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has been decisively won. To have done this would by itself assure 

 the man to whom primarily must be accorded the credit a permanent 

 name. Alongside of this achievement, however, the future judgment 

 of the profession and the public may place another — that of having 

 inaugurated a new forward movement, of even greater importance for 

 the country than that which has given us the National Forest policy; 

 the movement for the extension of the practice of forestry to the 

 privately-owned forests which must be saved from devastation if the 

 needs of the country are to be in reality provided for. 



The duty of carrying forward this new movement now devolves 

 upon Colonel Graves' successor. The work which Mr. Pinchot laid 

 down was taken up and completed by his first disciple, Colonel Graves, 

 who now in turn leaves to his tried assistant and right-hand man, 

 Colonel Greeley, another task. Worthily to participate in carrying 

 that task to the completion which crowns the work, as well as to 

 continue in the execution of the functions with which the Forest 

 Service is now charged, will be the desire and ambition of its members 

 generally. It is not enough to rest on what has been won ; that would 

 mean in the end stagnation and decay. It is the law of progress that 



" The old order changeth, yielding place to new, 

 Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." 



H. A. S. 



