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ually being displaced by the laborer from southern Europe. Only 

 existing American immigration policy prevents the filling of these 

 positions by oriental labor. Whenever we desire to put our forest 

 industry on a stable basis where each forest will yield continuously 

 and each mill be a permanent institution, we can introduce the perma- 

 nent town, the school, the church, family and community life. As this 

 work is carried on in the great out-of-doors under wholesome conditions 

 the introduction of stability into it should make it a contributor to 

 racial upbuilding as agriculture has been in the past. Under these 

 conditions, the American woodsman, instead of being notorious for his 

 dissoluteness, shotdd become proverbial for his steadiness and his 

 dependability in time of national stress as the woodsman of Europe is 

 known today. 



Additional reasons for larger organization are plentiful. Large 

 scale organization must, of necessity, pay special attention to the 

 discovery and reward of genius. There are geniuses in the industry 

 today who, because of the small organization with which they are 

 connected, devote only a little of their time to work calling for full 

 exercise of their powers and the rest of their time on work which could 

 be delegated as well to those less gifted much to the advantage of 

 both. 



The development of leadership is equally important. The majority 

 of the present leaders of the industry must feel within them our con- 

 sciousness that if they could extend their influence over a wider field 

 improvements in the industry could be forwarded more rapidly. This 

 feeling is not mere egotism, but necessary self-valuation to those men 

 who are capable of leading great enterprises. The possibility of extend- 

 ing wider influence to these men by wider organization does not, however, 

 mean restricted opportunity to others, but quite the contrary. Every 

 man who has worked in an organization provided with great leaders 

 must have felt that his own powers were enormously multiplied by the 

 association. A democratic method of selecting the members of the 

 council which shall then have full authority to select heads of depart- 

 ments would provide for the development of such leaders. 



Moreover, national organization of industry will be eflfective in 

 keeping us from sinking into that provincialism with which we are in 

 imminent danger, because, with the complete settlement of the West, 

 our national migrations on a great scale have ceased. National organiza- 

 tion of industry means thinking nationally in political matters. Na- 

 tional organization of industry is then a national necessity if "American- 



