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posed to correlate all of the activities of the various chamhers of com- 

 merce and boards of trade. Its president writes : 



''I wish again to express my regret that I shall be unable to attend 

 the Decennial Celebration of the Forest Products Laboratory, to ])e 

 held at JMadison, Wisconsin, on July 22nd and 23rd. 



"I am happy to advise you, however, that I have found opportu- 

 nity to ask Mr. E. W. McCullough, who will hand you this letter, and 

 who represents the Chamber as the Chief of its Department on Fabri- 

 cated Production, to attend. His Department is naturally related 

 to the enterprises the Celebration is calculated to forward." 



Those of us who have been coming to the Forest Products I^ab- 

 oratory with any regularity do not hesitate to suggest to the rest of 

 you that you get the habit. It will not hurt. You will be unable in 

 these two days, which are so filled with various other functions, to get 

 thoroughly acquainted with the Avork across the street, but if you could 

 spend a period of reasonable length, undoubtedly you would get very 

 much from the laboratory. Then, should you later come back, you 

 Avould undoubtedly find clianges in the personnel, for the valuable 

 services which its members can render to industrial institutions result 

 in many of them being taken away, but you woidd find constantly there 

 the same spirit, the spirit that more actively each year develops along 

 the line that the Forest Service stands for, that is, usefulness and serv- 

 ice to the people of the country in providing the wood necessary in its 

 every day life. 



You are going to hear today about some of the problems con- 

 nected with the industries depending upon the forest. The first of 

 these is that which to each of you represents what you get in the news- 

 papers every day and in the magazines you read, forming the aston- 

 ishing amount of 35 pounds of paper to each man, woman and child 

 in the United States every year. When you think of the paper that 

 is used for other purposes besides newspapers it makes the total of 

 over 100 pounds of all kinds of paper consumed by each of you every 

 year. It is natural to assume that in the production of that vast 

 amount of material there are a great many problems and on those 

 problems we are going to hear from ^Ir. Fverest, General ^Manager 

 of the INIarathon Paper INIills Company. 



