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Sec. G. — The executive committee will meet on 

 the Hiird Thursday of July, September, Novem- 

 ber Jan v and March of each year, and 



oftener, if the business of the association re- 

 quires it. _ 



ARTICLE VI. 



ELECTION. 



Section 1. — An election of officers and !"•' 

 directors shall be held at each annual meeting 

 of the association. All elections shall be bj 

 ballot. Each member, whether an Individual, 

 firm or corporation, shall be entitled to but one 

 vote. A majority vote of the members present 

 shall be necessary to election 



<,.,. 2 The Secretary shall be elected at the 

 annual meeting by the Hoard of Managers, a 

 majority vote of the board being necessary to 



Sec 3. — Any vacancy occurring in the Board 

 of Managers 'shall be filled by said board at 

 any regular or called meeting. 

 ARTICLE VII. 



MEETINGS. 



Section 1.— This association shall meet on 

 the third Thursday of May of each year, this 

 meeting shall be known as the annual meeting, 

 and shall constitute the only regular meeting 

 of the association. A special meeting of the 

 association may be called by the President a 

 nnv time, upon a written request of two-thirds 

 of the members of the Board of Managers. All 

 the standing committees of the association shai, 

 hold annual meetings at the same time and 

 place as the association. When the President 

 calls a meeting of the Board of Managers or 

 a special meeting of this association, members 

 thill have at least thirty days' written notice 



0t Same - ARTICLE VIII. 



DUES. 



Section 1.— The dues of the National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association shall be *25 per yea. . 

 payable annually in advance. Failure of any 

 member to pay dues as above provided shall be 

 considered just cause for suspension. 



A Salaried Secretary Suggested. 

 Mr. C. E. Lloyd, Jr., in well chosen ami 

 most appropriate'remarks, stated that he was 

 of opinion that the association should have a 

 paid secretary who would devote his entire 

 tunc and attention to the work of the office, 

 nii.l that such a man should be one who 

 is not engaged in the lumber business or any 

 other line of business. 



Mr W. A. Bennett followed Mr. Lloyd 

 and, among other things, said: Some of the 

 people living in New York, Philadelphia and 

 other Eastern cities have an idea that there is 

 nothing else to this country, but we have 

 many big trees in the west and some business 

 as well as the large cities. I am in favor ot 

 a paid secretary, but we are trying to spread 

 out and do many things that will cost us a 

 great deal of money. We have a year or two 

 to look for such a man as we require, and at 

 the end of a year, I think, we might arrive 

 at that point. In the meantime, if Mr. Lloyd 

 will only look around in Philadelphia a little 

 and <*et a few members, he will find that he 

 will spread the usefulness of the association. 

 If we had a salaried inspector in Philadel- 

 phia it would be a great benefit to the asso- 

 ciation, and there are many things that could 

 be mentioned that would be a benefit to us 

 and we are getting on our feet in the proper 

 way to take care of that kind of business. 

 Every man we come in contact with who is 

 entitled to become a member of this associa- 

 tion should become a member, and if you will 

 all do everything you can you will find that 

 our membership will grow and our usefulness 

 will increase. 



they interest themselves in the problems of 

 'practical forestry and reforestry. 



The first value to be considered in our 

 lands is the fruits of agriculture— the rais- 

 ing of crops whereby the nation may be fed. 

 The next most important feature is the grow- 

 ing of timber, by means of which the na- 

 tion may be housed. 



It has been a matter of public notoriety tor 

 years that the coniferous growth of the 

 United States lying east of the Rocky moun- 

 tains has become disseminated to an extent 

 that the possible supply was insufficient to 

 the demands of commerce, and today the 

 reserve lying within Canada and on the 

 Pacific coast is being very largely drawn upon 

 to cover the needs of the eastern part of the 

 continent. Little has been said about the 

 lessening supply of hardwoods, but as a mat- 

 ter of fact the hardwood timber supply ot 

 this country, which grows almost in its en- 

 tirety east of the Missouri river, is much 

 nearer extinction than that of white pipe, 

 hemlock, the yellow pines and the Pacific 

 coast woods. The beginning of the end is in 

 sight for American hardwoods. The hard- 

 wood timber area of the east is now confined 

 to small patches on the map in northern New 

 Hampshire, northern Vermont, the Adiron- 

 dack region of New York and the heights of 

 the Aileghanies in Pennsylvania. Maryland 

 and Virginia are well nigh exhausted, while 

 West Virgina is practically under complete 

 operation today. The magnificent hardwood 

 forests of a century ago that covered a large 

 portion of Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, southern 

 Michigan and southern Wisconsin are prac- 

 tically a legend, and comparatively little 

 virgin forest remains in the upper portions 

 of Michigan, Wisconsin or the great states 

 of Kentucky and Tennessee. In fact, about 

 all the virgin forest remaining in this United 

 States is in the section of the country that 

 we know as the lower Mississippi valley and 

 in some of the heights of lands along the lower 

 Appalachian range. 



This situation is well worthy of the con- 

 sideration of this association if it would do 

 iti duty toward itself and future genera- 

 tions. 'It is time that lumbermen became 

 conservators of the remaining hardwood for- 

 est area and leave the minor growth of the 

 forest in such shape that it might recuperate 

 itself and form the basis of a new forest for 

 future generations. . 



Again! it is time that the legislatures of the 

 several states be appealed to to enact laws 

 wherebv both the states and indivultta s 

 might engage in reforesting abandoned lands 

 unfit for alriculaure and only suitable for 

 the regrowing of timber. It has been dem- 

 onstrated that this work is perfectly practi- 

 cal for the state and would be practical for 

 the individual did the state enact laws ex- 

 empting from taxation for a period of years 

 lands that individuals might undertake to re- 



f °in St this work I would commend that this 

 association and individual members thereof 

 ally themselves with the American Forestry 

 Association and, with their practical knowl- 

 edge of forest conditions and needs, contribute 

 to the sum of knowledge necessary to carry 

 out this great and most desirable work. 



Mr. Wall's Forestry Address. 



A feature of the session was a timely and 

 valuable address on forestry by M. M. Wall. 

 His remarks were listened to attentively, and 

 were as follows: 



Recognizing the rapidly approaching ex- 

 tinction of the area of hardwood growth of 

 the United States and the essential value 

 and necessity of measures being taken to 

 letuate the lumber industry, and to pro- 

 vide for a future timber supply of this na- 

 tion I desire to recommend to this associa- 

 tion' and the individual members thereof that 



Nominations and Elections. 

 John Scatcherd— Mr. President and gentle- 

 men Mr. Bennett remarked that the nun 

 from the East do not attend these meetings, 

 but I think if you will call the roll the pro- 

 portions will show up pretty well. We in the 

 East are as anxious and as ambitious as you, 

 and we have met and discussed what we have 

 to suggest for the consideration of this con- 

 vention. We realize that the membership in 

 the East is not sufficient— if I may use the 

 expression, the membership is lopsided. In 

 other words it is too far West and too far 

 South in proportion to what it ought to be 

 in the East. Those of us in the East buy 

 our lumber from you gentlemen of the West 

 and the South. We help contribute towards 

 buying the child a frock, and we are sorry 

 there are not more of us to meet you on this 

 common battle ground, so that if there are 

 any differences between our ideas we might 

 have sufficient following to at least make 

 ourselves felt, and in that connection we be- 

 lieve that some officer of great promii 

 should be installed and elected giving the 

 small Eastern representation, if it is 

 •i showing before the trade at large. W 

 lieve that this small band of the Easl has 

 tried to fulfill its duties. It has paid its dues 



promptly and has tried to follow in the lead 

 of the majority, and have held up your hands 

 to the best of our ability. While we want 

 more members, we believe if you could give 

 US the honored position of president of the 

 association, we would be in a better position 

 to work for the interests of .the organization. 

 In discussing this matter among ourselves, 

 we decided to present for your consideration, 

 as a candidate for the office of President, Mr. 

 Maurice G. Wall. (Great applause.) We are 

 unanimous in that, but he has insisted, from 

 first to last, that on no account would he 

 permit his name to be placed before tins asso- 

 ciation for the office of president. Notwith- 

 standing his absolutely flat refusal, we have 

 circulated among the members and told them 

 that we would like to have Mr. Wall as presi- 

 dent of the association, without his consent 

 and his authority. We thought it well to stir 

 up a little excitement, and as Governor SI 

 han of this state, said, "The more noise the 

 more Democrats," we wanted to make some 

 noise. You have a splendid president and we 

 could not offer you a better one. \Ve believe 

 some precedent should be established so as to 

 prevent a bitter controversy over the position 

 of president. Mr. Palmer has served for one 

 year and his service entitles him to the sec- 

 ond year and I want to say Mr. Wall is not 

 a candidate on his own account, but we con- 

 eluded to present him for your consideration 

 and to ask vou to establish the precedent that 

 no man shall serve more than two years, 

 believe it takes two years to get a man well 

 into the harness. Now, we thank all of you 

 who have joined with us and given us your 

 support, but I desire to withdraw Mr Wall ■ 

 JL and will second the norn.nat.on of Mr 

 Palmer to succeed himself. (Great ap 



'^Mf'Wall-Mr. President, if you will par- 

 don me-I don't know what the program „ 

 here nor who may have been -J&™** j£ 

 make the nominating speech for Earl Palmer 

 as the next president— but whoever may have 

 been selected to perform that duty w.ll par- 

 don me I will take his place on the floor and 

 aceTn nomination Mr. Earl Palmer for he 

 office of president of the association or the 

 nf* year? (Applause.) I have tsaid allalong 

 that if Mr Palmer would consent to be the 

 next president, nobody could take his place 

 and fill that office as well as he : could has 



served the association as faithfully as any 

 man could and he has done us a world ot 

 "cod and that is the main reason why, under 

 ^° consideration, could I afford to* my 

 name go before the convention if he will con 

 sent to serve, and I want to see him unan- 



'Tr^San-Mr. Chairman, the. wind is 

 all out of my sails. I have been sucking wind 

 here all° the-aftemoon.. I have never been * 

 any convention of this association when I 

 feit better than I do at tins minute (Ap 

 clause 1 I never have said that t '■•' 



■ n't have brains. We are originally from 

 1, ! u n st and the gentleman who made that 



" ler and the manufacturer, equally and all 



k' and I thank the Lort . have had 



, '^ this association who, in the minority, 



" ,. gh to get up and acknowledge the 



I . „ work "f this association. 1 second the 

 - , f Mr Wall. (Great applause and 



-^ll^T'fmean^eLminationthathe 



ma | e , | Renewed laughter.) 



Mr Russe— I move that our P"»- 



, i I "l 'aimer be reelected bj aeclama- 



.pass the baUot of this convention tor 



