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July 10. 1922 



gram is and what it means to the consuming industry. Instead, he 

 let liis mind go no further than was necessary to inform himself 

 that a new association of manufacturers had been started and to 

 link that organization with price advancements. 



It is almost unbelievable that an intelligent business man, who 

 is supposed to be in touch with the hardwood market, could arrive 

 at the foolish conclusion that recent advancements in hardwood 

 prices were the direct and exclusive result of the formation of the 

 new manufacturers' association. 



To begin with, this new movement is totally divorced from the 

 old statistical plan. Further, it is merely one part of a very broad 

 movement, right now in its very incipiency, and which compre- 

 hends not only the whole lumber industry but includes as well a 

 direct and effective connection with Washington. 



This explanation is prompted by the belief that the Hoover 

 program is a big thing, and that it can not succeed without the 

 support of the consumers of lumber. The gentleman in question 

 should be one to support the program and yet through allowing 

 himself unintelligent and ill-advised conclusions he is standing 

 in the way of his own best interests. 



The Hoover program in its broad conception is, for the purpose of 

 enabling a broadcast housecleaning in the lumber industry, making 

 possible the presentation through the government to the public 

 a single picture of a unified industry, which has chosen to correct 

 its errors rather than to wait for their correction under govern- 

 ment authority. Because this program is all-inclusive so far as 

 the various branches of the industry extend, it must of necessity 

 have reached the hardwood manufacturing element and because it 

 was conceived by those sponsoring the new association that there 

 existed no national organization purely of manufacturers, the new 

 body was formed for the express purpose of functioning as a hard- 

 wood manufacturers' institution in utmost support of the Hoover 

 program. 



This precludes any possibility of there being the remotest reason 

 for this furniture man 's conclusions, except that he has not taken 

 the trouble to inform himself on the biggest movement that has 

 ever been started in behalf of correct manufacturing and mer- 

 chandising principles. And it must necessarily follow that under 

 correct merchandising principles the needs of the consumer are 

 best taken care of. 



Briefly described, the Hoover program provides for a thorough, 

 practical and yet scientific study of all industries using lumber for 

 the purpose of so regulating sizes, specifications and grades that 

 each industry will have available for purchase just that kind of 

 lumber as can be most efficiently used and with the least waste in 

 each such industrial group. The plan further provides that such 

 buyers shall have a guarantee, backed by the highest authority, that 

 they shall receive what they buy and pay for. 



It is the very essence of Secretary Hoover's effort that complete 

 protection of the purchaser and complete meeting of his needs may 

 be brought about. 



So when this gentleman condemned price advances as the sinister 

 result of a combination of manufacturers he condemned the whole 

 Hoover idea which was inaugurated and advanced for his benefit. 



Hardwood Record urges upon consuming executives in any line 

 of business to which hardwood lumber is an important raw mate- 

 rial a thorough and exhaustive study of this project leading to the 

 proper conception of its purposes, its functions and its possible 

 effects. 



Backhanded Arguing 



AXTNITED STATES SENATOR, whose reputation would appear 

 more impressive than his logic, made a most startling plea 

 during recent consideration of a proposed duty on shingles. The 

 purport of his thought was that because lumbermen operated on a 

 natural resource of great beauty, and because, due to the demand 

 for lumber products, depletion considerably exceeds new growth, the 

 welfare of the country would be best served by putting the lumber 

 industry out of business. 



Everyone knows that boards are cut out of logs and that logs 

 are produced from beautiful forest trees. The most innocent hope- 

 ful in the lowest primary grades of our public schools, knows be- 

 fore lie has mastered his multiplication tables that at one time 

 nearly the whole face of our country was covered with a beautiful 

 spread of primeval and unmolested timber. But is it sane to argue 

 that none of this timber should have been sacrificed to the needs of 

 advancing civilization and national development? 



Yet, this is precisely what this august statesman advocates in his 

 biting denunciation of the lumber industry and his fiery appeal 

 for free entry of competing products that, insofar as legislation 

 can accomplish it, the lumber industry may be restricted. 



The forestry movement in this country had its beginning in senti- 

 ment and theory. Today the main contributing means to its 

 advancement is practicable and utilitarian interpretation of the 

 problem. Our Chief Forester, in fact, has repeatedly stated that 

 the essence of the conservation movement in this country must 

 for years consist primarily of fire protection. 



The purposes of conservation insofar as they directly touch the 

 lumber industry can best be served by so protecting the industry 

 and so stabilizing its operations that a closer utilization of the 

 tree, and, in the woodworking factory, of the board which comes 

 from the tree, may be effected. It is contended that cut exceeds 

 growth something like five to one. It is further admitted that 

 only some twenty to twenty-five per cent of -the tree is utilized, 

 the rest being waste. There is a tremendous leeway right there 

 to work on in the matter of conservation without demanding that 

 the lumber industry be forced out of business in order that the 

 cut may be further restricted. 



Table of Contents 



REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: 



General Market Conditions , 11 



A Startling Version of the Hoover Program 11-12 



Backhanded Arguing 12 



SPECIAL ARTICLES: 



Dimension Stock— Its Production at the Factory 13-14 



What Grade Standardization Means IS & 23 



Picture of the Washington Conference 16-23 



Furniture Makers Booking Good Business at Summer Markets 35 



NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL: 



Miscellanecus 24 



YARD AND KILN: 



Advice on Selection of Kilns Best Suited to Hardwood Lumber 28-30 



CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS: 



Miscellaneous ..26 & 32 



HARDWOOD NEWS NOTES 34 & Sl-SS 



HARDWOOD MARKET 55-57 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 60-61 



ADVERTISERS* DIRECTORY 59 



HARDWOODS FOR SALE 62-64 



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