgelus 3287

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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How Lumber Looks Douglar Fir.-A drop in production of fifty-one million feet when compared with the reven prevbus dayr war the outrtanding happening in the West Coalt lurrber industry for the week ending June l, reports to the West Coad Lum' berrnen's Association coverittg the experience of 270 millr in cutting rhow. There mills reported production of 154'' ll4rTOO board feet for the week, which is 56 per cent of theh rate capacity. During the week previ,ous theee operationr produced 20611281283 board feet. Ttir is the third contecutive week in which produc{ion decrearec occrrrred.

Of the 270 mitls reporting, thirty-tbree, including plantr of all sizer were down during the week ending Jrme 1 and many othere worked Ie* tfian full time. Seventeen were reported tte previour week a.r not operating - The California 6r cargo market continuec to hold up well and pricer are firrn No. 2 vertical grain fooring con' tinues rtrong. 1x6 cornmon ir scarce and tbe market on thir item is very fimr. The mills have plenty of cutting o,td"fi and ttere b a good volume of rpecial inquiry. Uneold rtocke dn the docks at San Pedro totaled 13r799'OOO feet on June 12; unsold stockr here showed coneiderable increare during the past week due to the fact that the incoming

vecelr were bunched. 26 lurnber vecaeb are tied up, with one vecel operating ofr.rhore" The frr rail market continues finn with no variation in pricea dutios the past two weekr. The dernand for mixed cnr orders cJntinuec good'. The miltr report good order filec and stocks at the millr are low.

The market on shingles and tath show no change. S,hi"gle millr are curtailing pr-od'uction which should have efrect of rtrengthening prices.

Rldwood:-Prices are firm and the demand is norrnal for tte summer tearon. A good fatl denrand b anticipated from the agricultural districts of California.

CalifonJa White and Sugar Pine:-Prices are firm with an exceptional good demand for uppere and comrnonr.

The demand for shop oontinues heavy from the Middle

Wert. The retail demand in the Eart is reported god. The California White and Sugar Pine Asrociation reportc an

increase of 7.8 per cent in production in the period Januery I to June I ovei the rame period last year. Orders received in tihe aame period rhow an increase of 9.3 per centr:nd

shipmentr an increare of 9 per cent. Stocks on hand rhow

a decrease of 7.2 per cent.

Ear[ Dionne Philippine Lumber Producers Francis Earl Dionne, age 45, only brother of Jack Dionne and Exporters Or$anize of The California Lumber Merchant, died at his home in

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A number of lumber producers and exporters of the Phil- New Orleans, La., June 6th, and was buried in Houston, ipoine Islands have applied for the incorporation of an as- Texas, June 8th. He was owner and manager,of an adverro*i"tion to be known ls the Philippine Hardwood Export tising agency of his own name, handling lumber accounts Association according to advices received by the Depart- exclulivily, ihe only one of its kind in existence, and at men!.-of Commerce it Washington from Trade Commis- the time of his death was handling ten of the biggest lumsior*i G. C. Howard of Manila, P. I. The organization ber accounts in the South. wilt promote the export trade in Philippine lumber and its LeROY H. STANTON LEAVES FOR EUROPE activities will include the standardization of expcrt grades and marks. The organization also purposes to conduct an 7 LeRoy H. Stanton, E. J. Stanton & Son, Los Angeles, advertising campaign in the principal exPort markets ad' ./accompinied by his two children, Jane and LeRoy, Jr., left vising of lhe utilitt of Philippine woods for cabinet and for Europe on June 30. They will meet Mrs. Stanton, who finish"ing purposes. The officers of the association are: has been-sojouining in Europe for the past month, in Paris. presidenl, W.-W. Harris; vice president, F. C. Cadwallader; 'treasurer, N. C. Gude; secretary, Leo Meyer' A*hur F. They plan to spend about two months touring Europe.

Fischer, director of forestry, has been appointed technical VENEER PLANT TO MOVE TO TACOMA advisor of the association.

Samuel A. Sizer, president of the Raymond Veneer Co., MR. AND MRS. A. J. RIISSE'LL ON HAVTIAIIAN TRIP Raymond, Wash., announces the removal of the company A. J. "Gus" Russell, Santa,Fe Lumber Company, San to Tacoma. The site at Tacoma will include part of the Franc-isco, accompanied by Mrs. Russell, sailed- lune -7- old Todd shipyard.and the buildings will be utilized for the from San'Francisco for H,onolulu, on the round-the-world veneer plant. Additional equipment will be installed,.and Dollar liner President Jackson. They expect to be away when the new plant is completed they plan to employ about 300 men. about a month.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

In Los Angeles We have a large and complete manufacturing plant in connection with our warehouse al 7O2 E Slaucon Avenue.

RED RIVER saEh are a "good b.y." The soft, Emooth-cutting, even textured CALIFORNIA PINES grre clean sticking and have the "Old Fashioned White Pine" characteristic of holding their size and shape under a wide range of weather conditions.

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LOS ANGELES

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

Random Editorial Ramblings

By Jack Dionne

At a recent meeting in Chicago the status of the Natio'nal Retail Lumber Dealers' Association was discusse4 and a comrnittee of nine was determined on to plan a reorganization program. The committee consists of three retailers, three metropolitan secretaries, and three secretaries of state arld regional associations. This committee now has a letter out asking for constructive suggestions. Paul S. Collier, Secretary of the Northeastern Retail Lumbermen's Asse ciation, signs the letter. *'f*

The National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association is NOT and has never been exactly what the name implies.

It was created years ago in Chicago. Its original purPoses were not exalted.. Its membership spread, but was and is made up of individuals and individual firms. City dealers in the North and East have always been the bulk of its strength. Some retail organizations of state and regional character have affiliated with it. But it has never represented the retail lumber industry in the manner and fashion that the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association does the manufacturing industrY. **rl

The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association has nothing individual about it. It is made up of the various regional and species manufacturing associations, and these associations furnish its funds for operation. When the delegates appoinjed by the regional manufacturing associations meet, they form the National. The general association is simpty the creature of, made up of, and operated for the regional associations. It is their co.ordinated agent, mouth. piece, and vehicle for handling national problems. This is an ideal and useful arrangement, and the personal ele' ment is missing. ,,< * * The Natioqal Retail Lurnber Dealers'Association startefl wrong, and you can't build right on a wrong foundation.

Lots of good men have put their shoulders to its wheel and tried to solve its problems, but from start to finish it has had a perfect genius for making mistakes that kept it continually in turmoil, terminating in the thoroughly impractical and unintelligent national advertising campaign, which finally blew up with a loud crash, and is now in the courts for settlement. Evidently something has got to be done with the National.

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I am therefore responding to my friend, Paul Collier's, request for suggestions. I suggest that the National Retail

Lumber Dealers' Association drop out of existence, and

that this committee discover whether or not the regional and state retail lumber associations are interested in creating a national retail lumber association after the manner in which the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association is formed, composed entirely of the district associations, and operated for and by them, without any individual or firm memberships or elements. Personally, I am not certain that there is either demand or need for even such an o'rganiza-

tion as this. An organization enthusiast all my life, I fail to see great need for same, gxcepJ where some national emergency arises, such as we had during the war wheh all the regional associations met and created a board to work with the government r * * If there IS nped and demand for a national retail lumber organization, I believe it is of the character just described.

Such an organization need not be at all expensive, no high powered forces, no big overhead, just enough investment to guarantee cohesion in time of need. A dollar a year from the associated district organizations would be ample for its needs. It should funption only regarding national and non-controversial matters. When you go farther than that you find trouble. If you don't believe it, review the history of the N.R.L.D.A. :1. *

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The head of one of the greatest chains of stores was asked to talk about his business. He replied something like

this: "First, I had one store. I put everything of intelligence and energy I had into its operation. I licked the other stores in my town, including the chain stores. There came a demand, for more stores like mine, operating on my plan.

So I added others, and now I have a chain. But a chain is just a lot of individual stores, like I used to have. The individual stores can learn from the chain examples." That's a good historical sketch, and there's lots of food for thought

there'

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The first big lesson the average merchant should learn from the chain stores, is the value of that often rnisunderstood and generally underrated thing called "turnover".

The second is "cash discount". If you carry $5000 worth of stock, and sell $50,000 worth a year, your turnover has been ten times. You can beat the man with $10,000 stock and $50,000 annual business, and you can murder the man with $25,000 stocks and $50,000 annual business, even though you all three use the same mark-up. Against them both you save the interest on the difference in investment, you save insur(Continued on Page 8)

June 15, t929

Sell Cowan Standardized

SINK CABINETS KTTCHBN CABINETS COOLER CABINETS BROOM CABINBTS CHINA CABINETS BREAKFAST ROOM CORNER CABINETS BATHROOM CABINETS DRAWER CABINETS LINEN CABINBTS WARDROBE CABINETS DRBSSING ROOM

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MEDICINB CABINETS IRONING BOARD CABINETS TBLEPHONB CABINETS STORAGE CABINETS

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Cabinets for Everv Room in the Ffouse-

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^toQE tr Thts OOATDLETE LTNI Vhen you sell the Cowan Line, you can fill the buildeds COMPLETE order for built-in cabinets. No split orders-part cabinetc, part millwork, pa.rt lumbeeperhaps part LOST BUSINESS. You can supply him with qualit" cabinets for every room, for eny structure from the small bungalow to dre sumptuous limit-height apartment buildi.g. That's why Cowan Stan&rdized Cabineta make t{re moot profitable line you cen handle. They SAVE money for the contractod and builder-they MAKE money for you.

H. V. OCWAN (Incorpcetcd)

r95E East 64th S&eet

Loc Angeles

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

Random Editorial Ramblings (Continued from Page 6.) ance on the difierence in stock carried, and taxes on same' as well as save on the lesser deterioration of the fast turnover stock, etc. Besides you save on the room required for

the smaller stocks, and you give your customers fresher goods.

** The merchant who has only $5000 can beat the $25'000 capital man to death if he plays the turnover game to the limit. He can cut his price, and still beat him to death with his small investment charges, and the othe'r advantages iust mentioned. And he usually beats hirn on cash,discount. If you carry $5000 worth of stock, and sell it ter\ times a yedE, you evidently buy it that same number of times; if you take yoar 2 per cent cash discount each time, you have at the end of the year made ten times 2 per cent of your invested capital, or a return of 20 per cent on cash drlscounts alone.

It is said that in rnany cases where competition is keen, stores have sold for exact cost, and got by on their cash discou4ts which their competitors were too close hauled to take. **ri

A piece of advice to every retail lumber dealer: GET FROM YOUR NEAREST NATIONAL CASH REGIS. TER COMPANY REPRESENTATIVE A COPY OF THEIR BOOK ENTITLED, "BETTER RETAILING'" You will get so many ideas out of that that you can incorporate usefully into your business that you will be grateful for life to the great firm that produces it. It shows you A. C. HORNER FLIES Tc'SEATTLE In order that he might attend a meeting of retail lumber dealers in Palo Alto on the evening of May 27, and keep an engagement with Colonel Greeley in Seattle on the morning of May 29, A. C. Hoqner, Western manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, left San Francisco at 8 a.m. May B on the West Coast Air Transport Company's tri-motored plane for Seattle. Fast time was made to Portland, according to Mr. Horner, the plane arriving there at 1:30 p.m. The plane took ofi at 3 p.m. for Seattle and arrived there on schedule at 4:3O p.m.

NE\,t/ HAMPSHIRE LUMBERMAN VISITS COAST H. Gregg of A. Gregg & Son, wholesale lumber dealers of Nashua, N. H., was a recent visitor to the Pacific Coast on a tour of the lumber manufacturing regions. While in California he visited the mills of the Pickering Lumber Co. in Tuolumne County.

exactly how to figure stock turns, and how rapidly turnover increases your profits. Herejs one of their examples: Suppose you have sales of $30,000 at a margin of 3O per cent, and an average inventory of $5000 at selling prices, a '

stock turnover of 6, you having sold your average stock six times a year. Multiply $30,000 by 30 per cent, gettrng $9000 profits, from which you deduct expenses of say $7500, leaving profits of,$1500. Suppose you turn that stock seven times the next year, instead of six, at the same mark-uP, and with the same expense. Multiply your $5000 stock by seven' getting $35,OOO total business, multiplied by 30 per cent' giving you $10,500 profit, from which you subtract your cost of $7500, and you have a profit of $3000. YOU HAVE DOUBLED YOUR PROFITS BY INCREASING YOUR TURNOVER ONE-SIXTH. .*i.* Read that book and you will find out why the chain stores are floruishing. Generally accepted is the theory tfiat vol' ume purchasiqg is the answer. The chances are that this is a minor rather than a maior factor. Stock turnoler is the big ansurer. Statistics show, for instance, that the average chain drug store turns its stocks 12 times annually, and the average individual drug store turns it stock only 2.3 times. With the same capital invested and the samp mark-up the chain makes more than five times as much as its individual competitor on this item done, and, they can cut their prices far below those of the individual and still make a generous return on their investment.

A. B. GRITZMACHER ON VACATION

A. B. (Gus) Gritzmacher, partner in the well known wholesale' lumber firm of Gritzmacher & Gunton, San

Francisco, left on June 15 for his vacation, which he will spehd this year in and around Portland, Ore. Mr. Gritimacher, who was born and raised in Portland, has not been there for the last four years, and is quite prepared to see the changes wrought in his'old home town by the active building program which has been in progress there during this time.

SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT STORE HAS REDWOOD EI(HIBIT Much interest was created during the past week by a display of California Redwood in one of the large display windows of The Emporium, San Francisco. The display featured a new fancy fruit pack in Redwood boxes, sandblasted Redwood panels, and the largest developments in distinctive finis,hes in colors for Redwood.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

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Western Office to Cover Eight States A. C. Horner

,-Tvlain Street Mercbants Sell Style

Wby not you?

Moio street merchants -depend almost entirely'upon "Style" today for their existence.

Convenience runs a close second.

The Peedess line of built-in fixtures attracts business because of its superbrfll/c appeal.

Peerless is outstanding for artistic design, for beauty of detail, ease of operation and con-

venient features.

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DEALERS 6nd Peedess furniture eaty to sell at a profit; because they are selling an idea and not mere lumber. They sell modett Aitcbets' . , pride in ownership, saving of time and energy, and lower cost for what one real-

ly gets.

\7" FURNISH our dealers with plans on how to start Home Modernizing. Ve also furnish 'STrite us free kitchen plans and dealer h"lpt.

forinformation.

BUILT.IN FIXTURE COMPANY 2608 San Pablo Avenue

Berkelcy, Califoraia

82o East 6oth Street Los Angeles, California

The Western Office of tlre National Lumber Manufacturersr Association has been changed from a divisional office status and with A. C. Horner in charge will assume full 'Western representation. An enlarged territory, ' including Washington-, Oregon, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, has been apportioned to the Western Office and Mr. Horner will direct the activities of the lum. ber field promotion stafi in that territory co-ordinatingthem wittr ttrJ national trade extension program as developed here. Contact will also be maintained, as heretofore, with the British Columbia lumber interests.

Before joining the Trade Extension stafi of the {. L. }4.

A. Mr. Horner, who is an engineer graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, was an engineer of the Portland Cement Association. Prior to this he spent .four years as secretary of ttre Pacific Coast Building Officials' Conference and was largely responsible for the development. of the Pacific Coast Uniform Building Code. He also spent seven years as an engineer in the Maintenance of Way Department of the Southern Pacific Railway.

In addition to furnishing engineering service to lumber consumers the Western Office of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association will work out with the four affiliated western regional lumber associations plans--for closer co-operation in lumber trade promotion. Mr. Horner will make immediate contact with representatives of the Western Pine Association, the Redwood Association, the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the California White and Sugar Pine Association.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. Appoints New Mana$er F. R. Titcomb has been appointed general manager of the Weyerhaeuser ,Timber Company, succeeding. George S. Long, who will be chairman of the new executive committee created at the company's annual meeting in Tacoma, May 30.

ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPT. SPECIFIES REDWOOD As a result of field work by R. F' Hammatt and W. L. Hook of the California Redwood Association, the Union

Lumber Co.. San Francisco, has recently received an order for structural grade Redwood from the Arizona State Highway Department. t

SOUTHERN PINE ASSOCIATION TO HOLD MIDSUMMER MEETING The mid-summer meeting of the Southern Pine Association will be held on Thursday, June 77, at the Hotel Roosevelt, New Orleans, La. Meeting of the standing committees will be held on June 26.

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TUMBER wheel drive super traction. Balanced load dietribution eliminates weave and makes binder chain, top chain, and wrapper unnecessarJr.

CUT LUMBER haulers find Morelands able to earn more proBUSTNESS vorume $:*:"r"**XX"l1 .l;:#:ff; ItI nnrr'R lg4g means greater de- Iirge payload capacity. ;11

mands on your trucks. The new 1929 Morelands are engineered to give the lowest cost hauling in any specialized field. Eleven basic chassis range in capacities from oneton to 34'OOO pounds, each

Every Moreland model is equipped with6-Cylinder Motor 4-W.heel Brakes Full-Floating Axle llulti-Speed Transmission

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LOGGING in boggy roadless timberland is easy work for Moreland six-wheelers with four rear-

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where service and parts are constantly available. See our More. land representative-an authority

on commercial transportation.

MORELAND MOTOR TRUCI( COMPANY, BURBANK, CALIFORNIA Direct Factory Branches BAKERSFIELD St. - 2526 Chester Ave. SAN FRANCISCO Ave. SAN DIEGO 905 Union St. OAKLAND - 340 Twenty-ninth St. PORTLAND E. 3rd and Oregon Aves.

SACRAMEITTO Bl7-21 Twelfth SPOKAIIE 226 E. Sprague St. STOCKTON 23i E. Miner Ave. SEATTLE - 24.08 First Ave. South FRESNO Tuolurnne and L Sts. SALT LAKE CITY l3l Motor Ave. (Dealers throughout the West ond rnany Joreign countries)

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Special Train for Monolith Bob Osgood Entertains Friends With Air Trip Midwest Opening Leaves Bob Osgood of the Wheeler Osgood Co. of California was June 20 i host to a number of friends recently when he took them for

{' Complete changes of schedules of the special train that will leave Los Angeles on the 2oth inst., over the Union

Pacific Railroad for the opening on the 22nd inst.; at Latamie, Wyo., of the new $2,000,000 plant of the Monolith Portland Midwest Company lvas announced yesterday by officials of that cement concern, the changes having been made because of the fact that a more desirable schedule was possible in view of the new rail schedules which go into effect on lvestern rail lines on the 9th inst.

The train. under the new schedule. will leave Los Angeles at 6:05 p.m. on the 20th inst., instead of in the morning, and it rvill arrive in Laramie early in the morning of the 22nd. inst. Cheyenne, Denver and Colorado Springs will be visited on the return trip, the special train to follow the Denver & Rio Grande route through the Royal Gorge as it proceeds westward. The stop-over at Salt Lake City will be made on the 25th inst.. while on the return journey instead of while en route to Laramie. Thp train is scheduled to arrive back in Los Angeles at 9:10 a.m. on the 26th inst.

It is expected that more than 100 offrcers, shareholders and friends of the Midwest company and the Monolith Portland Cement Company will make the trip at which the company's officers will serve as hosts. Both companies are controlled and officered bv the same interests.

R. T. TITUS RETURNS TO SEATTLE R. T. Titus, of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association,

a sightseeing trip in a fine Buhl Air Sedan plane over Los Angeles and Hollywood. The party was as follows: A. J. Todhunter, Elammond Lumber Co., Los Angeles; Bob Reedy, Wheeler Osgood Co., Tacoma; James G. Casson, Harrison, N. J.; Percy Dixon, American Mfg. Co., Los Angeles; "Tat" Nicholspn, Pacific Door & Sash Co., Los Angeles, and Bob Osgood.

It was the first air trip for all except Mr. Osgood, and all declared they had a very enjoyable time.

Lookout Station on Top of 17 6 Foot Fir The highest off-the-ground forest fire lookout station in the world has just been completed in the Quinault Indian Reservation, heart of the Olympic virgin timber. The lookout climbs to his office atop at 176 leet fir at sumise and descends at sundown.

From this station the ranger can spot fires almost as far as he can telephone. A tall fir tree was topped for the lookout. A 7 by 7 wooden cottage office was built atop with a section of the tree running through it. The ranger reaches his office by climbing a rod and rope ladder.

Seattle, returned to Seattle from San Francisco, June 5, after making a survey for his association of the consumption of lumber through the retail trade.

MAGNUS HALSTEAD HAS OPERATIgN Magnus Halstead of the California Mill & Lumber Co., Alameda, recently underwent an operation for appendicitis'

CALIFOII{IA REDWOOD

COOS BAY LUMBER COMPANY Douglas Fir and Hemloch Lumber ANNUAL PRODUCTION 20O,OO0,OO0 FEET

Officers HOMER W. BUNKER

UNI(IN LUMBER Ctl.

President FRANK B. COLIN SeCy & Treas.

-

H. J. LEAF

First Vice-President C. E. McKINNIE Asst. Se/! & Treas

SALES OFFTCES

OFFICES

SAN FRANCISCO LOS AT{GELES

LOS ANGELES SAN FRANCII;CO Lane Mortgage Bldg.

Crocker Building Phone TRinity 2282 Phone Sutter 617O

EXPORT AGENTS Dant & Rusaell, Inc., Portland, Oregon

MTLLS

Fort Bragg, Califomia Adequate Storage Stock at Sen Pedro M ember Calif ornia Reiluoo tl Association

GEORGE WEIR, Selar Mgr.

J. A THOMAS, Ast. Salcr Mgr.

General Ofrice and Mills

MARSHFIELD, OREGON Rena*ufocturing Pl@tt

BAY POINT, CALIFORNIA

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

MODERN TRADE ASSOCIATION

By Sylvester L. Veaver President, Veaver-Ffenry Manufacturing Co. Los Angeles, Califotnia Address prepared for the Annual Convention of the Lumbermen's Club of Arizona, held at Nog'lo, Arizona, lfvlay 17-19, 1929

If I were able to be rvith you, 'vvhich I cannot, much to my regret, I could speak to you much more intimately, and discuss some of the present-day business problems, than I can through the written word.

I have enjoyed my visits in the past to the Arizona Lumbermen's Club so much, that it was a real personal loss this year that my several duties kept me alvay irom the convention. This year it would be my special wish to be with you as I have just returned from a month's trip in the Ebst, and would like to tell you in a conversational way of some of the deliberations attd conclusions of the national convention, which I attended at Washington, D. C., of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. I had the good fortune to be elected a member of the Resolutions Committee, and on that account was in the midst of a discussion on nearly all the larger problems that face American busi-

quaintance of most of the men in the lumber business in Arizona, as well as the Pacific Coast States.

From some of the keynotes of this convention, which

should appeal to each one of you men engaged in the lumber business in Arizona, one was emphasized by Julius H. Barnes, which I take the liberty of quoting: "Organized business is today possessed of a larger measure of public confidence than ever before, largely as the result of such evidences of a growing confidence in business

responsibility. It is for business leadership to maintain these standards; to make them a living and vital force in the field of business. In this field looms the future vast in possibilities of individual human welfare."

Paraphrasing Mr. Barnes, it is equally necessary for you men in your business life to maintain the prestige and the respect which the general public has for business, and not ness. to lose even in the slightest way the prestige which busiI do not mean that you would necessarily be so much ness nationally holds in the public mind. interested in chamber of commerce work, but as the keyWhile much was said at Washington that was a r€fection note of the convention this year was "The Growing Respon- of the views of the great national concerns, many of the sibilities of Business," I feel that this responsibility is part- problems and much of the wisdom can be applied to my ly yours, and r,r'hile you were not at the ionvention, niver- own concern, the 'Weaver-Henry Corporation, and many theless a part of this great responsibility is on your shoul- others throughout the country, including Arizona. ders and on your industry, in the splendid State of Arizona.

It is estimated there are 1,300,000 retail outlets in the Greater industrial co-operation in a modern way was ex- Qnited States. Invested in these enterprises. is approxipressed as the saving grace of the commercial fabric of the mately fifteen billions of dollars, which the annual sales United States. Manufacturing processes have become so approximate sixty billions of dollars per year. Engaged proficient, and mass production so great, and the ambitious, in these enterprises are some seven millioirs of people, and vigorous and efficient management so keen, in their various with their families and dependents, provide incomes for appositions, that without trade organization carrying a cer- proximately thirty million of our population. tain code of ethics, within the law and public interest, that From these figures it is easy for each one of no phase of modern industry could survive, but would us here to see tremendous the importance of our part in the social and break down from ill-considered and unfair competition. economic structure of the nation's business, and that no A number of the most important contributions to the best industry, not even a small part of it, can be out of step American thought on the subject, was brought forward at without in a sense jeopardizing the entire business mechWashington, where by the way I had the pleasure of meet- anism. The retail field already feels the awakening which ing your national chief, President of the National Lumber has come over American business in the last decade, and Manufacturers Association, who served on the Resolutions it is likely the necessity for better organized business in Committee with me, together with nine other men from the next ten years, and the changes that will come upon various parts of the United States, whose duty it was to us in the next decade, will be even mote keenly required express the wisdom of the gathering in proper words, chos- than during the past generation. en to fit the occasion, and which met the approval of the There is more demand now, and it will continue even threb thousand business men gathered at Washington, repmore keenly, for economy, efficiency and merchandising resenting a total of sixteen hundred chambers of c-ommerce, ability, and every policy in the past, whether it has been and some ten thousand individual members. or a total of successful or not, should be scanned now in the light of approximate,ly two million business men. modern methods and modern ideas, as to the value of such This gentleman, Mr. E. L. Carpenter, President, Shevlin, policy, a and regardless of the length of time of its service, Carpenter & Clarke Company, Minneapolis, Minn., was present ideas and code of elected the week before last to his second term as president if it does not measure with promptly it ethics, should be discarded. of the National Lurmber Manufacturers Association, and it In many instances competitors do not respect each other was a pleasure to meet Mr. Carpenter, and he and I became or the activities of their separate establishments, notwithfriends. I told him of my work with the lumbermen in standing that there is a truism that should become a part the West, and particularly my pleasure in being a member o..{ lhe Lumbermen's Club of Arizona, and having the ac: (Continued on Page 16)

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

THE FTRST GLIMPSE rrva,ke

it the best

MPRESSIONS are either good or bad. Make these impres' sionE the beet poosible. Mahe tlrem lasting. The firstimpression is the lingering oDe. It must be the best. The eyes of passing motor' ists, pedestrians, or visitors, focus solely on the entrance to the home; and tfie

fore entering the ranctum of the home. This glimpse of furniture must be striking. It must conform to the other architechral features of the home. In fact, it must be tfie leader among the other architectural features. Pacific Entrance Doors are all of that. They are

architechrrally

correct. T he y

front door occupie" seventy-five per cent of that

are new in de-

sigtr, and .above

pichrre.

alI th"y are,

Dealers c a n drive home the

FURNITURE.

Pacific En-

above tlrought

trance Doors can

Entrance Doors

mixed carloads of sash, interior doors, Ecreen doors, b ., il t in

be obtained in

with Pacific in their display.

Pacific En.

furnihrre, and interior trim. They are ilre drawing card of the deal-

trance Doors are furnihrre. They

are the first

glimpee of furnihrre one gets be-

erst diaplay.

P[G[F[G DOOR B SASH G(}" AND TT5 DIVISIONS

LOS ANGELEoR

CALIFORNIA

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THE CALIFORNI,T. LUMBER MERCHANT

t4

Iune 15,1929

'W'. R. Chamberlin

Day at San Francisco Lumbermen's Club ' W. R. Chamberlin was chairman of the day at the meet-

ing of the San Francisco Lumbermen's Club, Hoo Hoo No. 9, held Friday noon, May 24, at the Elks Club, San Francrsco.

Fred Roth presided and C. C. Stibich provided music on the piano.

Mr. Chamberlin introduced as speaker of the dav "Nibs" Price, football coach of the Univirsitv of California. who gave a 3o-minute talk on football, dwelling on the vaiue of the game as a body and character builder. In talking of the probable winner of the Coast Conference title next season, Mr. Price said it was about an even bet as to what team will win.

Secretary Edward Tietjen is to be congratulated on the perfect arrangements. for this and other meetings held this year. This factor and the good programs provided have had the effect of boosting the attendance to a much better average than last year.

tltp Protection is, and should be, the first consideration in any insurance. From the beginning, the aim of the Associated Lumber Mutuals has been to give to the lumber industry the highest degree of protection possible against fire and 6re loss a proteition which should logically be developed from- our intimate knowledge of the needs of the lumber field. Second to that primary concern came the desire also to protect the lumber industry against unnec$sary insurance cost.

The cost of insurance depends upon cost of operation and payments for losses. Recognizing that mutual interest, we have given careful attention to management expense and fire prevention. We have kept this cost down to 62Vo of premium income, leaving 38/o saing for policy-holdeis.

However, other income has made it possible to return a dividend of over 40/o. This dividend cuts the cost, but you still have the best insurance protection a lumberman c.an buy.

Any of our companies will give you lull inlormotion as to hoza much our policies would mean to you in protection and in reduction of your insurance costs.

Wheeler Osgood Sales Manager Visit California Bob Reedy, Sales Manager of the Wheeler Osgood Co., af.ter a two weeks' business trip to California, returned to

the home office at Tacoma the early part of June. This was Mr. Reedy's first visit here since the acquisition by his firm of the Nicolai Door Company of Portland. A portion of his time was spent in the San Francisco district and a part in the Los Angeles te.rritory, where he called upon the trade and conferred with his reoresentatives.

In speaking with a representalive of the California Lumber Merchant as to how California sales were now to be handled, Mr. Reedy states that in So,uthern California sales for both the Wheeler Osgood Co. and the Nicolai Door Co. are to be handled by The Wheeler Osgood Co. of California at Los Angeles, which office will continue under the management of Mr. Robert Osgood. In San Francisco, the Nicolai warehouse will continue their general jobbing business, operating under the name of the Nicolai Door Sales Co., remaining under.the management of John C. Haring, who has been in chd:rge of this' operation for several years. The office of the Wheeler Osgood Co. will also be maintained as before at ll2 Market St., San Francisco, this office handling direct car sales of Laminex and solid Fir doors, Philippine doors, Fir and Philippine panels.

EASTERN LUMBERMAN VISITS CALIFORNIA MILLS A. E. Engler, president of the Chas. FI. Engler Lumber Co., Jersey City, was a recent visitor to California, where he visited a number of the Pine sawmills.

JAilES L. HALL MaiI, Wire or Phone Your Special Inquiries for

Northwestern Mrltual Fire Assciatim,

of Seattl:. Wash,

Indiana Lumbermens Mutual fnsurance Co.,

of Indianapolis, Ind.

The Lumber Mutual Fire fnsurancc Co,, of Beton, M'ass, The Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Co.. of llansfield. Ohio Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Firc fnsurmce Co..

of Philadelphia, Pa, Central Manufacturers Mhtual Insuraacc Co., of Van Wert. Ohio

Lumber - Piling - Shingles - Postr Railroad Timbers - Ties - Mine Poles Untreatcd and Treatcd Cedar Polcr

1022 Milb Bld'g. - Suttcr 1385 - Sen Francirco Agcntr, Char. K. Speulding Logging Co. Specialists in Mixeil Cars anil Special Listu

SANTA FE TUMBER G0, (Gus Russell's Outfrt) 16 Ca[fonda SL

867 Pacific Electric Bldg.

SAN FRAI\ICISCO

FIR

LOS ANGELES

(xitn Dried iAir Dried ( Gteett

Red Cedar Shingles Saginaw Brand

Creo-Dipt Shingles

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

Modern Trade Association (Continued from Page 12)

of your mental equipment here today, and that is, each one in business should respect each other's investment.

'All of you have investments in your establishments in the various cities and towns in the sovereign State of Arizona. As an excellent commentary on life in the West, most gf you are personal friends, and while this may not be true of all the members of an industry in a given'state, it is a fine example for the business men in the rest of our country. However, even if you are not drawn to your competitor as,to like him personally, and respect him for his ability, you should respect his investment, and so guide the management of your own investment as not to impair the invested capital by unfair competition, by secret rebates, or by any-of the bad practices which have grown up in many industries.

It is now considered by those who hold the best interests

of our country at heart that there is more danger in breaking dow! the business fabric through these evil practices, and would be more destructive to the gensral welfare, than the possibility of price fixing and monopolies.

Another most important fact to remember in connection with your activities is that with the changing methods and systems of business during the last ten yeais with its scientific research, mass production and highly developed distributing systems, have brought about the neceisity of equally great changes in the vario.us trade associations. It is now just as possible for a trade association to be out of date and old-fashioned as it is for a merchant, and such an association that has not kept pace with modern methods and who js performing merely the sarne service as they did ten or fifteen years ago, is no longer capable of beneficial action to any given industry.

- It is the duty of every official as well as every member of the trade association, such as your own, to so ihange association methods as to measure the services of the issociation with modern-day methods of merchandising and so increase its scope as to be in step with the industf itself.

There are some twenty thousand trade associations now actively performing duties to business men in the United States, whose management and guidance of these volun-

tary, groups_is of utmost concern as well as value, not only to the m,embers, but to the general public itself.

You will probably be interested in a word about the roofing industry. While it has no formal trade association or organization, many constructive steps for the industry, are being done by a group of manufacturers who are intensively and sincerely interested in the welfare of the industry, its customers and dealers.

Through this informal group evil practices of many kinds have been abandoned, and those principles of good business ethics which measure in the proper way in the public interest, have been adopted.

The industry has worked harmoniously with the Pacific Coast Building Officials' Conference to the end that higher

type roofs are specified in various cities where building

codes guide construction work. This prevents the use of

improper and sub-standard material, and protects the owners of buildings from poor workmanship and incorrect grades and standards for any given type of construction.

Moreover, by a suggested consumer list, which is in effect in the three Pacific Coast states and to some extent in Arizona, it takes. the resale price to the consumer out of the guess work area, and suggests the proper profit level of each item manufactrr.red. This consumer list will unquestionably be in effect in the Inter-Mountain states, including Arizona, within a reasonable length of time, particularly if the lumber merchants consider it beneficial.

The roofing industry feels that its dealer business is the backbone of the trade, and is sincere in its efiorts to develop and hold dealer business, and particularly to co-operate with the lumber merchant who is, or should be, a building.material merchant.

A number of conferences have been held on the Coast in the past year between the organized lumbermen and committees of roofing manufacturers, and favorable progress has been made along good merchandising policies. The final results of some of these conferencei will favorably affect the West generally, including Arizona, which should make for the good health and profit of the lumber merchant of Arizona.

BLINN ABCIITTBCTUAAL

DIILLWONK

OFFERS

PLDASTNG DTSTINCTTON OUR REPRESENTA,TIVBS WILL EXPLAIN OUR MILL WORK SERVICE

THD L. TY. BLTNN LUMBDR COMPAITY

Dirtrituting Yardr and llthaner Foot of McFarland.Ave. Wilnhgton, Calif.

Gcncrel O6ccr

25Ol So. Alameda St. Phone: HUmboh 377O

Loc Angeler, e,effornia

Arizona Rcprcrentetivc

R. W. DALTON 2Og Luhn Btds.

Pho€ni!$ Aftr

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

t7

OONTNOL ln thlr GDntrol.rgon nechaolcll etltctency tsker the

place of hurnan traltty. Ghance lr eltnlnat€d. Unlalltng sclence apptlee heat and hurnldfry to the lurnDer In the

kltns.

Alrdrled tlrrc to a unlforn rnolrtrure oontGntr a "tillt to .verlr foottt whcn rteckod on ttre kiln carr' wc|3htcd wlth beavy lroor, anotbsr ald to t r,olrer dr5rlngr EDE tunbcr comGr tron thotc rernerkeDtc tllnr f,et end trftrc and at sny dsgfce oi nolrturo cotcrnt tbat cer' tooncrr rnay requlre. on Eoery Strck

The Mork oJ

Edwards, Inc. ffillver Deutsch Hardwoods-Pine

l.ouisiana

Oakdale

Branch Ofrler:

Railmy Exchugc Bldg.

Motar Bld8.

HIGH POINB N. C., P. O. Bc No. 7o, gltt Johnq Stret. ln chugc ol Expqt Sdec: crficlco-za

DETROIT-7-252 Gaad

AMERICAN PITCH PINE EXPORT CO. New Orleanr, La.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

??

lt mnkes

Yard foreman passing down a package of 4-Square Lurnber

from the well stocked bins of tho

Farrriers'Grain & Lumber Co., Sycamoret fil.

DIr. f. D. Banker' manegerof tho

Farrnerg' Grain & Lumber C,o.' lnepecting a package of 4-Square

Lumber in the bins of ono of his eheds.

Mr. Banker points proudly to the 4-Square dealer eign that hangs conepicuouely over tho

eidewalk.

J:urr,e t5. 1929

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

ony y.trd look better" -sals I. D. B,q'NKER, tnanager) Farmers'Grain & Lumber

Co., Sy"amore, Illinois a rnighty neat "I've always prided rnyself on keeping t6But when our first Banker.

Mr. y*drl' eays looking shipment of -square carne in and we stacked it all neai an.l even in the bins, it looked so downright good that I kind of felt dissatisfied with the regt of the shed' So did the boys in the yard. So we pitched in and straightened the whole shed out. And I tell you that if t .t"" proud of the place befor"o I'* doubly proud now. And no customer gets away from here without taking a trip outside to look us ovet."

Thig aisnof CONFIDENCE

ldatiffe tho 4-SQUARE DEAIJR

NE of the rnost noticeable (-7 things about 4-square Lurn-

ber in yard after yard is the change it has made in the PhYsical aPpearance. Not onlY do the evenlY

stacked tiers of 4-Square, with their bright labels, look good thernselves-but theY influence the appearance of the whole Yarq for the better. What has haPPened in Banker's yard has haPPened tirne after tirne. The 4-Square yard looks prosperous, and it is.

4-square Lumber-and' the 4-

Square Plan-were designed for the forward-looking lurnber rrl€rchant who not only respects fine lurnberand treats itas it deserves,

but who appreciates the m€r-

chandising possibilities it ofrers.

To a few such rnerchants in each locality Weyerhaeuser is offering the 4-Square Franchise as fast as increased rnill capacity perrnitsAddress our nearest branch office or inquire of our district representative for full details of the 4-Square Plan.

VEYERIIAEUSER SALES COMPANY, Distributors o/ \ffeyerhaeueer Forest Products General Officee: SPOKANE WASIIINGTON Branch Off'ces: T()LEDO KANSAS CITY. CEICAGO MI1\INEAPiOII9 l4l8 n. A. Ioag Blali. 5lO Scond Nat' Bank Bldgi 2OS So. Id Sallo St. 866 plymroth Bldg. NEV YOBK PHILADELPHIA PITTSBT'RGH 3106 Chdrin Blda. l6tx) Arch Streot 2401 FtrstNat. Buf,-nug.

SEUANE LUMEER Slecfes and Grade are Marked and Guaranteed

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, t929

California Building Permits for May city-

Los Angeles

Mav

....

SanFrancisco... tHollywood Long Beach . ...

Oakland San Diego Beverly Hills .

Santa Monica Glendale Berkeley Pasadena +San Pedro Sacramento San Bernardino .

San Marino Santa Barbara tNorth Hollywood Ventura Huntington Park .

Alhambra San Jose Riverside

Monterey South Gate .

Richmond Culver City .

South Pasadena Compton Alameda Torrance

Whittier

Hanford Santa Cruz

tVenice San Mateo Santa Ana Eureka Visalia Fresno Fullerton Covina Inglewood San Gabriel .....

Stockton Vernon Piedmont

Mav tg?a

t9D

. . ..$8,535,229 98,941,735

....4,307,352 2,635,LI6 .. 2,2C6.,M I,488,723 . ... 1,950,030 1,0&,835 1,192,75I I,272,965 .... 1,L30,L24 l,@1,704 1,087,385 453,575 759,354

228,850

4ffi,323 598,77L

454,9&

_

552,910 458,031

42I,650

423,@0

4n,956

24I.5D n7,O39

397,318

262,056 25L,635

135,4D

zn,$O M,424 n6,695 205,385 183,374 179,767

t77,7lO

r57,7n 155,400 152,050

I47,5m 136,664 134,250

l30.6lo

rn375

125,795 l24,4OL

118.300 lll,762

105,366 104,600

97,534 94,702 92,050 90,280 90.000

189,054

m,977

Redwood City .

Bakersfield Maywood

Palos Verdes ...

Monrovia *Van Nuys Burbank Claremont Pomona

Lynwood Santa Maria ....

San Fernando ...

Modesto

Bell .

Redlands

Tulare Santa Paula Petaluma 1 53,1 50 268,250 Lindsay Anaheim 118,595 Monterey Park zfps{JJ_ 154795 Arcadia 52,6n Manhattan 270.325 El Monte 86,600 Ontario 85,050 Brawley 135,675 El Segundo 105,515 Oceanside 168.355 El Centro 27,4m Montebello 103,638 Redondo Beach 10,400 Santa Rosa ll7,l3O Emeryville 174,175 Hermosa Beach lI7,m Azusa 105,115 Corona 41,125 Porterville D,ON Sierra Madre L26,7lO Exeter 30,090 Upland 9.500 Hawthorne

May

May

82,910 79,145 76,X)5

77,633

75,000

47,W

9n

rgn

83,577 31,347

74,7ffi

97,950

74,70r

115,506

70,6ffi

96,625

59,940 59,550 56,410

42,975 119,710 71,650

55,910

4IJlg

48,4r5

4,355

48,3,CI

98,639

40,2N

23,@O 511,425

37,525

359,653

37,963

230,3t5

36,595

32,765 20,350

35,700

27,2&

33,850 32,925 31,o75

t4,no

89,177

68,050 Calexico 46,875 Glendora 207,751 La Verne

87.400

369,t41

83,331

t30,249

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COOS BAY REPRESEN. TATIVES RETURN FROM SALES MEETING J. A. Thomas, J. M. Landram and S. C. Smith of the Los Angeles office of the Coos Bay Lumber Company have recen_tll returned from a week's trip to the company's mill at Marshfield, Oregon, where they went to attend a sales meeting.

SUDDEN & CHRISTENSON MOVING LOS ANGELES OFFICE The Los Angeles office of Sudden & Christenson, which is now located in the Edwards & Wildey Bldg., will be moved to 303 Petroleum Securities Bldg. the la!-er part of

the month.

City-

30,000

D,950 D,ON 27,|W 26,W 25,W5

23,m

4,500

16,425

25,900 34,985

42,875 119,635

11,400 10,310

6,m

22,365

2,On

2I,975

26,9W

15,517

n,63

14,250

9,500 16,975 27,650

14,000 11,910

2I,980

Lt,775

30,435

1o,525

1,4&

9,800

22fn/.]

1,440

9,50O

2,W

8,775

79,7ffi

73co

13,150

4,900 3,150

61,380

2,W

7,5@ 8,435

*Included in Los Angeles totals.

A. R. MOYLAN AND EARL GALBRAITH VISIT

YARDS _ A B. Moylan, general manager and vice-president, and Earl Galbraith, sales manag.er, Schumachei Watt Board 9otp., -T{f Angele_s, have completed a three weeks, trip thro.ugh Northern California where they were calling on thl retail lumber trade.

.

E. L. SABERSON VISITS WEST COAST T: Saberson, Chicago, Western sales manager of the _E. Maso-nite Corporation, recently spent several days in Los Angeles checking up on businesJ conditions in ihis terri!ory. Mr. Saberson intended to stop off at San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Denver on hiJway back to headquarters.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

2l

Frankly You are missing a bet if you are not already selling Plant LJrns, Window Boxes, Plant Boxes, and Plant Stakes, made of Clear Heart Redwood.

Here is a lumber product made all ready to sell, paclced in cartons so you can mail 'em to your out of town trade, or tuck 'em in your customer's car at the yard.

The Home and Garden magazines have been creating a demand, and the time is ripe for you to cash in.

THE PACTFIC tUilBER COilPANT Mqr$er of the Calitornia Reilvooil Acsocioliorl

C a I i f o r n i e R e p r c r. n t e t ivcr SAN FRANCISCO

,fl Crliforni. St

NOR,THBRN Red Grirng L. W. (tew) llinr, lf.

SC'UTTIBRN Gur lloovcc

Geo. Melvillc

Hugh Aldcrman

I,OS ANGBIAS

7fl) Stenderd Oil Bld8.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

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In "Robbins" Flooring you are assured of the very finest that has ever been, or ever will be produced.

Our geographical localion, the modern machinery in our mill, and the type of men who make our flooring, all go to make this statemell possible. "Robbins" Maple and Birch Flooring is the best.

Southcn Californir C. J. LAUGHLIN 535-6 Pctrolcun Sccuriticr BIdg. Lor Angclcr l\fErrnorc g05ti Northcrn Crliforaia:

GEORGE C. CORNITIUS Merchantr Erchaagc Bldgo ,San Frencirco

Ffl[0onmNs]FuoonnNrc ROSSINS ELOORTNG

W. R. CHAMBERTIN & C().

WHOLESAIJ, LUMBER

FIR and REDWOOD SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SALES AGENN' FOR

THE I.ITTIE RIVER

REDIYOOD C().

CRANNELL HUMBOLDT CO. OPERATING STEAMERS:

W. R. Chambcrlin Jn litanwood Phyttir

OFFICES: Hcrd O6cc

6lt Mrtron Bldg.

SAN FRANCISCO LOS ^A,NGELES

2E2 Cbambcr of Connercc

Btdg.

Barbere C

PORTLAND-Prcific Bld3.

Ycllorvrtonc

5tot11 g rra]tvhitc Brds.

June 15, 1929

Peninsular Lumbermen Meet at Palo Alto Paul E. Ooerend Presiileil at Meeting.

San Jose and Peninsula Lumbermen assembled in joint meeting with members of the Peninsula Hoo Hoo Club at the Cardinal Hotel, Palo Alto, Monday evening, May 27.

Secretary Paul E. Overend presided in the absence of J. C. Ellis, the club's president.

A. C. Horner, manager of the Western Division of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and Harry A. Lake, president of the California Retail l.ttmbermenfs Association, were the' principal speakers.

Mr. Horner opened proceedings by presenting 'to the club on behalf of the National Association, a gavel made from Pine which saw service in the White House for 116 years.

He then gave a short history of the formation of the National Association and outlined the work of the association, particularly the Tracle Extension Program. He passed around samples of the association's literature and invited those present to send in their requests to his office for any of this they desired. He referred to the trade and grade marking of lumber and said he hoped the day is coming when the National trade-mark on lumber rvill be as well known as the name of Stetson is now known in connection with hats. The speaker concluded by asking dealers to seek the assistance of the association in specific problems, or when they want information.

R. Y. Hanlon, field engineer of the National Association, told of his work in connection with the standardization of wooden oil derricks.

L. L. De Flon of the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, 'Wis., spoke on his recent work on the moisture content problem in the Douglas Fir Region.

Harry A. Lake gave one of the excellent talks he has been presenting all over the state on the subject of cooperation. He urged co-operation of the closest kind, and suggested that retailers take advantage of the advertising of the National Association, and advised them to do more advertising.

Mr. Lake said the committees of the State Association are ready to help any individual or any group, and will help any retail lumberman even if he is not a member. Local organizations now number 27, with 25 paid secretaries.

These take in 800 yards out of the 1050 in the state.

"The State Association has had a gain of 85 members or about 40 per cent, and with Mr. Essley's good wotk and the fine co-operation of the directors there will be a big increase in the number of new members before the next annual meeting of the association," he concluded.

R. T. Titus, West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, spoke briefly on the subject of American Lumber Standards.

Secretary Paul Overend introduced Dee C. Essley, field manager of the State Association.

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Central California Lumbermen's Club Meet at Stockton Decide To Put American Lumber Standards and Segregated Grade rnto Efrect on September l,1929.

Setting of a definite date for the adoption of American Standards of Sizes and the segregation of grades was the main business before the rneeting of the Central California Lumbermen's Club, held at the Hotel Stockton, Stockton, June 8.

September 1 was the date chosen, and the voting on the motion to this effect proposed by R. F. Wells, West Tur: lock Lumber Co., Turlock, and seconded by Charles G.

Bird, Stockton Lumber Co., Stockton, was practically

unanimous.

President L. H. Elliott, \ralley Lumber Co., Lodi, presided. Mr. Elliott asked for free discussion on the subject of American Lumber Standards and segregation of grades, in spite of the fact that the club had already gone on record as favoring these, as he felt that such discussion would do much toward removing misunderstanding in the minds of some dealers.

Chas. G. Bird started the discussion by reading an editorial on this subject by Jack Dionne from the May 1 issue of The California Lumber Merchant.

In the course of the discussion the opinion that dealers should handle dry dimension in the new sizes was expressed, several of those taking part declaring that they would buy dry lumber right from the start of the adoption of the new sizes.

Those joining in the discussion included R. F. Wells, Turlock; Chas. G. Bird, W. H. Falconbury, A. H. Fisher and F. F. Fisher, Stockton; C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento; 'Warren S. Tillson, Modesto; J. U. Gartin, Modesto; A. R. Martin, Sonora; W. P. Fuller, Manteca, and L. H. Elliot, Lodi.

Treasurer Chas. G. Bird read the Treasurer's report, and followed this by reading a report written by E. T. Robie, Auburn, vice-president, of the activities of the various committees of the Northern District of the State Association. and a general report of the accomplishments of the State Association since the last annual meeting in November, written by Harry A. Lake, the association's president.

Mr. Bird characterized this as a mighty fine report, and moved that the club send Mr. Lake a letter expressing their appreciation of his fine work on behall of the State Association. The motion was passed unanimously.

Amendments to the club's by-laws read by W. H. Falconbury, chairman of the By-Larvs Committee, were adopted.

R. F. Wells, Turlock, announced that Turlock had recently adopted the Uniform Building Code, rvhich he said is based on American I-umber Standards.

The offer of W. M. Casey, Redwood Manufacttrrers' Co., Pittsburg, to send an expert to a future meeting to explain and discuss Standard Sash and Door Schedules No. 128, was accepted.

C. D. ieMaster, .Sacramento, on behalf of the Sacramento Valley Lumbermen's Club, invited members to attend the Farm Building Conference to be held on the campus at

Davis, September 21.

President Elliot appointed the following committee to make arrangements for the next meeting of the club, to be held on Saturdav, September 14: Claud B. Clawsen, O. D. Ruse and O. V. Wilson.

The registration was as follows: C. G. Bird, Stockton Lumber Co. . . . Stockton G. E. Ground, Ground Lumber Co. .. .....Modesto C. U. Utterback, Millwork Institute .... ...Stockton O. V. Wilson, Central Lumber Co. . . ......Stockton A. R. Martin, Ilales & Symons . Sonora W. H. Falconbury, San Joaquin Lumber Co. . . . . Stockton W. P. Fuller, Home I umber Co. . . . . Manteca W. M. Casey, Redwood Manufacturers Co. .....Pittsburg C. B. Clawsen, the Diamond Match Co. . . . . Stockton W. H. Beseker. the Diamond Match Co. ..

Oakdale B. R. Du Vall, Ripon Lumber Co. .. ...Ripon .....Modesto J. U. Gartin, Stanislaus Lumber Co. ..

Warren S. Tillson, the Modesto Lumber Co. . . . . . Modesto T. L. Gardner, Millwork Institute . . . Stockton L. H. Elliot, Valley Lumber Co. . . .. . . . . Lodi C. D. LeMaster, Sacramento Vallev Lumbermen's Club

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R. F. Wells, West Turlock I-umber Co. .. ..Turlock O. D. Ruse, Ruse-Blair Lumber Co. .. .....Stockton Stockton J. H. Stutz, Coos Bay Lumber Co. . .

Geo. W. Robinson, Booth-Kelly Lumber Co. . . . . . Stockton W. F. Neider, San Joaquin Lumber Co. . . . Stockton W. O. Mashek, United I;trmber Yards, Inc. .......Modesto F. F. Fisher, Fisher Bros. . . . . Stockton A. H. Fisher, Fisher Bros. . . . . Stockton

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Planing Mills Products Exceed . Billion Dollars in 1927 The total value of products made by planing mills of the country in 1927 was $1,116,412,119. Of this total, just reported by the U. S. Census Bureau, which represents a decrease of 11.5 per cent as compared with $1,261,138,O20 reported lor 1925, $581,63,3737 was contributed by planing mills not operated in conjunction with sawmills and $534,778,382 by planing mills operated with sawmills. These figures represent decreases of 18.2 per cent and 2.8 per cent, respectively, as compared with 1925.

-Of the products of planing mills in 1927, dressed lumber,

including flooring, ceiling and siding totalled 19,345,061 M feet, valued at $555,312,845. Dooti numbered 16,344,725, valued at $58,151,624; sash numbered 39,838,753, valued at $D,765,614; door and window frames numbered 11,9M,49O, valued at $33,014,753. Value of plywood manufactured was given as $4O,668,303 and of miscellaneous millwork, $3n,944,n|. _O-f the 4,561 independent planing mills reporting for 1927, 439 were situated in Pennsvlvania, 4O4 in-New York, 356 in California and 280 in Illinois.

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Wood Conversion Company Announce ImproYements in Manufacture

of Balsam Wool "Puncture-proof insulating-blanket" may become the unique nicknlme for Balsam-Wool as a result of radical irnpiovements in the material which are announced-by the manufacturer, the Wood Conversion Company, of Cloquet, Minn., to go into effect July 1. The heavy kraft liners.on both sideJ of the wood-fibre "wool" or mat, with u/hich lumber retailers and builders throughout the country are familiar, is to be replaced by a heavy crepe paPer which, besides being tougher, stronger and more flexible than the old liner, trai Z5 per cent stretch and therefore makes the blanket virtually puncture-proof.

Use of this liirei for the insulating blanket is no untried innovation. For several years' a double thickness of it has been applied to each side-of the mat in the sqecial grade of Balsam-Wool used for the insulation of refrigerator and Dassenger cars. The material has been adopted by many iailroads and equipment builders because it withstands all the weaving, diitortion and racking to which rolling stock atlng effiis subject ind at the same time retains its- insula-ting.effiLaboratories at Madison, Bur ciency. Tests by the Burgess Wis., showed that it would meet these requirements over 60,000 miles of travel t'/ith the rails a quarter-inch out of alignment.

Recently a new machine was developed which does the crepe-ing as part of the regular process. of manufacture. olices the better and more expensive type of liner This places within reach of the general building market. The new equipment was patented several months ago and is being installed now. Production of the improved material will be on a volume-basis by July 1 and shipments of it will begin on that date.

Accidents that occur during the handling and application of the insulation, as when children play in an unfinished house, are far less likely to damage it than wlhen the old type of liner was used. Since the improved material can siietch 25 per-cent of its length and width, it is practically puncture-Proot. ' Other iinprovements that will make it easier and quicker

for the carpenter to apply also are being introduced. Both

the 17-inch and the 25-inch widths are increased one-quarter inch in width so as to give a little more leeway in tucking the insulator in between studding, joists or rafters. All 17inch and 2l-inch.material is ruled to indicate the flange by which it should be attached to the framing and is creased or scored to facilitate flanging.

All material is lined down the center with marks indicating foot-measure, so that it will be unnecessaty to measure ofi with a rule the strips required to fill a given space.

The logotype,'fBalSam-Wool-It Tucks In," and the Weyerhaeuier'tiade mark are printed on the face of the material every six feet to provide positive identification and increaied display value on the job. At the same time, the "wool" or mat has been made firmer without sacrifice of its insulating efficiency and the bond between it and the liners has been increased.

This new type of Balsam-Wool will go to the lumber merchant and onto the building lot in an improved package. Each roll will be wrapped in heavy kraft paper as,heretofore, but a convenient opening device has been added, and a specification-sheet is inseqted in each roll, and an attrac-tivi label-has been devised to increase the display-value of the material as it appears in the lumber warehouse or display room.

Besides these improvements in its older and more extensively .used product, and the recent engagement as sales maniger of H. E. Peterson, former vice-president of the Beavel Products Companv, Wood Conversion Company announces large expansion of its Cloquet plant. A 36Gfoot extension to iti waiehouse is being built. Ofifice space is being doubled and the laboratory spaie is being increased. The capacity of the charger house, which serves both the Batsam-Wbot machines ind the machines that make Nu-Wood, the rigid structural insulation, is being doubled' And within thJnext few months the drier for the latter product will be increased in size, so that its Z4-hour capacity will be increased from 70,0@ to 125,000 feet.

Architectuml Exhibit to be Held at Los An$eles Architectural exhibitions of noteworthy interest scheduled for the last two weeks in Jtrne and the first two in July are those of Mr. John C. Austins, New York Art A1ii"tt". and the Nationil House Beautiful Competition. Mr. Austins' exhibit will be the seventh of the series of "one man" exhibits, held in the exhibition rooms of the Archi tects' Building, Los Angeles, under the new policy of-elrecettlly started by the architects of Southern Cali' hibiting"in ordei to stimdlate a statewide continuity of fornia thoueht toward better architecture.

Mi. Jotrn C. Austin, the prominent commercial architect, has plinned to display several sketches of proposed work never exhibited before.

One of the features of their exhibit, the New York Art Alliance, will display some drawings recently exhibited in

New York of the Monel Metal Sink Competition.

Then the National House Beautiful Competition traveling exhibit for 792!. has created considerable acclaim due to the fact that two first prizes and five honor awards were won by Southern California architects: First ptize, 5 to,7room house, H. Roy Kelley, architect; first prize, 8 to l? room house, Gordon Kaufmann, architect; first in highly com,mended list, A. C. Zimmerman; honor awards, Loyal F. Watson and David J. Witmer, Albert J. Schroeder, Donald D. MacMurray.

'This is the Second Annual Small House Competition held by the House Beautiful Magazine. The traveling exhibition started from Boston Jan., l9D, and, has visited nine cities en route to Los Angeles and the exhibition rooms of the Architects' Building.

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June 15, 1929

No Smoking in National Forests at Boat Show

Hardwood Exhibit

Effective June 1, and continuing until the end of the fire

Reproduced belou' is a picture of the exhibit of White Brothers, San Francisco, of hardwoods used by boat builders, at the Pleasure Boat and Sportsmen's Exposition held at the Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, r\pril 27 to May 4.

season, no smoking will be permitted within any of the 18 national forests of California, except in established camps, at places of habitation, and in certain high mountain areas

quarters f.or 57 years for all the various kinds of hardwoods used by boat builders.

Service.

It is White Brothers' claim that they have been head-

in the Sierra Nevada, according to orders issued by S. B. Show, chief of the California district, United States Forest

''The orders further provide that each automobile or pack train party camping in the national forests must be equipped with a shovel and an ax suitable for fire fighting qurposes. Shovels must have a blade at least 8 inches wide, either round or square point, and a minimum overall length of 36 inches. Axei, eitlier single or double bit, must weigh 2 to 2rl pounds or more, and have an overall length of 26 to 28 inches.

A camp fire permit must also be secured before building any fires on national forest land, including fires in stoves gasoline, kerosene or wood. Camp fire permits are burning -free of charge by all Federal Forest Service officers, issued automobile clubs and other authorized agents. Applicants should provide themselves with a shovel and an ax before applying for a camp fire permit.

A number of important watersheds within the Cleveland, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Sierra National Forests have already been closed to all public use and travel, except under special permit from the U. S. Forest Service.

Infoimation regarding the location of areas posted and closed to public use may be secured from the local forest officers.

REDWOOD SPECIFIED BY STATE HIGHWAY

DEPARTMENT California State Highway Department has advertised several'new bridge jobs in which structural Redwood has been specified. These are as follows: One in Lassen County, caliing for 4O0,000 feetl one in Marin Cou.nty, 275,m feet, and bne in San Luis Obispo County, 30,000 feet. In addition, 30,000 feet of structural grade Redwood is going into a bridge on the new road between Maricopa and Car-

"Increasing yearly travel into the national forests of the state and the iesultant growing fire hazard makes necessar,y these fire prevention nieasures for the safeguarding _of Yal-: uable timber, watershed, wild life and recreation lands," said'District Forest Show. "But regulations alone will never solve California's fire problem. We must have the unqualified support of every iitizen of the state, for without such effective backing the Federal and State forest rangers can never'hope to successfully combat the menace of mancaused fires."

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C. F. WILLIAMS RETURNS TO EASTERN HEADQUARTERS

C. F. Williams, formerly of the Williams Bros. Last Block Factory, Cadillac, Michigan, has returned to his headquarters in that city after speriding several months at his winter home in Los Angeles.

CHARLES L. WHEELER ATTENDS ROTARY CONFERENCE AT DALLAS vice.president and general manager L, Wheeler, Charles of the McCormick Steamship Company, returned to San Francisco, June 4, from Dallas, Tex., where he attended the convention of international Rotarians. Mr. Wheeler is president-elect of the San Francisco Rotarians and will take office next month.

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Federal Trade Commission Issues Complaint Against Pine Manufacturers The Federal Trade Commission issued complaints at Was.hington, Julg 6, against 38 lumber companiis in California, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada, charging misrepresentation in the sale of Western yellow piie as White Pine. Hearings were set for July 5.

Immediately on the publication of th-is news a statement glgled-by _officers o_f the Red River l.umber Company, the Pickering Lumber Company and the Clover Valley Lrimber Cornpany, and issled to the press denied the alliged misrepresentation and stated that their product has bee-n known to the trade for half a century as Cilifornia White pine.

Mullin-Hayes Lumber Co. Purchase Yard at Torrance Announcement has been made of the purchase of the Haynes Lumber Co. by the Mullin-Hayej Lumber Co., a new company formed to enter the lumber and building material business in Torrance.

Arthur-D.-Hayes,_who will manage the yard, has been connected with the L. W. Blinn Lumber Co. oi Los Angeles{or-thepast_six years, and prior to that time *", ciated with the Mullin interests lt Jerome, Arizona. Wavne ".soMullin, the other member of the firm, is connected *itn itii Mullin Lurnber Co. o! Los. Angeles who operate several yards in Southern California. Mr. Mullin is rianager of the company's Los Angeles yard.

The Pacific Lumber Company Announces Changes in Sales Organization V

The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, announces the following changes in their-sales organization, efiective June 1: . He$ Klass, who for the past 15 years has been Superintendent of Production at Scotia, and assisting the General Sales Manager in contacting the operating dlpartment, is now moved to the San Francilco office as Assislant General Sales Manager.

R. F. Hamilton, heretofore Manager of Western Sales, has been appointed Manager of Atlantic Coast sales, with headquarters in New York City. The sales in the states on the Eastern Seaboard will be under his direction.

A. J. Nolan, who has been Mr. Hamiltonfs assistant, is now Manager of Western Salesn having charge of all sales in the Western States, extending east Io include Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Texas and-Louisiana.

Concatenation for Northern Arizona N. H. Huey, Arizona, Hoo Hoo state counselor for Arizona, and, W. P. Underwood, Prescott, vicegerent snark of Yavapai County, are planning for a Northern Arizona concatenation to be held during the summer. The concatenation will be held at Flagstaft, Williams or McNary.

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Age not guaranteed-Some I have told for 20 years-Some less

Her Estimate It was a trial where Darkto-nrn's best was in the audience, in the jury box, and on the witness stand, and the.prosecuting attorney was having plenty of trouble with a high brown gal from whom he was trying to coax sorne highly necessary testimony. This witness kept glaring at the jury, and making evasive answers to the questions asked her.

Finally the attorney asked her:

PHIL PATTERSON VISITS CALIF'ORNIA Phil Patterson, assistant sales manager of the West Oregon Lumber Co., Linnton, Ore., manufacturers of the famous "West Oregon Super Finish," has just returned to Oregon from spending trvo weeks in ,California, where he conferred lvith Wendling-Nathan Co', San Francisco, agents in California for his firm's products.

Mr. Patterson spent a week calling on the trade in the 'San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys with J. C..Snead, Jr., of the Wendling-Nathan Co., and a week calling on the trade in the San Francisco l3ay Disrtrict.

"Are you acquainted with any of the jury in this case?" "fgssulr-moah den half of 'em," she replied.

"Are you willing to swear that you know more than half of them?" demanded the attorney.

The high brow4 looked the jury over very deliberately, and then said:

"J"dgg if'n it comes to that, Ah'm willin' t'swear Ah knows mo den all of 'em put togethe'".

H. W. SINNOCK VISITS HONOLULU

H. W. Sinnock, manager of the Redwood Sales Company, San Francisco, accompanied by Mrs. Sinnock, has

just returned from a three weeks' pleasure trip to the Harvaiian Islands. Mr. and Mrs. Sinnock sailed from San Francisco May 18 on the Matson liner Malolo.

A. B. GRISWOLD BACK FROM LOS ANGELES

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San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club An address on the subiect of American Lumber Standards by Regiirald T. Titus, of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, and discussi'on of this matter were the features of the meeting of the San Joaquin Valley Lumbermen's Club, held at the Hotel Californian, Fresno, May 25.

Luncheon was served promptly at l2:L5. President F. Dean Prescott presided, and called upon W. R. Spalding, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co., Visalia, to tell the members something of his recent trip round the world.

Mr. Spilding gave a very interesting outline of his trip, which he dealt with in humorous vein, his stories of amus' ing happenings during his stay in Scotland being particularly appreciatqd.

George M. Cornwall, of The Timberman, Portland, followed *ith a talk on lumber manufacturing conditions in

ing Lumber Co., Visalia; Dean Cook, Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Co., Madera.

Frank F. Minard, C. S. Pierce Lumber Co', Fresno, and W. K. Kendrick, Valley Lumber Co., were appointed as a committee to interview box manufacturers in the matter ot fruit trays, box shook and car bracing.

An innovation at this meeting was the awarding of three attendahce prizes. The winners were: lst prize, ^Wry. Cravens ; 2nd. prize, Ray Clotfelter; 3rd prize, Dean Coot.

The nixt mieting of- the club will be- held in the Fall, and will probably be held at some place in the mountains.

The registratioi was as follows: .....King-sbu-rg Charles Schaffer, Citizens' Lumber Co. ... . . '. ..Visalia E, M. Howard, fulare County Lumber Co. . .. ...Kerman A, J. Crow, C.' S. Pierce Lumber Co. ... .Laton e. E. Jotrn'son, Laton Lumber Co. ..' .. . . ' . 'Parlier W. W: Boyd,'Parlier Lumber Co. '.. ......Ivanhoe W. g. trt"i"tt, March Lumber Co. ..' ......Fresno Aaron Maisler, Maisler Bros. . ..' Fresno A. P. Dron ' ..Visalia W. R. Spalding, W. R. Spalding Lumber Co. ...

the Pacific Northwest.

Reginald T. Titus in his address traced the history -of the eitablishing of American Lumber Standards from the time the conferince was called for this purpose in 1923 by ...... 'San Francisco Fe Lumber Co' .. ' President (then Secretary) Hoover, who was himself ap- A. J. Ruisetl, SlntaLumber . ... ...Bakersfield Co. ...

King,'King E. W. pointed chiirman of the- committee which had charge of T. C. Fere;. Swastika Lumber Co. .'. .......Fresno sizes. and ..'..Porterville working out the details of grades, nomenclature f. Wr-rgtti, Brey-Wright Lumber Co. ... i.

Mr. Titus g'ave among the reasons for the adoption of b.otce A.-G6od. Good Lumber Co... '.Tracy . ' ..Visalia Lumber Co. ' .. these standards the fact that retailers will handle standard Ray tlotfelter, W. R. Spalding ....Fresno T. O'Hara, Redwood Minufacturers'Co. . products when the industry switches over to these stand- Roler Carter, Fresno Lumber Co. ... '......Fresno O.-H. that ards, that architects and engineers are in favor of them, ... ..Merced W. E. Landram .. " '.Fresno there will be a tendency foi prices to be more uniform, ald Dan C. Desmond, Mountain Pine Sales Co' ...

Francisco Union Lumber Co. .'. '......San that the Uniform Building eode adopted in many Pacific F-W- Butg"rs, Kotoid ...Caruthers ...

Co. Lumber M. Kofoid, H. Coast cities is based on these standards. . . . San Francisco C. Snead, Ji., Wendling-Nathan Co. . . .

The speaker announced that his association- hopes to J. .....Fresno W. f. Kenirick, Valley iumber Co. ... .. . . . .Fresno place a man in California in the near future, whose busi- George Kennedy, Mountain Pine Sales Co. . . . ... ...Reedlev ness it would be to help to promote new business for the E. Pl Ruth, n66atey Lumber Co. ... .. . '. ..Reedley F. G. G"ll.,'Western Lumber Co. .. ' industry.

W. Hardwiik, Dinuba Lumber Co. ...

President Prescott led discussion on American Lumber S.-p.-noss, Cbntral Lumber Co.... .Hanford ...Madera Standards, and many questions were answered on the sub- Dean Cook, Madera Sugar Pine Co. ... . .. ' " 'Tulare ject by Mr. Titus.

G. C. Burnett, Burnett Lumber Co. . .. ...

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'Chowchilla Those who took part in the discussion included, S. P. e. F. W.a.t, "Western Lumber Co. .. ' .. ...Reedle-y Western P. G. Galle, Hanford; jottntbn, Lumbir Co., ......Pinedale Ross, Central Sugar Pine Lumber Co. ...

M. b. .......Clovis Cloriis L-umber Co. .

Lumber Co., Reedley; J. C. Ferger, Swastika Lumber Co., n f. fin -fiiiroson, . . .. .Clovis Clovis Lumber Co' . .. i.' c.

Fresno; W. K. Kendriik, Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; A. 'f. ...

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Building and Loan Association To Hold STthAnnual Practically every phase of the building and loan movement is scheduled for discussion at the 37th annual convention of the United States League of Building and Loan Associations to be held in Salt Lake City, Augu st 27, B a1d, D, according to a report released yesterdly by the California Building-Loan League. This-will be'the first conference held in a western city and a heavv attendance iq expected from the Pacific Coast States. ' Hon. Reed Smoot, United States ,senator from Utah. is scheduled to give one of the principal addresses. ,.Educational Problems Facing Building and Loan" will be the subject of a talk by Professor H. Morton Bodfish, Northwestern University, while Dr. Donald Scott, Profeisor of Economics, Southern Methodist University. will discuss "The Menace of Inflation." Building-Loan leaders from the Western States will take an active part in the national conglaye. R. Holtby Myers, Los Angeles, vice-president of the United States League, will talk on 'fThree Score plus;" L. q._qtiqd, Portland, "Resources and Liabilities;" A. J. Brornfield, Denver, Colorado, "Responsibility of Appraisers;,' O. R. Dibblee, Salt Lake City, Utah, "Our Busin-eis Frontier;" W. E. Bouton, San Francisco, "Our State League Activi!ies;" A. A. Anderson, Los Angeles, "Natidnal Thrift !Vg.t,l' and Neill Davis, Los Angeles, "Advertising and Publicity."

The Educational Division of the League, known as the American Savings, Building and Loan Institute, will hold its annual m_eeting, August 26, the day preceding the league conference. In addition to addresses a demonstiation sh-ort c_ours_e in "The Appraisal of Real Estate" will be given under the direction of Dr. Horace F. Clark, Director of the Institute. John P. Kennedy, Los Angeles, will open the discussion 9J the topic, "Appraising the Lot in the-City of Large Size." _ Thq 1932 League convention is practically assured for L_os Ang_eles. The centennial of building and loan in the United States will be celebrated in 19311t the convention to be held in Philadelphia.

DRNEST JOHNSON VTSTTS CALTFORNTA Ernest p. Johnson, sales manager of the C. D. Johnson _ Lumber'Co., Portland, Ore., left San Francisco \ttav 27. after spending three weeks on a business trip to California.

He traveled over the northern territory wiin ,q,. B. Griswold, manager of the company's San Francisco office, and visited the southern territory in cornpany with Russell T. Gheen, manager of the Los Angeles bfifice.

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PERRY DAME VISITS NORTHWEST ON WAY EAST Ferry D3rme, {egtern sales manager of the Creo-Dipt ^ Company, Inc., left San Francis.o on IIay 25 for Seattle on the fast coast steamer H. F. Alexander. Mr. Dame will sp.gld- a few days in Seattle and one day in Spokane and will then go to North Tonawanda, N. Y.; to visit the company's home office.

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June 15. 19?9

Ingersoll on Robert Burns (Robert Ingersoll's thoughts over the grave of Napoleon have been quoted innumerable times, and are admittedly among the all-time classics in the English language. And little has been said of his tribute to Robert Burns, which probably exceeds the Napoleon tribute in strength, beauty of thought and expression, and wonderful eloluence. Here

it is.)

"I visited them all, all the places made immortal by his genius, the field where love first touched his heart, the field where he ploughed up the Home of the Mouse. I saw'the cottage where Robert and Jean first lived as man and wife, and walked on 'the banks and braes of Bonnie Doon'. And

when I stood by his grave, I said: This man was a real, genuine man. This man believed in the dignity of labor, in the nobility of the useful. This man believed in human love, in making a heaven here, in judging men by their deeds instead of by creed6 and titles. This man believed in liberty of tfie soul, of thought and speech. This man believed in the sacred rights of the individual; he sympathized with the'suffering and oppressed. This man had the genius to change suffering and to l into a song' to enrich poverty, to make a peasant feel like a prince of the blood' to fill the lives of the lowly with love and light. This man

TRUE INTELLIGENCE True intelligence is a superior sort of awareness by which one is able to react fully, freely and completely to all forms

of stimuli. It irnplies the will to know and a desire to initiate any means toward that end. It is superior to all book larowledge or college education, for by original methods of research and inquiry it gives the world new knowledge. It is the worlds greatest single asset, as ignorance is its greatest liability. The world puts a big premium on gengine intelligence.

KNOCKER "So I said to her: 'Do you remember the boy that used to pull your pigtails at school?'and she said:'Oh, was that you?' and I said: 'No, that was my father."'

MODERN Girls when they went out to swim Once dressed like Mother Hubbard; But now they have a bolder whim They dress more like her cuPboard.

had the genius to make robes of glory out of squalid ragsThis man had the genius to make Cleopatras, and Sapphos' and Helens out of the freckled girls of the villages and fields he had the genius to make AuId Ayr, and Bonnie -and Doon, and Sweet Afton and the Winding Nith, murmur the name of Robert Burns forever. This man left a legacy of

glory to Scotland and the whole world; he enriched our language, and, with a generous hand, scattered the gems of thought. This man was the companion of poverty, and wept the tears of grief, yet he has caused millions to shed the happy tears of joy. His heart blossomed in a thousand songs-+ongs for all times and all seasons-suited to every experience of the heart-songs for the dawn of love-for the glance and clasp and kiss of courtship-for 'favors secret, sweet and precious'-for the glow and fame-the ecstacy and rapture of married life-songs of parting and despair-songs of hope and simple joy-songs for the vanished day-songs for birth and burial-songs for wild war's deadly blast-songs for gentle peace-songs for labor and content-songs for the spinning wheel, the sickle and the plow-songs for sunshine and for storm, for laughter and for tears-songs that will be sung as long as language lives and passion sways the heart of man."

THE DOGS STILL WAIT My grandpa notes the world's worn cogs' And says we're going to the dogsHis granddad in his house of logs Swore things werq going to the dogs.

His dad among the Flemish fogs Vowed itrings were going to the dogs.

The cave man in his queer skin togs Said things were going to the dogs.

But this is what I wish to stateThe dogs have had an awful wait.

PERHAPS LACK OF CASH REGISTERS "You want more money? Why, boy, I worked three years for eleven dollars a month right here in this establishment' and now I own it."

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Australian Forester Talks on Ancient Timber Contracts H. F. Swain, well known Australian forester, recently talked to the Australian Bush Fires Advisory Committee of Australia, and gave the following discussion of ancient timber deals, that was received with much interest, says the Disston Crucible. Said Mr. Swain: "Since the Druids practiced their mystic rites among the oak groves of Britain, and the Shinto priests of Japan practiced silviculture some thousands of years B. C. in the vicinity of their temples, and since the Brahmins appointed their Masters of the Forests, and placed them in charge of the huntsmen who cleared the land of wild beasts and of fowls which devoured the seeds, the practice of forestry has acquired a material trend, so that today it concerns itself with the unromantic factory production of wood upon a mathematically calculated scale.

"The first really practical organization recorded in history appears to be that of the King Solomon-King Hiram co-partnership on the mountains of Lebanon .in Syria, where at an elevation of over 4000 feet, among a succession of the hardest limestone crests and ridges, bristling with bare rock and crag, and divided by grassy ravines, among purple rhododendrons, geraniums, violets and buttercups, goodly cedars of Lebanon grew in scattered groves of gnarled and branchy trees, 50 to 8O feet.in height, with numerous large horizontal branches I trees which would be despised by an Australian bushman, yet trees made glorious by the scriptural facts as 'the excellent cedar,. high and lifted up, its top among the thick boughs, its long branches and its shadowing shroud.'

"The Mount Lebanon forest in the time of Solomon and Hiram rvas a timber reserve. In the year 332 B. C. King Alexander the Great made forest history by declaring it to be the first state forest, and today the Mount Lebanon state forest still survives with 100 or so cedars yet remaining, where the Maronites and the Druses now hold sway and do battle against the Frank invader.

"The Solomon-Hiram transactions were purely business transactions in timber. The only difierence between the transactions of then and of now is that the poesy of yesterday has vanished, and the hard commercial diction of 1927 takes the place of the gtaces and the loving-kindness of the business correspondence of the kings.

"Solomon, as you will remember, 'had wisdom and understanding exceeding much and largeness of heart even as the sand that is on the seashore. He spake 3000 proverbs, and his songs were a thousand fine. He spake of

trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop -'"He that springeth out of the wall.' conceived the idea of building a temple. Even temples depend upon forests for their building, and Solomon dictated a business letter, of which the following is an exact

LUMBERMAN VISITS YOSEMITE G. M. Harrington, of MacDonald_ & Harringfon, San Francisco, accompanied by his family, spent Decoration Day and the week ehd following in a trip to the Yosemite

KERCKHOFF-CUZNER YARD AT AZUSA ENLARGES OFFICES The Kerckhoft-Cuzner Lurnber Company at Azusa, California, has completed the extensive additions to the local office and is now occupying the new quarters.

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EARL MORRISSN IN CALIFORNIA ON HONEYMOON TRIP Earl R. Morrisoh, of the Ebstern & Western Lumber Company, Portland, Ore., who was married in Portland, June 1, is making an automobile tour of,'California with his b.ride which will take them as far south as Tijuana, Me:o

modern rendering: "'Dear Sir: As you are doubtless aware, my late lamented father, David, had in mind the erection of a temple, but, owing to the long continuance of war, the proposal had to

be indefinitely deferred. It is my intention to proceed with this undertaking forthwith. In connection therewith I should be glad if you would be good enough to undertake the supply of material, for which your firm has a welldeserved reputation. I am prepared to finance the proposition throughout. Yours faithfully, .SOLOMON.,

"The reply of King Hiram in the cause was equally businesslike:

" 'Dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of recent date, and beg to advise you that I am prepared to undertake the contrac! for the supply of cedar and fir from Mount Lebanoh r€serve, delivered c.i.f. and e. Joppa. My terms are cost, plus a percentage. The basic wage to be paid my employees, consisting of measures of beaten wheat and baths of oil and wine, as set out hereunder. Yours faith-

fullY'

,IJIRAM., "For his purposes Solomon rounded up all the strangers in fsrael, 3000 of them, and put them on shifts, one month at Lebanon and one at home. In addition, Hiram had 7O; 00O carriers and 80,000 hewers under 300O gangers appointed by Solomon. In the highfaluting and most alluring phraseology of the day Hiram then declared: 'With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the top of the mountains to the heights of Lebanon, and I will cut down the cedar trees thereof and the fir trees thereof.'

"The first materials were assembled after four years' work, the foundations were laid, and the building was completed in seven years. It measured about 90 feet by .3O feet, and was 45 feet high; and were the measures of beaten wheat and baths of oil and wine transposed into the arbitration court basic wage of the day, the cost to the country of King Solomon's Temple u'as well over 250,000,000 pounds. After the temple was completed he built a house for himself, which took 13 years to complete, and he then paid Hiram a bonus on the job, consisting of 20 cities in Galilee."

CHUCK GRIFFEN ATTENDS ROTARY CONVENTIOT{ C. H. (Chuck) Griffen, Jr., of the Homer T. Ilayward Lumber Co., Santa Cruz, has just returned from a trip to Dallas, Tex., where he attended the International Rotary Club Convention.

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"TRANSFORMATION-From an Old House to a New Home," visualizes the possibilities for re-creating typical old homes. Eight old houses, each representing a style popular thirty-five. or more years ago, have been re-designed into the modern mode. Several variations of treatment are presented for each house, providing the home owner who finds himself possessor of one of the types selected, a wide range of modernizing suggestions for his home. ' An effort was made by the publishers to select as samples only homes which fairly represent a definite class of old structure. It is believed that some one of the twentv-seven modern adaptions will fit most any old dwelling.

Few pr_ospective home modernizers have:a clear idea of the wide range of t'ernodeling possibiliti€S in the old house of good fundamentdl proportions and solid frame. The new booklet demonstrates the possibility of developing true arcliitectural types from commonpla"e hour"r, ai c&ts much

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Few transformations illustrated involve any change in the frame of the old buildings; confining revisions to small details, removal of unsightly ornaments, and small additions, here and there. Outstanding details, such as entrances, porches, windows and chimneys are frequently enlarged for convenience as well as altered for beauty.

An actual old dilapidated house, an architect's sketch of possible modernization, the work being carried on, and the, finished product, are photographically featured on the first page of the booklet as an gxample of the steps of modernizing and an illustration of how exactly the renovated home' can be made, through careful attention to details, to coincide with the architect's vision. i Copies of "TRANSFORMATION:From an Old House, to a New Home," will be.Manufacturer!' sent free to interested persons by1 the Nationbl Lumber Association, 7O2i Transportatien Building, Washington, D. C. The bookleti. contains ndhdvertising matter whatever.

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New Weapons For Fighting Fire The Fire Demon, which takes a toll of more than a million dollars a year from California's forests and fields, now faces a defensive army equipped with new and powerful fire suppression weapons, reforts S. B. Show, chiif of the California District, U. S. Forest Service. These weapons are 6O horse-power tractors, 5 ton blade-graders, and heavy V-type drags used in the construction of fire lines and motor ways (rough fire control roads) in the national forests of the state.

The Forest Service, from years of experience in the ways of conflagration, has long known that an important factor in the prevention as well as the control of large fires, is a network of motor ways and fire lines that will permit of reaching the fire in the shortest possible time and placing it under control before it has a chance to become a big fire.

When fires are thus promptly suppressed, the saving in fire fighting expenditures alone, not to mention the saving of valuable forest resources, is often equal to the cost of the road or fire line. Lack of appropriations for such work and the high cost of man power for building fire lines and motor ways through the dense brush that clothes many foothill bnd mountain areas, has prevented general adoption of this system of fire prevention by Federal foresters.

A veritable army of meq were formerly required to do this gruelling fire line construction work, and the cost of manual labor frequently reached $500 a mile. In some regions, with extremely rough terrain and dense brush growth, 175 sweating, toiling men were able to build only

NEW BOOKLET ON LUMBER BUYING "Taking the Mystery Out of Lumber Buying" is the title of a booklet that explains in layman's language the meaning of American Lumber Standards, tells how lumber is graded by experts at the mills, describes the grades and sizes provided by those Standards for ordinary construction purposes, and in general simplifies lumber-buying for the great majority of people who have no technical knowledge of lumber grades and know little of the many uses for which lumber is adapted.

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one mile of cleared fire line a day. When dependence was placed upon muscle, and mattock, brush hook and shovel,

the work, in the face of an on-rushing fire, was often disastrously slow.

The idoption of machinery in the place of hand labor bids fair to revolutionize fire line construction. Powerful tractors, pulling heavy V-drags or graders, plunge with brute force through the dense brush, leaving in their wake a broad, open fire line, often constructed at the rate of a mile an hour. The overwhelming power of these firebreathing behomoths, steadily surging forward through the sturdy scrub oak and towering chaparral, is reminiscent of a giant brontosaurus of prehistoric days as he stalked irresistibly through the Cretaceous swamps.

Experiments conducted by the Forest Service in the national forests of California during the past,two years, have resulted in the construction to date of 160 miles of motor ways on the Shasta, California, Tahoe, Stanislaus, Sierra, Santa Barbara and Cleveland national forests, and 110 miles of fire lines in the Angeles and Cleveland national forests.

The average cost of the motor ways was $125 per mile, and of fire lines from 40 to 50 feet wide $50 per mile, as against a former cost by hand labor for fire line constructibn in the same regions o{ approximately $40O per mile.

The Forest Service will have 32 tractois and graders operating this season in the national forests of the state, and is planning to further extend the construction of fire lines and motor ways as rapidly as funds are made available.

W. R. RIPLEY VISITS LOS ANGELES W. R. Ripley, vice president of Wheeler, Osgood Company, Tacoma, Wash., accompanied by Mrs. Ripley, spent several-days in.los Angeles recently to attend the gradua-

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N. H. HUEY VISITS LOS ANGELES H. Huey, Aizona lumberman with headquarters in ^.N. Phoenix, attended the Shrine convention in L6s Angeles during the week of June 2. During his stay in the Sjuttr-

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

Jlune 15, 1929

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ffi-A Great Hall Done in Tudor Magnificence The Great Hall here illustrated, in the recently completed residence of Mr. Arthur Letts, Jr., at Holmby Hills, California, is a magnificent example of Tudor architecture. All woodwork is !flhite Oak of heavy detail, skilfully executed in adzed finish with elaborately hand-carved stair newels and balustrade. Four balconies look into the hall from tfie second foor and their balustrades, as well as the entire upper tier of wainscot panels are likewise done in relief carving. Architectural woodwork contract, including organ screen and special furniture, by Los Angeles Planing Mill Company. Arthur Kelly, Los Angeles, Architect; Joe Estep, Associate. I

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

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Y'lf Sash Door and Mill Workers

Millwork Institute to Hold July Meeting at Los Angeles i A. I. Toilhunter , General Chairman of :

Arrangements C ommittee.

i the July meeting of the Millwqrk Institute of California

vill be-heid at the-Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, on July

t25 and 26. The meeting was formerly scheduled to be held

at Del Monte.

Vice-President A. J. Todhunter has been appointed chairman of the committee on arrangements. Mr. Todhunter has named the following to act as chairmen of the sub-commitees: E. A. Nicholson, finance committee; A. W. Koehl,

i The general meeting will be held on Friday, luly 26. .The

banquet and entertainment committee; H. J. Nunelly, reception and registration committee.

Full details of the business program will be announced later.

H. W. COLE ON EASTERN TRIP

,ORANGE BELT CLUB MEETS The Orange Belt l;umbermen's Club held their monthly meeting at the Women's Club, Rialto, on June 11. President lfarvey Hall presided over the business session.

'board oJ directors will meet in an all-day session on Thurs'day, July 25. Saturday, July 27, is being held open for re.laxation.

: H. W. Cole, vice-president and general manager of the on

Little River Redwood Company, Crannell, is in the East a business trip.

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June 15, 1929

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Plans for this attractive home can be furnished by thc Lumberments Service Association Fay Building Loc Angelec.

THE CALIFORNIA LI.IMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

William J. Bettingen ; William J. Bettingen, lumberman and financier, died at Mr. Bettingen was the founder of the William J. Bettingen Lumber Co. of Pasadena. He was president of the Imperial Lumber Yards of Winnipeg, Man., and was interested in some of the largest timber holdings in Canada. Since coming to Pasadena from Winnipeg fourteen years ago, he took an active part in the busi. ness, civic and social life of Pasadena. The organizatiom ol the Pasadena Athletic and Country Club was largely due to activities of Mr. Bettingen and he served as its first Pasadena on May D.

president.

Nearly all his life, he was interested in the banking busi: ness. He was a director of the Citizens Savings Bank, vice president of the Lincoln Building and Loan Association of California and a director of the Pacific States Bond and Mortgage Company. Mr. Bettingen was affiliated with the Masonic order, being a thirty-second degree Mason and Knight Templar, the Midwick Country Club, Los Angeles Athletic Club, Los Angeles Country Club and the Bohemian Club of San Francisco.

Although having spent most qf his time in Canada, Mr. Bettingen was a native of Minnesota, having been born at Faribault, 6l years ago. He is survived by his widow and three children, Mrs. Myron Etienne, Mrs. L,. E. Harbach of Los Angeles" and William J. Bettingen of Pasadena.

v. A. DTMMTCK BACK IROM SAN FRANCTSCO V. A, "Vic" Dimmick, California representative for the Evans Auto Loading Company at Los Angeles, has returned from a ten-day business trip to San Francisco.

lete Cost of

theP,Uylnfi"(tut o 4t/ut '-iNunftt That is why you'll find plastering contractors willing to pay you a premium for Truecon l-A and 2-A Metal [,aths.

They know that the rigid ribs of Truscon "A" Laths prevent sagging-that the patented Truscon '.'A" Lath keys clinch the plaster and minimize droppings-and that these features enable their workmen to cover a given area in less

time and at lower cost than on any other type of lath. And so they buy "A" Laths I Samples anil Prices

On Requesl

TRUSCON STEEL COMPANY 5{30 Eert Slauron Avc, P. O. Bo: 1206 . Arcedc Station

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Redwood Urn

Shipped to India ,

The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, recently f

received an order for a Redwood Flower Urn to be shipped

to Poona, India, and asking quotations for a quantity of these. This inquiry came from an ad-in the Florists' Review, a further proof of the old slogan, "it pays to advertise." An idea of the distance from San Francisco may be gained from the fact that transportation charges on this single urn costing $1.42 amounted to $4.68.

Sugar Pine Lumber Co. Opens Los Angeles Office The Sugar Pine Lumber Co. have opened a Los Angeles office in the Petroleum Securities Building. Chas. Kendall will act as manager of their Los Angeles office. The Sugar Pine Lumber Co., manufacturers of white and sugar pine, operate.mills at Pinedale and Merced Falls, Calif.

A. C. Horner Visits Los Angeles A. C. Ilorner, in charge of Pacific Coast field activities of the National Lumber Mairufacturers' Association, returned to his San Francisco headquarters June 8 from a week'S visit to Los Angeles, where he inaugurated a survey to obtain information Jrom individual retailers in California as to their desire to stock and. merchandise grade-marked and trade-marked lumber, and to bring to their attention the advantages of doing so. This is in line with the campaign already started by the National in Illinois, Ohio and New Jersey.

Each dealer will be offered the use of one or all of six mats advertising his company as headquarters for grademarked and tree mark lumber, and the association's publicity department will, if desired, place a good story in the local newspaper at the time the dbaler runs his advertise-

ment.

Tree Products to be Featured in Newspaper Strips Fact stories about American trees, told in pictures and text, will be featured in newspapers for at least one year, commencing next September. James W. Brooks, who is at the head of the Educational Features "strip" syndicate, located in Washington, that is now featuring "American History by Motor," which appears on automobile pages in many newspapers, is planning the "American Tree and Its IJses" strip, to follow the one on motor trails. Calvin A. Fader, artist for the Educational Features syndicate, whose illustrations of historic places to be reach.a ty highways, have attracted much favorable attention, will make the sketches for the new series.

Fifty-two "commercial" trees have been selected to be featured in the Brooks syndicate service-one tree each week for one year. Each strip will contain five panels in which will be told how each tree serves mankind.

The pictures of trees, their leaves, bark, etc., are being furnished by the U. S. Forest Service, together with information concerning growing trees. Facts concerning ,the product of trees-lumber and the many objects manufactured therefrom-are being compiled by the technical men of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association.

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June 15, 1929

New Building and Loan Ass'ns Granted Charters

The Passing

ofa Pioneer

Two new building and loan associations have just been granted charters by Commissioner Geo. S. Walker, according to a report released yesterday by the California Building-Loan League. This brings the number of new associations licensed since the first of the year to 13 and the number now operating in the state to 231.

The associations just licensed are: Independent BuildingLoan Association, San Jose, Geo. B. Campbell, secretary, with a paid in capital of $100,000, and the Compton Building and Loan Association, Compton, Rex A. Dunn, secretary, with a paid in capital of $30,000.

Axel H. Oxholm Visitin€, Western States Colonel D. E. Kline

Colonel D. E. Kline, President of the Louisville Veneer Mills, died May 15,I9D. Daniel E. Kline.was born seventy-nine years ago in Cincinnati, Ohio, and received his education in the schools of that city. When a young man he entered the firm of E. D. Albro & Co., of Cincinnati, makers of veneers and panels, remaining as secretary of this company until the fall of 1889, when he came to Louisville, Ky., and founded the Louisville Veneer Mills Company. The site he selected was located on the banks of the Ohio, on what was, and is known as the Point. He changed the name of the firm a few years later to the Louisville Veneer Mills, but the location of the plant remained the same.

Colonel D. E. Kline not only made a success of the veneer and plywood business, but was an outstanding character in the entire industry, having been instrumental in founding the National Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' Association, and serving as one of the directors vntil I9I7, when he was elected president, and served in that capacity for two years, during which time he was successful in having lumber and wood products reclassified, benefiting all manufacturers and shippers by the saving effected in freight rates. He was one of the founders of the Louisville Hardwood Club, and served as its president for several terms. He was also an active member of the Louisville Board of Trade and the Pendennis Club.

In all association work he has been followed by his son, Harry B. (line, Vice-President of the Louisville Veneer Mills, who while serving as president of the National Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' Association, effected the merger between that body and the National Hardwood Lumber Association, and is now a director of this association.

Mr. Kline, or "Dad' Kline as he was known to the oldtimers, was a pioneer in his chosen business, a man respect: ed and loved by all who knew him, or came in contact with him, and his passing removes one of the pillars of the industry.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ftorence E. Kline; a daughter, Mrs. Carl Peirce of Pittsburgh, Pa.; his son, Harry E. Kline, and three grandchildren.

ROB CALDWELL BACK FROM FISHING TRIP R. E. Caldwell, assistant sales manager of the Little River Redwood Company, San Francisco, returned to his desk June 10, from a very enjoyable fishing trip in the Covelo district, in the northeastern part of Mendocino county.

On June 1 Axel H. Oxholm, director of the "National Committee on Wood Utilization of the Department of Commerce, will begin a five weeks' trip in western states for the purpose of contacting members and organizations interested in the work of the committee.

One of the main objects of Mr. Oxholm's trip is to visit as many as possible of the 79 district and co-operative offices of the Department of Commerce, to acquaint them in detail with the activities of the committee. These offices constitute the main channel through which the work of the committee is taken to the public.

"Perhaps the greatest service rendered by the Department of Commerce to the committee is in the distribution by its branch offices of the publications and information which the committee issues from time to time, and in the contacting of local industries through these offices," said Mr. Oxholm. "Were the committee dependent for the distribution of its material upon its Washington headquarters alone, it would not have been possible for it to dispose of over half a million publications in less than two years.'l Mr. Oxholm will also spend some time at the sawmill at Olympia, Washington, where, at the instigation of the committee, a complete line of Scandinavian gang saws are now under test.

Hoo Hoo Club No.39 Past Presidents Charles Lamb and Clem Fraser of the East Bay Hoo Hoo Club and Past President Rod Hendrickson of the San Francisco club lvere special guests at the regular dinner meeting of Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Athens Club, Oakland, June 10.

Short talks were given by Charles Lamb and Clem Fraser, and Rod Hendrickson told a couple of snappy stories.

A. C. Horner, head of the \Aiestern Division of the Na-

tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association, gave an interesting talk on what his organization is doing to further the

use of lumber.

Ray Cox, Clem Fraser and C. I. Gilbert were appointed

as a committee to draw up a telegram to Governor Young, urging him to sign Bills Nos. 786, 787, 789, 79O and 791, all of which have to do with building laws, loans, etc.

George Troth, Boulevard Mill & Lumber Co., furnished

some entertainment in the person of Milton Franklyn, lead-

er of the Grand Lake Theater orchestra, who g'ave some

excellent banjo numbers.

R. A. Hiscox presided in the absence of President H. S.

Morton.

THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

49

Changes in Commercial C. A. Mauk Appoints Standards Monthly Committee Chairmen For the past four years "The Commercial Standards Monthly", has been the medium through which the Division of Simplified Practice, of the Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce, has kept American industry advised of the progress being made in the elimination of waste through simplification and standardization.

This mimeographed bulletin summarizes the projects under consideration by industry in cooperation with the Bureau of Standards; meetings held, and wherever possible, the work being done by individual concerns and non-governmental groups in the movement to eliminate waste in in-

dustry.

According to an announcement of Mr. Ray M. Iludson, Assistant Director of the Bureau of Standards, in charge of the Commercial Standardization Group, the monthly bulletin, starting with the J,uly 15th, 1929 issue, will hereafter appear as a standard size printed magazine and will be on a subscription basis. The yearly subscription price will be one dollir ($1.00), payable in advance to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. In his announcement of this change I\{r. Hudson stated that Mr. S. F. Tillman, associated with the Division of Simplified Practice for several years has been appointed as the Editor of The Commercial Standards Monthlv. Prior to becoming connected with the Bureau of Standirds, Mr. Tillman uras on the Press information staff of the U. S. Veterans Bureau.

In 1925 he was a member of the news stafi of the Army and Navy Journal, leaving to organize the Army and Navy News Service. In addition to working on Washington and Texas newspapers, Mr. Tillman was one-time managing editor of the Army and Navy Magazine.

Peter G. Geib

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JOIJN C. LIGHT ATTENDS SHRINER

Bureau of Information (Credit Department)-M. J. E. Hoban, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Cost Committee-W. B. Eaton, New York City; Arbitration Cornmittee-C. F. Kreamer, Philadelphia, Pa.; Railroad and Transportation Committee G. Garrettson, Springfield, Mass.; Legislation Commit-E. tee-E. H. Stoner, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Trade Extension Committee-Dwight Hinckley, Cincinnati, Ohio; Joint Committee Manufacturers-Wholesalers-M. G. Truman, Chicagq Ill.; Membership Committee-Charles N. Perrin, General Chairman; Audit Committee-A. C. Crombie, New York City.

All .these chairmen have accepted the appointment and are planning their respective activities.

The balance of the committee personnel is now being appointed and the complete list of committees will be published shortly.

C. M. FREELAND ON NORTHWEST TRIP C. M. "Friday" Freeland, representative for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Co. in the l.os Angeles district, is on his annual tour of the Northwest where he will visit the company's Portland office and mills at St. Helens, Oregon, and Port Ludlow and Port Gamble, Wash. He will return to Los Angeles around July l.

W. G. KAHMAN ATTENDS SHRINE CONVENTION W. G. Kahman, San Francisco, western sales manager for' the McCloud River Lumber Co., attended the Shrine convention at Los Angeles during the week ol Jane 2. While in the Southland he was a visitor at the company's Los Angeles office, where he conferred with L. S. Turnbull, GUY MALE IN THE EAST GoI M_a19, _of the Male-Knudson Lumber Company, Los ^ Angeles, leftJune 11 for a five weeks'auto trip throueh the East. He will visit his old home at Ellis, Kansas an? also

stop at Chicago and New York.

coNvENTroN

{ John C. Light, Norman-Light Lumber Co., Miami, Ari-

zona, was a Los Angeles visitor during the week of lane 2 to attend the Shriners' convention. He also attended the Rotary convention at Dallas and made the trip to Los Angeles direct from Texas. Mr. Light reports that business conditions in his section are satisfactory.

J. R.

bers chairmen of the regular standing committees:

Southern California and Arizona representative.

Peter G. Geib who has been connected with the Geib Lumber Companies in Southern California for the past three years, died at Carlsbad, Cal., May 30.

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President C. A. Mauk of the National-American Whole-

sale Lumber Association has appointed the following mem-

BILL CHANTLAND RETURNS TO WORK Bill Chantland, rpspresentative for the Chas. R. McCor-

mick Lumber Co., has been convalescing nicely at his home in Los Angeles following a recent opeiation at the Naval Hospitaf San Diego. IIe plans to ieport for duty again on July 1.

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THE CALIFORNIA LUMBER MERCHANT

June 15, 1929

(The Cleating Hourc)

This Column of "'Wants" and 3'Don't Wants" is fon The Fellow Who Wants to Buy The Fellow Who Wantg to Sell The Fellow Who'Wants to Hire The Fellow Who Wants to Be Hired FOR SALE RETAIL YARD AND COMPLETE BUILDING Material Store, including location, fine opportunity, Southern California. From fiftv to seventv-five thousand to handle. Address Box C-264. California Lumber Merchant.

RETAIL LUMBER YARD FOR SALE Small yard near Los Angeles. $12,000 r,r,ill buy buildings, trucks and stock. Fine location. Doing nice volume of business. Particulars furnished on request. Box C-267, California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED-POSITION IN GOOD RETAIL LUMBER YARD

8 years' experience as Yard Managcr-Good Collector

and Bookkeeper. Aged 35 years; married. A-1 references.

Wire if open now. J. A. Browning, Okemah, Oklahoma.

LUMBER OFFICE MAN WANTS POSITION Eight years' experience, wholesale and retail, in Southern California. Knows the trade requirements in both softwoods and hardwoods. Experienced in estimating, looking after orders, shipping, supervising stock records, and general office work. Has a knowledge of bookkeeping. Address Box C-265, care California Lumber Merchint.

State Forester Names Preservative Treatment Forest Fire Inspectors of Wood Proves Efficient M. B. Pratt, state forester for California, annognces that California goes into the forest fire season with "the strongest fire guard ever mobilized under State command !" Mr. Pratt ailso has made public a list of ninety-two inspectors, rangers, lookouts and patrolmen, who will guard the tirnber resources of the state against fire during the coming season. The list of inspectors, tog'ether with their territory and headquarters, are as follows: E. E. Roach, Ukiah, Humboldt, Lake and Mendocino counties; C. C. Strickland, Mount Shasta, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties; A. E. Frost, Oroville, Butte, Lassen, Nevada, Placer and Yuba counties; E. P. Biggs, Placerville, "\mador, Calaveras, El Dorado and Tuolumne counties; E. T. Barron, Sacramento, Alameda, Colusa, Contra Costa, Monterey, Napa, Solano, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus, Fresno, Madera and Tulare counties; W. H. Coupe, San Dimas, Kern and Riverside counties; C. E. Fowler, inspector at large.

ORANGE BELT HOO HOO MEET Chas. C. Adams, vicegerent snark of the Orange Belt district, announces that a concatenation will be held on Satur-

day evening, June 15, in the San Bernardino mountains.

They plan to spend the night in the mountains and meals and lodging for the gathering have been arranged for. Reservations can be made through Homer Wilson, Cresmer Manufacturing Co., Riverside, and Chas. C. Adams, Chas.

C. Adams Lumber Co., San Bernardino.

'"As a result of preservative treatment Of crossties the railroads of the country are getting along with fewer ties per mile of track than in years past, despite the increased traffic," George M. Hunt recently told the research conference at the Forest Products Laboratory.

Statistics show, Mr. Hunt said, that the life of ties treated with preservetives has been so greatly extended that the number used per mile by the principal railroads decreased f.rom 235 in 1905 to 182 1n 1927. "The average life of a crosstie may be extended two to ten times its natural life," Mr. Hunt added, "depending on the kind of wood and the method of treatment." Much of the improvement in preservative treatment of wood is the result of studies made at the laboratory in recent vears.

Now that the effectiveness of pieservative treatment of ties is being realized, the laboratory intends to study the needs of other wood-consuming industries in preventing decay. Auto bodies are frequently seriously damaged by decay; window frames and sash also give trouble in this connection; household refrigerators and refrigerator cars suffer from decay, and there is a growing demand for treated lumber in various forms that may be purchased at the retail lumber yard. Each product piesents a special treating problem, which will receive the attention of the laboratory experts in future studies in the wood preservation field.

WAYNE MULLIN AT OPTIMISTS' CONVENTION Wayne Mullin of the Mullin Lumber Company, Los An-

geles, is attending the Optimists' convention at Tulsa, Ok-

ADDRESSES LOS ANGELES AXEL H. OXHOLM .LUMBERMEN

lahoma. Mr. Mullin stopped ofi at Phoenix en route to transact some business.

Axel H. Oxholm, director of the national committee on wood utilization, who has been making a survey of conditions in Southern California, addressed a group of retail lumbermen at the Jonathan Club June 11. Mr. Oxholm also talked before the building industries committee of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce on June 12.

JOHN McCABE VISITS SOUTHLAND John McCabe, Andrew F. Mahoney Lumber Co.. San Francisco, has been sojourning in Southern California.

4fter spending a few days in Los Angeles, he went to San Diego for a short visit. Mrs. McCabe and their children accompanied him on the trip.

HE one aim of the organization be. hind the long-Bell trade-mark is to put maximum construction oalae in lumber products. fn manufacture, in seasoning, in loading and shipping . . . to the last detail of production . . . the Long-Bell or' ganization knows the necessity of infinite watchcare, the better to make Long-Bell trade-marked lumber meet any construction need, builders find Long-Bell lumber dependable and economi cal-a sales point of profitable importance to retail lumber dealers.

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LONG.BELL DOORS The Long-Bell King Door-the

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