April 20, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



2.; 



Moss Again Heads Millwork Cost Bureau 



Legality of Bureau's Methods Defended by President Moss at Eighth Annual 

 Convention; Value of Cost Knowledge of Millwork Industry 



Shown by Discussions 



Yielding to the earnest solicitation of the ninnliers, who did not 

 desire to change administration at tliis junctnri' in the bureau's 

 affairs, F. J. Moss, jiresident of the Millwork Cost Bureau, at the 

 closing session of the eighth annual convention of the bureau, in 

 Chicago at the Congress Hotel on April 2(i, again accepted re-elec- 

 tion. 



Mr. Moss reminded the members that he had served the bureau 

 since its organization, and that he earnestly desired to retire and 

 let some other and perhaps younger man take up the burdens of 

 leadership, but the members would not consent to this. They 

 insisted that the affairs of the bureau required his administration 

 for at least another year, because of the general economic situation 

 of the country and the fact that all trade associations are, in effect, 

 under attack as a result of the Hardwood Case and the conditions 

 created by it in the minds of Government departments. Mr. Moss 

 is president of the American Sash & Door Company of Kansas 

 City, Mo. 



The two vice-presidents also were re-elected. They are: First 

 vice-president, E. J. Curtis, Curtis Bros. & Co., Clinton, Iowa; 

 second vice-president, Chas. T. Abeles, Chas. T. Abeles & Co., Little 

 Hock, Ark. 



The directors had previously re-elected the treasurer, J. A. 

 Loetscher, Farley & Loetscher Mfg. Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 

 W. P. Flint of course remains as secretary of the bureau. 



The Directors 



The directors are elected by the various regional groups in the 

 bureau, but these selections were confirmed by the members in 

 convention. The directors are as fol- 

 lows: 



Chas. A. Sanders, Sanders Bros. 

 Mfg. Co., Ottawa, 111. 



J. C. Otis, Columbia Lumber & Mfg. 

 Co., Columbia, S. C. 



M. B. Copeland, M. A. Disbrow & 

 Co., Omaha, Neb, 



E. R. Eaton, J. R. Eaton & Sons, Ltd., 

 Orillia, Ont, 



M, S. Enochs, Enochs Lbr. & Mfg. 

 Co., Jackson, Miss. 



E. T. Erickson, Curtis Door & Sash 

 Co., Chicago, 111. 



Edmund Goedde, B. Goedde & Co.. 

 East St, Louis, 111. 



H. G. Gould, Gould Mfg. Co., Osh- 

 kosh, Wis, 



0. D. Haskett, O. D. Haskett Lbr. 

 Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 



C. H. Hudel, American Lbr. & Mfg. 

 Co., Green Bay, Wis, 



Earl A, Hurd, W. F. Hurd Co., De- 

 troit, Mich. 



E. R. Jones, Victoria Lbr, Co., Ltd., 

 Shreveport, La. 



A. W. King, Woodruff Lbr, Co., 

 Duluth, Minn. 



S. S. King, Dayton Lbr, & Mfg, Co., 

 Dayton, Ohio. 



A. X. Kylander, Aaron Carlson, Inc., 

 Minneapolis, Minn, 



J. A. Loetscher, Farley & Loetscher Mfg. Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 



F, J. Moss, American Sash & Door Coi. Kansas City, Mo. 



C. D. McPhee, Jr., MePhee & McGinnity Co., Denver, Colo. 



E. C, Noelke, Noelke-Lyon Mfg, Co., Burlington, Iowa. 



J. A. Olson, Standard Sash & Door Co., Chicago, 111. 



A. J. Siegel, Huttig Sash & Door Co., St, Louis, Mo. 



Frank Stevens, Waco Sash & Door Co., Waco, Tex. 



\V. E. Tylander, East Coast Lbr. & Supply Co., Ft. Pierce, Fla. 



C. H. Weber, the Keystone Lbr, Co., Pittsburgh, Pa. 



T. A. Wilson, the Western Mfg. Co., Ltd., Regina, Sask. 



J. H. Winiker, Heidelbach Lumber Co., Inc., Danville, Ya. 



Robt. York, York Lbr. Mfg. Co., Memphis, Tenn. 



Necessity of Cost Knowledge Shown 



The convention program occupied a period of two days, during 

 which numerous well-informed members of the bureau related 

 experiences and presented facts to clearly demonstrate the abso- 

 lute necessity of proper cost information to the prosperity of the 

 millwork industry. The speakers declared that without cost infor- 

 mation such as the burea's methods furnish, the members of the 

 industry can only do business in ignorance and upon the continual 

 hazard of bankruptcy. They related that the work of the bureau 

 has served to place the industry upon a sound economic basis, after 

 years of struggle with unbusinesslike methods, and has taught the 

 members of the bureau to apply to the millwork business those 

 efficient methods of production and financing which the success 

 of modern business enterprise absolutely demands. 



But that the gospel of millwork cost information has not yet spread 

 as far as it should and may spread was 

 suggested by the addres sof Franklin 

 Dickey, secretary of the Pittsburgh 

 (Pa,) Lumbermen 's Club and presi- 

 dent of the Pittsburgh Estimators' 

 Club, who at the close of the second 

 day's session spoke on "The Planing 

 Mill Owner's Besetting Sin," and in 

 effect summed up the discussions of 

 the previous sessions. Mr. Dickey said 

 that this sin is the planing mill 

 owner's "utter lack of interest in 

 facts concerning his business. Knowl- 

 edge of these facts is the only known 

 basis on which his business can be suc- 

 cessfully conducted," he added. 



"As a class," Mr. Dickey con- 

 tinued, "the planing mill owners do 

 not know what the finished product is 

 worth. They do not know in general 

 that there is a right price for every 

 piece of mill work." 



In this connection Mr. Dickey stated 

 that there is no law on earth that can 

 make illegal the obtaining of the right 

 price for a piece of millwork. "It is 

 impossible for the manufacturer of 

 millwork to discharge his obligation 

 to himself, to his creditors and the 

 public, if he does not know the right 

 price for his product, he said. 



F, J. Moss, Re-elected President 



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