October 10, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



Memphis Has Patriotic Meeting 



Liberty Loan Day was obsorveU by tb.- LuinbiTm.'u'« Club of McmphlH 

 at the Hotel Gayoao, Siituriliiy, ScptiMiilicr 2S. Tbc regular order of bu«l- 

 nesH wan suspended wltlle putrlotte songs were sung and while equally 

 Inspiring addresses were made. The speakers were Earl Palmer, Ferguson 

 & Palmer Company, and Ur. C. H. WllllaniKon. 



"We must BO order our lives and direit our energies that we shall be 

 able to give the govemmeut all the asslslanee necessary In raising the 

 funds required to see this war through to a victorious conclusion," declared 

 Karl Palmer, practically In the opening sentence of his address. 



I'r. Williamson said In part: 



A vast amount of money Is required. The Uulti>d States has no other 

 source of revenue for war purposes except from the people of this country. 

 Demand for money Is not In the form of a reiiuest. It Is being required, 

 not by constitutional authority but by the dictates of public opinion, 

 which are stern and exacting, and which are sterner and more exacting 

 Just now than ever before because the neeil therefor Is so much greater than 

 It has ever been. 



It's up to us to see how much we can suliscrlbe. not how little will "get 

 us by." And we want to be volunteers In buying bonds and not the slaves 



of public opinion or any other outside forci 



The dawn Is already beginning to break In the Balkans and along the 

 battle fronts of Krance ami Belgium. The Iniled States Is plnvlng a lilg 



part In hastening victory. We Americ 

 money-mad. We spelled success m-on 

 more than take us out of ourselves It 

 blood and treasure. 



I do not like the Idea of compulsion. 



pleasure-loving, 

 and If this war does iioth 

 be worth all that Is paid 



would like to : 



us all Imbued 



lives." 



Six new members were elected, as follows : C. K. ami F. E. Shippcn, 

 Arkansas Ash Company, Kelser, Ark. ; W. C. Palmer, Korn-Coukllng Com- 

 pany, Memphis and Cincinnati ; C. M. Kellogg, Kellogg Luml)er Company, 

 .Memphis, and II. W. Baker, Jr., and J. 11. Stannard, Baker-Matthews Com- 

 pany, Memphis. 



Will Not Protest Embargo Order 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic .VssoclatUin and the American Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association have, for the time being, decided not 

 to make any formal protest against the embargo order of the car service 

 section of the United States Railroad Administration. 



John M. Pritchard, secretary-manager of the American Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association, who went to Washington to arrange for the 

 appearance before the car service section and the War Industries Board 

 of the committee appointed ak. the Joint conference of the two associa- 

 tions, has returned to Memphis. His verdict Is that, under jiresent con- 

 ditions and because the measure Is war measure, protests will be useless 

 and the interests of hardwood producers in the southern tield will be best 

 conserved by complying with the requirements of the order to the best of 

 their ability. The committee will therefore not go to Washington. 



The order is now better understood than when it was issued with such 

 drastic swiftness, and the two associations are doing all they can to allay 

 the feeling of panic which developed when the order first came. 



Permits are beginning to come through, but the permit-issuing machinery 

 is not working very smoothly even .vet. and there are many complaints 

 from shippers In regard thereto. J. H. Townshend. secretary-manager of 

 the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, Is now making a collection of 

 complaints and he will go to Washington with a view to presenting these 

 to the United States Railroad .\dministratlon. not so much in the form of 

 a complaint, but rather with a view to bringing about such changes In the 

 operation of the order as will remove the inequalities and difficulties which 

 have arisen and which could not have been foreseen by the authorities. It 

 Is probable that he will leave for Washington within the next ten days. 



This organization has already written a letter to the car service section 

 asking for a modification of the order to the' extent that permits, when 

 they have been secured by buyers or consignees, shall be available for use 

 from any shipping point on a given road. Now these permits provide for 

 shipment from only one point on the road and are not interchangeable. 

 Manufacturers and wholesalers who buy from small mills frequently have 

 lumber at one point on a given road for immediate shipment and none at 

 another, and they want to be able to make shipments from such points as 

 they have the lumber ready. If It Is Impossible for the association to 

 secure this modification it will make an effort to have the permits ordered 

 subject to change within twenty-four hours after they have been received, 

 that Is, changed with respect to point of origin of shipment and not with 

 respect to destination. The association points out that this modification 

 will be a great convenience to shippers and that it will, at the same time, 

 facilitate the filling of orders and the supplying of government require- 

 There are other phases of the ruling which are under discussion, hut 

 the attitude of the two associations is changed from one of formal protest 

 to one In which they are anxious to co-operate with the government tr) 

 the greatest possible extent. 



It is quite apparent, however, from statements made by prominent hanl 

 wood lumber manufacturers, that the order is going to result In material 

 reduction of hardwood output. Logging operations arc already being 

 stopped by prominent interests in the valley territory, and the verdict of 

 almost every hardwood ninnufacturer Is that there is no po.sslble profit 

 in operating under conditions created by the order. Many manufacturers 

 are proceeding with conversion of their log supplies into lumber, but tbty 

 say that, when they have completed this process, they are going to close 

 down their plants and await more propitious conditions. 



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