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HARDWOOD RECORD 



1921 



Evansville Names Picnic Date 

 Tin- niiiiiiiil suiiiiiirr iiutiii); >il thr Kvuii.-villc Luiii1hti]wii'» C]iiI) will I"- 

 hclil Tiicscliiv iirti'i'iHJon iiml evi'iilnu, Juni' :J1, and It Ik f'xpcctod that the 

 cvi'iit will 111' atlcraiitcil on a larger scale this year than ever before. The 

 Iilaic' lit hiildlnK the outlne will be decided within a few ilays by the 

 entertainment coinndttee of the club, composed of t!us A. Uauman of the 

 Maley & Wert/. Lumber Company, .Toe Waltman of the Kvansvllle i::ind 

 Mill f'onipany and Claude Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumher Ccim|iany. 

 The I'ommlltee probably will select cither Kxposltlon Park In this city or 

 Cypri'ss ISeach. on the Ohio river ten miles east of here, as the place for 

 thi' oiitlni;. In past years the outing has been held on a steamboat on the 

 Ohio river, but last fall the Hne excursion steamer Crc'scent, a local boat, 

 was destroyed by lire anil no boat has been secured to take her place, and 

 as a result the buiibiTimii will be I'orced this year to hold their outing 

 on land, .loliu i ". lin-ci ii iIm' .1. c. Orcer Lumber Company and presi- 

 dent of the Kvaiisville I .uiiil"iinen's Club says he looks for a \i\u. atleiiil- 

 ancc this year. 



Chicago Golfers Meet June 21 



The otlicers and boanl of directors of tin' Lumbermen's (Jolf •.\ssoclatlon 

 of ChicaRo met Tuesday, May 17, at the Lundiermen's .\ssoclatlon rooms, 

 and deilde<l on .lune 21, 1921, for their Fifteenth .\nnual Tournament, 

 to be held al lieverly country club. 



Those present at the mcetiiis were: rrcsident C. A. Flanagln, Vice- 

 president James MIksak, Minor K. liolibs, secretary-treasurer. Directors : 

 Frank II. Burnaby, Ike W. l.lncidn. Fi-ank OUowd. K. A. Thornton and 

 I,. E. Itollo. 



After deciding on the date and place of holdinK the tournament the 

 following committees were appointed : 



Arrangements Committee: 'Frank 11. I'urnnliy. chalrnnin ; Ceorge .1. 

 Pope, E. A. Thornton, F. .1. Burns. 



Handicap Committee: Ike W. Lincoln, cliairnian ; Edward A. Lang. 

 Chas. M. Smalley. 



Prize Committee; .Tames Miksak. chalrnnin: \\'illiaiii L. Shari>, Robert 

 Cousin. 



Entertalnnient Committee: Frank O'Dowd, cbairnian : L. E. Rollo. .\. T. 

 Stewart. 



Taylor Invites Memphians to Convention 



Horace G. Taylor, president of the National Hardwood Lumiicr .\sso- 

 elation, was the special guest of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at the 

 seml-UKuithly luncheon of this organization at the Hotel Gayoso. Satur- 

 day, May l-I, and, while partaking of the deleetables provided on this occa- 

 sion, he extended a very warm personal invitation to ail nieinl)ers of this 

 body to come to the annual of the association at Philadelphia .Tune 9-10. 

 .As a matter of fact, he strongly urged this course, partly because of the 

 strength of the Memphis delegation in the association itself and partly 

 because of the work the club must do, through its sales code committee 

 and its mendiership. to seciirc adoption by the association of the code 

 which is now being offered for Incorporation In the Rules Book of that 

 organization. 



"Some of you may be a little 'sore' over conditions in the hardwoml 

 industry." he said, "but I know that none of you Is a grouch. Forget 

 the hard times, take advantage of the lull in business, borrow the money 

 and come up. It will do you good. It is 'designed' that way. None of 

 the essential things will be omitted from the program. There are also 

 some very able 'critics and purveyors' In charge at Philadelphia and the 

 occasion prondses to he a both pleasant and profitable one. 



"Secretary of Labor Pavis will speak on certain phases of the labor 

 situation and he is amply fitted, through his rise through the labor fiebl 

 up to the capitalistic class. There will be other especially attractive 

 speeches on siit>jects of paramount Interest to the lumbermen. The second 

 day will be 'Lumbermen's Day" when the members of the association will 

 have opportunity of exchanging views regarding their peculiar problems 



"The question of forest conservation, too, is certain to come before the 

 annual, and, .so far as I am concerned. I think that the government, in 

 working out Its plans for forest conservation, should have due re,gard to 

 the rights of the nu-n who have used their hard-earned money for the 

 purchase of these properties." 



Mr. Taylor said the association Inid enjoyed large growth during the 

 year, having secured more than 150 new members and now having a total 

 membership In excess of 1,400. He declared it had been "very generally 

 successful" and that the inspection ilepartment had proven self-sustaining. 

 despite the radical falling off in business. Error claimed in inspection, he 

 said, amounted to only 1% to 2 per cent while errors actually justified 

 by re-inspection were less than one-half of one per cent, a showing he 

 thought truly remarkable. As an lllustralion of the eutliuslasm in the 

 welfare of the association at Philadelphia. .Mr. Taylor reported that there 

 were only 50 lumbermen in that city eligible to membership and that the 

 association had exactly that many members there. 



Ilesolutlons expressing the keen regret of the lumbermen over the 

 recent death of .1. V. Rush, head of the Rush laimber Ciunpany and former 

 president of this organization, were adopted by a rising vote. The resolu- 

 tions set forth that the members of this organization had not only lost 

 a very able worker but that they had also lost a real friend. Copies were 

 ordered spread on the ndnutes and sent to the fandly of the deceased. 



.\ report submitted by the Sales Code committee indicatixl that 447 out 

 of 557 members of the National Hardwood Lumber .Association wlio had 



res|ionded to the recent letter of the committee had Indicated that they 

 would support the code as written. A small percentage have indicated 

 that they will support the code with certain suggestions which they have 

 offered and it Is regarded as probable that some of these suggestions will 

 be Incorporated in this instrument. 



The entertainment committee, which Is making plans for the trip of the 

 delegation from Memphis and the Memphis territory to Philadelphia, is 

 arranging for special sleepers in the event there are enough members 

 going to make his plan feasible. 



f)ne application for membership was filed. 



Membership Drive Opened 



The Southern .-Vlluvial Land Association annouuces, co-incident with 

 the nandng of standing lommittces for the year, that a strong drive for 

 new members is to be made at once on the theory that every man who 

 owns lands or has interests in the alluvial regions of Arkansas. Mississippi 

 and Louisiana cannot help being benefited by the activities of the associa- 

 tion and should therefore contribute his share of the funds required for 

 the continuance of these activities. The committees were appointed by 

 W. II. Dick, president, at a meeting of the board a few ilays ago and it 

 may be noted that there is a general chairman of the membership com- 

 mittee from Mississippi, with a State chairman for both .Arkansas and 

 Louisiana. 



The hoard, at this meeting, also Instructed F. D. Beneke. secretary, to 

 send a telegram to President Harding protesting against his signing of tne 

 immigration bill which has passed both houses of congress. This protest 

 is based on the view of the board that the bill will not jirevent undesir- 

 ables from coming to the United States while it will, at the same time, 

 slow down appreciably the movement of the farming element from Euro- 

 pean countries so necessary to the development of farm lands throughout 

 the United States, including the rich alluvial empire. The telegram char- 

 acterized the immigration bill, which seeks to restrict immigration during 

 the year ending Jnue 1. 1022. to 3 per cent of the nationals in this coun- 

 try as per the census of 1910. as "useless, short cut legislation." 



The committees as announced by President Dick are given herewith : 



Executive: W. H. Dick. Tallahatchie Lumber Company, Memphis: A. 

 C. Lange, Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, Blythevilie. .\rk. : John W. 

 McClurc. Belgrade Lumber Company. Memphis, Tenn. : Max Sondheimer. 

 E. Sondheimer Company. Memphis, Tenn. ; Earl Palmer, Ferguson-Palmer 

 Company, Inc., Memphis, Tenn.. and J. R. Campbell. George C. Brown & 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn. 



Membership: P. K. Conn, Bayou Land & Lumber Company. Yazoo City, 

 Miss., general chairman ; Max D. Miller. Miller Lumber Company. 

 Marianna. Ark., chairman for .Arkansas : F. E. Stonei>raker, t""rittenden 

 Lumber Company. Bonita, La., chairman for Louisiana. 



Resolutions : Earl Palmer, chairman ; William I. Barr. Barr-iloliday 

 Lumber Company, Greenfield, O. ; Franklin T. Turner. Darnell-Love Lum- 

 ber Company, Leland, Miss. ; George Land, Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, 

 Charleston. Miss. ; R. T. Stimson, Stimson Veneer & Lumber Company, 

 .Memphis. 



l-'inance ; Ralph May. May Brothers, Memphis, chairman : J. M. 

 Pritchard. secretary-manager .American Hardwood Manufacturers .Asso- 

 ciation, Memphis, and W. C. Bonner. J. H. Bonner & Sons. Memphis. 



.Advertising : J. F. McSweyn, Memphis Band Mill Company, Memphis. 

 chairman: Mark H. Brown, Brown & Hackney, Inc. Meiopbis : W. H. 

 M;itthews. Forest Products Chemical Company. Memphis, and Max Sond- 

 heimer. Memphis. 



.Assessments : R. L. Jurdcn, Pcnrod Jurden Company. Memphis, chair- 

 nuin : W. .A. Ransom. Gayoso Lumber Company, Memphis. Tenn.: S. E. 

 Simonson. planter. Luxora, Ark. : William Pritchard. Pritchard-Wheeler 

 Lumber Company. Memphis, and Fred Grismore. Grisniore-IIyman Com- 

 pany. Memphis. 



Warren Company Issues Handsome Catalog 



This is the age of specialists and the best and most satisfactory results 

 come from the intelligent efforts of companies who fall within this classi- 

 fication. -A splendid example of successful business is brought out in a 

 catalog recently issued by the Warren Axe & Tool Company, of Warren, 

 Pennsylvania. This catalog. No. 11, is beautifully gotten up In colors, 

 with an embossed cover. It shows illustrations of all manner of axes and 

 logging tools from the humble choker hook to the finest axe to be pur- 

 chased. The various tools are fully described and the illustrations make 

 the catalog of more than usual interest. For those who are interested 

 in this subject, it will be well worth their time to send for a copy of this 

 catalog, which will be mailed to them upon request. 



Acer Company Starts New Mill 

 The -Acer Lumber Coiupany has started uii its new hardwood fiooring 

 mill at Woodsville, N. H., and is turning out maple, birch, beech and oak 

 flooring. Most of its equipment was supplied by the P. B. Vates ilachine 

 i'"nii>any .if I'l-loit. Wis., and is driven bv individual mot. us. 



