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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, 1918 



facturers in the report he made to the meeting. His report was 

 in the nature of a good luck story. 



The commission men are grouped as Division F, and the chair- 

 man, James G. Miller, made the report to the association. 



Division G, including the millmen, was not represented by its 

 chairman, John Westberg, who was unable to be present. 



The house committee was represented by P. L. Johnson who 

 made tlie report concerning the rest.iurant facilities. It was de- 

 clared that criticism of the restaurant was not well taken, because 

 any deficiency in service was due to_lack of enough patronage to 

 make the table pay. 



Directors Elected 



The several divisions presented their candidates for directors 

 who were chosen by unanimous vote, and resulted in the following 

 elections: 



Division A — Charles W. Jacob, Jobn Bader Lumber Company. 

 Division B — Edward C. Schoen, Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company. 



ness transactions. The vote on the question was unanimously 

 affirmative. 



A brief address was given by John M. Woods of Boston, presi- 

 dent of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, his theme 

 being the activities of the association of which he is president, 

 lie explained some of the work at Washington which had not been 

 fully understood by some of the lumbermen of the country, par- 

 ticularly as it relates to transactions between hardwood men and 

 the government. . 



More than 250 persons attended the annual banquet and dance 

 in the Louis XVI room. It was one of the most successful, and 

 by all odds the most enjoyable, of all the features of the annual 

 meeting. 



Low Cost of Medical Service 



Investigators of labor conditions occasionalh' report that less 

 is being done for health in the lumber industry than in many 



WM. C. SCHREIP.i:i;. WM, C. SCHRBIBER 

 & CO., DIRECTOR. 



E. C. SCHOEN, COLUMBIA HARDWOOD 



LUMBER COMPANY, CHAIRMAN 



DIVISION "B" 



L. W. CROW, MEAUS-SLAYTON LUMBER 

 COMPANY, CHAIRMAN DIVISION "A" 



Division C — A. C. Qubtley, A. C. Qubtley Lumber Company. 



Division D — Charles B. Flinn, Metropolitan Lumber Company. 



Division E — Seth E. Barwick, Long-Bell Lumber Company. 



Division F — J. G. Miller, J. G. Miller Lumber Company. 



Division G — John Westberg, C. E. Peterson Company. 



Committee on Arbitration — V. F. Mashek, Pilsen Lumber Company; 

 Earl Bartholemew, Nashville Uardwood Flooring Company ; George J. Pope, 

 D. S. Pate Lumber Company ; R. R. Cousins, C. H. Worcester Company ; 

 Frank Stephenson. 



Committee on Appeals — F. J. Heltman, Heltman Lumber Company, 

 Fted W. Black, F. W. Black Lumber & Veneer Company ; G. A. Van Ness, 

 Philip Rlnn Company ; M. McLeod, Oconto Company ; A. T. Stewart, A. T. 

 Stewart Lumber Company. 



Trade Acceptances 

 The place which trade acceptances should fill in modern busi- 

 ness was the subject of an address by Henry Lawton of the foreign 

 department of the Dearborn National bank, Chicago. The char- 

 acter of trade acceptances was explained, and the plan on which 

 they are operated was shown. This class of commercial paper is 

 new in America and it has not yet been as widely adopted as it 

 should be. 



Ours is the only great commercial country which has not yet 

 made extensive use of trade acceptances in its business affairs. 

 The banking people are almost solid in their indorsement of this 

 method of closing transactions. 



On motion of P. S. Fletcher, the Lumbermen's Association of 

 Chicago went on record as indorsing trade acceptances in busi- 



others. This is perhaps no reflection on the industry, but perhaps 

 an evidence that employes do not need the supervision which 

 is demanded in some lines in order to get the most in the form 

 of production, likewise reduce labor turn-over. The latter is an 

 especially important feature in these times of shortage of help. 



In this connection it is interesting to learn that the cost of 

 medical service in industry — which includes, by the way, first aid 

 and medical service, hospital care when necessary, and nursing 

 service for the families of employes — is $2.21 per employe per 

 year, on an average. This seems to be an unusually small expense, 

 but the figures are those of Magnus W. Alexander, of the General 

 Electric Company, Lynn, Mass., who is executive secretary of the 

 Conference of Physicians in Industrial Practice. 



The investigation on which the figures are based covered 100 

 industries in practically all lines, furnishing varying degrees of 

 service and having varying costs as a result. The cost, including 

 taking care of all accident cases, which is necessary practically 

 and in view of the requirements of workmen's compensation laws, 

 is so small as to suggest its value to the employer from an in- 

 vestment standpoint. 



The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of Charleston, Miss., has done 

 considerable along this line, even to the extent of building and 

 equipping a hospital, and its experience is said to have been espe- 

 cially favorable, from the standpoint of demonstrating the value 

 of the work. More lumbermen could study its possibilities to 

 advantage. 



