December 10, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Major Group Number 1, food production aud exchange, recom- 

 mended international trade commission and endorsed the idea of 

 collective purchases in foreign countries and suggesting codifica- 

 tion of American and British trade-mark laws. 



Group Number 9, composed of earthen products producers, voiced 

 opposition to government ownership of railroads, and urged that 

 every encouragement should be given by executive rulings and 

 legislation for safe investment of capital in railroad improvements. 

 They favored water transportation, emphatically protested against 

 the proposal to inaugurate a nation-wide basis of railroad rates con- 

 structed on the theory that distance is the outstanding controlling 

 factor. They advocated uniform cost accounting and adequate 

 tariff, and expressed themselves in liberal attitude towards labor. 



Among the active lumbermen attending the convention were: 



John H. Kirby. Kirby Lumber Company, Houston, Tex. 



John L. Kaul. Kaul Lumber Company, Birminjiham, Ala. 



Chas. S. Keith, Central Coal & CoUe Company, Kansas City, Mo. 



R. A. Long, Long-Bell Luml»er Company, Kansas City, Mo. 



J. B. White. Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, Kansas City, Mo. 



Gen. L. C. Boyle, counsel, National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 

 Washington, D. C. 



P. L. Rosasco, Bay Point Mill Company, Pine Wood, Fla. 



C. L. Harrison, Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Compan.v. Cape Girar- 

 deau, Mo. 



Guy H. Buell. Montgomery Lumber Compan.v, North Carolina. 



Fred Yegge, Harry Davis. Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, Chicago. 



C. L. Crosman, Crosman & Co., Bangor, Me. 



O. C. Haslip, Louis Wuichet, California Pine Box & Lumber Company, 

 San Francisco, Cal. 



B. F. Masters, Rathborne, Hair & Ridgeway Company, Chicago. 



Thos. Cole, Philadelphia, Pa. 



W. A. Ransom, Ciayoso Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. 



S. B. Anderson, Anderson-Tully Company, Memphis. 



Jas. E. Stark, Jas. E. Stark & Co.. Memphis. 



J. H. Townshend, Southern Hardwuud Traffic Association, Memphis. 



Geo. Gardiner, Eastman-Gardiner Lumber Company. Laurel, Miss. 



Wm. H. Hanan, United States Fleet Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa. 



J. L. Roper. North Carolina Pine Association, Norfolk, Va. 



A. L. Osborne, Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, Oshkosh, Wis, 



Chas. .\. Bigelow, Kneeland-Blgelow Company, Bay City, Mich. 



W. L. Saunders, Cummer-Diggins Company, Cadillac, Mich. 



Frank Stephens, Bagdad Lumber & Sawmill Company, Bagdad, Fla. 



Louis Dill, Baltimore, Md. 



R. A. White, New York, N. T. 



E. M. Perry, Secretary National Wholesale Jjumber Dealers' Association, 

 New York. 



Dr. Wilson Compton, National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, 

 Chicago. 



Jas. E. Rhodes, Southern Pine Association. New Orleans, La. 



Lewis Curtiss, Curtlss Bros. Company, Clinton, Iowa. 



Al. Siegal, Huttig Sash & Door Company, St. Louis, Mo. 



Frank Moss, American Sash & Door Company, Kansas City, Mo. 



B. C. Jarrell. Humboldt, Tenn. 

 R. G. Williams, BuBfalo, N. Y. 



H. S. Young, National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association, 

 Indianapolis, Ind. 



M. H. Stuart. Wells, Higman Company, Benton Harbor, Mich. 

 E. W. Jordan, Emporia, Va. 

 Frank Hickson. Indianapolis, Ind. 



B. W. Lord. Chicago Veneer Company, Chicago. 

 M. J. Fox, Iron Mountain, Mich. 



C. B. Flinn, Chicago. 

 Fred Boles, Chicago. 



Geo. Wilson Jones. Chicago ; Chas. L. Schwartz, Napervllle, 111. 



A. P. Smith, Wholesale Sash & Door -Association, Chicago. 



John L. Alcock, John L. Alcock & Co.. Baltimore, Md. 



Robt. B. .\llen. West Coast Lumbermen's .\ssociation, Portland, Ore. 



Friday's Session 



Paul M. Warburg suggested a peace finance corporation at the 

 final session on Friday to assist the nations abroad. Mr. Warburg 

 is a member of the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and also the Federal 

 Reserve board. His talk was "Finance After the War." In his 

 introductory statement he said that our banks and bankers must 

 be able and willing to freely extend their acceptances for the financ- 

 ing of the world's trade. He said: 



"As a matter of tact, we owe it to the world to bear a substantial por- 

 tion of this burden. I believe we cannot emphasize too strongly that the 

 time has not yet come when our people, large br small, may relax their 

 efforts to curtail unnecessary consumption, both for the sake of releasing 

 for export the greatest possible quantities of goods, thereby stimulating 

 our export industries, and for the purpose of accumulating funds available 



for investment. The slogan, 'Don't stop saving food,' would gain in scope 

 and strength by abbreviating it into 'Don't stop saving :' Our more than 

 21,000,000 Liberty bond holders must be trained to become permanent 

 investors ; thrift must become a national virtue," 



Among the resolutions presente<l by the clearan<'e committee and adopted 

 by the congress was one authorizing the sending of a commission to Europe 

 to study the rc'c<mstruction needs of European countries and to be "avail- 

 able to the American peace ilelegates should they need assistance in the 

 working out of economic problenis." 



Other resolutions adoi)ted declared unanimous opposition to government 

 ownership and operation of telephones, telegraphs and cables. Congress 

 was also urged "speedily to enact legislation providing for the early return 

 under federal charters to their owners of all railroads now being operated 

 by this government, under federal regulations permitting the elimination 

 of wasteful competition, the pooling of equipment, combinations or con- 

 solidations through ownership or otherwise in the operation of terminals, 

 and such other practices as will tend to economies without destroying com- 

 petition in servii'e." 



Waves of approval greeted a resolution recommending the construction 

 of a great merchant marine and that its "operation under American con- 

 trol or kept safe by such legislation as may be necessary to insure Its 

 stability and lasting value to American Industries." The conference held 

 that it is in the public interest that war orders placed by any contracting 

 agency with the government and accepted in good faith, upon cancellation 

 shf)uld Me promptly adjusted and satisfied. The resolution urged the prompt 

 payment of amounts due by the government to help industry "to speed its 

 transition from war to peace basis." 



Louisville Meeting Will Be Record Breaker 



OiJicials of the Anicrican Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 Memphis, are anxious that there shall be the largest gathering of 

 hardwood lumber manufacturers at the annual of the latter at the 

 Seelbaeh hotel, Louisville, Ky., December 17-18, in the history of 

 the hardwood lumber industry. They have mailed invitations to 

 every manufacturer whose name and address they had. They are 

 afraid, however, that they may have overlooked some of them and 

 have therefore prepared the following statement, signed by E. L. 

 Jurden, president, and John M. Pritchard, secretary-manager, for 

 the lumber trade press: 



"The oflicers of the .Vmerican Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 have endeavored to send an invitation to every hardwood manufacturer 

 to attend the meeting at the Seelbaeh hotel, Louisville, Ky., December 17 

 and IS. However, our list may not be complete, and, if any manufacturer 

 should fail to receive one of these invitations, we wish him to understand 

 that it was an oversight and that he will be cordially welcomefl. 



"This meeting Is of unusual interest on account of the move for uniting 

 all hardwood manufacturers into one strong hardwood manufacturers' asso- 

 ciation, and, although this will be an annual meeting of the American 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, it will, in another sense, be a mass 

 meeting of all hardwood manufacturers to openly and candidly discuss the 

 many problems now confronting the manufacturing branch of the hard- 

 wood industry. 



"All manufacturers are cordially Invited and urged to attend and assist 

 in their solution." 



Programs have not been completed and vrill not be distributed 

 for some days yet. Mr. Pritchard, however, is authority for the 

 statement that the two days will be given over largely to the dis- 

 cussion of inspection rules and their application, and to other ques- 

 tions of policy which have arisen as a result of the sudden and 

 unexpected ending of the war. 



This is expected to be the most important meeting in the history 

 of the hardwood lumber industry, and to bring together the greatest 

 number of hardwood manufacturers ever assembled at one time 

 and place. It will be the annual of the American Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers ' Association, but officials, as noted in their prepared state- 

 ment, are stressing the fact that it is more than this — a mass meet- 

 ing of all who are engaged in the manufacture of this product. 



Present indications are that the attendance will be quite full. It 

 is known that there will be full representation of southern hard- 

 wood manufacturers identified with the association. Replies re- 

 ceived from members of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 of the United States also suggest that they will be on hand in large 

 numbers in the attendance upon the first meeting following their 

 identification with the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation. There is strong proof, too, that there will be large num- 

 bers of manufacturers who have never been identified with either of 

 these bodies. 



Government Will Sell Ships 



The Emergency Fleet Corporation has decided to open American 

 ship yards for the building of wooden ships for private owners. 



The corporation has fixed a price of $700,000 each upon the 

 wooden ships it wants to sell. A price of $675,000 each has been 

 fixed for such ships sold in lots of five to one purchaser. 



