October 10, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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What the Institute Insignia Means 



The striking insignia which has been developed within the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers ' Institute 's organization is held aloft as typi- 

 fying or illustrating the purposes to which the work of the institute 

 is dedicated. 



The insignia speaks very eloquently for itself and as it is used 

 its meaning will become more deeply engraved upon the minds of all 

 those before whom it appears. The originator of the device, F. F. 

 Murray, M. E., technical adviser of the institute, has been asked 

 to interpret it and explain the message he would have it carry. Ac- 

 cordingly, the following is supplied: 



The Insignia Is composed of three distinct parts — two parts interlocking, 

 with the third element consisting of an encircling band serving to bind the 

 upper and lower parts together. 



In the upper segment there appears an illustration to typify the growing 

 hardwood tree. This symbol would represent the factory raw material as 

 contained in a natural resource. 



Below in the lower segment appears the factory ; not any particular 

 type or character of factory In the vast field of woodworljing, but again 

 merely a structure designed to be symbolic of a hardwood factory enter- 

 prise. 



Tree and Factory Interlocked 



since in the use of any raw material, that raw material should be de- 

 livered in such form as to fit into an economical, i. e. without undue waste, 

 factory utilization, the two elements of the Insignia, namely, the tree 

 typifying the raw material on the one hand, and the factory on the other, 

 symbolic of general factory utilization, are made to conform and are 

 definitely co-ordinated or interlocked. This is the spirit of the institute, 

 as in its work It desires to lay particular emphasis upon the necessity for 

 hardwoods conforming to the needs of the consuming industry. In that 

 direction lies the elimination of the great factor of unnecessary waste and 

 the realization of improved practices. 



The significance of the phrase "Scientific Utilization" appearing in the 

 encircling band is In the fact that Scientific Utilization is the one great 

 aid which can serve production, consumption and conservation and so co- 

 ordinate the various divisions of the industry. Without Scientific Utiliza- 

 tion in the harvest of the forest timber, economical manufacture of the 

 lumber from the standing timber as a unit is impossible ; without Scien- 

 tific Utilization of that hardwood lumber, economical consumption of the 

 raw material is impossible ; and without Scientific Utilization in every de- 

 partment of the industry, conservation of our forest resources and the 

 economical use of materials and labor is impossible. 



' ' Scientific ' ' Explained 



"Scientific" is not a thought to be shunned as impractical, theoretical, or 

 even "highbrow," as the very basis for science is common-sense and "scien- 



tific stands for the application of clear thinking. Science alone has been 

 responsible for the so-called "supremacy of mind over matter." It is in a 

 measure practicability itself. 



By way of simple illustration, it will be readily acknowledged that the 

 main force or strength which mere man can exert is next to nothing and 

 alone is of little service in everyday industry, yet with the application of 

 a little sciewye man can use that energy in tremendous undertakings and 

 can harness great forces. Science enables one to give force direction. 

 Science is merely applied intelligence, common-sense, which in turn Is the 

 basis for the most technical and complex engineering. 



Scientific Utilization, therefore, carries the idea of common-sense utiliza- 

 tion in the light that every aspect of the utilization processes must provide 

 the best possible means in the pursuit of progress. This in itself stands for 

 the elimination of unnecessary waste. In the hardwood industry it stands 

 for the best and most economical process in tree utilization (manufac- 

 ture of lumber) and in hardwood lumber utilization (factory consumption) 

 it stands for processes capable of adapting and adopting developments in 

 the realization of thoroughly constructive progress. 



Scientific Utilization of hardwoods means then nothing other than 

 the best possible utilization of hardwoods from the tree to the finished 

 product. The standing timber and the factory process must be bound 

 together in the cause of Scientific Utilization. Agencies must be set up 

 which will encourage better, more economical, less expensive utilization of 

 hardwoods and this in fact is the course of Scientific Utilization of Hard- 

 woods. 



Purpose of Outside Band 



An organization of hardwood producers which will provide that great- 

 est force in the course of Scientific Utilization of Hardwoods from the 

 forest to the finished factory product, and which toward that end will en- 

 courage the abandonment of wasteful practice, is the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Institute. Such is its place in the hardwood industry in contribut- 

 ing material aid in the co-ordination or production and consumption. Ac- 

 cordingly, the insignia symbolizes this function in surrounding the upper 

 and lower segments of the disign by means of a band bearing "Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Institute — Scientific Utilization." This band is continually 

 lessening the wide breach now existing between the raw material and its 

 factory utility. The band typifies the drawing together of production and 

 consumption and the encouragement of a better understanding between the 

 two. 



That binding-together agency is the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, 

 pursuing its broad and constructive program of Scientific Utilization of 

 Hardwoods from the tree throughout factory utilization. 



This is the intended significance of the insignia. 



(Signed) F. F. MURRAY. 



Conservationists Approve Institute Program 



At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Southern Forestry 

 Congress the program of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute was en- 

 tirely approved. 



The Southern Forestry Congress, of which W. D. Tyler of Virginia is 

 president, and in which such important figures in forestry and conserva- 

 tion as Col, Joseph Hyde of North Carolina, Col. Henry E. Hardtner of 

 Louisiana, Dr. E. N. Lowe of Mississippi are prominent, is primarily Inter- 

 ested in the maximum preservation of existing forest, the wisest utiliza- 

 tion and conservation of our timber resources, as well as sane and reason- 

 able reforestation measures. 



The officers of the congress see in the plans of the institute, especially, 

 a better formulation of grade rules, ways of eliminating or avoiding a vast 

 amount of waste which is unavoidable under present grade specifications 

 and merchandising methods. 



By a resolution unanimously adopted the executive committee of the 

 congress invited C. H. SherrlU. president of the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Institute, to address the approaching meeting of the congress, which will 

 be held at Montgomery, Ala. 



While all instrumentalities seeking to promote the conservation of 

 timber resources approve the lumber standardization and simplification 

 program, the action of the Southern Forestry Congress is possibly the most 

 definite action taken by an organization of its character since the first 

 standardization meeting in May, and is important not only in that It 

 shows the views of this important group, which Includes so many prominent 

 men and capable thinkers, but also as pointing the way for proper em- 

 phasis to and support of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute and the 

 lumber standardization movement. 



The success of the "educational" campaign being conducted 

 by the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association in its cor- 

 respondence courses has been so marked that the association will 

 follow up the course with the issuance of a series of books cover- 

 ing the lumber industry. 



The association announces that its correspondence courses have 

 grown from 100 "pupils" to 1,800 at the present time. It is under- 

 stood that the series of books will, in a general way, epitomize the 

 correspondence course. Preliminary announcement is that the series 

 will be five in number, each book or brochure containing 12 or 15 

 chapters. When completed the books will be distributed to the 

 trade. 



