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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



that is nearest you. And you cannot do 

 it well in eight hours. We knew a young 

 man once who had a position as book- 

 keeper, and although a well qualified man, 

 he failed in the position. He was above it. 

 He thought he was cut out for better 

 things and was constantly nagging at the 

 boss to go on the road as a salesman. You 

 can imagine he was not much account as a 

 bookkeeper and was finally given a trial as 

 salesman. 



But as a salesman he was constantly 

 afraid he would do too much; that the 

 boss would make too much money off him. 

 So if he made a good sale the first of the 

 week he loafed the balance. It is not 

 necessary to say he did not hold the posi- 

 tion as salesman very long. 



Then he talked someone into furnishing 

 capital enough for him to go into business. 

 Once he entered in business for himself 

 and partner, he was constantly afraid that 

 his partner was getting the best of it. He 

 was afraid he was making too much money 

 and he did not last long at that. 



That man reminds me of the class of 

 men who clamor for eight hours a day. 

 Why do they wish for shortei'days? WTiat 

 do they want to do with the time. The 

 devil finds work for idle hands, and many 

 of them spend their hours of idleness in 

 the saloons. 



Every man has a right to receive good 

 pay for his work, as good as he can get, but 

 in this great country, ten hours is not too 

 much time to put in. 



We are in favor of the ten-hour day at 

 least. 



LEAVE THE LUMBERMEN ALONE. 



Someone has said, I have forgotten 

 whom, that if someone would take care 

 of his friends he would look out for his 

 enemies. Somebody calls them "fool 

 friends," but we don't because the Bible 

 has something to say about the man who 

 calls his brother a fool. And the worst 

 of it is they are your friends. They mean 

 well. Hell is full of people who mean 

 well. 



In this connection we wish to say some- 

 thing to our friend, John Williams, of the 

 New Orleans Lumber Trade Journal. We 

 are talkmg to him for his own good, and 

 we trust he will take no exception to it. 



The fact of it is that John is inclined 

 to truckle. He truckles to anybody that 

 is in power. He truckles to Billy Bennett 

 because Billy is a strong man. He also 

 truckles to the National association oflS- 

 cials. He truckles and gets a penny for 

 it. Our "advice is that he should not do 

 this. He should go through the world 

 with his head up and truckle to no man. 



President Palmer of the National asso- 

 ciation is a man for whom we have the 

 greatest respect. That respect is not 

 bought and paid for, thank you. It is a 

 tribute from one free-born American citi- 

 zen to another. And when shortly after 

 his election he published a letter, which 



appeared in this paper, and made a plea 

 that the hardwood lumbermen be left 

 alone to solve the problems now before 

 the hardwood trade, we were inclined to 

 think that he was right, and to respect 

 his wishes. John Williams, however, still 

 continues to slobber over the National as- 

 sociation. He sends out proof sheets ask- 

 ing their approval before an article is 

 printed and a postal card calling their 

 attention to it after it is printed, and other- 

 wise demeaning himself like a curly 

 poodle. 



Now, if we do not know how to run a 

 paper, we won't ask anyone. We never 

 sent out a proof sheet, marked copy or 

 a postal card in our lives. If we say any- 

 thing about a man and he does not take 

 enough interest in the paper to read it, 

 he misses it. If he thinks or expects that 

 we will call his attention to it, he will 

 get left. 



And then it matters so little what John 

 says. He has no hardwood circulation to 

 speak of, and there is no danger that he 

 will offend any of his yellow pine or cy- 

 press constituents by what he says con- 

 cerning the hardwood trade. He writes 

 an article, sends it to the leaders and offi- 

 cers of the National association for their 

 approval as though he were doing some 

 l)ig thing, and is around the next day after 

 the publication with his hat in his hand, 

 looking for a little piece of money. 



The hardwood trade has some knotty 

 problems to solve and the Record would 

 not stir up feeling that will prevent their 

 f:olution. As President Palmer says, 

 "Leave the lumbermen alone to work it 

 out." and that is the policy the Record is 

 pursuing. The editor of the Record has 

 no sores on him, as John frequently inti- 

 mates. When a man is rejected as an of- 

 ficer in an association, the fault is with 

 himself and not with the association. He 

 has failed in some essential and has no 

 one to blame but himself. 



We are refraining from stirring up more 

 feeling because President Palmer re- 

 quested it. There are many knotty prob- 

 lems, as we have said, for the hardwood 

 lumbermen to work out, and they will work 

 them out. There is no doubt of this. 

 Everything points that way, and there is 

 no doubt but that the lumbermen will get 

 along better if left to themselves. Anyhow 

 the organ of the cypress and yellow pine 

 trade should have nothing to say. 



A -WORLD'S FAIR TRIUMPH. 



J. A. Fay & Egan Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 the big makers of woodworking machin- 

 ery, have just been awarded a medal at 

 the St. Louis World's Fair, on the fine 

 operation of one of its tools. The firm 

 had no regular exhibit, but some of its 

 tools were show-n, and operated by other 

 concerns for exhibiting their various prod- 

 ucts, to do which required some woodwork- 

 ing tools. 



It certainly proves high quality to win 

 a medal on a tool operated by others. 



THE LEGITIMATE EXPORTER. 



In the last Journal we had something to 

 say about abuses in the export lumber 

 trade, more especially in the matter of free 

 consignments of lumber for sale on arrival 

 on the other side, an abuse to which many 

 of the unsatisfactory features on an ex- 

 portnig lumber business are directly trace- 

 able. 



In that article we purposely omitted at 

 the time to mention, except in the most 

 casual manner, the parties who have the 

 largest interests at stake in this matter, 

 that is, the legitimate exporters. It is the 

 legitimate exporter after all on whom the 

 brunt of the burden of these abuses falls. 

 It is really a trifle for the free consignors, 

 as individuals if not as a class. For the 

 free consignor does one of two things. 

 Either he gets all he wants of miscel- 

 laneous free consignments after tWo or 

 three unsuccessful trials of that method 

 o£ export business and cuts out exporting 

 entirely, or else he abandons free consign- 

 ments and follows up exporting along the 

 well-defined lines recognized by the legiti- 

 mate export trade. These lines are as 

 clearly defined as the course of legitimate 

 trade and recognized methods in vogue in 

 domestic lumbering. It is not that a few 

 sporadic shippers of free consignments cut 

 any figure. But it is the fact that, for 

 every one who finds the game against him 

 and abandons it, another one comes along 

 who thinks he can beat the game. In 

 brief, any free consignor as an individual 

 is an easily negligible quantity; it is only 

 as a class and in the aggregate that they 

 constitute a well-nigh intolerable burden 

 on the lumber exporter. It is the legiti- 

 mate exporter who pays the shot in the 

 long run. Often his hands are virtually 

 tied by the casual free consignor because 

 the latter, if there is enough of him, tends 

 to if he does not actually make the 

 market. 



This takes no long argument to demon- 

 strate. It is obvious. It is the legitimate 

 exporter with his money, experience, and 

 energj' invested in the business whose 

 rights are the most infringed upon, but 

 who is usually the last to be commiserated 

 or even thought of in the matter. For this 

 reason they have an association which is 

 second to none in its value to the lumber 

 trade of this country at large. And its 

 members are thus actuated by no mere sel- 

 fish interests when they individually and 

 as a body urge the recognition of current 

 abuses. As one exporter puts it: "There 

 may be a sucker born every minute; even 

 so there are two sharpers born to take 

 care of him and he never gets away!" — 

 New York Lumber Trade Journal. 



The Southern Saw Mill Company, Ltd., 

 of New Orleans, La., have opened a 

 permanent otBce in New York, which will 

 be in charge of their vice-president. O. H. 

 Williams. Tlieir New Y^ork address is 

 4057 Metropolitan building, 1 Madison 

 Avenue, New York City. 



