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would thus be relieved of a great tax burden, which is sure to grow unless 

 the industry is allowed to provide for itself. 



The supervision of admission to the association could, perhaps, 

 best be carried out by a commission representing the Federal Trade 

 Commission, the Departments of Commerce, Department of Labor, 

 and Department of Agriculture (the Forest Service) respectively. Its 

 function would be to establish the standards of admission and then 

 examine appHcants for admission. 



Since the association would be a federation of timber owners, cor- 

 porate or otherwise, manufacturers, retailers and large consumers of 

 forest products, it seems obvious that the government of it should be 

 vested in a council of 15 to 20 members, large enough to give repre- 

 sentation to each part of the industry and the country. These members 

 coiild be elected regionally or at large, by giving the owners of standing 

 timber votes according to their holdings, manufacturers according to 

 their annual cut, retailers according to their sales, and large consumers 

 according to their purchases. Congress, should require the Forest 

 Service and other government branches controlling forests or timber 

 to become members. If so, they should have the same voting power 

 as other members which would, no doubt, give the government one 

 or two members representing these departments on the council. For 

 the sake of the industry, the Federal Banking Board should have a 

 representative on this council for reasons I shall later explain. 



' The field of endeavor of such an association is more or less obvious. 

 It would include, in the first place, all those items mentioned by H. D. 

 Langille.^' Langille has gone further into that field than time permits 

 me to do and little could be added to his text regarding activities now 

 considered as being the legitimate field of association activities. An 

 association buttressed by public approval expressed through Congress 

 could carry out all of these things more effectively than any association 

 formed under present conditions can do, because of the twilight zone 

 which now shrouds in doubt the legality of many possible association 

 activities. 



A few departments covering ground not covered by Langille need 

 some discussion. 



The Finance Department 



The function of this department would be to organize the credit of 

 association members; to put the credit of the forest industry on a 



"Lumber World Review, November 10, 1916, p. 49. 



