LAiNDON, WAUSAU. WIS., 

 DENT. 



VlCE-PRESl 



EDWARD HINES, CHICAGO, ILL., MEMBER 

 BOARD OP GOVERNORS. 



L. RICHARDSON, ALPENA, MICH., 

 BER BOARD OF GOVERNORS. 



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througb the canal, and the probable permanent improvement of (he 

 great Mississippi river and its tributaries. 



I hope to see the time when a national standard size will mean tbo 

 same linished size wherever it is manufactured in the United States. If 

 this size is deviated from, the consumer must pay the cost. Strong com- 

 petitive conditions will of course modify this in a measure, but economy, 

 conservation and profits demand it. 



We can only bring about a better understanding in these matters by 

 conference and continued effort. The elevation ojf the bu.siness to a 

 higher plane of commercial enterprise and the elimination of trade .leal- 

 ousies which belittle the efforts of a competitor. 



The co-operation we give our secretary in his efforts to secure statistical 

 information will determine the value of these statistics. I nr.iintain that 

 the collective data this association can assemble will do more toward gov- 

 ernment co-operation and an enlightened public opinion than any literature 

 we can spread. 



Facts and figures will show the vast army that is being fed and the 

 paucity of lumber barons. 



This association has co-operated with the Department of Forestry and 

 should so continue. The very cordial support our membership gave to 

 the establishment of forest schools must always stand out as a shining 

 example of liberality. 



The proper care and protection of this great asset affects the , entire 

 present and future population, and it is only through these larger national 

 associated efforts that we can be effective. 



The many questions of the tarilF. taxation and conservation which 

 affect not only the life of the trees but the perpetuity of water supply, 

 the vast irrigation problems and the very habitation of man. — all these 

 must be watched and legislated for. 



The matter of freight rates, railroad claims, car equipment, both for 

 lumber and logs, are matters that have national significance, and can only 

 be so approached with the commissions organized and government r-^uu- 

 lations now in force. 



One section will profit by the experience of another, and the benefits 

 are mutual. 



I linow of no more effective conservation argument than a permanent 

 flat car stake, both for logs and lumber, and it will have to come. 



We can always find' more work to do than we have money to spend, and. 

 conversely, the work we do is determined by the money we collect. 



For some time we have been actively at work on an advertising cam- 

 paign, but its very inception and magnitude appalled its ardent supporters. 

 The possibilities are apparent, but no steps involving the .issociation in 

 financial disaster could l>e inaugurated by a sane board, and no steps 

 to carry on any worlv of this kind could be undertaken without the money 

 in hand. 



The very conception of the work, however, had its beneficent results 

 and the renewed Individual effort and the work of local associations have 

 proved the wisdom of the undertaking. 



I do not feel that any board of directors should be placed in the 

 embarrassing position of re,gistering the vote of their represented asso- 

 ciations, and then have the integrity of that vote questioned. 



If we are to expend money, it must be for the collective benefit of all. 

 We arc busy as an association in advertising and talking wood and its uses. 



Our fight is against substitutes, and we have, by the establishment of 

 creosote plants, so prolonged the life of our product that the argument of 

 cement or rock is of no avail. 



We are true conservationists because, by prolonging the life of our 

 timber by the use of creosote we perpetuate our lumber. At all events, 

 we greatly prolong its life and thereby decrease the waste by rot and decay. 



We are educating the people to believe in a creosoted paving block, Ihc 



best and most permanent paving ever laid. 



Business conditions greatly temper the views of individuals as to adver- 

 tising and the necessities of showing the consumer what can be accom- 

 plished with wood. 



The association can have no better evidence of the loss to the industry 

 in the uses of common lumber than in following the arguments in the 

 ■Pridham" case. — paper boxes against wooden retainers. 



The trouble is, we self-satisfied lumbermen go to sleep regarding the 

 possibilities of our product, and livelier, keener and more vigorous pushers 

 of other commodities take our business away from us. Then we get busy 

 and go after it, — all at how much cost? 



The business sentiment of the country has finally crystallized into an 

 organization of which this association is a member, in the Chamber of 

 Commerce of the United States of America. Our own people seem to 

 have been slow in adopting this progressive plan, so satisfactory in for- 

 eign countries, of providing this form for full and open discussion of the 

 needs of the business interests of the country. Heretofore, it has been 

 every industry for itself, regardless of the other fellow. I believe this 

 broader view of our national business problems is the highest mark of 

 patriotic American citizenship. Our government officials must in this 

 way secure some indications of the business needs of the country. 



If we falter in this effort and neglect our opportunities, the advocates 

 of industrial war and political turmoil will ladle out to the American 

 people anything they elect from the political soup-tureen. 



Labor and capital are vitally concernerl in the prosperity of our indus- 

 tries. Neither will support for long a bankrupt concern and both must 

 share alike in results. 



Stockholders and employes are of one mind and perfectly human in 

 looking for these results, measured arithmetically in dollars and cents. 



There is no question more momentous than the problem which concerns 

 the rank and file of all industry, and those of us who must continually 

 figure to meet the pay-roll and the dividend are more concerned in the 

 enactment of sane legislation than the political demagogue or the most 

 ardent labor unionists. 



The vast army of American industry requires such men as are leading 

 and have led the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Harry A. 

 Wheeler, and the National Association of Manufacturers, .John Kirby, Jr.. 

 to withstand the dynamite of a misguided minorit.v. What w"e need is 

 industrial peace and a fair distribution of the comforts of life. 



We have a great industry to foster and protect, a calling worthy of 

 the most strenuous efforts, and a business that affects the lives of more 

 cmplo.ves than any other in the I'nited States. 



Lumber manufacturing takes the raw product and continually adds 

 labor to it. which finally represents by far the greatest percentage of its 

 value. 



We should rrmccrn ourselves as much nationally about the welfare of 

 our employes as of the stumpage itself. 



Efficient labor and proper equipment means as much in the final cost to 

 Ihe consumer as the log itself. 



I bespeak for this great Industry, and llircuigh this association, your 

 continued effort on Ihese lines. 



It is gratifying indeed to find in our annual gatherings that wonderful 

 spirit of good fellowship w-hich binds us together in friendly relationship. 



Let us continue to strive in supporting and uplifting an industr.v to 

 which we are giving our best efforts, and which in turn is providing us 

 with toil and trouble, peace and comfoit, lifi', and whatever of quiet 

 luxury we en.ioy. 



Supplementing his address, Mr. Griggs said, in regard to the 

 employers' lialiility act of Washington, that during the eighteen 



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