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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 25, 1917 



The committee shall instruct the person authorized to divide the orders 

 not to furnish any information regarding the division of orders to all 

 persons asking tor it, and shall protect him by resolution instructing him 

 not to give out any information regarding the division of orders except 

 in his final published summary of the same after the business has been 

 placed. 



The person authorized to divide the orders must do so ; first, on the 

 basis of the requirements of the government for prompt shipment, and. 

 second, upon the ability of the mills to furnish the stock, placing business 

 with the mills nearest to the point of delivery and having the lowest 

 freight rates. 



After each order is divided among the mills and definite orders placed 

 with them the committee shall approve of the placements made by the 

 person authorized to divide the same. 



All records shall show that the prices quoted to the government are 

 maximum, and there shall be no implied agreement that lower prices may 

 not be quoted through the committee it any individual mill wants to offer 

 its stock for less money than the proposal made. 



A careful record of the amount of lumber ordered from each mill shall 

 be kept. The revenue of the bureau will be derived from an assessment 

 of 2% on the t. o. b. mill invoice price levied on each manufacturer who 

 through the medium of this bureau furnishes any hardwood lumber on 

 government orders. If this basis of assessment produces a fund more 

 than necessary for the expense of the bureau the surplus will be returned 

 pro rata to the contributors. If the fund is not sufllcient to defray the 

 necessary expense a proportionate additional assessment will be levied. 



Mills shall be instructed to furnish copies of invoices as follows : 



Two copies to the contractor. 



One copy to the committee for its information. 



One copy to the Advisory Committee on Lumber, Council of National 

 Defense, 12.30 Munsey building, Washington, D. C. 



The manager shall check the prices shown on copies of all invoices 

 with the schedule of prices submitted to the government and if there is 

 any discrepancy same shall immediately be called to the attention of the 

 shipper and corrected invoice filed with the contractor and committees as 

 above enumerated. 



Contractors in ordering lumber for government use should be asked to 

 furnish a confirmation of the specifications from the government. 



In giving a written acceptance to the contractor of business placed by 

 him, the chairman shall note upon the acceptance the tact that the order 

 is taken with the understanding that the government will guarantee pay- 

 ment for the material. 



Arrangements must be made with the contractor to have the necessary 

 cars placed at the several mills among which the business will be divided, 

 and he should be furnished a list of the mills which will furnish the 

 material on his order. 



The car service committee of the American Railway Association has a 

 representative at Washington, D. C, who will order the railroads to place 



equipment at each of the mills designated, upon the request of the 

 contractor. 



In order that the car service committee may check all orders for cars, a 

 list of the mills among which any particular order is divided will be filed 

 with the Lumber Advisory Committee, at Washington, D. C, with state- 

 ment that it is for its information only, such list showing the name of 

 mill and railroads on which each mill is located. 



Owing to the urgency of the government, mills are impressed with the 

 necessity of giving this business first consideration and should instruct 

 station agents to marl; way hills "Government Business'' In red ink. Many 

 railroads are furnishing placards to be tacked upon the sides of cars loaded 

 with government material. 



The person dividing the business shall require each mill to notify him 

 promptly when cars are not placed for loading, so that he may take up 

 the matter with the contractor on his job. 



The mill shall notify the manager when any unavoidable delay is likely 

 to be Incurred in loading at the mill, in order that he may arrange to 

 cancel the business and place elsewhere. If the urgency of it makes it 

 advisable. This is service which the contractor and government will 

 appreciate and is one of the reasons why the government is requesting 

 the mills to mobilize themselves for this work. 



It is understood that the Lumber Advisory Committee of the Council 

 of National Defense will designate the species of lumber to be used. In 

 utilizing the kind of wood nearest available it is the desire of the lumber 

 committee to prevent the cross hauling of cars from various sections of the 

 country, thus unnecessarily tying up a large amount of equipment. 



The Southorn Hardwood Emergency Bureau at Cincinnati accom- 

 panies the foregoing letter with this pointed warning: 



If this appeal is not responded to in the proper manner, there is no 

 question but what the government will commandeer the timber-supplying 

 resources of the county in the same manner as they have steel and coal. 

 We must bear in mind that the government does not have to wait now 

 for legislation from I'ongress, but an executive order without previous 

 public notice can lift us up and put us in surroundings which are entirely 

 new, and we may find ourselves in a very undesirable position. 



The bureau lias received orders for hardwood parts for seventy-eight 

 ships, and about 9,<JO0 feet will be needed for cacli vessel. Perhaps 

 the total call will be for wood for 1,000 ships, and enough timber for 

 these is easily available, in addition to that required for airplanes, 

 wagons, handles, and other articles. Much heavy oak is needed. For 

 example, rudder posts twenty inches square and thirty feet long will 

 call for tlie finest trunks, and several other parts are nearly as large. 

 Three hundred feet of perfect oak is needed for each airplane pro- 

 peller. Serious seasoning problems must be met in preparing some of 

 this stock. The bureau will hold its next meeting in Washington. 



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The Lumberman s Round Table 



Soundproofing Doors 



Wood doors of fire resisting qualities have been produced success- 

 fully, and the soundproof wood door is now coming to the front. 



A visitor recently inspected a hospital building of recent con- 

 struction, and had his attention called to a heavy door which was 

 guaranteed to be absolutely soundproof. Not only was the door frame 

 lined so as to make a perfect joint, but the door itself was manu- 

 factured in two sections, with a layer of insulating material in 

 between. It was explained that the iloor had been designed originally 

 by a musician. 



Wood doors, by the way, are still favored in hospitals, in spite of 

 the tendency there to make everything hyperaseptic through the use 

 of steel furniture, etc. Wood furniture is of course used in the private 

 rooms, but metal prevails in the operating rooms and other service 

 departments. Even wood floors, which would seem to be desirable 

 from the standpoint of warmth, are being eliminated in new buildings 

 in favor of terrazzo and tile, in the halls and in the bed-rooms. Bugs 

 are used on the floors, but the effect does not suggest comfort. 



How Profit-Sharing Stimulates 



A young lumberman, who, according to his friends, was "no 

 account," not because of lack of ability but because of lack of 

 effort, finally reached the point where he had to take a job that meant 

 hard work: running a little country sawmill on a profit-sharing basis. 



The owners of the mill entrusted him with its operation after 



making tliis arrangement, feeling that the possibility of sharing in the 

 profits might stimulate him to re-al accomplishment. He was given a 

 salary that was more than modest, and his real earnings, if any, were 

 to be made as a result of a good production at a relatively low cost. 



For once in his life the youngster buckled down to a real grind, 

 which meant hard work all day, getting up early in the morning, and 

 being on the job all the time. But he made good. He turned out 

 to be a clever log buyer, and he had his men in the mill and on the 

 yard working tlieir heads off for him. Tlic result of the first year's 

 work was tliat he made more money than he had ever done before. 



Profit-sharing is a spur to lagging ambition as nothing else is. 

 The man who has a stake in the profits doesn't need to be driven — he 

 will drive himself. Because of this the employer who has good men 

 from whom he is getting only partial effieicney ought to consider some 

 arrangement that will put a premium on progress. 



The Second Generation 



A lot of fine young fellows who would proliably be in the lumber 

 business otherwise will be figliting for Uncle 8am before long, so that 

 tills discussion may not be especially timely just now. However, the 

 fact is that too few sons of lumbermen gel the training whidi made 

 these men themselves successful. 



The most conspicuous success in the hardwood ti;ide in recent years 

 has been scored by two young men who grow up in the lumber busi- 



