30d 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25. 1922 



BE IT FTTBTHEB BESOIiVXD, Tliat this Association confirms the 

 pledges already ffiven by its representative at the Washing-ton con- 

 ference to support and further, as far as practicable, the purposes of 

 the national g-overnment as expressed by Secretary Hoover of the 

 Department of Conunerce; and to this end tenders, for the considera- 

 tion of the Department of Commerce, the sugg'estion that there be 

 called a conference of all hardwood manufacturing- and distributing 

 interests, with a view to the practical development of the Depart- 

 ment's ideas. To such a conference the National Hardwood Iiomber 

 Association will gladly send a delegation. 



BE IT FUBTHEB BESOIiVED, That the National Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Association is qualified, as an organization, to deal directly with 

 the government throug-h the Department of Commerce, upon any and 

 all questions afi^ecting' the hardwood industry; 



Should Take National Bules Into Account. 

 BE IT FURTHER RBSOIiVED, That in the judgment of the mem- 

 bers of the National Hard-wood Lumber Association^ a truly national 

 organization and admittedly occupying- a comouandin^ position in the 

 industry by reason of its membership of 1,408 representative hard- 

 wood producing and distributing concerns, located in thirty-sis 

 states and three provinces of Canada, it is essential to the Depart- 

 ment of Commerce, in its contemplated undertaking in the public in- 

 terest to foster and promote lumber standardization, that the measure 

 of standardization and simplification of hardwood already achieved by 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association be taken fully into ac- 

 count and that due recogTiition be given the facts, that during its 

 twenty-five years of activity, this Association has succeeded in 

 standardizing to the g-eneral satisfaction alike of producer, distribu- 

 tor and consumer, the twenty-eight or more species of commercial 

 hardwoods under a single simplified system of grading and measure- 

 ment, recognized and honored throughout the world, and which pro- 

 vides at the same time, complete protection to the consumer as to 

 quantity and quality; 



BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That questions affecting the hard- 

 wood industry, must, as a matter of practical necessity, be considered 

 and administered separately from those affecting the softwood in- 

 dustry; that in the hardwood standardization already developed 

 within the industry itself by this Association there has been provided 

 a foundation upon which may readily be built such additional struc- 

 ture as win further serve the practical advantages of the consuming- 

 public as well as of the industry. 



The resolutions committee comprised the following: H. B. Cartin, 

 J. C. WickUffe, E. T. Turner, Geo. F. Kerns, W. E. Chamberlin, Chair- 

 man. 



Commercial Bribery Condemned 



The resolutions committee presented, and the members also unani- 

 mously adopted, a resolution condemning the "widespread practice 

 of commercial bribery," and resolving "that the officers and mem- 

 bers of this association are hereby urged to help in securing the 

 elimination of commercial bribery by law, by advocating adequate 

 national and state legislation, and that this association cooperate 

 with the Commercial Standards Council in its endeavors to stimu- 



late and direct an organized effort to preserve the big, clean, con- 

 structive principles in American business. ' ' 

 Election of Officers Held 



Tlie election of officers for the ensuing year, and nine directors, 

 completed the business of the convention, with the exception of the 

 brief addresses made by the ne-w officers as they were installed. 

 The officers elected were as follo-(vs: 



President — John W. McClure, Memphis. 



First Vice-President — B. C. Ciirrie, Philadelphia. 



Second Vice-President — John R. Thistlethwaite, Washington, La. 



Third Vice-President John I. Shafer, South Bend, Ind. 

 Directors to Serve for Three Years 



Horace F. Taylor, Buffalo, N. Y. 



E. V. Babcock, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



0. F. Maples, Knoxville, Tenn. 



L. H. Wheeler, Wausau, Wis. 



E. C. Stimson, Memphis. 



D. E. Chlpps, Fort Worth, Tex. 



Thos. O 'Berry, Enterprise, N. C. 



W. L. Saunders, Cadillac, Mich. 



Directors to Serve for Two Years 



Frank G. Otis, New Orleans, La. 



Officers' Reports Unusually Vigorous 



The features of the opening session of the convention on the 

 morning of Thursday, June 2'2, were the annual address of President 

 Taylor and the annual report of Frank F. Fish, secretary-treasurer. 

 Both of these papers were unusually vigorous and informative, con- 

 sidering, as they did, all the vital movements of the day affecting 

 the hardwood industr,v. The report made by Secretary Fish was 

 the seventeenth annual account he has given to the members of his 

 stewardship. Both papers are printed in full in the order delivered. 



President's Address 



In inviting you, gentlemen, to take up the order of our program, I may 

 say at the outset that no more acceptable task falls to the chairman than 

 that of extending to you all the very cordial greeting of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, which can be offered in this personal way 

 only at an annual meeting. This occasion has very special significance, 

 for it marks not only the annual period, but is, as you know, the twenty- 

 fifth meeting of the association, and, therefore, our "Silver Jubilee." I 

 hardly need to ask you each to join us in offering the spirit of hospitality 

 and welcome to all the others, for that is always the atmosphere of our 

 meetings ; and it is my particular privilege to greet you all on behalf of 

 the association itself, which, although an institution, is distinctly a human 

 kind of being having all the vitality and hope and promise that go with 

 the mature manhood we have reached on this important birthday we are 

 here to celebrate. 



When we view our earlier years from today's vantage point, their 

 problems seem comparatively simple ; they were naturally concerned very 

 largely with the proper "bringing up" of a growing organization, in order 



Frank F. Fish, Secretary-Treasurer 



Earl Palmer. Chairman Sales Code Committee 



Horace F. Taylor, Retiring President 



