tent that I cannot imagine any difference of opinion as to 

 them. The thought that stands out in my mind at this 

 time is that we have taken on a large order. We can fill 

 that order but we cannot fill it by letting "George" do it, 

 or any other person but ourselves. There is work here for 

 each one of us and no one must fail to do his full part in 

 supporting the Officers and Directors. It is going to re- 

 quire the thought and intelligent cooperation of every man 

 in the Institute. We must go back home and tell our neigh- 

 bors what has been done and explain the whole matter to 

 them. This will enable us to increase our membership two 

 or three times in a very short time. The faster we add to 

 our membership and the faster our program can be devel- 

 oped, the sooner we will arrive at the goal for which we are 

 all striving. 



Mr. R. L. Jurden: We are 100 per cent behind you. I 

 am glad to say that the time has come when the manufac- 

 turers have awakened and are going to run their own busi- 

 ness. 



Mr. G. W. Martin : I am sorry that Mr. Murray of our 

 company is absent. We are in the hardwood business, but 

 have been manufacturing yellow pine for a number of years. 

 We are very enthusiastic along any line which will improve 

 conditions in the hardwood industry and we are ready to 

 help in any way in the program which has been outlined by 

 this organization, and you may be sure that there will be no 

 discount on the part that our company will play. 



Mr. Max Sondheimer: You may think you have dis- 

 covered a new proposition, and there are some of you who 

 will remember an occasion twenty years ago when I was al- 

 most barred from an association because, in the discussion, 

 I advocated the very proposition you have adopted here to- 

 day ; namely, that the manufacturer is the man who has the 

 right to make rules for disposing of his property, this, of 

 course, to be done in conjunction with the needs of the con- 

 sumer or the public he serves. 



Mr. W. E. DeLaney : It seems to me that today we are 

 about to throw off the shackles which have held us in bond- 

 age for years, and out of this meeting we are going to have 



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