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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 25, luai 



Clubs and Associations 



Memphians Prepare for Golf Tourney 



Amiuuiic'iut'ui^ roM'i'iii;; tlir lltjl I - Minui iiH'rit t>( the LumlK-nncn's Golf 

 AxNoi'ialliin of .M('iiL|ihis Imvo lii'cn sont out hy .1. JI. I'l'ltcliMj-rl. sccri'tary. 

 <Ir«'at pri'iui rations arc now boiiip uunU' for a day full of j;olf and cntrr- 

 lainnn'ril. Tlu' iJatc has Iipimi si't al Si>|itoml)i'r 23 at the Colonial Couulry 

 • 'lull. 'I'hls tournaniiMil will \»- llii' thlnl annual event of the cliih. 



New Book of Inspection Rules 



The 11121 edition at the National llardwooil l.uniher Association's I'.ook 

 of Uules Is n<)W on the i»ress and will he ready for distribution about 

 September 1. at whleii date the chanjies ami additions to the rules adopted 

 by Its late i-onventlon will heeonie effective. 



As soon as the publication is ready all members will be supplieil willi 

 ■their regular annual (piotas of ten copies, anrl others can have their wants 

 supplieil at a cost of 10 cents per <-opy hy addressing this oflice. Advance 

 girders for tlie book can bi> lilcil now. , 



Baltimore Exports on Upturn 

 A .study of e.xports of lundier from Haltlniore is interesting In that it 

 Indicates that the pendulum will probably swing in the direction of a more 

 active movement and a stiffening in the (piotations before long, if a begin- 

 ning has not already been made. The total declared value of the ship- 

 ments made during .lune, the last month for which complete figures are 

 available, is not impressive, to be sure, being only .'^(J0,»;12. lint it exceeds 

 that for May by something like iflO.oOO, and may tlierefore be regarded as 

 indicating an upturn. 



Complete Reports More Helpful 



At llii' luiifi'n'ii. c licld at Wasbin^toM. 1 1. (',, on ,luly 2!l. ui>ou the sug- 

 gestion of Secretary Hoover of the Itepartment of Commerce, to discuss 

 census statistics id' production, the question arose concerning the method 

 of making the linnbcr reports of the titmost value to the industry. 



It is in-oposed to confine these monthly reports to production statistics 

 <m].v, but inasmuch as it is contemplated they will aitl in determining the 

 trend of business, Secretary W. W. Schupner of the National Wholesale 

 I..nmher Dealers' Association pointed out to the census director tliat so 

 1'ar as the lumber industry is concerned, it is conceivable that at some 

 perlotls production would be at a ndninuim while stocks on hand at whole- 

 sale or assembling yards may be large, and that the production statistics 

 •would be of more value if accompanied by statistics of lundier on hand 

 at these distributing centers. The National Association offereil to cooper- 

 aite with the census director in obtaining these latter statistics. 



Liability of Telegraph Companies 

 Tile National \Vholcsale Lumber lienlers' .Vssociation calls the attention 

 of its nu>nd)ers to the fact tliat in its decision in docket No. 11524, 

 *'Ijiniitati<in of Liability in Connection with tlie Transmission of Telegraph 

 Mi'ssagi'S." the Interstate Conuuerce Commission ordered the telegraph 

 companies to istablish by July 13, 1921, rules and provisions limiting 

 their liability for errors or delays in tlie transmission or delivery, or for 

 niui-dellvery, of interstate messages to amounts not less than $500 for 

 each message at the unrepeated message rate: not less than .^5,000 for 

 each message at the repeated message rate, and a liability not less than 

 the amount at which any such message received for transmission at the 

 repeated message rate shall be valued in writing by the sender when 

 tendered for transndssion and upon payment of an aiiditionai charge equal 

 to one-tenth of 1 iier cent of the amount by which such valuation shall 

 exceed jp.'i,(ioo. I'ndcr the previous rules of telegrai)h c(unpanies. they 

 were n()t liable for mistakes or ileiays in the transmission or didivery. or 

 for non-delivery, of any unrepeated message beyond the amount received 

 :'or sending, nor for more than .10 tinu>s the sum received for si'iidiug a 

 repeated message (or a maNlmum of IfoO) unless specitically valueil. 



Prospects for Reduction Good 



■■I'rospects for obtaining a substantial reiluction in fndght rates on 

 liardwood lumber an<l forest products look very encouraging." says J. II. 

 'I'ownshend. secretary -manager of the Soutliern IIardwo<ul Traffic Associa- 

 tion, in a letter just issued to members of this organization, in connection 

 ■with the formal complaint recently filed with the Interstate Commerce 

 ("omnilssion on the part of the association, through which it is seeking to 

 secure restoraticm of rates in effect prior to Aug. 2(>, 1020. 



Mr. TownshiMul points out that earnings of the railroads for the months 

 of June and July are substantially larger than during any month since 

 last November and that rumors are no longer heard of proltable receiver- 

 ships on the part of important lines ot railway. 



He also shows that there were only 44,712 cai^ of hardwood liMuber 

 and forest products loaded for the country as a wliole during the week 

 tending July 30, a decrease of 18,400 cars compared \vith the same week in 

 102O and a decrease of 10,100 comparer! with the corresponding period 

 in 1018, He points out that 210,037 cars were loaded with less than 

 tarload freight during the same wiik. an increase of 21.752 and 77,001. 



respectively, for the corresponding weeks in 1020 and lOlf). lie draws 

 from the foregoing the conclusion that less than carload merchandise is 

 not hampered by e.\cessive freight rates, while the movement of forest 

 I)ro(lu<'ts is greatly restricted — cut almost In half — on this account. 



Ueferring to the recommendation made hy the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission for a reduction of 20 per cent in all rates rin live stock wliere 

 such rates are in excess of 50 cents, in the so-called IJve-Stock Case, Mr. 

 Townsliend declares that the ''reasons for reducing rates on forest products 

 are more pressing and can be more clearly shown than those affecting 

 the movement of live stock." 



•'We have every reason, therefore," he says in conclusion, "to feel that 

 we are going to be very succesful in the very near future in getting rates 

 on forest ])roduets reduced," 



National Inspection Work for July 



Tidal original inspections for the montli of July amnunleil to 12,43S.315 

 feel. Ilf this 1 1,0!)0.!IS3 feet was turned over by its salaried staff and 

 1.341.332 feet by the fee inspectors. Keinspections were made on 270,018 



feci. 



The foregoing figures are sufficiently in line witli the range of tlie 

 records of the last few months to warrant the assumption that the work 

 of its inspection service is at least holding its own irrespective of what 

 general trade conditions may be or have been concurrently. Total original 

 inspections for June were 14,043,150 feet and for May 12.744,554 feet. 

 The record for July, 1020, was 10.409.308 feet, and that was an interval 

 when the impetus of the lately subsided boom was still appreciably felt 

 by the lumber industry at large. 



I'urtbcn e, the present month of August has thus far displayed such 



a demand for National inspection that, barring a decided and unlooked for 

 slump along its further course, it bids fair to pass the record of any pre- 

 vious montli of the current calendar year. 



New Orleans Solves High Rate Enigma 



Imniediate p:iyminl by the goverument of the .<5cM 1,000,000 which it 

 owes the railroads of the country as claims growing out of F'ederal contNil 

 during the wartime period is the novel solution for a timely and reasonable 

 restoration of freight rates being urged by the lumber trade, including all 

 interests, both pine and cypress as well as hardwood, in New Orleans and 

 the adjacent extreme southern territory. 



This solution of the troublesome freight question was evolved at a 

 meeting August 10 at the Monteleone Hotel. New Orleans, of the New- 

 Orleans Lumbermen's Club, which comprises practically all the leading 

 hardwood interests of the Crescent City and surrounding territory, as well 

 as other lumber interests. The proposed solution took the form of a reso- 

 lution adopted unanimously by the club, copies of which were sent to the 

 Louisiana congressional delegation in Washington and to Louisiana news- 

 papers with the view of lining up public sentiment behind it. 



Tile resnlntiiin, which was dratted by C. H. Sherrili of the Sherrill Hard- 

 wood Lumlier Company, moved by C. H. Carby and seconded by Maurice 

 J. Uuvernay, all leading New Orleans lumbermen, also contained a pro- 

 vision that the question of insisting upon this payment by the government 

 as the most practicable "way out" be taken up with the Associations of 

 Commerce. Kiwanis Clubs, Rotary Clubs and other business and commer- 

 cial organizations of the extreme South, with the view of lining their 

 membership up behind the movement and having them bring to bear their 

 influence upon their congressmen to have them give iinmeiliate attention 

 to the plan before congress takes its regular recess in the near future. 



It is pointed out that of all the interests throughout the country being 

 liurt by the present excessive freight rates toda.v tlie hardwood lumber 

 industry in file extreme southern section is undoubtedly being hardest hit. 

 and among the ablest supporters of the plan of the club were C. J. Cop- 

 pock of the Cybur Lumber Company, Cybur. Miss., and president of the 

 Siiuihwcstern Hardwood Manufacturers' Club- 



Adamson Law Is Attacked in New Orleans 



The vital (lucstinns of w;iges. labiu- efficiency and railway freight rates 

 as tliey affect the hardwood lumlier industry in the South and Southwest 

 came in for thorough and exhaustive discussion in their manifold ramifica- 

 tions at the regular monthly meeting of the Southwestern Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Club, which was held at the Montelennc Hotel in New 

 Orleans August 11. 



C. J. Coppock of the Cybur Lumber Company. Cybur, Miss., and presi- 

 dent of the club, following a delicious luncheon, wielded his trusty gavel 

 of red gum in characteristic vigorous fashion. A. C. Brown of the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic .Vssociation. and secretary of the club, was 

 unable to leave Memphis for the meeting, but his place as secretary was 

 ably filled by (Jeorge Scliaad. manager of the New Orleans district office 

 of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. 



Foremost among the speakers of the day were F. L. Adams of the 

 Newell Lumber Company, Eunice, La., and a former president of the club : 

 J. K. Uoblnson of the Pelican Lumber Company. Mound, La. : J. M. Thomp- 

 son of tile Natalbany Lumber Company. Natalbany, La. ; W. Brown Mor- 

 gan of S. T. Alcus & Company, New Orleans, and other leading hardwood 

 manufacturers from the three states of Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas 

 coni|)rising the Southwestern Hardwood Manufacturei*s' Club. 



.\s at most other gatherings of lumbermen everywhere, and particiilarl.r 

 in the South and Soutliwest, the vexatious and troublesome question of 



