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SOME PROBLEMS OF THE PULP AND PAPER 



INDUSTRY^ 



D. C. Everest, Secretary and General Manager, Marathon 

 Paper Mills Company 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen : 



In presenting some of the problems in which the Pulp and Paper 

 Industry is interested, I intend to deal onh^ with those which relate to 

 the work of the Forest Products Laboratory and which we expect to 

 be able to solve by intelligent cooperation M'ith this institution. 



In the beginning I wish to say that even though this laboratory 

 has been in existence for ten years, Paper and Pulp manufacturers 

 have not taken advantage of its remarkable facilities to any great ex- 

 tent, and, as a matter of fact, onty comparatively few yet realize what 

 a wonderful asset we have in this institution. What I have said of 

 the Paper and Pulp industry, I beheve applies equally as well to 

 other branches of industry represented here today and those which 

 have to deal with forest products in any form. 



Had we as manufacturers of forest materials awakened to the 

 value of the laboratory to us and taken the interest in it, which is now 

 apparently manifested, there would be fewer problems of our various 

 industries today. Men connected with this institution have, from the 

 time of its establishment, been anxious and willing to cooperate witli 

 manufacturers in any way and ha\'e only been prevented from render- 

 ing greater service on account of the failure of manufacturers to ac- 

 quaint the laboratory personnel with the problems confronting them. 

 For ten years the men here have tackled every problem which has been 

 put up to them and have rendered invaluable service to those who have 

 realized the necessity of such work and have made use of the labora- 

 tory in the manner intended when this institution was established. 



The present situation in the paper industry, abnormal as it is, 

 has directed the attention of more manufacturers to the need of imme- 

 diate and definite action in attacking the various problems with which 

 they are confronted. The attitude in the past has been to take advan- 

 tage of the improvements only as they have been made by a few pro- 



