Lumber Authority and Public Foresters Unite on Program of Forest Conseryation Under the Lumber Code

Sustained Yield Administration o[ Private Forests Now Begrn

Washington, Jan. 26-Within ninety days, stated C. C. Sheppard, President of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, at the conclusion of the national forest conservation conference here, tonight, all private forest owners subject to the Lumber Code of the NRA will begin to apply rules of forest practice designed to conserve and replenish forest growth. C. Arthur Bruce, Executive Officer of the Lumber Code Authority, said that the body would proceed at once to incorporate basic rules of conservative'forest practice into the Code-also to hasten approval of the detailed rules of forest practice for the respective divisions of the lumber industry.

This u'as the second session of the conference, which, at the suggestion of Wilson Compton, general manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, was called by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace for the purpose of establishing forestry rules and regulations under Article X-the conservation article-of the Lumber Code. The first session was held last October.

The conference was made up about equally of representatives of the forest industries, on the one hand, and of public and private forest agencies and associations, on the other hand. The attendance numbered about one hundred and represented the entire private and public forest areas of the-United States, being about one-fourth of the total land area of the country, supporting the largest group of population of any industry except agriculture.

The conference, whose final action today signalizes the general introduction of conservative forest practices-int_o ihe private forests of the United States, covered two fields of recommendation. One was recommendations as to forestry amendments to the Lumber Code, which have been contemplated since that instrument was adopted, and the other was recommendations as to federal and state legislation and administrative policy required to promote reforestation.

Public Aid Requested

In respect of legislation, federal aid in forest credits to finance sustained yield administration of forests is recommended to the extent of a $200,00O,000 revolving fund. President Roosevelt is asked to lay before state governors a program of deferred taxation designed to meet the problem of carrying timberlands during the financially unproductive period bf growth or regrou,'th. General simplification of local government is urged in order to lighten taxation burdens in sparsely settled timber regions.

Congress was asked to appropriate the entire authorized fire piotection appropriation of $2,500,000, under th"

Clarki-McNaty acli attd incre".e it to $10,000,000 annually. Special consideration of the federal government was recommended in its plans for salvaging timber injured by fire, wind, or insects, to the 325,000 acres of timber in the Tillamook region of Oregon, damaged by fire last August. Elaborate recommendations were made governing cooperative public expenditures for fire control, forest research, proteltion against insects, the conducting of economic surveys, forestry extension work, forest utilization, etc.

Conservative Policy for Public Forests

Disposal of timber in the public forests should be governed by a policy of extreme conservatism, it was held. It was recommended that the Oregon and California railroad land grant in Oregon, aggregating ,{0 billion feet of timber, should be turned over to the Ln. S. Forest Service as national forest land. This transfer is to include not only portions of the grant classified as forest land, but also all socalled agricultural land, except as it actually is such. The present basis of tax compensation to Oregon counties is to be continued until the middle of 1936. The national forest land acquisition program of the Forest Service, defined in the Copeland report, is to be made operative immediately, with ttie additional acquisition of 150 billion feet of standing timber. Special altention is directed to the possibilities of extension of national forests by donation of private lands under provisions of the Clarke-McNary act of June 7,1924. Farm woodlands, amounting to about 150 million acres, should, it was agreed, be included under the Lumber Code. so far as the conservation measures are included, but not as to manufacturing operations-wages, hours and prices.

The meeting' was commented on by both foresters and lumbermen aJ being an exceptionally harmonious one in view of the fact that the two elements of the conference have, in a sense, been historic opponents. There were no contests in the two days' meeting in which the industry members lined up against the public representatives.

It was presided over by Dean H. S. Graves of the Yale University School of Forestry, and the Secretary was W. L. Hall, Consulting Forester, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the chairmen of the various committees were as follows: Legislative Committee-J.H. Pratt of Chapel Hill, N. C.; Committee on Taxation and Forest Credits-Geo. F. Tewett. Potlatch Forests, Inc., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; Com- '-itt""'on Forest Practice-{. C. Sheppard, Clarks, La', President of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association; Committee on Public Timber Disposal and Acquisition-O. iVI. Butler, Secretary, American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C.; Committee on Cooperative Public Expenditures-W. G. Howard, Albany, New York, State Foiester; Committee on Farm Woodlands-R. W. Graeber, (Acting) U. S. Agricultural Extension Service, North Carolina; designated chairman, Fred Brenckman, National Grange, Washington, D. C.

Sheppard and Silcox Exchange

Congratulations

Whenever a critical question arose in the course of the two days' discussion it was amicably settled with mutual satisfaction. And in the concluding session tonight President Sheppard, of the N,ational Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and U. S. Forester Sitcox, exchanged congratulations and felicitations on the inauguration on a naIional scale of sustained yield lumbering and the simple principles of forest maintenance. Mr. Sheppard assured the foresters of the gathering that the lumber industry was profoundly serious in its intention to practice the forestry rules and regulations recommended in a general way and to be later formulated by the Lumber Code Authority.

Mr. Silcox said that for his part he accepted the assurances of Mr. Sheppard as to the attitude of the industry and that he looked forward to a new era for the forest industries, in which they would take a leading part in a great social readjustment which must largely hinge upon the question of land utilization. The forests, he pointed out, constitute a large, if not a major part in such proper utilization and predicted that the reforms to which the industry rvas committing itself would ultimately mean the maintenance and development of community life centering around the forest industries and their provident utilization of the forests.

Although debates over the various parts of the legislative and Lumber Code forestry provisions were long and lively, they related almost entirely to changes in the reports of the committees, and a detailed report must await the directed revisions of the reports.

It was decided just before adjournment that the conference should be a continuing body, Secretary Wallace being agreeable, and that an executive committee composed of five public and five private representatives should carry on the work of the conference.

John D. Tennant, Chairman of the Lurnber Code Authority, appointed Col. W. B. Greeley, Secretary and Manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, David T. l\[ason, Manager of the Western Pine Association, Geo. F. Jewett, Potlatch Lumber Industries, Inc., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, A. G. T. Moore, of the Southern Pine Association, and A. B. Recknagel, Secretary of the Northeastern Lumbermen's Association, as the industry members of the above mentioned executive committee.

Lumber Prices at Retail Belore N. R. A.

Washington, Feb. 3-The N.R.A. has announced that it will hold a hearing here February 7, on the administrator's order of January 5, approving temporary modifications of the method of computing costs and overhead for the Retail Lumber Code, "because of complaints received."

The order in question stated that lumber could not be sold at retail for less than cost, which "shall in no case be less than the effective minimum delivered prices established by the Code Authority of the Code of Fair Competition for the Lumber and Timber Products Industry." Handling and delivery costs were fixed at figures ranging from $4.80 to $6.00, according to wage areas.

Forest Conservation Committee Appointments Announced

Washington, Jan. 31, l934-Appointment of five members to represent public interests on an Executive Committee whose duty it shall be to take promptly such action as it may find appropriate to give effect to the recornmendations of the recent Forest Conservation Conference, was announced today by Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. An equal number of representatives of the forest products industries are to be named by the Lumber Code Authority.

"The lumber and timber products industries are now committed under Article X of the Lumber Code to a policy of conservation and sustained production of their basic resource, the forest," said the Secretary. "This policy constitutes a major step in the evolution of our American forests and forest industries. To the extent that it can be carried out, a migratory industry, based on speculative exploitation of timber which it did not grow, will henceforth be replaced by a permanent industry, based on timber that is grown according to definite plans. Individualism, guesswork, and competitive skimming of the cream of natural resources will give way to teamwork, long-term planning, and concerted action to conserve the resources for future use.tt

Acting at the request of the recent Forest Conservation Conference the Secretary has appointed to the Executive Committee, as representative of public interests: Earle H. Clapp, assistant Forester in charge of research, U. S. Forest Service; Ward Shepard, Indian Service; W. G. Howard, State Forester, New York; O. M. Butler, Executive Secretary, American Forestry Association; B. P. Kirkland, U. S. Forest Service.

Returns To California

George A. Slacke, who was at one time in the lumber business in California, and who has been associated with A. A. Gardner, Pacific Coast manager of Henry Disston & Sons for the past eight years in Seattle, has been appointed manager of the company's San Francisco branch succeeding A. F. Kennedy, who has been transferred to Chicago as manager of that office.

Home

He is happiest who finds peace in his home.-Goethe.

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And then there was the Scotchman who married people to his wedding. He figured wedding gifts would be clear profit.

THE BAT?LE WORTH WHILE

j By Henry Van Dyke

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THE B'LOON TIRED BIKE

She's a sweet little lass, and she's happy, (As happiness goes in this world)

And I patted and cuddled most gently Her head all so towsled and curled.

"If I had a lamp like Aladdin's And could give you whatever you'd like What is it you'd wish for, my darling?"

And she answered "a b'loon tired bike."

There is life that is worth living now as it was worth living in former days, and that is the honest life, the unselfish life, cleansed by devotion to an ideal.

There is a battle that is worth fighting now as it was worth fighting then, and that is the battle for justice and equality; to make our city and state free in fact as well as in name; to break the rings that strangle real liberty and keep them broken; to cleanse, so far as in our power lies, the fountains of our national life from political, commercial, and social corruption; to teach our sons and daughters, by precept and example, the honor of serving such a country as America-THAT is work worthy of our finest manhood and womanhood.

The well-born are those who are born to do that work; the well-bred are those who are bred to be proud of that work; the well-educated are those who see deepest into the meaning and the necessity of that work.

Nor shall their labor be for naught, nor the reward of their sacrifice fail them; for high in the firmament of human destiny are set the stars of faith in mankind, and unselfish courage and loyalty to the ideal.

Responsibility

The tramp says: "I won't."

The quitter says: "I can't."

The lazy man says: "I don't know."

The wisher says: "I wish I could."

The disinterested says: "f might."

The hopeful says: "I'll try."

The sure one says: "f can."

The busy one says: "I will."

The boss says: "I did."

She didn't take time to consider, She answered from depth of her soul, It wasn't just part of her longings; It was one wish that took in the whole. No, she doesn't have hopes she might get it She knows that the rich can buy things, That a child really likes (like b'loon tired bikes) But she understands "poor folks aren't kings."

So she smiled when she gave me that answer, And she seemed quite contented and meek; As her head sort o'drooped on my shoulder, But a tear drop rolled off of her cheek. And I pray now, if ever I'm able, To buy dreams like "b'loon tired bikes," That I'll never forget that such tear drops as hers Still fall from all poor little tykes.

-Bates Wilson.

Good Advertising

A junh shop at the intersection of the highway and the railroad tracks, flaunted the following sign in big letters: "Go ahead! Take a chance! We'll buy the wreck!"

The Wages Of Sin

A man-about-town lost a bet to a preacher, so to pay the bet he has to go to church every Sunday for a year and listen to the preacher. That ought to teach him that it's wrong to bet.