PERIODICAL LITERATURF: 745 



inventory of the available resources throughout the French forests, an 

 important work which is being carried on exclusively by foresters. 

 The value of the inventory has not been decreased by the signing of the 

 armistice, since the information being secured is necessary to determine 

 the extent to which the French forests can safely be drawn upon in the 

 days of reconstruction ahead. 



In conclusion, the Administration of Waters and Forests claims that, 

 in spite of the disorganization which resulted in the first days of the 

 war, it has succeeded in maintaining its own progress and in safeguard- 

 ing the future of the French forests without preventing the army from 

 securing all the wood needed for military purposes. 



S. T. D. 



U Administration des Eaux et Porets pendant la Guerre, by "X." Revue des 

 Eaux et Forets, vol. 57, 1919, pp. 45-52. 



POLITICS, EDUCATION, AND LEGISLATION 



This federation was founded in Berlin on De- 

 Thc German cember 4, 191 8. It includes the various unions of 

 Civil Service civilian employees. Its field of activity covers : 

 Federation i. The matters concerning the civil service in 



general. 



2. Questions relating to different branches of the service, which have 

 a general interest. 



3. Economic and political matters. 



4. Deliberations of the bodies which compose it. 



Questions relating more closely to individual branches of the service 

 are left to the unions concerned. 



Deutsche Forstzeitung, 34 : i, 1919. 



Foresters have long felt that the existing meth- 



Training ods of training forest apprentices were unsatis- 



Porest factory, but their often-repeated protests have 



Apprentices gone unheeded. Now times have changed, and 



they hold their fate, more or less, in their own 



hands. 



It is most desirable that apprentices be trained by foresters (forster) 

 instead of by oberforster, as at present. The present training fits them 

 more for the work of an oberforster than for the work they will actually 

 have to perform. Moreover, it is a book-training, not the training in 

 the woods which they would get under a forster. Since there are some 

 4,000 forster and only 150 apprentices taken on each year, it will be 



