June 25. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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te Launched at Mass Meeting 



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Charter Members Represent Billion and Half Cut of Hardwoods; 

 Will Affiliate with National Lumber Manufacturers Asso- 

 ciation; Chicago Chosen for Headquarters 



Directors for Two Years 



M. W. Stark, American Column & Lumber Company, Colum- 

 bus. Ohio. 



J. W. Mayhew, W. M. Kitter Lumber Company, Columbus, 

 Ohio. 



John Raine, Meadow River Lumber Company, Rainelle, 

 W. Va. 



Ralph May, May Bros., Memphis, Tenn. 



E. A. Lang, Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company, Chicago, 111. 



F. K. Conn, Bayou Land & Lumber Company, Yazoo City, 

 Miss. 



John H. Kirby, Kirby Lumber Company, Houston, Tex. 



Directors for One Year 

 E. K. Mahan, Peytona Lumber Company, Huntington, 

 W. Va. 



H. B. Curtin. Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company, Clarks- 

 burg, W. Va. 



S. M. Nickey, Green River Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn. 



S. B. Anderson, Anderson-TuUy Company, Memphis, Tenn. 

 R. L. Jurden, Penrod-Jurden Company, Memphis, Tenn. 

 J. B. Edwards. Hillyer-Deutsch-Edwards, Oakdale, La. 

 Max Miller, Miller Lumber Company, Marianna, Ark. 

 Taylor Telegram Resented 

 Much discussion was hcarj, prior to reading on the floor, of a 

 telegram signed by Horace F. Taylor, president of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, seut to members endorsing the 

 special call or mass meeting at Louisville of hardwood manufac- 

 turers. This wire was construed in the nature of a threat or chal- 

 lenge. It read: 



Buffalo, N. T., June IS, 19S2. 

 Please advise me if you nutliorized the use of your name in connec- 

 tion trith a call for a meetimj to he held in Louisville at an early date 



for the purpose of organisation of another hardwood lumher associa- 

 tion and if it is your intention to encourage and support a renewal of 

 factinn.nl strife in the hardwood industry? 



Signed — Horace F. Taylor, 

 President National Hardwood Lumher Association. 

 Sentiment Solid for Hoover Program 



The hardwood men were a solid unit in endorsement of the 

 Hoover principles, and the belief that the hardwood industry should 

 rule its own business, instead of allowing one or any organization 

 to tr^- to rule it, which would result inevitably in Federal control. 

 "Equal Rights to All, But Special Privileges to None," was a 

 statement heard several times during the meeting. From now for- 

 ward the manufacturers are firm in their purpose that neither 

 dealer nor jobber shall rule the matter of grading, and in favor 

 of lumber being graded, marked, and with the mill as well as asso- 

 ciation emblem placed thereupon at the mill, so that there can be 

 no opportunity for interference with the product, so that it will 

 have to be sold as marked, resulting in a fair deal for the producer 

 and consumer. 



The Session Opens 



The initial session was called to order at two o'clock of Thurs- 

 day afternoou, June 15, in the tenth floor convention room of the 

 Watterson Hotel, by J. E. Stark, Memphis, Tenn., chairman of the 

 special organization committee of the American Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, named on March 8, for the purpose of launch- 

 ing a new organization, which at that time was to have been named 

 the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute. 



Mr. Stark called on Mayor Huston Quinn, Louisville, who made 

 the opening address, which was responded to by Col. Harry B. 

 Anderson of Memphis. Both of these addresses were humorous and 

 well delivered. Mayor Quinn remarked that it appeared as though 

 the lumbermen were "repeaters," as they met here last March. 

 Col. Anderson told several interesting stories of the old-time lum- 



B. F. Dulweber, Director 



C. M. Kellogg, Treasurer 



Attorney J. Van Norman, a "Keynoter" 



