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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



In a very brllllnut fnshlon, nnd with much 

 cloQuonoc iiiul Rnico, to prove to the people 

 thnt two nnd two make tlve, or six. or evni 

 ten: and the rnthor unmusical voice of 

 Grover Cleveland brcaklUK In at Intervnls 

 with the reiteration that "two and two 

 make four" rIvcs the people iio offonso. 

 In truth. It rather pleases them, despite the 

 fact that his style Is somewhat lacklns In 

 grace nnd smoothness. 



As for having original ideas, thnt doesn't 

 amount to much. There haven't been a 

 half dozen original Ideas brought Into the 

 world In the past hnlf dozen centuries 

 thnt have had any value to them. It wns 

 more than 2.000 yenrs ngo that King Solo- 

 mon said: 'There Is nothing new under 

 the sun." 



Occasionnlly a ■brilliant" young man 

 like Mr. Towne gives birth to something 

 which he mistakes for nu orlglnnl idea, 

 nnd which fnsclnntes for a while with Its 

 bright colors, but which proves in time 

 to be merely a bunch of hot air "with a 

 skin on it." 



Mr. Towne left the Republican pnrty in 

 1896 to follow the "brilliant" young man 

 from Nebraska, Mr. Bryan, who was 

 preaching that two and two make eight, 

 or could be made to make eight with just 

 a little assistance from Congress. In other 

 words, that by just a trifle of hocus-pocus 

 a dollar's worth of sliver could be made 

 into two dollars. Mr. Towne followed that 

 "original idea" — chased it all over the 

 country, and was much taken with it un- 

 til the skin broke and he found that ther.> 

 was nothing in It but hot air and a bad 

 smell. 



There has never been a time in the his- 

 tory of the country when such strenuous 

 efforts -were being made to win the people 

 away from the old-fashioned proposition 

 that two and two make four. Promoters, 

 financiers, stock jobbers, trust builders, $> 

 cialists, labor agitators and all sorts and 

 conditions of windbags seem to have united 

 in one grand rally in an attempt to sweep 

 the people off their feet and make them be- 

 lieve that two and two make pretty nearly 

 any old thing. 



And the conviction, amounting to cer- 

 tainty, that Grover Cleveland can never 

 be swept off his big and solid base by any 

 such sophistry makes him, as a public man, 

 popular with a mighty substantial class of 

 people. Not only does he believe that two 

 and two make four, but he is not ashamed, 

 because his belief is not fashionable or 

 popular, to announce It, and he even de- 

 monstrated, when he was president, that 

 he would order out the troops, If necessary, 

 to sustain the contention. 



And the brilliant young men like Towne 

 and Bryan, and the brilliant old men, like 

 Watterson, who can run rings around 

 Cleveland when it comes to talking or 

 •writing or evolving original Ideas, can't 

 understand why the people should cling 

 to a rather dull and pompous old fellow 

 who creates a discord every little while by 



announcing In n raucous voice that "two 

 and two mnke four." 



But llie plain people inidcrstaiid. 



NATIONAL MANUFACTURERS' AS- 

 SOCIATION AFFAIRS. 

 NEW LUMBER CREDIT GUIDE. 



At the annual meeting of the .National 

 I.unilier .Manufacturers' Association In 

 Washington. I •. C, It was decided to estub- 

 lish n credit rating department. Mr. 

 George K. Smith, secretary, has Issued the 

 following letter, which Indicates that the 

 proposition Is well underway: 



To All Members of AHiliate<l Assocla- 

 tions — At the Miiiiual nu'cllng In Washing- 

 ton it was unanimously decided to estab- 

 lish a credit rating department and imbllsh 

 as soon as possible a book containing; the 

 names and ratings of all buyers of lumber. 



This department has been organized, and 

 will begin at once to secure Information 

 from various sources. 



The committee in its report recommended 

 that each member of the afllllated asso- 

 ciations composing the "National," be re- 

 quested to furnisii tliis department a list 

 of customers, whose names appear on your 

 1902 ledger and first si.v months of 1903, 

 together witli answers to questions on a 

 blank prepared especially for this purpose, 

 which will give your experience and your 

 opinion of tlie amount of credit to which 

 each customer is entitie<l. These replies 

 will form the basis for comprehensive and 

 up-to-date reports on from 15,000 to 20,000 

 retail lumbermen, which will be available 

 in a comparatively short time. 



As the credit rating department will be 

 of mutual benelit to all members, we trust 

 you will promptly fill in names of your 

 customers on blanks (when received) and 

 return to the department otflce. 



A report of the committee having the 

 organization of this department in charge 

 will be sent to you soon, fully explaining 

 the manner of financing and supporting 

 this department. 



GEORGE K. SMITH, Secretary. 



APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES. 



It is also announced friiMi same (jiiarters 

 in pursuance to action of the convention 

 at that time that the following committees 

 had been appointed: 



COMMITTEE ON TRADE RELATIONS. 



.T. L. Roper, Norfolk. Va.. chairman 

 (North Carolina Pine Association). 



William Irvine, Chippewa Falls, Wis. 

 (Mississippi Valley Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion). 



J. A. Freeman. St. Louis. Mo. (Southern 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association). 



C. G. Yawkey. Hazeihurst, Wis. (Wiscon- 

 sin Valley Lumbermen's Association). 



A. J. Gahagan. Ashland, Ky. (Hardwood 

 >Lanufacturers' Association of the United 

 States). 



C. L. Cross, Chicago, 111. (Southern 

 Cypress Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion). 



A. G. Cummer, Jacksonville, Fla. 

 (Georgia Saw Mill Association). 



E. G. Griggs, Tacoma, Wash. (Pacific 

 C!oast Lumber Manufacturers' Association). 



GRADES AND CLASSIFICATIONS COM- 

 MITTEE. 



J. D. Bronson, chairman, Stillwater, 

 Minn. (Mississippi Valley Lumbermen's 

 Association). 



K. O. Brown, Ithlnelander. Wis. (Wisi'on- 

 sln Valley I.utnlMTmen's .Vssoclallon). 



Charles K. ratten. Seattle, Wash. (I'aclllc 

 Coast Lumber .Manufacturers' ASBociatlon). 



.1. It. While, Kansas City, Mo. (Southern 

 I/UniliiT Manufactun-rH' Assoclalloni. 



R. II. \'an Sant. .\shland, Ky. (Iliinlwoml 

 Lumber .Manufacturers' Assoclatlim of the 

 Unlteil Stales). 



II. II Tift. TIfton, G<i. (Georgia .''aw .Mill 

 AsKoclatlonl. 



(;eorge W. Roper, Norfolk, Va. (North 

 Carolln.'i Pine Assoelntlon). 



Frederii' Wllbert, Pliiquenilne, Ln. 

 (Soulhern Cypress Lumber Manufacturers* 

 Association). 



TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE. 



W. B. Still well, chairman. Savanna, (!n. 

 (Georgia Saw Mill Association). 



H. II. Foster. .Malvern. Ark. (Southern 

 Lumber Mnnnfaclurers' Assoclatlont. 



Joseph Itiitliborne. Harvey, La. (Southern 

 Cypress Lumber Mnuufuctureni" Associa- 

 tion). 



R. J. Camp, Franklin, Va. (North Caro- 

 lina I'ine Association). 



A. R. Rogers. Minneapolis, Minn. (Mis- 

 sissippi Valley Lumbermen's Association). 



C. C. Yawkey, Hazeihurst, Wis. (Wis- 

 consin Valley Lumbermen's Association). 



J. H. Baskette. Nashville, Tenn. (Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States). 



C. F. White. Cosmopolls. Wasli. (Paciflc 

 Const Lumber Manufariurers' .Vssoclntion). 



NATIONAL FORESTRY MEETING. 



The annual convention of the National 

 Forestry Association will be held In Min- 

 neapolis the latter part of August. One 

 of the reasons for bringing the convention 

 to this city this year is because of the in- 

 teresting questions that will arise over the 

 opening of the national forest reserve 

 around Cass Lake, as the result of one of 

 the provisions of the Morris bill. Under 

 the conditions of the bill five per cent of 

 the timber Is to be reserved for forestre 

 purposes. Just how to preserve this por- 

 tion of the timber, and at the same time 

 give the lumbermen reasonable facllitie" 

 for getting out their timber, will be one of 

 the principal questions to be considered it 

 the convention. Minnesota people, and 

 particularly Minnesota lumbermen, will be 

 consulted as to their opinions on the mat- 

 ter. The plan, as announced by Forester 

 Pinchot, of the Bureau of Forestry, is to 

 leave all timber under thirteen Inches 'n 

 diameter, which, it is figured, will be about 

 5 per cent. Timber of this class was not 

 cut twenty years ago, but in recent years 

 the lumbermen have been taking much 

 smaller trees than that. The Bureau of 

 Forestry is disposed to consult the needs 

 of the lumbermen, so far as Is consistent 

 witli the duties of the department under 

 the law. — Mississippi A'alley Lumberman. 



An appeal has been taken by the lumber- 

 men of Mississippi from the decision of 

 Judge Niles on the amended bill seeking to 

 secure an injunction restraining the rail- 

 roads operating in the state from enforcing 

 the advance of 2 cents per 100 in the rates 

 on yellow pine shipped to points south of 

 the Ohio and east of the Mississippi rivers. 



