STATEMENTS OF VARIOUS HARDWOOD 



MANUFACTURERS MADE AT THE MEETING AT 



LOUISVILLE, JUNE 16th, 1922, IMMEDIATELY AFTER 



THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION. 



Mr. S. M. Nickey: All I can say at this time is that 

 we are on the right track and in the end right will prevail 

 as it does in everything. A good many of us have fought 

 along these lines for a great many years, and we have real- 

 ized as manufacturers and producers of lumber that there 

 was something wrong with our business, and we hardly 

 knew. what it ,was. I heartly endorse everything done yes- 

 terday and today and wish success to this Institute. 



Mr. G. W. Allport: Many of the thoughts I have had 

 in business for some time have been crystalized here today, 

 and if we go ahead and carry out the balance of the pro- 

 gram laid out before us, I believe that the whole hardwood 

 lumber industry will be benefited. I want to lend all the 

 support I can and will do all the work I am called on to do 

 to make this Association a success. I am proud to be con- 

 nected with an Association starting out under the condi- 

 tions as expressed here yesterday and today. 



Mr. R. M. Carrier: There is no question but that we 

 are working on the right line, and if those here will back 

 up this Institute and the officers of it along the lines out- 

 lined, there is no question but what we shall succeed. This 

 work is going on because of the needs of our business, and 

 the only thing we want is to be able to conduct our busi- 

 ness in a successful and intelligent way, and I am one that 

 always believed and will always believe that the manufac- 

 turer of a product is the one to say what the grades shall 

 be, taking into consideration, of course, the needs of the con- 

 sumer and the wishes of the public. If we go on with the 

 work as outlined in the last few days, we will come to the 

 point where we can intelligently and successfully conduct 

 our business. 



Mr. M. W. Stark : Some of the things that have been 

 said here today are basic and fundamental to such an ex- 



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