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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



January 10, 1918 



The Dean - Spicker Co. 



Manufacturers of 



Oak— Mahogany— Walnut 



AND 



LUMBER 



22nd St. and So. Crawford Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



PERKINS 



GLUE 

 COMPANY 



SOLE MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SELLING AGENTS 



PERKINS 

 Vegetable Veneer Glue 



(PATENTED JULY «, 1912) 



805 J. M. S. BUILDING 

 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



tice is to hand the man his pay envelope with a slip, "Your serv- 

 ices are no longer required," and he will have to figure out the 

 reason for himself, something which he may be mentally and 

 constitutionally incapable of doing unaided. We do not want to 

 be small business men, nor do we want to be cowards. We 

 should call the man to our office and tell him in a kindly way 

 that for such and such reasons we are unable to use him. Wish 

 him success and shake hands with him. Such a man will usually 

 leave the office and say to himself, "I'm a chump, so and so is the 

 finest man 1 ever wolked for, but 1 didn't have sense enough to 

 appreciate him." Chances are he may again ask for his position, 

 and will make good. 1 know this, for I h.TV:? handled many men 

 the past twenty years. 



At the pr^cent time any cugge;tion for improvement in con- 

 ditions of laboring men or thsir wage is looked upon with skep- 

 ticism, for which we cannot blame them. It is, therefore, up to 

 th^ employer to establish faith and he must do so before he can 

 g^t the sincere and intelligent effort of labor. 



Mix with the men. 1 always do so and have found it not only 

 pleasant, but also profitable. In the summer time we have pic- 

 nics every few weeks, usually on Saturday afternoons, and have 

 all sorts of fun. We usually pay the greatest part of the cost. 



A T. DEINZER. 



Veneer Production by States 



There is no easy way of finding out how much veneer is cut 

 annually in the various states, because no figures of production 

 have been compiled in recent years to show this. Men who are 

 well posted in most matters concerning the veneer business some- 

 times miss the mark when they undertake to guess the relative 

 quantities of veneer cut in different states. The latest accessible 

 figures showing this are about eight years old. An age such as 

 that usually puts statistics of production out of date, and doubtless 

 those compiled in 1909 are out of date now; but since there are 

 none later, they may be of interest and of some value, and they 

 are shown in the table which follows. They include all kinds 

 of veneers, sawed, sliced, and rotary cut; 



State Feet by Scale 



niinoi-, 35,646,000 



Michigan 33,455,000 



Florida 33,293,000 



Wisconsin 31,737,000 



Indiana 31,472,000 



Tennessee 30,574,000 



Missouri 27,365,000 



Arkansas 26,1 16,000 



New York 24,218,000 



Virginia 21,609,000 



North Carolina. . . 19,984,000 



Kentucky 19,356,000 



Alabama 14,565,000 



Ohio 10,985,000 



Maryland 8,796,000 



Vermont 8,013,000 



Mississippi 7,563,000 



State — Feet by Scale 



Georgia 6,980,000 



Texas 6,710,000 



Washington 5,419,000 



West Virginia. .. . 4,404,000 



Pennsylvania .... 3,691,000 



Delaware 3,657,000 



Maine . .' 3,637,000 



Oregon 3,291,000 



Louisiana 3,164,000 



South Carolina. . . 2,944,000 



California 1,716,000 



New Jersey 1,046,000 



Massachusetts . . . 690,000 



All other states. . . 3,885,000 



Total 435,981,000 



Those best acquainted with the tropical hardwoods of South 

 .'\merica are of the opinion that much very fine material for 

 veneers will be found there. Rosewood is a sample of what those 

 southern forests contain. 



The war has brought high class veneer to the front in more 

 ways than one. Five years ago no one would have thought of it 

 as an airplane material; yet a single government order for such 

 planes called for nearly a half-million square feet of first grade 

 veneer panels made of mahogany. The wood must resist splinter- 

 ing, and mahogany is the best in the world for that. Bullets pass 

 through it and leave only a clean-cut hole the size of the bullet. 

 No splinters are sent flying. A great many strikes must be made 

 before a plane made of mahogany can be shot to pieces. 



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