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embankment, or in the Gogebic range. A bushel of wheat, with but little 

 difference in grade, is comparable with all other bushels of wheat, whether 

 situated in North Dakota or by the edge of the Black Sea, but one thousand 

 feet of lumber is not like any other one thousand feet of lumber that 

 ever has been or will be, when it comes to giving it a value, and therein 

 is the reason why there are so many manufacturers' associations in the 

 lumber trade, and why those manufacturers' associations have up to date 

 paid vastly more attention to making the lumber consuming world con- 

 scious of the fact that their lumber is better than any other lumber, 

 and have paid so little attention to what any government bureau or any 

 scientific man in the bureau, or out of it, may consider to be the proper 

 treatment of his raw product, whether it be in the pile or in the forest. 



"The analytical forest service man and independent forester and 

 scientific lumberman will get a fundamental truth out of these words 

 without boiling them even to a fever heat, or into an epigram, and yet 

 this is not pessimism, this is only the truth, and I wish you would all 

 try and make the most of it. For, along the lines of truth are the 

 gateways to co-operation, co-ordination, solidarity, and upon no other 

 basis can you figure out a practical national lumber policy for the 

 United States, and you never will figure out such a policy until you 

 learn to jump all these hurdles without tripping. 



"How will you do this thing? Keep your associations of all lumber- 

 men, of all classes, going at even speed ahead. Try and believe that you 

 are all in the same boat, under orders for the same port, and don't rock it. 

 Keep up an everlasting discussion of this subject and bring constructive 

 suggestions to the forum of the Lumber World Review or to any other 

 forum, where free speech and honest thought is tolerated 'in this land of 

 the free and home of the brave' and remember that the student who lives 

 in an apartment and likes it has as much right to an opinion as the man 

 who has several million dollars in the bank ; and probably, sometimes, you 

 will reach a conclusion, but it will not any of it be done that will be 

 worth while unless the rights of all concerned are considered. 



"BOLLING ARTHUR JOHNSON, 



"Editor and Publisher, 

 "Lumber World Review." 



The Chairman appointed the following as the Resolutions Committee: 



Richard Lieber, Chairman, Indianapolis 

 E. M. Stotlar, Illinois 



Findlay Torrence, Ohio 

 ' Dr. F. W. Shepardson, Illinois 



W. A. Snyder, Ohio 



J. G. Peters, Washington 



C. H. Kramer, Indiana 



P. S. Ridsale, Washington 



THE CHAIRMAN: This morning our thoughts were turned toward 

 the forest situation in these three states. You must have noted with a 



