July 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Standardization Efforts Centralized 



Conference Held to Consider Promotion of Hoover Program 



Selects Strong Committee to Push Work; Fight to Eliminate 



Hardwood Questions from Deliberations of 



Conference Fails 



The future proiiiutioii of the Washiugton lumber standardization 

 conference program was placed in the hands of an executive Central 

 Committee of seven, by a conference of representatives of many 

 associations of producers, distributors and consumers of lumber, 

 held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago, July 21 and 22, upon call of 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers" Association, pursuant to a 

 resolution adopted at the initial conference in Washington. 



As expressed by W. A. Durgin, chief of the division of simplifica- 

 tion and standardization of the Department of Commerce, and Sec- 

 retary Hoover's representative at the conference, the committee of 

 seven will furnish the "executive impetus" necessary to keep the 

 standardization movemeut working toward the formulation of a 

 complete national program for lumber standardization, simplifica- 

 tion and guarantees to be presented at a tinal conference. 



The motion creating the committee gave it wide powers to act, 

 to increase its number where it might desire to give wider repre- 

 sentation to interests concerned, to appoint such sub-committees 

 as it might find needful to carry on the various details involved 

 in working out the program. It was also provided through the 

 motion, or understood, that the committee should be representative 

 of the various elements at the conference; that is, represent the 

 manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and consumers. 



With this end in view the conference elected John H. Kirby, 

 Houston, Tex., former president of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, representative of the manufacturers; Dwight Hinckley, 

 Cincinnati, O., an official of the American Wholesale Lumber Asso- 

 ciation, representative for the wholesalers; John E. Lloyd, Phila- 

 delphia, president of the National Betail Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion, representative of the retailers, and Charles A. Goodman, 

 Marinette, Wis., representative of the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. The two remaining vacancies on the committee were 



left open to appointees to be selected by the American Institute of 

 Architects and the American Railway Association, respectively, 

 both representing consumers' interests. 



Sherrill Insists on National Hajrdwood Man 



The election to the Central Committee of a National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association man was the result of a suggestion made by 

 C. H. Sherrill, president of the Harihvood Manufacturers' Institute, 

 that in order to remove complications that might arise, the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association should be invited to have repre- 

 sentation on the committee from the manufacturers of hardwood 

 lumber in its membership. Mr. Sherrill said that insofar as the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute was concerned, they were per- 

 fectly willing to rest their interests with Mr. Blodgett, having 

 every confidence that they would be safeguarded by his character- 

 istic fairness and broad-mindedness, but that he thought the manu- 

 facturers in the National hardwood association ought to have 

 special representation. Later Mr. Sherrill insisted on this point 

 being considered. "I want to emphasize," he said, "the fact that 

 we want to see the National Hardwood Lumber Association repre- 

 sented on this committee, in order that we may thus give evidence 

 of our good faith and of our willingness to go farther than is ex- 

 pected of us to hasten the day when all of the hardwood manufac- 

 turers of the country will get together on this great constructive 

 program." Mr. Sherrill added that he did not believe this day was 

 far ofE and that ultimately all groups of manufacturers of hardwood 

 lumber would be united in bonds of common interests. 



Just prior to the delivery of Mr. Sherrill 's secoad statement on 

 this subject, C. D. Boot of Crown Point, Ind., representing the 

 Indiana Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, had introduced and 

 secured the adoption of a motion, which provided for increasing 

 the size of the committee from five to seven in order to accommo- 



John W. Blodgett, Chairman 

 Standardization Central Committee 



John H. Kirby, Manufacturers' 

 Representative on Central Committee 



Chas. A. Goodman, N. H. L. A. 

 Representative on Central Committee 



