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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



August 25, 1921 



■American Walnut 



We manufacture both lumber and veneers 

 from selected logs grown in the famous 

 Iowa walnut district. The result is our 

 product possesses unusual merit, being 

 favored by Nature with a most beautiful 

 grain and color. We will appreciate a list 

 of your needs in both lumber and veneers 

 of walnut. 



DES MOINES SAWMILL CO. 



10th and Murphy Streets 



Des Moines, Iowa 



Furniture Industry Is Attacked 



It is understood that the manufacturing branch of the furniture 

 industry would welcome the investigation of the prices of house- 

 hold furnishings, which is provided for in a resolution introduced 

 in the Senate on August 8 by Senator Kenyon of Iowa. The manu- 

 facturers have chafed at the fact that retailers in general have not 

 followed their own price recessions as closely as they should and, 

 therefore, by resisting the course of liquidation in the industry, 

 have reduced the volume of demand and retarded recovery from 

 depression. 



This resolution would authorize the Federal Trade Commission 

 to look into and report on the causes of factory, wholesale and 

 retail prices of the principal household furnishings industries and 

 trades, beginning January I, 1920, with especial reference to the 

 activities of associations in the furniture industry. 



The demand for an investigation originated with the American 

 Federation of Farm Bureaus, whose president, J. R. Howard, de- 

 nounced the prices of lumber, building material and household 

 furnishings, which he says have failed to respond to deflation, for 

 reasons which reports of the Federal Trade Commission have in 

 part disclosed. Lumber and building materials, Mr. Howard said, 

 are 202 per cent of 1913 prices still, while household furnishings 

 are 250 per cent above 1913 prices. The prices of house- 

 hold furnishings are in a class by themselves, he declared 

 and are "entirely out of line with prices of any other group. 

 He complains further than these prices reach 371 per cent of 

 1913 level in October, 1920, "having continued to rise for several 

 months after prices of most other commodities had begun to de- 

 cline." He said that his bureau had made an effort to find out 

 whether any further declines in the household furnishings group 

 might be expected and had been assured by nearly all concerns 

 interviewed that no further declines are anticipated. "We have 

 heard," he concludes, "of strong associations operating in certain 



branches of the furniture industry, of a trust in the glass industry 

 which dominates the situation, and of similar conditions with re- 

 spect to other important articles included in the household furnish- 

 ings commodity group." 



Ross Manages Butternut Company 



The Butternut Veneer Company, a new organization formed a 

 year ago at Butternut, Wis., has placed its new factory in operation 

 under the general management of Theodore Ross, formerly with 

 the Park Falls Lumber Company at Park Falls, Wis. The plant is 

 modern in every respect and buildings and equipment are new 

 throughout. The concern has a large volume of business on its 

 books and looks forward to an uninterrupted run at capacity during 

 the fall and winter months. 



Transit Privileges for Plywoods 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association is in receipt of ad- 

 vices from the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company that it is 

 willing to establish transit arrangements at Louisville, Ky., on 

 built-up or compound wood when manufactured from logs. 



This means that manufacturers of these products can bring in 

 their logs on net instead of gross rates, thus effecting decided sav- 

 ings in freight rates thereon. 



C. B. Allen Named to Hoover's Board 



Secretary of Commerce Hoover has notified C. B. Allen, of the 

 Allen-Eaton Panel Company of Memphis that he has been selected 

 to represent the "plywood panel industry," on the Hoover Confer- 

 ence Board, which meets monthly in Washington in the interests of 

 American business, according to information received in Chicago 

 on August I 9 by M. Wulpi, commissioner of the Plywood Manufac- 

 turers' Association. Mr. Allen is first vice-president of the Plywood 

 Manufacturers' Association and a very active member. 



