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Warne, C. C., assistant purchasing agent, Weiner, Eli, Keltyz, Tex.
New York Central Railroad, New York Wilbur, Curtis D., Secretary of the Navy,
City. Washington, D. C.
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Quincy Railroad, Galesburg Club, | land Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Galesburg, 111. #Wilson, Ellwood, Laurentide Co. (Ltd.),
*Watking, W. M. N., United States Na- Grand Mere, Province of Quebec, Can-
tional Museum, Washington, D. C. ada. .
*Way, A. P., American Electric Power Co. Wilson, J. F., Cloquet, Minn.
Packard Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Wilson, JN. W., vice president, Hammer-
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ington, D. C. ison, W, Ba ,» W. Va.
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Bl on NSE engine or Blisades *Winslow, C. P., Director, Forest Products
Wellford, W. L., president, Southern Hard- Laboratory, Madison, Wis.
wood Trafic Association, Memphis, I rh
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58. nderwriters, New Yor ity.
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ndeavor, . . ington, D. C.
¥Wheeler, Wm. M., Wheeler Timber Co. *Wright, T. J., jr, Richmond Cedar Works,
2 Alexander Building, San Francisco, Norfoll, Va.
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Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. Yosknil, W. IH. University of Pennsyl-
White, Chas. R., secretary, Box Board vania, Philadelphia, Pa.
Manufacturers Association, Chicago, Ill. *Young, Prof. L. J., Ann Arbor, Mich.
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WOOD WASTE PREVENTION
A digest of the problem before the National Conference on Utilization of
Forest Products
By ROLF THELEN
Engineer in Forest Products, Forest Products Laboratory
OUR WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES ARE readjustment of industries. To avert
FACING EXHAUSTION OF RAW MATE- jt jy a national problem of the first
; : magnitude.
Wood is the raw material for a The outlines of that problem are
group of American industries which here set forth, to show how a closer
ranks approximately third in value of utilization of forests constitutes one
output among all the groups support- of the three necessary steps toward
ing the Nation's economic life. its solution.
Only agriculture is clearly and un-
mistakably more important than the OUR AIX ls ONE-
industries which depend on wood for
their existence. ) The present area of forest land in
The existence of these industries is the United States is approximately
now threatened by a growing short- 469,500,000 acres.
age of wood. This is about 57 per cent of the
An adequate supply of timber is es- original forest area, but it has been
sential to the proper housing of our largely cut and burned over, so that
population and to industrial develop- it now bears less than one-third of
ment. Wood substitutes have multi- the country’s original forest stand.
plied, but no faster than wood uses. It consists principally of land better
Wood shortage therefore means a low- suited to the growth of forests than
ered standard of living and a tremen- to agriculture. It includes a variety
dously costly scrapping of plants and of types. ranging from chaparral to
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