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attended. The iirincipal impression, though, tliat would have con- 

 cerned them, was that the movement has great potentialities of good 

 to the manufacturers of these two American species. The meeting 

 went vigorously on record as demanding that each wood be sold 

 strictl.v on its own merits and by its own name in the form of 

 furniture. The important element in this section is that through 

 this movement the manufacturers of gum and birch will have the 

 support of the entire manufacturing and retail furniture trades in 

 their campaigns to gain that very recognition for their product. The 

 .furniture men are entirely aware of the great good which can come 

 to the gum and birch men from this action, but are anxious to 

 carry out the progi'am for the sake of cleaning up their own industry. 

 The real purpose of tliis editorial is to state that this movement 

 i.s not limited in its scope and interest to a few men nor to any 

 group of businesses. It wOl soon have assumed major importance 

 to all factions in the furniture business, and to all who sell hardwood 

 products to furniture manufacturers, either as lumber, veneers or 

 plywoods. The activities fathered by the vigilance committee demand 

 the attention of all such business men, either as individuals or through 

 association representatives. Such representatives should immediately 

 acquaint themselves with tlie movement, and shouhi follow it through 

 to its final conclusion. 



The Armaments Conference 



IT IS ENTIRELY PROPER that a trade paper should at this time 

 have something lo say about the armaments conference. Tliat is 

 the most important event with which the world is concerned today. 

 It is equally a.s important as the Versailles peace conference, which 

 so colossally deceived and disappointed the war-weary hearts of 

 mankind. It offers yet another liope that humanity may be granted 

 some surcease from wars and preparations for wars. It touches all 

 of our lives intimately, and its success or failure will have a great 

 deal to do with the relative quantities of happiness and misery 

 which in the future we and our posterity may experience. It is an 

 opportunity which we had not expected when we viewed the wreck 

 of our hopes at Paris and settled into a state of disappointed 

 cynicism. 



The present undertaking is one which aiijieals to the practical 

 mind of the business man. No attempt will be made to deal with 

 glittering abstractions, w'ith transcendent ideals and niillenni.al 

 hopes, wherein the lion and the lamb lie down together and the 

 galaxy of nations, like the morning st.irs, sing together their peans 

 of peace. No, Washington will call the attention of the ranking 

 nations of the world to the impossible cost of the present system 

 of national defense; will show that continued adherence to this sys- 

 tem can only lead to universal bankruptcy and universal misery. 

 Washington will then present a definite plan for .a system more rea- 

 sonable than the jiresent one, whidi will afford each important 

 nation relatively as great protection as it now has at much less 

 cost. This will ease the burdeii of taxation, which is fast growing 

 intolerable in every nation in the world. It is the only hope of 

 gaining any material reduction of taxation anyv\»hcre. Other reduc- 

 tions can give only trifling relief. Armaments alone make modern 



government intolerably expensive and the only real possibility of 

 relief naturally lies in this direction. 



The materialistic statesmen of Europe and Asia can understand 

 these things better than they could the exalted ideals of Mr. 

 Wilson, and they know that they have got to listen this time to 

 what America says. This nation is the richest in the world, and 

 in a race of armaments must inevitably win. These foreign cynics 

 are going to ponder long and hard before they reject this oppor- 

 tunity to call the race off. Their people are grumbling ceaselessly 

 at the taxes that are heaped upon them, the specter of revolution — 

 political and economic chaos — is haunting all of them. They must 

 for once forget their imperialistic designs and listen to reason. 



It is reasonable to hope that these practical considerations of 

 the overwhelming problems of war may result in good where ideal 

 consideration failed. The great mass of men can not understand 

 abstractions; they distrust and dislike them. But give them some 

 concrete idea to work on ; something like the reduction of taxation 

 and their interest and faith will be promptly engaged. The creation 

 of a Super-State, based on the golden rule, such as Mr. Wilson had 

 hoped for, was impossible, because of the innate and ineradicable 

 depravity of mankind. But the limitation of armaments is some- 

 thing that it doesn't take angels to understand, subscribe to or live 

 up to. It is not, in short, "Too good for human nature's daily 

 food." 



The Danger of a Little Publicity 



MANT A MAN AND MANY A CAUSE has been damne<l in the 

 public press through the statement of part of the truth without 

 that other jiart, which alone couhl make it the whole truth. The lum- 

 ber industry suffered from many misstatements of an unjustified and 

 unfair nature until it in turn sought to secure a voice for itself 

 through the public press in order that the population at large might 

 more thoroughly understand the lumber industry and its problems. 

 Thmus during recent months more and more frequent reference to the 

 lumber industry has b<'en apparent in the daily papers, but unfortun- 

 ately either through the lack of understanding of the industry or 

 through a continued effect of that sinister influence responsible for 

 many of the previous misstatements, many such news items contain 

 just enough advertising to constitute bad advertising. 



For instanee, a press dispatch from Washington referring to the 

 jilca of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association for marked rate 

 reduction, states that the Pennsylvania RaOroad opposes reduction 

 claiming that it would result in .$7,000,000 annual loss to the Penn- 

 sylvania alone. The counsel making this statement further claims 

 that the increases on hardwood freights in 1920 have not reduceil 

 traffic. 



It is very complimentary that press notices should have lieen given 

 to this important case, but it is certainly unfair to make tlicse asser- 

 tions which uniloubtedly will win a certain measure of future sym- 

 pathy without at least briefly citing the facts as given by the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, which convincingly refute such state- 

 ments. 



Table of Contents 



REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: 



General Market Conditions 13 



Shyster Methods Doomed at Cleveland 13-14 



The Armaments Conference 14 



The Danger of a Little Publicity 14 



SPECIAL ARTICLES: » 



The Sawing of the Log 16-18 



Better Terms for Furniture Get Strong Backing 35-:^S 



Industrial Engineers m Woodworking . 36 & 40 



WHO'S WHO IN WOODWORKING: 



Mark P. Campbell 21-22 



Gustav A, Schoenhut 21-22 



YARD AND KILN 26-27 



NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL: 



Administration Awaits Court Decision on Open Trade Associations 19 



CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS: 



Miscellaneous 28-29 



Northern Shipments Increase 15 & 20 



Hardwood Sales Code Committee Be^ns Labors 19 & 20 



South's Logging Problems Discussed .24 



HARDWOOD NEWS .. 31-34 & 55 



HARDWOOD MARKETS 55-60 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS ...62-64 



ADVERTISERS' DIRECTORY 



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HARDWOODS FOR SALE 64-66 & 68 



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