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to posterity. Granting that new points, ambitions, and capabilities of 
of thought will devise new methods, it the workers, young and old; to en- 
on vet is our duty to preserve for future courage suggestions; to reward for 
he generations all possible natural re- improvements; to compensate by gen- 
i, sources. Intensive education of all wine friendliness, by promotion for 
es classes in the fundamentals of these ability, as well as by money pay; to 
ffi- principles is necessary to achieve re- be fair and square; to not “nag’’— 
sults. these are some of the duties of man- 
vy Some one has written, “To make agement if they want their colleagues 
on men do good things willingly even “to do good things willingly even 
ch when they are not easy todo * * *” when they are not easy to do.” 
\r, To create and maintain interest on the To the worker, “one must give to 
118 part of the worker whether he wears receive '—and the giving comes first. 
of overalls or a white collar ; to increase We individually pay for our holdout 
er craftmanship technique; to reduce as on work. A poor barber has few 
re far as possible the monotony of repe- customers. 
in tition work; to ascertain the view- 
i THE ROAD TO BETTER UTILIZATION 
od By JOHN W. BLODGETT 
Chairman, Central Committee on Lumber Standards 
oe The Secretary asked me to speak of better utilization, and to suggest 
ds briefly on the subject of how to cor- the method for finding and applying 
ne relate the forces or agencies which the remedy. 
Th must be used in bringing about the Let us first consider the process of 
he closer utilization of our forests. Hav- logging. Is there a waste in this? 
+h ing little definite knowledge of the The answer must be undeniably, yes. 
ch methods and processes of making What, then, causes this waste? The 
0 wood pulp and its products, I natur- answer is clear—the chief root of the 
ch ally approach the subject from the trouble is the handicap imposed by 
1y standpoint of the conversion of the the economic conditions surrounding 
ta tree into lumber, and the ultimate the lumber industry. In the Pacific 
Se uses thereof. From their nature, Northwest, for example, where this 
he wood, pulp and its products invite waste is greatest, over 60 per cent of 
ho much closer utilization of wood than the sawmill product is to-day sold 
aT does lumber and, therefore, the solu- below the cost of production. Clearly, 
Hp tion of that part of the problém should the sawmill man can not live, indus- 
be much simpler. trially speaking, on any lower grade 
od The subject assigned to me for dis- of logs, and without a market the 
ry cussion is somewhat complicated. logger can not cut his timber any 
he There is a nation-wide distribution of closer. We all know that with the 
m lumber producing and consuming eNOrmMous expense involved in build- 
re plants, with a variety of processes ing logging railroads and buying 
he and products, using many different equipment the logger will naturally 
he species of wood, and whose products take from the forest every board foot 
he find their way to an almost endless which he can sell at a margin over 
70 variety of uses. However, if we can the cost of production and of stump- 
ts ascertain the nature of the disease, age. Indeed, he is quite apt to go 
a i we then know what kind of a doctor too far. in this direction and accumu- 
ly to summon on the case. late a stock of unsalable cull logs. 
of In converting the tree into lumber The fundamental difficulty, therefore, 
ie and placing the product in the hands that prevents better utilization on the 
oh of the ultimate user, there are five part of the logger is, as I have stated, 
it general agencies involved. these are: economic. 
54 (a) logging: (b) sawmilling; (¢) There may be, and probably are, 
I retailing ; (d) wood specification by other loopholes for waste, but we 
od architect and engineer; (e¢) conver- know that all over this country the 
- sion into form for final use. - leading logging operators are meeting, 
a Wood waste, be it unavoidable or freely interchanging experiences, and 
I otherwise, must chiefly be chargeable finding ways to reduce logging costs— 
e, to one or more of these five. a result that leads directly to closer 
D- In considering the facts in each of and better utilization of the forest. 
nt thsee processes, we have time to take Next, what about the sawmill? Is 
ar up only the chief causes for failure there waste in this process? Again 
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