December 25, 1921 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



35 



H. Brooke Sale, President 



B. Allen, First Vice-President 



Earl Morrison, Third Vice-President 



Merger of Veneer and Plywood Bodies Proposed 



H. Brooke Sale Elected President of National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association; Makes 

 Acceptance Contingent on Willingness of Members to Pay Their Share of Fund 



for Nation-Wide Advertising Campaign 



Arrangements which are almost certain to result in a merger 

 of the National Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' Association 

 with the Plywood Manufacturers* Association, with a paid sec- 

 retary for the consolidated organization, together w^ith arrange- 

 ments to collect the funds pledged by the former association to 

 a nation-wide advertising campaign, were the chief accomplish- 

 ments of the annual convention of the National Veneer and P^nel 

 Manufacturers' Association, held at the Auditorium Hotel, Chi- 

 cago, December 13. 



A committee headed by H. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer 

 Mills, Louisville, Ky., co-operating with the officers of the associa- 

 tion, and the publicity committee, was authorized to negotiate 

 with the Plywood association for the merger and report the result 

 of its efforts at a subsequent meeting of the National association, 

 to be held coincident with the annual meeting of the Plywood 

 association, which will take place in Chicago some time in March. 



The same group was authorized to collect the funds due on the 

 advertising campaign. This latter action was taken on the motion 

 of Thos. D. Perry of the Grand Rapids Veneer Works, following 

 the refusal of H. Brooke Sale, vice-president and treasurer of the 

 Hoffman Brothers Company, Fort Wayne, Ind., to accept the 

 presidency, to which he had just been elected, until adequate pro- 

 vision should be made for the discharge of the obligation incurred 

 by the association when it inaugurated the advertising campaign 

 and subsequently confirmed its action and pledged itself to raise 

 one-half of a total of $50,000 to defray the expenses of the cam- 

 paign. 



The annual meeting disclosed the fact that while the Plywood 

 Manufacturers* Association has already raised some $ I 5,000 of 

 its share of the fund, nothing has been collected by the National 

 association. 



Mr. Sale said that he did not feel that it would be just to himself 

 to accept the leadership of the organization if it w^ere going to 

 repudiate this obligation. 



The members of the organizations which are to conduct the 

 campaign are to be assessed on the basis of |/^ of 1 per cent of 

 their sales during the year from June 1, 1920, to June 1, 1921. 



Before the close of the meeting a "Round Robin" was put in 

 circulation to get the signatures of members willing to pay their 

 share of the publicity campaign assessment. About a dozen had 

 signed it at the close of the meeting. 



The officers elected to serve with Mr. Sale are: 



First Vice-President — C. B. Allen, Allen-Eaton Panel Company, 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



Second Vice-President — E. I. Ross, Medford Veneer Company, 

 Medford, Wis. 



Third Vice-President Earl Morrison, Pearl City Veneer Com- 

 pany, Jamestown, N. Y. 



Treasurer — E. H. Defebaugh, Chicago. 



Secretary — Howard S. Young, Indianapolis, Ind. 



B. W. Lord of the Chicago Veneer Company, who has been the 

 association's counsellor to the Chamber of Commerce of the 

 United States for two years, was again asked to serve and 

 accepted. 



Knight Proposes Merger 



The very important question of consolidation was broached by 

 E. V. Knight of the New Albany Veneering Company and the E. V. 

 Knight Plywood Sales Company. Mr. Knight started out with a 

 reference to the importance of an association to the veneer and 

 panel industry, but said an association could not function efficiently 

 w^ithout a secretary who could devote more time to the association 

 work than Mr. Young possibly could. Mr. Young's law practice, 

 he said, took up most of his time and more than he could afford 

 to give. He was w^orking, he said, for less than nothing. The 

 association should be so organized, he maintained, that 

 it could employ a man who had the clerical organization and the 



