April 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Manufacturers 



SOUTHERN HARDWOODS 



Ash 



Poplar 



Red Gum 



Mixed Oak ^^P ^"^ 

 Elm ^^^^ Maple 



Tupelo 



CUMMER LUMBER COMPANY 



SALES OFFICE: 



280 MADISON AVENUE 



NEW YORK, N. Y. 



MAIN OFFICE 



JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 



the buyer ; otherwise costs shall be paid by the seller. (9) Disputes 

 arising which are not covered by official inspection may be submitted for 

 arbitration. 



Government tax and any advance in freight to be paid by buyer; any 

 reduction to be credited to buyer. This order is contingent upon strikes, 

 acts of God and causes beyond buyer's or seller's control. • • • 



This order Is taken subject to acceptance or rejection by seller's home 



office at within days from date of receipt 



hereof, to be forthwith confirmed to buyer. Now therefore be it 



Resolved, That said recommendation and the said terms are hereby 

 recommended to the regional associations for approval and for such volun- 

 tary, individual adoption and use thereof as may be made by lumber manu- 

 facturers, members and subscribers of such associations, and others. 



"Pressing Industrial Problems" 



In an address under the above caption Magnus W. Alexander, 

 director of the National Industrial Conference Board, explained to 

 the lumbermen how this board is assisting American industry in 

 the solution of its problems by the searching out and compilation 

 of statistics showing the actual facts of a given problem. The 

 board is the research laboratory of American industry, he said, and 

 its duty is to ascertain facts. It maintains at all times a neutral 

 position, confining its operation to the presentation of facts, upon 

 which others may then formulate their judgments. He showed how 

 this works out in the matter of wage disputes, if, for instance, it 

 .should be in a case where the wages are to be regulated upon the 

 level of the cost of living. The employees may claim that the cost 

 of living is one thing and the employers another. Hero the board 

 steps in and furnishes the statistics which will demonstrate what is 

 really the cost of living. 



Another interesting example was cited in the case of the immi- 

 gration question, about which there has been much debate in Con- 

 gress, resulting in bills to absolutely shut ofE immigration, or to 

 confine it to certain definite restrictions, such as provided for in the 

 Dillingham bill. Mr. Alexander said that by getting at the facts 

 the National Industrial Conference Board had uncovered several 

 glaring fallacies in the reasoning of the Federal legislators and had 

 demonstrated that restriction of immigration as to quality and not 



quantity is really needed. One legislator had made the assertion 

 that if barriers were not placed against immigration six or seven 

 millions of Europeans would pour into the country in the next year 

 or so. By ascertaining the available bottoms for the conveyance 

 of immigrants to this country the board found that should all the 

 available ships be used for this purpose and should each ship rush 

 back for a new load of immigrants as fast as one load could be 

 debarked not over one million immigrants could be brought into 

 the country in the time stated by the legislator. The Dillingham 

 bill, he said, purposed to keep out the undesirables by permitting 

 only a certain percentage of the total of each foreign nationality 

 in the country to enter over a certain period. The board's investi- 

 gations had shown, he said, that this would actually increase the 

 undesirables and bar out the desirables. The board found that 60 

 per cent of the immigrants coming to this country at present are 

 women and children, who have little influence on the labor market, 

 and that there is no possibility of a glut in the labor market such 

 as the Dillingham bill proposes to prevent. As a matter of fact, 

 many able bodied male foreigners are emigrating and are depleting 

 the labor supply. There is room for many more able bodied male 

 European immigrants and their coming should be encouraged. 



These instances were typical of the manner in which the board 

 may assist American industry and the Congress to avoid error and 

 make the correct diagnosis of a problem wjiich they may be seeking 

 to solve. 



"Prevention of Waste in Lumbering" 



In his address under this head, Mr. Gilchrist made a comprehen-- 

 sive survey of the logic of waste prevention and utilization, appeal- 

 ing to the lumbermen to support the activities of the Waste Pre- 

 vention and Utilization department of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association. "This activity can progress," he said. 

 "This activity vsdll return enormously upon the investment, and I 

 direct your attention to the economics of the situation, viz.: that we 

 all recognize that there exists about the majority of our plants a 

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