592 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



I know of no other great American manufacturing industry that takes 

 this attitude. Research, of any kind, is pioneering, it is risky, positive 

 results cannot he guaranteed. Hence few men are willing to take the 

 necessary risk. However, such men gain nothing, and only hurt their 

 own interests hy belittling research work, by laughing at it, or by 

 humiliating it ; yet are not all these a common attitude of mind ? 



On the other hand, research workers gain nothing by censuring and 

 lambasting the men of financial strength who do not show what re- 

 search workers consider to be the proper attitude toward research 

 work. Research men are inclined to be narrow, their sense of pro- 

 portion is often badly warped, and their stand is commonly unrea- 

 sonable. As a result there is an unfortunate disregard and disrespect 

 for each other. Nothing can be accomplished when this is so, yet it 

 is so. In a business organization the production department is help- 

 less without a good selling department. The reverse is equally true. 

 There must be mutual respect and co-operation between these if the 

 business is to succeed. 



We will now consider the more technical aspect of our problem, 

 namely, how research can help in the practice of forest management. 

 It is commonly claimed that about one-third of the volume of the living 

 tree is used and that the other two-thirds are wasted. If research 

 can give this wasted two-thirds a value, twice as great as the used one- 

 third, then nothing would be wasted, and it would in many cases pay 

 to grow trees and to manage forests. 



I wish I knew how to do this. Frankly, I do not. I am not big 

 enough, but this fact is not keeping me from trying and I know that 

 it is not keeping many of you from trying. Maybe if we can keep 

 at it long enough and there are enough of us, we can accomplish 

 something. Then, again, maybe w-e cannot. At any rate, I have made 

 this my life's job, and I hope I am making some progress. 



Out West there is a tree, little respected by lumbermen. They do 

 not like it. It makes too much poor lumber and there are too many 

 of these trees growing among the **good" trees. For the past three 

 years I have been devoting most of my time to studying this tree. I 

 have spent several thousands of dollars and many sleepless hours on it. 

 I expect to spend many more of both. The lumber from this tree 

 (and this is now the only salable product gotten from it), does not 

 bring a gross return of over $50 per thousand, even in these days of 

 high prices. As a result of three years of study, on the part of my 

 associates and myself, I have developed through research eleven com- 



