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March 10. 1922 



local or temporary causes for iiniirovcmeiit or reverses, fuiiihi- 

 inoiitals are actually rightiug tlieuiselvcs one by one, and if this 

 procedure continues, the predictions of recent months will certainly 

 materialize. In the meantime the future realization that these 

 fundament.il.s are showing marked improveniont is tending to 

 rapidly eliminate general pessimism, and to substitute a developing 

 degree of optimism, which fact in itself will contribute very largely 

 to final favorable results. 



Manufacturers Outline Confidence-Inspiring 

 Program 



IN THE MOST EARNEST GATHEKIXG of hardwood lumbermen 

 at which Hardwood REfORD has ever been represented, the mem- 

 bers of the American Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 enthusiastically and with practical unanimity accepted the pro- 

 posal of the board of directors in the matter of carrying on vital 

 association activity. After two days of hard work preceding the 

 meeting, the directors appointed a committee for the purpose of 

 drafting the ideas suggested and presenting these ideas to the body 

 of the convention. 



The proposal w^as so simple and logical as to have won a tre- 

 mendous volume of support. The plan is, of course, merely in the 

 form of a suggestion, its further development being left to a com- 

 mittee of nine. The convention can not be said to have sjiecifically 

 settled the future of the association, as the first duty of the com- 

 mittee is to determine whether or not the plan is possible, feasible 

 and permissible. If it is, its details will then be worked out. 



The significant part of the proposal, described in greater detail 

 elsewhere in this issue, is that it is just as apparently for the benefit 

 of the buyer as for the seller of hardwood lumber. His rights will 

 be on a parallel with those of the hardwood lumberman, and par- 

 ticularly if his co-operation is gained, the project will be so all- 

 inclusive as to contribute tremendously towards the future stability 

 of hardwood markets. 



The plan proposed is essentially a tremendous step forward in 

 the merchandising of hardwood lumber. It is quite possible that if 

 finally adojited and put into effect it may ultimately comprehend 

 the entire hardwood lumber industry, thus giving an established, 

 recognized clearing house of valuable statistical service, making 

 possible an intelligent utilization of hardwood forest products, 

 strictly in line with the necessity for legitimate conservation. 



If the proposed plan is ultimately completed and put into effect, 

 it will, in the opinion of Hardwood Record, tremendously con- 

 tribute to the conservation of hardwood resources through permit- 

 ting of intelligent utilization of our hardwood forests; it will tend 

 to greatly assist the wood-using industries, enabling them to buy 

 intelligently and thus stabilize their raw material cost, and it will 

 greatly raise the level of business practice in the hardwood indus- 

 try through permitting an intelligent operation of the industry 

 with the marketing of the product characterized by correct prin- 

 ciples of merchandising. 



The country at large would profit through having attained sta- 

 bility in one of its jirincip.il essential industries, and through the 



pro]er use of its li.irdwood resources, and us the country benefits 

 so will both the buyer and the seller benefit. The proposal is a true 

 and intelligent forward step, and it is to be earnestly hoiied that it 

 will fully mature. 



The Dimensioning of Hardwoods 



THE I.XTELLUiENT P.M'EK presented by \V. A. Babbitt of South 

 Bend, Ind., at the convention of the American Hardwood ■ 

 Manufacturers' Association at Louisville this week is inspiring and 

 yet highly practical. The future of railroad rates is by no means 

 certain, but it ajipears safe to predict that they never will reach 

 a sufficiently low level to permit free and unobstructed movement 

 of low grades into important markets. Possibly the ultimate result 

 will be the general location of wood-using industries nearer hard- 

 wood supplies, but the immediate answer seems to be the establish- 

 ment of a jiroduct refined to a considerable degree. 



The hardwood manufacturer's attitude toward dimensionirg of 

 hardwoods has never been such as would permit the broader devel- 

 opment of this phase of lumber manufacture. The fact that the 

 manufacturer of lumber has looked upon it as a side issue, having 

 to do primarily with his offal, is probably responsible for the lack 

 of sympathy with the dimension movement. A general, intelligent 

 manufacture and marketing of dimension stock will never be 

 attained until dimensioning is considered as a legitimate and impor- 

 tant development of the lumber operation, designed and adminis- 

 tered with just as much thought and with just such correct equip- 

 ment and proper methods as characterize the othi'r branches of 

 the industry. 



Possibly it is well that the production of dimension stock is not 

 immediately undertaken in a wholesale way, for this would prob- 

 ably cause an over-e.xpanded production, tending to retard further 

 future developments. The fact remains, though, that there are no- 

 table examples of highly successful administration of the dimension 

 hardwood business. In those cases where real success has attended 

 these projects, they have been organized on a real business basis, 

 and have been dignified with proper recognition. Standardized sizes 

 have characterized such operations, and in each case success has 

 been greatly advanced by the ability to gain proper recognition of 

 the project by the buyers. 



It is true that the development of dimensioning has been largely- 

 held back by the attitude of the consuming industries, who have 

 been too anxious to consider dimension as a product of waste and 

 not for what it really is, namely, a highly refined raw material. 

 Those consuming industries which ;ire most vitally interested in 

 correct and ample dimensioning facilities have demonstrated their 

 advanced thought by the elimination of these old jirejndices and 

 by recognition of the fact that correctly manufactured dimension 

 stock is literally of higher intrinsic value than the same product 

 in boards. 



The earnest and wide8i)read effort to further advance the pro- 

 duction and use of dimension stock as carried on by certain asso- 

 ciations in the wood-using industrials in collaboration with the 

 Forest Products Laboratory, will quite likely come to a head in the 

 near future. 



Table of Contents 



REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: 



General Market Conditions 13-14 



Manufacturers Outline Confidence — Inspirins Program '.... 14 



The Dimensioning of Hardwoods 14 



SPECIAL ARTICLES: 



Time an Important Factor 20-21 



The Executive and His Latent Powers 21-22 



British Hardwood Import Statistics 22 



Dimension Stock 22 



Efficient Layout for a Medium Sized Furniture Factory 35-36 & 48 



YARD AND KILN: 



Kiln Drying Gum Lumber 24-25 



NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL: 



Miscellaneous 27 



WHO'S WHO IN WOODWORKING: 



J. B. Bartholomew 28 & 30 



W. H. Stackhouse .* 28 & 30 



CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS: 



Miscellaneous 31-32 



Hardwood Institute Launched 15-19 



HARDWOOD N E WS NOTES 51-54 



HARDWOOD MARKET 54-57 



CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 60-61 



ADVERTISERS' DIRECTORY 59 



HARDWOODS FOR SALE 62-6S 



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