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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 25, 1921 



CHICAGO OFFICE 



N. S. JOHNSON 

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Southern Mill Work Makers Hear Rousing Address 



Aside from electing H. E. Fellows, LaGrange Lumber & Supiily 

 Cojupany, LaGrange, Ga., as director to succeed George E. Toale, 

 Augusta, Ga., deceased, selecting Atlanta as the place for the quar- 

 terlj- meeting in Maj' and adopting resolutions thanking the local 

 members of tlie association and the Memphis Chamber of Com- 

 merce for the entertainment provided by them and expressing 

 appreciation for the splendid program prepared by Secretary Har- 

 nian, the entire sessions of the Southern Sash, Door & Mill Work 

 Manufacturers' Association, Thursday, Feb. 18, were given over 

 to addresses on various subjects of especial interesi to the members. 

 The meeting was held in Memphis. 



J. P. Larson, secretary of the St. Louis Millmen's Association, 

 speaking on "Association Work," delivered a brilliant address, 

 which he termed an "Appeal and a Message." He declared that 

 there is a very intimate relationship between good morals and good 

 liusiness and insisted that the principal problems of the special mill 

 work manufacturers could be solved if they approached them in a 

 •spirit of co-operation, meaning by co-operation "helpfulness, 

 intimacy and fraternity." He did not think there was the slightest 

 chance for a business as unsystematized as the mill work business 

 to succeed with unbridled competition, but that, if the members of 

 the industry worked together in a proper way, they could put their 

 business on a higher plane, solve their labor problems and also limit 

 the field in which the retail lumber dealers and the wholesalers in 

 sash, doors and blinds who are encroaching on the sphere of the 

 special mill work manufacturers. He made a particularly strong 

 jilea to the members to encourage the building of homes rather than 

 dwellings, and to accomplish this by insistence upon living strictly 

 uji to specifications in all work on which they bid instead of coun- 

 tenancing modifications, substitutions and elimination. 



W. P. Flint, secretary of the Mill Work Cost Information Bureau, 

 Chicago, 111., speaking on "Mill Work Cost," said that the South- 

 ern Sash, Door & Mill Work Manufacturers' Association and the 

 bureau he represented had been cooperating in determining mill 

 work costs during the past several years and that splendid progress 

 had been made. He told members of the association that these are 

 strenuous times and that mill work manufacturers are not going 

 to have business offered them during the next few months without 

 regard to prices. On the other hand, he stated that they must get 

 out and dig for it. He quoted the slogan contained in the Chicago 

 Tribune, "1321 will reward fighters," and made a brilliant plea 

 for clean fighting for business as against the sort of fighting that 

 is re]U-eseiifcd by price-cutting. 



Tractor Company Formed 



Tlie Donald Murray Tractor Company of Wausau, Wis., has been incor- 

 porated with a capital stock of $25,000 by Donald Murray. W. W. Gamble 

 and S. B. Bissell. It takes over the distribution of the Holt "Caterpillar" 

 tractor in six counties in the heart of the timber and lumber manufactur- 

 ing districts of Northern Wisconsin. The franchise heretofore was held 

 l)y the Murray-Mylrca Company of .\ntigo. Wis., which has disposed of its 

 foundry and machine shop to the Antigo Tractor Corporation. Donald 

 Murray was at the head of the Murray-Mylrea Company. 



The beautiful colored Insert advertising this firm which is carrying in 

 the various trade magazines is emblematic of the high ideals of quality 

 and perfection at which they are aiming. 



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 plants tomorrow and start working out your drying problem without 

 further information and assistance as to details. The most that I 

 could hope to do in such a limited time was to outline to you the 

 main requirements of good drying practice with the hope that I 

 might arouse your interest and curiosity to the point where you 

 would want to follow the matter much further and find out the prac- 

 tical application of the general principles to your particular plant 

 and problem. I can assure that you will be well repaid for the time 

 and effort required to study this subject thoroughly and I shall be 

 very glad to furnish any of you detailed information as to where you 

 can obtain advice and assistance and reference material on the 

 various phases of dry kiln design ai;d operation. 



