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. that no secretai-y can catch and report and the member who stays at 

 homo misses all of this. In fact a member will secure benefit from asso- 

 ciation work just in proportion to the part he takes in the work and the 

 service he renders the association. It is a well-known fact that the bulk 

 of association work nearly always falls to the lot of a few earnest 

 workers, but they seldom complain for the reason that the extra work 

 they do gives them an insight into the general workings of the asso- 

 ciation and they derive a benefit that the "stay at homers" can never 

 attain. You will nearly always find the "knockers" among the members 

 who seldom attend meetings. 



There should be a sort of unvrritten law in all associations. "Boost if 

 you can. but if you can't boost, don't knock." There really is no room 

 for a knocker in any association — he belongs on the outside, and the 

 sooner you get him there the better it is for your association. 



It I were asked to criticise most associations. I should criticise along 

 the line of undertaking too much, getting too many irons in the fire, 

 dropping things unfinished and haying too many loose ends to gather In. 

 These things are .lust :is undesirable from an association standpoint as 

 from the standpoint of an individual business. 



It is necessary of course to have a good executive at the head of an 

 association as president. He should not be selected from the stand- 

 point of his personal popularity, the size of his purse, the magnitude 

 of hi.s business, because he is next in his line, because of a desire to 

 convey an honor upon him or for any reason other than his qualifications 

 to make him a successful head or leader for your association. 



A paid secretary, is necessary, one selected for his ability to do the 

 detail work, one with some initiative if he can be secured, and it should 

 be his duty to gather all the information possible that may in any way 

 he of service or benefit to the association. This information should then 

 be compiled and conden.sed in a comprehensive manner for the use of the 

 officers and committees. I do not think he should make deductions or 

 draw conclusions from this information, as that is the function of the 

 committees selected for that especial pui'pose and for that reason they 

 I)robably are better qualified to do so. 



Members of the different committees should be selected with a view to 

 Iheir qualifications along the line of work on which they arc to report, 

 men who are earnest, persistent, consistent workers, men of good judg- 

 ment whom you know are finishers. Committees should meet long enough 

 in advance of the association meetings so as to have time to study 

 their subjects thoroughl.\- and deliheratel.v and then report the same in a 

 forceful, intelligent manner lo the association. 



Be not hast.v in criticising or amending the reports of the committees, 

 as tlie.v should have bad more complete information and should have been 

 more deliberate in reaching a conclusion for their report than it is pos- 

 sible for you in the course of the meeting. Most association work should 

 be done through the different committees, as, according to the old saying, 

 "Large bodies move slowly," to which should be added, "and seldom 

 accomplish much." So many times in a meeting of a large number of mem- 

 bers, the discussion is so long drawn out that every one becomes 

 wear.y and impatient and finally adopt something to bring the discussion 

 to an end and in this way often commits the whole membership to some 

 fool thing that not one of them would favor after a careful, deliberate 

 study of tlie subject, such as would ordinarily be given it by the commit- 

 tee appointed for that purpose. 



The membership of an association should not be so numerous, or the 

 territory of interest so large as to make the association cumbersome or 

 the interests too diversified. Nor should the membership be so few or the 

 territory of interest so small as to make the expense burdensome to the 

 membership or the unit of interest too small. A lumber association should 

 cover a territory of considerable magnitude if possible to do so and have 

 each member producing about the same kinds of 'lumber so as to have a 

 membership of practically identical interests. If organized in this way 

 whatever is of Interest or benefit to any one member is of equal interest 

 or benefit to each and all of the other members and insures harmonious 

 work. 



In conclusion, I can say that successful association work must be con- 

 ducted along the same lines as a successful business. It must be fair, 

 honest, earnest, industrious and resourceful in efforts to Improve methods 

 and conditions. 



J. B. Conrad of Glenwooil, Fla., president of the Georgia Florida 

 Saw Mill Association, told in brief the history of his organization 

 and the good work it is accomplishing. 

 The meeting adjourned for the day. 



WEDNESDAY SESSION 

 The Wednesday morning session was called to order by President 

 Griggs at 9:30. 



Samuel J. Carpenter of Winnfield, La., president of the Yellow 

 Pine Manufacturers' Association, delivered a timel3' and forceful 

 address on the subject of the "Adverse Conditions Affecting the 

 Lumber Industry." An abstract of this interesting discourse will 

 appear in an early issue of Hardwood Eecord. 



A. T. Gerrans, in the absence' of President Wilbert of the 

 Southern Cypress Manufacturers ' Association, made a brief review 

 of cypress conditions at the present time. 



E. A. Cooper, secretary of the Western Pine Manufacturers' 

 Association, on behalf of President E. M. Hart, told what his 

 association was accomplishing. 



President Griggs then revealed the history of the West Coast 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association and gave many interesting 

 facts pertaining to lumber affairs on the Pacific coast. 



Secretary George K. Smith read a paper by George X. Wendling, 

 president of the Pacific Coast Sugar and White Fine Manufac- 

 turers' Association, giving a history of the workmen's compensa- 

 tion and employers' liability legislation that had recently prevailed 

 in the West. 



George H. Holt of Chicago was then introduced and entered 

 upon a discussion of the "Fire Hazard Attack on Lumber." Mr. 

 Holt's address was most interesting and followed very closely the 

 line of argument that he presented at the recent Louisville con- 

 vention of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 which has already apjieared in Hardwood Record. 



The chair jinnounced that a paper by J. J. Donovan of Belling- 

 ham, Wash., owing to the absence of Mr. Donovan, on the subject of 

 "Development of Cut-over Lands," would be omitted from the 

 program but would appear in- the official report of the meeting. 



On behalf of McGarvey Cline, director of the Forest Pro.lucts 

 Laboratory at Madison, Wis., H. S. Betts read a very interesting 

 paper on the subject of "Lumbermen and Wood-using Industries." 

 This paper will be printed in full in an early issue of Hardwood 

 Record. 



P. S. Ridsdale, executive secretary of the American Forestry 

 Association, publisher of the magazine American Forestry, was 

 then introduced and gave an interesting exposition covering the 

 work of the American Forestry Association, and invited co-opera- 

 tion of the members of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation in this movement. 



E. A. Sterling, president of the American Wood Preserving 

 Association, was introduced and made sundry suggestions to lumber- 

 men toward co-operation with his organization in supplying wood 

 materials suitable for handling through the ereosoting process. 



The report of the auditing committee was then presented and the 

 accounts of the association were approved. 



The committee on resolutions then made its report in the follow- 

 ing series of resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: 



Report of Resolutions Committee 



A.\rEXD.MEXT TU SHER.MAN AXTI-TRI ST LAW 



Whereas. American citizens engaged in trade with other countries are 

 often compelled to sell in markets under conditions controlled by trusts or 

 combinations, but are themselves prohibited by our Sherman" anti-trust 

 law from effecting a combination in restraint of trade among the several 

 states or with foreign countries, thereby being compelled to act individually 

 when dealing with powerful combinations, which condition is inequitable 

 and burdensome to legitimate export trade in many lines ; we. therefore, 

 request Congress of the iT'nited States so to amend the Sherman anti-trust 

 act in the above respect that associations and combinations, not having to 

 do with domestic trade, may, under proper restrictions, be formed for the 

 purpose of engaging in trade with foreign countries.- 



PAX.OIA CANAL LEGISLATION- 



■n'hile the Panama canal was primarily built for the defense of the 

 coasts of the United States, it was. nevertheless, in fulfillment of plans for 

 the development of the world's commerce and more especially for the 

 I ommerce of the' I'nited States. Therefore, so far as it can be done 

 without violation of solemn treaties, laws and regulations for the govern- 

 ment of the canal should be so framed as to serve to the highest extent 

 possible the development and welfare of this country which is buildin.': 

 the canal. 



But since the laws of the Tnited States relating to .shipping and 

 navigation place a handicap upon American ocean-bound shipping thereby 

 if the canal be opened on absolutely even terms to all flags without any 

 discrimination in favor of any American ships, the canal will prove to be 

 of greater proportionate benefit to /oreign countries than to the United 

 States. Therefore, we petition Congress of the United States in framing 

 laws for the government and operation of the canal to open the canal free 

 to American ships engaged in our coastwise domestic trade, believing that 

 thereby the development of our shipping will be encouraged and trade 

 between the two coasts will he conducted more economically and the 

 development of the natural resources of the two coasts will be greatly 

 stimulated, whereas without such discriminatiou in favor of coastwise 

 trade of the United States, the operation of the canal will especially 



