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HARDWOOD RECORD 



With the Chicago Association 



Following closely tlic aunouncenient of the amalgamation of the Lum- 

 liermens Club of Chicago and the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago, 

 which will take place upon the occasion of the latter association changing 

 its headquarters to the new Lumber Exchange building, the membership 

 committee headed by Charles Westcott of the llayden & Westcott Lumber 

 Company, is making strong efforts to increase the membership of that 

 already powerful organization. Mr. Westcott has gotten out a very strik- 

 ing letter which will surely bear desired results. 



It is planned now the Chicago liUmbermcn's .\ssoeiation will be located 

 in the new Lumber Exchange building on May 1, 191.5. The association 

 will occupy practically the entire fourth floor. The building is situated 

 at the corner ,of Madison and La Salle streets, the most central location 

 in the business district, directly across from the La Salle hotel. 



The association is enlarging its activities in keeping with its more 

 pretentious quarters. Lunch will be served to members in the association's 

 dining room. Unquestionably this will be the general meeting place of 

 local lumbermen from all parts of the city. 



According to present arrangements, those firms having no established 

 headquarters in Chicago, are eligible to non-resident membership at an 

 annual cost of $25, and any representative of such member or firm will bi^ 

 entitled to all the advantages of the association rooms. 



The inspection department presided over by Chief-Inspector 11. X. Han- 

 bury bas always been an important part of the association work and 

 has become quite famous not only in Chicago but elsewhere. 



Hardwood Association Has Annual Meeting and Banauet 



All the old officers of the N'orthwestei-n Hardwood Lumlicrmen's Asso- 

 ciation were re-elected at the annual meeting held recently at the West 

 hotel, Minneapolis, Minn. It was attended by more than thirty hardwood 

 dealers of the twin cities and Wisconsin, and following thc> liuslness meet- 

 ing about fifty sat down to the annual banquet and later attended thi' 

 Orpheum theater. President A. S. Bliss presided at the meeting. All 

 officers were re-elected as follows: President, A. S. Bliss; vice-president, 

 T. T. Jones ; secretary, J. I". llayden ; treasurer, F. II. Lewis. 



North Carolina Forestry Association 



The fifth annual meeting of tlie North Carolina Forestry Association 

 will be held on Wednesday, .lanuary 1,'!. lillo, at Ualelgh, X. C. The 

 people of that state are taking bold of their forest problems in a way 

 that promises better things in the future than in the past. The State 

 Geological Survey is doing much forestry work under the direct supiu-vision 

 of .T. S. Holmes, formerly of the I'nited States Forest Service. 



Definite Move To Establish National Trademark 



kecognizlng the Gpi)nr,niuty for .\meric;iii industries firmly to est^iblish 

 American-made goods in all the foreign markets and to compete the fetish 

 of Imported goods which has so long held sway in the United States itself, 

 and desiring to focus the niovenient which is already well under way to 

 label all American-made goo<ls as "Made in the U. S. A.." the Detroit 

 Board of Commerce has offered a prize of $500 for the best "Made In the 

 TJ. S. A." trademark. Because many cities such as Grand Rapids, Mich., 

 which is famous for its furniture : Troy, N. Y.. which is famous for its 

 collars, and other cities similarly noted for certain products may desire to 

 use tile name of the city in connect Ion with such a trademark, the prize of 

 .5500 is offered for a "Made in Detroit, U. S. A." trademark. 



The rules of the contest state .specifically, liowevcr, that the trademark 

 must be national in its cliaracter, but that space must be provided for 

 the name of any city. There will be nothing local about the accepted trade- 

 mark. It must, however, be so spaced as to provide for the use of cit.v 

 names when a manufacturer or an industr.v so desires. Full Information 

 on the contest and rules are being sent to leading artists and designers all 

 over the United States through tlie newspapers, natiiuuti magazines, trade 

 journals, art publications, etc. The contesi is being brought before all who 

 may care to submit trademark designs. 



At the completion of the contest, the Detroit Board of (.'omm'-rce will 

 offer the design <'hoscn to the manufacturers of the United States, other 

 boards of commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, the I.'nited 

 States Chamber of Commerce and similar organizations. The Dt^roit 

 Board of Commerce will present this trademark for gratuitous use in the 

 liope that its general adoption may result in the labeling of all Ameri<'an- 

 made goods with a standai'd trademark so that .\nie'rlca and all the people 

 of the world who buy in American markets may recognize the goods they 

 use as made in the United States of .\mcu-ica. 



"We see in this contest a means in gaining a wides,pread support to the 

 movement of American goods for American people," said Charles I!. War- 

 ren, president of the Detroit Board of Commerce. "Our purpose is not 

 simply to label American-made goods and to show the people of the world 

 and our own people that American manufacturers are proud of the goods 

 the.v make. At this time when the war in l-'urope has cut down our im- 

 ports of foreign goods nml wlu_'n our own manufacturers are distributing 

 .Vmerican-made goods to all parts of the world in larger quantities than 

 over before, Amjerican industries have the greatest opportunit.v to ludld up 

 an Industrial prestige for the United States. It has seemed to the Detroit 

 Board of Commerce that this prestige can Iwst be gained through tlie 

 univer.sal use on American-made goods of the 'Made in U. S. A.' trademark. 



"We have felt that the movements in this direction which have already 

 been started lack organization. Nothing really definite has been done. 



True, some 'Made in U. S. A.' organizations have been started. Some indi- 

 viduals and a number of publications have given impetus to the movement- 

 But we can never secure the proper marking of American-made goods with- 

 out ii trademarlv and the Detroit Board »)f Commerce is to initiate the 

 movement in this direction. 



"One of the greatest things we hope to accomplish by tradumarking 

 .\merican-madc goods is to convince American bu.vers tliat the goods we 

 l>uild in the United States are equal in quality to those which we have been 

 importing in the past. I do not think there is an American manufacturer 

 who will admit that he cannot build all of the necessities and most of the 

 luxuries of life quite as well as the best European manufacturers. There 

 has always been in the United States sonietliing i»f a mania for imported 

 goods. 



"I do not believe that the mere lalxding of our products or tliat patriotic 

 fervor «ill ever sell goods which are sho<l<ly. t)uality must always count 

 in the long run. But if we do build qualit.v products there is no reason 

 why they should not sell alongside imported goods. The mere fact that an 

 article is imported is not necessarily an indication of superiority in the 

 product. 



"It is an actual fact that the United States manufactures many things 

 in every way superior to the same product made abroad. But in the United 

 States we liave been buying goods simply iH^causc they were imported. We 

 have been hypnotized by the idea that a thing made in Europe is better than 

 the same thing made in the United States. The European war has forced 

 us to an awakening. The opportunity is before us. We have only to lake 

 advantage of it by capitalizing the fact that the goods we use are made in 

 the United States of America." 



'I'hls is the big thing that the Detroit Board of Commerce hopes to accom- 

 plish l>y giving the people of the I'nited States a "JIade in U. S. A." trade- 

 mark. 'I'he vast possibilities of such a national trademark for American- 

 m:Hie goods are at once api)arent. In offe'ring a ".M;i<le in U. S. A." trade- 

 mark to tile American people, the Detroit Board of Commerce liopes to see 

 tile adoption of this trademark ftu- all kinds of goods, and in all American 

 advertising. 



The trademark which will be selected will not be copyrighted and will 

 have no royalties attached to it. It is free to the American people. .V gift 

 from a patriotic civic organization in Detroit to everyone wlio is interested 

 in promoting America's prosperit.v. 



Cypress Manufacturers Meet 



'I'be regulJlr semi annual meeliiig of llie Soutliern C,\i.itss .Mnnutac- 

 turers' Associatifin was held at Hotel Grunewald, New Orleans, on Decem- 

 ber 2. Inquiries, looking toward an increase in business, are now much more 

 active tlinn at any previous time since the beginning of the European 

 war. Thi' meeting voted to increase tlie fund for advertising purposes. 

 It has been found that advertising lias resulted in an increase in busi- 

 ness. 11 is now proposed to increase llie advertising in farm papers, 

 particularly in the states whicli have bad large <'rops of grain. It is 

 believed that many farmers will buy liiiiiiier this year for improvements 

 on their farms. 



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With the Trade 



Stearns Salt k Lumber Company Increases Payroll 

 'Hie payroll of the Stearns Salt and Lumber Company at Ludiugton. 

 Mich., for the first ten months of 1914 does not indlciltc that general 

 adverse business conditions have struck hard there. The payroll totaled 

 .'$427.2.''i4.'J6, and that was an increase of $70,000 over the first ten 

 montlis last year. In a case like tills may be seen the good results of 

 talking business instead of grumbling about hard times. 



The reason for this remarkable increase during adverse business condi- 

 tions tliroughout the country was in part tlie determined effort of the 

 Stearns people to keep tlic wliecis turning, and partly a development in 

 new business which came by reason of the well-known high quality of the 

 Stearns' product. That this is a remarkably fine showing considering 

 prevailing conditions affecting lumbermen will surely be conceded. 



Eastern Concern Has Difficulty in Getting Logs 



The Astoria Veneer Mills & Dock Company of Long Island City, N. \'.. 

 wliieh specializi.'S in sawing high grade veneer lr)gs on a custom basis, is 

 finding its business very considerably restricted on account of war condi- 

 tions which have prevented the Importation of sufficient quantities of logs 

 to keep veneer mills active. Of all of the veneers used it Is reported that 

 mahogany forms a ver.v considerable per cent of the demand. 



This wood is brought from .Vfrica and other points via Liverpool, and 

 shipments to this country have been very meager since the opening of the 

 war. In fact, up to the end of November there was but one small ship- 

 ment received at New York during tlie pi-eeeding two months. 



The diflJeulty lies in the unwillingness of the ship owners to risk losing 

 their possessions to hostile navips, and hence shipment from the mahogany 

 producing section is very limited. 



As a matter of fact, the demand is very good and prices seem to be 

 looking up somewhat in this particular wood. TInfortunatel.v the Mexican 

 wood Is also shipped irregularly on account of uns<*ttled conditions in that 

 unfortunate country. 



