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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 2.J. 1922 



LUMBER 



American Black Walnut 



Our Specialty 



I ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES 



( 3 8" to 16/4" 



We have a goodly supply on hand at all times. 

 Our Band Mill is in daily operation cutting Black 

 Walnut exclusively. Let us figure on your re- 

 quirements. STRAIGHT OR MIXED CARS 



Prompt, Efficient and Courteous Service 



( 1 28" SLICED WALNUT VENEER 

 VENEERS J Our flitches are especially selected for obtaining 

 ' quality wood — Special attention to color. 



The Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Co. 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



Home Office: Lock Box No. 18, St. Bernard 



AGENTS IN ALL FURNITURE CENTERS 



Olbces: Baltimore, Md.: Jamestown. N. Y.. and 

 Grand Rapids, MIcb. 



Represented in Chicago, Roclilord, III., Detroit. Kitchener, Ont., Can.. 

 New York City and San Francisco 



{Vontiitiud Jrom page 32> 

 the nature of a jubilee meeting, celebrating as it does, nearly a quarter of 

 a century of association endeavor; and for that reason, the management 

 has spared no effort to make it an outstanding event In the history of the 

 association. 



While the members of the association require no welcome from me to 

 their own meeting, we are fortunate in having with us as honored guests 

 many representatives of other lumber and lumber consuming organizations, 

 to whom it is my further privilege to extend in the name of this associa- 

 tion, a most cordial greeting. I trust that these guests will not only 

 attend our business sessions, but that they will also participate in the 

 social features shown in the program which have been prepared with 

 unusual care in anticipation of their presence with us. 



These social, or entertainment features, are financed and made possible 

 through the publication of the official Year Book and Souvenir Program, 

 which shows a large increase this year, both in size and appearance. 

 Through oversight on the part ot the secretary, credit for the historical 

 outline which appears on pages 29 to 89 was not given its author. 

 Earl Palmer of Memphis. .Apology is offered to Mr. Palmer for this over- 

 sight and omission. 



No trade association has the right to exist unless it is ot benefit to its 

 members, to the industry it represents, and to the public at large. It 

 must observe the golden rule and has no right to attempt the elimination 

 of any of the natural and necessary forms of competition. It must grant 

 equal consideration to all branches ot the trade, and failing to make a 

 positive contribution in the direction of improvement and betterment of 

 conditions, will not endure. 



Any voluntary organization attaining to the longevity possessed by the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association, and, commanding as it does, the 

 confidence and support of the industry which it represents, must have been 

 called into existence by conditions justifying its birth, and must also have 

 met the demands arising from these conditions in a manner satisfactory to 

 its supporters, or else Its existence would not have been prolonged for so 

 many years. While this conclusion is reached by the reverse process of 

 reasoning from effect to cause, the unassailable quality of the logic 

 employed is evidenced by the facts surrounding the origin and the develop- 

 ment of the National Hardwood Lumber Association. Prior to its advent 

 chaotic conditions prevailed in the hardwood industry, while now — due 

 to its operation — chaos has been replaced by system, and the hardwood 

 industry may justly claim to have set its house in order and to afford a 

 competent object lesson to other industries as to what may be accom. 

 pHshed in the solution of Industrial and trade problems from within by 



correct and intelligent effort on the part of members of an industry, 

 expressed through the mediumship of trade organization. 



But before such an attempt is made, the nature of the problem for 

 which a solution is sought should be thoroughly understood and properl.y 

 defined or else the work attempted will be indefinite in nature and lacking 

 in a direct objective. 



In the very beginning the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 adopted a definite program of effort, which was ; to establish a uniform 

 system for the inspection and measurement ot hardwood lumber ; and it 

 has strictly adhered to that original purpose in season and out of season ; 

 and the complete success of its undertaking is evidenced by the fact that 

 today there is but one system for the inspection of hardwood lumber, and 

 that is the system promulgated and administered by the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber .\ssociation. The term "National Inspection" is familiar 

 wherever hardwood lumber is solil and purchased, and it is generally 

 accepted as a positive guarantee of honest grades and full measure. 



Having attained to unqualified success in its original undertaking, the 

 National Hardwood Lumber .Association now proposes a new objective, 

 which is the simplification and standardization ot trade customs through 

 the promulgation of a hardwood sales code to be generally accepted by the 

 producing, distributing and consuming elements of the hardwood industry. 

 Much time and attention has been bestowed upon the preparation of this 

 proposed sale code and in developing a sentiment among all parties at 

 interest favorable to its immediate adoption. The matter will come up 

 tomorrow for consideration by this membership, and no doubt exists in 

 my mind as to the final result of your deliberations upon that important 

 question. 



Besides possessing definite object for accomplishment, the success of 

 associate endeavor also depends upon the individual loyalty of the members 

 to the association, through the operation of which the desired object is 

 to be obtained. Without that loyalty no hope for success in associate 

 undertakings can be indulged in. The National Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation has always been fortunate in the possession of an intensely loyal 

 membership, which explains in part the full measure of success which has 

 been accorded to its efforts. I regret, however, that there have been a 

 few individual instances of members who were not imbued with this desir- 

 able spirit of loyalty, and who have uot hesitated, when an opportunity 

 presented, to vilify the association and its methods, while at the same time 

 they were availing themselves of the benefits accruing to them as members 

 thereof. In all civilized countries, during a state of war. treason Is punish- 

 able by death and at other times by imprisonment or by expulsion from the 

 (Coiitiiuicil on par/c 3G) 



