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reach, not only is the highest degree of efficiency possible, but the 

 desires of the producer and consumer of forest products will be most 

 fully met. 



To secure these results the administrative machinery must not be 

 too centralized. It should have a district organization similar to the 

 Federal Farm Loan Board, Federal Reserve Banks, and other Fed- 

 eral administrative agencies recently established. The advantage of the 

 Federal Government in this respect is that its districts can be given 

 boundaries which are coincident with economic units, thus introducing 

 uniformity of control throughout each economic region. State control 

 does not lead to these results because State boundaries usually cut 

 through such units and it has never been possible to obtain uniformity 

 of action even in two adjacent States. Thus, in the Northwest, if the 

 State of Washington tries to conserve its forests in a way which will 

 entail some additional expense to lumbermen, the State of Oregon may 

 continue to allow ruthless cutting in the same type of forests, thus 

 giving its lumbermen a temporary market advantage. 



Democracy is not a question of geography. It depends upon the 

 spirit and character of administration, whether that administration is 

 local or national. 



