Forestry Director Hears Forestry Advocates

Washington, C)ct. 22.-The claims of forestry for Federal financial support were convincingly presented by representatives of various forestry groups at a hearing on October 18 before Col. J. Clawson Roop, Director oi the Budget. Every speaker emphasized the vital present need for adequate fire protection, for pushing the foiest taxation inquiry, and forestry research. The session, announced to last forty-five minutes, was extended by Col. Roop considerably over an hour.

Major Barrington Moore. representing the Ecological Soctety of America, who stressed the present importance of the entire forestry program, was followed by Wilson Comp- ton, secretary and manag'er of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, who spoke in behalf of the lumber industry. .Mr. Compton urged the necessity for increased 3qtp-r_opria_tions, as authorized under the Clar[e-McNary and McNary-McSweeney bills. He represented the lumbermen ot the- country as anxious to see the government concentrate itself on a fire protection and research program that will lead to proper forestry operations as a wiole-and thus leave lumbermen intelligently able to care for their own lands. In _this regard Mr. Compton said that g1,000,000 tor research now would do more good than $100,000,000 for the purchase of land fifty years"from now.

.-P.1. Jg_n"__W. _!y--ers, representative in Congress from Walla Walla, Washington, - district and memb"er of the

House Committee on igricultural appropriations, empha- sized the necessity foi adequate fire irotection of all sized the -necessity for- fire irotection classes of forest lands, including National'Forests.. He has recently returned from a visii to 13 National Forests in the West and many large private lumber operations. ., Cgl. Roop q-uoted Chief Forester Stuart as representing the lumber industry as strongly favoring an active forestr! program.

J. D. crLES TO VrSrT CALTFORNTA

_ J. D, Giles, North Tonawanda, New york, vice presi- dent of the Creo-Dipt Company, fnc. will arrive in'Cali- fornia around the fiist of Novlmber. He will visit Los {.ngeles and San Francisco, where he will confer with officials- oi th_e Hipolito Company and the Santa Fe Lumber Co., their California reprejentitives. perry Dame, Kansas 9i!y, Mo., western sales manager, will -accompany Mr. Giles on his trip.

Attends Game At Palo Alto

Howell Baker, California panel & Veneer Co.. geles, attended the Southern California-Stanford game at Palo Alto on Saturday, October 26.

Joseph Hyde Pratt of the Southern Forestry Congress spoke in favor of Federal and State acquisition of land but emphasized particularly the importance of solving the forest taxation problem. Speaking for his own state, North Carolina, he pictured its favorable timber-growing conditions and expressed the opinion that with improved fire protection service and a solution of the tax problemr pr?ctically all timberland owners in the state, and in the South as a whole, would soon find it profitable to go into the cultivation of timber. Speaking for North Carolina, he referred to the constitutional amendment now pending which would permit the segregation of forest lands from other classes of lands and thus set up a system of yield taxes for forest lands.

An increased appropriation was urged under the ClarkeMcNary law, of $452,000, bringing the total for the fiscal year 1930 up to $2,000,000. Supporting a former recommendation of the N.L.M.A. at the time of the McSweeney-McNary Act of t928, that the annual appropriations for forest research be increased 10 per cent each year until the maximum of $3,575,000 was reached, an increase was strongly urged for the fiscal year 1931 to a total of $1,897,00O.

Recommendations were made for an increase of $50,000 in annual appropriations for the work of the U. S. Weather Bureau and of $40,000 a year for the work of the Bureau of Entomology in forest insect research.

The Society of American Foresters rvas represented at the hearing by Arthur C. Ringland; American Tree Association by Tom Gill; Pine Institute of America by C. F. Speh; Society for the Protection of Nerv Hampshire Forests by Philip W. Ayres; American Farm Bureau Federation by W. R. Ogg; National Parks Association by Robert Sterling Yard; American Engineering Council by L. W. Council, and the Forestry Department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association bv Franklin W. Reed.

A. J. RUSSELL A LOS ANGELES VTSTTOR

A. J. Russell, Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, made a short business trip to Los Angeles the latter part of the month. While in the Southland, he made his headquarters at the company's Los Angeles office where he conferred with Bruce Burlingame, their Southern California representative.

A. B. HAMMOND VISITS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

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A. B. Hammond, San Francisco, president of the Hammond Lumber Co., recently spent a few days in Los Angeles where he was looking over their Southern California operations. Mr. Hammond made his headquarters :rt the company's Los Angeles plant.