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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25. 1922 



nearer the results approach perfect unanimity, the greater will be the 

 beneficial returns. Thus everyone involved, including the government 

 agencies sponsoring the project, viewed with great regret the unfortunate 

 trend which developed in the hardwood element. It is indisputable that 

 in the detailed working out of the Hoover program to meet the intimate 

 requirements of manufacture, merchandising and utilization of hard- 

 wood lumber, consideration must of necessity be given to hardwoods 

 as separate and distinct from the remaining softwoods. There can 

 be and is no controversy on this point, but H.\kdwood Record sincerely 

 believes after a most careful and conscientious examination of the offlcial 

 record of the proceedings, that it was not the hope oi; intention to arrive 

 at final or binding conclusions in this preliminary conference. There- 

 fore HAitnwooD Record regrets, as militating against the final best inter- 

 ests of the hardwood branch of lumbering and the industries it supplies, 

 the action which was the cause of interjecting controversial elements 

 purely hardwood in their nature, into a program intended simply to de- 

 scribe and clarify those issues that are of common interest and capable 

 of being worked out on a thoroughly unanimous basis. 



In one of his addresses before the assembled body. Secretary Hoover 

 illustrates this point in a way which specifically bears on the angle which 

 the hardwood discussion took : "I, of course, would like to see such a 

 (national) Inspection Bureau that would cover the whole of the trade, 

 softwood as well as hardwood. I do not see any great difficulty in bring- 

 ing both branches into such a service. It does not imply that the inspec- 

 tors must be skilled in both woods, but it does imply that there is a central 

 point in the United States that stands as a guarantee of the business 

 ethics of the entire industry." 



This utterance is amplified in many ways and in many other places 

 with impressions which leave no doubt as to the intent. It is clearly 

 .Secretary Hoover's thought not to disrupt and throw into one general fold 

 accredited inspection services, but to provide for the benefit of the public 

 and as an evidence of good faith by the industry, one common clearing 

 house and center of ultimate responsibility available to all and made 

 familiar through advertising to the whole public. 



The aftermath of the Washington conference — the event directly re- 

 sulting from that conference and peculiarly linked to the hardwood 

 industry — are fully described in the news pages of this issue. These 

 events have resulted in a more pronounced rupture of the hardwood in- 

 dustry than has, possibly, ever before developed. A new association has 

 come into being representative apparently of that element within the 

 hardwood delegation at Washington which sponsored the Hoover program. 

 It may be that this sponsorship resulted in part, at least, from realization 

 of the .strategic advantages it offered, but it is not fair to assume that 

 such realization is entirely or even in a considerable measure the cause 

 of the new movement, or of the accepance by that contingent of the Hoover 

 measures. Had this unfortunate hardwood controversy not been inter- 

 jected it Is quite probable and in fact almost certain that the whole 

 industry inclusive of hardwoods would now be working one hundred per 

 cent in the direction Mr. Hoover has pointed. Indeed the program is one 

 described on many occasions before as ideal and as representative of the 

 status which the lumber industry must attain before being in the good 

 graces of the public and in position to move forward. Is it. therefore, 

 to the best future interest of the industry to have apparently placed it 

 in the position of being unable to participate as a whole in future ac- 

 tivities of the Hoover conferences because of various actions taken at 

 the Washington meeting? 



The status of hardwoods in the Hoover program is today uncertain. 

 The prosecution of the program to ultimate accomplishment so far as 

 other materials are concerned, is a practical surety. Hardwood Record 

 believes, though, that so far as hardwoods arc concerned their involvement 

 in the future of the movement will be along one of two lines. Either due to 

 lack of agreement within the industry, hardwoods will definitely cease to 

 participate, or, through its avowed atflliation with the Washington program, 

 the new hardwood group resulting therefrom will be accredited as repre- 

 sentative of the industry. This conviction results purely from an un- 

 qualified belief that Secretary Hoover and Assistant Secretary Durgin wish 

 above all other tilings to bring forth a unified program and that the 

 secretaries are unalterably opposed to recognition of two distinctive units. 

 Their whole plan is founded upon the thought of having one central re- 

 sponsible body for the clearing of all relations between the industry on 

 the one hand and the government and the public on the other hand, and 

 such recognition of two branches would directly controvert this purpose. 



The request of the present dominant body in hardwood inspection mat- 

 ters, for a second and purely hardwood conference, will probably be 

 granted. At least, that is the opinion of Hardwood Record, but it is the 

 further opinion that the result will be merely a clarifying of the status 

 under which the hardwood interest may further participate and not the 

 inauguration of a new exclusively hardwood movement in the direction 

 of the Hoover program and separate and distinguished from the initial 

 effort. 



Hardwood Record's dominant sentiment in the matter is one of regret 

 that, due to the angles into which hardwood discussions were drawn, 

 hardwood's participation in this unquestionably forward-looking movement 

 is attended by doubt. Hardwood Record will assume to hold a brief only 

 for the hardwood industry as a whole, and for the wood-using industries. It 

 specifically believes that the main principles of the Hoover program, if 

 actively sponsored by the hardwood men as a unit, would have been 



carried forward in the interests of the hardwood industry and the hard- 

 wood consumers to a favorable conclusion bad there been no interjection 

 of differences confined to hardwoods and of interest solely to those con- 

 cerned with hardwoods. The correct application of the Hoover principles 

 to hardwoods could be brought about only through initial unanimous sup- 

 port of the principles suggested, but with provision for their further 

 development by exclusive hardwood agencies up to the point of final 

 adoption. We believe that the future participation of hardwoods in this 

 movement will depend upon the status given by Secretary Hoover and by 

 the organizing body in general to that element of the hardwood trade which 

 actively participated in the initial development. 



Hardwood Record wishes to make the emphatic assertions in con- 

 clusion that it believes the principles enunciated through the Washing- 

 ton conference point an advanced step for the lumber industry ; it believes 

 that the full psychological reaction in the public mind will come only 

 through perfect unanimity ; it believes these principles are subscribed to 

 and can be specifically adopted by the hardwood industry ; but in the 

 present status of the movement it asserts its unqualified adherence only 

 to the cause of advancement and betterment in the hardwood industry and 

 the consuming industries using hardwoods. It will commit itself to un- 

 (jualified support of such movements as will work without bias, without 

 prejudice and without selfish ends to meet this, one of the biggest issues 

 that has ever come before the industry. 



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Don't Be a Car Hog 



>UYERS AS WELL AS iSKLLEES of liardwood lumber will be 

 making a serious mistake if they fail to heed the timely 

 warning against a fall car shortage, issued by J. H. Townshend, 

 secretary-manager of tlie Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, 

 to the members of that organization. The best way to mini 

 mize the inconveniences and losses of a car shortage is to make 

 the shortage as small as possible. This can be done by 

 starting, before the shortage develops, to employ every practical 

 means to economize on ear requirements. Much of the distress 

 of a shortage can be forestalled by this timely action. It is the 

 moral duty of every shipper in the country to abide by the sug- 

 gestions for increased car efficiency, which Mr. Townshend makes 

 in his appeal and which are no doubt being addressed to the mem- 

 bers of every important industry in the country by their traffic 

 advisers. Mr. Townshend says, "Place orders for immediate ship- 

 ment. Keep your orders shipped up to date. Load heavily. Re- 

 lease cars promptly. Load equipment in the direction of the owning 

 Hue." It is a matter of self protection to follow these sugges- 

 tions; and, of course, everyone will, but the natural born hog. 

 Don't be a car hog. 



Mr. Townshend advised the hardwood shippers that L. M. Betts, 

 manager of the car service division of the American Railway Asso- 

 ciation, recently called at the Memphis headquarters of the asso- 

 ciation to enlist the support of the lumber shippers in securing 

 increased car efficiency, in view of the threatened shortage of cars. 



Concerning the present signs of the oncoming car famine, Mr. 

 Townshend said: "The car loading of all commodities are rapidly 

 increasing everywhere, with the exception of coal, which has 

 been far below normal due to the coal strike. There will be a 

 big grain crop this year, which will commence to move next month, 

 and will require a large number of closed cars. There will be 

 heavy movements of the usual seasonal commodities such as cotton, 

 Cotton seed products, rice, sugar cane, etc. As soon as the coal 

 strike is settled, there will be a tremendous demand for coal ears. 

 The carriers are still far behind in their repairs to bad order 

 equipment and will probably be unable to catch up by fall." 



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Table of Contents 



REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: 



The Hoover Program — Its National and Trade Significance 15-16 



Don't Be a Car Hog 1' 



SPECIAL ARTICLES: 



The New President of the National Hardwood Lumber Association — 

 A Biographical Study 30-A— 30-B & 43 



CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS: 



Miscellaneous 44 & 63 



Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute Launched at Mass Meeting 17-30 



National Lumber Manufacturers' Association Plans Further Stand- 

 ardization Meetings ■ ■ 30 



National Holds Epochal Meeting 30-C— 32 & 34-36 & 39 



Conferees Adopt Hardwood Sales Code 384& 42 & 44 



National Reports on Washington Conference 40-42 



Sale Talks on Value of Association Services 47-48 & !iO & 58-59 



HARDWOOD NEWS NOTES 65-68 



HARDWOOD MARKET 68-70 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 72-73 



ADVERTISERS' DIRECTORY 71 



HARDWOODS FOR SALE 74-76 



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