Lumber Monufocturers Heod Speoks to Future Builders

Modern advances in the lumber industry were outlined to young men entering the building trades in a commencement address by Leo V. Bodine, executive vicepresident of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, June 26 in Washington, D'C.

Mr. Bodine spoke to graduates completing the apprentice training program of the Joint Carpentry Apprenticeship committee of the Washington area.

"Your skilled use of our product will insure its best performance and appearance, and is essential to a continued and strong demand for lumber, of which there is an abundant supply," Mr. Bodine said. "Our mills have inptalled improved mechanical equipment to insure greater efficiency in obtaining the maximum usage of every log.

"New and vastly improved glues, and more to come, are opening new markets for laminated wood produ'cts. New and better products for interior finish are gaining markets and recapturing old ones. Heavy, laminated arches and beams are fast gaining favor and use in the construction industry today. For the home we are turning out modern and improved products that have a beauty and appearance often imitated but never duplicated by other materials. Accelerated research programs are sure to bring further refinements in product manufacture, and at a more rapid pace.

"As lrou work with these products, we hope you will come up with ideas for their better use and better performance. The lumber industry is an old industry but it is still anxious for new ideas-the sort that come from challenging, scientific, technologicalminds rn'hich do not accept things as they are or as a matter of tradition. We will need and want your criticism. Indeed, rve invite them and promise serious consideration. I hope you lvill give us lumberjack assistants many things to think about in the years ahead and to worry about until solution is attained."

The building industry, because of its keystone position in the economy, ofiers far above average opportunity, Bodine told the young graduates.

"Our strength of country is in part due to past accomplishnrents of the building industry of r"u'hich you gentlemen are now a part," he said' "The work rvhich you are qualified to undertake by virtue of your training will contribute to the stability of the economy and n'ill help to attain its future potential. Your assignment is important. The industry which you join is large. Its record of achievement is awe-inspiring, as also is the job r,vhich it must perform in the years ahead, Neither in the afterglorv of the past, nor against the horizon of the {uture' is there a division of effort more sharply silhouetted as of vital importance."

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