December 10, 1920 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Chicago Hoo-Hoo Initiate Sixteen 



Tbe Chicago chapter of the coucatenatcil order of Hoo Tloo was in its 

 Inline glory the evening of Iiec. 8. when the coveted degree of the Black Cat 

 was conferred upon sixteen mewing kittens, -svith all appropriate eere- 

 mojiies. The concatenation was distinguished by the presence of L. M. 

 TuUy. Snark of the Universe, and Henry R. Isherwood, secretary-treivsurer 

 of the order, both of whom addressed the concatenation. A turkey dinner 

 was served at G -.30 o'clock, followed by tbe concatenation. Sprightly 

 vaudeville entertainers enlivened the dinner. 



The visiting officials spoke of the rapid growth of Hoo Hoo during the 

 past year, and of its contiuueil gain in prestige. They declared that while 

 tbe membership of lloo Hoo is not yet recruited to the strength it enjoyed 

 I some years ago, the prestige of the order i.s greater than ever before. 



Old Reconsigning Charges Apply 



The Interstate Commerce Coinmissinu lias given District Manager 

 Thompson, of the Louisville offices of tbe Soutberu Hardwood Traffic As- 

 sociation, a ruling under which "reconsigning charges apply as of date of 

 shipment from point of origin." This means, according to the association, 

 that "ears which left point of origin prior to the date of recent general 

 increases (Aug. 26, 1920, on interstate traffic) and reached the reconsign- 

 ing point after that date are subject to tbe old reconsigning charges and 

 not the new." 



Implement Men Chose Chicago 



In order to assure a maximum attend.-mcc ;it the twenty-eighth annual 

 convention of the National Implement and Vehicle Association, Chicago 

 has been chosen as the location for that event, and the dates of Oct. 

 12, 13 and 14, 1921, have been selected. 



This decision was made at the Nov. 11 meeting of the Executive and 

 .\dvisory Committees of the association and their action will be of especial 

 interest to western manufacturers, some of whom were unable to leave 

 their factorie,s for the extended period which was required in order to 

 attend the recent successful convention at Atlantic City. 



National Lumber Manufacturers' Associdtion Will Move to 

 Washington 

 Tile headquarters of tbi- National Lumber Mauufa<-lurers' .\ssociation 

 will be moved from Chicago to Washington, D. C. The directors of the 

 asso<iation voted to authorize the ruove at a meeting held at the Congress 

 hotel, r>ec. 1^ following a careful consideration of the question in debate. 

 The motion, which provided that Dr. Wilson Compton, secretary-manager 

 of the association, should move to the federal capital, left to later decision 

 the question of what departments shall be maintained in Chicago. Accord- 

 ing to the suggestion of John H. Kirby, president of the association and 

 chairman of the board, who presided at the meeting, the Engineering 

 Bureau, which has been in charge of C. E. Paul, and the Traile Extension 

 , Bureau -should be continued at Chicago. He said he ilid not tliink the 

 " corporate headquarters of the association should l>e changed, and salil 

 that he lielieved the convention and diret'tors* meetings shoubl be held 

 either in this city or some other equally central point. 



The proposal to move was urged by members representing every section 

 of the country, who agreed that it would be of advantage to the association 

 ' to have its headquarters in Washington, because of the increased efficiency 

 and directness it would allow in dealing with National questions afEecting 

 the lumber industry. It would also improve opportunities for securing 

 information of value to the association. 



After hearing a paper from Junius H. Brown on the functions of the 

 traffic department, the directors voted to change the official name of the 

 conunittee from traffic to transportation committee, and that tiie member- 

 ship of the committee include lumbermen as well as traffic men. Mr. Brown 

 urged the retention of Frank Carnaban as transportation secretary. 



Mr. Carnahan was in attendance at the meeting and discussed trans- 

 portation. He said that there should be more aggressive effort on the 

 part of lumbermen to stimulate the railroads to move lumber. Mr. 

 Carnahan said there Is no reason why lumbermen should not compel the 

 classification of lumber as preferential freight instead of dead freight. 

 He urged the handling of transportation "in a national way." saying that 

 "the lumbermen should go to the front for improved conditions." 



Considerable time was given to the discussion of taxation problems, one 

 of the concrete results being the adoption of a resolution providing for 

 the appointment of a special committee to go to Washington and request 

 a hearing with the Treasury Department with a view to securing certain 

 changes in the present regulations. This re.solution was the one drafte<l 

 at a conference of the Taxation Committee, headed by R. B. Goodman, 

 chairman of the Bureau of Economics of the National Association, with 

 Major David T. Mason, chief of the Timber Section Bureau of Internal 

 Revenue, and other lumber interests. The resolution urged that the 

 manufacturers desire an opportunity to put their stocks in at the prices they 

 can get for them, not what they cost. Mr. Ooodman expressed the opinion 

 that if losses were suffered during one annual period, the condition might 

 be made the basis of computing taxes for another year. Mr. Goodman put 



this suggestion in the form of a motion, which was carried with tbe 

 instructions that it be presented to the Treasury Department. 



Tbe directors Indorsed the American Forestry Association bill, recently 

 formulated in Washington for presentation at the next session of Congress. 

 The ratification of tlie directors followed the reading by Dr. Compton of a 

 report from Geo. S. Long, chairman of the committee on forestry, who with 

 E. T. Allen, representing the association at the joint conference which 

 formulated the measure. 



The directors decided to appoint a committee to confer with members of 

 the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association to discuss adoption of a 

 uniform order blank. 



Hard for Carriage Makers to Agree 



The executive conunittee of the National Carriage Builders' Association 

 of the United States held a meeting at Evansvllle, Ind., on Thursday, 

 Dec. 2, for the purpose of selecting the place of holding tlie national 

 convention of the association some time in the fall of 1921, probably 

 October. Both Cincinnati and Blvansville put in bids for the convention, 

 but after several votes taken by the committee the result was a tie each 

 time, and it was then decided to put the question up to the entire mem- 

 bership of the association. G. W. Huston of Cincinnati, secretary-treasurer 

 of the association, who attended the meeting at Evansvllle, was instructed 

 to send out letters to all the members of the association at once, who will 

 vote by referendum and decide upon either Evansvllle or Cincinnati as 

 the next couvention city. Louisville, Ky., bad been expected to ask for 

 the convention, hut its name was not presented. to the executive committee 

 for consideration. Mr. Huston said that during tbe past year more than 

 ."tOO.OOO horse carriages were manufactured in the United States. At the 

 present time there is a slump in the carriage manufacturing business. In 

 the evening the members of the executive committee were entertained at 

 a banquet by II. A. White of High Point, N. C, who came to Evansvllle' 

 for the meeting. The national convention this year was held at Rich- 

 mond, Va. 



St. Louis Lumbermen Hear Senator 



The Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis held its semi-monthly luncheon 

 at Hotel Statler Tuesday, Nov. 30. Senator Selden P. Spencer, junior United 

 States senator from Missouri, was the guest of honor. Senator Spencer 

 made an informal address, in which be discussed immigration and taxation 

 and answered innumerable questions asked by various of the 64 lumbermen 

 present as to probable action to be expected on economic problems by the 

 next Congress. 



Memphis Club Will Honor War Heroes 



The Lumbermen's CIul) of Memphis, at its regular semi-monthly meeting 

 at tbe Hotel (Jay<tso Saturday, Nov. 27, decided, by unanimous vote, to 

 honor the members of this organization who participated actively in the 

 world war. On motion of H. J. M. Jorgensen, a former president, sec- 

 imded by J. D. Allen, Jr., another former president, the club authorized the 

 appointment of a committee of three to Investigate the subject and recom- 

 mend the most fitting method of doing honor to the members who put 

 them-selves in line for the supreme sacrifice in response to the call of their 

 country and humanity. The committee consists of H. J. M. Jorgensen. 

 chairman: George C. Ehemann and J. F. MeSweyn. By a rather striking 

 coincidence, all the sponsors of this movement and all members of the 

 committee have enj<iyed the distinction of being head of the Lumbermen's 

 Club. The committee is expected to submit its recommendations at the 

 meeting next Saturday. December 11. 



W. F. Ilolzgrafe. first vice-president, who occupied the chair in the 

 absence of President J. V. Rush, announced the following committees to 

 select candidates for officers and directors during the ensuing year; No. 

 1 — Frank .\. Conkling, chairman, R. C. Stimson and J. T. Jones; No. 2 — 

 E. L. McLallen. chairman. J. R. McFadden and O. M. Krebs. These com- 

 mittees will annoviuce their candidates at tire meeting Saturday and the 

 election will follow one week later, Dec. IS. Mr. Holzgrafe, on behalf of 

 President Rush, specifically warned the committees that neither they, nor 

 their friends nor their nominees were to do any electioneering until after 

 the candidates named had been formally submitted to the club. The race 

 will be "on" and electioneering will be the order of the day long before the 

 club adjourns next Saturday. Indeed, it is a foregone conclusion that, 

 after the names of the candidates have been presented, little business can 

 be transacted because every candidate and every candidate's friends will 

 be seeking pledges from his neighbor, with such a resultant hubbub that 

 nothing can be done but turn the candidates and their friends loose and 

 let them "take it out" on each other. 



J. L. McRee, prominent member Memphis bar, addressed the club on 

 taxation. He told the lumbermen to be certain that they paid their 

 merchant's privilege tax for the reason that failure on their part to do so 

 would deprive them of any standing before the courts of the county in 

 the event they sought to enforce payment of outstanding obligations 

 through legal process. He also informed the members of the club that 

 stocks of neither logs nor lumber brought into Memphis from Tennessee, 

 Arkansas or Mississippi were subject to tax as the law held them to be, 

 directly or Indirectly, "products of the soil." Mr. McRee said he had in- 

 tended talking about "excess profits" but that he had learned, just before 

 coming to the meeting, that, owing to the decided reversal in the lumber 

 industry, lumbermen would be interested in anything more than in a 

 discussion of excess profits for the reason that there are not going to be 

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