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ing with the personnel. The tremendous impetus of the early days of 

 the Forest Service and its clean standards and lofty ideals still carry it 

 strongly forward in the race. Will this energy and efificiency be held, 

 or is it to be slowly dissipated by a smothering weight of ancient gov- 

 ernmental tradition and bureaucracy? Upon the answer depends in a 

 vital manner the welfare and prosperity of hundreds of thousands of 

 citizens of our great West and the proper conservation of an untold 

 wealth of resources in timber, forage, and land. The war has but 

 served to emphasize both the importance of these resources to the coun- 

 try and the insistent need of men who can meet the standard required. 



