HARDWOOD RECORD 



disappointment to many, considering the man 's wonderful talents as 

 an organizer, politician and diplomat. 



Mr. Diggins is a comparative newcomer in lumber association 

 history, for, save being president of the Michigan Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association for two terras, he never before manifested 

 any interest in association work. The success of the Michigan 

 organization was so marked that he became the logical head of the 

 National organization, with which it is allied on inspection matters, 

 and has served for two terms. More than a year previous to his 

 election, through his argumentative abilities, he succeeded at the 

 Atlantic City meeting in becoming the leader of a movement result- 

 ing in materially modifying the inspection rules of the National 

 association, in the face of a decree of the organization that the rules 

 should not be amended for several years thereafter. Since that time 

 he has been manifestly a "standpatter" on the National inspection 

 rules, and has lent little influence towards any modification of them 

 that would insure a consolidation of all existing regulations covering 

 the inspection and measurement of lumber. 



Mr. Diggins is a man of ideas, convictions and strong moral cour- 

 age, which he has manifested many times during his incumbency of 

 office. 



The New President 

 Than Charles H. Barnaljy ot 

 Greencastle, Ind., the new presi- 

 dent of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, there is no 

 man in the trade with a cleaner 

 record, more beloved, and more 

 highly respected. He has been 

 a dominant factor in the National 

 association's w-ork since the in- 

 ception of the organization, and 

 it is only by reason of his ex- 

 treme modesty that he lias not 

 long since been honored with the 

 office of chief executive. ^Ir. 

 Barnaby was born and trained 

 in a lumber atmosphere and lias 

 been allied with the hardwood 

 industry since his earliest years. 

 His father was a sawmill man, 

 and in 1SS2, when Mr. Barnaby 

 was twelve years old, tlie fa'iiily 

 moved to Greencastle, Ind., where 

 lumber operations have since been 

 carried on by his fatlifr dui ing 

 his lifetime, and latterly by 

 the son. 



Charles H. Barnaby was educated in the common schools of Green- 

 castle and attended the high school in that city for one year. In 

 1887 his father died, leaving him and his brother dependent 

 .solely upon themselves for a livelihood, and hence he had to abandon 

 the completion of his school training. He and his elder brother 

 operated the Barnaby mill under the name of Barnaby Brothers 

 until 1S98, when he bought his brother's interest. Since that time 

 he has had sole control. 



Mr. Barnaby is a leading manufacturer of Indiana oak and other 

 hardwoods and of oak veneers, and is an important factor in the 

 trade, for years he has been allied with the Indiana Hardwood 

 Lumbcrmeu 's Association, of which he has been president, and also 

 with the National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association, and 

 with the allied Sawed Veneer Club, which forms a part of the latter 

 organization. 



Perhaps the slogan "on the level" may be as aptly applied to 

 Mr. Barnaby as to any man in the hardwood industry. Quotir.g 

 from a sketch of Mr. Barnaby published in Hardwood Record, 

 January 25, 1909 : ' ' Such is his standing with the trade that he has 

 very little difficulty in marketing his output at the highest market 

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lumber, or a certain quality of veneer to sell him, the buyer knows 

 he is going to receive exactly what is represented. He therefore 

 has the advantage of a reputation of square and upright dealing, 

 which makes doing business a simple proposition for him; in fact, 

 if an analysis were made of Mr. Barnaby 's worth in this world, no 

 matter what his material wealth might be, a commercial report shinild 

 set down as his chief asset his reputation for uprightness, jirobity 

 and fair dealing. 



"In the best sense of the word, Charles H. Barnaby is a 'good 

 fellow. ' He is one of the rare types of good fellows who knows how 

 to be one without making an ass of himself. He is kindly in dis- 

 position, frank in speech and enthusiastic over everything that makes 

 for the good of his fellows, and hence his popularity is well 

 deserved. ' ' 



Notwithstanding the foregoing encomiums of Mr. Barnaby, which 

 Hardwood Becord wishes to reiterate and emphasize, through his 

 environment, association, education and utterances, it is sane to 

 believe that he is thoroughly obsessed in the belief that "whatever 

 is, is right" in connection with the affairs of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association, and will closely follow his i>redecessor in office 



as an absolute ' ' standpatter ' ' on 

 the subject of grades, and hence 

 there is little hope of any com- 

 promise movement emanating 

 from him that will insure the co- 

 operation and alliance of the 

 other chief hardwood lumber 

 association of the country, and 

 those that are outside of both 

 organizations. 



The Spirit of the Convention 



As is well known, the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association is 

 made up jointly of hardwood 

 manufacturers and hardwood job- 

 bers. In its inception it was 

 practically a hardwood jobbers' 

 movement, liut latterly manufac- 

 turers were induced to come into 

 the association in considerable 

 numbers, until latterly it has 

 been supposed that the two ele- 

 ments of the trade were about 

 equally divided in membership. 

 The rules of the association, in 

 common with that of other lum- 

 ber organizations, have been a 

 matter of evolution, of com- 

 promise, and of change ever since the organization was started, with 

 the result that, say what you will about this set of inspection rules 

 or any others, they are a good deal involved and difficult of inter- 

 pretation. Competent inspectors allege that no hardwood rules in 

 existence can be applied a second time to the same car of lumber 

 by the sam.> inspector with a surety of duplication within four per 

 cent, or double that percentage, owing to their complicated character. 

 The jobbing elenieut of the association has resisted any change in 

 rules since the Buffalo meeting of 1905, and the only considerable 

 change that has prevailed since that time has been at the urgent 

 insistence of the manufacturing element, which was accomplished 

 two or three years later at the Atlantic City meeting. This year 

 nn attempt was made by the northern manufacturing element to have 

 the inspection bureau committee commend numerous radical changes 

 in rules, but this committee reported to the convention a series of 

 changes that could scarcely be called radical, although in some par- 

 ticulars they might be so analyzed, but by a vote of more than two 

 to one, the report of the committee was rejected and the rules of 

 the organization continue to stand about where they were. The vote 

 showed that the jobbing element was a unit in not being willing to 

 permit any change being made in tlie inspection rules, and voting 



