HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mr. Kline : I move the association be repre- 

 sented by our president. 



Tlie motion was seconded and carried. 



President Anderson : In regard to tlie Na- 

 tional Prosperity Association, do you want to 

 take any action, or make any resolution in that 



Mr. Lord : I move that the secretary be in- 

 structed to draw up a paper and mail to each 

 member of the association, asking them to co- 

 operate along the lines of mutual prosperity and 

 optimistic talk, and that a copy of same be for- 

 warded to the National Prosperity Association 

 of St. Louis, for I believe that lack of confi- 

 dence is a great difficulty in times like the 

 present. 



On being seconded and put to vote, the motion 

 prevailed. 



Mr. Wall : In my mind, the paper read by 

 the president is a very useful and instructive 

 one if we will make use of it, and I move you, 

 Mr. President, that it be printed in a separate 

 folder and at least a dozen copies be sent to 

 every member of the as.sociation. I think they 

 could use it to very good ,i,l\ aiil:,^.', :ii!.i ili' 



arguments presented thPr. n, , i,i i. i,;. ,,,,, 



vincing to nonmembers ;iij.l 1 i.; - ,,, , 



help very materially in -.nni^ i!,,, ,.,,, 



hands and boost the game aiuns;. 



Air. Wall's motion was seconded ayd carried, 

 Report of Arbitration and Grievance Com- 

 mittee. 



I> I I'tl'n h umin piestnted the icpnt 

 f the Arbitiation ind Giie\ince Committee ns 

 lolions. 



Iieil V \ X , s 



of the consi 

 I ottoms I 

 Ijlaced in t 

 ommittec a 

 till 



to the consignees of the 

 bottoms stating the ( 

 the coinm tt 1 i 



ently , e f 

 •signec 



and 

 tliei 



lit claim beciuse he had 

 11 opinion as st u d ab \ 

 committee innW <\ceptioii 



ind 



II ni 1 tiat pinicn 1 



pununent nembeis <f il t'"at 



fl( same lime stated t II that 



I « 1'^ not disposed to i «itl, 



the complaints unless tl I Ip 



tion WIS withdrawn and left 



It lilieilv to %lcn the si nm 



plainf. upon then men I ,. 



s|ondence letween the I iho 

 rommitfee ceased 



Inter— to-wlt at a meeting of the Veneer 



Manufactureis CLih, l.el.l in A„.il-a n.c...ber of 

 the club referred to the fact tb.nt his personal 



ittcntlon had been eaiifd i., one sliipmenf that 

 was complained m ., :i',,.i, ,,,,i himi ilie con- 

 signees had «xpi.- I iiriinde in hav- 

 ing this commiiii. ,,. i ,,. ,i„,.|; .,„,] ,.p. 

 iiort upon its coikM I . i i, i.i , on, lu.ledlhat 



it was within lis i u. , ,.. ili,. in'uter ,,„ 



as a subordinate enn.initiee. and theieVore all 

 the papers In this case were placed In the hands 

 ''LAY '■'">•'' ^l'«''"ia'). Mr. r. B. Raymond. 

 "Ithin n few days thereafter, and In reply to 



his letter upon the subject, he received a letter 

 from the complainants saying that they had con- 

 eluded to bring suit against one of the con- 

 signees, and requested a return of the papers, 

 which were, in consequence, forwarded to them. 

 As to the second of these complaints, no ofll- 

 rial knciuiedse has been had as to anv settle- 



:"■'■ 'I iKiirman was advised that the con- 



- - :<id a very considerable proportion 



: III "1 the original bill, and that they 

 !i I ! I i.> use as much of the stock as 



\ to them, and endeavor to use 

 .11 .. ihiiice that inii;lit remain. Your 



'I ■ ' -I I I- I" ripi'lt llial as IM the settle- 



.•ducvion for 

 it. while the 

 that treighi 

 shipped. 



~ ii. 1. -. .1 i.. l.elieve that 

 ii,L;hi in I hi- rase, but as each 

 was praetieally taken out of 



sion was rendered, 

 of the position that the eom- 

 chairman 



these matters 





president of 

 chairman in 

 wrote to the 



Membership. 



In I lie ab.senee of Chairman M. C. Dow. the 

 Membership Committee made no report, nor did 

 several other committees, hut both the president 

 and secretary urged all members to make an 

 aitive elTort to secure other outside concerns to 

 i..in tlip :i"..,, intion, stating that in point of 



"till iimI .il.ility to accomplish broad and 



'I II . for the trade, as large a mem- 



• I -hi! I- ^ I. .ssible to secure should be sought. 



Finances. 



The financial statement presented by the sec 

 retary showed that although a few members are 

 in arrears for dues a good balance is on hand 

 with bills receivable amounting to a consider- 

 able sum. 



President Anderson ; The Executive Commit- 

 tee has obligated the association to refund to 

 ihc various clubs a portion of the salary paid 

 our assistant secretary. We are to pay each 

 club .$;;00 annually, so this financial statement 

 does not cover all our obligations. We owe the 

 clubs nearly $.300 at this time. 



Costs and Valuation. 



B. W. Lord, chairman of the Committee on 

 Costs and Valuation, reported as follows : 



This is a hard proposition. Every one h.is his 

 own Idea of liguring costs, and the object of the 

 committee was to try to interest each member 

 in figuring with greater accuracy, so he would 

 appreciate the value of his stock and be more 

 careful in making prices. In manufacturing 

 rotary cut stock, for instance, one gets so many 

 different orders from the same log that it Is 

 very hard to keep each order separate, and of 

 necessity It has to be done en a vrn i,n...|d l.,i<i .. 



We started a bulletin on the ,,,.i anuii. im 



ing rotary cut stock on a h.is,, mi i,.- nea-iit.., 

 for a whole year, and we nls,, lla^.■ anollni' bnl 

 letin in regard to the j^ost of quartered oak. 

 This Is on a broad basis also, and we will start 

 a bulletin on panels very shortly. There Is no 

 use in the committee keeping up these bulletins 

 unless the members want them, and unless they 

 will give them some little attention and give 

 the committee some help by replying to them. 



We need the cooperation of all members in this 

 proposition, because it means a great deal of 

 work in starting and following them up syste- 

 matically. In talking with Mr. Anderson some 

 time ago he seemed to agree with the committee 

 that if we could educate members up to cost it 

 would have a very strong effect on maintaining 

 prices and would prohibit a great many foolish 

 prices which are now made by some manufac- 

 turers because they do not know what their 

 stock actually costs them. In the bulletin on 

 rotary cut stock on a basis of log measure, a 

 person is apt to figure the cost on manufacture 

 alone, and forget items like overhead charges, 

 carrying expense, etc. : and the reason we started 

 it was to try to have the members realize what 

 it actually costs to run the business, besides thb 

 actual cost of running the factory. The commit- 

 tee would like every one who has any suggestion 

 whatever, to help them with any class of goods, 

 and, Mr. Chairman, I would much like an ex- 

 pression from some of your members as to 

 whether they think it wise to follow this up, 

 because we really do not want to go ahead and 

 try to get this cost system down to a fine basis 

 unless the men want it; so I will ask you to 

 call on some of them regarding it. 



Mr. Lord's remarks called out a great deal 

 of commendation on the work of the committee 

 up to date. All members seemed to be united 

 in appreciation of it, and encouraged the commit- 

 tee to continue along the same lines, promising 

 cooperation and support. 



Railroad Classification and Claims. 



P. n. Raymond, chairman of this committee, 

 reported that they went to New York to appear 

 before the Official Classification Committee and 

 that they were given a fair hearing, but a short 

 time after it received notice that the Railroad 

 Committee could not see their way clear to 

 make any change in classification at present. 



Classification and OraOing. 



D. E. Kline reported for the Committee ou 

 Classification and Grading that the Veneer 

 Manufacturers' Club presented a set of rules at 

 the last meeting that were oflJcially adopted : 

 that the Quartered Oak Club has a set of rules 

 which they were using at present ; and that the 

 Panel Club had Just been working on a set of 

 rules, which were hardly In shape to be dis- 

 tributed. 



It was suggested that these rules he read and 

 considered by the association as a whole, which 

 was done, whereupon M. M. Wall moved that 

 the association approve and adopt the rules as 

 reid, empowering the committee to make such 

 slight changes in wording as would put the 

 rules in more readable shape, before they arc 

 printed or distributed to members. 



Mr. Wall's motion was seconded by L. P. 

 Groffmaii. ind. ..n l.eing put to vote, prevailed. 

 Consideia'.l. .li-- n--i.in brought out the fact 

 that it wa ,i...ii:,i,i, lo make all the rules of 

 the clubs ..ml., Ill, , ,,nsist,>ntly with each other, 

 and it was deemed wise that the new rules of 

 the Panel Club be maiied to the other chairmen 

 before being finally p' Inted and distributed. 

 Mr. Kline's Paper. 



The following very interesting and logical . 

 handling of the question "How to run the veneef 



factory nn half time an, I prev,'nt loss" was pre- 



^1' I'' !' ■ ■.!,.. 1. 1'. III. II ,,f the National 

 \ ' I I ' I ■ I \ i I . I I I a 1 , I ~ ' \ ssoclatlon : The 

 ''I'll. I.: .) H -ini 1,1,. (,., advise you : "How 

 ■I III 'i il' I 1' . i-i to make veneer and run a fac- 

 'I 1 ill liiii, ,'r how to prevent loss." 



Il -III- I" nic that two distinct subjects are 

 euiluidi.il in iliis caption. Our s.vstem of cost • 

 ought to sliow each of us how mucli It costs to 

 make veneers or panels when running half time ; 

 but how to prevent loss is quite another stor.v. 



It may be possible to run our factories under 

 existing conditions without loss. My own ex- 

 perience Is to the effect that It Is a very close 

 proposition. If It were after .Tuly 1, I could say 



