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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10. 1921 



II. P. Moyer 124 23 101 95—196 



.T. E. Walsh ] S2 30 ) 02 101—203 



F. C. Ecspess 13.^> 23 112 101—213 



F. A. Conkllng 144 30 113 113— 22G 



The following withdrew or retiiriieil no cards In the afternoon : 

 Ralph .lurden. H. F. Dulweher, K. II. Dofebaugh, K. O. Martin. J. F. 

 Mingpu, K. A. Taylor, D. G. Martin, W. J. Whytc, N. A. Gladding, L. E. 

 Doster, S. A. Godnian. 



At the great jollification at tlie club in the evening 11. 1'.. Weiss was 

 elected president amid great acolalin. The following other olfn-ers were 

 eleoted to serve with him : .T. C. Honner, vice-president ; J. M. I'ritchard, 

 secretary-treasurer. Board of governors : (). M. Krebs, Geo. W. Jones, 

 Jack Welsh, H. J. Richards and Luke Russell. 



Strong Program Promised for Logging Congress 



From j)resf'nt plans and iiuliciHiniis the fall meeting' uT the Api)alachian 

 Logging Congress, to be held in Knoxville, October 18, 19 and 20, will 

 surpass the notable spring session held in Cincinnati. The fall meeting 

 will be the sixth annual session, the Congress having been organized in 

 Asheville, N. C, January 3 and 4. lOlfi. with Col. W. B. Townsend as its 

 first president, C. L. Babcook, E. .\. Gaskill and W. T. Latham having also 

 served. 



At present the official roster is: F. G. Norcross, president: .lohn Raine. 

 vice-president; T. Sunderland, secretary. Executive committee, M. W. 

 Stark, chairman: John P. Shea, C. L. Babcock, Geo. N. Delaney, W. T. 

 Latham, Andrew Gennett, I.i. D. Gasteiger and T. W. Hampton. This is 

 subject to change at the Knoxville meeting, as the annual election will 

 then be held. 



Permanent offices, with a full time secretary, were established in Knox- 

 ville in November, 1920, since which time the membership has grown from 

 thirty-eight members and associate members until now it has 123 members 

 and associate members. Secretary Sunderland has labored faithfully and 

 strenuously to place the Congress in the position it now occupies, and it 

 is expected that it will be given another big impetus by the coming 

 meeting. 



L. H. Tucker of the .'Andrews Manufacturing Company, Andrews, N. C, 

 who is an expert accountant with several years experience in the lumber 

 industry, will make an address on "Costs and How to Keep Them," this 

 being a subject that all lumbermen should hear. 



P. G. Norcross, who has had forty-five years' experience in the manu- 

 facture of lumber, will address those assembled on the subject of "Sawing 

 of the Log." This address will be illustrated w'ith diagrams. 



Geo. L. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, who has had many 

 years' experience in the industry, will speak on the sidiject, "Reforestation 

 from a Lumberman's Viewpoint." Also to dwell upon conservation methods 

 as seen by a practical lumberman. 



J. R. McGiffert. vice-president Clyde Iron Works, will give a historical 

 address on the development of logging machinery. 



Andrew Gennett of Gennett Lumber Company, Asheville, N. C, will 

 make an address on "Compensation Insurance." Mr. Gennett is well 

 (lualified on this subject, being able to discuss same, -both from a legal 

 viewpoint and from that of an employer. 



Col. W. B. Greeley, chief forester, has cooperated with officers of the 

 Congress in having both E. H. Frothingham and Capt. I. F. Eldredge 

 attend this meeting, the former to explain the methods of the forestry 

 department in their experiment to develop the minimum requirements to 

 keep cut-over lands productive, while the latter will outline the policies 

 of the forestry department. Inasmuch as the subject of reforestation and 

 conservation now occupies the center of the stage, it is well that all lum- 

 bermen be well informed on these proposed policies, which will enable their 

 cooperating with the department. 



This is the outline of the program, while acceptances are yet to be 

 received from two other speakers, who are thoroughly versed in their lines 

 of endeavor. With the acceptances of these two, the program of fixed 

 subjects will be closed, the balance of the business sessions to be devoted 

 to round table discussion of subjects that are of vital importance to the 

 logger and lumberman and the election of officers, 



Robert M. Carrier, president of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, will be in attendance at this meeting, and a message from him 

 to those assembled will be of much interest. 



While the entertainment of those present will be in the hands of Lewis 

 Doster, chairman of the entertainment committee, assisted by his asso- 

 ciates, E. M. Vestal, E. W. Meeker, W. H. Hopkins and D. F. Baker, this 

 committee is receiving the cooperation of a special committee appointed 

 b.v J. M. Logan, president of the Knoxville Lumbermen's Club, this com- 

 mittee being composed of C. F. Maples, chairman ; E. M. Vestal and H. C. 

 Kopcke. Past President C. L. Babcock has conferred with these commit- 

 tees and local people, and a warm welcome awaits those who attend and 

 everything will be done to make their visit to this meeting and to Knox- 

 ville both pleasant and profitable. 



National Wholesale Association Activities 

 The National Wholesale Lumber Dealers" .Vssociation, through its Com- 

 mittee on Legislation, is studying Senator Frelinghuysen's Coal Bill, S1S07. 

 It win be recalled that early this year the Association, co-operating with 

 the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, opposed the so-called 



Packers and Calder Coal bills, as then introduced. The National Asso- 

 ciation is informed by the Chamber that the present Frelinghuysen bill is 

 very different from the Calder bill, and that there seems to be no vio- 

 lation of the principles to which the Chamber Ig committed. Many mem- 

 bers of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association are also in 

 the coal business, and also because of the possible Influence and effect 

 of this proposed legislation on the lumber industry the Legislation Com- 

 mittee is giving it careful consideration. 



Reports to the members state that the Secretary of War, because of 

 lack of funds, has announced that the Aerial Forest I'atrol will be dis- 

 continued. The Association was requested to oppose the discontinu- 

 ance of the Patrol, and the matter was referred to the Forestry Com- 

 mittee. The Forest Service was requested to express its views, and while 

 Forester W. B. Greely believed the Aeroplane Patrol has large possibil- 

 ities of service and he would be glad to see it continued, in view of the 

 co.st involved and because this method of forest protection is a supple- 

 mental one whose value, development, and serviceability can only be 

 worked out through extended experience, the Forest Service did not feel 

 justified in requesting the War Department to rescind the action It has 

 taken because of the need for National economy. The Forestry 'Com- 

 mittee of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association will, there- 

 fore, recommend at the next meeting of the Board of Trustees that no 

 action be taken at this time to retain the Aerial Forest Patrol. 



Southern Exporters Urge Cuban Loan 



The Cuban "situation," as usual, received the lion's share of the atten- 

 tion of the directors of the Southern Lumber Exporters' Association, 

 comprising some of the leading hardwood exporters of the region, at a 

 meeting in New Orleans, September 23. Though the little island was 

 once upon a time a very large consumer of Southern lumber and until 

 recently took vast quantities of Southern hardwoods, its business has 

 gone practically to nothing. All efforts are being bent by the associa- 

 tion to restore this trade to a condition of normalcy. 



Those taking part in the discussion included E. R. du Mont, president ; 

 C. E. Dobson, managing director ; Lucas E. Moore, W. N. Hunter, Roger 

 E. Simmons and L. L. Chipman. 



Resolutions were adopted, copies of w-hich were sent to Southern con- 

 gressmen and the commercial chambers at the various Gulf and South 

 Atlantic ports, which were in substance : 



"Whereas, business in the island of Cuba, our ward, and our customer 

 in 1920 for goods to the value of over five hundred millions of dollars, is 

 is a condition of financial distress ; be it 



"Resolved, That the interests of both countries would be served if the 

 government of the United States would give its approval to an issuance 

 of Cuban bonds for financing needed and economically desirable road 

 and port improvements, since it is believed that this action would give 

 a general stimulus to the business life of the island that would produce 

 marked improvement in conditions therein." 



Banker Predicts Advance in Lumber 



Dwight .\rmstrong. vice-president of the Commercial Trust & Sayings 

 Bank, told members of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, at the regular 

 semi-monthly meeting of the latter at the Hotel Gayoso Saturday after- 

 noon, Oct. 1, that the accumulation of such a large percentage of the 

 gold supply of the world in the United States has had the effect of 

 impairing the equilibrium of international exchange and that this con- 

 stitutes the greatest menace at the moment to orderly revival of business 

 throughout the world. He said that students of economics and captains 

 of finance in this and other countries are trying to "find a way out" of 

 the present situation and he expressed the view that they would, in 

 time, be able to do so. He predicted that the lumbermen might shortly 

 experience an advance in their products such as the cotton interests of 

 the South are now enjoying. He pointed out that the shortage of cur- 

 rent production is making for the same shortage in lumber which boU 

 weevil and reduced acreage have created in the case of cotton. He said 

 that "business is somewhere between stagnation and recovery" and he 

 thought that present optimism in business and financial circles is 

 thoroughly justified. 



J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traf- 

 fic Association, gave a brief report of the conferences held in Wash- 

 ington between officials of that organization and representatives of the 

 interstate commerce commission and the carriers. He asked, however, 

 that nothing be published regarding his statement. He made an urgent 

 plea for members of the club identified with the association to go to 

 Washington and assist in getting the proper evidence in the record to 

 convince the interstate commerce commission that present rates are 

 not only more than the traffic will bear but that they are actually de- 

 structive of the industry. Mr. Townshend said that a decision would 

 probably be forthcoming around Nov. 1 and expressed confidence that a 

 substantial reduction in rates would be ordered. 



E. L. Pierce, of the Pierce Lumber Company, Marked Tree, Ark., was 

 elected an associate member, and James E. Bell, of the James E. Bell 

 Lumber Company, Hollandale, Miss., an active one. 



Joe Thompson, vice-president, occupied the chair in the absence of 

 J. H. Hlnes, president. 



