Semi-Monthly 

 Twenty-Seventh Year 



537 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET 



CHICAGO, JUNE 10, 1922 



Subscription $2 

 Vol. LlII, No. 4 



TO ALL HARDWOOD LUMBER 

 MANUFACTURERS 



AT the epoch making conference of lumber manufac- 

 turers with Secretary Hoover, called by the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association of Washington, D. C, 

 and held May 22nd to 25th, to consider the subject of 

 simplification, standardization, and trade practices in the 

 lumber business, the representatives of the lumber manu- 

 facturing industry of the United States, including all varie- 

 ties of vsroods, enthusiastically endorsed the constructive 

 program outlined by Secretary Hoover. 



A formal statement issued by the Department of 

 Commerce discussing the results of the conference 

 follows: 



"The hope of the department in calling this 

 preliminary conference was provision of a sys- 

 tem throughout the country for inspection and 

 guarantee of the quality, quantity and grade of 

 lumber with a view to affording all possible 

 protection to the consuming public; that ways 

 would be found to simplify the dimensions of 

 lumber and secure the right proportion of lum- 

 ber to different types of consumers with a view 

 to eliminate waste, decreasing cost of distribu- 

 tion, and to see that agencies for accomplish- 

 ing these purposes should be sent up by the 

 lumber industry itself. 



"The Secretary of Commerce proposed 

 that a national system of inspection and cer- 

 tification should be created by the industry to 

 embrace all of the lumber trade; that descrip- 

 tions of the different species of lumber as to 

 grade and quality should be made as uniform 

 as possible throughout the country; that the 

 inspection service should be open to consum- 

 ers in settlement of all disputes; and that, in 

 order to better establish the reputation of 

 American lumber products abroad, this sys- 

 tem of inspection and certification should be 

 extended to foreign countries." 



In the nature of things the program outlined at this 

 conference cannot be formulated and put into effect with- 

 out setting up adequate machinery. It will be noted that 

 the Hoover conference selected the National Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association as the broad and adequate 

 vehicle by means of which and through which the con- 

 structive suggestions adopted by the conference could 

 be put into motion. In order to adequately safeguard 

 the interests of hardwood manufacturers, it is apparent 



Con tin ued 



that the industry must organize itself in such way that it 

 may not only participate but will have proper representa- 

 tion in these future conferences. 



Hardwood lumber manufacturers must not omit to 

 take advantage of the opportunity to co-operate in con- 

 structive accomplishment in the same way that the manu- 

 facturers of all other woods have signified their willing- 

 ness to do. The Associations composed of the manu- 

 facturers of pine, fir, redwood, in fact, all other woods, 

 are fully alive to the high importance of the situation, 

 and are preparing to make full contribution to the success 

 of the program. 



The hardwood manufacturers have labored under 

 handicaps to which other groups of manufacturers have 

 not been subjected. Their failure to keep the hardwood 

 industry fully abreast of the movement would seriously 

 interfere with the progress thereof, success depending in 

 large measure upon efficient co-operation by all elements 

 of the entire lumber manufacturing industry throughout 

 the whole of the United States. 



It is unthinkable that the hardwood manufacturers 

 will fail to rise to the necessities of the situation at the 

 inception of an era which is so full of promise of con- 

 structive accomplishment. 



Now is the time for all hardwood lumber manufac- 

 turers to fully co-operate and to stand shoulder to shoul- 

 der for the constructive principles hereinbefore outlined, 

 securing thereby an economic and scientific system of 

 lumber classification, closer co-operation with the con- 

 sumers of hardwoods, the minimization of waste and the 

 elimination of objectionable practices and merchandis- 

 ing methods against which lumber manufacturers have 

 so long vainly fought. 



The Hoover Washington Standardization Conference 

 went on record to the effect that manufacturers should 

 make the rules, giving due consideration to the consumer, 

 and we were given to understand by Secretary Hoover 

 that if we did not voluntarily simplify and standardize 

 rules, sizes and trade practices, that there would be fed- 

 eral interference. 



For the purpose of carrying out the plans of the con- 

 ference in line with Secretary Hoover's thought, it is 

 deemed essential that all hardwood manufacturers be 

 brought into one National organization, and to that end 

 a meeting of all manufacturers is hereby called to as- 

 semble at the Henry Watterson Hotel, Louisville, Ky., 

 June 15, 16 eind 17, 1922, and to there remain in session 

 until the purposes of the meeting have been accomplished. 

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