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cap in sending out men wholly unfamiliar with western conditions — the 

 drawback upon which the most stress is laid. What success has been 

 achieved by these Yale men must therefore apply at least in equal 

 measure to men from forest schools located farther west. 



Of the total, 247, there are now 126 men still in the Forest Service, 

 or over 50 per cent. The average term of service of the entire number 

 is 7 years, out of a possible 9.4 years, or y^t per cent of full service, the 

 remaining 2.4 years representing the average period without the Service 

 of those who have resigned. Since the chief question raised is as re- 

 gards the ability of these men in administration and their power of 

 adapting themselves to the demands of the organization rather than as 

 technical specialists, their record must be analyzed with this in mind. 



Time is an element in success. Position and responsibility is its most 

 commonly accepted demonstration. On this basis these 126 men now 

 in the Service can be graded as follows : 



Successful in administration in western National Forests 56 



Successful in technical work in western National Forests 10 



Successful in administration in eastern National Forest work 12 



Successful in technical work in the eastern Forest Service 6 



Total established successfully 84 



Certain to be successful in administration in western National Forests, 



but period of service too short to have achieved rank 19 



Certain to be successful in administration in eastern National Forests, 



but period of service too short to have achieved rank 6 



Total promisino- success. 



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Total of both classes log 



Per cent of success 86 



Per cent in administration of those successful yy 



Not classed as successful 17 



Total all classes 126 



Of these seventeen, eleven are valuable men, whose services are es- 

 teemed, but who have not progressed at the rates comparable with the 

 others, leaving six comparative, but by no means complete, failures. 

 Of those successful in administration in the West, we have : 



Washington office, from West 2 



District officers 18 



Forest supervisors 33 



Deputy supervisors 3 



Total 56 



None below this rank have been included. The ten successful tech- 

 nical men arc either in investigative work in district offices, in addition 

 to those above, or have excellent reputations for such work in individual 

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