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I'lliiR'Uiy ; make aiiv iliaiiKi's iioiesj-arv I'ur this imiposo. but imiko 

 no changes that arc not c-learly I'alled for in the publie interest, 

 t'arry out your plans for the development and increasing use of the 

 forests: but above all, make each forest work for community up- 

 building and local as well as general welfare. We must always have 

 iu mind the men and women who are building up a new country and 

 laying the foundations lor ]irosperous. thriving commonwealths. We 

 must try to study their needs and see where and how the forests can 

 help them. But we must not cease to guard effectively against the 

 evils of private privilege and mjonopolistic control of resources now 

 the property of the public." 



The chief contest of the congress was precipitated by a report from 

 the water powers committee. There were, first and last, three re- 

 ports presented. One by tlie majority, another by the minority, and 

 a third as a compromise. The third was finally adopted. The debate 

 on these resolutions developed into a contest between the state's 

 rights forces on the one side, and their opponents on the other. The 

 i.irnier demanded what amounted to a surrender on the part of the 

 ,'iivernment of all its forest, mineral and grazing lands to the states 

 in which they lie; and this would give the water power sites and irri- 

 gation projects to the states individually. 



The other side of the controversy included those who insisted that 

 the government should hold what it has and administer it for the 

 t'enefit of the whole peojile, thereby guaranteeing that this valuable 

 property would not fall into the hands of speculators who are seeking 

 private gain at the exjjense of the pnblic. 



The debate was sharp and vigorous, and when the vote was taken 

 the result showed a substantial victory for the opponents of the 



state's rights forces. The vote stood -134 for federal control, l.")l 

 against. 



The election of ofiScers resulted as follows: 



I'ltEsiDENT — Cliarles Lathrop Pack, reelected. 



VicE-PnesiDE.NT — Mrs. Emmons Crocker. 



Executive Sechet.vuy — Thomas R. Shipp, reelected. 



Uecording Skcbetakv — N. C. McLeod (a new ofBcc). 



TitEASLUEU — Dr. Honr.v S. Drinker. 



The congress adopted a series of resolutions on forestry in sub- 

 stance as follows: 



The Congress deplores the luck of uniform State activity in forest work 

 and urges the crystallization of an effort in the lagging States to secure 

 the creation of forest departments. 



liecommendations for liberal appropriation In all States for forest Are 

 prevention and close cooperation by State officers with the Federal and 

 private protective agencies. 



An annual appropriation by Congress for the continuation of the Weeks 

 law for Federal cooperation with the States. 



Simplifying and shortening the process of purchase under the Weeks 

 act. 



That Federal troops be made systematically available for controlling 

 forest fires. 



Commending the work of the Federal Forest Service and urging Con- 

 gress to make liberal provision for such work and to combat any attempt 

 10 bri'ak down its efficiency. 



Kecommendations to the State legislatures to secure moderate taxation 

 for forest lands and taxation upon forest crops only when the crop is 

 harvested. 



Suggestion to forest owners to study and emulate the many cooperative 

 patrol associations and endorsing every means of bringing lumbermen and 

 the public more closely together. 



Commending the work of Philippine Forestry Bureau and endorsing the 

 proposed Forest Products Exposition. 



The invitation extended by San Francisco to hold the congress in 

 that city in 1915 during the Panama Exposition was accepted. 



I. W. W. Pronounced a Failure 



A close study of the methods and organization of the Industrial 

 Workers of the World by Professor K. F. Hoxie of the University 

 of Chicago has convinced him that that organization, instead of 

 being the grim, brooding power generally pictured in the popular 

 imagination, is a body utterly incapable of strong, efficient, united 

 ,'^ctiou or the attainment of results of a permanent character. Accord- 

 ing to Professor Hoxie, the I. W. W. is weak not only in membership 

 and organic unity but possesses no financial resources in the slightest 

 degree adequate to advance and maintain its proposed organization 

 of the working classes or to consistently carry on any united assault 

 upon capital. Professor Hoxie says that the first significant fact 

 revealed by the eighth annual convention of the organization, held iu 

 Chicago in September, and iby its whole history, which claims as its 

 mission the organization of the whole working class for the over- 

 throw of capital, has failed utterly in its efforts to attach itself 

 jiermanently to any considerable body of men representing any section 

 of American workers. 



Professor Hoxie, in his article on the subject in the Journal of 

 Political Economy, says that the I. W. W. must depend for the bulk 

 of its membership on the least capable, least developed, lowest trained 

 and poorest paid of American workmen. To this may be added an 

 element made up of irresponsible atomists who are so constituted that 

 they accept as a direct challenge any evidence of authority. It is, of 

 course, an admitted fact that no American workman of any intel- 

 lectual capacity and constructive mind will knowingly affiliate him- 

 self permanently with an organization of revolutionary character such 

 as is the I. W. W., as long as there is a chance of bettering himself 

 through the gradual and legitimate development of improved systems 

 of working rules and conditions. 



Professor Hoxie 's statement that in spite of eight years of organiz- 

 ing effort and unparalleled advertisement, the official roll of the con- 

 vention indicated that its present paid-up membership does not exceed 

 14,000 men, surely offers a decided measure of satisfaction to 

 those employers who have been most active in opposing the teach- 

 ings of this altogether un-American organization. His conclusion 

 that viewing the situation in a reasonable light shows that the In- 

 dustrial Workers of the World as a positive social factor is more 

 an object of pathetic interest than of fear, is unquestionably based 

 on an intimate knowledge of the possible developnionts tluougli this 



orgauizatiou and surely should convince employers throughout the 

 country that they need not be unduly apprehensive in a general 

 way as to any far-reaching or lasting results that might come 

 through its activities. 



Experience Appreciated 



It has been said of the veneer industry that there were too 

 many irresponsible manufacturers turning out veneer for the good 

 of the more legitimate manufacturers. On paper the veneer business 

 figures out to offer an astonishingly real opportunity of returning 

 dollars for cents invested. It has been the custom among those not 

 conversant with conditions in the business to figure that if a lumber- 

 man can make so nuich jirofit out of a log, a \eueer man should 

 certainly make a profit equal to the lumberman's profit multiplied by 

 the niunber of times a sheet of veneer would be contained in a one- 

 inch board. This has been the theory, as stated, of some of the 

 irresponsible element, but it is gratifying to note the decreasing 

 number of such concerns engaged in the veneer business and the 

 corresponding increase of the efficiency of the better established 

 concerns. 



That this condition has been realized by veneer consumers is given 

 occasional proof, and in this connection the following letter received 

 by a prominent manufacturer of established reputation from a large 

 consumer of veneers is offered as evidence of this sentiment on the 

 part of the consuming trade: 



Oct. 1.3, 1913. 



Referring to your quotation of the 29th ult. (the same being for 7/32 

 gura veneer) we wish to have you advise us as to whether you manu- 

 facture this stock In your works at , or whether you are merely 



selling agents for another concern. We ask this for the reason that we 

 would have confidence in such stock as you would manufacture. Our 

 experience has been with some of the other mills, that they do not know 

 their business and we would not care to take in any stock from a mill 

 that Is passing through the experimental stage and would probably give 

 us interior stock. a tt> a 



An Easy Answer 



An exchange devotes nearly a column of its valuable space in 

 commenting on the disappearance of the bootjacks which at one 

 time are said to have numbered ten million in the United States 

 and which are now so scarce that many people do not know what a 

 bootjack is. It is claimed that their disappearance is wrapped in 

 mystery, since nobody can find out where they went. There is no 

 mysterv about it. The answer is easv: they were thrown at cats. 



