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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Otto Luebkert, Vice President Ameri- 

 can Audit Company, Washington, 

 D. C. ; C. R. Pettis, Supt. State Forests, 

 Albany, N. Y.; M. H. Hoover, Chief 

 Publicity Bureau, N. Y. Conservation 

 Commission, Albany, N. Y. ; Hugh P. 

 Baker, Director N. Y. State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse University; 

 F. F. Moon, Professor of Forestry, 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, 



Amherst, Mass.; Walter Mulford, Di- 

 rector Department of Forestry, Cornell 

 University; A. E. Edgcomb, Lumber- 

 man, Knoxville, Pa. ; W. L. Sykes, 

 Pres. Emporium Lumber Co., Buffalo, 

 N. Y.; C. H. Sisson, A. H. Sherman 

 Lumber Co., Potsdam, N. Y. ; James 

 L. Jacobs, Supt. Santa Clara Lumber 

 Co. ; and George A. McCoy, Interna- 

 tional Paper Company. 



LUMBER MANUFACTURERS MEET 



DELEGATES to the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Associ- 

 ation convention held a very en- 

 thusiastic and interesting meeting at 

 Cincinnati on May 7 and 8, and among 

 other things decided upon an aggressive 

 policy for informing legislators and the 

 public of the truth regarding the lum- 

 ber industry, endorsed the work of the 

 American Forestry Association and 

 urged the members of its affiliated or- 

 ganizations to join the Association. 



The resolutions asked for an amend- 

 ment to the Sherman Anti-trust Law 

 by which it will be possible for associa- 

 tions and combinations of lumber deal- 

 ers of this country to compete on a 

 fair basis with lumber corporations of 

 other countries. They also asked Con- 

 gress to permit the free passage of the 

 Panama Canal to American vessels en- 

 gaged in coastwise trade, for the pur- 

 pose of encouraging American shipping 

 and trade. Legislation providing for 

 prompt measures of relief and pro- 

 tection from the Mississippi floods was 

 urged, as also was legislation prevent- 

 ing the importation of nursery stock 

 except under direct and full control of 

 the Agricultural Department. Placing 

 the diplomatic and consular service un- 

 der civil service regulations was advo- 

 cated and it was decided to oppose the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission in 

 its effort to surround milling-in-transit 

 and concentration rates with so many 

 restrictions as to make them of no prac- 

 tical use to lumber and box manufac- 

 turers. It was also decided to join the 



Chamber of Commerce of the United 

 States. The Association expressed its 

 gratification at the exoneration of Ed- 

 ward Hines, James T. Barber and his 

 associates, and Frank W. Gilchrist from 

 the charges brought against them. 



President E. A. Griggs presided and 

 addresses were made by W. E. De- 

 Laney, president of the Hardwood 

 Mfgs. Asso. ; F. E. Parker, president 

 of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association ; Manager Leon- 

 ard Bronson; Hon. J. B. White, of 

 Kansas City; R. A. Long, of Kansas 

 City, Mo.; Paul E. Page, of Buckley, 

 Wash.; R. M. Carrier, A. T. Gerrans; 

 W. G. Collar, M. B. Nelson, all mem- 

 bers of committees; Charles S. Keith, 

 who spoke on the relation of the trust 

 question to the lumber industry ; R. S. 

 Kellogg of the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Mfgs. Asso. ; Horton Cor- 

 win, of the North Carolina Pine Asso- 

 ciation; Bruce Odell, of the Michigan 

 Hardwood Mfgs. Asso. ; Samuel J. 

 Carpenter, of the Yellow Pine Mfgs. 

 Asso. ; Robert H. Downman, of the 

 Southern Cypress Mfgs. Asso.; W. A. 

 Cooper, of the Western Pine Mfgs. 

 Asso. ; George X. Wendling, for the 

 Pacific Coast Sugar and White Pine 

 Mfgs. Asso.; George H. Holt, of Chi- 

 cago; J. J. Donovan, of Bellingham, 

 Wash.; H. S. Betts, of the Forest 

 Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.; 

 P. S. Ridsdale, of the American For- 

 estry Association, and E. A. Sterling, 

 president of the National Wood Pre- 

 servers Association. 



