1908 



LUMBER DEALERS' CONVENTION 



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overflowed lands, and for building 

 waterways. 



Here we are facing a timber fam- 

 ine, with more than half a million 

 men out of employment, with $500,- 

 000,000 locked up in chimneys, bu- 

 reau drawers, and other hiding places 

 for money. Put the money in United 

 States postal savings banks at two per 

 cent; reinvest it in reclaiming lands, 

 building waterways, and acquiring 

 forests, that will pay four per cent an- 

 nually and give employment to almost 

 a million ide men. 



YALE FOREST SCHOOL 



R. C. Lippincott, of Philadelphia, 

 made a long statement describing the 

 splendid work of the Yale Forest 

 School, which was endowed by James 

 W. Pinchot (since deceased). Mr. 

 Lippincott made a plea for further 

 subscriptions for the support of the 

 chair, which is known as "The Yale 

 School of Lumbering and Applied 

 Forestry," saying that they wished to 

 raise $150,000. Mr. Lippincott also 

 discussed a change in the grade of 

 maple flooring. 



BANQUET AT THE NEW WILLARD 



The sessions of the Association were 

 brought to a brilliant close by a ban- 

 quet at the New Willard hotel. 



Mr. J. M. Hastings, of Pittsburg, 

 Pa., the retiring president, was toast- 

 master, and the speakers included 

 Speaker Cannon and Senator Knox, 

 both presidential possibilities. 



Contrary to precedent in the Lum- 

 ber Dealers' banquets, (but an agree- 

 able feature, nevertheless) the ladies 

 were invited to the banquet hall to 

 listen to the speeches and toasts. 



Senator Knox complimented the 

 lumbermen on their character and 

 achievements, mentioning the vastness 

 and value of their products, and that 



the area of production extends from 

 Washington to Florida, and from 

 Maine to southern California. 



"Unity of interest and unity of pur- 

 pose," said Senator Knox, "are what 

 constitute a meeting like this." The 

 Senator closed with a plea for unity, 

 commercial unity, and said that the 

 country should unite for the benefit 

 of the whole, and that one section 

 should not be pitted against another. 



Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives, re- 

 ceived an ovation when he appeared 

 in the banquet hall. He told of his 

 boyhood days in Indiana and com- 

 pared the conditions of those times 

 with the present. Mr. Cannon's re- 

 marks were in strong opposition to 

 President Roosevelt's aim of preserv- 

 ing carefully, by legislation and public 

 administration, the natural resources 

 of the country. Mr. Cannon ridiculed 

 the idea of any necessity for this, and 

 intimated that such agitation is based 

 on ignorance. A fuller mention of 

 Mr. Cannon's speech will be found in 

 the editorial department of this maga- 

 zine. 



RESOLUTIONS 



Strong resolutions were adopted, 

 binding the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association to co-op- 

 erate with the Forest Service in intro- 

 ducing the study of forestry in the 

 public schools, and pledging the sup- 

 port of the association to the bill pro- 

 viding for the establishment of Na- 

 tional Forests in the Southern Appa- 

 lachian and White ^Mountain regions. 

 The resolutions further urge the 

 prompt securing of a practical census 

 of the timber of the United States ; 

 endorse President Roosevelt's untir- 

 ing zeal in promoting forestry ; and 

 commend the Bureau of Entomology 

 in the Department of Agriculture for 

 its useful efforts in the investigation 

 of forest and timber insects. 



