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"Up to within a very few years, and even up to within a very few 

 months, the majority of the lumbermen of the land have not known or 

 cared much or believed much concerning the possible will of the people, 

 as discussed in soviet and Bolshevik proganda, either academically or 

 in fact. 



"The great majority of lumbermen have not very seriously considered 

 that the base of their property is something emanating from the public 

 domain and that theirs is a so-called 'wasting industry.' 



"The majority of the lumbermen of the United States realize that they 

 are misunderstood and brow beaten by the public press, by bureaucratic 

 Washington, by government and by public opinion, and they resent it 

 and they have never yet been able to organize a machine to fight it and 

 they never will. 



"I could name one hundred fifty lumbermen, giving their initials and 

 home addresses, without misspelling a name or giving a wrong location 

 where those lumbermen might be found ordinarily, which list when it 

 had been compiled, would contain the names and addresses of practically 

 all of the high class lumbermen in the United States who had ever 

 made a call of courtesy or one of business in a voluntary way on the 

 Forest Service in Washington, or who had any knowledge or any care 

 for the wonderful institution that the Forest Service is, as it is now 

 housed and now functions in the Atlantic Building in our national Capitol. 



"Lumbermen generally, that is the majority of lumbermen, know a 

 great deal more about the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison than 

 they do about the Forest Service at Washington, but they have no real 

 patience with scientific affairs as a whole. They are not interested in 

 effciency diagram, or especially in statistics, but are deeply and partic- 

 ularly interested in the advancement in public favor of the particular 

 wood which is in the till at the end of the year. 



"This attitude does not under any circumstances establish the fact 

 that the lumberman is ignorant, far from it. He is like Barney Fagan's 

 'high born lady' born that way. 



"Yes, I know the above statement needs explanation for it is a state- 

 ment and not an argument, a statement of facts, a hurdle set up in your 

 way, all ye organizers wherever ye are dispersed. 



"God never made any two trees alike and he made many species of 

 trees all the varieties of fir and hemlock, pine and hardwoods, each with 

 its special attribute and never any common denominator of value, but 

 the false and fiated denominator of the 'so much per thousand feet'; 

 and there never was any one thousand foot pile of lumber which h^d 

 the same exact value of any other one thousand foot pile of lumber, even 

 if it all came out of the same tree and same log and all was cut to one 

 particular dimension; and therein are the differences that beset any man 

 who endeavors to make the lumbermen of the United States all of a sim- 

 ilar opinion upon any subject. 



"Manufacturing methods differ in great measure with each species of 

 wood manufactured and one locality with another. For this reason there 

 is no nationally or internationally known unit of value in lumber. 



"A pig Of iron is a pig of iron at Gary, at Hongkong,, on the Thames 



