756 JOURNAL OF FORESTRY 



most it requires only the addition of a paragraph or two to a letter, 

 a few minutes added to a conversation, and the recipient or the visitor 

 feels that his application has been given due thought and consideration. 

 Most important of all, he feels that there is the desire to meet his. 

 wishes, provided that it were possible to do so. 



During the nearly seven years I spent in the Philippines I have never 

 found it necessary to "play politics" in the reprehensible sense of the 

 expression, and I have found that courtesy, extreme courtesy, "pala- 

 vering," if you will, is a most effective substitute. Courtesy, patience, 

 complete and simple explanations, a scrupulous adherence to the truth,, 

 and a firm but tactful policy, which involves the punishment of mis- 

 deeds no less than the appreciation of proper work and behavior, will 

 be found the only equipment (in addition to what may be taken for 

 granted) the newly arrived forester in the East need bring to bear to 

 assure his own success and the success of the work and of the ideals 

 for which he stands. 



