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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 1922 



S. F. D. Mefflcy 



Institute Enlarges Executive Staff 



T h e I'xeeutivo 

 committee of the 

 Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers Institute, 

 which was in ses 

 sioii at Memphis, 

 Tenn., all of Satur- 

 day, July 29, made 

 •substantial progress 

 toward putting the 

 new organization on 

 an effective basis. 

 It employed S. V. 

 I). Meffley, formerly 

 of the Lumbermen 's 

 Association of Chi- 

 cago, as assistant 

 secretary, and, in 

 the language of F. 

 K. Conn, chairman 

 of the membershi]! 

 committee, placed 

 him in ' ' direct 

 charge of member- 

 ship, publicity, ad- 

 vertising education 

 and trade extension work." He is "to carry into effect the pro- 

 posed plan to secure 300 members in three months." Mr. Meffley 

 has had wide experience in association work and the executive 

 committee are relying largely on him to ".sell" the idea of becom 

 ing identified with this organization. 



The committee also elected K. F. Murray, formerly connected 

 with a lumber publication, as engineer to work directly toward 

 waste elimination. He is to visit consumers and to ascertain as 

 nearly as possible what they want in the way of grades, kinds, 

 sizes and dimensions of hardwood lumber and he is to convey this 

 data to the manufacturers in order that they may, as nearly as 

 possible, furnish what is re<iuii(il, thus eliminating waste .ind at 

 the same time taking up much lost motion in the industry. His 

 work, it is pointed out, will naturally lead iu the direction of 

 standardization. 



It was also definitely decided to move the e.vecutive offices to 

 Chicago and Secretary-Manager .lohn M. I'ritchard was requested 

 to open negotiations at once for suitable (juarters in that city. 

 It was eonservativel.y estimated that removal would be accom- 

 plished in sixty days or less. Mr. Pritchard will go to Chicago 

 as head of the executive forces of the organization and C. E. Van 

 Camp will also continue as assistant secretary. He has been with 

 the institute ever since it was organized. Prior to that time he was 

 assistant secretary of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, and before the consolidation of the Gum Lumber 

 Manufacturers' Association and the American Oak Association 

 into the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, he was 

 assistant secretary of the first named. 



The committee also decided that three regional meetings should 

 be held, one at Memphis for the central producing territory and 

 one each at points in the southwestern and eastern producing ter- 

 ritories in order that manufacturers of hardwood lumber might be 

 acquainted with the objects and pur])osc of the institute and in 

 order that they might be informed as to what has been accomplished 

 up to this time. Since adjournment, the regional meeting at Mem 

 phis has been called for the Hotel Gayoso, August 9. 



John M. Pritchard, on behalf of F. K. Conn, chairman of the 

 membership committee, reported that 149 members had been re 

 ceived up to that date. This means that 72 new members have 

 been admitted since the organization meeting at Louisville as 

 against 77 charter members enrolled at that time, an increase of 

 approximately 100 per cent. 



All members of the committee were present witli the single ex- 



ccjitiiin of K. B. Norman, of Holly Bidge, La., who could not get 

 here on account of missing connections. The meeting was a verj' 

 enthusiastic one and members of the committee expressed very 

 great pleasure over the earnest manner in which the chairman and 

 members of the various standing committees are taking hold of 

 the work assigned to them. 



Mr. Meffley has had a wide range of organization e.xperience. having 

 recently resigned from the secretarj'-managership of the Lumbermen's 

 As.soeiation of Chicago. At the time of his appointment to the Insti- 

 tute organization he was business manager of the Great Lakes-St. 

 Lawrence Auxiliarj' Associations, his experience liaving covered exten- 

 sive war time worlc in northwestern Ohio, Chamber of Commerce and 

 automobile club work, in addition to othei" activities enumerated. 



In commenting on the development of the Institute plan and 

 fabrication of this organization. C. H. Sheri'ill. president, made the 

 foUowing.statement after tlie Memphis meeting: 



"It is a well-recognized fact that an organization of similar interests 

 can accomplish a great deal more than individual efforts of the same 

 units. It has also become widely recognized that better results can 

 b»' accomplished through an association of similar rather than con- 

 flicting interests. In every line of industry and in other branches of 

 the lumber industry, there are strong organizations representing the 

 legitimate and primary interests of the manufacturer. The Institute 

 fills just that place in the hardwood industry. It has no quarrel with 

 anyone: it does not seek to displace or destroy any established 

 agency that promotes the steady prosperit.v of the manufacturer and 

 fabricator of hardwood. 



"Our policy should be frankness, friendliness and firmness, and our 

 purpose to get together and build better markets by meeting exact 

 market needs on a basis of co-opei"ation with the users of hardwoods. 



"I feel that it has the same right to exist as the thousands of 

 olhi-r organizations primarily serving the interests of the manu- 

 facturers. I do not believe that the Institute has had the opportunity 

 as yet to present to tlie fabricators, the manufacturers and the 

 general public the complete and correct picture, and many individuals 

 and firms have been prone to jump to hasty conclusions based on a 

 distorted presentation of the facts in the case. I understand that 

 it will be my work to so i)resent the true facts that a complete 

 nuitual understanding will be consummated between the manufacturer 

 and tlie fabricators, which will form the permanent basis for the 

 Inrutf prosjierit.v of all concerned." 



Big Wholesalers' Organization -will Probably Amalgamate 



II is ill uitred from Cincinnati. O.. over the signature of John 



K. O'N'eil, president of The Yellow I*ine Wholesalers Association, that 

 that Ijody will i>robably amalgamate with the American Wholesale 

 Lumber .Association. At a meeting of the executive committee held 

 last month, a resolution was unanimousb' adopted recommending to 

 the membership that the yellow pine wholesalers merge bodily with 

 the Chicago organization. 



--\s pointed out by the executive committee, the purpose of such 

 amalgamation, if it becomes effective, and it probably will, is to bind 

 together the wholesalers of lumber in one strong central organization 

 for their protection and mutual interest. It is the thought of the 

 exfcutive committee that through such central organization the func- 

 tion of the legitimate wholesaler may be thoroughly established and 

 the tendency toward antagonism due to alleged mispractice, may be 

 minimized. 



New Rate Book to be Issued by Traffic Association 



liuriug the past several weeks iiiimodiatcly preceding and since the 10 

 per cent reduction effective July 1, Hakdwood Uecokd has received innum- 

 cr;ilili' requests for a revised chart, which the trade apparently supposed 

 would lie issued as formerly through this otKce in co-operation with the 

 Sniithcru Hardwood Traffic Association of Memphis. On account of the 

 gi'iieral increa,sc in 1920 and the revision of April 13, 1922, the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association made complete compilation of hardwood 

 tariffs covering most shipping and consuming points. These tabulations 

 tlwn printed in chart form by Hardwood Recokd and distributed through 

 this nifice constituted a notable contribution to the hardwood lumber dis- 

 trihiitiu.^ and consuming industries. 



'rile 10 per cent reduction effective .July 1 followed so closely on the 

 hrrls of the preceding readjustment of hardwood rates that it was almost 

 impossible to perfect any arrangement for further issuance of a chart 

 Imscd on the latest clianges. In addition it so happened that the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association had made plans for the issuance of a general 

 nite liook. and in going into the matter with the association it was found 

 impractical to print just a vast number of rates as are contained in the 

 iM w issue. 



As a consequence the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association has issued 

 • III new rates based on July 1 changes through the means of this new 

 1" hook to non-members of the association tor $.'5, and it can be pro- 

 «'ii ' through the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association offices. Bank of 

 Cm: , 'rcc & Trust Building, Memphis, Tenn. Hardwood Record Is pleased 

 to iiialie this announcement In answer to the great number of inquiries it 

 has ri'cpived for the new rates, and would thus refer such inquiries to the 

 Sontheni Hardwood Traffic Association offices. 



