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Specimen forms of these tally tickets will be mailed to any one 

 interested on application, and the covers will be sold on approval to 

 responsible concerns. 



Laborers Should Become Trained Workmen 



Melville W. Mix, head of the big industrial plant of the Dodge 

 Manufacturing Company at Mishawaka, Ind., last week sounded a 

 warning to manufacturers of this country in an address made be- 

 lore the Indiana Engineering Society. He alleged that manufac- 

 turers do not try to make expert workmen out of their employes, but 

 that they put men at work in their shops whether they have any - 

 ability or not, just so they can turn out the work. He expressed the 

 fear that this system would have a deplorable effect upon the in- 

 dustrial world. 



Mr. Mix in the course of his address said that manufacturing 

 establishments all over the state of Indiana are working overtime, 

 and that every vestige of the panic of 1907 and 1908 has dis- 

 appeared, and that the number of factory employes now engaged 

 exceeds any previous record. He stated that the reduced volume of 

 business of these panic years gave a long needed opportunity for 

 making changes in plants and improvements in products, and that 

 this action is being reflected in the enormous production that is now 

 being made in many lines. He prophesied that 1910 will prove the 

 banner year in manufacturing production in the Hoosier State. He 

 also referred to the many plants and extensions to plants that are 

 now in progress of construction, notably at Indianapolis, Anderson, 

 Terre Haute, Evansville, Ft. Wayne, Muncie, LaPorte, South Bend, 

 Mishawaka, Gary and other points. He stated that the investment in 

 these improvements will involve fully $100,000,000. 



Continuing, Mr. Mix said that it is a much debated question 

 whether we are bringing along with sufficient rapidity the class of 

 mechanics that is required to maintain the high mechanical standard 

 of these industries. In times like the present very poor mechanics 

 are able to command the wages of the skilled and educated artisans, 

 which is certainly destructive to individual initiative and ambition, 

 and to the personal interest that the mechanic should receive before 

 being placed in charge of important work. The tendency seems to 

 be anything to man the shop, regardless of ability or development 

 of future service, and ho thinks the harvest will be anything but a 

 desirable one. 



Mr. Mix regards Indiana with its natural resources as commanding 

 a strategic position in the matter of assembling materials and 

 distributing manufactured goods, and there is no reason why the 

 state should not occupy a commanding position in the engineering 

 and manufacturing world. He referred to the universities and 

 manual training schools of the state, which are equipped with the 

 very latest laboratory equipment, manned by competent, energetic 

 instructors, who are thoroughly investigating the mechanical develop- 

 ment throughout the state as second to none. This he commends. 



The information and warning of this resourceful and energetic 

 head of the big Mishawaka manufacturing institution are worthy of 

 consideration, not only by manufacturers of machinery and mechan- 

 ical appliances, but by lumber manufacturers and the numerous in- 

 dividuals engaged in manufacturing lines which consume large 

 quantities of lumber. Mr. Mix's position is well taken — that it pays 

 to educate employes of all classes to the highest efBcieney. 



The Big Cincinnati Hardwood Meeting 



Unless all the signs of the times go amiss, the eighth annual meet- 

 ing of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association to be held at the 

 Sinton Hotel, on February 1, 2 and 3, is going to be a record breaker 

 both in point of attendance and in the character of the legislation 

 prevailing. 



AU divisions of the hardwood industrj-, the manufacturers, jobbers 

 and wholesale consumers, seem to be intensely interested in the 

 affair. Cincinnati is making a great effort to entertain the conven- 

 tion royally and practically every man connected with the business 

 there is participating in preparations for the event. Nearly every 



body of wholesale consumers of hardwoods in the country has pledged 

 delegates and on the whole the interest is so manifest that undeniably 

 it will be the largest gathering of hardwood hosts ever assembled 

 in the history of the trade. 



The invitation that has been sent out by the association is so 

 general that it covers every phase of hardwood production, marketing 

 and utilization. The three days set aside for the sessions will 

 certainly be full of work. 



The program has not been completely arranged except as noted 

 below : 



PROGRAM 



M0ND.1.r, J.4NUAKY 31 



10 a. m. — Jlcetlnf; of the Executive Grading Commission in 

 the assembly foom, togetlier with representatives of the differ- 

 ent consumers' organizations, as well as individual buying 

 interests, lo continue all day. 



8 p. m. — Meeting of the Executive Board. 



Tuesday, F'ebruaey 1 

 foiimat, opening of the convention 



10 :30 a. m. — Address of welcome by Hon. Louis Schwab, 

 mayor of Cincinnati. 



Address of welcome by James J. Heekin, president of the 

 Chamber of Commerce. 



Address of welcome by A. J. Conroy, president of the Business 

 Men"3 Club. 



Address of welcome by C. S. Walker, president Cincinnati 

 Lumbermen's Club. 



Response in behalf of the association. 



Annual address of the president. R. M. Carrier. 



Report of the treasurer, C. M. Crawford. 



Report of the secretary, Lewis Doster. 



Appointment of committee to consider reports of officers. 



Recess. 



7 :45 p. m. — "A Talk on Mountain Lumbering" (Conventional 

 Hall), by U. H. Gibson, editor of the Hardwood Record, illus- 

 trated by numerous stereopticon and moving pictures of scenery, 

 forest trees, woods work, splash damming, saw milling, moun- 

 taineers, moonshiners and feudists. 



This part of program to be called as time and conditions 

 justify. 



REPORT OF COSmnTTEE ON OFFICERS' REPORTS 



Address, "Wooden Packages," B. F. Masters. 



Address, "Organization by Consumer," O. B. Bannister. 



Address, "Costs of Manufacture." Frank F. Fee. 



Address, "The Functions of a Lumber Newspaper," J. H. Baird. 



Address, "Stain in Gum, etc." Dr. Herman Von Schrenk. ' 



Address, "Furniture Consumption ( ?)" George P. Hummer. 



Address, "Improvement of Waterways," Hon. Albert Hettinger. 



liEPORTS OF THE STANDING C0M1MITTEES AS FOLLOWS 



Finances, George E. W. Luehrmann, chairman. 



Transportation and Increase in Freights, R. L. McClelland, 

 chairman. 



Drainage and Improvement of Waterways, S. B. Anderson, 

 chairman. 



Terms of Inspection or Selling Code, W. A. Gilchrist, chairman. 



Car and Cousciuction Oalc Rules. R. G. Page, chairman. 



Insignia of association by a representative of the committee. 



Standard Weights of Hardwood Lumber, W. E. DeLaney, 



Forestry, W. B. Townsend, chairman. 



In Memoriam — John B. Ransom, Nashville, Tenn. ; J. B. 

 Defebaugh, Chicago, III. ; F. S. Hendrickson, Chicago, III. . 



This part of program to be called exactly as time indicates. 



Wednesday, February 2 



Dr. Herman Von Schrenk (Conventional Hall), expert on 

 timber preservation, will continue his former talk by giving a 

 steropticon illustration of defective parts of woods. 



4 p. m. — Trading on the Floor (Assembly Room, same floor as 

 Convention Hall). A new feature. Will be the order of 

 business from 4 to 6 in the Assembly Room on the afternoon 

 of Wednesday, when producers and purchasers may. in open 

 meeting, meet and get acquainted. All order of business of 

 association is suspended until Thursday, 10 :30 a. m. 



Wednesday Night 



6 :30 p. m. — In Convention Hall, has been promised to the 

 Cincinnati lumbermen, who have arranged to do their very best, 

 and they will insure a royally good time with a banquet, music, 

 vaudeville and smoker. It is requested that notice be given that 

 this is strictly informal as to dress. All to be given within the 

 Sinton Hotel. 



Thursday, Feeedahy 3 



10 :30 a. m. — Report of Executive Grading Commission. 



Reports of committees. 



Election of officers for the ensuing year. 



Time shown on program will be promptly carried out. Owing 

 to the enormous amount of work, it is requested that all inter- 

 ested will be prompt in attendance. 



