February 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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they were at the beginning of 1921. Material prices have undergone a 

 decided delation during 1921, and therefore the cost of construction 

 Is much less prohibitive than at any time since the war. 



More than that there is coming about a national realization that busi- 

 ness and industry must build upon a firm basis at home to make us the 

 better able to stand the shock of a foreign debacle if such should come. 

 The bottom of slump days has been passed, and the construction industry 

 is going to be a potent factor in putting industry on its feet. 



Returns tor 194 cities officially reported to The American Contractor 

 show a valuation of $138,799,280 for 30,392 permits. This is a 125 percent 

 gain over the $61,592,924 valuation for the first month of 1921. 



Henry S. Graves Returns to the Yale School of Forestry 



It has recently been announced that plans long under consideration by 

 Dean James W. Toumey of the Yale School of Forestry are now consum- 

 mated in the arrangement whereby Col. Henry S. Graves, formerly Chief 

 Forester of the United States, is to return to his former position as dean 

 of the school. Mr. Toumey desires to resume his more purely scientific 

 work and Mr. Graves, in view of the widening opportunities afforded to 

 the school by its recent developments, is returning enthusiastically to his 

 old post. 



Coming coincidentally with the announcement that a further substan- 

 tial increase, representing the income on a quarter of a million dollars, has 

 been added to the school's resources, and that $300,000 has recently been 

 received for the erection and maintenance of a School of Forestry building, 

 the news that such a conspicuous forester as Mr. Graves has been called 

 to the faculty of the Yale school will generally be regarded as significant. 

 The fact that Mr. Graves recently declined an offer of the position of 

 conservation commissioner of the state of New York on the ground that 

 the Yale School of Forestry offer, then under consideration, promised the 

 greatest field for the national educational work in connection with forests 

 and other natural resources in which he has been engaged since his resig- 

 nation from Government ser\-ice. will also be regarded as a significant cir- 

 cumstance. It is believed that the national eminence and international 

 reputation of Mr. Graves will bring a degree of prestige which will directly 

 Influence the future growth of the i'ale school. 



Clubs and Associations 



President to Receive National Wholesalers 

 Plans are rapidly developing for tlie thirtieth annual convention of the 

 National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association to be held at the New 

 Willard Hotel, Washington, D. C, Wednesday and Thursday, March 22 

 and 23. Addresses of a purely perfunctory nature will be eliminated and 

 the Wednesday morning session of the convention will be opened by an 

 address by the Hon. Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior, who will out- 

 line matters of timely interest. W. DuBois Brookings, manager of the 

 Natural Resource department of the Chamber of Commerce of the United 

 States, and qualified to discuss large cooperative problems from the stand- 

 point of a practical lumberman, will be one of the speakers, as well as 

 Alvin H. Dodd, manager of the department of the committee on distribu- 

 tion, in which the association is represented by its first vice-president, W, H. 

 Schuette, Pittsburgh. 



The committee reports will be pointed and brief, plenty of time being 

 permitted for discussion of problems of direct association interest, such as 

 credits, collections, arbitration, transportation, etc. 



The annual banquet will be held on Thursday evening, March 23, the 

 principal speaker being the Hon. George Wharton Pepper, the newly 

 appointed senator from Pennsylvania. In addition a distinguished and 

 pleasing speaker will come from Canada. As usual with the National 



association, the ladies will participate with the men in the banquet and 

 listen to the after dinner speaking. Among the honorary guests will 

 be Vice-President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Secretary of the Treasury 

 Mellon and others. 



A dinner dance will be given on Wednesday evening, March 22. Such 

 an affair proved to be most attractive and successful at the convention 

 in Washington in 1920, and there have been numerous requests that it be 

 repeated this year. 



The President of the United States would like to have made his plans 

 to be one of the banquet speakers, but this being out of the question he has 

 invited the members of the association, their guests and accompanying 

 ladies to meet him in the East Room of the White House during the con- 

 vention. This will, of course, prove to be a most interesting and pleasing 

 occasion. 



Secretary Schupner has returned from a flying trip south and states 

 that reports from all over the membership Indicate a very large attend- 

 ance at the coming convention, March 22 and 23, and that members wUI di> 

 well to make their hotel reservations well in advance. 



Exporter Committees Named 



The standing committees of the National Lumber Exporters' Association, 

 for the current year, have been named by D. D. Hartlove, president, and 

 announced from the Baltimore office by Harvey M. Dickson, secretary. 

 They are made up as follows : 



CLAIMS — Dwight D. Hartlove, Price & Heald, Baltimore, chairman ; 

 W. J. Eckman, M. B. Farrln Lumber Company, Cincinnati, and F. E. Hoff- 

 man, Hoffman Bros. Co., Fort Wayne, Ind. 



TRANSPORTATION — Edward Barber, Howard & Barber Company, Cin- 

 cinnati, chairman ; J. J. Linehan, Mowbray & Robinson Company, Cincin- 

 nati ; J. W. McClure, Bellgrade Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. ; W. E. 

 Weakley, W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus, O. ; Ben Johnson, Mans- 

 field Hardwood Lumber Company, Shreveport, La. ; Ferd Brenner, Ferd 

 Brenner Lumber Company, Alexandria, La. ; F. G. Otis, Otis Manufactur- 

 ing Company, New Orleans, La.; J. W. Tumbull, J. W. Turnbull Lumber' 

 Company, Philadelphia, Pa. ; J. N. Woollett, Aberdeen Lumber Company, 

 Chicago, 111. ; E. A. Lang, Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber Company, Chicago, III. ; 

 W. F. Gammagc, Cincinnati ; James E. Stark, James E. Stark & Co., 

 Memphis, Tenn. 



MEMBERSHIP — Fred Arn, J. M. Card Lumber Company, Chattanooga, 

 Tenn., chairman ; A. S. Williams, Astoria Mahogany Company, Long Island 

 City, N. Y. ; H. A. Plumley, Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y. ; 

 F. T. Atkinson, Walnut Lumber Company, Cincinnati ; A. T. Knox, Lucas 

 E. Moore Stave Company, New Orleans, La. ; Frank Purcell, Frank Purcell 

 Walnut Lumber Company, Kansas City, Kan. ; T. T. Adams, T. T. Adams 

 Company, Richmond, Va, ; T. Hofmann, T. Hofmann-Olsen, Inc., New 

 Orleans, La. ; M. J. Dukes, R. A. & J. J. Williams Company, Philadelphia ; 

 C. S. Powell, C. S. Powell Lumber Company, New York. 



ARBITRATION AND COMPLAINTS— J. J. Linehan, Mowbray & Robin- 

 son Company, Cincinnati, chairman (five others familiar with the particu- 

 lar department of the lumber trade with which the arbitration is concerned 

 being named whenever there is any case to dispose of). 



AUDITING — Holger A. Koppel, Baltimore. 



MERCHANT MARINE— John L. Alcock, John L. Alcock & Co., Balti- 

 more, chairman ; A. S. Williams, Astoria Mahogany Company, and W. G, 

 Harter, W. O. Harter Company, Inc., New York. 



IMPORT.VTION OP HARDWOODS AND OTHER WOODS COMMITTEE 

 — W. J. Eckman, M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, chairman ; A. Chaitln, 

 Overseas Lumber Company, New York ; C. C. Mengel, Jr., the Mengel Com- 

 pany, Louisville, Ky. ; George W. Hartzell, Piqua, O., and W. A. Scott, 

 Rees-Scott Company, Ltd., New Orleans. 



MARINE INSURANCE — John L. Alcock, Baltimore, chairman ; Gustave 

 A. Farber, Turner-Farber-Love Company, Memphis, and C. S. Powell, C. S. 

 Powell Lumber Company. 



NATIONAL COUNCILLOR OF THE CHAMBER OP COMMERCE OF 

 THE UNITED STATES — W. J. Eckman, M. B. Farrin Lumber Company. 



ALTERNATE — M. J. Dukes, R. A. & J. J. Williams Company. 



UNITED KINGDOM FORM OP CONTRACT — Gustave A. Farber, Tur- 

 ner-Farber-Love Company, London, chairman ; Chester F. Korn, the Korn 

 Company, Sumter, S. C, and Innes Crichton, W. M. Ritter Lumber Com- 

 pany, Liverpool, England. 



There has been named another committee, this being the one to confer 

 with a similar body from the Transatlantic Line freight managers to con- 

 sider various ocean transportation matters, among them standardization 

 of rates. The president gave much thought to the personnel of this com- 

 mittee, aiming to pick members who are thoroughly conversant with the 

 different phases of the hardwood export trade and with transportation 

 problems. It is hoped by Mr. Hartlove that every member selected will 

 consent to serve. A Joint meeting of the two committees will be arranged 

 as soon as this can be done. The N. L. E. A. committee is made up of 

 John L. Alcock of John Alcock & Co., Baltimore, chairman ; Edward Barber, 

 Howard & Barber Lumber Company, Cincinnati ; F. T. Turner, Turner- 

 Farber-Love Company, Memphis ; J. W. Mayhew, W. M. Ritter Lumber 

 Company, Columbus, O., and Lucas E. Moore, of the Lucas E. Moore Stave 

 Company, New Orleans. 



