The California Lumber Merchant - October 1932

Ifeeorative Panel

The photograph shows a sand blasted, hand.tooled and decorated Redwood tree panel approximately 11 inches by 33 inches, which we are selling at wholesale at $2 each f.o.b. Los Angeles. There are two varieties of finish, one light (natural) and one dark (walnut); both, however, on Clear Redwood. The retail price runs from f1.50 to f4 each. There is a fair demand for them for Christmas or other gifts, bridge prizes, and for cupboard doors. Show the photograph to your wife and ask her opinion.

Ilamrnond ._Lumber Compans

"Prices can 9o up as quickly as

Vith an unprecedented shortage of lumber stocks in the hands of retailers, wholesalers and mills;

With lumber prices proportionally lower than other building materials;

went down"

B. C. Forbes

With a large building demand waiting only for a change from psychological panic; PAUL BUNYAN remarked, "Vhen the green river driver jumped for the lloating log he was just a half a second too late. "Ve 6shed him out with a pikepole but there was not much salvage.t'

What do you thinh lumber will do?

We do not prophesy but we do believe that unless every economic and commercial precedent is thrown in the discard, it will not take much of a building demand to start lumber prices upward. Every such advance will increase your inventory value just as every cut has reduced the black figures in your statement.

You can buy conservatively and fill up your lines by taking advantage of the exceptional service furnished by RED RIVER MIXED CARS

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" Everything lor yard and factory in Calitornia Pines" "Small quantities at carload prices. One loading. One handling"

Ouer 6000 Times uroand lhis lfouse

IHE sisal reenforcing in a single square yard of Sisalkraft is 2BOB feet long. In the paper used on this typical houseo there is enough sisal fibre to circlethe building over 6000 times. Becauee of

its ample reenforcingr lou can safely recottttt end

Sorne of the uses for this. r e enfor ced. w a.terpr oof building papert

0ver eheathing

Under finieh@d roofing

Ilnder floors

Concrete curing and protection

Lining garages

Over sttic floors

Between etuds or rafters for insulation

TIIE SISALKRAFT CO., 2OS W. Wacker Drive (Canal Station) CIIICAGO, ILLINOIS

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*Advertisements appear in alternate issue.

Arsociated Lumber Mutuals ------------------------ ---19

Brbwn Co., Geo. C. ---------------lt

Browning Lumber Co., FI. A. -------------,----------23

California Panel & Veneer Co. -- -----,-----I.B.C. California Redwood Association, The ---------*

California Wholesale Lumber Association ,* CelotexCompany,The ------------------------11

Chamberlin & Co., W. R. --i

Cooper Lumber Co., W. E. -----,--------,-----------25

Dallas Machine & Locomotive Vorks -.------ 13

El Rey Products Company

Flintkote Company of California, The -----,15

Koehl & Sons, Inc., Jno. V.

Laughlin, C. J. - -------,-, -- ----23

Lawrence-Philips Lumber Co. ------ -- ------.2t

Long-Bell Lumber Sales Corporation -----,-----* Lumbermen's Service Association -------------- -29

Matheny Sash & Door Co. !--,--------,McCormick Lumber Co., Chas. R. ------------, - 5

J. E" MARTIN

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M. ADAMS Clmrhdo l|urr

A- C. MERRYMAN eavlrttdry llulr

W. T. BLACK ttrn Frudrco Corvotr Ncthm Crlll. erd Plclic Natf,rr.t

THE CALIFOR}-IIA LUMBERMERCHANT J*kDiorrne,

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lrcorpontcd uadar tLc br: of Calllmle

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How Lumber Looks

A total of. 322 mills repoming to the West. Coast Lumberments Association for the wee& ended October I operated at 23.6 pet cent of capacity, as compared to 23.1 pet cent of capacity for the previous week and 31.4 per cent for the same week last year. During the week 2O5 of. these plants were reported as down and ll7 as operating.

217 rtlls for the week ended October 1 produced 5917151156 feet or 25 pet cent of their weekly apadty. Cument new business of these millo was 25.1 per cent over production and 31.4 'per cent of thcir weekly capacity. The previous weck production of these mills equalled 23.8 pet cent and sales 37 lter cent of their weekly capacity. Shipments for the week wer.e 35.4 Per cent ovet production.

Unfilled orders decreased 7r0?,f,,ro00 feet from the previous week. New export business received during the'week increased 4rtOTrOOO feet. New domestic cargo orders wete 916751000 feet under, and new rail businees decreased 5981000 feet, while the local trade increased 2rrltril(/J feet, as compared with the previous weekts business.

These 2l7 mills reported the following for the week: Production, 5917351156 feet; Shipments, 8Q915r831 feet; Orders, 74'725,715 feet.

Details of orders and shipments as reported by these mills follow: Orders-Rail, 2211131693 feet; Domestic Catgo, 25r660129l feet; Export, 18,469,5r, feet; Local, 8A9lrl59 feet. Shipments-Rail, 22,792,457 feet; Domestic C*go, t8r454957 feet; Export,llrl77r25E feet; Local, 8r49lrl59 f*t.

Inventories, as reported by 144 mills, decreasd 1614771000 feet from the week ending Septembet 24, and are 25.8 per cent less than at this time last /ear. * *

Unsold stoc&s on the public docks at San Pedro contintre low, and on October 12 totaled 2r060r(X)0 feet. Cargo arrivals at San Pedro for the week ended October 8 amounted to 9,12E,00O feet, including t2 cargoes of Fir totaling 7rr58,OOO feet and 4 cacgoes of Redwood with 1,770,fi[ feet. On October 8, 53 lumber vessels were operating in the California servicel 55 vessels were laid up.

Lumbet receipts at San Pedro showed a gain for the month of Septernber aggregating 27196010/110 feet, as compared with 26rt57r000 feet in the same month last year, and 27r473rtl0/J feet in August, 1932.

Srl Fnncirco OGco

zDl Santa Mriu Bldr. fu Mrrlct Strrrt Tdcoho. D(hrtilr. at Southcrn OEco 2nd Nadoal Brlt Bldt. Hqrcton, Tena

Fir mill prices are firm and the mills report heavy order files. Shinglee and all items of Fir clears are Ecarce due to a shortage in both clear Fir and Cedar logs. Recent forest fires in the Columbia River district have caused a serious log shortage in that territory. tt rY* market is strong.

New business booked at the lumber mills dudng the week ended Octobet t, 1932, was not so large as dudng any of the fotrr preceding weeks, falling 7 per'cent below the average of those weeks, according to rq)orts to t{re National Lumber Manufacturers Association from regional associetions covering the operations of 615 leading softwood and hardwood millc. These orde$ for the week ended October I totaled l69rit65r000 feet and were 44 pet cent above producion, compared with corresponding percentage for the previous week of 54 per cent; with 63 per cent for the week ended Sqltember 17, and 26 per cent for dre 39 weeks of the year to dater fdentical mill reports indicate for t{re week only one per cent decline in orders received as compared with the coresponding week bf 1931 and 26 per cent decline in production.

Production during the week ended Octobet I was llTrTUr000 feet. This was 24 pet cent of capacity as compared with 23 per cent t{re previous week. New business wx 74.5 per cent of capacity, compared with 35 per cent the week before.

Unfilled orderc on October 1, as tepo,rted by both the Southern Pine and the Vestern Pine Association, for the first time tlris year, wete heavier *T "l the corresponding day Last yat.

The Southern Pine Association for t{re week ended Octobet 1 reported new business ftom 107 mills as 34r788r0fl0 feet, shipments'341404,000 feet, and production 21159,@O feet. Ordes were 60 per cent above production and I per cent above shipments. Shipments were 58 per cent above producion.

The Vestern Pine Association rqrorted new business for the week from 98 mills as 37'858'fi)O feet, shipments 39'804r(XX) feet, and production 2Er085r(XX) feet. Orders werc 35 pu cent above production and 5 per cent below shipments. Shipments were 42 pet cent above production.

1E6 hardwood mills reporting fot the same week give new business as 19r187r(X)0 feet, ot 160 per cent above production, and shipments 16'482'000 feet, on 124 per cent above production. Production was 71367$OO fet.

Subrcriptioa Pricq f2Jll pcr Ycrr Singlc Copicrr 25 ccatr cech. LOS ONGET.F-q, CAL.,

Simpkin Memorial Tree to be Scene of Annual Hoo Hoo Pilgrimage

Inaugurating an annual pilgrimage to the Parson Simpkin Memorial Tree in Calaveras State Park, a group of Hoo Hoo with members of their families and friends made the trip to the Calaveras Grove on Sunday, October 9.

At this first annual gathering Chas. G. Bird of Stockton, who was executive chairman of the Parson Simpkin Memorial Committee, made the suggestion that a date be set for an annual pilgrimage by members of Hoo Hoo and their families to-the memorial tree. This suggestion was heartily agreed to, and it was proposed that notices be sent to all members when the time is approaching for the annual gathering.

The'proceedings at the base of the giant Redrvood were informal.

Frank W. Trower read some interesting excerpts from letters received by him in forrirer years from his old friend. the Parson.

Bert Bryan read a poem entitled "Hail Sequoia."

Miss Betty B. Trower read Douglas Malloch's poettt, "The Parson."

Those who attended included the following: Chas. G. .Bird, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. Tom L. Gardner, Stockton; Mr. and Mrs. Bert E. Bryan, Oakland; Frank W. Trorver, Oakland; Miss Betty B. Trower, Oakland; Miss Esther Hengel, Oakland; Chas. D. LeMaster, Miss Maybelle LeMaster, and Barbara Jane LeMaster, Sacramento; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bird, Sacramento; Mr. and Mrs. Lester H. Elliott, Lodi; Mrs. Robt. S. Fuller, Lodi, and Mrs. L. B. Hines, Lodi.

Names Directors of Portland

Home- Loan Bank

Directors for the Regional Home Loan Bank of the Eleventh District at Portland, Ore., were named by the Home Loan Bank Board, October 1.

The district comprises Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, IJtah, Wyoming and Alaska, and has a minimum capital of $6,000,000.

J. Phillip Weyerhaeuser, presiden-t of Potlach Forests, Inc., of Lewistown, Idaho, and L.H. Hoffman, general contractor and president of L. H. Hoffman, Inc., of Portland, Ore., were named directors representing the public interest.

VISIT THE WHITE SPOT

Earl E. White, well known retail lumberman, and former director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Assoiiation, has given up the lumber business and is operating the White Spot Restaurant, 331 University Avenue, Palo Alto, where he will be glad to see any of his old friends who happen to pass that way.

It's the SEASONING of the Cedar that gives TRBE LIFE SHINGLES this

remarkable endurance

There is pro6t to you and sales-building satisfaction to your customers in TREE LIFE Red Cedar Shingles. These are a St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company product handled exclusivbly in California by McCormick Lumber Company.

Test TREE LIFE Red Cedar Shingles in this dramatic way: Bend any average shingle until it splits. Then bend a TREE LIFE shingle. Note how it reaches a greater curve, how its strength resists splitting. TREE LIFE Shingles are heavier than ordinary shingles and the natural durability of 'Western Red Cedar is kept in them by controlled processes.

Vrgabond Editorials

By Jack Dionne

Panic talk is gone, and depression talk has dwindled wonderfully of late. We don't even let people THINK depression around us if we can help it. Two men stood side by side in the street car hanging onto straps, going home. Not a word was spoken between them. But suddenly one of them heaved a deep and audible sigh. The other whirled and glared at him. "Are YOU telling ME?" he demanded.

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In the city where thousands of families are unemployed and depending on the charity of the city for their every ounce of food, the baseball games are well attended; the football games are watched by a howling mob sitting in high priced seats; these terrible fake "rassling" matches pack in the sweating crowds; thousands of dollars a week, in units of a nickel each, go into these new-fangled marble shooting tables; a recent circus drew the biggest crowds in history; etc., etc., etc. Tell me, friends, just what does "depression" mean?

Four letters for the ,"-0", lrr"r"fr.r,t this fall. Four letters each in Home, Barn, Shed, Crib, and Silo. Four letters in Work-that will build them. Four letters. well written, may create a desire for them. Four letters in Sell, to get the order for them.

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The farmer with cotton to sell, And wheat. corn and chickens as well, Is he buying a board?

Nay, he's getting a FordAnd the lumberman says-"Ain't it Hell?"-

The lumber industry is the business of getting trees into buildings.

Was I mad? ffr" otnl,"*na, sat me down at my radio to spend an hour listening to Ben Bernie and Ed Wynn. And what do you think? They announced that these two favorites of mine had been cancelled that night to let Mr. Hoover's speech have the monopoly of the air. I'll bet that lost him rnore votes than the depression. He could sue me for the things I called him.

If I were running Mr. Hoover's campaign, instead of depriving millions of music and laughter loving people of the fun of hearing Ben Bernie and Ed V/ynn, I'd cut out the political speech entirely and hire Ben Bernie and Ed Wynn to give him honorable mention. But then, if politicians had brains-they wouldn't be politicians, would they? They'd be in some useful line of business.

I picked up a little magazine the other day, the house organ of a lumber concern, and found page after page from the columns of this paper. Vagabond Editorials, Fun, Facts and Filosophy, and Favorite Stories, had all furnished fodder for this little printed sales effort. Even an original rhyme was in the lot. And never anywhere a quotation mark, or the name of this publisher. We print all this stuff without trade-mark so that people may put it to good use; but it does look like a man that admired the stuff enough to use so much of it, could have given us just one little complimentary mention somewhere, if only for reciprocity.

The Share-the-Work *.";":, that is today being put over in a great national drive, is a splendid effort at handling a vital, a momentous problem that today faces this n31ie11-"4 mighty draught for a mightier thirst" as Lewis Browne would catrl it. It aims, coordinately, scientifically, and intelligently, to check the spread of unemployment, to decrease unemployment now existing, and to arrange so that when increasing business brings additional need of men the new work will be done by the greatest possible number, rather than by working on lengthened or increased schedules. It aims to put the greatest'possible number of men to work, at no increased cost to employers, to do the same amount of work. f have been studying the plan carefully and watching it work and I am strong for it, and urge every employer to give it his careful attention. Some details of the plan will be found elsewhere in this issue.

Here's a sample of how it works. In one city it was found that most industries were working 48 hours a week. It was shown them that by cutting their weekly hours per man down to 40 and hiring enough additional men to make up the difference would require 8,50O additional men; that (Continued on Page 8)

Palco

Wrex&ll

fnternationd Champs since the Stone Age

George Bondy, Mgr. P. C. I:Iansen Lutnber Co., Nr,les, Subrnits Prize Play

By BRICK

There's a thud of toe on pigs&in and all hell breaks looee in the stands as Premium Post breaks thru to blocl Wrexall'r punt and fall on the ball. It's Palco's ball first and nine;--goal to go. fs this a ball game? Can the fans go any ctaziet?

Ve want a touchdown! We wlnt a touchdown! Of cource they want a touchdown. Vrexall'c constant victories have been everybodyts itch.

HERE'S WINNING PLAY.

They come out of the huddle. The ball io snapped to Anzac. It lools lile an ofi tackle bucl. No! It'c a lateral to Clears and he's fading bacL. Now HE,S parring!! And it's a bullet p:ula over the goal. Bark

SMITH

slips thru perfect interference and leaps high in the air for a beautiful catch. Yes a BEE-utiful catch.

The game's over. The Palco aggregation, the boys from the Redwood Errpire, showed a brand of defense and offense that the fang loved. ttAll-Americantt and *Triple-threat" tripped off the tongues of the departing throngs. Long live King Palco-don't worry, brother, he'll last.

Here's Prize Vinning Play

Vagabond Editorials

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if they cut the hours per week per man down to 30 they would require 49,000 more men. The whole scheme is to get as many additional men as possible making their daily bread, before winter sets in. It entails sacrifice on the part of both employers, and those at present employed. If a firm employs 1(X) men nprmally, it is contended that when their business decreases 25 per cent, it is far better to employ the entire one hundred men 75 per cent of normal time, than to let 25 per cent of them go to walking the streets; better for everyone concerned, and for society generally. THIS idea the Share-the-Work Movement aims to spread, coordinate, and mobilize to the end that more men may begin earning.

see, r told you! I talk; ,I",i".rl" about making newer and different things out of wood, and right away I get service. Axel Oxholm, of the National Committee on Wood Utilization, is quoted on October second as saying that the chemist instead of the sauryer must save the lumber industry, and to prove that it IS being done, he shows unbreakable glass made of wood. Not only non-breakable but, like all wood fiber, a non-conductor of heat and cold, therefore perfection for building purposes. He likewise shows pieces of finely grained wood that is elastic and bends like rubber. That's the new magic plywood, no doubt, that we talked about in these columns a month ago. Also, Mr. Oxholm tells of sugar made from wood, to be used chiefly for cattle feed.

And just the other a.; " *J,, who represents a great western lumber manufacturing concern told me with badly subdued enthusiasm that within a year they would have wood products on the market that have been developed in their laboratories, that will startle the lumber world. These new things for new uses, he said, are already out of the crucible of the chemist, and are now being planned for manufacture.

Didn't surprise me in a* ,*ra It's GOT to come. What a bunch of Mississippi sawmill men did with Masonite is only one short step in, the general direction that the wood industry is bound to take. Trouble is, the lumber industry has always been the most rut-ridden of all the basic industries, and it {nally got into a rut that is grave-like in depth. It has wasted enough money to have accomplished

many of the wonderful things that are to come, had that money been properly applied.

Financial sharps *.u: ;"; "r" may expect another major depression in twenty to twenty-five years, but that there will probably be a minor depression-something like 1921-in ten or twelve years. The lumber industry ought to immediately fire everybody connected with its organ.zation activitiest and hire a battery of chemists, engineers, and architects, working in coordination. If that was done, you wouldn't know this industry by the time that next rninor depression shows up. Of course, there are worlds of lumber manufacturers who aren't much interested because of the short life of their mills. But there are plenty who DO. At least a hundred years of life stretches ahead of the lumber industry. I believe that the next ten years will see more improvements in the industry than the last fifty developed. Necessity will continue to mother invention'

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Figures show that the totd residential, commercial, and factory contract awards for building for the first eight months of 1932 were only three hundred and twenty-six million dollars, whereas fire destroyed four hundred and fifty-two million dollars worth of such building in 1931. 'We aren't even building our fire replacements, to say nothing of new structures. Think what a pent-up need of buildings this demonstrates.

For years a gifted, ,t*r""r lto*"r1 Mrs. Adeline M. Conner, of Nevada City, California, has been sending me little original poems to publish. Not rhymes, or trash, but delightful and genuine poems. For Mrs. Conner, the wife of a lumberman, is a true poet, one who might have made her way high aloft in literature had she so airned. The other day she sent me another little poem entitled "CULLUD FUN." It had been picked with her own fingers on the typewriter. Picked in darkness. For Mrs. Conner has recently lost her eyesight. There is a mist before my eyes for this fine woman, my friend through the years, as I picture her learning the touch system on the typewriter so that she may continue to write cheerful and inspiring thoughts that help make the world a better place for the rest of us to live in.

Annual Convention California Retail Lumbermen's

Program Association

Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, Colif., November 3-4-5

Thursday, l0 A.M.-Informal program. Renerv friendships. and get the dope on business in other parts of the state.

Thursday. I:30 P.M. )-' - - I r nree

big business sessions, dis-

Fridal', 9:30 A.lU. i .ur.i., Friday, 1:45 P.nl. I g today's problems.

Thursday Noon and Evening-On your own. Many of the gang rvill congregate at the Paris Inn for dinner aroundTor8p.m.

Friday Noon-Frolic luncheon for men only. Chairman, a dark horse, now being groomed. Free liniment lvhen your sides get sore from laughing.

Friday Evening-The Banquet. Entertainment, music, fun, contests, prizes, dancing-an evening you'11 look

back upon rvith pleasure rvhether you dance or not. Saturday, 9:30 A.NI.-Directors' business session.

Saturday Afternoon-The big football g'ame, California vs. U.S.C. If you are prompt, we can help you in getting tickets.

The Ladies-Thursday, lunch and trip to movie studio. Friday noon, luncheon at a nationally famous place. Friday afternoon, bridge and prizes.

Friday evening, the Banquet.

Committees-No committee meetings allowed during the hours in r,vhich the business sessions of the convention are held.

The Exhibits-Never before such a large, interesting and instructive collection of nerv ideas. Open to the general public.

Opinions on "Cullud Fun"

"I think 'Cullud Fun' is a peach. I keep it on my desk and dive into it between jobs when f need a laugh to give me a lift. I hope you sell a million."-Percy Heath (famous writer for Paramount Publix Corporation), Hollywood, Calif.

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"Thanks for 'Cullud Fun.' The Devil Sermon is worth the rnoney."-T. C. Spencer, Spencer-Sauer Lumber Co., Houston. 'f**

"I trust you are planning to put your other stories (other than 'Cullud') in a separate volume and can assure you that I shall esteem it a privilege to register my subscription for the other book."-R. W. Emerson, National Clean Up & Paint Up Campaign Bureau, Washington, D. C.

"The g2 invested ," 'C"rr"a irr,' t, hard to beat. Enclose check for another copy."-K. M. Padgett, PadgettPool Lumber Co., Batesville, Ark. *r<*

"'Cullud Fun' is very appealing. I could hardly keep from sitting down and reading it straight through during business f1ss1s."-t!tiss Julia Ideson, Librarian, Ffouston Public Library.

"As usual you rang a bullseye."-C. W. Pinkerton, Whittier, Calif.

"I think everybody i";" ,"rnb* business should have one of these books, maybe it would drive their depression away."-O. D. Cruse, Hull, Texas. ***

"It's a great book and I have gotten lots of fun out of i1."-Vis1e1 O. Fehrenkamp, Moulton, Texas.

"Thank you for "o-ntrrlgl"; " book for your friends' enjoyrnent."-Miss Lola A. Blair, A. & M. College, College Station, Texas.

"Thanks a lot for ,n" *"* ,""n. It's a dandy and I'm glad to send several out to my friends."-flsnly Rockwell, Houston.

Mr. Jack Dionne, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

Enclosed find 92.00 for which send me a copy of "Cullud Fun."

The Share-The-\(/ork National Plan to Aid Employment and Develop Spending Power of Nation

Admittedly, the two outstanding deterrents to recovery of normal conditiohs are unemployment and decreased purchases of all commodities. These two elements are closely knit together, so that the elimination of one necessarily will wipe out the other. To the solution of this problem is directed the Share-the-Work Movement'

These are the three objectives at which it is aimecl:

1.-To-check the upward trend of unemployment, when work is reduced for seasonal or other reasons, by employing the greatest possible number of workers on a shortened working schedule, thus avoiding ADDING to unemployment.

2.-To decrease unemployrnent by a wider spreading of work now avaliable among a larger group of employes working shorter periods, rather than by employing a smaller group working longer periods.

3.-Whenever an increasing volume of business permits employing additional personnel, to do so by distributing the increased work to the greatest possible number, rather than by working longer schedules.

The movement was conceived at a conference of business leaders called by President Hoover in Washington on August 26, this year. It is being carried on nationally as one of the activities of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts, through a Coordination Committee, comprised of the leading representative men of industry in each district.

Walter C. Teagle, Nerv York, is chairman; L. C. Walker, Nerv York, vice-chairman; and the personnel of the National Committee, by districts, is as follorvs: 1, Winthrop L. Carter, Nashua, N. H. ; 2, A. P. Sloan, Nelv York; 3, Herbert J. Tily, Philadelphia; 4, John E. Galvin, Lima, O.; 5, C. A. Cannon, K'annapolis, N. C.; 6, Ben S. Read, Atlanta, Ga.;7, George A. Ranney, Chicago; B, George C. Smith, St. Louis; 9, S. W. Dittenhofer, St. Paul. Minn.: 10, Conrad Mann, Kansas City, Mo.; 11, W. S. Farish, Houston, Texas ; 12, K. R. Kingsbury, San Francisco, Cal.

The committee serves as a central agency of coordination and dissemination, to make available to all sections of the country, and to all types of industry and commerce, the experience of the most successful plans already used, and to bring about a unified and concerted attack on the problem of unemployment, by the wider distribution of the available work in all fields of business activity-factories. stores, offices, banks, light and power companies, laundries, restaurants. hotels, and all other types of service enternrises.

The actual operation of the movement is in the hands of each community, which is organized by its own business leaders through the machinery set up by the Banking and Industrial Committee of each Federal Reserve District. While the plan is of national scope, its success or failure in any particular section depends entirely upon the local organization.

The Share-the-Work Movement is NOT a money raising scheme. It is NOT an agency for finding jobs. It is NC)T a charity movement, nor is it affiliated r,vith any charitable or relief agencies. It does NOT propose to create more work through the initiation of nerv projects. Nor does it ask employers to increase the aggregate of their payrolls; nor employes with minimum salaries to share their incomes rvith others. It is not a five-day-week movement, nor a thirty-hour-week nor a six-hour-day movement.

Its purpose is to spread the available work in such a way as to give as many people as possible a sense of security and at least a purchasing power sufficient for the necessities oflife. To the worker, job-sharing means greater job securitv because it means wider-spread spending, rvhich rapidly translates itself into sales at retail, and in turn presently creates more employment. To the manufacturer, the merchant, the transportation and service indttstries, spreading the available work means contributing to this widespread spending power, with its acceleration of consumption rvhich will presently be reflected favorably in his own business.

Businesses which have maintained substantially a full force of workers on full time during the depression, or are nor,v working on Juch a schedule, assuming they are paying a fair wage or salary scale, are in-a particularly advantageous position to help in the movement. For they have work to spread; and the workers, having received full time earnings, should be better able to share their jobs with others less fortunate. By reducing the working hours, such businesses can take on new workers.

In "going along" with the movement, every business now favored with substantially full time employment will be contributing definitely to a return to normal conditions. For at a time like this every idle worker is a liability to every enterprise in the community, even the most successful ; and every employed worker is an asset to the entire community.

Perhaps the most immediately helpful feature of the Sl-rare-the-\Vork Movement is that as soon as it is actuallv

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\fest Coast Stockholders to Meet at Tacoma

Seattle, Wash., Oct. 8.-A call addressed to stockholders has been issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, Seattle, giving notification of a meeting at 1O a.m. Tuesday, October 18, at the Winthrop Hotel, Tacoma.

The principal business to come before the meeting is expected to be the report of Col. W. B. Greeley, SecretaryManager, on the membership drive and the recommendations of the Board of Trustees to the stockholders on the basis of the members obtained. The Association, by vote of the stockholders late in May was given until September I to secure 80 per cent of the industry as members, on dues reduced from 5 and 1O cents per thousand toll and 3 cents with the alternative of closing the Association if the 80 per cent was not attained. With 74 per cent of the industry signed up in August the stockholders approved another thirty-day period in .ivhich to attain the 80 per cent goal. The membership today, the Association reported. represents 76.5 per cent of the capacity or 74 per cent of capacity of the mills operating currently, with but about a dozen of the larger mills in the Douglas fir region not signed up. If the two largest of these operations joined this would bring the membership up to 80 per cent of the capacity, the Association stated.

To date the association reports a membership of 194 raills, loggers and wood-working concerns, the largest in numbers ever attained by any organization of the industry in the past, and believed to be the largest softwood group ever organized. in point of both numbers and potential production of lumber within the United States. Seventy-nine new affiliations have been accepted by the association during the period from June 1 to October 7.

A proposal by western or transcontinental lines to eastern railroads suggesting a rate of 72 cents per hundred pounds to points east of Chicago and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers which would, if accepted, involve heavy increases in minimum car loadings at West Coast mills, will be fully discussed at the meeting. H. N. Proebstel, traffic manag'er, with the traffic committee of the association, is preparing studies on recent practice in loading by West Coast mills on shipments into the eastern areas for the information of the. membership.

R. D. Brown, assistant secretary-manager, issued the call for the meeting.

Lee Prather With Pacific Lumber ? Lompany

Lee Prather of Los Angeles is now connected with The Paciflc Lumber Company as their by-products representative in the Southern California territory. Mr. Prather was formerly with the Ward Refrigerator & Mfg. Co. of Los Angeles. The company reports that they are finding a good market for their Palco Redwood Bark Fibre in Southern California and have recently made several installations in homes and for cold storage construction in the Los Angeles district.

Y(lUR ATTElITI(l]IN PtEA$E!

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Celotex now of,ers a new insulation blocL for uae in insulating milt cooling tanks that hac the vastly inportant advantage of being completely water and vaporproof. lfere, therefore, ic an addition to the Celotex line that provides the dealer with an opportunity for new and pro6table bueiness.

Read This Description of the New Block

A solid block of thoroughly dry, cpecial low-denrity Celotex, three inche* thict, ic the foundation of this inculation bloc&. The low-denrity Celotex hac opecial insulation value -it is the same material used to insulate rc meny nationally &nown refrigerator boxer and refrigerator car*.

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As further innrrance againet water and vapor penetration, an asphalt fiLn ic used to bond the Celotex bloct to itc special paper covering. Special methoda used to ceal edges and corners, recult in a f,nighed product thoroughly protected against penetration of moicture.

For complete information on the water and vaporproof insulation bloc&, write the Celotex Farm Service Buneau, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

The Share -The -\(/ork National Plan

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put into widespread operation the dividing of the rvork gives the worker a feeling of assurance of steady, if somewhat curtailed employment. Thus FEAR, that greatest destroyer of.happiness and health, is routed, and a sense of confidence and hope takes its place.

Restoring the conlidence of the wage earner tends to restore his customary mode of living and, due to lower costs, his normal consumption of commodities, a situation which is quickly reflected in a corresponding restoration of confidence in every other interdependent part of our complex economic system.

The plan of sharing work to aid employment has already been practiced by many business institutions in various cities and in widely divergent lines of industry, and with unvarying success. That the idea is practical is proven by results obtairied by some five thousand companies of all sizes who reported their experiences recently on the methods used by them.

In 3,857 cases, the rvork rvas shared by reducing the number of days in the working r,veek or period; 2,336 reduced the hours per day; 1,338 alternated shifts or individuals; 1,170 rotated days oft, and 380 introduced shorter shifts. Some of the companies found it necessary to use two or more of the above methods to meet the specific needs of individual departments.

Other methods are extended vacations or furloughs without pay; maximum and minimum rvork rveek; training and transfer. And there have been a number of special methods developed in certain cases. The New Hampshire Plan contemplates the employment ofl0 per cent additional workers, and shortening hours correspondingly, without increasing costs. inventories or output.

The following outlines of actual experiences illustrate some of the methods employed: The California Walnut Growers' Association decided to give the women in the cracking plants two weeks' work six days a lveek, and one week layoff. This would increase the number of workers 33 per cent. All men employed in the cracking plants, warehouses, and blending plants worked five days a week, eight hours a d,ay. The inspectors, branders, and clerical help were staggered on a five-day week basis. Through this system there will be employed during the season between seven and eight hundred more people than would otherwise be possible.

A manufacturer of box shooks had originally a schedule of hours based on 55 hours or 5l days of 1O hours each. The company's product went largely to export. Rather than completely disorganize the business and lay off old men, it was decided to drop the hours to 48, afterwards to 4O hours. The plant is now operating successfully on a 32-hour week or four eight-hour days. The office force and supervisors have also been reduced to a maximum 4o-hour per week basis.

A large bank on the West Coast adopted a work-sharing program, with variations necessary to maintain operating efficiency, in its several divisiond. In such mechanical departments as clearing house, mail transmission and the like, employes worked five days out of each week rotating on such schedules as were best adapted to the work. Heads of departments, junior executives and specialists, who require building up of undeistudies, take vacations without pay of one week out oI six or one month out of six or such other variations of one-sixth time off as may be most adaptable to duties.

A department of a retail store in a midwestern city had six employes working full time. A reduction was called for by shrinkage in business and only five full-time employes weqe required. Rather than lay off one employe a schedule was worked out which left three employes on full time and put three on part time.

A retail clothing store ina small Michigan city has maintained its entire'alteration department in employment by having each employe work three days a week. The schedule of the individual is so arranged that complete service can be rendered at all times

A hotel system operating houses in several large cities has been able, through sharing work, to maintain in employment over 1400 workers who would otherwise be out of work. Early in this period with the dropping off of business, the general procedure was to require the entire force to take three days off each month.

Public utilities used many of the established methods of sharing work. Among 78 public utilities reporting on methods used, 60 shared work by reducing the days worked per week, 17 reduced the number of hours in the working day, six shortened shifts, 19 alternated shifts or individuals, and 2l employed the rotation of days off as a means of sharing work. Some of the companies used more than one of the above methods.

These various and varying methofr bring out the point that any Share-the-Work plan is the application of flexibility to the working period (whether it be the working day, the week, the month or the season), and to the working organization, or particular segments of it.

How the work schedule is arranged in any particular community or any business house is unimportant-whether days are shortened, vacations without pay lengthened, or working weeks or months alternated. The point is to provide work and livelihood for an increasing number of workers.

In the regional and community operation of the Sharethe-Work Movement, the active support and participation of the executive heads of business are enlisted. The importance of the campaign, its vital purposes, invite and demand the service of.the most important and progressive men in each community.

Appointed Chairman of U. S. Public Invited to Vrit Exhibits at Timber Board Retailers' Annual

Washington, September 30.-The new Secretary of Commerce, Roy D. Chapin, will succeed his predecessor, Robert P. Lamont, as Chairman of the U.S. Timber Conservation Board. Although the Board recently issued a comprehensive series of recommendations, President Hoover took note of the fact that there remains considerable work yet to be done. The active chairmanship of this body, accordingly, was one of the first additional assignments given the new Cabinet member.

Appointed a year and a half ago to inquire into fundamental obstacles to economic balance in the forest products industry, the Timber Conservation Board in its report a month ago pointed to fundamental factors that must be adjusted before permanent economic recovery can be assured. Existing systems of taxation rvhich force liquidation of standing timber on an un-wanting market was emphasized as the most disturbing present factor. Twenty recommendations, dealing largely rvith marketing, forest management, and sound management of public forest were included in its report. The Board has since made public a recommendation of its Lumber Survey Committee calling for a further reduction of existing lumber stocks by 3% billion feet as a means of balancing supply to greatly depreciated demand.

One of the features at this year's annual convention of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association will be the comprehensive exhibits of lumber and building materials rvhich is being arranged for by the Association. The exhibits will be held on the mezzanine floor of the Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, rvhich will be the convention headquarters. The Association reports that many firms rvho made space reservations are planning exhibits of unusual interest to which the public is invited to attend. The convention will be held on November 3, 4 and 5.

It is expected that this year's meeting will attract one of the largest gatherings in the history of the organization. In extending an invitation to the general public to visit the exhibits, President Harry A. Lake, states:

"In the past we have not developed the exhibit feature of our conventions to the point that we have felt entirely satisfied. However, this year we have given more time and effort with the end in view of placing before the public, the products and service offered them by the retail lumbermen.

A no more propitious time could have been selected for this presentation. The day of transition, in the lumber business as in all fields of commerce, is at hand. Adjustments are being made, obsolete methods and equipment are being scrapped, and newer and higher quality products are being offered.

Therefore, the officers and members of the California Retail Lumbermen's Association are happy to extend to the general public an invitation to visit this splendid exhibition of the wares of the retail lumber dealer. We are proud of the modern products we offer."

Wins Football Play P'ilze

The prize offered by The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco, in their advertisement in the September 15 issue of this paper was awarded to George Bonde, manager of P. C. Hansen Lumber Co., Centerville, for the play submitted by him. The contest will be continued through this month, and entries will close November 1. Not many entries were received for the last contest, but now that the football season is on it is expected the judges will be swamped with entries.

MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jack Dionne

A$e not guaranteed-Some I have told f.or 2O years,-Some less Giving

Here's one the kids can take to school and have fun telling:

The young lady went into the drug store, climbed up on a stool at the soda fountain, and said to the soda jerker; "I want a dish of vanilla ice cream, and don't put any of

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that chocolate sauce on it, see?"

"Sorry, lady," said the soda jerker, who was something of a kidder himself ; "we're all out of chocolate sauce. How about serving you that ice cream without any crushed strawberries? 'We've got them."

Lumber Industry Leads in California Lumberman Named New Mexico on National Committee

Washington, Oct. 10.-Thirty-five per cent of all the wage-earners in the manufacturing industries of New Mexico are in the sarvmills or logging operations (lumber and timber industry) and 25 per cent of all wages paid in the state in manufacturing are to these employees, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in its survey of the lumber industry in various states. Wageearners in the industry'numbered 1,549 and received $1.430,ll7 in wages in l9D. Value of products lvas $4,198,302.

Lumber production in New Mexico was at its highest in 1927 when 73 mills reported cut of 172,517,ffi0 fieet. In 1929, 78 mills reported production of 148,287,N0 feet; in 1930, 76 mills of 142,885,000 feet. This production was entirely softwoods; 8O per cent of it in 1930 was Ponderosa pine; 13 per cent Douglas fir; the rest, white fir and spruce.

Per capita consumption of lumber in New Mexico in 1930 was 235 feet, compared with 190 feet for the country as a whole and 145 feet in Arizona. Of the 99,748,000 f.eet which the Forest Service reported as consumed that year 53 per cent was obtained within the state and the rest came from other states, practically none being imported. Aside from home consumption, more of New Mexico's lumber goes to Colorado, Texas and Missouri than to other states.

Box and crate manufacture is the principal wood-consuming industry of the state, followed by planing mill products and millwork.

A. S. Murphy, president of The Pacific Lumber Co., San Francisco, has been appointed a member of a committee of prominent men in the lumber industry to aid the government in a move to put each rvood to its rightful and most economic use, according to an announcement made recently by Secretary of Commerce Chapin. George F. Lindsay, of St. Paul, Minn., who is associated with the Weyerhaeuser interests, was named chairman of the new committee.

The secretary said that nineteen leaders in the industry, representing substantially every species of wood grown in the United States, had agreed to cooperate with the department's national committee on wood utilization in preparation of a lumber manual.

C. B. Lyons \7ins Hammond Golf Trophy

Chas. B. Lyons was the winner of the Hammond Lumber Company Golf Club trophy at the golf tournament of the company's Los Angeles salesmen held at the Fox Hills Country Club, Culver City, Saturday afternoon, September 24. Nearly eighty, which included the Hammond salesmen and their guests, took part in the tournament. Mr. Lyons will have possession of the cup until the next tournament, which will be held at an early date.

How to sell shingles to customers who sdy"Can't afford it just now"

M"ty Flintkote Dealers are doing a sub' stantial roofing business right now selling customers who say they "can't afford it". These deders have found the way to turn inaction into actionby concen' trating sales efforts on exclusive products that satisfy today's buying demand. . Value.

Let's add these two facts together: lst, There are more homes that need re' roofing today than ever beforel 2nd, Flintkote Setab Shingles ofier more value per dollar than any shingle on the market. The first fact is obvious. The sec-

ond is entirely apparent because all ex' posed ,edges of Setab Shingles are pro' tected with a heavy coating of asphalt and crushed rock that seals in the asphalt saturantthe life of the shingleand seals out the weather. For that reason Setabs give greater protection, longer life . . . yet cost no more.

Flintkote Dealers who are concentrating their selling efforts on this exclusive

product are putting Setab dollars into the cash register, and building a business free from competition. Vrite your nearest branch for full details.

HERE IS THE SETAB SELLING STORY

The New Sealed Edges

The Old exposed Edges

California Building Permits For September

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Propose Change in Freight Rate C. L. Hamilton Heads National on Lumber Shipments to East

Seattle, Wash., Sept. Z7.-Notification has been received by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association that the transcontinental railroads-those operating West of Chicago-have proposed to the railroads east of Chicago that there be established, from Chicago to the Atlantic Seaboard a rate oI 72 cents per hundred pounds on lumber from the West Coast area, under certain conditions.

The proposed rate of 72 cents would, if accepted, apply on lumber only and on loadings of not less than 60,000 pounds for cars under 42 f.eet in length and 70,000 pounds for cars 42 f.eet and over in length. The areas afiected 'w'ould be west-ern Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to all points east of Illinois and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, lvhere the present rates by rail range from 72 cents to 90 cents.

The object of the proposal by the \Mestern railroads is to establish a rate on through full car shipments which could be competitive under usual conditions with the water rate from North Pacific ports to the Atlantic seaboard. Lumber is now moved by water from points in Oregon and Washington to an east coast port and thence backhauled to as far West as Chicago. A competitive through rate by rail would, lumbermen believe, be effective in bringing back to the rvestern railroads a large amount of the tonnage nor,v going into the middle east by way of the Panama Canal. The attitude of the eastern railroads is not kno.ivn but there is every reason to believe the association stated, that these lines have.become more sympathetic tovvard their western connections over the losses in lumber freight revenue to water lines.

The West Coast Lumbermen's Association, with other groups, has been rvorking on a plan of lower through freight rates for western lumber with the transcontinental railroads during recent years. The Association's latest applications to the railroads filed August 10, 1932, asked for rates of 65 to 75 cents per hundred pounds to points east of Chicago, coupled with a minimum loading of 36,000 pounds and suggested that such weight would be fair for all lumber shipments throughout the country. A weight of 36,000 pounds was suggested because that is the minimum weight under which lumber moves in back-hauls from the Atlantic Coast.

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WITH THAT MUTUAL INTEREST

Enpert counsel to prevent f.resSpecialized policies to protect against lossSubstantial dividends to protect against cost. lil7rite any of our companies.

Trade Extension Body

Washington, September 30.-Carl L. Hamilton, Vice President and General Manager of the General Timber Service, Inc., of the various Weyerhaeuser forest industry companies, St. Paul, has accepted the chairmanship of the Trade Extension Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.

The National Lumber I\fanufacturers Association is a federation of all the great regional lumber manufacturers issociations of the United States and in addition its trade extension department includes by direct membership several hundred of the leading lumber manufacturers of the country. These concerns are actively engaged through the ttade extension department in one of the greatest trade group cooperative enterprises of the time.

Mr. Hamilton has taken an important part for the past five years in all the promotion enterprises of the National I-umber Manufacturers Association, having been during that period a member of the publicity and trade promotion committees. He is a graduate of the Forestry School of the lJniversity of Minnesota and spent a year in the tropics getting out ties and tunnel timbers for an American contractor who was building a railroad for the Costa Rican government. Subsequently he scaled logs for a year and a half in the timber country of West Virginia. Later he spent three years in the cedar pole business and then joined the White Pine Bureau at St. Paul in 1915. When the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products Cgmpany was organizecl in l9l7 Mr. TIamilton was made its secretary and general manager. This organization is now superseded by the General Timber Service, Inc.

Mr. Hamilton has a reputation in the lumber world as a resourceful and successful advertising and merchandising director. He is credited with having to a large extent formulated the long-time merchandising policies of the Weyerhaeuser Forest Products and General Timber Service. The achievement for which he is perhaps best knorvn to the lumbermen.of the United States is the conception and successful development of the idea of "4-Square" lumber products, which is described as having taken lumber out of the class of undistinguished bulk products and made it a quality, packaged line of grade-marked and trademarked goods.

ODE TO THE DRAUGHTSMEN

When wars are waged And battles gauged By balance of sheer might. Then he's the best Who stands the test As fiercest in the fight.

They crown the scamp Who proves the champ Of that destructive horde. And praise the man The most, who can Best wield his gory sword. But none of these Can cut much cheese With him who draws a plan To build a shed To lay the head Of ox, or hen, or man.

I'd not go far To sing of war Of battle's wild array. I sing the men Of rule and pen Who plan our homes today. ITZELL

When your wife finds a letter in your pocket you forgot to mail. But man ! That ain't nothing to what happenq when she finds one you forgot to burn.

" y o ur -o*,"r- i,,-rll:::"ffi,: t-n"u the undertaker to the absent citizen; "shall we cremate or bury?"

And he wired back: "Bury AND cremate, take no chances."

LOSING INTEREST

"Jerry isn't doing very well with his business, is he?"

"Naw. He keeps foolin' around with his lumber yard so much he don't half tend to his fillin' station?"

ELBERT HUBBARD SAID:

A recipe for perpetual ignorance is to be salisfied with your opinions and content with your lrrowledge.

TOLERANCE

The rnost lovable quality which any human can possess is tolerance. Tolerance is the vision that enables us to see things from another personfs point of view. It is the generosity that concedes to others the right to their own opinion and their own peculiarities. It is the bigness that enables us to let other people be happy in their own way.

A PINE CONE

(This beautiful sonnet is from a book of sonnets written and published by Mary E. Bulkley on her seventy-fifth birthday. She had never written poetry before. The book is entitled "Speaking at Seventy.")

A pine cone is a plummet which the tree

Points to the earth, wherein its strong roots lie,

A retrospect and pregnant prophecy

Of days to come, whan boughs shall brush the sky.

From the cone's'tip, uncurled the spirals twine

And widen out in ever-gracious sweep

Of long, far-reaching yet returning line

To catch the great stars in an upward leap.

So, looking back to that primeval slime

Whence faint life sprang, I trace a widening curve

rwo girrs in the i:,TT#:):: tarking things over.

"You say," said one, "that he doesn*t know how to kiss?"

"Oh, no," said the second; "I said he DIDN'T know how to kiss."

Up to that surge, whose lines in coming time

May reach to splendid planets, and not swerve

To break the lengthening line of life-to-be,

A line which gathers in eternity.

Last Call Goes Out For Lumber House

Washington, Sept. 26.--The last call for contributions to the all-lumber house at the Century of progress Exposition in Chicago was mailed today to lumber companies and associations by Walter F. Shaw, trade extension manager of the National Lumber I\{anufacturers Association.

Only 2O days remain in which to collect approximately $4,000 of the $6,000 required for the construction and exploitation of the lumber house.

The call is illustrated with a plot of the housing section of the Exposition which shows that of all the lots reserved for individual"residences, representing different materials and types of construction, only Lot No. 6-the lutnber lot -is tentatively vacant.

Owing to tire lack of funds in all association treasuries it rvas decided at the June meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in Chicago to endeavor to raise the $6,000 for the lumber house by collecting $1 or more from thousands of lumbermen throughout the country. As there are something like 40,000 lumber manufacturers, dealers and distributors, it was thought that so small a fund as $6,000 for so important a purpose could be easily raised; also that it n'ould be better to collect the funds in small contributions than to have a few manufacturers put up the entire sum.

While the majority of both individual concerns and associations have been slow to respond, there have been many remarkable efforts to put the project over. perhaps the most impressive construction is that of 100 4L mem_ bers in Washington and Oregon, who, out of their reduced wages and short time, have contributed 5 cents apiece.

T. W. Fry, a St. Louis wholesaler, not only contributed generously himself, but got 12 others to give. The Ta_ coma Lumbermen's Club, the Roofers Manufacturers Club. the Twin Cities Hoo Hoo Club and some other groups have subscribed a dollar for each member.

With two-thirds of the fund to raise and only 20 days to go, it is evident that association officials and enthusias_ tic individual lumbermen, especially manufacturers, will now have to contribute generously both of time and monev if the Chicago Fair is not to be a liability rather than an asset to the lumber industry.

Checks should be made payable to W. M. Ritter, Treas_ urer, and mailed to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, 1337 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. If the necessary amount is not raised contributions will be promptly returned.

Two Firms Join Association

C. D. Johnson Lumber Co., with California offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and R. O.,Wilson & Son, 525 Market Street, San Francisco, have recently become members of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.

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Bert Bryan Elected Member o]

Hoo Hoo Supreme Nine

B. E. Bryan

At the annual meeting of Hoo Hoo International held at Milwaukee, Wis., on September 28, 29 and 30, B' E' (Bert) Bryan, president and general manager of the Strable Hardwood Co., Oakland, Calif., was elected Arcanoper on the Supreme Nine.

He has been active in Hoo Hoo affairs in the San Francisco Bay District for many years and is'a former Vicegerent Snark of the Golden Gate District. He has also served as president of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39. During the past year, he was Hoo Hoo state counselor for California.

Mr. Bryan has been connected with the lumber business in Oakland since 1914 when he joined the Strable Hardwood Co.

Los Angeles Builders' Exchange Elects Officers

At the annual meeting of the Los Angeles Builders' Exchange, held at the Exchange office, on Tuesday, September 27, thg following directors were elected for the ensuing year: L. A. Coffey, Bly Stone Company; Matt R. Bright, Davidson Brick Company; L. F. Danforth, Registrar of Contractors; R. Clyde Johnston, Hammond Lumber Company iL. H. Dapprich, Hilgartner i\{arble Company; Jas. Miles, JaS. Miles Company; Carroll A. Low, Monolith Portland Cement Co.; C. J. Bennett, Newberry Electric Corp.; Wm. Nies, Wm. Nies Company; A. E. Carlson, Pioneer Paper Company; John C. Allen, Riverside Cement Company; G. M. Richardson, So. Calif. Edison Company; Clyde H. Potter, So. Counties Gas Company; E. B. McClure, Truscon Steel Company; J. B. Welsh, J. B. Welsh Company; Ed. Westberg, Ed. Westberg Company; Chas. L. Wigg, Wigg Const. Company; David H. Gates, E. K. Wood Lumber Company; Ludlow Shonnard, Otis Elevator Co.

L. F. Danforth was elected president of the Exchange by the new board of directors. Wm. Nies was elected first vice president, A. E. Carlson, second vice president, Ed. Westberg, treasurer, and R. Clyde Johnston, secretary. Many new members have been taken into the Exchange, and the organization plans to be very active during the coming year.

Los Angcles Building Permits for September

NOTE-september Frame Construction Permits show increase ol 4/o over average for year while valuation shows increase ol 26/o. Families housed show increase of Ll/o over average for Year.

from figures furnished by J. J. Backus, Supt. of Building, Los Angeles, California, by Los Angeles Office of the California Wholesale Lumber Association.

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Canec-Clad House Exhibited at Fairs

The buying public, builders and architects can best appreciate the qualities of a building material if they can see it with their own eyes in actual use. This is the conviction of Leo C. Monahan, sales promotion manager of Hawaiian Cane Products, Ltd., manufacturers of Canec Structural Insulation. As a result of this policy, several "CanecClad" houses have been built for exhibition purposes. These are attractive little houses showing all the various uses of Canec such as side wall sheathing, plaster base and interior finish, in the latter use showing how Canec can be tinted, painted and wall papered, and also the application of decorative plastic paint treatments.

These houses have been exhibited with great success at the State Fair in Sacramento, at the Tulare-Fresno Fair. and at the Los Angeles County Fair at Pomona.

These displays, illustrating the actual application of modern structural insulation, marked the beginning of an intensive sales promotion campaign by Hawaiian Cane Products, Ltd. Builders and architects from all parts of California have been very much impressed by the ease with which Canec Structural Insulation can be cut and worked, Canec officials state.

The great majority of visitors attending the'exhibits at the fairs were first attracted to Canec's super-smooth surface, according to Mr. Monahan. This new surface is actually part of the Canec board, according to the manufacturers, and is the result of a special process.

At the Sacramento State Fair there were over 4,000 visitors to the Canec booth. This total was more than doubled by the 'r'isitors at the Fresno-Tulare and Pomona

Cancc-Clad House Ethibit at Sacramento State Fair.

Fairs; a surprising figure which would indicate that despite the times there is a real interest in building and remodelittg.

Hawaiian Cane Prod'ucts, Ltd., have macle a policy of distributing their product through only the leading lumber dealers, Wm. L. Rawn, general sales manager of Hawaiian Cane Products, Ltd., states. Such companies in the building material field as: Hammond Lumbe-r Co.; Security Materials Co.; E. K. Wood Lumber Co.; Sierra Mill & Lumber Co., Sacramento; Sudden Lumber Company; San Jose Lumber Co.; Valley Lumber Co., Fresno; Stockton Lumber Co.; Henry Hess Co.; Homer T. Hayrvard Lumber Co.; Auburn Lumber Co.; Pasadena Lumber Co.; Sterling

Good Seats For Armistice D.y

Football Game Availablc

Desirable tickets for the St. Mary-U.C.L.A football game which is being sponsored by the American Legion of Los Angeles, can be secured from Les Cunningham, Hayward Lumber & Inv. Co., and Finance Officer of the Lumbermen's Post. His telephone number is CApitol 6191. The game will be played at the Olympic stadium, Los Angeles, on November 11. The tickets are $1.65 each and are in Tunnel 5. As. this ivill be one of the outstanding games of the year, a big turnout crowd is expected. Anyone planning to take in this event and desiring good seats should get his tickets immediately.

U. S. Forest Ranger School Opens

The seventh session of the California ranger school conducted by the U. S. Forest Service at the Feather River Station training camp on the Plumas National Forest opened October 3 with 26 student rangers lrom 12 national forests, two national parks, and the county of Los Angeles in attendance. Six weeks' intensive training in all branches of ranger work will be given by instructors from the Regional office of the Forest Service in San Francisco and the California Forest Experiment Station, Berkeley.

Lumber Co.; Blackstock Lumber Co.; Lumber Supply & Warehouse Co., are among the Canec dealers.

Officials state that there is ample indication of extraordinary interest of architects and builders in the possibilities of Canec Structural Insulation. A partial list of some of the new building operations in California in which Canec has been used follows: Vallejo Junior High School (Addition) ; State Teachers College, Arcata; Leland Stanford Junior High School, Sacramento; Culver City Kennel Club; Japanese Y.W.C.A, San Francisco; Walt Disney, Residence, Hollywood (Creator of Mickey Mouse) ; State Armory, Pomona; Robert Dollar Building (Remodel) ; Masonic Lodge, Red Bluff; All-Saints Episcopal Church (Guild Hall), San Francisco; Marshall C. Stearns, $500,000 Gold Dredger, and a number of modern residences including E. L. Cord's in Beverly Hills.

The students are members of the permanent ranger forces of the organizations represented. The State Division of Forestry was unable to spare State rangers, who are to supervise the unemployment labor camps which open this month.

Those attending the session are Otto Brown, Yosemite National Park; T. J. Williams, Sequoia National Park; K. P. Carter and C. R. Gehr, Los Angeles county. From the national forests are J. P. Kaye and J. R. Hodgson, Angeles; J. B. Stephenson, Cleveland; R. R. Bryan, Eldorado; D. Robinson, Inyo; A. G. Brenneis and P. D. Hook, Lassen; J. M. Buck, Mendocino; L. R. DeCamp and L. L. Smith, Modoc; H. W. Atcheson and W. E. Green, Mono; A. Faucett and L. A. Horton, San Bernardino; W. R. Denney, F. H. Williams and L. T. Solaro, Shasta; C. R. Buell, C. A. Gustafson, J. U. Poore, and F. M. Sweeley, Sierra; A: E. Freer. Stanislaus.

Mn Leo Monahan (on right\ Points Out Uses ol Canec to Yisitor.

41st Hoo-Hoo-Annual Convention

Benjomin-F.-Springer-Re-elected

Benjamin F. Springer, of Milwaukee, Wis., was reelected Snark of the universe, at the 41st annual meeting of HooHoo International held at Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, on September n, D, n, 1932. The lineup of the International executive board for. the coming year is as follows:

Senior Hoa'Hoe-William H. Burruss, Burruss Land & Lumber Co., Lynchburg, Va. (Reelectgd.)

Junior Hoo'Hoo-Ross C. Kuhlman, Cincinnati, Ohio, (Reelected.)

Bojum-Andrew J. Brady, Palburn, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y. (Reelected. )

Scrivenoter-William M. Wattson, T. M. Partridge Lbr. Co., Minneapolis, Minn.

Jabberwock-Arthur C. Bevan, Red Cedar Shingle Bureau, Seattle, Washington.

Custocatian-Ralph Webb, Webb Lumber Co., Winnipeg, Canada.

Arcanoper-Bert E. Bryan, Strable Hardwood Co., Oak'land, California.

Gurdon-Lynn A. Boyd, Merrick & Boyd, Pampa, Texas. Reports of Snark Springer and Secretary-Treasurer H. R. Isherwood, and the general discussion, reflected the fact that while the Order has sufiered along with other business in the general depression, it has proved its fundamental soundness and has rendered outstanding service to the industry.

It was agreed that the most vital need of the Order at this time is to substantially increase the membership, an objective which also is vital to the Lumber Industry as a whole. It was pointed out that the industry is suffering not only from the efiects of business conditions, but from its own lack of organized effort. A strong, united HooHoo would, it was agreed, furnish the nucleus for a militantly aggressive industry.

With the object of quickly boosting the membership, the convention made several important rulings, among them being:

Temporary suspension of the reinstatement penalty enabling all delinquent members to reinstate simply upon payment of one year's dues-$5.00.

Temporary suspension of the requirement that all applicants be initiated at a regular Concatenation. This ruling is to be applied at the discretion and under the supervision of the Supreme Nine.

Suspension of the reinstatement fee is designed to effect the return of many members who resigned from the Order last year upon the adoption of the Group Insurance feature and the accompanying increase in dues to $9.99.

Suspension of the initiation requirement is expected to facilitate the enrollment of many desirable lumbermen who in the past have objected to traversing the treacherous onion beds. Also, it is expected to permit a stronger and more direct solicitation of memberships byall officers, Hoo-Hoo clubs and the international offices.

Snark of the Universe

Secretary-Treasurer Isherwood "was instructed to publish The Bulletin at least quarterly and all in attendance heartrly agreed The Bulletin is the most important contact between the International Order and its members.

Snark Springer's report analyzEd the conditions and obstacles faced by the Order during the year, and emphasized the fact that its survival was due io the fundamental soundness of its purposes, ideals and policies.

"And, now," he said, "what lies before.us? To my mind there is much to be done, and it is work that only HooHoo can do. During all this period most of our clubs have been functioning. Some of them have done outstanding work in our program of promotion and education. We are about to face a great building revival. In the past decade we have had evidence of accumulative demands for buildirg. Right now, ready to break loose, is the greatest dammed-up demand which will be crying for release. What part our products will play in the next decade depends largely on the attitude and the energy of the men in our industry.

"Leadership is required in our national and state programs of conservation and reforestation. Unless the men in our industry take the lead it will be done by those who lack understanding and knowledge, to the detriment of our industry. The world must be taught that our forests must be used, that a shortage for future generations is not imminent, that only through the wise use of lumber will there be real conservation, and that conservation must be made commercially pr^ofitable to have any conservation at all."

The Snark recommended the acceptance of membership applications without initiation requirement, strict enforcement of the rule that members of Hoo-Hoo clubs also be members of the International Order, and the launching of a strong drive for members as a necessary preliminary to the carrying out of a strong program.

Secretary-Treasurer Isherwood's report said that "every fiber and sinew of Hoo-Hoo was tested to the very limit" during the year, and that the Order's survival is a tribute to the soundness of its structure and its ability effectively to serve the industry.

"I believe the Hoo-Hoo clubs can do more than any other force this year to restore the weakened confidence and revive the sick morale of the lumber industry," Secretary Isherwood said. "If these clubs will begin now to plan their programs and t'hen carry through regrtlarly and with enthusiasm, it will not be long before there is a general improvement in the mental attitude of the lumber industry. And when we get a better viewpoint we are going to be able to go ahead more agg'ressively than we have in the past."

The Secretary complim'ented the trade associations for their cooperation with the Order, and thanked the trade press for its support in the way of publicity.

He described in detail the reasons for the adoption and,

later, the cancellation of the group insurance feature. It was adopted, he said, in the belief that its benefits woulcl be appreciated_ by the membership, but instead the higher dues rate it made necessary drove many members out of the Order. He pointed out that Hoo-Hoo is the property of the lumbermen themselves, and that it was the duty of the officers to cancel the insurance in the interests of the Order.

"The time is at hand," he continued, "when we must shape our program to meet the needs of our Industry. We must adjust ourselves to today's conditions and meet them with today's ideas. Any lumberman with the ability to visualize in his own mind the obstacles and the opportunities.confronting the industry, will readily see where HooHoo fits importantly into the industry,s picture.',

The insurance feature seriously retarded the work of the Order during the year, according to the Secretary, who pointed out that its adoption was followed by a tremendous volume of detail work that fell entirely on the smallstaff at the International Offices, and that the same situation also had to be faced when ihe insurance was cancelled.

"This is an era in the life of Hoo-Hoo and the industry that tests the vision, the confidence and the courage of all of us," Isherwood concluded. ft is easier doubtless, to sit down and hope for the return of better times-but it,s far better today and in the better times to come, to unite in a purposeful, unrelenting campaign of unified action that will produce the results we want. Our program cannot succeed unless we plan it wisely and support it with a driving spirit

of teamwork that never lets down until we've attained our goal !"

The convention was unusual in one respect-seven Past Snarks of the lJniverse attended and took leading parts in the discussions. They were N. A. Gladding, Indianapolis, Seer of the House of Ancients; Harry J. Miller, Seattle ; Alton J. Hager, Lansing, Michigan; Arthur A. Hood, Chicago; James M. Brown, Spokane; Melvin M. Riner, Kansas City, and Franklin A. Hofheins, Bufialo.

Sam Boyd, president of the Twin Cities Hoo-Hoo Club:, Adolf Pfund, secretary-manager of the National Retaii Lumber Dealers' Association; Arthur Bevan, secr.etarymanager of the Red Cedar Shingle Bureau and member of the Supreme Nine; Charles Close, National Lumber Manufacturers' Association; R. C. Kuhlman and William H. Barruss, members of the Supreme Nine; O. C. Lance, secretary of the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association and retiring member of the Nine; E. A. Ehlert, Hoo-Hoo state counselor for Wisconsin, and a number of members representing various clubs addressed the convention and also offered constructive suggestions during the general discussions.

The Milwaukee Hoo-Hoo Club did itself proud in its entertainment of the convention, providing a banquet, stag party, golf tournament and other features for the men; and luncheon, bridge, theater party and tours for the tadies.

N. H. PARSONS RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP

N. H. Parsons of Pasadena, formerly connected with the lumber business in the Los Angeles territory but now with the State Mutual Life Assurance Co. of 'Worcester, Mass.. has returned from a trip tp Massachusetts where he visitecl the company's home office at 'Worcester. While in the east he also visited with relatives at Amherst, Mass., and New York Citv.

WOODSMEN USE WATCH AS COMPASS

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An improvement on the woodsman's method of telling directions by a watch has been discovered by a U. S. Forest Ranger in ldaho. If you point the hour hand of the watch at the sun then half way between the hour hand and twetve o'clock on the dial will be due south. Many persons who frequent the big open spaces know this and can navigate so long as there is sunshine. ft remained for the forest ranger to discover that even on a cloudy day the sun will cast a faint shadow if the tip of a knife blade or a pen point is set upright on the thumb nail. The sun may be invisible throush the clouds but there is atways a little more light, even though you cannot distinguish it, coming through the ctouds in front of the sun. Just as soon as yorl ean get this shadow you can point the hour hand at the place where the sun is and get your bearings.

EROSION TAKES LARGE TOLL OF AMERICAN SOIL

Twenty-one million acres in the United States have al_ ready gone entirely out of cultivation because of destruct_ ive erosion. This exceeds the total area of arable land in Japan. In many parts of the United States from ten inches to two feet of the top soil has been removed by erosion in the past thirty years.

East B.y Hoo Hoo Club Chicago Largest Lumber Rail

Another good attendance of members and guests marked the October dinner meeting of East Bay Hoo Hoo Club No. 39, held at the Athens Athletic Club, Oakland, Monday evening, October 10.

President Earle Johnson, of Livermore, occupied the chair, and Larue \Moodson, chairman of the entertainment committee, was chairman of the evening.

' President Johnson said the club is proud of the election of its active member and past president, Bert Bryan, to membership on the Supreme Nine, and referred to the fact that the East Bay Club is the most active club in the West.

C. I. Gilbert, finance committee chairman, in a short talk, stated that he considered the contact with other men in the industry afiorded by membership in the club makes it well worth while for lumbermen to belong, and reminded members that the annual dues are now payable.

Secretary Carl Moore presented retiring President Larue Woodson with a gold Hoo Hoo button

Music was furnished by Saenz' Orchestra from the Industrial Home for the Blind. The music and singing of these blind boys was much appreciited.

Robert Simmons, of San Francisco, passenger agent of the Canadian National Railways, was the speaker of the evening. Mr. Simmons showed two reels of motion pictures depicting the steamship trip by his company's steamers from Vancouver to Skagway, Alaska, and the rail trip to the Yukon, a trip that can be taken in two weeks' time from San Francisco. He also showed two reels of pictures taken in Jasper Park, Alberta, entitled "Jasper the Magnificent." Jasper Park, he said, is the largest national park in the rvorld, with an area of 4200 square miles. Mr- Simmons answered many questions about the various trips, and members freely expressed their enjoyment of the pictures.

oTrs R JOHNSON VISITS LOS ANGELES

Otis R. Johnson, Union Lumber Company, San Francisco, was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office w-here he conferred with E. A. Goodrich, manager of their Southern California interests.

REGAINS HEALTH QUICKLY

Harmon Kincaid of the Glenn County Lumber Co', Willows, who recently underwent an operation for ' appendicitis, is recovering nicelY.

EDRIC BROWN A LOS ANGELES VISITOR

Edric Brown, in charge of the by-products division of The Pacific Lumber Company, San Francisco' was a recent visitor at the company's Los Angeles office where he spent a few days.

OAKLAND YARD INSTALLS CRANE

Smith Lumber Co., of Oakland, has installed a crane purchased from the Coos Bay Lumber Co. for handling lumber in their yard at th6 foot of lSth Street, Oakland' The crane travels 500 feet and will pile lumber as high as 16 feet.

Center in United States

Washington, September 30.-Illinois is the fourth largest lumber consuming state in the country, ranking in 1930 only after California, New York and Pennsylvania, according to the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in its review of the position of the lumber industry in various states.

Of the 1,375,349W feet consumed in 193O, nearly 94 per cent came from other states. Of its small lumber production ot 25,212,M feet in 1930, 14,098,000 feet was oak and 2,514,000 feet walnut.

Chicago is the largest lumber receiving center in the United States and probably in the world for rail shipments. lnl9D approximately 10 per cent of all the lumber pro,Cuced in the United States entered Chicago by rail; in 1931, about 8 per cent. Of the t,775,3&W feet received in 1931 , 495,623,W feet was reshipped to other rections; the remainder went into local consumption or stocks.

In 1882 when lumber production in the Lake States u'al; at its height, two billion feet of lumber entered Chicago by water, or about 88 per cent of the total receipts. Since 1928 no cargoes have been reported, the movement bcing by rail or truck.

Illinois' great wood-consuming industries use more Southern and Ponderosa pine and Douglas fir than any other softwoods and more oak, gum, birch and maple than other hardwoods. These and other species go principally into car construction and repair, boxes and crbtes, agricultural implements, furniture, and sash, doors and millwork.

A World Lumber News Letter

Washington, D. C., September 3O.-A suggestion from Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, resulted in a decision by Leighton H. Peebles, chief of the lumber division, Dcpartment of Commerce, to issue a semi-monthly newsletter dealing with economic development affecting lumber in foreign and domestic markets. A feature of the "'World Lumber News Letter" will be the direction of attention to the various reports received by the division from all parts of the world, so that lumbermen interested in particular markets may study them.

In conformity with the economy law passed at the last session of Congress this new publication will be on a subscription basis. The subscription price is $l a year. It is thought that this nominal fee will not interfere r'r'ith efiective circulation. Subscription checks should be made payable to the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. It is considered preferable for the subscription address to be in the name of the officer of a firm or corporation who may be expected to give it his personal attention. The firm name and address should be included in the subscription address.

OREGON LUMBERMAN VISITS S.F.

Geo. T. Gerlinger, president, Willamette Valley Lumber Co., Dallas, Ore., recently spent a few days in San Francisco on business.

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WANTS MAN WITH POR|TABLE MILL TO CUT .WHITE PINE

FOR LEASE

Retail lumb€r yard or fa'ctory site, corner Ravenswood Ave. and State Highway, Menlo Park, Califor'nia, has spur track and heavy construction two story warehouse. Address R. W. Follmer, General Contractor, 465 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, Calif. Phone 7325.

I YOUNG LUMBERMAN

'8 y."r, experience in the mill-wholesale and retail trade. Thorough knowledge of general office and detail w.ork. Age 25, single, desires position, preferably in the sales end. A-1 references. Address Box C-450, The California Lumber Merchant.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, IIANAGEMEI\IT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REOUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST A, PN,

Of The California Lumber Merchant, published Semi-monthly at Loe Angeles, Cali{ornia, for October 1, 1932. Statc of 'Cdifornia - I "". County of Ias Angeles. I

Belorc me, a Notary Public in and {or the State and county aforcsaid, pcrsonally appeared J. E. Martin' who, having been duly_sworn according to iaw, deposes and says that he is the Business Manager of The ealifornia Lumber Merchant, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, thc circulation), ctc., of thc aforcsaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, requircd bv the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 411, Postal Laws aid Reculations. Drinted on the rcverse of this lorm, to wit: l. fhat the himes and addresses of the publisber, editor, managing cditor. and business managers arc: Publisher, J. C. Dionne, 318 Central Bldg.,'Los Angeles; Editoi, J. C. Dionne,3lS Central Bldg., Los Angelei; Managing Editor, J. E. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angelcs; Business Manager, J. E. Martin.

2. Thzt thc owner is: (If owned by a corporation, its name and address must be statcd and also immediately thereunder the names and addrcsses of stockholders owning or holding one per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not owned by a corporation, the names and addresses of the individual owners must be given. If owned by a firm, company, or other unincorporated cmcern, its name and address, as well as those of each individual member, must bc given.)

Thc California Lumber Merchant (a corporation), 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

J. C, Dioane, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles.

J. E. Martin, 318 Central Bldg., Los Angeles. A. C. Merryman, 318 Central Bldg., Irs Angelcs.

T. P. Wier, Houston, Texas.

3. Tbat tLe known bondholders, mortgagces, and other recurity holders owning or holding I per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgaSes, or other securities are: (If there are none, so state.) None.

4. That the two paragraphs next abovc, giving the namcs of the owncrs, stockholders, and *curity holders, if any, contain not oaly thc ligt of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon thi books of the company but also, in cascs *-here the gtockholder or security holder 4ppears upon the books of the company a! trustec or in any othcr fiduciary relation, the name oI thc person or corDoration for whom such trustee is acting, is givcn; also that thc gaid two paragraphs contain statements embracing a{fiant's full knowledgc end belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which ltockholdcrt and security holders who do not appear upon thc books of the company a! trustecs, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fde owncr; and this afiiant has no reason to believe that any other pcrson, association, or corporation has any inter€st direct or indirect in the said stock. bmds. or other sccuritics than as so stated bv him.

5. That the average number of copics of each issue of this publi. cation sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date showa ebovl ig (This information is required from daily publicationc only.)

J. E. MARTIN, Business Managei. Sworn to and subscribed before nte this 5th day of October, 1932. TSEAL] FREDA R. PAULSON.

(My commission expires Aug. 18, 1934.)

Man with Portable Mill wanted to cut White ber located in Central California. Will pay on board feet basis. Good opportunity. Address Lumber Merchant, Box C-453.

FOR LEASE

Pine timaPerM California

The main yard and mill of the Cutter Mill & Lumber Co', with its very excellent location at 34th & R Streets, Sacramento, will be for lease on and after the first of the year.

FOR SALE

My interest in good, well established lumber yard in California. Good possibility of purchaser to take charge if well qualified. Address Box C-454, The California Lutnber Merchant.

WANTS TO SELL ON A COMMISSION BASIS

Experienced lumberman would like to handle ties, timbers or shingles for good wholesale lumber concern on a commission basis. Can produce. Will go anywhere. Address Box C-455. care California Lumber Merchant.

WANTED TO BUY

Good light lumber truck with or without rollers. Ford preferred. Give full description and price. Address Box C-456, California Lumber Merchant.

WANTS POSITION

Young lady rvith several years' experience in the lumber business, \\'ants position with Los Angeles lumber firm. Familiar with all office details. Address Box C-457, care California Lumber Merchant.

LUMBERMAN WITH MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTIVE ABILITY OPEN FOR POSITION

California lumberman with executive ability and with fifteen years practical experience in the logging, mill, wholesale and retail ends of the business is open for a position with a progressive lumber company where responsibility ancl initiative is essential. Position must have good future prospects. At present employed and for the past ten years has been manager and sales manag'er of large metropolitan wholesale and retail yard in California. Extensive acquaintanceship with lumber executives, manufactnrers. wholesalers and retailers on the Pacific Coast. Will consider going to Orient-, Central or South Americbn corlntries. Address Box C-458, Care California Lumber Merchant.

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