A Decennial Keciokd 111 



THE FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY 



Carlilc P. Winslotc, Director, Forest Products Laboratory 



Mr. Chairman, I^adies and Gentlemen: 



It affords me a great deal of pleasure^ — more than I can really 

 well express to you — to extend to you a most cordial and hearty wel- 

 come to this commemoration of the completion of the first ten-year 

 period of service of the Forest Products I^aboratorj'. I wish j^articu- 

 larly to express my appreciation of the work and efforts of the Decen- 

 nial Committee which has planned and arranged for this event, to those 

 friends and supporters of the laboratory who by their generous con- 

 tributions have made it possible, and to all of you here who are thus 

 lending your support and encouragement to the organization. 



I am particularh' appreciative of the untiring and effective 

 efforts of the Chairman of the Committee, ]Mr. Howard F. Weiss, 

 known to all of you in previous days wliile Director of the Laboratory, 

 and I can only regret that ]Mr. ^NIcGarvey Cline, the first Director of 

 the organization, has found it impossible so to arrange his plans that 

 he could also be here. It was my good fortune to work first under the 

 stimulating guidance of these men when the Forest Products Labora- 

 tory' was but a thought, and it is due to their imagination, foresight, 

 and persistence that the laboratory was conceived, organized and put 

 upon an effective working basis. 



Rudyard Kipling once wrote: 



'Twelve hundred million men are spread 

 About this Earth, and I and you 

 Wonder., when you and I are dead. 

 What will those luckless millions do?" 



If we change the closing lines of this stanza to read: 



"and I and you, 

 Wonder, when all the trees are gone. 

 What will those luckless millions do?" 



