October 10. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ONE OF 500,000 TIMBER TESTS 

 Tests of the mechanical properties of native woods begun in 1910 at the 

 Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, reached the halSmillion 

 mark recently when the 100-pound hammer of the impact testing machine* 

 crashed through a specimen of white ash grown in Bennington County, Ver- 

 mont. ^ The insert shows the feUing of the white ash tree from which testi 

 specimen 500,000 was taken with other test pieces needed in a study of the 

 influence of growth conditions on the properties of wood, now in progress at 

 the Laboratory. ^ The markings of the particular specimen shown indicate 

 that it came from the south side of the tree, at a distance of two inches from 

 the center, and between 12 and 16 feet above the stump. The care used in, 

 marking this piece is only typical of the care with which all specimens arci 

 marked in order to relate test data with growth conditions. ^ The figure.* 

 obtaiined by tests at the Forest Products Laboratory constitute the most com- 

 plete data available on the properties of native woods and as such are recog- 

 nized not only by American but by foreign wood users as well. TTie informa- 

 tion is used daily by architects, builders, lumbermen, manufacturers, and 

 wood users generally. 



Business Improved, Chair Makers Report 



General improvement in business with cliair factories was re- 

 ported to the quarterly meeting of the Xational Association of 

 Chair Manufacturers held at Absecon, N. J., on September 28 and 

 29. Sessions were held on both forenoons and the entire evening 

 of the first day, with A. P. Derby, president, presiding. 



The meeting concentrated upon an analysis of costs and all 

 present were unanimous that chair manufacturers had lost money 

 for a sufficient length of time and that a turn in affairs was so 

 evident that it behooved every manufacturer to "put his house in 

 order" so that real profits would be secured on the capital invested 

 in his business. 



In line with the recommendation from the National Council of 

 Furniture Associations just preceding the chair meeting, the latter 

 recommended that its members revise their costs based on present 



replaecmcut value, and by the discontinuance of leaders which 

 have been sold at less than cost, establish stability for chair 

 values, which stability will be to the advantage of both manufac- 

 turer and retailers. 



Many factories reported that in experiencing an increased 

 demand for their products that their attempts to add men to their 

 faotoi-y force revealed a shortage 'of labor both of the common 

 type and of the class of experienced workers required in the manu 

 faeturing of chairs. 



Having passed through a most trying experience the past two 

 years, the members of the Chair Association are determined that, 

 fortified with a correct knowledge of costs, ruinous competition 

 will not be their practice, and that the values established on their 

 product will net a satisfactoiy profit on the capital invested in the 

 business. 



When it is realized that the invested capital of the average 

 furniture factory is not turned over two times during the best 

 years, the hazards of fabricating lumber into furniture, especially 

 chairs, makes it necessary to follow the trend of taste of the buy 

 ing public most carefully and to inject real merchandising ability 

 into the distribution of the factory output of chairs to the retail 

 trade. 



The meeting endorsed the recommendation of the National Coun- 

 cil of Furniture Associations to the effect that all furniture manu- 

 facturers should support both morallj' and financially the American 

 Homes Bureau and because of such support the manufacturers are 

 not Subject to solicitations by the retailers or newspapers or pro- 

 moters of furniture style shows, or other activities of the retailer 

 which are of local character, whereas the manufacturers' problem 

 is of national scope. 



The meeting of the Chair Association was the bes in point of 

 work accomplished of any meeting ever held and points the way 

 to renewed activity with the measure of success being increased 

 profits on the invested capital of each member of that organization. 



The annual meeting will be held a^ French Lick Springs on 

 December 11 and 12. 



Foye Wins Memphis Golf Championship Sec- 

 ond Time 



W. J. Foye, Omaha, Neb., with a 76 for the first eighteen holes 

 and a 75 for the last eighteen, making the very creditable score of 

 151 for the 36, captured the championship in the fourth annual 

 tournament of the Lumbermen's Golf Association of Memphis, held 

 over the links of the Colonial Country Club Friday, October 6, and 

 carried off the grand prize offered by H. B. Weiss, president. 



This makes the second time Mr. Foj'e led the entire field in these 

 tournaments, as he was the victor in the first held here in 1920. 

 His performance was truly remarkable in the light of the heavy 

 condition of the links resulting from the rainfall which occurred 

 during the day. He easily out-distanced F. Crager, Helena, Ark., 

 and A. G. Gill, who carried off championship honors in 1921 and 

 1922, respectively. 



C. C. Dickinson, E. Sondheimer Company, Memphis, won the 

 prize offered by John Wade & Son in the handicap event, with a 

 net score of 144 for the 36 holes. 



L. E. Cornelius, St. Louis, had the second lowes^ gross score, 163, 

 12 strokes behind W. J. Foye. 



Golfers from ten States, as well as a representative from Canada, 

 participated in the tournament. 



The dinner at the club house was thoroughly enjoyable. 



E. C. Stimson, Memphis, was elected president, and L. E. Cor- 

 nelius, St. Louis, vice-president. J. B. McFadden, Memphis, was 

 re-elected secretary-treasurer. The board of governors chosen fol- 

 lows: Jos. Thompson, Memphis; E. Carnahan, Pine Bluff, Ark; 

 E. F. Jennings, Helena, Ark.; F. T. Dooley and F. G. Smith, Mem- 

 phis. 



