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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, 1922 



American Lumber Congress Reorganized 



Institution Is Made Permanent at Its Fourth Annual Session; Turned Over to Three 

 Branches of Lumber Industry; Hardwood Interests Play 

 Important Part in Deliberations 



The plan for the formation of a permanent American Lumber 

 Congress, that should be truly representative of the three large 

 divisions of the industry — manufacturing, wholesaling and retail- 

 ing — was consummated at meetings of delegates from the three 

 elements of the trade in the Fourth American Lumber Congress, 

 held in Chicago at the Congress Hotel on April 6 and 7. 



Jasper Peavy of the Peavy-Byrnes Lumber Company, Shreve- 

 port. La., was elected chairman of the Congress for the ensuing 

 year, immediately after a permanent organization had been effected 

 and a constitution adopted on April 7. 



The plan was fostered by the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association, which directed the preliminary steps of organization 

 and financed them. But the American Lumber Congress, as was 

 insisted upon by the promoters, now has become an independent 

 and sovereign body, belonging to the lumber industry as a whole. 



The hardwood branch of the industry played an important part 

 in the deliberations of the tentative Congress, and in its evolution 

 finally into an independent and permanent organization. John W. 

 McClure of Memphis, Tenn., first vice-president of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, presided over a portion of two of 

 the sessions, and was one of the delegates from his association to 

 the congress of organizers. Earl Palmer of Memphis, a director of 

 and delegate from the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 served on the committee on commercial practice and took a leading 

 part in the debate on the matter which this committee formulated 

 into recommendations which were adopted by the Congress. Geo. 

 N. Harder, Wells, Mich., of the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association was present as one of the 

 delegates of the manufacturing group. Geo. N. Lamb, secretary 

 of the American Walnut Manufacturers' Association, attended as 

 a delegate of the manufacturers group. W. L. Saunders of the 

 Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association was present to 

 represent his association among the manufacturers. Horace F. 

 Taylor, president of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, 



was one of the four men selected by the wholesalers' group to 

 represent it on the standing committee of the permanent organiza- 

 tion. Mr. Harder served on the commercial practice committee 

 along with Mr. Palmer. A. L. Osborn, one of the best known 

 leaders of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, served on the trade extension and legislation com- 

 mittee. Mr. Saunders was on the standardization committee, and 

 Geo. F. Kerns of Chicago, a director of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, served on both the trade extension and stand- 

 ardization committees. There were other hardwood men who played 

 a prominent i)art in the deliberations of the Congress. 



National Hardwood Standards Adopted 



Another feature of pertinent interest to the hardwood industry 

 was that upon recommendation of the standardization committee 

 the American Lumber Congress endorsed "the standards as set 

 up by the National Hardwood Lumber Association as applying to 

 hardwoods." 



The hardwood delegates from the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association voted for the Universal Order Blank, which was 

 adopted, but Mr. McClure, as vice-president and delegate from that 

 association, advised the Congress that while they approved the 

 principle of the uniform acceptance order blank, they must make a 

 reservation, which would preclude the hampering of their proposed 

 Sales Code. "We do not want to take any action at this time 

 which would bind us completely to this uniform acceptance order 

 blank," said Mr. McClure, "for the reason that some details in 

 that acceptance of order blank appear to vary slightly from the 

 work that we are doing, and other details may develop. • * • 

 We just want to make that reservation so as to get it in the record, 

 that we won 't be bound in our work on our sales code by any action 

 taken at this meeting." 



According to the constitution, or plan of organization, adopted 

 (Continued OK pagv 30) 



Horace F. Taylor, On Wholesalers' Divisirn of 

 Standing Committee 



Earl Palmer, Who Took Prominent Part 

 Deliberations of Congress 



John W. McClure, Who Presided at Several 

 Sessions of Congress 



