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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



February 25. 1921 



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Wood Turners Organize Mid-West Division 



A Mid-West division of the National Association of Wood 

 Turners was organized in Chicago on February 15, at a meeting 

 held at the Congress Hotel. The organization was effected with 

 eighteen charter members. 



George S. Milhan, manager of the J. B. Hellenberg Manufac- 

 turing Company, Cold Water, Mich., was elected first president 

 of the new division of the national association. The following 

 other officers were elected: vice-president, J. F. Strombeck of 

 the Strombeck-Becker Company, Moline, III.; treasurer, L. A. 

 Walker, of the Stephenson Manufacturing Company, South Bend, 

 Ind.; secretary, F. S. Upham, of the American Handle and Novelty 

 Company, Des Moines, Iowa. 



The process of organization was directed by William A. Bab- 

 bitt, South Bend, Ind., general secretary of the National Association 

 of Wood Turners. 



During the preliminaries that preceded the organization, Mr. 

 Babbitt discussed the value of cost accounting in the w^ood-turning 

 industry, and also spoke of the movement fostered by the As- 

 sociation of Wood-Using Industries to standardize dimension sizes, 

 create a general market for the product and thus promote its 

 widespread manufacture. 



This subject was the chief topic of discussion and was handled 

 not only by Mr. Babbitt, but by Wm. B. Baker, of Chicago, secre- 

 tary of the Association of Wood-Using Industries. C. E. Van 

 Camp, of Memphis, manager of the trade extension department 

 of the American Hardwood Manufacturers* Association, and A. F. 

 Hawes, dimension expert of the National Association of Wood 

 Turners. 



Mr. Babbitt said the ability of the wood turners to buy dimension 

 sizes already manufactured w^ould save them a great deal of 

 overhead costs by reducing the hazards of labor. That is, there 

 is a hazard involved in each operation required for the creation 

 of a manufactured product, and that thes » operations may be 



materially limited if it is not necessary for the manufacture of a 

 turned article, not only to turn it, but to maintain the machinery 

 and men to handle the rav^r material from the plank or the bolt. 



Mr. Hawes said that the growing scarcity of wood, with the 

 urgent demand for conservation, and the heavy freight tariffs 

 created a crying need for the general manufacture of dimensions. 

 He declared that "we have not begun to touch the high prices of 

 lumber which w^e w^ill see in the next tw^enty-five years.'* There- 

 fore, the cutting of dimension sizes should be done near the source 

 of supply, so that it would not be necessary to pay freight on 

 waste. To example the heavy loss that accrues through the 

 shipment of material for dimension to the plant, where the stock 

 is to be used, rather than cutting the sizes at the mill in 

 the woods, he said that it took 6,000 pounds of round edged plank 

 to make 4,000 pounds of squares, necessitating the payment of 

 freight on 2,000 pounds of waste which might as well be left 

 at the source of supply. This, at 30 cents a hundred for freight, 

 w^ould mean the additional expenditure of $10 to secure every 

 4,000 feet of squares. 



Mr. Hawes said his investigations had proved that the use of 

 dimension sizes is in a very primitive state, and that no two 

 turners bought the same form of raw material, showing the need 

 of working out the most economical form in w^hich to buy mate- 

 rial for the manufacture of given kinds of turnings and sticking 

 to that. 



The lumber industry, Mr. Hawes said, has previously con- 

 trolled the sizes of its product, but the wood turners could now 

 get together and, through co-operation with the lumbermen, w^ho 

 would cut dimensions at their mills, adjust sizes to their own 

 needs. 



To secure the co-operation of the lumbermen it would be neces- 

 sary to standardize sizes, he said. This standardization w^ould mean 

 a saving of ra^v material on the average of 20 per cent. 



This would also mean greater profit to the lumber manufac- 

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