restricted list of colors, tints, and shades of paints and varnishes, as well as of definite sized containers. Concentration of production, distribution, and consumption on this restricted list proved beneficial to all interests. However, since the war a tendency to revert to the former diversity developed, and leading manufacturers and others recommended a reaffirmation of the conservation schedule.
After several conferences with the Division of Simplified Practice, the manufacturers, distributors, and consumers concurred on March 13, 1924, in reestablishing the reduced list as the recommended standard of practice, to become effective September I, 1924. It is expected that nation-wide adherence to this list will result in reducing inventories, and idle investment, as well as stimulate turnover and facilitate more economical manufacture and distribution. This confirmation of an established practice, and the consequent limitation against further diversification, provides a definite basis from which a simplification, i.e., an elimination of seldom-called-for and little-used varieties can be developed.