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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10. 1922 



Clubs and Associations 



Directors of Hardwood Institute Meet to Further 



Perfect Organization; Members 



Increased to 117 



The directors of the Hardwood Manufacturers ' Institute, at a 

 meeting (the first since organization at Louisville, Ky., June 15-16) 

 held at the Hotel Gayoso in Memphis, Saturday, July 1, went a long 

 way in the direction of setting up the necessary machinery to carry 

 out the hardwood industry's part of Secretary Hoover's standard- 

 ization program as indicated by the following: 



Announced that the first conference leading to the adoption of 

 the standardization plan in question will be held under the auspices 

 of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association at the Forest 

 Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., July 12-20, to be followed 

 later by a conference at Chicago and still later by regional confer- 

 ences until every lumber producing section of the United States 

 has been covered. 



Authorized the chairmen of the various standing committees, as 

 appointed by President Sherrill at this meeting, to employ such en- 

 gineering and other expert service as may be necessary to carry on 

 the work of the hardwood industry in the standardization campaign 

 outlined at Louisville. 



Announced that the entire corps of inspectors formerly em- 

 ployed by the American Hardwood Manufacturers ' Association had 

 been taken over bj' the Institute and that the number had been 

 substantially increased, with the result that expert inspection serv- 

 ice, under the rules of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, is now available to members and to the public and 

 that the Institute will push this service in the most vigorous 

 manner possible. 



Paved the way for the compilation and issuance of the first 

 statistical report. This will deal with stocks of hardwood lumber 

 and will probably be available for distribution to both the mem- 

 bers and the public by July 31. 



John M. Pritchard, secretary, reported that 32 new members had 

 been enrolled since the Louisville meeting, bringing the total to 109, 

 with an annual cut of approximately 1,500,000,000 feet. The board 

 stated that the membership campaign would be vigorously pushed, 

 while the necessary machinery of the Institute is being set in mo- 

 tion. 



The chairmen of the committees, as announced b.y C. H. Sherrill, 

 president, follow: Assessment, S. M. Nickey, Memphis; finance, 

 C. M. Kellogg, Memphis, who is treasurer of the Institute; mem- 

 bership, F. K. Conn, Yazoo City, Miss.; inspection rules, B. F. 

 Dulweber, Greenwood, Miss.; advertising, Mark H. Brown, Mem- 

 phis; press, C. L. Bell, Columbus, C, and reports and statistics, 

 M. W. Stark, Columbus, O. 



The names of the 32 members joining between the adjournment 

 of the organization meeting and the meeting of the board of direc- 

 tors July 1 follow: 



Cherry River Boom & Lbr. Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. 

 JJavidson. Tho, Hicks & Green Co.. Nashville, Tenn. 

 Tallahatchie Lumber Co., Memphis, Tenn. 

 Kitchen Lumber Co., A.shland, Ky. 

 Cybur Lumber Co.. Cybur, Miss. 

 Hall & Neely, New Albany, Miss. 

 Hunt-Washington & Smith. Nashville. Tenn. 

 Artman, E. C. Lumber Co., Metropolis, 111. 

 Mobile River Saw Mill Co., Mobile, Ala. 

 Ryan, Philip A., Lumber Co.. Lufkin, Texas. 

 Uodge-Ilunt L»mber Co.. Hodge, La. 

 Stearns Coal & Lumber Co., Steams. Ky. 

 Southern Pine Lumber Co.. Texarkana, Texas. 

 Sauls, Q. D., Tylertown, Miss. 



Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Co., Shreveport, I>a. 

 New River Lumber Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 Alcus. S. T., & Co., New Orleans, La. 

 Mowbray & Robinson Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



Tremont Lumber Co., Rochelle, La. 



Kimerer, L. N., Parle, Texas. 



Lamb-Gary Lumber Co., Vicksburg. Miss. 



Norwood Lumber Co., Forney, N. C. 



Boyd-Raburn Lumber Co., Box 475, Bristol, Va. 



Hemphill Lumber Co., Kennett. Mo. 



Loutre Lumber Co., Cargile, Ark. , 



Wilson & Cochran, Lottie, La. 



Breece Mfg. Co., Arkansas City, Ark. 



Blair Lumber Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. 



Northern Ohio Cooperage Co., Parkin, Ark. 



Voth Hardwood Co., Voth, Texas. 



Itelta Hardwood Lumber Co.. Rayville, La. 



The Martin Wagon Co., Lufkin, Texas. 



Eight new members were received between July 1. the date of the di- 

 rectors' meeting, and July 4, as follows, bringing the total membership as 

 of the latter date to IIT : 



Weis-Dillman Lumber Co., Caruthersville, Mo. 



Little River Lumber Co.. Townsend. Tenn. 



Fordyce Lumber Co., Fordyce, Ark. 



S. M. Bradley, Morehead, Ky. 



H. L. Hachette, Electric Mills, Miss. 



A. W. Cory, Bald Knob, Ark. 



Miller Lumber Co., Marianna, Ark. 



Robertson-McDonald Lumber Co., Houston, Tex. 



Sherrill Is Enthusiastic Over Institute's Prospects 



Clarence H. Sherrill, president of the New Orleans Lumbermen's Club 

 and president of the newly-organized Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, 

 returned to New Orleans from Memphis July 3, from the first meeting 

 of the board of directors of the new Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, 

 brimming over with enthusiasm over the success with which the new manu- 

 facturers' venture is daily meeting and highly optimistic over its future 

 outlook. 



Mr. Sherrill stated that the movement to organize the hardwood manu- 

 facturers into a body such as the Institute is commending itself strongly to 

 the entire manufacturing trade, that new recruits are being added daily 

 to the roster of the Institute and that both the quantity and the quality 

 of both moral and material support are being offered voluntarily by the 

 operators to further the growth, strength, power and influence of the 

 Institute are little short of overwhelmingly gratifying to himself and 

 the other officers, upon whom necessarily rests the burden of getting the 

 new machinery set in motion. The support being received is considered 

 as strong evidence as is needed of the ultimate success the ambitious 

 venture is destined to achieve. 



"It is not at all strange," declared Mr. Sherrill, "that men, hard-headed 

 captains of industry, who have brains enough to accumulate hundreds of 

 thousands or millions of dollars to invest in lumbering properties, should 

 also have intelligence enough to analyze the new Institute as a means 

 for tackling the manifold problems of import staring the hardwood manu- 

 fa<turing industry in the face. Well, that is all we want. We are finding 

 daily that all the cause of the Institute needs for its advancement among 

 the trade is a little consideration. That is a sufBcicnt recommendation. 

 We need no missionaries. '7?cs ipsa loquitur.' " 



Evansville Club Makes Annual Cruise 

 The annual summer outing of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club was 

 held on the afternoon and evening of Tuesday. June 27, on the steamer 

 Verne Swain on the Ohio river and several hundred lumbermen, their 

 families and invited friends made the trip, which proved to be a most 

 delightful one. The affair was arranged by the entertainment committee 

 of the club, composed of Gus E. Bauman, chairman ; Carl G. Wolflin, of 

 the Wolflin West Side Lumber Company, and Claude Wertz, of the Maley 

 and Wertz Lumber Company. This committee was assisted in the enter- 

 tainment of the guests by J. C. Greer, president of the club, and William S. 

 Partington, secretary and treasurer. 



Complicated Rates Boost S. H. T. A. Membership 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association is receiving large numbers 

 of applications for membership as a result of the complicated rate struc- 

 ture growing out of the changes in rates which have been made as affecting 

 hardwood lumber and forest products since June 25, 1918. Many lumber- 

 men were able to keep themselves fairly well informed as to rates until the 

 reductions ordered by the interstate commerce commission became effective 

 July 1, but a large percentage of these now admit that they are completely 

 in the air and that they need expert assistance. 



The mails Wednesday morning, July 5, brought applications from fifteen 

 firms located in all parts of southern and eastern hardwood producing 

 territory. 



The association Is already at work on its new rate chart and this will 

 be ready for distribution in a short time. It will show the new rates from 

 all producing points in which its members are interested to principal des- 

 tinations in consuming territory in the United States and Canada. 



Wholesalers' Trustees Satisfied with Present Hardwood 

 Standardization 



A meeting of the board of trustees of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association was held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, June 24. 

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