510 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION November 



tensely interested, and agreed to do meeting of important business men 



his utmost to arouse the people of his and congressmen before the end of 



State to the importance of promoting November, and that they are bringing 



the proposed legislation ; and, in addi- ot i ier New England States into line, 



tion, to come in person to Washington In Portland he met the governor of 



and use every effort to secure the pas- Ma{ne and numb f inent 



sae-e of the bill. Mr. Cutler will re- ... . . . r 



turn to Raleigh in December, and men who w ! w " te their fepresenta- 



again in January, in the interest of tlves and wl11 otherwise aid. Secre- 



the measure. tar y Ayres is also in touch with other 



Secretary Philip W. Ayres writes New England people who helped last 



that the committee is planning a year.- 



FOR A NATIONAL WOOD-TESTING 



LABORATORY 



Meeting Held in Washington to Foward the Movement 

 Many Prominent Organizations Send Representatives 



/^\N November 16th an important voring the establishment of such a 



^-^ conference was held in the Atlan- laboratory. 



tic Building, Washington, D. C, to Mr. Gilford Pinchot, responding to 

 consider the establishment of a na- the request of the conferees for a state- 

 tional wood-testing laboratory. There ment, expressed his warm apprecia- 

 were present Messrs. Edward Stinson, tion of the interest taken in the pro- 

 of Baltimore, Md., representing the ject by the visitors present and the 

 National Hickory Association ; Max industries they represented. 

 Robinson, Martinsburg, W. Va., rep- Two points, he said, are absolutely 

 resenting the National Wagon Manu- necessary to conserve the timber re- 

 facturers' Association ; Henry C. Mc- sources of the United States : one is 

 Lear, Wilmington, Del., representing the greater economy in the use of tim- 

 the Carriage Builders' National Asso- ber to get -the most out of it and 

 ciation ; Rufus K. Goodenow, of Bal- the other is the conserving of present 

 timore, Md., representing the Nation- forest resources by elimination of 

 al Association of Box Manufacturers ; waste and fire, and wrong methods of 

 O. B. Bannister, of Muncie, Ind., rep- lumbering. 



resenting the Western Wheel Manu- Mr. Pinchot next explained that he 

 facturers ; Geo. K. Smith, of St. Louis, was not in position to push the bill for 

 representing the National Lumber the establishment of the laboratory, 

 Manufacturers' Association ; T. J. but that if the thing was to be done it 

 Moffett, of Cincinnati, Ohio, repre- would have to be done by the gentle- 

 senting the National Hardwood Lum- men present and their friends. He ex- 

 ber Association ; Gifford Pinchot, Wil- pressed the belief that there should be 

 Ham L. Hall, and others, representing no great trouble in securing the ap- 

 the Forest Service, and Thos. E. Will, propriation if the conferees would say 

 representing the American Forestry emphatically that they wanted it. 

 Association. Mr. Wm. L. Hall, who has given 

 This conference was held as a result much thought to the matter of estab- 

 of action taken by a large number of lishing a national wood-testing labor- 

 associations of manufacturers and atory, then outlined the work to date 

 users of forest products strongly fa- and the plans for the future. He said: 



