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(&) Machinery should be created for the interchange of views 

 and the adjustment of differences arising between labor, man- 

 agement, and the public. 



(c) The Government should be empowered to control lumber 

 production in times of economic stress. 



7. The lumber industry being nation-wide, uniform and ade- 

 quate CONTROL OVER IT MUST BE NATIONAL. 



The separate States can not effectively subdivide and deal with 

 either the legislative or the executive control of this dis- 

 tinctively interstate question. 



The administrative charge and direction of the effort to replace the 

 temporary and destructive methods of lumbering now in use 

 by a system of continuing production should be entrusted to 

 the National Government. 



Although their co-operation is highly essential, it would be impos- 

 sible or impracticable to obtain through the States uniform 

 and simultaneous legislation, nor are the economic and tech- 

 nical problems involved limited or separated by State lines. 

 The problem is national and can be handled only as such. 



8. National legislation to prevent forest devastation should 



HAVE three OBJECTS : 



(a) Such public control over private forest lands and only such 

 as may be necessary to prevent the continued devastation of 

 forests and insure the continuous production of forest crops 

 on lands which would otherwise be idle. 



{b) Such public control and only such as may be necessary to 

 place forest industries on a stable basis in harmony with public 

 interests. 



(c) The transfer of control back to the forest industries as 

 soon as they become able and willing to assume responsibility 

 for respecting the public interests, the Government retaining a 

 supervisory function with full authority to renew its control 

 at any time if the public interest so demands. 



9. The National, State, and coaimunity forests should be 

 maintained and largely increased. 



(Note — The foregoing principles, as their application is here 

 recommended, do not apply and are not intended to apply to farm 

 woodlots.) 



