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most in the minds of members of the 

 associations. Major Griggs urged that 

 consumers of lumber use odd and short 

 lengths as one means of conservation. 

 He said the low grades of lumber, slabs 

 and waste from a mill must bring 

 enough money when sold to pay for 

 the labor expended in saving them and 

 that with rising values of timber and 

 utilization of lower grades of lumber, 

 the product of the entire tree will be 

 saved. He also advocated workmen's 

 compensation laws and pointed out the 

 good and bad features of the compen- 

 sation law which now exists in Wash- 

 ington. 



E. T. Allen, forester of the Western 

 Forestry and Conservation Association, 

 spoke on "Conservation Redefined." 

 Among other things he said : 



What our forests need most is 

 more patrolmen ; more trails and tele- 

 phones ; more funds and organization 

 to marshal the fire-fighting crews 

 when required; better fire laws and 

 courts that will enforce them ; public 

 appreciation that forest fire depart- 

 ments are as necessary as city fire de- 

 partments; more consideration for 

 life and property by the fool that is 

 careless with match and spark ; reali- 

 zation by more lumbermen that it 

 pays in more ways than one to do 

 their part ; State officials who will 

 handle State laws intelligently; tax 

 laws that will permit good private 

 management; consumers who will 

 take closely utilized products. A few 

 other things need specific study and 

 action. 



Do not think me lacking in ideals 

 when I say that our greatest need is 

 vigor and skill in appealing to human 

 selfishness. The altruist comes to us 

 unsought. But to reach the hand 

 with the torch, the vote withhold, tin- 

 word unspoken, we must lind tin- 

 man, make him listen, and show the 

 cost of forest destruction to his par- 

 ticular home and pocketbook. 



Capt. J. B. White, the president of 

 the Congress, in his address spoke of the 



meaning of conservation to lumbermen 

 and said: 



"We must protect our forests by 

 preventing forest fires. Government 

 and State appropriations must be 

 made sufficient for this purpose. In 

 the report of the Conservation Com- 

 mission to the President it is stated 

 that fifty million acres are burned 

 over annually, and since 1870 there 

 has been lost each year an average 

 of 50 lives and $-~0, 000,000 worth of 

 timber. The lumbermen's interests 

 are to prevent fires and to stop waste ; 

 and they are anxious to co-operate 

 with the State and with associations 

 for this purpose, and are already do- 

 ing so in many places. The true, 

 saving features of forestry are be- 

 coming better understood, and better 

 applied ; and we will save our forests, 

 and will grow trees wherever neces- 

 sary and profitable, the same as any 

 other crop ; and there will be no tim- 

 ber famine in the near or distant 

 future." 



On Friday evening after the adjourn- 

 ment of the Congress the Indiana Lum- 

 bermen's Association tendered a ban- 

 quet to the visiting lumbermen and for- 

 esters at which Capt. J. B. White was 

 the guest of honor. 



The Congress elected as its new presi- 

 dent Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack, of 

 Lakewood, N. J., who is a director of 

 the American Forestry Association. 

 Mr. Pack is the owner of exten-i\e 

 timber lands and is one of the best 

 informed men on forest conservation in 

 the United States, and lie has for many 

 years taken a deep ink-vest in the work 

 of the Conservation Congress ami of 

 the American Korestrv \SSOciation. It 

 is believed that Mr. Pack and the cx- 

 CCUtive committee of the Congress will 

 be willing to set aside' one day of the 

 next Congress for consideration of the 

 reports which are to be made by the 

 committees soon to be appointed to in 

 vestigale the matters in which the lum- 

 bermen and foresters are so greatly 

 interested. 



