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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 25, 1U21 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



THIRTEEN BAND MILLS 

 SIX PLANING MILLS 

 ELEVEN FLOORING UNITS 

 NINE DIMENSION MILLS 



ReceiUl_\ \\f called attention to the iai- 

 l)rovement apparent in fundamental business 

 conditions. This iniprovenient is distinctly 

 noticeable, but can be made more marked. 



'i"he bettered conditions of the present in 

 the main have been produced by those who 

 have pursued an enlightened price poHcy. 



Those wdu) have not co-operated to the end 

 of getting back to a normal plane are the real 

 obstructionists, whether they be labor, sup- 

 ply men, those who deal in basics or the thing^ 

 fabricated from basic materials. 



In the industrial realm lumber manufac- 



Annual Capacity 

 130,000,000 Feet 



turers led the way to the plane of normalcy. 

 This fact and the following by others of the 

 example thus set, have been the powerful fac- 

 tors in producing a better industrial condition. 



Lumbermen should, in every available way, 

 induce those who have not yet acted to make 

 the necessary adjustments to speed and give 

 greater momentum to business in this period 

 of encouraging outlook. 



To our customers we are glad to continue 

 to give scientific service and ever increasing 

 efficiency, in supplying their needs from our 

 unmatched hardwood lumber production. 



W. M. RiTTER Lumber Co. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO 



Chicago Will Run Special to Hardwood Annual 



.\rraii;;i-iiH'nts an- boing made l)y a ooinmittoo from the Lumbormon':? 

 Assdciatioii of ("iiicayo for a sjn'oial traiu to carry hardwood men from 

 throujihout the south and middle west from Chicago to the National ilanl- 

 wood Lvimbcr Association convention in Phihidelphia Juno 8 and 9. It is 

 expected that hirgv numbers of members of the association from both Mem- 

 phis and St. Louis will come through Chicago to catcli this special. 



Tbe train will be run as a section of the "Broadway Special," a twenty- 

 hour Chicago-to-New York train on tbe I'ennsylvania, which makes tbe run 

 to I'hiladelphia in eighteen hours. The return trip will be made on the 

 regular trains of the Pennsylvania system and the ticket will be good for 

 si'veral days following the convention dates. The special leaves Chicago at 

 1 AO p. rn., Chicago time, or lli :40 o'clock Central time, on June 7. The 

 rtiund trij) will he approximately $GG, which is about a fare and a half. 



The (N>mmittee making the arrangements is as follows : A. H. Ruth, L. J. 

 I'omcroy, Fred K. .MoMullen. E. C. Cook. William Schuppert and Frank 

 Heidler. 



New Forestry Committee Named 



Appuintmont of a committee to study the forestry situation in this 

 country with the view to suggesting a forestry policy was announced on 

 April 11 by Joseph H. Defrees, president of the Chamber of Commerce of 

 the Unite<l States. Timber owners, lumber users, foresters and the public 

 are representi'd on the committee, the members of which are drawn from 

 many parts of tbe United States. The first meeting of the committee will 

 !)e held at Atlantic City April 27 to 29. At that time the committee will 

 outline its program for taking up the forestry question. Members of the 

 committee are : 



i'avid L. (.;*»odwillie, chairman, Coodwillie Brothers, Chicago. 



L'narles S. Keith, president Central Coal & Coke Company, Kansas City. 



1''. C. Knapp, Peninsula Lumber Company, Portland, Ore. 



Robert W. Irwin. Roliert W. Irwin Company, drand Rapids, Mich. 



<i. L. Curtis, treasurer Curtis Brothers & Co., Clinton, Ta. 



Hnraee Taylor, Taylor & Crate. Buffalo. 



John Fletcher, vice-president Fort Dearborn National Bank, Chicago. 



Charles F. Quincy. president Q. & C. Company. Nfrw York. 



Dr. nenry S. Drinker, president Lehigh University, South Bethlehem. Pa. 



Hugh P. Baker, secretary American Paper and Pulp Association. New 

 York. 



Harvey N. Shephard, chairman Massachusetts State Forest Commis- 

 sion, Boston. 



Postponement of Hardwood Case Is Severe Disappointment 



Extreme disappointment is felt by Memphis lumbeMn.'ii who are defend- 

 ants in the "open competition plan" case over the postponement of rear- 



gument by the Supreme Court until October. It was confidently expected 

 that the reargument, which was asked for in February and which was 

 set fur the second week in April, would be heard in Washington April 11. 

 and announcement of the postponement came as a distinct shock to every 

 lumiierman in this part of the country, whether affiliated with the open 

 competition plan or not. R. M. Carrier, president of the association ; 

 John M. Pritcbard. secretary-manager, and F. R. Gadd. manager of statis- 

 tics, went to Washington to be present dining the arguments and were, 

 therefore, among the first to receive the discouraging information. 



It is now felt that with the reargument postponed until October 10 no 

 decision can be expected before early in 1922. This means that the liual 

 decision of the Supreme Court will probably not come down in less than 

 two years from the time the original complaint of the government was 

 heard before the late Judge John E. McCall of the Federal Court for the 

 Western District of Tennessee. The machinery of the association estab- 

 lished for the purpose of gathering, compiling and disseminating the 

 monthly stock reports, monthly production reports and the weekly sales 

 reports is still intact, but it is not being used for the reason that the 

 injunction restrains the association and the defendants from any and all 

 activities whatsoever under the open competition plan. It is recognized 

 tbat nothing can be done, and it is putting it mildly to say that the post- 

 ponement of this case is the most bitter development since the original 

 restraining order, which the defendants are trying to have set aside by the 

 Supreme Court on appeal, was issued in mid-March, 1920. 



Although it is fully appreciated that these cannot have the slightest 

 bearing on the decision of this tribunal, lumbermen are not overlooking 

 the reference in President Harding's message to "open price associations,"' 

 or the report and recommendations on the same subject made by the 

 Federal Trade Commission. 



The following statement on the postponement was issued by Gen. L. C. 

 Boyle, chief of counsel for the lumbermen on April 12 : 



"This enforced delay in settling the important legal questions involved 

 in this case will be a sore disappointment not only to the lumber industry 

 but to all industries throughout the country, and this because the deter- 

 mination of this case will definitely demark the legal limits of co-operative 

 activities within the body of trade associations. There is nothing signifi- 

 cant or extraordinary touching the postponement of the case until the 

 fall term. Of course, I cannot speak by the card, but unquestionably the 

 reason for the delay is due to the congested condition of the docket. Other 

 cases were likewise put over until fall. In addition to this it Is prooer 

 to state that in practically all of the leading cases tbat have come up 

 under the Sherman law two and sometimes three arguments have been 

 requested by the court." 



