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Two Men Who Helped The Workers . . . . . . . o . . An Editoriol

The labor movement in America should build statues in honor of two men; two who did more for the cause of the worker than all others.

They are Samuel Gompers and Henry Ford.

Ford voluntarily increased the wages of his employes to an altitude that neither labor nor labor unions had ever dreamed of asking for. He started a ball rolling that has never stopped.

And Gompers, a wise and conservative leader who built up the American Federation of Labor in mighty fashion,

lumbermqn On Troffic Commission

Mayor Poulson, of Los Angeles, in a list of recent appointments named a well-known retail lumberman from the San Fernando Valley to a place on the Traffic Commission. Edrvard C. Harris, the appointee, is a partner in the Reseda Lumber Company, of Reseda, and a past president of the chamber of commerce of that city.

Fire In Door Foctory

Fire recently did several thousand damage to the plant of the West Coast N{ountain View, California.

dollars' worth of Door Company, at was the second. He was president, and his preachings and policies were so sound that he led his people, like Moses, safely toward the promised land of better things for those who toil.

A fair example of the philosophy that made him an outstanding leader, was the following utterance: "One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts at betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, resentment is aroused, and nothing is gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed."

Robinson Heods Weyerhoeuser

John G. Robinson, of Klamath Falls, Oregon. has beeu named superintendent of the new Weyerhaeuser hardboard plant to start operations this coming fall at Klamath Falls. This huge plant will be able to produce 90 million feet of hardboard a year out of White Fir.

H. T. Merritt, auditor at Santa Fe Lumber Co., San Francisco, Mrs. Merritt and their daughter, returned home recently from their summer vacation. They motored to Wyoming where they visited a son.

Goqls For Americon Forestry

When the annual convention of the American Forestry Association meets in Washington, D.C., October 29 through 31, a proposed program for American forestry will be offered that was formulated in.June at Higgins Lake, Michigan, by foresters rvho met for that purpose. The Washington meeting u'ill be called the Fourth American Forest Congress. Recommendations in five principal fields to achieve three immediate goals will be made by the committee.

To achieve these goals the delegates proposed that the thinking of forestry be geared along three principal action channels-five fields of activity that rvould serve as a fivelane highway to future progress and a sizeable timber reserve. The fields covered in the report are forest-land ownership, forest land management, multiple uses of forestlands, education and assistance to forest landowners and research.

As regards forest-land ownership, the committee recommended that early action be taken by Congress to establish a joint Congressional Committee of tl.re Senate and House Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate and House Committees on Agriculture and F'orestry whose objectives would be: 1) To consider a desirable pattern of ownership ol federal, state and private forest, range, and other conservation lands; 2) To formulate policies to guide action of public agencies tolvard achieving this pattern; 3) To recommend to the Congress legislation needed to enable federal agencies to implement these policies. The Governors of the states would also be urged to appoint committees to report on conditions in each state as they might relate to a desirable pattern of land orvnership.

Killing Brush By Air Sproy

The Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, of Spokane, Washington, is making some very interesting and important experiments rvith chemicals sprayed from helicopters, r,vith u'hich they hope to kill weeds and brush on their Clemons Tree Farm; brush that is slowly choking the young Firs. They are using various chemicals to find n'hich r,r,ill do the rvork. A Bell Aircraft Company two-seater helicopter from rvhich the chemicals are sprayed, is being used in this activity.