area in all the great Southern Pine, Ozark, and Central Mississippian regions. It ranks fourth among all the 78 national forests and purchase units east of the Rocky Mountains in net area under administration of the Forest Service.

Receipts from the sale of timber and other forest products in the Ozark National Forest have increased rapidly since 1929, when the receipts amounted to $3,566. By 1930 these receipts had risen to $30,820, to $98,419 in 1934, and to $162,679 in 1936, and during the latter part of 1936 the Export Cooperage Co. of Russellville, Ark., was awarded a contract for the removal of approximately 25,000,000 feet of timber from one section of the Ozark National Forest, for which the company is to pay more than $600,000. The sale of timber from this forest is of course expected to increase under a policy of adequate fire protection and sustained forestry yield, as the area is practically all woodland and excellently adapted to timber production.

Mr. MCMILLAN. Were those receipts net or gross?
Mr. TERRY. They were gross.

The territory embraced in the Ozark National Forest constitutes an important part of one of the critical watersheds of the United States. Within the boundaries of this forest are the headwaters of the White River and also the headwaters of many of the major tributaries of the Arkansas and White Rivers. The topography of the area is such that in time of heavy rainfall flood conditions quickly develop in the valleys of these rivers, and ultimately in the lower Mississippi Valley. It is believed that proper development and control of the Ozark National Forest region will ultimately make the region as important and as valuable, possibly, from the standpoint of flood control as from the standpoint of a national forest.

The area is a natural game range, and several sections of it have been set aside for game refuges and dispersal centers needed for restocking the country. The area embraced in this forest is without equal for recreational advantages not only in Arkansas but throughout that entire section of the United States, and the social and economic value of the forest is unusually high for Arkansas and adjoining States. Systematic development of the growing timber stands means that wood-using industries will have at hand a dependable source of forest products and that local farm and town populations will have opportunities for continued employment in forest or wood-working occupations. Headquarters for the Ozark National Forest were established in Russellville, Ark., about 20 years ago, with two small office rooms and two employees. Since that time it has been necessary on several occasions to obtain additional office space, and at the present time the headquarters are temporarily housed in an old Elks Lodge hall, with 6,500 feet of floor space and 25 regular employees. This lodge hall is the largest space in Russellville available for the Forest headquarters and it is inadequate, the Land Title Department being temporarily located in another building, with 2,800 feet of floor space and nine regular employees. In addition to these regular employees, there are 9 regular field employees, and for the past few years the headquarters office has had under its supervision more than 300 E. C. W. and E. R. A. employees. There is also attached to the Forest headquarters a nursery, where several million pines are grown each year for transplanting, with 1 nurseryman, 1 foreman, and 10 to 40 laborers. The nursery quarters are provided at the Arkansas Polytechnic

College, a junior educational institution, which specializes in agriculture, forestry, home economics, and engineering, where 62 students are enrolled in forestry classes. Due to national interest in forestry and to the future program of the Ozark National Forest, it is evident that these activities will continue to increase for some time to come, and this, together with the increased revenues which are expected from the forest, appears to be ample justification for the erection of a suitable Federal building for the forestry headquarters.

In addition to the Ozark National Forest, there are a number of other governmental agencies operating in Russellville without adequate office facilities, including the Public Health Service, the Agricultural Extension Service, the National Youth Administration and the Resettlement Administration. Limited space for these agencies is at the present time being donated by Pope County, of which Russellville is the county seat, but it would add materially to the efficiency of these services to have them properly housed in a Federal building. The only Federal building in Russellville at this time is the post-office building which is barely adequate for the present needs of the post office, and which is, I am advised, so constructed that it would be impracticable to add additional rooms or stories for the use of other Federal departments.

Russellville is a city of approximately 7,000 people, and is ideally located not only for the Ozark National Forest headquarters, but also for any joint activities of the Ozark and the Ouachita National Forests, the central entrance to the Ouachita Forest being 20 miles to the south and the central entrance to the Ozark Forest being 20 miles to the north of Russellville. All points of the forest are easily accessible from Russellville by Federal and State highways. Russellville is also located on the main line of the Missouri Pacific Railroad from Kansas City, Mo., to New Orleans, La., and is the railhead for shipments to the Ozark National Forest. The city is also developing a good airport. Living conditions in Russellville are unexcelled by any city in the State. Being situated in the foothills of the Ozarks, and securing its water supply from one of the Ozark Mountain streams, it is exceptionally healthy. Its citizenship is noted in the State for its fine spirit of civic pride and its loyalty to its institutions. It is economically the logical location for the permanent headquarters of the Ozark National Forest, and no other city could offer better home, church, educational, and recreational opportuniites for the employees of the forest than Russellville.

Mr. WOODRUM. We thank you for your statement.

CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS

STATEMENT OF HON. DAN R. McGEHEE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Mr. McGEHEE. Mr. Chairman, I understand that the Budget Committee has recommended something like $23,000,000 for the construction of public buildings during the next year period. I further understand this small sum would only provide for a few buildings in some of the larger cities throughout the country.

In my opinion, a sufficient sum should be appropriated, so as to permit the construction of at least one public building in each con

gressional district, that is, in the districts wherein they can properly qualify.

I know the members of this committee appreciate the wisdom of doing this under the prevailing conditions of unemployment, also, the further necessity of housing governmental agencies, and especially our post offices in better equipped and more sanitary buildings in many of the towns and cities that have not as yet been favored with this added progressiveness on the part of our Government.

No money that is being spent today could be expended in a more worthy way than the construction of nice post-office buildings in the cities and towns where they are qualified under the rules and regulations, for the reason, that when they are so constructed, the people in that community and section daily come in contact with and see the building, which is a constant reminder to each individual that this is a part of his Government, and being brought so near, I am sure it instills in the hearts of each a closer relationship between the individual and the Government than ordinarily prevails.

Permit me to earnestly urge that your committee recommend the passage of a bill carrying sufficient appropriations to give unto each congressional district a structure commensurate with its needs.

CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS

STATEMENT OF HON. WILL M. WHITTINGTON, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

Mr. WHITTINGTON. Mr. Chairman, I understand the Budget has recommended around $23,000,000 for public buildings. My information is that this amount will be used largely in the construction of Federal buildings in the larger cities.

I believe that public works should be distributed. I recall that during the past session and 2 years ago the amount represented by public works was increased by the Committee on Appropriations to provide for a post-office building in every congressional district that contained post offices that were eligible for such buildings.

If $23,000,000 or any similar amount is to be appropriated for public buildings I advocate that the amount be increased so that the policy of the past 3 years of providing a public building in every eligible congressional district should be continued.

The principal public buildings have been constructed in the city of Washington and in the larger cities of the country. There is need for permanent public works in the interior. I believe that every congressional district is entitled to consideration. I know of no better way to provide for such consideration than by a public-works program that will provide for a public building in every congressional district where there are post offices that can qualify for a public building. STATEMENT OF HON. EUGENE B. CROWE, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF INDIANA

Mr. CROWE. It is my purpose to bring to your attention and to urge a much greater volume of construction through the Treasury Department of post office and other Federal buildings. I urge this for several reasons.

First. In the interest of the public good and necessity.

Second. The Federal Government, like State, county, and municipal governments, should own the buildings, in every possible instance to house their own activities.

Third. No more substantial program of relief could be motivated than the construction of buildings.

It is generally recognized that people make better citizens when they own their homes. Therefore, home owning is encouraged. No one would think of a State not owning its statehouse and other necessary buildings to house its various activities. Counties build their own courthouses and they usually build the best and most outstanding building in the county seat town. Even cities from the smallest to the largest have their city halls which they own, their fire department buildings and other necessary buildings and it is recognized by everyone as being the proper and fitting thing to do. By a like token, nothing but shortsightedness will prevent the Federal Government from constructing and owning its own buildings throughout the entire United States including the District of Columbia. These buildings properly constructed with substantial material and in the manner that our Federal Government handles its public building construction program, these buildings when constructed may be used for many yearsyes, for hundreds of years if built out of suitable building material.

In that connection with my statement of construction of these buildings of a proper, suitable material, I desire to bring to the attention of this committee and of the House, a material which is found in my district and in my home city of Bedford, Ind., which is known to be and generally considered to be the most outstanding, meritorious product, known as Indiana limestone and formerly known as Bedford limestone. Some 18 State Capitols in the United States have been built of this stone as well as practically every building of loft in many of the large cities of the United States, including New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, and in fact, the stone is used throughout the entire United States. Many of the most imposing, beautiful buildings in Washington, D. C., including the Archives Building, is built of this material.

When we consider relief employment, construction reaches to all parts of the Union. I am informed that materials in the new House Office Building were taken from a total of 32 States. Some of the buildings in the Triangle group have materials and parts furnished them from as many as 27 States. This gives employment to people in each of those several States and when you consider that the finished doors, frames, and casings in a building and the stone in the wall, the foundation and the roof, that in almost every instance where you take $1 worth of material in its finished form in the building, that material is estimated to have been all the way from 2 to 10 cents on the dollar back in the rough. Accordingly, somewhere along the line from 90 to 98 cents of each dollar has gone for labor in some form or another. It may be for labor out in the quarries, forests, or mines. It may be for labor at the saw, the planer, or man at the mine. It may be for labor of the engineer, fireman, the conductor, or trainman. It may be for labor for the factory clerk, stenographer, or president of the company. In any event, we are bound to admit that some place along the line that the product that was worth some 2 to 10 cents in the rough and costs a total of $1 in the finished construction, some place along the line, it had to be labor in some form or another, but

when completed, it means value, it means worth just as all wealth above the raw earth and natural resources was created by man's hand.

Accordingly, I urge that a generous program of Government building be inaugurated. Some permanent policy of a greater appropriation should be made and unless this program is greatly increased, many people in the Treasury Department who have been there some 10 to 30 years and who have no other employment will ultimately be compelled to be relieved and in turn to go on the relief rolls. I urge a proper and fitting program which should be not less than $75,000,000 per year for the next 5 years.

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS POST-OFFICE STATION, HONOLULU, HAWAII STATEMENT OF HON. SAM HOBBS, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ALABAMA

Mr. HOBBS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: There is only one impelling reason for my presence here today. That reason is that I have seen with my own eyes on the military reservation known as Schofield Barracks the most glaring case of need of a post-office building which can be found under the flag. This is, of course, not in my district, and I have no interest whatever in the matter other than that just expressed.

The building which is now in use as a branch of the Honolulu post office serves 20,000 persons. It was built, if I recall correctly, in 1912 to serve the 1,200 employees who were then at work on the reservation in the construction program. It is of the most temporary kind of construction, very similar to that used in cantonments during the World War. While the pictures which I now beg leave to submit to you gentlemen are mere kodak prints, hardly large enough to show you clearly the detail of the building which I would like so much for you to have, nevertheless I feel reasonably sure that you can better visualize the need, after looking at these pictures. You see that the construction is of broad planks, set on end, with strips tacked over the cracks. You also see the sagging floor and steps. Please also note that the need of boxes has become so acute that some of them open out of doors under a shed.

Incidentally, when one drives from Honolulu to Schofield Barracks, he passes through a small town of about three stores and a dozen houses. In this town there is a beautiful new post-office building, of the latest type, brick and tile construction. The branch out at Schofield Barracks, serving more than four times the number of people and with net receipts exceeding that ratio, is housed in a dilapidated, rotten, wooden shack about the size and dignity of a backwoods chicken house.

Schofield Barracks is the largest Army post under the flag. Its importance cannot be overestimated. It is approximately in the center of the island of Oahu, which is the capital island of the six islands composing the Territory of Hawaii. Our Government is wisely spending millions at this moment in building roads connecting this centrally located post so that its garrison may be available to the various vulnerable points where foreign forces might effect landings. Pearl Harbor is the great outpost of our Navy in the Pacific. It is