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HARDWOOD RECORD 



whose manifest intent is to work off the shipment on an innocent 



purchaser as the highest grade involved in the consignment. 



The text of the circular follows: 



Many shippers of hardwood lumber are today working an 

 indirect injury to the association by accepting orders for a cer- 

 tain grade of lumber with a certain percentage, ranging from 

 10 to 40, of the next lower grade thoroughly mixed in. In prac- 

 tically every case the shipper knows to an absolute certainly 

 that the ultimate consumer is buying what he thinks to be a 

 straight grade of the highest grade contained in the shipment, 

 no mention whatever being made by the original purchaser as 

 to the percentage of low grade stock mixed in. In event of 

 complaint t\-e ultimate customer is generally informed by the 

 first buyer that the stock shipped is a straight grade from a 

 certain manufacturer, creating prejudice in the mind of the 

 consumer both against the original shipper and against the 

 rules of the association as well. Furthermore, this practice 

 tends to lower the market price of lumber for the reason that 

 the grade mixer goes out and offers to the trade a grade of 

 first and second which in reality may not be better than 60 to 

 75 per cent of first and secono', with the balance No. 1 common. 

 at a price much less than 

 the manufacturer quotes for 



a straight grade of firsts 



and seconds to the same 

 customer. By supporting 

 such practices you not only 

 do yourselves and the asso- 

 ciation an injustice, but you 

 are in a way aiding and 

 abetting crooked work. I 

 would suggest that in all 

 cases where several differ- 

 ent grades of lumber are 

 shipped in one car they be 

 placed in a car entirely sep- 

 arate and with piling sticks 

 between the grades. You 

 are sometimes told that the 

 consumers desire the grades 

 mixed. In such cases you 

 can easily separate the 

 grades as above suggested, 

 and if the consumer desires 

 them mixed he can do so 

 himself when the lumber is 

 unloaded. 



The Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, through its secretary, K. S. 

 Kellogg, has put out another cir- 

 cular, quoting Mr. Carrier's words 

 and commeuting thereon as fol- 

 lows: 



Unfortunately, the practice 

 of mixing grades at the re- 

 quest of a jobber, which Mr. 

 Carrier so forcibly and justly 

 condemns, is all too common 

 among our members. To 

 knowingly assist in deceiv- 

 ing a consumer of our prod- 

 uct is poor policy, bad busi- 

 ness, and dishonest, and is 

 sure finally to react upon 

 both the individual manu- 

 facturer and upon the asso- 

 ciation. If the association 

 stands for anything, it stands 

 for a product well manufac- 

 tured and honestly graded. 



The Record has for years depre- 

 cated the practice referred to, and 

 a good many of the foremost man- 

 ufacturing and jobbing houses of 

 the country absolutely refuse to 

 "salt" a carload of lumber for a 



that the single page tally, which is 4^4x8% inches in size, is not large 

 enough to accommodate the various divisions, and therefore the 

 Record is now putting out a new two-page tally ticket 8%x8% 

 inches in size. The tally covers accommodate four of the single 

 tickets, or two of the large tickets. This larger form makes it pos- 

 sible to carry a score or more grades and thicknesses on a single 

 ticket, and very likely will accommodate the requirements of a good 

 many lumbermen. 



All forms of these tickets are supplied either on high-class manila 

 stock or in duplicate or triplicate tickets Avithout any loose carbons, 

 the back of the first and second sheets being carboned, and the third 

 ticket being made of manila. 



Specimen forms of tally tickets are mailed on application, and the 

 covers are sold on approval to responsible concerns. 



Circular and jirice-Ust mailed on 

 request. 



EULOGY ON THE DOG 



Bt/ Senatnr Veit of 3fisitouri 



GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY: The best friend a man 

 has in this world may turn against him and become his 

 enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving 

 care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest 

 to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good 

 name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a 

 man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he 

 needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a mo- 

 ment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall 

 on their knees to do us honor when success is with us, may be 

 the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud 

 upon our heads. The one absolute, unselfish friend ihat man can 

 have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one 

 that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. A man's 

 dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in 

 sicfcness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds 

 blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he can be near his mas- 

 ter's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he 

 will Kck the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the 

 roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper 

 master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert he 

 remains. When riches take wings and reputation falls to pieces 

 he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the 

 heavens. If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the 

 world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher 

 privilege than that of accompanying him to guard against danger, 

 to fight against his enemies, and when the last scene of all comes, 

 and death takes the master in its embrace, and his body is laid 

 away in the cold ground, no matter it all other friends pursue 

 their Tvay, there by his graveside wfill the ncb'e dog be found, 

 his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watch- 

 fulness, faithful and true even to death. 



customer, knowing that the prac- 

 tice means deceiving the eventual 



purchaser, and tends to not only demoralize values but to bring into 

 disrepute the inspection system employed by the vendor. 



charter made it also a held 

 deposits of the whole world 



The Pinchot Speech 



At St. Paul, Minn., on June 11, 

 Gifford Pinchot, ex-head of the 

 United States Forest Service, cut 

 loose in a radical speech, the 

 echoes of which will resound for 

 some time to come. 



The crux of Pinchot 's speech 

 was a defense of the conservation 

 of the natural resources of the 

 country for the benefit of the 

 whole people and not for special 

 interests. 



Among the body blows that he 

 struck were the following: 



It is a greater thing to be 

 a good citizen than to be a 

 good Republican or a good 

 Democra't. 



Every man who knows 

 Congress well knows the 

 names of senators and mem- 

 bers who betray the people 

 they were elected to repre- 

 sent, and knows also the 

 names of the masters whom 

 they obey. 



A representative of the 

 people who wears the collar 

 of the special interests has 

 touched bottom. He can 

 sink no farther. 



The conservation issue is 

 a moral issue, and the heart 

 of it is this: For whose 

 benefit shall our natural re- 

 sources be conserved — for the 

 benefit of us all, or for the 

 use and profit of the few? 



The tariff, under the pol- 

 icy of protection, was origi- 

 nally a means to raise the 

 rate of wages. It has been 

 made a tool to increase the 

 cost of living. 



At the very time the du- 

 ties on manufactured rubber 

 were raised, the leader of 

 the senate, in company with 

 the Guggenheim syndicate, 

 was organizing an interna- 

 tional rubber trust whose 

 ng company for the coal and copper 



The Gibson Tally Book 



The Gibson :ilumiuum tally liook cover :inil tickets recently put 

 on the market by Hardwood Record are meeting with general favor 

 in the lumber and lumber manufacturing trades, and more than a 

 hundred orders monthly are now being received. It is found that 

 a variety of requirements demands a large number of different forms 

 for the tallying of lumber. Wax plate forms have now been made 

 by the Eecokd to the number of more than a score to suit individual 

 tastes. 



The tallies of scmie concerns are so complicated that it is found 



Undeniably tlic strictures of Jlr. Pinchot were in no wise inspired, 

 yet it is fairly certain that his ideas on this subject run clo.seIy 

 parallel to those of his distinguished ex-chief, Mr. Roosevelt. 



President Ripley Still Sulks 



While the railroad magnates and presidents of the principal 

 lines in the East have accepted the rate situation in a philosophical 

 manner and have expressed perfect confidence in the ability of the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission to wisely and justly settle the con- 

 troversy in due time, there still remain certain eminent powers in 

 the transportation business, notably in the West, who cannot reconcile 

 themselves to having been humbled. President Ripley of the Santa 



