HARDWOOD RECORD 



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A MERRY CHRISTMAS 



The Eecosd has contended for years that the details of specific 

 rules covering the inspection and measurement of hardwood lumber 

 are of minor importance, if these rules reasonably accommodate 

 themselves to the present lumter output of hardwood logs and the 

 grades reasonably fulfill the requirements for the eventual use to 

 which hardwood lumber is placed. 



It is further contended that lumber is made into a variety of 

 grades not for the benefit of the manufacturer, but for the accom- 

 modation of users thereof; that every manufacturer would prefer 

 to sell his lumber output mill run as a whole from the tail of his 

 mill. Admitting that h.ardwood lumter is divided into grades to 

 accommodate the uses to which the product is placed, why should 

 not these grades be made to 

 accommodate so far as possible 

 the eventual use to which hard- 

 woods are put, if the proposed 

 grades will adapt themselves to 

 the present lumber output ? Wliy 

 should not the man who uses the 

 lumber have a voice in grade 

 making! It must be recalled 

 that values cannot be interjected 

 into lumber through the grade 

 medium, but that the price will 

 follow the grade in every instance. 

 It must be further remembered 

 that the price at all times is in 

 the hands of the owner of the 

 himber. Any good business man 

 will sell anything he has to mar- 

 ket if the buyer will permit him 

 to make the price. 



This proposed overhauling of 

 lumber grades may prove some- 

 what revolutionary. It may up- 

 set the entire theory of lumber 

 production and inspection. What 

 f it does, if the result is for the 

 setter? 



Say what you will of the pres- 

 int systems of hardwood inspec- 

 ion, they are crude, involved, 

 mt-of-date and illy adapted to 

 )resent-day economical utiliza- 

 ion. 



Ninety-five per cent of hard- 

 vood lumber is cut up into vari- 

 pus sizes. Outside of counter 

 ops there is scarcely a piece of 

 lardwood lumber used in its 

 iriginal fuU board form. It 

 vould seem logical that an entire- 

 y new system of hardwood grad- 

 ng might be evolved that woulil 

 end itself to modern economical 

 itilization. It might be cou- 

 eived that primarily a grade of 

 wo side firsts be produced; then 

 I grade of one good face lum- 

 ler; then a grade in certain 



Don't draw a long face and say holidays are a 

 nuisance. Just remember when you hung up 

 your stocking beside the old fireplace and the 

 happiness that the red-topped boots and sound- 

 ing drum brought to you. 



It is well, at least once a year, to get away 

 from the business of life for a few hours, to enjoy 

 the laughter of children, the handclasp of friends, 

 and the love of relatives; to drop all the wear- 

 iness and struggle, all the sordidness and annoy- 

 ance, that comes day by day, and enter into the 

 simple life of children: to look out upon the world 

 through the rose-tinted glasses of youth: to smile 

 over old memories with friends, and above all, 

 to carry a little joy and happiness to others. 



Don't be ashamed of the Christmas spirit, for 

 the Christmas spirit is the sentiment which is the 

 best part of you. It makes you believe in the 

 honor and the rectitude of others, and it makes 

 others understand that under your hard crust of 

 business energy and discrimination there beats 

 a heart full of tolerance and charity. 



Throw oE all thought of the sawmill, the 

 lumber yard, the factory and the office for at 

 least one day: tell your .wife she was much 

 prettier than any of her daughters at the same 

 age. and see her color as girlishly as when you 

 presented her with your first Christmas gift: 

 listen to the words of wisdom, your son home 

 from college imparts on the subject of football: 

 kiss your young lady daughter under the mistle- 

 toe: enjoy all you can of simple home pleasures. 



Make it indeed A MERRY CHRISTMAS! 



Annual of National Wholesalers 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, held at the New York office 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association on December 

 10, it was unanimously voted to hold the next annual meeting of this 

 association at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, on Wednesday and Thurs- 

 day, March 2 and 3. 



This is the fii-st meeting the association has held in the West for 

 several years, and indications point to the convention being one of 

 the largest in the history of the organization. A number of im- 

 portant matters will be presented for discussion and consideration, 

 and the meeting promises to be one of great interest. Details as to 



program, banquet, etc., have 

 been left with the executive 

 committee, George F. Craig, 

 Philadelphia; R. W. Higbie, 

 New York; P. E. Babcock of 

 Pittsburg; F. E. Parker, Sag- 

 inaw, Mich., and A. L. Stone of 

 Cleveland. 



The Eecord, in common with a 

 large number of middle West 

 lumbermen, is well pleased to 

 know that this important and 

 high-class organization will liold 

 its annual meetin_g at Cincinnati. 

 Heretofore the organization has 

 been made up chiefly and the in- 

 terests very largely have lain 

 with the manufacturers and job- 

 bers of Buffalo, Pittsburg and 

 the region lying east thereof. 

 Holding this meeting at Cincin- 

 nati should insure the organiza- 

 tion a large number of new mem- 

 bers from the middle West and 

 the West, and make it national 

 instead of largely local in its in- 

 terests. 



roods of sap lumber; next, one. two and possibly three grades of 

 ipping himber; next, three, four or a half dozen grades of cross- 

 utting stock, showing cuts of varying lengths. Lastly, a grade of 

 nils available for box making and crating stock. 



It is up to the manufacturers, jobbers and the wholesale consum- 

 rs to agree on common-sense and justice in the matter of hardwood 

 nspeetion, and the wise man in any of these divisions of the trade 

 hould "get busy" and have his say on the subject. 



The time is right now! 



Forthcoming Annual of 

 Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers 



Elaborate plans for the big an- 

 nu.ll meeting of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States are well under 

 way. This meeting, as has been 

 previously announced, will be held 

 in the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati, 

 on Tuesday, Wednesday and 

 Thursday, February 1, 2 and 3. 

 This gathering of the hardwood 

 interests of the country will not 

 be coufined to manufacturers, but 

 there is a promised attendance of 

 those prominent in the hardwood 

 jobbing and remanufacturing in- 

 dustry. Quite a number of fur- 

 niture manufacturing and kin- 

 dred organizations will attend in a body. It is estimated that the 

 attendance will number fully one thousand. Matters of more general 

 moment to the hardwood industry as a whole will be presented at the 

 meeting than ever before attempted at any affair of this sort. 



The entertainment features are also elaborate. As before men- 

 tioned in these columns, the Eecokd considers the meeting of such 

 importance that it will publish during the three days' session a fifty- 

 two page newspaper recounting the events of the meetings as they 

 transpire. These papers will be mailed, under Cincinnati postoffice 



