Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States (Classic Reprint)
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This volume has been prepared as a text-book for use in Forest Schools. The subject is broad in scope and an attempt has been made to cover only the more important features of operation; hence the innumerable variations in equipment and method which are peculiar to different forest regions are not included. Of the many minor industries related to logging, only two of the more important are treated, turpentine orchard ing and tanbark harvesting.
One of the most difficult and costly features of a logging operation is the movement of the timber from the stump to the manufacturing plant and the chief facilities and methods for doing this are discussed at length, especially logging rail roads. The greatest emphasis is laid on features about which there is not much written material available, while engineering subjects such as road surveys and the measurement of earth work and rock-work are omitted because they are treated in numerous other text-books.
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Lumber: Its Manufacture and Distribution (Classic Reprint)
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This volume has been prepared as a forest-school text and ref erence-book for instructors and students in lumbering.
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An outline for a field study of a lumber operation
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Louise Frances Stevens Bryant was an American social researcher and medical editor. She is remembered as a social reformer and woman professional who strove for social justice or equality for women.
Background
Louise Frances Stevens Bryant was born on September 19, 1885 in Paris, France, the daughter of Miriam Collins Nicholson and Charles E. Stevens. Her father, a civil engineer who spent most of his time working in South America, died of mountain fever while prospecting in Venezuela in 1888, leaving his wife with two daughters and a small fortune. Miriam Stevens, who had passed her husband's absences touring Europe, settled in New York after his death and led a fashionable life. The elder daughter shared her mother's sophisticated but nonintellectual interests, while Louise was studious and from an early age, bent on making her own life.
Education
Louise attended public schools and planned to follow her sister to Smith College, but most of the Stevens' fortune was lost through corporate failures that forced the family to alter its way of life.
Louise kept house for her mother during her older sister's senior year at Smith because there was not enough money to have both in college at once. She entered Smith in 1904, majored in philosophy, and graduated with the B. A. in 1908, but her sister's death in childbirth forced Louise to assume responsibility for the support of her mother over the next twenty-five years.
In 1911 Bryant moved on to graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned the first Ph. D. in medical science in 1914.
Career
Being a zoology minor in college, Bryant obtained her first job as an assistant in the department of physiology and osteology at the American Museum of Natural History but left in April 1909 to become special agent in the Russell Sage Foundation's department of education.
Drawing on her own exhaustive research and on the work of such other Progressives as Robert Hunter, Bryant demonstrated that at least 10 percent of urban schoolchildren suffered from malnutrition and that the learning of many more was inhibited by poor nutrition. Although she linked malnutrition to poverty, she argued that school feeding programs need not be expensive and provided practical plans for administration.
The Russell Sage Foundation usually published its studies but rejected School Feeding after a member of the editorial board complained that its recommendations would lead to socialism.
The monograph was accepted by the commercial house of J. B. Lippincott, and before its publication in 1913 Bryant's research had been widely publicized through a syndicated article in 125 Sunday newspapers and through her presentations at professional conferences.
She supported herself by serving as head of the department of social service attached to Lightner Witmer's Psychological Clinic, a pioneering attempt to use social science in the identification and treatment of troubled children.
Bryant's courses for social workers and her publications analyzing the clinic's records and methods provided a sympathetic interpretation of the deviant child, whose problems, she argued, were more often the result of disease or abuse than of hereditary defect.
In 1918 Bryant became a statistician in the office of the Army Chief of Staff, where she prepared reports used in the mobilization effort. After the war, she turned down two government jobs in venereal disease control because she no longer wanted to work in the field of social pathology. She became Educational and Publications Secretary of the Girl Scouts of America, but four years of scouting provided enough respite from social pathology, and in 1923 she joined the New York Committee on Dispensary Development (CDD) as coordinator of research.
The CDD had been created by the United Hospital Fund of New York to study the problem of delivering medical care to the two-thirds of New York families whose incomes provided no surplus to meet the cost of serious illness.
When the CDD disbanded in 1927, Bryant became executive secretary of the National Committee on Maternal Health (NCMH).
Robert L. Dickinson, a gynecologist, had organized the NCMH in 1923 to promote medical sex research because he was convinced that poor sexual adjustment was the primary cause of an apparent breakdown in stable family life. Dickinson's work had been hampered by his lack of statistical skills and by the physician's characteristic focus on the individual case.
Bryant provided quantitative expertise and a social scientist's perspective during the next eight years, and NCMH publications marked the emergence of sex research as an established field.
Bryant creatively edited a series of monographs that defined a new field of social biology and led to important changes in medical attitudes toward contraception and other aspects of sexual behavior.
These studies included Control of Conception (1931), A Thousand Marriages (1931), Human Sex Anatomy (1933), The Single Woman (1934), Human Sterility (1934), and Abortion: Spontaneous and Induced (1936). Many of these volumes would not have been published during the Great Depression without the foundation subsidies raised by Bryant, the technical skills she provided, or the protection from vice-suppression zealots guaranteed by the committee's imprint.
Bryant left the committee in 1935, her health seriously affected by budgetary conflicts with Dickinson. Bryant was responsible for seeing that donor funds were spent on the projects for which they were given, but Dickinson's interest often shifted to a new project before others had been completed. By 1935 his focus had gone beyond "maternal health. " Bryant's resignation followed an attempt by Dickinson to use a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation that had been allocated for a study of marriage counseling to pay the salaries of two homosexuals whom he planned to use as sources in a study of "inversion. " Bryant spent a year convalescing after her resignation and never held another executive position.
The last fifteen years of her working life were spent handling the clerical work for the American Association of University Women's art exhibits. Bryant participated in two of the most important twentieth-century American social movements, the progressive search for social values and forms of organization appropriate to an industrial civilization and the attempt by women to establish themselves in the professions. Her career exemplified the successes and limits of both endeavors.
She died in Bronxville, New York, two days after her third coronary thrombosis, and was cremated.
Although she was a member of the Socialist party, Bryant's plainly written monographs avoided social comment and let the facts speak for themselves. By refraining from radical criticism in her investigations, she tacitly implied that piecemeal amelioration would work. Her feminism, like her politics, was nonstrident.
Views
Her life views were greatly influenced by her mother Miriam Stevens, who often called men "an unworthy sex" after her husband's death and had restructured her life around her elder daughter.
She believed that woman's fight for equality had been practically won by an earlier generation and that she could therefore concentrate upon her own work. Tragically, her conflict with Dickinson ended her professional career at the age of fifty.
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On learning of her death, Miriam remarked "Now I have nobody" and lived in mourning, a demanding and cold burden to her remaining child.
Membership
She was a member of the American Association of University Women's art exhibits.
Connections
In 1903 Louise became engaged to Arthur A. Bryant, a Ph. D. candidate in philology at Harvard. They conducted their courtship mostly by mail during the next five years. By the time she graduated from Smith, she had begun to doubt whether she loved him enough to marry but gave in to his ardor. The marriage ended on her initiative after four years (December 1912), but she retained his name; and her status as "a married woman" was an important consideration when she was hired as an executive by an organization conducting sex research in 1927.