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fair that we come out and say what these recommendations are to be 

 and not leave them indefinite or delegate absolute power to some group 

 of men to spring on them unexpectedly whether they are good or bad. 

 Definite recommendations in definite regions should be tried as recom- 

 mended first. If results are not obtained it would then be feasible to 

 legislate by States. 



In conclusion I will say that I believe a plan worked out along the 

 lines of Professor Tourney's reservations would be more acceptable 

 and fair to all interests than the plan as it now stands. 



Yours very truly, 



Geo. T. Carlisle, Jr. 



February 27, 1920. 

 Proe. B. p. Kirkland, 



University of Washington, 

 Seattle, Wash. 

 Dear Professor Kirkland: 



Mr. Zon last evening called my attention to your article in the 

 Lumber World Reviczij for January. I think you will believe I am not 

 merely critical and captious if I mention some points with which I 

 do not now agree. I believe I am entirely ready to agree with you if 

 possible. 



In the first place I do not see how a man who believes in individual 

 initiative in general, and as applied in this field, as much as you say 

 in this article that you do, could sign the Pinchot Committee report 

 as printed in the Journal for last December. I am against the Pinchot 

 report and in general sympathy with your position here, though I think 

 you go farther with it than I do. But I can not see in your case the 

 consistency. 



Second, let me call attention to your second paragraph, first column, 

 page 28, a computation of country-wide growing stock, and much the 

 same which you made in reply to my article, ''How Lumbermen in 

 Following their Own Interests Have Served the Public," in the 

 Journal for March, 1916, and ask how you reconcile that with the 

 paragraph on pages 919 and 920 of the Journal of Fokkstrv for 

 last December. 



Third, it is a fact, is it not, that the statement by Mr. Kirby relative 

 to southern pine resources, used by you on page 27, first whole para- 

 graph, is now known to be largely in error and discredited? Rhodes 



