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While the shippers' side admitted the advance in wages, they sub- 

 mitted testimony to the effect that the increase in the cost of materials 

 was comparatively inconsequential. In addition tliey submitted 

 figures proving that the railroads' profit had sliown an iiimiense annua! 

 increase over expenses. 



The principal development since that time has been along tlic 

 lines of proving that ' ' instead of combining to advance rates, the 

 roads might far better co-operate to reduce costs. ' ' This was tlic 

 key to that famous speech in which attorney Brandeis, representing the 

 shippers, made the statement that the roads could save a million a 

 day in their operating expenses alone. While the evidence of extrava- 

 gance in the operating department has been substantiated by railroad 

 experts since that time, Mr. Brandeis' statement seems rather extreme 

 considering that ho is not a railroad expert. Kither in a spirit of 

 sarcasm or because of a sincer(? desire to remedy this apparent evil, the 

 roads made Mr. Brandeis tlie offer that if he would submit to tlie 

 roads a plan whereby they would be guaranteed this saving, he could 

 name his own salary for the service. Mr. Brandeis replied tliat lie 

 would undertake this, though 

 without any consideration from 

 the railroads, and though he- 

 stated that he would confer with 

 the railroad representatives at 

 any time and place convenient 

 with them, nothing further has 

 developed. In the meantime the 

 inquiry goes plodding steadily 

 onward, and it is to be hoped 

 that the question will soon 

 be settled one way or tlic 

 other. 



The Law's Inconsistency 



The United States postollice department has a rule amounting to a 

 law which provides that tlie subscription for periodicals and news- 

 papers sliall be paid in advance. The penalty for neglecting to 

 observe this rule is the right of the department to abrogate the 

 second-class mail privilege enjoyed by the publication. 



To the point in question. Hardwood Record has among its sub- 

 scribers the Tariff Board of the United States government, and on 

 receipt of a recent bill for subscription, the executive secretary of 

 tliis board advises that the Tariff Board can not send a check until 

 the completion of the service, and quotes tlie revised statutes of the 

 I'nitcd States as follows: 



' ' Xo advance of public money shall be made in any case whatever, 

 and in all cases of contracts for the performance of any service, for 

 I lie use of the United States, payment shall not exceed the value of 

 I he service rcinlored, or of the articles delivered previous to such 

 |iayment. " 



There you have it. 



Ninth Annual Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' 

 Association 



Secretary Do-ster and the utlicr 

 officers of the Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers ' Association of the 

 United States are very busy over 

 plans for the forthcoming annual 

 meeting to be held at the Sinton 

 Hotel, Cincinnati, on Tuesday and 

 Wednesday, January 31 and Feb- 

 ruary 1, 1911. 



At the last annual of this or- 

 ganization it had the distinction 

 of getting together the largest 

 number of lumbermen ever assem- 

 liled at one convention, over 

 seven hundred, and every attempt 

 will be made to break even this 

 great record at its coming meet- 

 ing. 



Monday, January .30, will be 

 devoted to an advance meeting 

 of the oflScers, directors and ex- 

 ecutive board of the organization 



to clean up unfinished Imsincss, and the chairmen of the various com- 

 mittees will also call committee meetings on that date. 



Arrangements have been completed at the Sinton Hotel to care for 

 the delegates, and the splendid treatment received by the visitors 

 last year will vouchsafe excellent accommodations for the coming 

 year's meeting. 



Outside of general inspection and other association matters that 

 will come up before the meeting, there will be a scries of papers on 

 various details of technical subjects pertaining to hardwood timber, 

 and lumber manufacture and marketing, to be delivered by experts 

 in the various lines. The meeting promises to be a great success. 



The Season's Greetings 



At the advent of the New Year and at this period of 

 Good Will to All Men, Hardwood Record wishes to 

 present its best wishes to the members of the hardwood 

 trade and to congratulate them on the comparative pros- 

 perity the year has brought forth for this great branch of 

 the lumber industry, and to felicitate them on the prospects 

 of a satisfactory and successful business for the year 1911. 



Again, Hardwood Record wishes to sincerely thank its 

 fast-growing coterie of clients on the substantial patronage 

 that has been bestowed on the publication during the past 

 year, which to the minds of the publishers reflects the 

 confidence and esteem in which it is held by the hardwood 

 trade. 



This patronage means the unqualified approval of the 

 trade in support of the efforts that Hardwood Record is 

 constantly making for the betterment of trade conditions; 

 for fair dealings; for integrity of purpose, and for 

 absolute honesty in all lumber transactions. 



A Very Merry Christmas and 



A Happy and Prosperous New Year 



To All!! 



Seeks Information 



A distinguished correspondent 

 uf the Ekcord writes a friendly 

 letter in which he states that 

 there is no industry in the United 

 States, taken as a whole, that 

 ii(!eds educating as badly as the 

 average homemade mechanical 

 operator of sawmills. The writer 

 iiimpliments this publication on 

 tlie splendid line of educational 

 matter it i^rints in regard to tim- 

 ber, the botany of woods, etc., 

 but he believes a little "botany" 

 as to how to properly handle the 

 sawmill man after he gets located 

 on a timber tract would be appre- 

 ciated by many readers. 



The writer suggests that the 

 average operator would like to 

 read more literature on the sub- 

 ject of methods of logging, care 

 of horses, arrangement of ma- 

 chinery, mill ciitting orders, lay- 

 ing out yards, mill construction, 

 the proper piling and covering of 

 lumber, information on grading, 

 properly loading cars, etc., etc. 



The writer's suggestions may 

 be very well-timed and pertinent, 

 but there is not a topic he sug- 

 gests to be editorially handled 

 that has not been discussed in 

 Hardwood Kecord times without 

 number. It is a matter of mani- 

 fest difficulty to obtain specific 

 data covering various phases of 

 hardwood production, seasoning, 

 handling and marketing, that shall be general in character and ap- 

 plicable to all alike. The singular thing about hardwood manufac- 

 turing enterprises is the fact that every one is a different and distinct 

 pj'oposition, which requires different and distinct methods to carry 

 it on to a successful issue. The experienced sawmill man who has 

 spent half his life in the business finds that, on removal to another 

 tract of timber, which may not be more than one hundred miles away 

 from his original location, he has to adopt new means and new 

 methods to carry it on successfully. In the average case hv prac- 

 tically has to learn his trade over again. 



The method of logging that is applicable to one district or one 



