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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



October 10, 1918 



Washington. 



He suggested, along with others, the desirabihty of 

 perfecting organization to meet the requirements of the 

 situation created by the indicated emergency. This was 

 done, as already shown. 



All of the fifty-five manufacturers attending this meet- 

 ing are members of the newly organized body and all 

 others south of the Ohio river are expected to become 

 affiliated with this association at the earliest moment so 

 that mobilization may be as complete as possible. 



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Hen Explains IVhy It Is Important That Glue 

 Be JVeighed 



Oct. 28, 1917. 

 Friend Jim, 



Well I had another run in with Mike Gibbons on 

 Friday and I guess 111 tell you about the trouble so you 

 can profit if you want to. Gosh, I dont know if I dare 

 to take time off to get married for fear things will go to 

 the dogs while Im gone. I told Mike I wasnt going to 

 waste no more time on him and if he couldnt do things 

 the way he was told he could have his walking ticket. 



Jim, you know how I used to harp when 1 was there 

 about weighing the glue every time a batch of glue was 

 made up? Well I done the same here and it sure made 

 me madder than a wet hen when I found Mike was 

 measuring in a pail instead of weighing. 



We opened up a new lot of glue last week, and it 

 happened to be flake glue, while the lot we had before 

 was ground. I tested the new lot and was satisfied it 

 was all right, and you know one time we fellers get 

 ground glue and another time it is flake but either can 

 be what we want. Only a barrel of flake glue dont heft 

 so much as the same size one filled with ground glue. 



Well last Friday Mike comes to me and says that last 

 glue is no good as it is too thin in the mix. So I went and 

 took a look and the mix he had sure had a awful thin 

 body. First thing I done was to look at the thermometer 

 because I thought there must be to much heat on, but 

 I found only 125 degrees showing which is just what I 

 want most of the time. So it wasnt too much heat that 

 was making the glue run thin. 



Mike said that was the first batch he had made with 

 the new lot, and that he done just the same as with the 

 old lot. I asked what he meant by just the same, and he 

 told me that he put 6 pails of dry glue to soak in 9 pails 

 of water. Then I saw red in its bloodiest red, and for a 

 minute I couldnt talk. Then 1 says, "Mike you get your 

 pay every week in a good envelope dont you?" 



"Sure," says Mike, kinder stamering. 

 "Well," says I, "suppose you was getting 2 ten dollar 

 bills every week for a long time and then came a week 

 when you opened the good envelope and found 2 fives, 

 what would you do?" 



"Be gad Id beat quick time to the office to see what 

 they was holding out on me for," says Mike sort a warm 

 like. 



"But Mike," says 1, "why kick? Youd have just as 

 good a envelope and two good bills, and 2 fives take up 

 just as much room in the envelope as 2 tens, don't they?" 



"Sure," says Mike, "they take up just as much room 

 all right, but you cant do so much with them." 



"Youre right Mike," says I, "and 6 pails of dry flake 

 glue will take up as much room as 6 pa-Is of dry ground 

 glue, but you cant do so much with them in the mix, as 

 you can see from this stuff here that Id like to soak your 

 head in." 



Mike grumbled that he couldnt see why a pail of glue 

 wasnt a pail of glue whether it was flake or ground if it 

 was good glue. The whole gang was around and I 

 thought we might as well get the thing clear. So we went 

 to the stock room and I was glad to find we had about 

 '/4 of a barrel of ground glue left. 1 told Mike to take 

 one of the regular pails that holds about 1 2 quarts and 

 fill it as he had been doing. He filled it so it was heaped 

 up and it weighed 20 pounds and one ounce. I had him 

 empty that lot and fill the same pail again from the same 

 ground glue and when he weighed that he had 19 pounds 

 and 1 3 ounces. I asked him why he had to have a quar- 

 ter of a pound difference in the weight of two pails of 

 glue measured from the same barrel, and he grined a 

 sickish grin and said something about a quarter of a 

 pound didnt make much difference, and any way they 

 never had any trouble with the ground glue. 



So I said that wed forget that for a minute and let 

 him measure some of the new flake glue. The first one 

 he measured weighed 1 3 pounds. He measured four 

 more and they all weighed different. One weighed as 

 high as 1 4 pounds and one as low as 121/2 pounds. Of 

 course it was hard for the bunch to believe, but when I 

 show^ed them that the ground glue was pretty fine, and 

 the flake glue had some pieces almost two inches square, 

 and that the flakes couldnt pack so close as the other 

 stuff they got it in their beans, and Mike was ready to 

 agree that weighing was better than measuring. 



In making a batch of glue here I gave Mike orders to 

 use 120 pounds of glue and 180 pounds of water, and 

 told him not to do any different until I said so. But he 

 has found in using that ground glue he got about 20 

 pounds to a pail and he started measuring 6 pails, and 

 he was lucky to get away with it, because the total weight 



