THE -MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY. TEBRUART 15, 1910.
"ODD LENGTHS" IS
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S ISSUE
If you will read the editorial page' in this '
week's (date of February 12) number of
Retailers Voice Protest Con
cerning Standard of
! ' Measurement.
O POST
PRAYER EASES TENSION
MILLMEN
MVMWIW
JVItty Invocation by Rev. W. J.
i Hindley, or 'Spokane, at Once
j 1 Puts Convention in Good
; Humor Forester Speaks.
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; The "odd lengths" movement is the
subject that is apparently agitating
most greatly the delegates to the sev
anth annual convention of the West
am Retail Lumbermen's Association
that began its session in Portland yes
Ijerday. ; The movement which has the in
dorsement of the Oregon & Washington
(.umber Manufacturers' Association,
representing- 120 manufacturers of
fouglaa flr products, was mentioned
Several times in the course of yes
terday's proceedings, but only in a
way preliminary to the animated dis
cussion that is expected today, when
1ft is specifically on the programme- for
discussion by everybody.
I At present the even length standard
In the manufacture of flooring, sid
ing, rustic finish and celling prevails
fci the lumbering industry of the West,
but the odd lengths movement as a
means of eliminating waste has been
agitated by the National Lumber Man
ufacturers' Association anu was for
mally approved at the last annual
meeting of the Oregon and Washing
ton association.
f Numerous manufacturers are present
4t the meeting of the retailers now
In progress and the Manufacturers' As
sociation has opened headquarters at
the Portland hotel and is distributing
literature in support of the odd lengths
campaign.
Retailors Make Demands.
Among the retailers, the principal
protest seems to concern'he filling of
orders. It Is asserted that the manir
facturer wants the privilege of filling
an order for standard lengths of floor
ing, for instance, with a certain per
centage of odd lengths. The retailers
Insist that if they order standard
lengths, standard lengths should be
supplied to the full extent of the order;
They say they are willing to promote
the sale of odd lengths but if they
want odd lengths they will so -specify
in the orders.
Sentiment yesterday seemed to be
fairly well crystallized among the re
tailers on the order phase of the sub
ject In favor of demanding the fill
ing of orders specifically as made by
the retailer. As the manufacturers are
to be given the privilege of the floor
in discussions the topic is looked for
ward to today as the most Important
to come before the gathering.
The Government Forest Service is a
strong indorser of the odd lengths
movement. C. S. Chapman, of Portland,
district forester, in his address vester
day referred to the subject with em
phasis. He said:
,. Present Standard Means Waste.
i "At the present time one of the
greatest sources of unnecessary waste
In the manufacture of sawmill pro
ducts, is the even length standard
which has prevailed since the early
establishment of the lumber industry
In this country. The Forest Service
Is interested in the recent movement
tor standardizing odd lengths in vari
ous forms of planning mill products,
because of the conservation element
which is involved. An investigation
ot the amount of waste in planing
mills due to the even length standard
has been made by the Forest Service
and it was found that the average
waste In the manufacture of those
forms of planing mill products, which
are recommended for odd length manu
facture is about 2.07 per cent. This
figure was obtained by actual observa
. tlon at a number of mills in Western
Oregon and Washington."
' Betwen 200 and 250 delegates were
In attendance at the meetings of the
association which opened yesterday
afternoon in the Eagles' Hall at the
Marquam Building, representing yards
In Oregon. Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana. Utah and Nevada. C. B. Channel,
vice-president of the association, pre
sided. President Hayden having retired
from the lumber business and re
signed as an off icer-of the association
since the last meeting.
1 "Pull together" has been adopted as
the slogan of the convention. Over the
presiding officer's rostrum in the hall
has been suspended a wagon singletree
with this motto tacked to it. while from
one dependent whlffletree Is the word
seller" and on the other the word
buyer."
T,h.e ,convention ot in good humor
... p.irru,s! in-rougn the In
strumentality of Rev. William Hindley,
of Spokane. rr. Hindley delivered an
Invocation prior to brief addresses of
welcome by L. J. Wentworth. president
of the Oregon and Washington Lumber
Manufacturers' Association. and by
Mayor Joseph Simon, and then re
t ponded in behalf of the delegates. I
Preacher's Remarks Help Out.
Dr. Hindley was witty and eloquent
by turns. Taking up Mayor Simon's
tatement that Portland was the best
pity in the West, he declared he knew
It was true because it was true of
Seattle. Spokane. Tacoma, Butte, Hel
ena and a dozen or lg other cities in
the West.
"I have attended four other meetings
Of this association," continued Dr
Hindley. "At the last meeting I was
permited to speak at the banquet. At
the others I was invited to address the
convention, but this is the first time
In five years that you have felt the
need of being prayed for, and I don't
know whether It is because of the
Balllnger-Pinchot controversy or tie
rause of the controversy over odd
lengths."
Dr. Hindley praised the work of the
Organisation, particularly in Its ef
forts to eliminate destructive compe
tition. He predicted that the time
would comb when people would be will
ing to have but one ice wagon on one
treet; but one milk wagon on a street
and but one lumberyard within a cer
tain sized community. And he ex
pressed the opinion that his own pro
resion might profit by the example set,
Bnd Instead of half a dozen "pet-wee"
churches trying to eke out a living in
one small town they would combine In
one church broad enough in Christian
ity to take In all.
The delegates, also, yesterday after
noon listened to talks on the relation
between forest-growers and lumber
sellers by C. S. Chapman, district for
ester, and E. T. Allen, secretary of the
Western Forestry and Conservation
Association.
Mr. Chapman placed the estimate of
Standing merchantable timber in the
National forests of Oregon and Wash-
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The Ashland Athletic Club basketball team, which claims the championship of Southern Oregon and "is
tak ng an extensive trip through the Northwest, on Saturday night de feated the. crack Christian Brothers
College quintet in the Christian Brothers' gymnasium, 63 to 14. The local team . was somewhat outweighed
and was outclassed in most departments of the game, although it fought gamely.
lngton at 275,000,000,000 feet, an
amount greater than on similar areas
in any other two states. At the pres
ent rate of consumption this timber, he
said, would supply all- the mills of the
United States eight years and the mills
of Oregon and Washington over 60
years. - . . .
Statements made from time to time
that the National forests are "locked
up," he branded" as untrue. The Na
tional forests, he said, were created to
conserve water needed for irrigation,
power and domestic purposes as well
as to insure "a future supply of timber.
He declared it to be the policy of the
Government to encourage the fullest
uses of the forest along the lines that
do not interfere with the purposes for
which they were created.
Timber, said Mr. Chapman, is sold
when it- reaches maturity, and good
management demands its , removal;
stock is permitted to graze in the for
ests when it does not imperil the young
growth of trees or Interfere with the
use of water for irrigation and domes
tic purposes; use of the forests for
hotels, sawmills. Summer homes and
other miscellaneous uses is encour
aged; homesteading is permitted on
lands chiefly, valuable for agriculture,
and since the passage of the act per
t mitting- this, three and one-half years
ago, 500,000 acres have been put to
that use. Sales of Government timber
have been rapidly increasing in the
last six months.
Timber Owner Should Aid."
Forest management, he said, should
not devolve wholly upon the Govern
ment, but upon the timber land owner
as well. The man who is selling lum
ber in a treeless region as well as the
consumer, should see. he said,' that
those who live in the forested sections
handle ' their timber crops in such a
manner that a plentiful supply is
assured at prices not prohibitive. He
asked that all co-operate in securing
better fire-protection laws, advocated
the use of odd lengths in finishing
lumber, flooring, celling, etc., and
urged efforts to remove the prejudice
against Western hemlock as an inter
ior finishing wood.
E. T. Alien also appealed for a
standing together of the general pub
lic for the better care of the forests.
Tn the five states of Oregon, Washing
ton, Idaho, Montana and California the
annual forest fire loss, he said, is about
$40,000,000, the figures representing
the value of the manufactured product.
"Every acre burned," he said, "every
cut-over acre lying idle, marks a high
point for prices to reach and the con
sumer has to meet it. . Every acre
saved from fire, every acre of young
growth, lowers it for him."
Farmer Jobbers Xot Liked.
Farmers' co-operative lumber yards
are proving a sore spot with some of
the lumber dealers who have this com
petition to meet n strictly farming
communities. Hyrum Jensen, of Col
linston. Wash.,, spoke emphatically on
the subject yesterday, admitting that
his would likely be the only doleful
note sounded in the meeting. Mr.
Jensen believes that the farmers are
clear out of -their province when they
engage in commercial pursuits and
thinks there is plenty of room for more
effort on the farms. His only sugges
tion of a remedy was one that the
thought might be found by the manu
facturers and wholesalers. Mr. Jensen
was careful not to attack ""the farmers
as a class, but only the few "pirates"
who, he said, were leading their
brothers astray.
The Western Retail Lumbermen's
Association now has a membership of
606, according to the report of Secre
tary A. L. Porter. This is a net gain
for the year of 78. The issuance of a
buyer's guide by the Manufacturers
Association was strongly urged by Mr.
Porter. The proper kind of a directory,
he thought, should contain the names
of mills, capital invested, capacity,
name of railroad on which the mill is
located, various woods manufactured,
and the name and addresses of all au
thorized agents.
California May Come In.
Mr. Porter also recommended the ad
mission of the California retail lum
bermen to the association, and later a
motion so to amend the bylaws was
carried. The association will now in
clude Oregon, Washington. Idaho,
Montana. Vtah. Nevada and California.
Yesterday afternoon's session closed
with the appointment of a nominating
committee and a resolutions committee.
The members of the nominating com
mittee are F. H. Hllliard, Pocatello: A.
W. Robinson, Pendleton: F. S. Stone,
Nampa. The following are the mem
bers of the resolutions committee; J. C.
Weeter. Portland: D. E. Swinehart,
Butte: T. C. Palmer. North Yakima; J.
J Owen. Spokane: R. S. Shaw, Boise.
One of the features of the gathering
of the lumbermen in Portland will be
the Hoo Hoo concatenation at the con
vention hall Tuesday evening.
Applications for membership were
circulated . among the delegates yester
day, and it is expected that a class of
anywhere from 25 to 100 kittens will be
taught to sing under the direction of
Graham A. Griswold. vice-gerent snark
for the Northern District of Oregon.
The convention will be in session all
of today., ,
WEATHERHEREBEST
East Suffers but Oregon Has
Sun With Snow.
OTHER STATES SHIVERING
Old Sol and Rain Vanquish King
White in Portland Montana
May Feel Below Zero, Idaho
and Washington Chilled.
Portland with its three varieties of
weather yesterday sunshine, rain and
snow and other citier? of Oregon, all re
porting a little srun, rain and snow inter
mingling, form a startling contrast with
Montana's zero weather, Pennsylvania's
blizzard and Washington's "heaviest
snow fall yet."
Scanning the weather table, Oregon
looms as the real balmy district of the
Pacific Northwest, Idaho shivering and
Washington inconvenienced, to say the
least, by a general snowfall which was
not dispelled immediately by rain and
sun, as wag the case, here and through
out . Oregon.
Nearly six inches of snow fell at Hel
ena, Mont., and zero weather ia pre
dieted for the Treasure State. Walli
Walla is covered with four inches of
snow and the white king holds general
sway over Washington. At Walla. Walla
the snowfall was the heaviest this Win
ter in the shortest time.
Storm Menaces East.
In the East the sudden change brought
with it blocked traffic, snowplows and
demoralized telephone, telegraph and car
6ervice.
. In Pittsburg suburban roads and
communities are being literally dag
out of the snowdrifts, and the traction
companies' snowplows are disclosing
many thrilling experiences. Near Etna
Ave cars were stalled in 12 feet of
snow, -many of the passengers being
Saturday -night shoppers on their way
home with baskets of provisions for
Sunday dinners. In two of these cars
the passengers spent Sunday, supplied
with coffee and lunches by the trac
tion company.
Many churches in neighboring com
munities abandoned any attempt to
hold services. For a time it was
thought a funeral would have to be
suspended because the undertaker was
unable to reach the house with the
hearse and carriages. The casket was
finally borne away on a sled.
Not so In Oregon. Portland's weather
was hardly worthy of the term disa
greeable. Snow fell spasmodically, but
was quickly vanished by flashes of
sunlight now and then and by rain of
various temperatures. Jumping to
Eastern Oregon, the conditions there
were similar.
Occasional rain is predicted for Port
land today. Other parts of the state
may expect to be visited by showers
and probably snow. Showers and snow
are also predicted for Washington.
BURNT. CORK ARTISTS
KNOW NEGRO AS HE IS
Mclntyre and Heatlufor Years Made Study of Dialects and Witticisms of
Colored Pople in Towns Along Mississippi River.
IT WAS In the year 1874 that James
Mclntyre and Thomas Heath, mere
boys, struck hands and joined forces
in San Antonio, Texas. Individually
they had applied for jobs with a float
ing minstrel troupe 'which refused to
consider them singly, but accepted
them as a team. The union, thus start
ed, has grown even closer with suc
ceeding years, until today It is the
longest livedassociation of actors that
has been known to the American stage.
the company with which they start
ed out in San Antonio, soon wrote finis
after an all too brief record, and
Mclntyre and Heath were left without
a soil, not a great many miles from
St. Louis, on the Illinois side of the
river. It is related that they walked,
footsore and weary, into St. Louis and
with fervid determination to stow
enough under their vests to make
amends for any missed meals in the
past, accepted work as pastry cooks on
the' old "City of Alton," running be
tween St. Louis and New Orleans.
It was while on this trip that they
conceived the idea that the Mclntyre
heathian reputation stands for today.
Their idea, then formed, was that there
must be a 'wide field for the close study
and actual imitation of the funny negro
as he really exists, rather than the
popularly conceived type of ordinary
jig-dancing and almanac joking "cullud
gent," with burnt cork make up, that
every other imitator of that day in
cluded in his repertoire.
For a period covering five years
the variety stage saw no more of
Mclntyre and Heath. They joined vari
ous traveling- circuses which covered
the smallest of towns, and here they
studied the "negro as he is" at close
range. They say they have watched
the negro dancing and have themselves
danced among the levees from St. Louis
to the Gulf, and have not once over
looked any opportunities to learn a new
bit of dialect, of which they assert,
there are a dozen distinct differences
in the country.
After this jaunt Into the fielda and by
ways, the twain returned again to the
Mclntyre and Heath Minstrels, which
at last brought them overflowing results
all over America. In 1887 they brought
out their perennially laughable and ori
ginal sketch. "The Georgia Minstrels."
and for 15 years long lists of newly pre
pared playlets were side-tracked or
shelved entirely by vaudeville managers
who demanded the ever-pleasing old act.
It is said that no other one act of the
stage has lived half so long and with
such undimmed brightness.
"The Ham Tree." in which the two
scored such a success at the Heillg two
years ago and again early last season,
is simply a musical comedy written
around the old and original "trunk act"
as a nucleus the trunk act that had
been an old stock act of this team for
many years. But it pleased. Folks
wanted the two comedians in their ld
and beloved roles, so a truneful musical
setting was written around the - famous
old minstrel act, several new jokes and
MiriiimMiiintiThyiitli
James Mclntyre and Thnmai
Hentb, Bnnt Cork Artists Who
Have Been Partners 3tt Years.
many pretty girls and color scenic effects
added, and we had "The Ham Tree." one
of the most deservedly popular and de
lightful musical extravaganzas of a de
cade. This year Mclntyre and Heath are
giving us another of their oldest vaude
vllle hits, the tomato storv. and the
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you will find it, clearly proved from the
Post-Office Department's own reports, that
it is totally unnecessary to put any addi
tional tax on magazines and periodicals,
and that: a deficit of $17,500,000 is not
chargeable to the periodicals.
"For instance, the Post.
Office Department is charging $13,821,100 of the cost of
rural free delivery against the second-class mail. Now,
rural free delivery was established as a matter of Govern
ment policy, and we believe in it, but it is not fair to charge
one dollar of this expense against the magazines. - It is
undoubtedly of benefit to the daily newspapers, but the
Department is trying to exempt them from an increase in
rate. The magazines do not need or want once a day or
twice a day deliveries on these rural routes.
'Page 256, Postmaster's Report, 1908, says: 'Franking
privileges weighed ,4,555,634 pounds. They certainly
cost' the average price of all mail in all ways. And
Governmental matter for Departments other than the
Post-Office weighed 18,644,010 pounds."
"This report says that if the matter was charged at
' postal rates it would yield a revenue as follows:
Second-class 531,560.94
Franked matter . ........ 3,987,546.44
Government matter ....... 16,362,131.95
Total credit due Department . .' . 120,881,239.33
" And that awful deficit disappears.
' "It is impossible that.a business of over $200,000,000
should not offer an opportunity for enormous savings.
And a business like that of our great Postal Depart
ment, with endless ramifications, must offer endless
opportunities.
..No postmaster-General
entering his position to-day, with all the duties befalling
a Cabinet official besides running his Department, no
matter how great his intelligence or how fine his training,
can grasp the details of this enormous business before he
disappears. There is no time given to him to find these
opportunities to save expense. The affairs of the Depart
ment must, for the most part, be administered by those
under him."
Given a chance they would save in
business economies more than the alleged
deficit of $17,500,000.
We ask Congress to give us a
Director of Posts as recommended by the
joint Congressional committee of 1907, an
officer wh6 shall be non-political, and whose
term of service shall not be, subject to
political changes, and who shall conduct
the workings of the Post-Office Depart
ment with the efficiency,, economy and
business-like methods which distinguish
high-class American business enterprise.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
sojer" and "wash ladv" stunt, which, in
a less attractive setting, has been an old
standby in their repertoire for many years.
wi course, mucn has been added In this
instance also, tuneful airs, a bit of con
slstent plot, and the accessory sparkle
of a big company: but the little old to
mato plot scintillates just as brightly as
it did when it was the whole play.
There is only one Mclntyre and one
Heath 'may their dusky shadows and
their capacity to please never grow less.
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