Colgan Attacks

Ne* Forestry Bills

Congressional measures such as the Granger Bill and the Anderson 8i11, if enacted, will "take the United States another long and dangerous step down the road toward statism," was charged by R. A. Colgan, Jr., executive vice president of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association in a recent public address.

Speaking in Memphis, Tennessee, before a joint meeting of lumbermen and foresters, Colgan said he opposes thesr': two bills (still awaiting enactment) because they are "unwise and unnecessary."

"fn view of the great progress now being made by individuals, industries and local governments working together voluntarily, America appears to have already rounded the corner in forestry production and protection," Colgan declared.

The lumber association executive declared that Southern forests in eleven states are supplying more lumber of greater value than in tl-re hey-day of logging of virgin timber twenty-five years ago.

Colgan emphasized that since 1918 the total growth of all timber in the U. S. is estimated to have tripled, rvhile sawtimber growth has multiplied nearly four times. Colgan spoke before a meeting of the Memphis Lumbermen's Club and the Kentucky-Tennessee section of the Society of American Foresters.

Colgan .contrasted r'vhat he said were trvo "fundamentally different approaches as to horv to teach basic fact; about forestry and about potential values of small rvoodlots to owners of private woodlands in the'U. S.

"One is the Federal approach," Colgan said "$'hel e woodlot o\vners (along rvith industry) are to be offerecl subsidies and various aids in one hand, while threats of big government control backed by regulations written in Washington are held over their heads in the other."

"This Federal approach, I believe, lreans more ancr, more taxes, along r.vith more and more government r'vorkers. It means a natural slackening of independent efforr on the part of o\vners of private forest land."

"Thc other approach," Colgan said, "is typified by the program adopted by the American Forest Products In-

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dustries ancl already actively functioning in 34 States." This latter approach "encourages each individual to meet his orvn problems. It offers each or'vner a chance to work out his problems r,vith his neighbors rvithin his communiry and u'ith his orvn county and state agencies."

Colgan said, commenting on the three major phases of the AFPI program in which industry is cooperating with State and Federal agencies:

"N{ost significant to me is that this effort is voluntary-:rr-rd that's the American way to do it."

Production of treated r,r.ood in the U. S. over the previous year. in 1947 was 16/o

Lumber Book Shelf Presented to Coast Colleges and High Schools

Lumbermen throughout the country are watching with interest a program developed by members of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association for placing accurate and factual information on the forest products industry in the hands of high school and college students in Oregon, Washington and California.

'Iiducators, publishers and rvriters are acclaiming this completely new technique which is making educational history.

A 12-volume Lumber Book Shelf, containing some of the finest available books on lumber, logging, forestry 'rnd natural history, has already been presented to more than 130 high schools and colleges in the three states by members of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association'

The Book Shelf is purchased by the individual mill, or a group of mills in a single community, and presented by mill officials to each school at a regular assembly' An arrangement has been worked out by the Association rvith 1. f. Ciff Company of Portland, one of the northwest's ieading book stores, for a bulk rate and the company ships the entire shelf direct to the company offices'

An attractive bookplate is attached to the flyleaf of each book in the Shelf and contains the name or names of donor mills. It is expected that more than 200 schools will receive the Book Shelf during the year from West Coast member mills. The books become a part of the school's reference library and are available for essays, orations and classroom work on the region's basic industry.

A study by Association executives disclosed a woeful 'lack of good material in school libraries which covered industry developments in better utilization, better forestry and improvements made during the past decade or more in lumber processing. Too much of the material in school libraries, lumbermen found, was anti-business and biased information.

Authors of the 12-volume Book Shelf include some of the best known writers in the nation. Two of Stervart Holbrook's books are included: "Burning an Empire" and "Tall Timber." James Stevens' "Paul Bunyan" and "Timber" add a distinctive flavor. Two volumes published by the American Forestry Assoiiation, "American Conservation" and "Knowing Your Trees," have been included' "This Fascinating Lumber Business" by Stanley Horn, editor of the Southern Lumberman, provides a compact refercnce book. Other books are "Forest Trees of the Pacific Coast," by W. A' Eliot; "The Lost Woods," bY E,dwin Way 'Ieale; "Douglas of the Fir," by George Athelstan Harvey; "Skyo," by Martha Hardy and "Now We're Loggin'," by Paul llosmer, famous Oregon Short-log humorist.

Included in each book shelf is a kit of booklets published by the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and American Forest Products Industries, fnc.

West Coast mills work closely with high school students because they will soon be lumber customers' Included in the Association's educational material is a 65-frame film strip "The Story of West Coast Lumber" now used in 5,000 schools in America. Colored slide sets on forestry, logging, fire fighting and tree farms are supplied to schools as part of the industry's visual education program' A fine election of pamphlets on lumber manufacturing and logging rourrd out a full educational program.

Commercc Department Predicts

Huge 1949 Construction Total

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Commerce Department estimates that a record of $19,000,000'000 r'vorth of construction work will be done in 1949.

This is I per cent more than the department figured last November at the peak of the business boom.

Its upward revision reflected an expectation that utilities, chiefly gas and electric concerns, will boost their work a whopping $775,000,000 above the previous estimate to a total of $3,525,000,000.

This would be B per cent over their actual outlays la:;t yeat.

Secretary of the Treasury Snyder took a rap at makets of gloomy business forecasts.

He told the Colorado Bankers Association, in Glenwoocl Springs, Colo.:

"WE HAVE BECOME so accustomed to making new business records, month after month following the war, that our ,ceasing to establish further new highs in l94l) caused long faces among harbingers of woe.

"The fact that business is continuing to operate at nearrecord levels, after more than three years of unprecedented output, has not been sufficiently emphasized."