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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1018 



Frank F. Fish Announces Discontinuance of War Service Bureau 

 As announced elsewhere In Haudwood Recobd, certain of the war service 



bureiuis and coiuniitteos o£ the hardwood Interests that have been serv- 

 iug in Wnslnugtou have discontinued the worli, the interests represented 

 having decided there was no further necessity for their presence at the 

 Capital. In announcing the dlscontlnuanpe ot the War Service Bureau 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association on March 1, Secretary 

 Frank F. Fish writes the following letter: 



"Conferences with the gciitlvnifn in charge of the office of the director 

 of hnulior nl' the Ccnincil iit Xaliimal Defense with reference to the future 

 necessity of maintaining bureaus in Washington covering hardwood lum- 

 ber, have resulii'd in tbu conclusion that the (luautity of hardwood lumber 

 needed by the I'nitod States government direct and by our allies does not 

 warrant the maintenance of any hardwood emergency bureau in Washington. 

 It is further ai;rccil lliat an cniergency of sufficiently serious nature to war- 

 rant Washington offices is not iilsely to arise in the future and it is, there- 

 fore, entirely satisfactory to the director of lumber that the War Service 

 Bureau of this association and similar liardwood bureaus now in Wash- 

 ington arrange to close their Washingtcni offices and supply any future in- 

 formation desire<l regarding liardwood lumber direct from their headquar- 

 ters. This decision refers particularly to the National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association, the liardwood Manufacturers' Association, Cincinnati, O., and 

 the .\nierican liardwood Manufacturers' Association, Memphis, Tenn. 



"In view of the above decision, the War Service Bureau of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association wishes to announce to its members that on 

 March 1 the Washington office will be closed. Arrangements have been 

 made with the office ot the director of lumber and also with our allies 

 whereby all inquiries tor hardwoods and all information regarding the hard- 

 wood situation will be sent direct to our Chicago office, 186-t McCorraick 

 building, as well as to the other hardwood associations at their headquar- 

 ters. Immediately on receipt of information from the director of lumber, 

 or our allies, we shall place the inquiry in the hands of all of our members, 

 requesting them to make quotations direct, either to the director of lumber 

 or to the department of the government requiring the lumber^ and we shall 

 endeavor in all cases to furnish accurate information and positive instruc- 

 tions to members to enable them to place quotations direct before the party 

 interested. Beyond any question this plan will result in economy of both 

 time an<l expense, and enable the hardwood lumbermen to serve the govern- 

 ment just as efficiently as if bureaus were continued in Washington. 



"All unfinished orders will be handled from our Chicago office, and we shall 

 endeavor to keep our members fully and promptly advised on all points re- 

 ferring to the rennirements in hardwood lumber of the United States gov- 

 ernment or our allies." 



With the Trade 



Statement from Colonel Wood 



Secretary E. W. McCullough of the National Iniplemout and Vehicle 

 Association sends Hardwood Hecokd the following letter and statement 

 from Colonel W. S. Wood, U. S. Quartermaster Department, Jettersonville, 

 Ind., and asks that it be published : 

 C. S. Brantingham, President National Implement and Vehicle Association. 



My Dear Mr. Brantingham : It has occurred to me, and in fact been 

 brought to my attention, that the true statuts of the wagon and vehicle 

 committee, that is, its official status may, as yet, not be clearly understood 

 by all members of organizations involved in the manufacture of wagons, 

 including the various lumber associations. Consequently, after talking the 

 matter over w-ith my association I have decided that it would be w"ise to 

 have published in the different trade publications tlie enclosed brief sate- 

 ment as to the status of the committee, in order that it may hereafter be 

 understood. 



On this same subject when I formed the hide and harness committee it 

 seemed wise to me that the standing of the committee should be well estab- 

 lished at the time, therefore, at that time I published a brief similar notice 

 in the various trade journals of that association. 



I will, therefore, ask you if you will please see that the enclosed notice is 

 distributed to the proper journals in order that it may reach all interested. 

 The committee, together with Mr. Scbravesande. has been in session at the 

 depot here since Friday morning, and will probably not finish its work until 

 Monday, and even then we will have another meeting on Wednesday. 



With my kind personal regards, I am. 



Col. W. S. Wood. 



The statement dated Jeffersonville, Ind., February 17, gives a brief 

 sketch of the history of the vehicle committee in the following words : 



There was established in April. 1917, at the Jeffersonville depot of the 

 quartermaster's department, and in the office of the Quartermaster-General 

 at Washington, a wagon and vehicle committee, for the purpose of advising 

 and assisting the depot quartermaster at .Teffersonville in placing tiie large 

 orders for vehi<'les and transportation, which it became evident would be 

 needed for the successful prosecution of the war. This committee was com- 

 posed originally of R. V. Board of the Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing 

 Company. .\. B. Thielens of the Studebaker Corporation, R. W. Lea of the 

 Moline Plow Ciunpany and E. E. Parsonage of the John Deere Company. 

 The official standing of this committee is as follows: 



1. It is the ofticial committee of the Jeffersonville depot advisory 



to the quartermaster in charge of that depot. 



2. It is a committee officially recognized by the office of the Quar- 



termaster-General in Washington. , 



3. It is a committee officially recognized by the war industries 



board at Washington. 



4. It is also an official committee of the National Implement and 



Vehicle Association. 



This committee meets at Jeffersonville upon the call from the depot 

 quartermaster and the actions taken from tliat depot upon the recommenda- 

 tion ot the committee are the official actions of the quartermaster depart- 

 ment, represented by the depot quartermaster. 



Since its foundation this committee has been somewhat changed. E. E. 

 Parsonage, now acting as the advisor of the War Industries Board at Wash- 

 ington upon matters pertaining to vehicles; and H. J. McCullough of the 

 Emerson-Brantingham Company, having been added as a member, as was 

 also Thomas A. White of the St. Mary's Wheel Company. P. B. Scbrave- 

 sande ot the Grand Rapids Equipment Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., re- 

 presenting some 1.200 manufacturers in tlie furniture industries, has been 

 added to the sub-purchasing committee, and as advisory with the wagon 

 and vehicle committee. 



The sub-committee, so-called purchasing committee, meets every Thursday 

 in Chicago at the LnSalle hotel, which meetings are open to those interested. 

 Prices paid for vehicles, etc., are fixed by the War Industries Board upon 

 the recommendation through proper channels ot the depot quartermaster 

 at Jeffersonville. 



Memphians Reach France 



There having been quite a number of members of the Twentieth Engineers, 

 second forestry regiment, in the convoy with which the unfortunate 

 Tuscania sailed, lumber circles have naturally watched anxiously tor news 

 of the safe arrival of many young lumbermen who joined this regiment. 

 Word has been received at Memphis of the sate arrival of the following 

 members of the Twentieth Engineers : Marion Wellford, Joseph Cooper, 

 W. C. Thompson, Paul Rush, D. E. Thompson, J, J. Pllklnton and J. E. 

 Catterhenry. Harold Weiss of Wynne, Ark., has also been heard of as 

 arriving safely on the other side. 



Becomes Manager of National Casket Company, Lumber 

 Department 



Malcolm Miller, well known in hardwood operating circles, has joined the 

 forces of the National Casket Company, and is now- manager of the lumber 

 department, with offices in the Oliver building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Mr. Miller has been manager of the hardwood department of the American 

 Lumber and Manufacturing Company for tlie past few years, and in this 

 and his past connection has made an excellent name for himself as a prac- 

 tical and accomplisheil hardwood lumberman. 



Nickey Impressed With Necessity For Sacrifice 



S. M. Niokey, president of the Green River Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 just returned from a trip of inspection of his large timber holdings on the 

 Pacific coast in British Columbia, told members of the Memphis Lumber- 

 men's Club, at the regular semi-monthly meeting of that organization last 

 week, that business men of Memphis and of the entire countrj- must take a 

 more serious view of the war if the United States is to achieve its ultimate 

 goal, "Peace with victory." In his talk he said : 



"The hospitals ot Vancouver are filled with maimed and wounded, with 

 men with one leg or one eye or no leg or no eye at all, and what I saw out 

 there brought the war home to me in a closer way than anything with 

 which I have come in contact. I feel different after having been there, 

 and I want to say to you gentlemen that we must all take a more serious 

 view of the war. We must realize that we must do business with the 

 sole objective of helping to win this war. We must get back to the 

 economics of our grandfathers and of our great-grandfathers. We must 

 do with less of everything and support Liberty bond loans, thrift stamps 

 and every other agency for raising funds. ,\nd the sooner we realize these 

 facts the better it is going to be for us and the better for the country under 

 whose protecting flag we live. 



"British Columbia has sent 500,000 to 600,000 volunteers to the aid of 

 the British Empire in this war. and if the United States had done as well 

 it would now have an army of over 5.000.000 on the western front. The 

 atmosphere out there is subdued, but beneath the surface there is that 

 dominant spirit of bulldog tenacity which has made the British people 

 so powerful in both peace and war." 



S. M. Nickey was re-elected as national counselier. as representative of 

 the club, in the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. 



An invitation was read from the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 Association to members of the club to attend the annual of that body in 

 New York City, March 27-28. 



R. E. Dickinson, chairman of the river and rail committee, reported 

 that the management of the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad was not 

 living up to its promises in connection with a larger supply of cars for log 

 hauling. In this connection, J. W. Dickson, ot the Valley Log Loading 

 Company, said his firm was averaging forty-two cars per day on that line 

 with three loaders and that it was not putting its other two machines in 

 operation because the number of cars did not keep the present ones busy. 



"We have forty-one customers for whom we load on that line," said 

 Mr. Dickson, "and we are giving them an average of one car per day. 

 Their average requirements run from one to twelve cars daily. We can 

 load eighty cars per day just as cheaply as we can load forty-two. We 

 have the equipment, the men and everything else necessary. 



It was announced that a committee of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association would hold another conference with Superintedent A. H. Egan 

 of the road in question early next week. 



The house committee reported that the employment bureau maintained 

 by it had found positions with lumber firms for fifty-flve persons during 

 February. 



The secretary was instructed to send circulars to members for the pur- 

 pose of securing their vote on the proposition of greater development of 

 the water powers of the country. This is a matter submitted for referen- 

 dum by the United States Chamber of Commerce. 



The attendance at this meeting was unusually large. Among the 

 visitors was F. R. Gadd, assistant to President Robinson of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, and U. S. Lambert of the Stark-Lambert Lum- 

 ber Company. Beaumont. Tex. 



Texas Sawmill Changes Hands 



The mill and timber holdings of the Athens Lumber Company, Aldridge, 

 Tex., were recently purchased by the Keith Lumber Company, which operates 

 a mill at Voth, that state. The mill at Aldridge has a daily capacity of 

 30.000 feet and cuts both pine and hardwood. Its lumber will be shipped 

 to Voth for reworking. 



