N. L. M. A. Annual Meeting

(Continued from Page 20) responsible agencies and forest land owners, to encourage the estahlishment, development and maintenance of Tree Farms. In doing so it takes responsibility for working with the several regional associations, in promoting registering and recording Tree Farms, and looks to the pubIic Relations Dvision of American Forest Products Industries toward publicizing them so as to encourage wider application of the principles of sound forest management to properties in private ownership.

War Housing Construction Standards

The lumber industry, through the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, protests the Order of the War Production Board on War Housing Construction Standards, issued October 28, 194?, on the following grounds: l. The softwood products of this industry are now completely and drastically conserved for war requirements, ih the order of their need, by other Directives. These are specifically L-218 in respect to Douglas Fir and M208 in respect to other softwoods. To add a further restriction is both needless and harmful to maximum production.

2. It has been demonstrated that war requirements cannot take all the items and grades necessarily produced in the manufacture of softwood timber. Specifically, the lower grades of Boards and Dimension and higher grades of Flooring and Siding. Unless the unavoidable accumulations of these items can freely move, lumber production will be slowed up in many instances, especially at small sawmills.

Douglas Fir has been more drastically frozen, for war needs, than any other species of lumber. But even in this species the Lumber Procurement Agency in control has found it necessary to currently release a substantial part of the production of Douglas Fir in order to keep the mills clear for manufacturing the items which are needed for this war. This proportion will probably not be less than 25 per cent.

3. The Order needlessly freezes the present stocks of softwood flooring, sidings of other .types than bevel, and bevel siding over eight inches in width, now at sa$, mills and lumber yards. These stocks in many cases exceed the needs of war agencies and of civilian uses not covered by this Order; and there is no gain in forbidding their use in war housing.

4. No hardwood flooring is produced in the Pacific Coast and adjacent western states. The prohibition on the use of softwood flooring in this area induces needless cost in construction and .wasteful use of transportation.

5. This order will necessarily have far reaching effects upon building practices and choice of materials. The lumber industry is prepared to accept sacrifices in its competitive market position that are necessary to prosecute the war. It protests the Order in question as needlessly harmful and discriminatory. It believes that the channeling of its products into war requirements is already fully provided by other Directives.

I. N. Tate

The Lumber and Timber Products industries are under great obligation to I. N. Tate, who has, to our deep regret, retired from his activities in the National Lumber Manufacturers Association. No man in our industry in recent years has given more time or contributed greater talent to handling the difficult national problems of the lumber industry. We are deeply grateful.

War Bonds

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association heartily recommends to the industry the continued wholehearted support of the War Bond campaign and further recommends to company managements the desirability of immediately inaugurating among their own personnel a campaign to secure the voluntary purchase of bonds to the extent of ten per cent of the overall payroll.

Even though gas and tire rationing now limits our personal contacts we want to express the hoPe that aI!ofuswill still be together throughout and after the duratiolx.