Respectfully submitted,
W. J. Mcgee, Chairman.
Malcolm H. Crump.
President White—This report will be turned over to the new President.
It is now my pleasure to introduce to this audience a gentleman from the Pacific Coast who has long been an active worker in the cause of Conservation, especially in the conservation of forests. He is well known to all on the Pacific Coast and to every man in the Central and Eastern States. He is President of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, and he will treat the subject of Conservation from “The Lumberman’s Viewpoint.” Major E. G. Griggs, of Tacoma, Washington. (Applause.)
Address, “The Lumberman’s Viewpoint”
Major Griggs—Gentlemen, Members of the Convention: I want to voice the sentiment of the lumbermen of the country particularly in approving the action taken by this Congress in allowing us to have our own conferences in reference to the interests in which we are vitally concerned, together with the general meeting. I think that has been one of the best features of this Congress.
The objects of the National Conservation Congress are so clearly exploited in the Second Article of our Constitution that I believe a repetition of them is clearly in order that we may keep them uppermost in our minds:
“(1) To provide a forum for discussion of the resources of the United States as the foundation for the prosperity of the people, (2) to furnish definite information concerning the resources and their utilization, and (3) to afford an agency through which the people of the country may frame policies and principles affecting the wise and practical development, conservation and utilization of the resources to be put into effect by their representatives in State and Federal government.”
I have attended all of these Congresses and have been wonderfully impressed with the zeal and interest manifested in these proceedings. The vital questions considered are touching the popular chord and its effect is vibrating the length and breadth of the land.