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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 10. 1920 



buying, but stimulating the public's belief that the lumbermen are a group 

 of highbinders. 



This may be true in certain sections of the country, but not of Detroit. 

 We have reduced our prices materially, and are selling a great deal of 

 lumber for less than the cost to us several months ago. If you had kept 

 in touch with the Detroit situation you would have observed in the papers 

 of two weeks ago large reductions in price. 



I feel that such an editorial has a very bad influence on the consuming 

 public. You have made a general .statement, which, so far as this locality 

 is concerned, is untrue. W. A. C. Miller Company. 



Hardwood Record welcomes the above comments, and it Is a pleasure 

 to see evidence that lumbermen are alive to the requirements of the con- 

 ditions, and this undoubtedly reflects, at least, the beginning of a move- 

 ment in the right direction. 



With the Trade 



White Is Now Breece Sales Manager 

 Carl L. White is now at the headquarters of the Breece Manufacturing 

 Company at Portsmouth, O., having been in the headquarters as sales man- 

 ager since about the middle of August. Mr. White joined the Breece com- 

 pany Januiiry 1, but spent the spring and nearly all the summer at the 

 mill at Arkansas City, Ark., which was formerly operated by the Arko 

 Lumber Company, which wa.s conducted by P. E. Selliy and the Breece 

 company. Mr. Selby was general manager and handled the sales from 

 Portsmouth, but recently the Breece company bought out Mr. Selby and 

 called Mr. White to Portsmouth to handle the sales. 



Pioneer Chicago Lumberman Dies 



A pioneer lumberman of Chicago and the north country, Charles A. 

 Marsh, died at his residence, on Blackstone avenue, Chicago, Sunday morn- 

 ing, October 31, aged 63. Mr. Marsh had the distinction of having brought 

 the first yellow pine and flr timber to Chicago and he had long been 

 prominent in the trade. He devoted all of his career, subsequent to his 

 graduation from Denison University, Granville, O., in 1878. to the lumber 

 industry. Granville, O., was the city of his birth, Mr. Marsh had been 

 since 1911 president of the Marsh & Truman Lumber Company and pre- 

 viously had been connected successively with Marsh Brothers & Ransom 

 and the Marsh & Bingham Company. He was a leader in Baptist church 

 affairs in his community, being a member of the Hyde Park Baptist church. 



president of the board of trustees of the Chicago Baptist Theological 

 Union, the corporation which was largely responsible for the establishment 

 of the divinity school of the University of Chicago. He had Irraveled 

 widely and was a member of the Union League. Quadrangle Club and of 

 the South Shore and Flossmoor Country Clubs. He is survived by a wife 

 and two children, A. Fletcher Marsh of Evanston and Mrs. Samuel 

 McClintock of New York. The funeral was held in Chicago on November 2. 



Clubs and Associations 



Lumbermen's Most Serious Problems ' 



The banker's opinion as to the most serious problems that confront the 

 lumber industry and the future outlook has been secured by Baker, Fen- 

 tress & Company, bankers for lumbermen of Chicago, as the result of hav- 

 ing addressed questions covering these two matters to 2,854 banks located 

 in the timber states in western territory. The bankers characterized the 

 problems as "inadequate transportation," "cancellation of orders," need of 

 extension of credit at a time of "increased demand from every other line 

 of business and industry," Inability of many lumber manufacturers to 

 withstand a declining market without calling on the banks for extra 

 assistance, tendency of the smaller operator to throw all his stock on 

 the market when prices have started a decline. As to the future, the fol- 

 lowing replies were made: "(A) The effect of the high railroad rates on 

 orders placed in lumber manufacturing territory is problematical ; (b) a 

 temporary break In retail and wholesale prices in lumber ready for 

 delivery is to be expected. Future prices will be regulated by the future 

 cost of labor, production, etc." 



Club Hears Anti-Red Speech 



Dr. John Royal Harris of the National Reform .\ssociatinn, with head- 

 quarters at Nashville, Tenn.. delivered a striking adilress on the "Menace 

 of Bolshevism in the United States" before the regular semi-monthly meet- 

 ing of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at the Hotel Gayoso Saturday, 

 October 30. He likewi.se paid his respects to the I. W. W. element in this 

 country and insisted that the menace of Bolshevism is a very real one. 



Dr. E. E. George of the local staff of the Y. M. C. A. complimented the 

 club very highly on the active support its members had given to every 

 public and patriotic cause presented to them during the past few years. 

 He said that Memphis was particularly fortunate to have such a live, 



