National Directors Meet at Longvi€w, Wash.

At the midsummer meeting of the directors of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association held at Longview, Wash. on August 8, the directors unanimously ap,proved the proposed Association forestry program which urges Congrtss to make Federal appropriations under the Clark-McNary Law equal to those appropriations of certain states and private co-operators; that the study of.forest taxation and forest insurance be carried on to completion; and that the whole program as contemplated by Congress under the McSweeney-McNair Law be completed as soon as possible. The directors endorsed the National Certified Shipment Plan which requires that a tally card or shipment cerfificate be placed in gach shipment of lumber, giving a grade and piece tally of the car contents.

- E. L. Carpenter, Minneapolis, Minn., president of the Association presided at the meeting. The financial report was made by secretary-manager Wilson Compton, who also submitted recommendations regarding future Association activities. W. F. Shar.v, trade extension manager, then followed with his quarterly report. F. O. Perkins of the J. Walter Thompson Co., the Association's advertising agency, reviewed the advertising campaign during the,past year and outlined the 1930 advertising program. W. T' Murray, Rochelle, La., reported for the Treated Wood Service Bureau, and the report for the National Committee on Wood Utilization was made by John Blodgett of Grand Rapids, M-ich. Judge William S. Bennet, Chicago, talked on Federal\axation regarding the tax rate of individuals as compared with the tax rate of corporations.

In the proposed Association forestry program the subject of commercial forestry is treated as follows:

Lumber manufacturers should stand ready to extend their practice of commercial forestry as far and as fast as dependably ascertained economic facts and prospects will warrant. The National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, through its board of directors, therefore, urges upon each timber land owner, who has not already done so, that he make or cause to be made a thorough economic study and careful analysis of the forest growing possibilities of his land holdings and that, in his future program of land use, management or disposal he be guided by the facts thus developed and by sound afifirmative conclusions properly drawn therefrom. To aid in such studies the association offers the facilities of its forestry and other depart- ments. It will put interested forest land owners in touch with persons or agencies available and believed to be most competent to conduct such studies. It urges the regional associations severally to join it in so doing.

The following directors attended the meeting:

West Coast Lumbermen's Association-A. C. Dixon, Eugene, Ore.; C. D. Johnson, Portland, Ore.; J. D. Tennant, Longview, Wash.; Clyde Walton, Everett, Wash.; M. C. Woodard, Silverton, Ore.; F. R. Titcomb, Tacoma, Wash.

California White & Sugar Pine Manufacturers' Association-R. E. Danaher, Detroit, Mich.; H. D. Mortensen, San Francisco, Calif.; B. F. Scott, San Francisco, Calif.

Western Pi4e Manufacturers' Association-W. S. Rosenberry, Gibbs, Idaho; J. P. Hennessey, Minneapolis, Minn.; W. C. Geddes, Winchester, Idaho.

Southern Pine Association-O. O. Axley, Warren, Ark.; R. B. White, Kansas City, Mo.; W. T. Murray, Rochelle, La.

Northern Pine I\{anufacturers' Association-H. C. Hornby, Cloquet, Minn.; S. L. Coy, Cloquet, Minn.

Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association-J. R. Black, Jacksonville, Fla.

Hardware Manufacturers' Institute-M. W. Stark, Columbus, Ohio; W. E. Delaney, Columbia, Miss.

Western Forestry & Conservation Association-E. T. Allen, Portland, Ore.

Directors at Large-G. W. Dulany, Jr., Chicago; W. S. Bennet, Chicago; E. G. Griggs, Tacoma, Wash. ; E. L. Carpenter, Minneapolis, Minn.; J. M. White, Weed, Calif.; W. Leuthold, Deel Park, Wash.; R. A. Long, Kansas City, Mo.; F. E. Weyerhaeuser, St. Paul, Minn.; H. B. Hewes, Jeanerette, La.

Northern.Hemlock & Hardwood ManufacturerS' Association-O. T. Swan, Oshkosh, Wis.

The executive session of the trade extension committee was held on August 9. R. B. White, Kansas City, Mo., presided. W. F. Shaw, trade extension manager, gave his report, and F. O. Perkins outlined the advertising activities for the coming year.

"Planning for Prosperity" was an address made by Kenneth Smith, secretary of the Lumber Dealers Association of Los Angeles. In referring to the opportunities pre-