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one hundred and twenty dollars to a total of one thousand dollars." 



FouitTH : Compensation as provided in this act will not be paid it 

 an employe is injured by reason of his own 'serious and wilful miscon- 

 duct," but if the injury of the emploj'e is due to the 'serious and wilful 

 misconduct of his employer,' or 'of any person regularly entrusted with 

 and exercising the powers of superintendence,' the sums enumerated are 

 to be doubled. 



Fifth : Every employe is compelled to keep a record of injuries re- 

 ceived by his employes in the course of their employment, and to report 

 the same in detail within forty-cisht hours of the occurrence under 

 penalty of a fine of .f CiO for each failure so to do. 



Sixth: The act provides in considerable detail for the establishment 

 of an industrial accident board (so-called), which is given general super- 

 vision over all parties affected by the act, and which Is clothed with 

 quasi judicial powers. 



Seventh: The act establishes also a mutual liability insurance com- 

 pany to which employers are entitled to subscribe, and which company, 

 together with e.xisting liability insurance companies, is authorized to 

 insure against tlie liability created in the act. The conditions under 

 which the company can begin and can continue to do business are set 

 forth In detail In the act. 



I oppose this law, believing it a most unjust and iniquitous 

 piece of legislation. The Senate of the United States has before 

 it peace treaties to refer international disputes to arbitration. 

 The lumber associations have committees to arbitrate disputes 

 between its members. Business men are more than ever using 

 this method instead of going to law, I know of no reason why an 

 arbitration board could not be created to settle accident cases, I 

 leave it to your imagination what it would mean to one who had a 

 number of employes hurt. The bill affecting railroads, it is esti- 

 mated, adds twenty-five per cent to their cost in accident cases, 

 or a great many million dollars. This added expense to the common 

 carriers must necessarily raise rates. Lumber stands high on the 

 list and will have to pay no small share of this added expense. 



WOODLAND TAXATION, PREVENTION OF FOREST 

 FIRES, ETC, 

 There are other matters of interest to lumbermen, such as taxa- 

 tion of woodlands, prevention of forest fires, acquiring land for 

 the Appalachian and White mountain tracts, and the chestnut 

 blight. These have all had attention. 



Judge Colston at Cincinnati a few weeks ago made some remarks 

 on the duty of business men and associations, that seem to be so 

 pertinent and timely now that I quote from them as follows: 



I believe that the law and business ought to go hand in hand. I do 

 not believe that you want to allow, or that our people in the United Statis 

 ought to allow the law to tyrannize over business, and I do not feel also 

 that the law ought to allow business to tyrannize over it. There is some 

 happy adjustment to be made, and 1 think it is the part and the duty of 

 our business men to see that their reprosentatives wlio represent them in 

 the legislative departments of our government should appreciate that ihi> 

 law Is made for man, and man is not made for the law. 



It Is my opinion that there are too many lawyers in the houses of 

 Congress who want to make laws on business subjects of which they 

 know nothing. There ought to be fewer lawyers in Congress and more 

 business men. All of this is a matter within your control. These 

 politicians who are in the House of Ucprescntatives and in the Senile 

 will come <lown, my friends, as soon as Ihey know where public sentiment 

 is. All you have to do is to make public sentiment, put It in the right 

 channel and mould it according to what it ought to be. 



How can you expect the House of Representatives with the number 

 of men In It that it always has, to know anything about what the business 

 ne«ds of the country are when there arc two-thirds of them, as I believe, 

 lawyers who never conducted a business enterprise in their lives, and 

 many of them In all probability never had a business lawsuit, never had 

 a business client? What do they know about the great industrial business 

 of this country? And I tell you, my friends, that our business Internsls 

 arc the heart of the country, and there ought to he law-makers that know 

 what the business Interests In this country require, and who have the 

 ability to provide the kind of legislation that will make buslncs.s grow, 

 not make business die. 



I think It timely that we should be warned against the campaign of 

 unrest that socialist speakers and agitators and writers are carrying on 

 throughout the country. The crowds are listening to these people, most 

 of them being entertaining and superficial, and a gospel of discontent 

 and unrest Is thus being propagated to a dangerous degree. A question 

 we must ask ourselves, as business men. Is "What are we going to do 

 about It?" In my judgment it Is a very pertinent question, and I com- 

 mend It to your serious consideration, and If these questions are left to 

 the business men of the country I do not fear the result. I want to take 

 this occasion to champion the honor, the integrity, the fairness, the loyally 

 and patriotism of the groat army of business men of this country ; I have 



known many of them for twenty years or more and I waut to say that I 

 am proud of the business men of my land. 



The time is coming, however, and in fact now is, when the business 

 man must take a more important part in our political life. It we had 

 more business men in our legislative hails you would not now find on our 

 statute books laws that are used as a mighty instrument of torture by 

 the demagogues against the business of the country. Do you imagine that 

 a law that goes hunting to prosecute men of business, representing such 

 wide and varied iuteresis as they do in this country, will have no harm- 

 ful effect on the business of the country? The astounding thing is that 

 the results have not been even more disastrous. Every nation has at 

 some time In its history tried in some way this paternal meddling with 

 its business, and every one of them has plunged its commerce into dis- 

 aster. 



The history of the world shows that under the freest and least meddle- 

 some governments, the greatest progress has been made, and it is really 

 amazing that the American people have suffered so long — men with no 

 experience or capacity or knowledge of business to determine how the 

 commerce of the country shall be managed. 



RECOMMENDATIONS 



PiR.ST: That this associutiou heartily endorse the National Tariff 

 Commission Association's recommendations to create a permanent 

 non-partisan tariff commission. 



Second: That this association oppose any legislation looking to 

 making uniform the hours of labor throughout the United States. 



THIRD: That this association oppose the bill known as "A bill 

 to provide an exclusive remedy and compensation for accidental 

 injuries resulting in disability or death to employes of common 

 carriers by railroads engaged in interstate or foreign commerce 

 or in the District of Columbia and for other purposes." 



Fourth : That the committee on legislation of this association 

 shall have the authority, subject to the approval of the executive 

 committee, to favor or oppose, as the case may be, legislation 

 affecting the lumber interests. 



Export Trade for January 



The report of lumber exports from the United States for the 

 mouth of .January shows a considerable falling off from the cor- 

 responding month of a year ago. This is not at all remarkable 

 owing to the very serious weather conditions that have prevailed 

 in this country during January, and from the fact that bottoms 

 in which to make export shipments have been very scarce, and 

 but a very small portion of the tonnage offered was accepted by 

 the vessels in this trade. 



The value of logs exported in January, 1912, was $278,471 as 

 compared with $314,701 for the corresponding month in 1911, In 

 hewn and sawed timber the value fell from $930,175 to $483,152, 

 However, in boards, planks and deals there was a considerable 

 increase, the quantity for 1911 being about 148,500,000 feet, aggre- 

 gating a value of $3,119,073, while in January, 1912, there were 

 over 171,500,000 foot sliipped with a value of $3,768,356. 



Canadian lumber exports still continue the largest item, with the 

 United Kingdom a good second; Argentina, third; Cuba, fourth. 

 South American countries are now using more lumber from the 

 United States than Continental Europe. 



Approved Recipe for Whitewash 



The Lumbermen's Underwriting Alliance of Kansas City reit- 

 erates the recommendation that a thorough cleaning of all wood- 

 work of sawmills and factories, and then the application of a 

 generous coat of whitewash spells very much for decreased fire 

 risk. The Alliance suggests tlie following approved recipe for the 

 making of whitewash: 



Slack one-half busliel of lime with boiling water, keeping it 

 covered during the process. Strain it, and add a peck of salt dis- 

 solved in warm water; three pounds ground rice, put in boiling 

 water and boiled to a thin paste; one-half pound powdered Spanish 

 wliiting, and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water. Mix 

 these well togetlier and let the mixture stand for several days. 

 Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle or portable furnace, and, 

 when used, put it on as hot as possible, with a painter's white- 

 wash brush. 



