THE FORESTRY COMMITTEE AT BOGALUSA 



By Austin Gary 



THE picture shown was taken on November i6th last, 

 at a place already well known in connection with 

 its forestry development, and that promises in future 

 times to be still more famous Bogalusa in Louisiana, the 

 town built around the manufacturing plants of the Great 

 Southern Lumter Company. 



For two days previous the Forest Policy Committee 

 of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States had 

 been holding hearings in New Orleans. Gravely and no 

 doubt with the sense of responsibility weighing on them, 

 they had listened to complaints, to statements of condi- 

 tions, to men's ideas of what ought to be done; then came 

 a day that must have been as welcome as it seemed well 

 earned, of refreshment, of being entertained, of seeing 

 actual achievements that gave substance to the ideas they 

 had been considering. 



Hospitality is an idea not naturally connected with the 

 lumber industry perhaps, but here it was generous, lavish 

 even. Nor are large-scale plans reaching far into the fu- 

 ture commonly attributed to it. Here, however, there 

 was clear evidence of such foresight and visible achieve- 

 ment in that direction. The spectacle of men of many 



kinds working harmoniously together in a common pur- 

 pose was manifested too. 



It was give and take in the matter of good will and 

 entertainment for which Col. W. H. Sullivan of the Com- 

 pany, in charge of arrangements, could be trusted to 

 provide channels. Arriving in the early evening, the 

 Committee found itself face to face with a gathering 

 of a hundred or more, the foremen of all the Company's 

 operations, the officials and business men of the town. 

 That at Bogalusa meant a banquet; at its close Mr. 

 David L. GoodwilHe, Dr. Hugh P. Baker, Dr. Henry S. 

 Drinker and Harvey N. Shepard of the Committee had 

 interesting things to say. 



Then the next day as they walked about the busy 

 town or were taken to different points in its neighborhood 

 by automobile, the following things are what the gentle- 

 men of the Committee were shown or realized. Of the 

 two divisions into which they fall the human naturally 

 comes first as both most interesting and important. 



A management with broad outlook and possessed of 

 large means settled on the idea of the permanence of 

 their town on the industrial basis of paper manufacture. 



Top Row Mrs. M. M. VVillmott; M. L. Alexander, Louisiana State Conservation Commission; Hugh P. Baker, Member 

 of rthe Committee, New York City ; O. M. Butler, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin ; Dr. Henry S. Drinker, 

 Member of the Committee, Pennsylvania; C. F. Quincy, Member of the Committee, New York City; D. L. Goodwillie. 

 Chairman of the Committee, Chicago ; William H. Sullivan, Mayor of Bogalusa, President Southern Lumber Company, H. 

 N. Shepard, Member of the Committee, Boston; W. DuB Brookings, Secretary of the Committee, Washington ; Mrs. J. 

 H. Cassidy; Roy L. Hogue, Manager Interior Lumber Company, Jackson, Mississippi; 



Second Row J. E. Rhodes, Secretary-Manager, Southern Pine Association ; Walter Parker, General Manager, Association 

 of Commerce, New Orleans, Louisiana ; Mr. Frank Sullivan ; Lenthall Wyman ; H. J. Stahl ; Mr. F. Salsman, Presi- 

 dent Salsman Lumber Company, Slidell, Louisiana; H. P. Mills, District Forester; J. K. Johnson, Forester, Great South- 

 ern Lumber Company; E. A. Hauss, President Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company, Century, Florida; G. A. Townsend; W. 

 G. Flanders; A. T. Sherrell ; J. H. Cassidy, Assistant General Manager, Great Southern Lumber Company; 

 Lower Row James T. Ward, Secretary Mississippi Conservation Commission, Wayne County, Mississippi; V. H. Sonder- 

 egger, Louisiana State Forester ; R. D. Forbes, Director Southern Forest Experiment Station, New Orleans ; L F. Eldredge, 

 United States Forest Service, Washington ; D. T. Gushing, Great Southern Lumber Company, Bogalusa; Austin Gary, United 

 States Forest Service, Washington ; James H. Jones, Land Agent, Century, Florida ; L. Palmer, Lumber World Review, New 

 Orleans, Louisiana. 



