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therefore, the part of wisdom for the Federal Government to offer en- 

 couragement and substantial aid to any State which will meet the 

 Federal Government half way in the program of forestry. This the 

 individual State cannot do until the majority of the people in that 

 State are in favor of the program. 



The question is, also, whether or not we shall throw down the gaunt- 

 let to the lumbermen and tell them that we propose to fight them — 

 that we cannot expect them to give us any assistance — and that we 

 expect their antagonism. 



The conservation of forests is a matter which is easily gotten before 

 the public, and is a matter which the public is in sympathy with to such 

 an extent that there is no question of success if the foresters and the 

 lumbermen work together. There is, however, a very big question as to 

 whether or not either, working alone and antagonistic to each other, 

 will ever succeed. 



The Pinchot program says, in effect, that the lumbermen have failed, 

 and that the foresters must fight the lumbermen. It says, also, that the 

 States are wholly incapable, and that therefore the Federal Govern- 

 ment must get busy with a big whip and force both the lumbermen 

 and the States to come to time. In my opinion this is an attempt to 

 Prussianize American forestry. On the other hand, it is my opinion 

 that we should take the lumbermen into our confidence and together 

 work out a sane solution and together convince the people that this 

 solution is the right one. After that is done, it makes very little dif- 

 ference whether the legislative program is actually Federal or State. 

 That can be determined by the future. The thing to do now is to con- 

 vince the lumbermen and the people, and therefore the States, that the 

 program of forestry and the principles of forestry are right. In other 

 words, let us have American forestry in America, or have none. 



I am confident that the American system is the right one, and is the 

 only one which will ever succeed in carrying into effect the program of 

 forestry or a program of anything else. 



By J. A. Pitzwater 



It is felt that throughout the entire plan too much stress is put on 

 the alleged devastation by the lumbermen. It is true much young and 

 immature timber has been destroyed, but such destruction cannot hon- 

 estly be laid at the door of the lumberman. The lumberman in the 



