132 The Forest Products Laboratory 



must readjust our internal and industrial development within the next 

 half century to a basis where wood is an imported luxury. The last 

 two years have shown all too clearly what that actually means. We 

 can no more continue to draw indefinitely upon the timber stored up 

 by nature than we can draw upon the natural fertility of our farm 

 lands without maintaining and restoring it. Let us safeguard the 

 sources of our national wealth and show that we have the thrift and 

 constructive ability to use them with intelligence and foresight. 



Bcmarks of Mr. Jones Following Colonel Grcclci/'.s Talk- 

 When I was a student in our university — you can tell from my 

 looks how long ago — there were four classes of men who were properly 

 supposed to come to college or university: the prospective lawyer, the 

 doctor, the preachers, and the teacher. If one had announced that he 

 intended coming to our university to become a forester he would have 

 been thought a freak. We had one engineer, I remem])er, a long lank 

 fellow. We sympathized with him. We thought he was going to be 

 so lonesome in the world. We little realized that before the present 

 time, thousands of engineers would have left our university and engi- 

 neering would be among the greatest of the industries in America. 



Sometimes it is difficidt to tell what profession one should join. I 

 heard of one good father and mother, with their only son John, who 

 were asked what they were going to do with him. The father said he 

 had talked of this a great deal with the mother and they concluded 

 that John must be a lawyer or a doctor, and on thinking it all over they 

 liad concluded that they would rather take him law than his medicine, 

 and he was going to be a lawyer. 



We have here tonight one of that class l)elonging to the teaching 

 class, one who elected to ])ecome a professor. We who live in Madison 

 knew him very well. We knew his father and mother and his grand- 

 father and grandmother and everyone before him. I knew liim par- 

 ticularly well because I was his nearest neighbor. I watched his antics 

 and his pranks as a boy. and they were just as harmless as the pranks 

 and antics of other boys. I supposed that in a little while he would 

 grow up and marry and settle down and become a hardware merchant 

 or a lumber merchant following the ways of his ancestors. By-and-by 



