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nieiit to conic before our National Government. The very job as ranger 

 in the Land Office days — all the development and promotion, every 

 single career in the Service — bases itself on the doings of the school- 

 made forester. 



Air. Kneipp's article has been useful in bringing out this discussion, 

 and with it such papers as those of Kirkland, Olmsted, and Silcox — 

 papers which should be carefully studied by every forester and every 

 prospective forester. But the article is also in danger of misleading 

 and is liable to do harm, especially in three directions : 



It misleads the lay world and gives basis for a mistaken policy in 

 organization of National Forests. 



It puts the only truly large and important forest organization in the 

 New World on record as being headed backwards. 



It discourages the young man planning to go into forestry from 

 taking a regular course of training and still more from entering the 

 National Service, for his simple instincts tell him that it is little use 

 joining an organization where study is held in contempt. 



Of the three the hist is far the most serious at this time of forestry 

 development in the United States, for what we need most today is not 

 laws and money, but young men with thorough training ; we need 50,000 

 school-bred foresters to guide the rebuilding of the forests of this 

 nation. 



