Pocific Logging Congress Heors Top Speclkers

San Francisco-The fine utilization record of the modern lumber industry is not the result of laws or governmental regulation, President Herbert W. McMahan of the Pacific Logging Congress told his organizatron in its recent 47th annual rneeting at the St. Francis hotel here. "It is the result," he declared, "of endless research on the part of private industry management, endless striving to produce a better product by better methods, rvith less waste."

McMahan, transportation superintendent of the Ralph L. Smith Lumber,Co., Anderson, Calif., detailed the history of lumber from precolonial days. He doubted that the country would have achieved such development under the strict policies of forest management that became the guide for our timber harvest in later years.

Since the early 20th Century, however, the history of logging and forest management has been one of steady progress, ".rvell in keeping with the economic and cultural progress of the nation," he said.

The lumberman noted that 750,0@ are employed in the industry, which pours five billion dollars annually into the nation's economy. "The lumber industry is one that produces wealth," he said, "rather than an industry that merely trades dollars."

In the keynote speech opening the first session of the 47th Pacific Logging Congress, Kenneth Smith, vice-president and treasurer of The Pacific Lumber Company, discussed "The Economic Climate We Log In." The following highlights illustrate its scope: universally poor public

"In the process of examining the responsibilities of the businessman in our modern economy, we shall discover that the steps we might take to make a more effective contribution as citizens could notably improve the rather relations of our forest industries.

"Boiled down, 1957 looks like another good business year-maybe not as good as 1956-some new'ups'and some new r6o*ns'-fst on balance another good year.

"Basic to any attempt at portraying the economic climate of today is to understand that we are so deeply committed to socialism-to a garrison economy-a welfare 5f3fg-in 5e many major ways and on so many facets of our interdependent economy that there is little hope we may extricate ourselves. We have so undermined our revolutionary concept of private property, limited government, free mar' ket economy that nothing short of a flaming rebirth of patriotism can prevent its continued deterioration and ultimate destruction.

"Prior to 1940 new construction was the bellwether of our economy. I{ it was 'up' the economy was 'up'. If it was 'down' the economy was 'down.' It is still one of the major props.

"Government is a crocodile which must be kept chained. There is no recorded instance of any government ever having voluntarily returned power once given it. Instead, power is always used to sieze more power.

"The value of our dollars will continue to decline. Control of production cost and rate of production has passed into the hands of union leaders, and wage rates have been forced up so much above increase in productivity that it has destroyed the traditional sharing of technological progress between labor, customer and tool owner, and is resulting in inflationary rise of prlces.

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