July 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



15 



Northern Millmen Adopt Guarantee Plan 



Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association Decides at Semi- 



Annual Meeting to Issue Inspection Certificates to Consumers — Sherrill and 



Dulweber Present Hardwood Institute Idea — Votes to Resume 



Statistical Work 



Shipments emanating from mills owned by members of the 

 Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufaetnrers' Association will 

 be protected by certificates of inspection showing grade and piece 

 tally, according to a resolution adopted by the association at its 

 semi-annual meeting in Milwaukee at the Pfister Hotel, on July 13, 

 the first day of its two-day session. Consumers desiring to check 

 up on the grade and contents of a car of lumber originating from 

 one of the association mills may secure these certificates upon ap- 

 plication at the association offices. But by the terms of the reso- 

 lution the name of the mill will not be disclosed on the certificate. 



The resolution containing the provision for the issuing of these 

 certificates also provides for the placing of 

 tally cards in cars and for deputizing by 

 the association of inspectors to issue these 

 certificates at the mills. Like the certifi- 

 cate, the tally cards will not carry the name 

 of the mill originating the shipment. The 

 resolution also favored grade marking in so 

 far as practicable. 



Blank copies of the certificates are to be 

 secured by the various mills of the associa- 

 tion from the association offices. 



The adoption of this plan to safeguard the 

 interests of the buyers of the products of 

 these mills culminated a discussion of the 

 Washington conference, which was opened 

 by reports from C. A. Goodman of Mari- 

 nette, "Wis., and Edward Hines of Chicago, 

 delegates from the association to the recent 

 Washington conference. The resolution em- 

 bodying the plan was introduced by Mr. 

 Hines. In its preamble the resolution de- 

 clared "that those present endorse Secre- 

 tary Hoover's intent to protect the buyers 

 of our product and that we go on record as 

 desiring co-operation so far as practicable." 



Another resolution resulting from a discussion of the question 

 of standardization and guarantees was introduced by C. H. Worces- 

 ter of Chicago. This resolved: 



That the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' .\ssooiation 

 thanks the committee to the Hoover conference, composed of C. A. Good- 

 man and Edward Hines, for its veiT full and competent report on the 

 proceedings before this conference, and that same committee represent 

 the association at all future meetings along this same line and thereafter 

 report hack to the association ; also that the chairman of the committee 

 on grailps. Ray McQuillan of Antigo, Wis., be asked to Join this committee 

 in all its future work: . , . » 



Resolved, That the association express appreciation of the good inten- 

 tions of Secretary of Commerce Hoover in working for standardization 

 within the lumber industry. 



Sherrill and Dulweber Bring Greetings 



On the second day of the association's meeting the Washington 

 conference again came to the forefront when C. H. Sherrill of New 

 Orleans, president, and B. F. Dulweber of Greenwood, Miss., a di- 

 rector of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, addressed the 

 northern manufacturers in an appeal for co-operation of all hard- 

 wood manufacturers in support of the conference program. 



The description by these two ofdcials of the Institute, of its aims 

 and ideals, resulted in the introduction by Edward Hines, and the 

 unanimous adoption, of a resolution referring the question to the 

 board of directors of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers ' Association and providing for the sending of copies of Mr. 



Dulweber 's remarks to the members of the association. This reso- 

 lution was seconded by E. B. Goodman of Goodman, Wis. 



Mr. Sherrill declared at the opening of his brief address that he 

 was proud of the fact that he had been asked to carry the burdens 

 of leadership of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute. He then 

 told the northern manufacturers that he was bringing to them the 

 "heartiest greetings" of the members of the Institute. 



"Our cause is a common cause," Mr. Sherrill continued, "and I 

 am very glad that the time has arrived, not only in the lumber 

 industry but in the world at large, when we must get together 

 to discuss our common problems." 



Referring to the Washington conference, 

 Mr. Sherrill said that he had learned there 

 that there are many things in the lumber 

 industry which must be changed. "The 

 atmosphere at that conference was charged 

 with the idea that there are many things 

 we must do to improve the practices of our 

 industry or legislative action will be taken 

 to force the issue," he said. 



Here he was reminded of Belshazzar's 

 feast and the handwriting on the wall, 

 "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin" — "Tou 

 have been weighed in the balance and found 

 wanting." "We have been 'weighed in the 

 balance and found wanting,' and we have 

 been called upon to clean our house," he 

 asserted. 



Considering the best methods of bringing 

 about the needed reforms, Mr. Sherrill said 

 that the founders of the Institute are try- 

 ing to set up a national institution and not 

 trying to confine it to the South or any other 

 region. "We hope to so conduct ourselves 

 that all branches of hardwood lumber manu- 

 facturing may be united in a co-operative 

 effort to get the results found necessary at Washington," he said. 



Need Aid of Kegionals 



In working for the Washington conference program, aflSliatiou 

 wdth regional organizations is necessary, he explained, but the 

 work must be directed by a central body, as it is being directed by 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. As an example 

 of one of the important aspirations of the program he mentioned 

 a uniform set of lumber inspection rules, which shall become not 

 only national but international. 



The hardwood industry has problems that other divisions of the 

 lumber industry do' not have to contend with, Mr. Sherrill stated, 

 and the manufacturers have problems that do not concern those 

 who are not manufacturers. He named here the problems of pro- 

 duction costs, logging and other questions of special interest to 

 manufacturers. "These problems can not be properly considered 

 unless the manufacturers are nationally organized," he said. "If 

 we can meet with you at your council table and you can meet with 

 us, we can eliminate duplication of effort." 



Speaking specifically of the Institute which he heads, Mr. Sher- 

 rill said that "we don't propose to spare expense nor time to set 

 up the machinery necessary to successfully carry out our program. 



FOX. President 



