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Hardwood Manufacturers 



The tenth annual convention of the Hardwood Manufacturers ' 

 Association of the United States was held at the Hotel Siuton, 

 Cincinnati, O., on January 30 and 31. It was a meeting that called 

 out the usual large attendance of hardwood manufacturers allied 

 with the organization, and notably in the region south of the 

 Ohio river, to the number of about five hundred. 



The first session was called to order at eleven o'clock, .Jan- 

 uary 30, by President W. B. Townsend. 



Edward Colston of Cincinnati, law partner of Governor .ludson 

 Harmon of Ohio, was introduced and made an address of welcome 

 on behalf of the governor, who was detained at Columbus on ac- 

 count of the presence there of President Taft. Mr. Colston made 

 a very interesting and able address in which he said that he 

 thought the business interests of the country were too much afraid 

 of the law; that they also gave 

 too much attention to what is 

 going on in Wall street and 

 Washington. He believed that 

 law and business ought to go 

 hand in hand. He believed 

 there were too many lawyers 

 in the houses of Congress who 

 attempt to make laws on busi- 

 ness subjects concerning which 

 they know very little. 



J. M. Manley, civic secre- 

 tary of the Cincinnati Busi- 

 ness Men 's Club, presented a 

 speech of welcome on behalf 

 of that organization, which 

 was followed by a brief 

 speech of welcome by Cliff S. 

 Walker, made in behalf of 

 Samuel W. Richey, president 

 of the Lumbermen 's Club of 

 Cincinnati. 



An eloquent response on be- 

 half of the association was 

 made by Frank F. Fee of Lit- 

 tle Rock, Ark. 



President's Address 



President Townsend then 

 delivered his annual address: 



Gentlemen oi the convention, 

 the tenth annual meeting of the 

 Hardwood Jilanufacturers' As- 

 sociation of tlie United States 

 meets for the third consecutive 

 time in this, a city peculiarly 

 adapted to the holding of the 

 annual meetings of this im- 

 portant association. 



Today finds us with one mor.' 

 year of experience in our asso- 

 ciation work behind us, and tin 

 lessons it has tanght, and in 

 reviewing the accomplishments 

 of the year's worl< done, many 

 important problems have been 

 presented during the year .ius'^ 

 closed and most of them have 

 been satisfactorily solved. A 

 year ago we set a very high 

 standard as our line of en- 

 deavor, and through the untiring and earnest endeavor of our executive 

 board and executive committee, a vast amount of work has been done 

 that is sure to be of permanent benefit to the members, and it is most 

 fitting that I sliould call special attention to the untiring zeal, energy and 

 devotion to their work, frequently at great sacrifice, by the splendid 

 gentlemen who made up the membership of your executive board. Cer- 

 tainly the association is to be complimented by reason of its elBciency 

 along these lines, and as a result we start on oiir eleventh year better 

 ei|uipped to battle with the intricate problems that confront us than ever 



W. E. DELANEY, PRESIDENT 



before. I want to thank the various committees who have met during 

 Ibe year, for their hearty co-operation, and assure them and you that 

 but for their labor and sacrifice uuicli would have been left undone. 

 nls(] I heir earnest, honest endeavor has uot only contributed greatly 

 rewards making the year's work a success, but has made a pleasure 

 what otherwise would have involved much hard work on your president. 

 Much, however, still remains to Ix' done, and I earnestly solicit for your 

 new president the most hearty support and co-operalion of the individual 

 members in this important work. 



Problems are only solved by careful, earnest study, and it is most 

 fortunate for some of us that much learning, or a college degree is not 

 necessary to solve a great problem. Many inventions and intricate 

 problems have been solved by people with only a common school education 

 or who have educated themselves. 



Garfield read his books as he walked the towpath. and Lincoln studied 

 by the light of a pine knot. 



Every nation has its problems. Every state has problems and every 



century, yes. every decade, new 

 problems, and every association 

 its problems. Will we all help? 

 The world is struggling to 

 grow better — will we struggle 

 to improve our association con- 

 ditions? We have been improv- 

 ing the breed of onr horses and 

 cattle, and are now studying to 

 improve the breed of our chil- 

 dren, and are studying condi- 

 tions, and teaching intensive 

 farming. Will we, as an associa- 

 tion, study and learn how to so 

 improve our manufacturing con- 

 ditions that we can supply a 

 greater percentage of high grade 

 or sought for stock out of the 

 inferior tree, than our prede- 

 cessors produced from a vastly 

 superior tree? 



I covet for this association 

 that its members, through hon- 

 est, earnest and intelligent co- 

 operation, may in the not far 

 distant future, produce and 

 manipulate from the forests a 

 product that will be so uni- 

 formly attractive and desirable 

 that substitution, kicks and mix- 

 ing of grades will be unheard of. 

 This is an age of problems, 

 new, strange and perplexing ; 

 the solution will he far reach- 

 ing. Such an age gives an op- 

 portunity for great mischief to 

 be done. Are the yellow press 

 and the muck-raking magazines 

 patiently and laboriously search- 

 ing into the burning questions 

 today? Not for a minute. They 

 are noise makers, not problem 

 solvers, and they are hunting a 

 lumber trust. 



Association people must bear 

 this in mind and be prepared to 

 tackle emergencies, for the 

 reason, if we do not solve our 

 problems rightly, some one will 

 solve them wrongly, hence the 

 necessity of co-operation, and 

 this is where the real benefit 

 of association work tells. Not 

 each one depeud on the other 

 fellow, but exactly the opposite, 

 is co-operation. 



Men love to flglil for a. piin- 



ciph' hut they do not love to 



flyht ajunc. If we have failed to accomplish that which we have set 



out to do, h't us investigate and see if the result is not due to lack of 



team work. 



Our association has a place all its own. in some respects unique, by 

 reason of the fact that much work, many important things, it not done 

 b.y tills association, will not be done at all. 



"But as to the l)euefits to its members." In order that the best results 

 may be obtained, it is essential that the members take a personal interest 

 in its work and the meetings. Their presence and their counsel will 



