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(Continued from Page 17) tion, and until forest industries are able to command capital and credit similar to other forms of agriculture. At the same time it was emphatically stated that the Forest industries have long strongly favored the introduction of sustained yield practices in their own interests and those of the public.

Diretors Approve Foreafy Confererrce

Subsequently the Board of Directors authorized the Secretary and Manager to write the Secretary of Agriculture giving him assurances that in accordance with the suggestion of the President of the United States the forest products industries intends to affirmatively act on his suggestion that any plan for administering a Code of Fair Competition in the forest products industries will deal with timber cutting policies; and that for this purpose the Board of Directors authoiized John W. Blodgett, past president, and C. C. Sheppard, present president, and Wilson Compton, Secretary and Manager, to suggest, in accordance with the report of the Secretary and Manager to the Board of Directors, that a conference be held with representatives of the U. S. Forest Service, the State Governments, the Society of American Foresters, the American Forestry Association and other forest conservation organizations, "for the purpose of formutating a concerted and constructive program of public and industry action providing sound forest management."

Report on Trade Promoti,on

Addressing the same session, which was a joint meeting of the lumber Association and American Forest Products Industries, Geo. W. Dulany, Jr., Chicago, Chairman of the Board of Directors of A. F. P. I. presented a report dealing with the general lumber promotion work of the N. L. M. A. and the specialized promotion activities of the American Forest Products Industries. Mr. Dulany said that the report outlined what the two groups were doing for the lumber industry and should continue to do for the rest of this year, according to a program cut to fit the income ctoth. The budget ior lumber promotion and market development, he explained, is balanced each month; no more is expended than is received. The equivalent of 13 men is engaged in this work;8 are occupied.full time in field work and 4 in field work half of the time. Mr. Dulanv reviewed the building code work which he said related to one prohibition law that really works, as every timber and saw mill product may be afiected by regional, state and municipal codes, and by model codes and constiuctibn standards promulgated by organizations. These restrictions may react fairly and beneficiatly-to both hardwoods and softwoods, or they may work incalculabte harm.

The report covered Government lumber specifications and promotion, Government buitding program (which is now assuming enormous proportions), R. F. C. projects, Government procureaent specifications, National Committee on Wood Utilization, Highway lumber promotion, wood schoolhouses, wood tanks, emergency conservation corps work, grade use and engineering manuals. The manuals which will be ready by early fall will for the first time in the history of the industry provide well considered, properly coordinated pubtished information for engineers, architects, industrial purchasers, retailers and others on the specification, purchase and proper use of grades of softwood lumber and timber for buildings a4d other structuies, and in every softwood species. The Hardwood Manual, complete within itself, will inctude considerable technical data, upon which the choice and use of difierent hardwoods can be based, and detailed recommendations on grades of structural hardwoods for the various purposes. Other subjects covered in the report were the work of the Pubticity Departm€nt and of the Technical Information Service. The Lumber Industries house at the World's Fair was described and lauded.

Maintenance Fund for Lulnber ftdustries House

At the conclusion of the report Mr. Dulany-vividly describing the hit the house has made-appealed to the meeting for a fund to maintain and administer the lumber industries house for the remainder of the Fair and approximatety $25@ was pledged within a few minutes. An appeal for further funds will be made directly to manufacturers and retaiters. Other topics discussed in the report were research activities concerning the insulating value of wood, laminated floor tests and smatl house designs, relating to the sectional or mass production of dwellings.

Mr. Dulany also read a report on important new markets for lumber in 1933. He predicted a largely increased market for materials of construction or fabrication, due to new legistation, business revival, rural improvements and the accumulated demand for housing. Particular attention was called to the probabte results of the $3,300,000,000 Public Works Act, which includes $400,000,000 for highways, $275,000,000 for the construction of 32 naval ships and a great variety of public buitdrngs.

Report on Modern Corurectors fo,r Tirnber Construction

A. T. Upson thri:n presented reports on facilities of the Timber Engineering Company and modern connectors for timber construction. The progress in the introduction of the use of modern connec-

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