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ADDRESS OP PRESIDED? S. MARSHALL EVANS fa 6T9(Si#Fing thi feonoxed owitoa of giving *a aeoount f at wardship f t ;'8ball "Revert to tjie conditions and: eiar0fl*8tanea f -4tetS "tiaie -efnenr^Xnat tmeat iagiia St* Jnifti- ; Iiamed lately b4fdxethfct *iUny tot dnf that a tine of tfcill-Mti&'npdfc^a*, -:'ondt it i at of inteariat vnan^to imaoallitbat^ihttf lation of pdliOiOa^td naet the; g*ea% vInduetxiOl oollopBo nao.hold In abeyfcne by ail t- uspending tha stv Louianeeting. , rJk^jpeyioC:* titai fxoa vifeioh wo nrot 3t*t merging demanded': of.meny moraPof *-> , atSfenfctii-tflU*ehdnranee tliaii-viHaisriaaiB:>..^l`tlix?:PXBesat :ox.?oaxpoxa- ii *kt **zld, **&MMtobd%;v bfcte the wait d-. 4t*magtfc< ft t^ie imdnatyy, aided into; '#ttilJMKlt|K'mfefrpfe!**#,-ronifcmtidenfciaseeiei* ion. t?aanit.;niMrithat->tb. a toxat fatality^'' * * n.Vievat ./.*{.* $ t xirA, werecanefc,, -'* eleaxly to iHdieOte tb; need of unusual off<*v npn<h?$ar%' of yourne?eoutires. Moot in# thejSO Xegnix afen&r inToJirod muchtravellng^eind meay oofex?i noa in sOm*^ our trad enterato. the end that r .hat- only should the' nee#''-of tlivgnldstlon: he readied by all,tibht -that. it should take.; HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 10 e *ii iytsli4 saiiifffi.iFiiirti* 'SMS#** *&*; i`._ -. irt'-'ieVk&*,,i<hig&t fit' w liit'-y' t% iteni5$i8Pir 81 ar ar pro- ^p&5rila<&0ma^ ^"litoSt^ilt aa1bi,e wi ta Mi *eisw w h i tk-i* stashed af ka extisM%*W: xfii P||||V Wifitt3i` ln#$iiat &|o& fe&ftf <ri^;''ifi5i%0slr tllliiB Je$g$f; >.- h^-e1'.-.'i-i-t2 ifttte'r&enit 1x iaitVeiikiaeoi$^5 "isrpom*.4t.%ie, 'I1"1%*4 i441 w h^i^Xfialfcl^i* "' w o:;;>,&.& miioation ana iiitikt'Si IS&jU^i2rJWltoW6!f l&f :'U1 iSiw 'tty^^UxTi^mrArsaxw itiffSk ill tti'irogiesa "Of i*` #iaWW. o - ^ * - ' < - V 4v^  i HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY 'S Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 absolute anlml type of life, and time hikaing type of life, ^iia fe^ame the ill &e cumulative1 knowledge Of all its predebeeeore. ii: tha of human aoobmpiisfcikeht exploded % reasSh ot the eMIrgeF expe*ience, r.manhindgfMitO its' preieni1 bel|l'bk'' i&hefcltlttoi* oF^f4 reou.lt ing from '%*!*of jtfboediir gBnirattbta/W'i^^iyiV : &p*iy Wit** am** ' : * TM Xilne tipon l^VWa&Vt 5 SiSH WlieWf1' 4 Wtfi.rW' tta m-w a yet nriborn. As Wi prlnoi.plb his VdrAoa' tHrbngli tho Botins" of goologlo * ':bf litfividhal throu^x Hhe Vide&l '4& h$$ eacotfpii^Meiit'f^em' year to `^'So ''r4h& ar^a :;aiid"'-ai^a:oae-%*-# been developed, bo the great ^iheipres of inte^atl&iair exchange have he'eh evolved ^ isd'hls grcrtwh tho great "compKei: falrfio Of ear* *l = inadetrlal'aetitity.-''- illustrated in the corporation of today. As such cooperatire oorporateactivitlea displaced the self destructive individual activity with the seat beneficent results to consumer*t workers and capital, so today we see in prooess the irresistible fores of a. life- principle seeking to attain a new end higher plane of activity in the gradual development of corporate group activity including in its scope whole industries from original raw materials to ultimate vrodnots for the use ah& benefits of mankind* fhat at first suoh development should be opposed, looked at askance and vie lonely fought is but an .index of the fact that understanding and wisdom' * come not to any of us without effort* Probably no ons will question the value to the farmer of the marketi reports which give him knowledge of the demand for and the current value of his produce; nor will any person dispute hie right to or need of the information as to acreage planted of various staples and the aggregate yield thereof from a national standpoint as to every suoh staple,, nor can there be found anywhere ignorance nc,KD,Ki KUUVM ^KhibiUENTlAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 H5- so bold ae to say that such information is not of benefit to the emsumsr si well as to the farmer, and yet we are told by purblind interpreters of legal!atio form that such information of the current progress and product of industry for the benefit of consumers as a ell as of the workers and capital in industry is illegal, W-i- realise that here a-.life principle of growth is at stake* Temporarily pinioned, the result for the moment is an iapedimentto economic progress, an impediment to the abili ty of pro duo era most effectively and eeonomAoally to serve, the puhlie, with the growing realisaton the part:-of the publio that sueh Impediments are a menses* This opposition will rapidly disappear, fhe national, paint, il and famish Asaooiation was among the warp earliest to perceive the truth inherent in these things and has constantly year in and year out advoeated and fought for its right - understandingly and ooneeiouelp - by means of the written, freely disseminated record of sooomplishaent or in the language of pro duo lion, by means of statistics or progress records * to inorease the measure of service whioh its several groups of industries any render to the sublie. HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National PaiJt m, and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 ' 01 "6* phis y ear through the fortunate entrance Into our Government of a largo and understanding personality, your officials holierd for a time that the .battle, for the privilege of making available to consumers as noil as to ourselves the figures representing the current ahA^a^^ata^aaMiial production and volume distribution of our several industries had been won. But instead, the iesue is only fairly .Joinai*: ' As to the utoome. there nan he no doubt, I believethe fighiwfli he uon this very yeax and let none forget when it is all ever-that, our debt will chiefly he to that great American beloved and revered in the hearts of all of us, Herbert Hoover, m this fsnmeutiea* I wish again to cell attention to the BepaPtiiSUi foamerc under 3r, Hoover as an .instrumentality for-; the use of our industries, Shis potential sill he mad# apparent I bellere -in ever Increasing measure,. fhis department of our government IS in. a large measure a department which grew out of initiative on the part of the national .faint, #il and famish Asso ciation. How that it is under such oompetent leadership, it would seem to he the time for Us to make it of maximum use, fhe department early set itself to consider practicable methods gwtii the HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 -7aiiiainatfon of wsebes Incident to those of osr industries afflicted uiih seasonal consumption of .product,' . such wastes are not only : OPpiaisiye, in the extreme from the standpoint of oar: corporations, hat they hear much more heavily upon labor, fhe proper develop ment of statistics mill ultimately result la greater eraliability of credit, thereby tending to flatten out the curves and valleys ^:-iC^'prodnotiin|, but elimination of non-productive periods dae to seasonal..- aetivities sill be -found in the final .analysis- to be ; postiMuhy reason of the development of mm export business, to this end lr* Hoover has only lust: completed tlse. thorough-going resrgai&lfctien. of the Bureau of foreign and Bomeetio Goamercef which is at the diepoeal of every-: member of this Association. . : The opportunity is there for each of us, that this department recog nises our industries as being, representative- and fundamental in our national aetivities in indicated by-, the fact that -several, times eithin the .last year your- officers and: members of our Association have. been, sailed to Washington for conference and advise on iratlonal euestisns* 1 HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY j Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 ~8- Our iritistries mere quick to perceive the requirements of the period immediat ely following the war inflation, we may all .We proud."Of th# thorough going* orderly liquidstlonof the Indus tries comprising our Assooiatioh, - fhepunishment accepted hy our corpora^* tiona in the collapse ofvaluesin the autumn of 1920 wae;meifi^severe and obstly. The measures taken to relieve the distress due to unemployment which followed the practical stoppage of production fer' Sefp^ an individual character and might easily hareheenmore effective had some sort of 0 oilective act ion "been I' reooamesd' that' steps' he' taken to provide for such collestire action in future' emergencies of our own, hut. particularly do recommend consideration of the extent te which our industry > may he utilised hy society as a whole in alleviating unemployment oondltione 'as from time to time arise. possibilities in 'this direction are rather strikingly''illustrated hy'the prompt action of one of our new Glebs following the publication hy the Commission of I eongrStulate the savannah, Georgia, paint Cluh upon its initiative 4 HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY | * Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil ^ and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 -9- ln this respect*: It immediately requested the Bayor of savannah to ..issue. * to citizens of savannah urging them - ae a measure of relief to starving later ~ to give employment by painting and cleaning eveay; property in Savannah, . jpa $|JLs astltt the savannah faint Club displayed leadership of the highest quality in that they served their elty and thsjr served their industry. Incidentally, this construetire aetlon illustrated the poser of a .great- :ldea s b applied to'a field.hitherto untottohed, and it con- Stftut08.anether. tribute. to. the genius of Allen ir, Clarfc of at. lottis The coming year sill. probably witness: rineued, activity in .the., aeyeral stetes in the oonBideration of legislation affecting our industries. faring the. year nos olesing efforts of union laborto .male .illegal the ua# of instruments necessary and desirable for the ; successful development of our business and. the old.*, old effort to . prescrlbs. what pure paint, is also was renewed in sayersi etuiae*. . The state of forth Carolina passed a las requiring- formula labeling and stamp tares upon the products,'of our industry sold el-thin that state. foreign interests sre moving to secure the legal prohibition of the use of shite lead in paint and union labor in Amorim* h** HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint Oil I and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 refrained from lntresting it self in this more. We are not here concerned as to the origin of this pro posal, although it may he remarked in passing that it originated in a country whose natural resources do not include lead, and that from this faot many of ua interpret the moreaent purely as an eeonomie offenaiT#. fhe spirit of American business ethics is well illus trated in the paint industry* We operate in the aonaelousnessof responsibility to giro-to the puhlie which we serve paint .protacts which will most effectually meet the needs of painting reguhreaeats, the .American paint industry will continue so to function and in so doing it will, use white lead* sine' exits, iithopone, titanium oxide* or any ether pigment host calculated to meet the reguiraments of the public, we deny the existence of any one pigment containing all the necessary functions of good, paint. We recognize each of the basic white pigments as haring functions desirable and necessary, the prohibition of the use of white lead in painting would consti tute a calamity to our paint indue tries: this from the standpoint Of national economies and from the standpoint of our ability properly J HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 Industiy, hut would be destructive of a fundamental industry in Which Imeriea -leads the world, memoir* the miming ana smelting of ; *1 am industry which employe hundreds of thousand -Va of mem, uses hundreds of millions of capital, and all^by a propaganda as-insl4|oili:;id ^eVll as anything that ever originated in the cabinet of the erstwhile Gorman fhe human emotion footer sought to he mood by those propagandists is the allegation that paintsrs habitually using white load die prematurely, in great number, from the alleged poisonous, offsets;o# while- leed*> k complete answer to this is to be -fdsud in the statistice of our great American life insurance sorpemtione, .jgssse: stt^isties enable tbseo .life .|nssi^siN|. . panies to accept rieisupon the- lives of 3ottrnyMampaimter* without any disorimination whatever, % recommend careful sohsideratiom end appropriate action on this subject* therefore it appears that our ie|islative Commit tee Will be called Upon for tireless Vigilance . and considerable traveling in order'-to place before legislative bodies, who may be eoasidering laws effecting our industries, the full facts to the end that no I HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY , -i C"fce Papers: National Paint, Oil ! and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 !' -12- pexnioious lawn may be planed upon the statute books, J recommend that provision mow be mate to take oare of these efemtualitiei* The soope of the activities of the Rational Association has beam a revelation to me. 1 am sore that a better understand ing of our facilities for accomplishment or of getting information would -lead to a Very" much larger use of such facilities by the memhers of our Asseeiatiom*. local clubs should maintain the Closest possible liaison with national Association headquarters. TMhe name 1b tree of Qommittee Chairmen who might to the advantage Of. the several interests covered by the several committees make quarterly reports for publication, many of which would be of euoh importance As to be Included in the Association's Bulletin. The Association MS closed another year of gratifying growfhi five (i| new lube were slotted to the roster of member ship - four (4) of these in the southeastern section, and already betterment of trade conditions in the sect ions organised is reported* 1 shall refrain from further detailed account because as is customary, our able Seerotary will give us the benefit of complete HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 detail. to Mtte*qMt- ga&-4^Pjktoja* 8**rt*uer ** town* v ii -to^k^***** steal- s *aar* to 4*to* vfgxmep smw&tHwm ?* rtSum^ u *m :# proud oeE; iwad? to todfctov^ ^r^tofe**** .toito totJtaaflinb era, toM** **$&! ott*. ,**-& ale** ofie:rT^f*r ,, to* totd ito ^taQrririafc *?- %4 htfc* a*tt<iriffil #8 >i|o ?wto Hftt 1 ?*tabto flttate *f <toafr dawroto e&%1to*Wtt fiaiaiiag #f ttte "save tbasorfaee* aompatga,, bead#* >y graeat^^tofg, sof,3#i^tetfitoMaii3^ ta,} . irnu ^SNSfiif^Iiil4*tJfeo rendered toitfefcvRO*fcttjtfat'< -ogr**-<:' ij*|& Ta|r >th*F*irtafcti dit^-amd-' %w^9b&&i9&&+mez* totx|ioaa ^nastola tft this6Tiaent! Otar ItiftaatJT 18 tml^ua tot t&at * < *' "- - - - - . > r .L r r- f S r*: t *, n';-. "' : ?. " . c=.-1 i.: -. a HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 -14- the commodities of its manufacture are indispensable if property, the result of human labor, is to he conserved; use of its products constitutes the highest form indeed * the very essence of economy, your chairman expresses' his conviction that the problems .- ' ... ' ' before us for oonslderation at this convention, the decisions V necessary to be reached in respect to these problems, are so vi tally important end so far reaching as to require the concentrated study and most careful consideration of -every member. -1 therefor# *it&fce the liberty of making a special request of every delegate' that be * '"ly aeet and discharge his responsibility by attending all the - ; <r meetings, arriving promptly at the designated time, Every session sill be called to order end proceedings started at the designated time. 3fo longer do we perfunctorily welcome the ladies, while upon them the responeibillty of the franchise 'has only been recently imposed, their responsibilities in our Association are of long stand ing. got only shall we value the pleasant comradeship which their presence brings to us, but we shall more highly value the contribu tion at ihftia? inBini T'ntl nr t thl a n owvAwt i . HERBERT HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Commerce Papers: National Paint, Oil and Varnish Assoc., 1921-1927 *, ^___ gfeS entertainment committee has provided entertainment for the free periods, hut their provision has been with special reference t the ladies; and let me say that this convention is under greater obligation to no one wore than to Hr, Harry y. ohueil and his associates on the entertainment oommtitee for the forCtheeg&t time and labor put in hy them iknplanning what I believe Will he the pleasantest convention in the history of the association. Our house is clean and in order* @ur products are meet for service. Haver have they heen offered to the public at com* parable, economic values, and if incidentally, we as industrialist# achieve greatly as a result of the extreme effort me shall put fsrtfc, to secure the largest volume of distribution in the history of our industry, who can say that me have failed in any respect to give. expression to the highest aspirations of whioh engagement in the arts end sciences is capable.