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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



April 25, 



of the constitution providing for the management of the 

 Federation, which is to read as follows: 



"The business management and control shall be vested 

 in the board of governors to consist of the president and 

 executive committee of member associations. The vice- 

 president and retiring president of the Federation shall 

 be ex-officio members of the board." 



The change was carried, with the result that there will 

 be a possibility of much closer work in the future. 



SCHULTZ ELECTED PRESIDENT 

 Following the report of the committee on credits and 

 collections, the nominating committee offered the names 

 of E. W. Schultz and Martin E. Preagge, respectively for 

 president and vice-president. The choice of the nomi- 

 nating committee was in both cases duly supported by 

 the membership, which elected Mr. Schultz and Mr. 

 Preagge to office. 



The platform on which Mr. Schultz ran was based on 

 an appreciation of the value which organized and intelli- 

 gently conducted effort has in industrial work. It main- 

 tains that the Federation as it was organized was not 

 closely enough related to its component parts to make 

 possible the largest use of the separate organizations. It 

 proposes that the Federation be planned with a view to 

 considering the separate and distinct problems of each 

 group of manufacturers, and at the same time of making 

 the major problems of the industry a point of concentra- 

 tion. It eliminates duplication of effort and expense and 

 promotes efficiency in the organization work. 



The new plan will bring together all the present asso- 



ciation secretaries in one central office to be presided 

 over by a general secretary who will be under the board 

 of governors. 



Each association secretary will then be assigned to 

 the division of work to which he is best suited. The 

 secretaries at present are all rather specialists along cer- 

 tain lines, Mr. Bather being a transportation man, Mr. 

 Wulpi a credit and collection expert, Mr. Maltby an ac- 

 countant, and Mr. Brown a production man. Thus the 

 concentrated effort of these secretaries along specified 

 lines will be at the disposal of all of the affiliated associa- 

 tions rather than of any one association. Also funds will 

 be conserved and overlapping expenditures eliminated. 



The success of the plan, for it surely will work out suc- 

 cessfully, will come from the fact that men follow their 

 strongest inclinations and as the new plan will give them 

 this opportunity naturally the most efficient effort will 

 result and be a direct benefit to everybody concerned. 

 The platform maintains that it would be impossible for 

 each of the affiliated associations to employ enough men 

 to give each all of the service that might result from the 

 talent employed by the associations collectively, but this 

 collective effort would be brought out through the plan 

 proposed. 



Mr. Schultz's platform was supported automatically 

 with his election, following which he made a short but ef- 

 fective speech in which he asked for co-operation from all 

 directions. 



There followed a general discussion on a variety of 

 subjects, after which the morning session adjourned. 



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