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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



June 10, I92I 



VEGETABL 



The Picture Slioivs the Present Howe of 



PERKMS 



TRADE MARK 



( )ur progress has been made possible because the majcM-itv of the glue using trade was 

 alive to the opportunity of PERKINS OUALTTV and PERKINS 'SERX'ICK. 



Proci'ss and Product Patents covering Perkins Glue were granted July 2m\ and March 19th, 1912. and have heen held valid and 

 iitringed hy the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Patents have also hccn granted in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, 

 Kraiice. Belgium, Italy and other foreign countries. 



PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 



Factory and Gen. Offices: LANSDALE, PA. 



Sales Office: SOUTH BEND. INDIANA 



Veneer and Panel Men Face Important Program 



The regular semi-annual meeting of the National Veneer & 

 Panel Manufacturers* Association will be held at the Auditorium 

 Hotfl. Chicago, on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 1 4 and 1 5. 



The first day will he devoted to a general session and the second 

 day will be given over to separate group meetings of plywood 

 manufacturers, rotary veneer manufacturers, and figured veneer 

 m a n u f *'» c '. u r e r s . 



The officers of the Association have proceeded upon the theory 

 that ^he members der.ire this meeting to be the means by which 

 each may learn what the industry is doing in the different sec- 

 tions of thi country. Little veneer or plywood is moving and it is 

 in times like these that it behooves manufacturers to get together 

 and compare notes and analyze conditions and learn what the 

 other fellow is doing. 



It has been the custom of the National Veneer & Panel Manu- 

 facturers' Association to have one talk by a big business man of 

 national reputation who will state business facts and make a busi- 

 ness man's diagnosis of the industry's ailment and suggest general 

 rules of conduct for its improvement. This custom will be followed 

 and one of the biggest men in Chicago will address the meeting on 

 Tuesday morning. 



J. F. Hirt, of the Forest Products Engineering Company, Chi- 

 cago, will address the association on the subject "Controlling 

 Moisture in Lumber and Veneer." Under this title he will discuss 

 the preparation of logs for the lathe, conditioning lumber for 

 core stock and the principal causes of waste in plywood manu- 

 facture. 



Since grading rules for veneers of all kinds were last adopted by 

 the National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association, condi- 

 tions have changed greatly. Good logs have become more diffi- 

 cult to obtain and the grades of a few years ago are impossible 

 now. For this reason. President Home has appointed a grading 



rules committee to submit to this meeting such changes as may 

 be necessary in the rules for the inspection of veneer and ply- 

 wood. When the rules have been finally passed upon at this meet- 

 ing, they will be printed for general distribution and it is hoped 

 that every manufacturer w^ill be on hand to give the benefit of his 

 counsel and advice in making the new grading rules exactly w^hat 

 they should be. 



There will be reports upon log conditions and conditions of the 

 industry generally from men located in each of the different sec- 

 tions of the country. 



There will be a report of the trade extension committee which 

 was appointed at the December meeting. This committee, and par- 

 ticularly Geo. O. Worland, who has had in charge the advertising 

 end of the committee's work, has done an immense amount of work 

 preparatory to an intensive trade extension campaign, and a de- 

 tailed report and recommendation will be made at the meeting. 



Since the December meeting, the traffic committee of the asso- 

 ciation has determined that a complaint should be filed with the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission to require the railroads to put 

 into effect the findings of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 

 old Docket No. 8131, which followed a most detailed investigation 

 of the rates and classifications upon lumber and lumber products. 

 If these findings can be made effective, it w^ill result in a very sub- 

 stantial saving to all veneer and plywood manufacturers and users. 

 The traffic committee will report the steps it has taken and the 

 result it hopes to accomplish. 



On Tuesday evening there will be the usual association dinner. 

 The officers have not yet announced w^hether this dinner will be 

 held down tow^n or out at one of the country clubs near Chicago. 



Every member of the Association is, of course, expected to be 

 represented and every manufacturer of veneer and plywood 

 whether a member of the Association or not will be most welcome. 



