April 10, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



47 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



THIRTEEN BAND MILLS 

 SIX PLANING MILLS 

 ELEVEN FLOORING UNITS 

 NINE DIMENSION MILLS 



There is no doubt about a fundamental im- 

 provement in business conditions. 



The volume of business in almost every line 

 steadily increases, evidently reflecting the 

 general feeling that we have reached a logical 

 basis of relative normalcy upon which in ever 

 increasing volume and with reasonable con- 

 fidence transactions may take place. 



While all the adjustments we may expect 

 have not been made, undoubtedly the basic 

 elements controlling supply, demand, produc- 

 tion, costs, and sales prices, are in better 

 balance, and no such violent fluctuations as 



Annual Capacity 

 130,000,000 Feet 



have been registered in the past are to be 

 reasonably expected. Certainly none of suffi- 

 cient moment to discourage large activities 

 are in prospect. 



It is an encouraging outlook, which has not 

 come as early as the most hopeful expected, 

 but which has not been deferred as long as 

 the pessimistic predicted. 



It is a pleasure, as always, in this period of 

 renewed activity to give to our patrons the 

 scientific service and maximum value, which 

 it is ever our aim to secure to them. 



W. M. RiTTER Lumber Co. 



COLUMBUS, OHIO 



News from the National Capital 



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and methods, technical and cost data and matters relating to city 

 planning, etc., in order to encourage standardization and improved 

 building practices throughout the country. There is also a bill to 

 provide for the gathering and publication by existing govern- 

 mental agencies of current facts as to production, distribution, 

 available supplies, standards of quality, cost and realization of 

 coal. 



The report recognizes the present system of taxation as an 

 important factor, but takes a firm stand against National, state 

 or local governments attempting to relieve the housing situation 

 by the granting of subsidies or by the erection of structures at 

 Governmental expense. 



"In its recommendation the Committee has had in mind the im- 

 portance of economy," says the report. "The cost of the collec- 

 tion of coal information, the cost of the Housing Bureau, the 

 Supervision of the Federal Home Loan Banks, will constitute no 

 appreciable burden on the Treasury. The results of the various 

 bills proposed, however, in establishing the prices of essential 

 materials, in preventing unfair competition and monopoly, and 

 directing the flow of credit, the Committee believes, will cause the 

 prompt construction of homes so urgently needed. 



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 waste offal, much of which can be prevented, most of whicli can be 

 used, were proper methods available in a form that would return 

 dividends." But this is a work which the lumbermen engaged in 

 the management of their plants and the merchandising of their 

 product can not do. It must be done by experts, by scientists, who 

 by research can "determine where that profit line is, and what 

 apparatus, what process, what methods will yield that profit." 



He called attention to the offer by the National association of a 

 cash prize of $1,000 for the purpose of encouraging activity on the 

 part of people engaged in the lumber or logging industry to produce 

 within the year a device that will make the greatest saving in the 

 industry. 



J. Howard Burton of New York, president of the American 

 Wholesale Lumber Association, presented a most interesting paper 

 on the "Problems of Lumber Merchandising." In this paper Mr. 

 Burton argued for strict integrity in lumber merchandising, charac- 

 terizing it as "good merchandising," and citing in contrast the 

 cancellation evil and other unfair methods which have been brought 

 to the fore during the period of depression, as "bad merchandis- 

 ing." He urged the need of co-operation between the various units 

 of the lumber industry, through associations, to eliminate ethical 

 abuses and to secure efficient production and distribution. 



A meeting of the directors of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association preceded the Third American Lumber Congress. 

 At this meeting, besides the election of Mr. Kirby as president for 

 the ensuing year, John W. Blodgett of Grand Eapids, Micii., was 

 re-elected first vice-president; A. L. Clark of Dallas, Tex., president 

 of the Southern Pine Association, was elected second vice-presi- 

 dent, to succeed J. H. Bloedel of Seattle, Wash.; E. B. Goodman of 

 Marinette, Wis., was re-elected treasurer, and Dr. Wilson Compton 

 of Washington, D. C, secretary-manager. 



All the present chairmen of the standing committees were 

 re-elected and Mr. Kirby was authorized to appoint a delegation 

 to represent the association at a meeting of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce of the United States. 



Arrangements were completed for the national advertising cam- 

 paign that will be conducted by the regional members of the 

 National association, under the latter 's auspices. It was stated 

 that $200,000 of the needed funds had been subscribed and that 

 George L. Dyer, Inc., New York, will handle tlie publicity. 



