HARDWOOD RECORD 



nii'Dclcd upon being patriotic enough l.i bi- wlllliii; to iilli.w tlu-lr tliiibiT 

 to be cut out for war purposes, mij still ii..iiie luiuberiiieu iliilui tliiit there 

 Is plenty of walnut throughout the oountry, uuU iio neoU of pushing the 

 patriotic Klrnln In oriler to secure logs. 



In sawing gunstooks anil airplane stork there U consUlernble waste, 

 which Is worked up Into small illmenslon stock. Again there Is a great 

 deal of slock that Isn't gooil enough to cut Into airplane material, or 

 from which to cut gunstocks, as prime FAS are required, although sap Is 

 no defect. In cutting gunstocks the Hitch has to he 2'j" thick, and the 

 gunstock and barrel pieces have to be <-ut out of absolutely llrst class 

 material, with the result that many Qltihes which would grade common 

 are sawn In order to secure a stock or two. the remainder unturnlly being 

 cut Into illmenslon stock. 



The stock shipped from the Louisville I'olnt Lumber Company was cut 

 early In the spring, oDd has been air drying on sticks for a period of sixty 

 days or better. 



Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company Opens Own Branch at 

 Cleveland 



The I.lilgerwood ManufiictiiriuK ('..nipaiiy has opened Its own branch 

 ofllce In the Union National Hank building at Cleveland, O., tor the better 

 handling of Its contractors hoists, mine hoists and cableway business In 

 that territory. 



This office will be In charge of Ernest F. I'egg, who has been handling 

 the Lidgerwood line for the W. M. I'attlson Supply Company, Its former 

 agents, and la therefore familiar with all the Lidgerwood products, and 

 well prepared to serve Its customers In this section. 



Roger E. Simmons Escapes From Bolsheviki 

 Lumby Interests here are much pleased with the news contained In a 

 recent copyright special to the New York World to the effect that Roger 

 Simmons, one of the special lumber investigators of the Department of 

 Commerce, escaped death at the hands of the Ilolshevlkl In Russia by 

 bribing a prison guard. Mr. Simmons spent considerable time In Memphis 

 looking Into hardwood conditions prior to going to Europe at the Instance 

 of the Department of Commerce to study lumber conditions with a view to 

 giving Information on all foreign phases of the hardwood lumber industry 

 after the conclusion of hostilities. Local lumbermen arc looking forward 

 with much pleasure to the return of Mr. Simmons and to the valuable 

 Information It Is expected he will bring back to them. 



Noted Railroad Man a Suicide 



John Howe Teyton, aged flftytour, president of the Nashville, Chat- 

 tanooga & St. Louis Railroad was found dead In bed at his home In Nash- 

 ville, September 14, with a pistol wound In the temple supposed to have 

 been self Inflicted. Mr. Peyton had been greatly depressed because ot his 

 Inability to aid his country actively in the war. When the railroads were 

 taken over by the government, Mr. I'eyton lost the complete authority 

 over the N., C. & St. L. R. R. lie was a native of Missouri and had 

 climbed through all the gradations of railroad work and succeeded the 

 late John W. Thomas. In Industrial matters, the rehabitatlon ot the 

 road, building ot bridges, depots and other work he was energetic from 

 the start, being an engineer of much capacity In construction lines. Mr. 

 Peyton had taken a deep interest In forestry, timber conservation and 

 growth anil in the Interests ot the lumber people in bis territory. 



New Contracts for Ammunition Boxes 



Contracts for approximately 1,000,000 boxes calling for about 3,000,000 

 feet of common and better lumber have recently been placed with the 

 following concerns : 



Steger Piano Company, Steger. III. 



CaswellUunyon Company, Huntington, Ind. 



Curtis Sash & Door Company. Clinton. Iowa and Wausau, Wis. 



Union City liody Company. Union City. Ind. 



Connersville Furniture Company. ConnersvlUe, Ind. 



McDougle Cabinet Company. Frankfort, Ind. 



Farley-Loetscher & Co.. Dubuque. Iowa. 



Mollne Furniture Company. Mollne. 111. 



Hardwood Products Company. Neenah, Wis. 



Kertscher & Co., Elmlra, N. Y. 



Wm. Morris & Sons, Chicago, III. 



These contracts for boxes permit ot use ot birch, beech, ash, hard and 

 soft maple, red and white oak. 



Other concerns having receU-ed government contracts calling tor hard- 

 woods are reported to be : 



Edmunds Manufacturing Company. Chicago, III. 



Jos. Kliika Company, Chicago. 111. 



Illinois Moulding Company, Chicago. 111. 



Crocker Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis. 



Shovel Handle Woods Wanted 



It has been learned from government sources that the following manu- 

 facturers of shovels and shovel handles desire to get In touch with sup- 

 plies of ash : 



.■Vmes Shovel & Tool Company, Boston, Mass. 



Union Furnace Manufacturing Co., Union Furnace, Pa. 



Maxwell Rowland & Co.. Philadelphia. Pa. 



Indiana Rolling Mill Company, New Castle. Ind. 



D. F. Jones Manufacturing Company, Gananoque, Ont., Can. 



Canadian Shovel & Tool Company, HaniUton, Ont., Can. 



I'ittsburgh Shovel Company. Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Hubbard & Co.. Pittsburgh. Pa. 



Baldwin Tool Works. Parkersburg. W. Va. 



Wyoming Shovel Company. Wyoming. Pa. 



iimpauy, Conuiaut. <>, 

 onipuiiy, Macon, lia. 

 ring Company. Atheu 



Ordnance Department Establishes Industrial Education Section 



The Army Ordnance Deimrtnient announces the isiubllshment of an 

 Industrial education section for the purpose of Ininaslng productive ■ f 

 forts In the plants engaged In the manufacture of ordnance material. 



The activities of the section are under the direction of Major F. 1 

 Thompson and (.'aptain C. R. Dickinson, and will be aimed to carry hoin' 

 to the Individual worker, be he employer or employe, the fact that his own 

 personal elTorts will have a direct bearing on the winning of the war. 

 The agencies employed Include posters, booklets, pay envelope stuffers, 

 newspaper publicity, display advertising, motion pictures, public speakers 

 and exhibits. 



Posters carrying a message of encouragement to the worker tending to 

 Inspire greater Individual effort are sent out to the manufacturing plants 

 at regular Intervals. Some of these, notably — "Not Just Hots Oil To The 

 Flag, But Sleeves Up For It," have been remarkably successful, according 

 to the more than 900 letters rccelvc<l by the ordnance department regard- 

 ing It. 



Booklets and pay envelope stuffers are used to convey Inspirational 

 messages to the home and thereby tend to increase the morale of the 

 community. An edition of 2,000,000 of one of the smallest posters ever 

 Issued, bearing a message to the Individual, was distributed lu a number 

 of cities on Labor day by means of airplanes dropping them over the 

 course of the parade. 



In the neighborhood ot 1,000 plants working on war materials now 

 have motion picture projection rooms and have been furnished films with 

 a distinct appeal to the worker such as the government films "Pershing's 

 Crusaders" and "America's Answer." These films have proved very suc- 

 cessful in definitely linking up the work of the man at the lathe with the 

 boys at the front. 



In the same manner speakers, many of them foreign soldiers returned 

 from the front, have been furnished to meetings ot plant employes, and 

 have given their hearers first hand Information as to how necessary it is 

 to speed up production. 



Advertising and publicity in the newspapers by local communities has 

 been advocated and "copy" furnished from Washington whenever desired. 



In some Instances, It has been found desirable to encourage public exhi- 

 bitions of locally made material used by the army as a means ot arousing 

 local pride and stimulating Interest In war work. Several exhibitions of 

 this kind Illustrating' the use to which the material was put in actual 

 service, have been the direct means ot Increasing the pride ot the citizens 

 in their town and consequently In their own work. 



In order to centralize the work and afford Increased service to the 

 various war working plants. It has been decided to appoint a representa- 

 tive of the industrial education section In each of the eleven district 

 ordnance offices as follows : 



Bridgeport. Conn., Ralph P. Boas, formerly Instructor at Brown and 

 Harvard universities, and a writer and lecturer of note; Boston. D. D. 

 Cassiily. arcbiteet; New York, Major J. G. Kltchell. U. S. A., formerly 

 president Etheridge t Co., advertising agency ; Philadelphia, J. W. Watson, 

 president of the .\merlcan Bronze Company ; Rochester. N. Y^., William 

 H. Gorsllne. Rochester Chamber of Commerce ; Pittsburgh, Charles Yon, 

 Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad ; Detroit, W. G. PIpp, editor Detroit 

 News ; Cincinnati, Carl M. Jacobs. Jr., Vice Mayor and former assistant 

 city solicitor, Chicago, C. L. Benjamin of Gray & Benjamin, advertising 

 agents ; St. Louis. Homer Hall, assistant district attorney. 



The representative tor the Cleveland district has not as yet been ap- 

 pointed. 



These men are to be responsible in their respective sections tor the 

 activities of the Industrial education section which will act as a service 

 agency at the disposal ot the various district ordnance chiefs to assist 

 them in increasing productive effort. 



Cincinnati Organizes Furniture War Service Committee 



Two days' session ot about 400 furniture manufacturers meeting In 

 Cincinnati on September 18 resulted In the formation of a war service 

 committee whose purpose it will be to work as government agencies of all 

 kinds and do everything possible to mobilize producing capacity ot the 

 factories represented tor war purposes. All branches ot the industry 

 were represented at the gathering and also on the committee appolnte.I 

 The officers of this committee are : Adolph Karpen, Chicago, chairman 

 Fred Green, Ionia. Mich., vice-chairman, and .\. P. Darby, Gardner, Mas- 

 second vice-chairman. The big problem of the committee will be to or 

 ganize the entire furniture Industry under a constitution and bylaw- 

 providing for a national association. 



The leading speaker was E. E. Parsonage, chairman of the wood con 

 servatlon sectlbn ot the War Industries Board. The part that the furni- 

 ture manufacturers can play in the war production was pointed out by 

 Mr. Parsonage who explained the many purposes for which wood can re- 



