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HARDWOOD RECORD 



DecemlxT 10. 1921 



investigation of so important a question. Thus, regardless of imme- 

 diate purchases, Hajjdwood Record is thoroughly convinced that the 

 wise buyer is he who devotes the interval between now and the begin- 

 ning of the new buying season to such investigations as will give him 

 a truly accurate picture of available hardwood stocks. 



There appears elsewhere in this issue a full report of tlie annual 

 meeting of the National Council of Furniture Associations held at 

 New York on the 7th and 8th of this month. Considerable time was 

 devoted at this meeting to discussion of hardwood producing and 

 stock conditions, the discussion apparently developing what Hardwood 

 Record believes to be an unfortunate trend of thought among the 

 members of the councU. There is apparent in the report of the 

 meeting a tendency to put down as propaganda the warnings of the 

 hardwood industry of the possibility of short stocks and of restricted 

 winter production. Hardwood Record believes this tendency to be 

 unfortunate, first, because of necessity it comes from a mere willingness 

 to credit these warnings rather than from carefully developed personal 

 knowledge, and secondly, because the discussions and conclusions of 

 the council are a big factor in determining the policy of the industry. 

 Hardwood Record believes that stock conditions should not be dis- 

 cussed at all unless they can be discussed on the basis of a thorough, 

 first-hand investigation of conditions as they actually are and not as 

 it is thought they ought to be. 



Jesus Christ and Christmas 



IT IS INDEED A PERILOUS ADVENTURE to question the cus- 

 toms of a sovereign people, for they are extremely jealous of 

 these long-established habits and have a sort of instinctive resent- 

 ment against any suggestion that they might in any wise be altered. 

 But being of an audacious and, perhaps, irreverent temperament, 

 we are going to propose that Jesus of Nazareth be given some con- 

 sideration in the celebration of Christmas, that gi'eat feast day of 

 the so-called Christian peoples, which is again at hand. 



For the benefit of those busj' souls, who, harassed by the mani- 

 fold concerns of our present-day existence, may have forgotten just 

 who Jesus of Nazareth is and what He has to do with Christmas, we 

 shall digress for a moment to briefly sketch His career, particularly 

 in its relation to Christmas. It will, no doubt, surprise you to learn 

 that this feast day was established solely for the purpose of cele- 

 brating the birth of this Man, and Son of God. He was born to a 

 lowly Jewish couple, Mary and Joseph, of the Roman province of 

 Judea, on a day which the modern calendar designates as December 

 25. His father was a poverty-stricken carpenter, but of Israel's 

 royal house of David. One could hardly have been born under 

 circumstances more humble than those which accompanied His 

 nativity. As the time of His mother's waiting was about to be 

 fulfilled the Roman masters of Israel issued an order for all Jews 

 to come up, each man to his own city, and be taxed. It so hapjjened 

 that Bethlehem of Judea was Joseph 's home town and he was forced 

 to take his young wife and go up to that place to register for taxa- 

 tion. "When the couj)le arrived the inns of the city were so crowded 

 that people of their means could not secure accommodations and, 

 therefore, they took refuge in a barn. There, amid the bleating of 

 sheep, the stamping of horses, and under the curious gaze of sad- 



eyed cattle, Jesus first saw the light of day, and was cradled ii> 

 a manger. 



The Infant lived and grew and when yet a child confounded 

 the Doctors of the Church with His wisdom. In time He became a 

 great preacher, expounding a doctrine of tolerance and kindness 

 new to the world. A great many people came to look upon Him 

 as the Messiah and King as well. The tremendous following which 

 He acquired aroused the fear and jealousy of certain Jews, who 

 caused Him to be hailed before Pilate, the Roman overlord of 

 Judea, on a trumped up charge of treason. The evidence presented 

 against Christ was insufficient to convince Pilate of His guilt, but 

 as a sop to the Jews Pilate permitted them to crucify Him. 



Then it was that Christ demonstrated His divinity by escaping 

 from the sealed tomb in which His body had been placed, and 

 ascending into heaven, there to sit forever on the right hand of 

 God as a mediator for sinning mankind. 



All this is according to the Scriptures, but be that as it may, this 

 Nazarene of humble birth established the creed called Christian, 

 a doctrine to which we credit our prespnt civilization. 



There is no gainsaying the overwhelming importance of the com- 

 mercial, gastronomic and other temporal aspects of this celebration. 

 We would not presume to urge that the spiritual meanings of the 

 day be exalted above these. Especially would we not in the slight- 

 est measure demean the fine old custom of giving gifts, not only to 

 children, as Saint Nicholas did, but to all of our acquaintances, 

 friends and relatives (except the poor ones), lest they think us 

 hard up. A noble spirit of generosity no doubt actuates this wide- 

 spread giving and, besides, it is of tremendous value to the com- 

 merce of our nation. 



But recognizing all of this^ — the joy of buying presents to the 

 point of bankruptcy, of gorging ourselves until we are, so to speak, 

 "full to the eyes," of imbibing spirits until all our troubles vanish 

 and we are glowing with an over-plus of happiness — we again ask 

 that you think for a little time, amid all your Christmas joys, on 

 that doctrine of good will, of kindness and mercy and brotherhood, 

 for which Christ both lived and died. This can, we sincerely believe, 

 do no real harm to anyone, even should some of us, having thought 

 on these things, decide to practice them. 



The Tale of a Tree 



HARDWOOD RECORD IS PLEASED to give editorial mention 

 to a notable booklet bearing the above title written by Chris- 

 tian F. Wiehe, treasurer of the Edward Hines Lumber Company of 

 Chicago, and issued with the compliments of the Lumbermen's 

 Association of Chicago. The booklet is too replete with essentially 

 sound and convincing statistical and other argument bearuig out 

 the purpose of its publication to make possible reference to any 

 specific points. 



Its purpose, though, is to depict in an interesting yet convincing 

 and authoritative way, the comparative cost and selling price of 

 lumber and the inevitable elements, which together, have raised the 

 producing figure at the sawmill to an hitherto unheard of point. 



The value of the booklet will be unquestioned, not merely to lum- 

 bermen, but to all users of lumber who have a sufficiently intelligent 

 interest in their raw material problem to wish to know the facts as 

 they govern not merely its present, but its future. 



Table of Contents 



REVIEW AND OUTLOOG: 



General Market Conditions 13-14 



Jesus Christ and Christmas 14 



The Tale of a Tree 14 



SPECIAL ARTICLES: 



American Hardwoods in Foreign Markets 15-18 



Plan ror a Real American Lumber Congress 20 



Great Activity Follows Jamestown Market 22 



Lumber Division Will Aid Exporters 24 



WHO'S WHO IN WOODWORKING: 



P. E. Ebrenz 25 



Charles Ipson 25 



YARD AND KILN: 



Upkeep of the Dry Kilns 26 



Questions and Answers 26-27 



NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL: 



Miscellaneous 19 



CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS: 



Miscellaneous 30-31 



Furniture Council Conservatively Optimistic 35 & 46 



HARDWOOD NEWS 33-34-51-S4 



HARDWOOD MARKET 54-58 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 60-62 



ADVERTISERS' DIRECTORY 59 



HARDWOODS FOR SALE ; 62-64 & 66 



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