Forestry, Public Relations, Wage-Hour and Standardization Problems Hold Attention of Lumbermen at NLMA's Executive Meeting

Washington, May 16.The executive Committee of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association passed important new forestry resolutions, adopted a three-year plan for doubling the public relations efforts of the lumbermen, and elected a new vice - president before it adjourned here Thursday afternoon, May 15.

I. N. Tate, vicepresident of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company, St. Paul, and for many years active in Association affairs, was elected first vice-president to replace Edmund lfayes, former president of the West Coast Lumbermens Association, who had resigned because of the press of personal business.

Six problems of current importance to the lumber industry were considered by six standing committees. Meetings began May 8 and concluded with a session of the Executive Committee, Thursday, May 15. Committees which met were: Standardization, Wage-Hour,' Forestry, Public Relations, Advisory and Executive.

Thirty lumbermen attended the sessions which considered: (1) Revision of American Lumber Standards; (2) Forest conservation policies; (3) Wage-Hour law developments; 4) Co-operation with National Defense agencies; (5) Effect of consent decrees upon Association operation, and (6) Enlargement of the general public relations work of the Association.

Government officials concerned with emergency defense work and foreign relations under the Lend-Lease bill were the guests of the lumbermen at two luncheons on May 14 and 15. John W. Biggers, president of Libby-OwensFord Glass Co., and now a key OPM official, addressed the lumbermen with reference to the effects of defense production on civilian trade, at a Wednesday noon Metropolitan Club luncheon. Other officials who spoke at this time were: Blackwell Smith of the Priorities Section of the OPM; R. R. Deupree, general manager. Proctor & Gamble Company, and now of the Agricultural and Forest Products Division of the OPM; W. A. Summerhays and L. W. Smith, also of the Agricultural and Forest Products Division of the OPM.

Lynn Edminster of the State Department, Co-ordinator on Lend-Lease matters, spoke to the lumbermen on the implications of lumber export inherent in this legislation, at a Thursday noon luncheon. Carroll Wilson, Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the U. S. Department of Commerce, explained reorganization measures recently initiated in the Department of Commerce. Phillips A. Hayward, former chief of the Forest Products Division of that Department, and now chief of the Durable Materials lInit, explained to the lumbermen the new set-up for the handling of forest products interests within the Department.

The two-day session of the Association's Standards Committee discussed in detail the adjustment of American Lumber Standards to the consent decree now in force.

Wage-Hour, Forest Conservation, and Public Relations committees met simultaneously both May 12 and, 13. Wage-Hour discussion centered around the possible imminent appointment of an industry committee for lumber by the Wage-Hour Administrator, and the possibility of subsequent hearings for the establishment of minimum rate recommendations.

The establishment of forestry practices suited to continuous forest production was recognized as an obligation of forest owners and of the industries using forest products by the Executive Committee. To the end that individual responsibility for the long-time use of forest lands may be more generally accepted the Committee recommended that present educational efforts be augmented.

Following the advice of the Forest Conservation Committee the executive group recorded its belief that fire prevention and suppression are the major problems in forest conservation. It urged that maximum efforts be exerted with Congress toward increasing the authorization for cooperative fire protection to $10,000,000 as compared with the current federal contribution of $2,500,00O. In doing so it would maintain the cooperative principles established under the Clarke-McNary Act. At the same time, the Committee expressed a desire for the fuller development of the co-operative and educational approach to all national forestry problems.

The Executive Committee expressed the belief that where public regulation is necessary or desirable, the public controls should be applied and administered under State laws. ft was, however, not in sympathy with efforts to control forest operations on privately owned lands by federal authorities. Accordingly, in the belief that owners of forest land are basically desirous of achieving good forest practices, the Committee urged that laws dealing with the management of private forest lands be determined in each State by the people of the State without federal coercion.

Giving consideration to the recent report of the Joint Congressional Committee on Forestry, the Executive Committee urged an amendment to the Clarke-McNary Act to authorize annual appropriation of $10,000O00 for fire prevention and suppression "to be administered under the co-operative principles already provided by the Act"; supported the proposal to provide $1,000,000 annually for the co-operative control of forest insects and diseases; urged the enactment of legislation now before Congress to enable the sustained-yield management of intermingled public and private forest holdings; supported the enactment of legislation to assure financial contributions to local governments which would be as nearly as possible equal to the normal tax contribution, had the lands remained in private ownership; and recommended the early completion of the forest survey of the United States but with provision for its continuation in order to keep the data continually abreast of actual conditions

The Public Relations Committee. v/hich was authorized

by the lumbermen last November to prepare a plan for the improvement of lumber's relations with the general public, reported in detail and made three important recommendations which were accepted by the Executive Committee.

The Public Relations group asked for and received an authorization of $300,000 annually for the next three years for the purpose of more than doubling the current public relations activities of the Association. The Committee told of its four months of intensive investigation of this subject, during which time it had prepared and authorized a scientific survey of lumber's standing with the general public, by Opinion Research, fnc., Princeton, N. J. The Committee reported that this survey is now being conducted and that a report is expected around June loth.

The Committee also reported the employment of Selvage & Smith Public Relations Counsel, as general advisor on the administration of the enlarged program.

Lumbermen and staff representatives of several associations attending the meeting included: M. L. Fleishel, J. M. Brown, Earl McGowin, Edmund Hayes, Corydon Wagner, W. A. Holt, R. C. Winton, C. R. Macpherson, Walter Neils, I. N. Tate, James G. McNary, Fred K. Weyerhaeuser, C. C. Sheppard, Leonard G. Carpenter, Kenneth Walker, David J. Winton, Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., G. F. Jewett, A. G. T. Moore, Clyde Martin, Robert W. Maxwell, W. B. Greeley, S. V. Fullaway, Jr., Kenneth Smith, Wilson Compton, O. T. Swan, H.C.Berckes, Ben Ellis, C. E. Close, R. E. Broderick, and E. C. Hole.

Young Editor Interviewed on Radio

Dorothy Anne Hobson,l?-year-old editor of the Valsetz Star, Valsetz, Ore, was introdu,ced on the "We the People" program, May fr, on the Columbia network, by Herbert A. Templeton, president of the Herbert A. Templeton Lumber Co., Portland, Ore.

fnterviewed by Mr. Templeton, Dorothy told that when the Valsetz paper folded up three years ago she decided to start a paper of her own and asked Mr. Templeton to be her publisher. The paper, issued monthly, now has a circulation of more than 800, including many lumbermen.

The only advertisement carried by the paper is the one of Cobbs & Mitchell Co., the local sawmill. Dorothy writes the copy and does a good job in this department as well as in gathering and writing the news.

Don Blanding On Hawaii

Worthless treasures and priceless trash, Silver that gleams in the lightning's fash, Gold that the sunset spills on the sky, Gauzes and tissues in mists sailing by, Diamonds, a necklace of dew on the grass, Filigree silver in frost on the glass, Lace in Kiawe trees shadowing brooks, Riches a money-blind man overlooks, Perfumes of Araby scenting a lane, Opals that fall from the sky in the rain, Gold in the sands of a shallow lagoon, Platinum dripping cold-white from the moon, Silk in the rose petals flung on ttre breeze, Velvet in moss on the trunks of the trees, Day dreams and memories, moments acute, Thrice-distilled happiness-vagabonds loot.

Dust And Ashes

By Berton Braley

Once in a while in the public prints, Some well known party his molars gnashes, And says success is a lime, a quince, A combination of dust and ashes; That he is tired of praise and fame, He's bored to death with the spotlight's glare, But if you follow the calcium's flame, Youll find this Johnnie is standing therc.

The Game, he'll tell you, is seldom worth The tallow candle; but none the less Not all the cand,les around the earth, Would he accept for his own succesa. He's weary often-as who is not?

He's bored with glory-hear him abuse it; It's "dust and ashes" the fame he's got, But boy, Oh boy, how he hates to lose it.

I know some winners in fortune's strife, I know a lot of losers, too, Who has the pleasanter time in life?

I know the answer, and so do you. That "dust and ashes" remark is old, Success than failure is better far, For the dust is mostly the dust of goldAnd the ashes are those of a good cigar.

Thinking And Doing

It is much more difficult to live on the level than it is to think on the level. fn your mind you may have a pack of splendid ideals. You may admire fine actions, and abhor the other sort. But when it comes to putting these thoughts into practice, that is something else again. But it is better to think good and do bad, than to think bad and do bad, also. We're not altogether sure that it isn't better than it is to think bad and do good. That marks either a coward or a hypocrite. But if you really think right, a lot of your thinking is bound to crop out in your actions. Keep the old brain on the decent track, and it's apt to pull the rest of you along with it

Same Lessons

"My son," asked the proud father, "why do you always stay at the foot of the class?"

"But, Daddy," replied the boy, "it really makes no difference. Teacher gives us the same lesson at both ends.,'

A Literal Religionist

"Mother, how did that beautiful rainbow get in the sky?"

"My dear, that is just a lovely picture that God painted for all of us."

"Ma, Ffe did an awful good job with His left hand, didn't He?"

"His left hand, son?"

"Yes, Ma. You know, we read in Sunday School that Jesus sits on His right hand."

Familiar Things

It ig the familiar things that rest the heart, Blue, braided rugs, sunlit upon the foor, One pine, one star, the dusk has set apaft, And laughter filtering through a neighbor's door; A woodland path the feet have often followed, And kittens purring through the noon, and books; An old, old air upon a violin, The lovely birth and dying of the year, A house screne and orderly within, And someone speaking gentle words, and dear.

-Elaine Emans-