September 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ish uniform prices ami piTliiips do something towards liclping to stabilize 

 the mariiet. 



There is a question in my mind wliethcr we want a stabilized market. 

 There are good points for argument both ways on account of the wide 

 variation of costs. Since the war manufacturers have been confronted 

 with conditions never before e.\perienced. Labor has shifted from one 

 locality to another so much that it would be plentiful in one locality and 

 scarce in another. Where labor was plentiful wages were, of course, 

 lower and where it was scarce it was almost prohibitive. This, together' 

 with weather condition.s in different localities resulted in a wide varia- 

 tion in I'o.sts. You can readily see with a staljilized market It would be 

 possible for it to force some manufacturers out of business while, of 

 course, others would profit. 



The open competition plan of the .\mericaD Hardwood Manufacturers" 

 Association has done a great deal toward establishing nujre uniform 

 pric'es. This is one part of the association work that we should co- 

 operate with very assiduously. 



F. R. (iadil, manager of the statistical department of the American 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, presided over the morning session 

 which was devoted to discussing the open competition plan. This was 

 l'(dlowed with an elaborate luncheon at the Country club prepared under 

 the direction of C. E. Walden. chairman of the entertainment committee. 

 T. E. Ryan, president, pre-sided at the afternoon session of the Southern 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Club. 



Attacks Plumb Plan 



Attacking the Plumb plan of railroad ownership and operation as 

 "socialistic and as destructive of economical and efficient operation of the 

 railroads," the board of governors of the Southern Hardwood Traffic As- 

 sociation at a meeting at Memphis, September 2, adopted resolutions from 

 which the following pertinent paragraphs are taken : 



We believe this demand, made principally in the interest of strongly 

 organized bodies of railroad employes, offers no relief to an overburdened 

 people liut would be a decideil retardment to indu.stry or business in read- 

 justing itself to the more reasonahb' cost of living that is demanded and 

 no jiuarautee of increased efficiency in railroad operation or escai^e further 

 interference with travel and transportation. 



We urge that this plan be <'oii(leinned as contrary to the fundamental 

 theories and as foreign to the principles of our government, as socialistic 

 and as destructive of the economical and efficient operation of the rail- 

 roads and as entirely inimical to the intere,sts of shippers and business 

 men of the country. 



We sulimit that it is proper for the Southern Hardwood Traffic Associa- 

 tion, which handles 350.000 cars of hardwood lumber and forest products 

 annually, to express its views on the Plumb bill and to send a copy of 

 these resolutions to the senators and representatives in congress. 



In a statement issued by F. B. Robertson, vice-president of the associa- 

 tion, who occupied the chair during the meeting, occur the following : 



An element not to be lightly regarded in the Plumb plan is that it 

 makes possible complete control of the railroads of the entire country by 

 the approximately StOOO.OOO employes while imposing a debt of additlona'l 

 billions upon the general public. 



Nobody need seriously (juestion that ultimately, if not from the begin- 

 ning, the brotherhoods will dictate the choice of the majority of the fifteen 

 directors. One-third will be named liy organized labor, another third will 

 he elected liy salaried officials of the labor-dominated railroads, and the 

 last third will be appointed by the president. 



From a financial standpoint it will be better for the railroad employes 

 to raise wages than reduce rates and the only way tliey can get a raise in 

 wages is by increasing rates. 



It is purely class legi.slation proposed by some 2,000.000 railroad em- 

 ployes to the detriment of over lOO.OOO.OOt) American citizens. 



Lumbermen's Golf Association of Memphis Organized 



Lumbermen of Memphis and the entire hardwood producing territory, 

 together with those engaged in allied lines, will participate, around the 

 first of October on the links of one of the local country clubs, in the first 

 annual golf tournament exclusively for the lumbermen ever held in Mem- 

 phis. Extensive preparations are already being made for this event which 

 will be followed every year by one or more similar contests. 



The foregoing announcement is the direct result of the formation of 

 the Lumbermen's Golf Association of Memphis which was formally launched 

 at the meeting called by the organization committee August 28. W. B. 

 Coulson of the Coulson Lumber Company was elected temporary presi- 

 dent and John M. Pritchard, .secretary-manager of the American Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association, was chosen temporary secretary. 

 These gentlemen will hold office until the annual meeting which will 

 coincide with the first tournament, the exact date of whicli will be 

 announced in a few days. Standing committees were appointed. 

 That on membership is composed of the following : 



F. R. Oadd, Memphis, chairman ; F. T. Ltooley, Memphis, Ross Jack- 

 ney, Memphis; E. A. Lang, Chicago; Stanley F. Born, Nashville; A. M. 

 Richardson, Helena, Ark. ; C. W. Holmes, Pine Bluff, Ark. ; P. H. 

 Starks, Charleston, Miss. ; L. P. DuBose. New Orleans, La. ; W. A. Brewer, 

 Miltonberg, La. : C. L. Faust, .Tackson, Miss., and T. M. lirown, Louis- 

 ville, Ky. 



The association began with a membership of forty-one. drawn from all 

 parts of the liardwood producing and distributing territory. The mem- 

 bership committee has been widely distributed, a.s to location, with a view 

 to bringing in just as many members as possible. While the organization 

 is known as the Lutnbermen's Golf Association of Men",phis, it is any- 

 thing but a Memphis institution. It is fathered by Memphians, who are 

 alwa.vs doing something in the interest of the hardwood lumber industry, 

 but it will draw its membership from a practically unlimited part of the 

 United States. The association, according to those who sponsored its 

 formation, is for the purpose of bringing about closer personal relations 

 between those engaged in the lumber industry and allied lines of activity 

 and it is believed tliat it will accomplish this object better than any other 

 organization that could have been launched becau.se the game of golf is 



one of tlie btist known mediums for creating and pi'i'iM-tnaling friend 

 ships. 



Something unusual in the way of entertainment is assured because that 

 prince of arrangers of entertainment, F. T. Dooley, is at the head of the 

 committee having this particular feature in charge. 



The handicap committee is composed of experts in telling what the 

 otlier fellow should do and those who jiarticipate will undoubtedly he 

 put on as nearly an equal basis, a.s regards stroke penalties, as possible. 



There will be prizes galore. Three have already l)een voluntarily 

 offered to the committee on prizes, one each by the H.^rdwood Record. 

 'Southern Lumt>erman and the American liardwood Manufacturers' As- 

 sociation. Others will undoubtedly follow because lumbermen never do 

 anything Ity halves. 



Members pay an initiation fee of .*3 and annual dues of $3. This 

 money will l)e used either for entertainment or for the purchase of 

 trophies for the contestants. In either event members of the association 

 will be the beneficiaries of the money they put up. 



"Fore" will be about the most conspicuous word on the lips of lumber- 

 men golfers in these parts about the first of October and already it is 

 quite dear that there is going to be a tremendously warm contest for 

 the highest honors to be awarded this year to the ranking players in 

 lumberdom. There will be entries from the plain, ordinary "dub" to the 

 best amateur exponents of the game, but, fortunately for the former and 

 quite the reverse for the latter, all will be put on an equal basis, as far 

 as possible, thus giving the event a "free for all" character that tends 

 to make of golf tournaments something quite apart from the average 

 contest of skill. 



The association is anxious for a Itig success and, since it takes num- 

 bers to make golf tournaments what they should be, just clean up your 

 clubs, pack up your bag and take the train to Memphis in time for this 

 great event. It will be, for lumbermen, the event par excellence of the 

 season and there is no valid reason why any lumberman devotee of the 

 Royal and Ancient Scottish game should not become a member of the 

 association and an active, struggling contestant for honors as the players 

 are sent away in pairs on the day ol; the qualifying round. 



With the Trade 



Sash and Door Factory to Enlarge 



The Carr. Ryder & Adams Company is planning the erection of a big 

 addition to its plant at Dubuque, Iowa. Building permits have been 

 secured and contracts let for the construction of a 92x167 foot ,?100,000 

 addition. The building will be five stories high, and it is expected that 

 the job can be rushed so that it will be all enclosed before cold weather 

 sets in. 



Nartzik Building Fine Mill 



J. .1. Nartzik of Chicago has been busy for the last month or two lining 

 up the erection at Grand Rapids, Minn., of a mill to take tbe place of his 

 veneer mill which was destroyed by fire at Deer River, Minn, (irand 

 Rapids is on the banks of the Mississippi river. The mill is twice the 

 size of the old mill and will cover fifteen acres of land. Construction is 

 now under way and it is expecteil that the mill will be in operation by 

 Janirary, 1920. 



The entire operation will be in one building 106x275 feet of brick con- 

 struction. The lathes, of which there will be three, have respectively 

 100, 88 and 54-inch knives. The building has two wings, one on each 

 side of the main structure, and the entire building will be erected with 

 trestles, thus avoiding all posts. 



Brick construction of the engine and boiler rooms will provide addi- 

 tional safety. In addition to the lathe equipment the plant will have one 

 blower dryer and one mechanical dryer. 



The new location is very well selected for log supply, as logs can be 

 delivered there at a minimum cost. The company will do all of its own 

 logging for next year's operation, using train hauls for bringing in its 

 ash, birch, elm and oak. The plant will cut up al)out 4,000.000 feet ol 

 this material annually. 



The city of Grand Rapids, Minn., is building tor the company fifty new 

 modern houses of permanent construction for employes. 



School to Bear Lumberman's Name 



Puring Ills lifetime .Tohn P,. Kansoni nf the firm of .lobn B. Ransom & 

 Co., Nashville, Tenn., was known not only because of his highly success- 

 ful operation in the lumber business and liis rapid rise from a very small 

 beginning, but because of his very high character. Mr. Ransom was a 

 man of the strictest honor in all of his dealings and associations in life, 

 and was proliably one of the best known and most loved men in the liard- 

 wood industry. With his death a number of years ago, the hardwood trade 

 lost a member whose name honored the industry through his connection 

 with It. 



During his life Mr. Ransom was a very liberal friend of educational 

 development, and thus it is fitting that a splendid new school being erected 

 by the city of Nashville will be named the John B. Ransom school. The 

 new structure will be of splendid design and construction and equipment, 

 and thoroughly fitting to serve as a memorial to Mr. Ransom. 



