Joint Congressionaf Report on Forestry Asks for Increased Ftre Controf Funds

Washington, April l4-"America is in transition from a philosophy of exploitation to one of planning and apply- ing sustained yield management and orderly utilization.,' Thus wrote Senator John H. Bankhead in transmitting to Congress the long-heralded report of the Joint Congressional Committee on Forestry. The letter of transmittal, dated March 24, 1941, suggests that ,,the knowledge necessary to accomplish this transition is as varied and com_ plex as are the forest conditions and their economic and social relations."

More notable for its recommendations to Congress than for its factual findings, the Committee recommends that the authorization for cooperative protection against fire on private and state owned forest lands be increased from $2,500,000 to $10,000,000.

Without suggesting direct federal intervention to achieve that forest economy which will put to more intensive use one-third of our total land area, the Committee recommends that the States be given three to five years in which to pass legislation providing adequate forest fire protection systems and regulations governing minimum forestry practices. For encouragement along these lines, the Committee intimates that allotments to the States, above those generally available under the present Clarke-McNary authorization of $2,500,000 be limited to states whose legislation and administration proves satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture. '

Commenting on the Committee's Report, Dr. Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, said:

"The significant fact in the report of the Committee is that it chooses to adhere to the proven policy of federal cooperation. It proposes a pattern of federal, state and private action, which within 10 years should see the .forest problem' well on the way to a satisfactory nation-wide solution.

"In discharging itself from further activities the Committee has apparently done so in an atmosphere friendly to the forest industries and considerate of their difficult problems. The report will draw some fire. But the recommendations, if followed, will sustain what we have always thought to be a good guide, namely, ,Good forestry is a local matter.' I see no tenable grounds for opposing the principle that the United States government determine the conditions on which, and the purposes for which new authorizations of appropriations of federal funds are made. f befieve, however, that Congress should not seek to put new strings on authorizations made fifteen years ago and I do not think it will do so.,,

No formal legislation is proposed by the Committee, but the sixteen recommendations which complete the report, provide the basis for a national forest program in which the keynote continues to be largely one of federal cooperation rather than federal domination. In addition to the proposal for increased federal participation in cooperative forest fire control, these recommendations include provision for cooperative sustained yield units to encourage reciprocal management of more or less contiguous tracts of private timber and national forest lands; provision for long-term, low interest loans to forest and naval stores operators; more adequate support of research in forest products and forest management; continuation of the present program of land acquisition for national forests, together with more tangible federal encouragement to the States for the purchase of lands for State forests; and other matters of national significance.

The report is signed by all members of the Joint Congressional Committee on Forestry whose membership is as follows:

Senator John H. Bankhead, 2d, of. Alabama, chairman; Representative Hampton P. Fulmer, of South Carolina, vice chairman; and Senators Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina; D. Worth Clark, of Idaho; William J. Bulow, of South Dakota; Chares L. McNary, of Oregon; and Repr€sentatives Wall Doxey, of Mississippi; Daniel A. Reed, of New York; and Harry L. Englebright, of California; and Walter M. Pierce, of Oregon.

NLMA Modernizing Booklet -- How to Put Committees Scheduled to Meet New Life and Style in the "Old Homestead" in Washington M.y 8-15

Washington, March 25-Modernizing business can be created on almost any residential street in America !

To help lumber merchants generate more of this kind of "plus" butter-and-bread trade, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association has just released. a new 24page, two-color suggestion booklet, illustrating how 18 common types of 25 to l@-year-old American homes may be successfully and profitably modernized. The new booklet is entitled "There Is Plenty of Life Left in the Old Homestead."

The booklet has been so prepared that the outside back cover is available for the .individualized message of any lumberman or builder who may imprint there either a full page advertisement, or his name, address, telephone number, etc.

While copies of the new booklet, which also contains suggestions for interior modernizing, are available without charge to interested lumbermen, a charge of loc per copy is made for single copies sent to non-lumber individuals. The quantity price to lumber men is the printing cost-or 6c each.

Closets and Storage Spaces

Closets and Storage Spaces, Farmers' Bulletin No. 1865, is a new bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture. In recent years the Department has had many inquiries from prospective builders on problems covered in this publication.

The contents include clothes closets-fittings for clothes closets, coat closets, and bedroom closets; linen closets; bathroom storage; kitchen storage; food storage rooms; dining-room storage; living-room storage; cleaning closets; sewing closets; farm business center, and out-ot-door storage. Detailed sketches of the various closets and storage spaces are shown. Retail dealers will find this publication a valuable addition to their office libraries.

The bulletin can be secured from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., as long as the free supply lasts. When this supply is exhausted copies may be obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., for 5 cents per copy, in coin.

Washington, D. C., April 2-Spring meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association has been scheduled for May 14 and 15 at the Association Offices in Washington and will be accompanied this year by three other meetings of great industry importance. They are the Manufacturers Committee on Lumber Standardization, scheduled to meet at the Association Offices on May 8, 9 and l0; the Committee on Forest Conservation to meet at the Mayflower Hotel, May 12 and 13; and the Special Committee on Administration of the Wage-Hour Law, May 12 and 13 at the Mayflower Hotel.

Much urgent business iS before the Association at this time. Amendments to lumber standards and changes in their applications to grading rules and inspection services have become necessary. The Committee on Forest Conservation will wish to consider the problem of national forest policy and prospective Federal and State legislation in the light of recommendations now made in Congress by the Joint Congressional Forestry Committee. The announced intention of the Administrator of the Wage-Hour Law to appoint an industry committee brings new problems before the Association's Special Committee on this subject.

The regular Executive Committee mqeting is scheduled so that it may act on recommendations which result from these other conferences. Important other general business on the agenda of the Executive Committee will be the proposed extension of the Public Relations Program and the cooperation of the lumber and timber products industries with the National Defense agencies. Exact schedules have not yet been developed for these meetings.

NEVADA LUMBERMEN SEE FIR.TEX PLANT

Gordon Hennessy, general sales manager of Nevada Lumber Co., Reno, Nevada; Hillman Brown, yard superintendent at Reno; Ernest L. Gilbert manager of this company's Carson City yard and Jack Purdue, manager of the Minden yard, recently paid a visit to the plant of the Fir-Tex Insulating Board Co. at St. Helens, Ore.

They were guests on the trip of Ernest If. Bacon, manager of Fir-Tex of Northern California, San Francisco, and made the journey to the Northwest in his car.

A French Provincicl home oI frcrme which is most outstqnding. The lriendly qppeal oI the exterior qnd the prcrcticcl lectures worked out in the floor plcn, prove thcrt careIul cttention to detail will grectly enhcnce the attractiveness cnd vclue of any home.

The working blue print plcrns lor this home ccn be lurnished by thb E. M. Dernier Service Burecu, 3443 Fourth Avenue, Los Angeles, Calilornicr, whose plcnning depcrrtment is under the direct supenision ol Wm. E. Chadwick, Registered Structurcl Engineer.

Sign \fa ge Agreement

Tacoma, April 25-Negotiators for the A.F.L. Lumber and Sawmill Workers lJnion and Washington and Oregon lumber companies signed an agreement last night providing for a 7f-cent increase in hourly wages in mills and logging camps of the Pacific Northwest.

The agreement, negotiators said, will affect 25,W workers.

Philip Frieder Visits Los Angeles

Philip Frieder, Frieder Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio, spent a few days in Los Angeles last week where he conferred with R. S. Osgood, manager of their Lumber Division. Mr. and Mrs. Frieder left San Francisco, April 25, on the S. S. President Garfield for Manila.

Frieder Brothers own the Reynaldo Lumber Company at Manila. They also are owners of the La Helena Cigar Co., largest manufacturers of Philippine cigars, and employ over 6000 people in their cigar factory in Manila.

BUYS CLEMENT LUMBER CO. YARD AT ORANGE

The Frank Curran Lumber Company, which operates yards at Santa Ana and Huntington Beach, has purchased the Clement Lumber Company at Orange.

W. E. Clement, the owner, operated the yard for the past twenty years. He was manager of the yard for the Griffith Lumber Company from 1906 to 1921, when he purchased the business from the Griffith firm. Mr. Clement is retiring from the lumber business but will continue to make his home in Orange where he has lived for the past thirty-five years.

Frank Curran, widely known Southern California lumberman, is the owner of the Frank Curran Lumber Company.

House Repairs

Improvement in single-family houses constituted the purpose of three out of every four modernization loans reported by financial institutions last year for insurance under Title I of the National Housing Act.

Back From Humboldt County

Frank McNulty of McNulty Lumber Company, San Bruno, Calif., has returned from a business and pleasure trip to Humboldt County points.

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