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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Clubs and Associations 



Southern Pine Association Established in New Quarters 



The Southern Pine Association announces that on Saturday, February 

 20, it established its new offices on the sixth floor of the Interstate Bank 

 building, Xew Orleans, La., which offices occupy practically the entire 

 floor. The office has been laid out to facilitate the big work the asso- 

 ciation has under way. 



In speaking of the last meeting of the Southern Pine Association, Sec- 

 retary-Manager Rhodes says that the work includes every phase of asso- 

 ciation activity that can be legally carried on. It includes inspection of 

 lumber at mills once every thirty days at least, and the handling of spe- 

 cial complaints with the utmost dispatch. 



A traffic department will also be included and the accounting depart- 

 ment will investigate the sawmill cost accounting and recommend spe- 

 cial forms. It will also endeavor to determine actual value of yellow pine 

 stumpage. 



The research department will include scientific investigation of all 

 questions dealing with the proper use of yellow pine, and will co-operate 

 actively with the advertising department in furnishing the latter with 

 material for a proposed campaign. Other departments will be the legal 

 department, the forestry department and a statistical department. 



Officials Confer on Future of Hoo-Hoo 



At an important and inthiisiastic joint meeting held at Cllicago on 

 February Xi of the House of Ancients and the Supreme Nine of the Con- 

 catenated Order of Iloo-Iioo, specially called to consider the condition and 

 the future of the order, it was unanimously resolved to go ahead with 

 this great organization of lumbermen of America, which now has an 

 active membership of 13,000 throughout the world ; to immediately take 

 steps to put it on a firm and substantial business basis, and to Increase 

 its usefulness. Supreme Snark E. D. Tennant of Winnipeg, Man., and 

 Supreme Gurilon George II. Grayson of Graysonia, Ark., will Immediately 

 take temporary charge of the executive offices of the order at St. Louis, 

 until such time as a competent secretary or manager can be selected and 

 installed. 



It is understood that the Joint governing boards in session here today 

 will speedily issue to all members an announcement of future plans for 

 organic changes. 



West Virginia Lumbermen to Hold Meeting 

 The first annual meeting of the West Virginia Lumber and Builder^^ 

 Supply Dealers' Association will be held at the Chancellor hotel, Parkers- 

 burg, W. Va., March 10 and 11. The association was organized on April 

 4, 191-4, there having been no state organization oC that character up to 

 that time. 



The association has grown In strength and the membership fairly well, 

 considering the fact that very little membership work has as yet been done. 

 There are now over one hundred members. The association has been In- 

 corporated under the laws of West Virginia and it Is hoped that it will 

 eventually be one of the largest organizations of this kind in the coun- 

 try, as all builders and supply dealers arc eligible. 



Resolution on Resignation of J. E. Rhodes 



At the recent meeting of the board of governors of the National Lum- 

 ber Manufacturers' Association in Chicago the following resolution was 

 unanimously adopted regarding the resignation of Secretary Rhodes on 

 January 1, 1915 : 



Resolved, That while It Is with a unanimous sentiment of regret that 

 we have accepted the resignation of Secretary Rhodes, we do so because 

 we realize the importance to the lumber industry of the country of an 

 efficient organization of the yellow pine manufacturers, and knowing as 

 we do, that n<i one else is perhaps so well fitted to develop and perfect 

 such an organization as Mr. Rhodc^s. we wish him the utmost success In 

 his ntw undertaking, and in behalf of the National Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association, stand ready to promote in every way possible, the 

 work of the Southern Pine Association. 



Philadelphia Lumbermen Discuss Tax Question 



The Philadolpliia Lumbermen's Exchange held its regularly monthly 

 meeting preceded by a luncheon on the evening of February 4, Vice- 

 President Charles M. Chesnut in the chair. At this meeting J. Randall 

 Williams, Jr., as chairman of committee representing the exchange at 

 the thirty-fourth annual convention of the American Forestry Association 

 held in New York January 11, made a lengthy and very interesting 

 report of the work carried on by that body. 



An animated discussion of the question of taxing all houses doing a 

 mall order business was a feature of the meeting. It appears that a bill 

 is before Congress which refers to a tax being placed on interstate mail 

 order business and which requires that houses conducting such a business 

 shall keep an accurate and complete account of all goods, wages, and 

 merchandise of every character and description sold, together with the 

 actual selling price of the same, with any and every state of the Union ; 

 that the tax shall be apportioned among the several states at the rates 

 of the actual amount of goods sold In such state, and that the tax so 

 apportioned shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the various 

 state treasurers entitled to said tax, to be used In such manner and tor 



such purposes as the state may desire. It is said many of the mail 

 order houses pay no tax in those states In which they do business. 

 During the discussion it was remarked that such a tax would hit every 

 manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer in every line of business, for there 

 is not a firm in any line that does not at times write a letter to cus- 

 tomers on certain goods tbey want to sell, consequently would come 

 under that act. It was decided at this meeting that the matter be 

 placed in the hands of the legislative committee to investigate and 

 report at a later meeting. 



J. Randall Williams. Jr., made a motion that the secretary of the 

 exchange appeal to its members to make voluntary contributions in 

 the name of the exchange, to be tised by the Emergency Aid Society, for 

 distribution among the city's poor. This motion was carried. 



Producers and Consumers Get Together on Grades 



In accordance with the action taktu at a mc<.'ting held on January 5, 

 191.">. committees representing the Federation of Furniture and Fixture 

 Manufacturers and the National Hardw^ood Lumber Association met in 

 Chicago, Wednesday, Februai-y 17. The Federation of Furniture and 

 Fixture Manufacturers was represented by the following: George A. Buck- 

 staff, chairman ; John D. Spalding, Frank .\ckley, E. K. Pritchett, W. II. 

 Kinder. 



The National Hardwood Lumber .Association was represented by the 

 following : Hugh McLeau, chairman : J. W. ilcClure, C. R. Mengel, A. R. 

 Owen, D. H. Day, G. Von Platen, C. .V. Goodman, J. L. Benas, Theodore 

 Fathauer, E. D. Walker, Chas. H. Barnaby, E. V. Babcock. At the close 

 of the conference the following resolutions were adopted : 



Rksot-ved, That pursuant to the request of the inspection rules committee 

 of the Federation of Furniture and Fixture Manufacturers, the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association appoint a special committee of five for the 

 purpose of conferring with a committee of like number representing the 

 I'ederation of Furniture and Fixture Manufacturers on the subject of in- 

 spection rules and to conduct such test inspections as may be mutually 

 decided upon ; the object of such conference l)eing to endeavor to harmon- 

 ize as far as possible such differences as may be found to exist and to 

 bring about a closer co-operation between the organizations represented ; 

 and be it further 



Resolved, That this action is taken in consideration that the Federation 

 of P'urniture and Fixture .Manufacturers will accept the present standard 

 of inspection of the National Hardwood Lumber Association as the basis 

 for inspection until final report of the joint committee is rendered. 



Owing to the absence of Robert W. Irwin, president of the Federation 

 of B'urniture and Fixture Manufacturers, the special committee from that 

 organization cannot be announced at this time, and I»resident Babcock of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association states that a committee of 

 five will be appointed by the National Hardwood Lumber Association in the 

 near future. 



New Committees of Chicago Association 



The following committees were appointed at a meeting of board of 

 directors of the Lumbermen's Associaton of Chicago, February 9, 1915 : 



Traffic Committee: A. Fletcher Marsh, chairman, F. T. Boles, Her- 

 man II. Ilettler, John G. Hodges, W. M. Hopkins. 



iNsi'ECTiox Committee : L. W. Crow, chairman. Pine, Edmund A. 

 Allen, Geo. D. Griffith. V. F. Mashek, Geo, T. Mickle. Hardwood, O. O. 

 Agler, S. C. Bennett. W. -M. Hopkins, H. H. Kreutzer. 



MEMBERsnif (,'oMMiTTEi: : F. L. Brown, chairman, F. J. Heitman, F. J. 

 Pike, A. H. Ruth, Al. Wallerstein. 



Entertainment Committee: L. E. Rollo, chairman, C. C. Collins, J. H. 

 Dion, John S. Hurd, J. L. Lane, H. D. Welch. 



Trade Relations Committee : F. H. Heitman, H. II. Kreutzer, G. H. 

 Holloway, Geo. D. Griffith, J. F. Halpin, M. S. Porter, E. W. Dierssen, 

 A. A. Sistek. 



PfBLiciTT Committee: Paul Schmechel, chairman, Hamilton Daugha- 

 day, L. H. Dodd. Peter DeVries, Fred D. Smith. 



Finance Com.mittee: Murdock MacLeod, chairman, E. W. Dierssen, 

 W. O. King, A. T. Stewart, E. A. Thornton. 



Credit Committee : Geo. A. Miller, chairman, E. H. Burgess, Peter 

 DeVries, C. K. Gamet, Geo. G. King, F. J. Pike, A. H. Schoen. 



House Ccmmittee: J. H. Dion, chairman, P. T. Boles, F. L. John- 

 son, Jr., F. B. McMuIlen, E. A. Thornton. 



Doings of the Memphis Lumbermen's Club 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, at its semi-monthly meeting at the 

 Hotel Gayoso February l.'i, voted an appropriation of .*?50 to the Forest 

 Products Federation at Chicago, which is doing everything in its power 

 to olTset the campaign in behalf of substitutes for lumber. A letter was 

 received from this organization a short time ago asking for assistance 

 from the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis. The subject was referred to the 

 publicity committee and the latter, at this meeting, voted to give the sum 

 indicated. It was also decided that a list of the members of the Lumber- 

 men s Club of Memphis would be sent to the Forest Products Federation 

 at Chicago so that those identified with the former may have all the 

 information disseminated by the latter in its efforts to defeat those who 

 are urging substitutes for lumber in all parts of the country. 



The entertainment committee reported that the dance given at the 

 Hotel Chisca under the auspices of the club was one of the most success- 

 ful of the series already enjoyed. It was a full dress affair and the big 

 ball room of the hotel was beautifully decorated for the occasion. A de- 

 lightful menu was served. Quite a little fun was had in making the 

 report on this entertainment. Coi. S. B. Anderson, one of the older mem- 



