516 Forestry Quarterly 



The details of this organization as hereinafter suggested are 

 not necessarily to be considered permanent. I believe that a 

 General Staff, whose function shall be the insuring of proper 

 design in all work undertaken, is an essential part of such an 

 administration. Ultimately this staff may be selected from the 

 Office of Investigations itself, and other considerations may 

 require its members to exercise executive as well as advisory func- 

 tions. This need not, however, wholly obscure the distinction 

 in function which is the basis of this scheme for administration. 



The organization proposed aims to combine under one chief 

 technical executive officer all the technical forestry work of the 

 Forestry Branch except that of the Forest Products Laboratories, 

 which is placed on the same plane of importance as the Office 

 of Investigations. It will be evident that the work of the For- 

 estry Branch falls under two main heads, administrative and 

 scientific. I doubt the possibility of successfully combining these 

 at present, under the conditions which govern the personnel policy 

 of the administrative staff. I feel, therefore, that the two should 

 be entirely separated, and propose herein a scheme for such 

 separation by bringing under the Office of Investigations all the 

 various technical activities of the Forestry Branch, either existing 

 or proposed. These activities may then be assigned to their 

 proper places in the organization, the organization may itself 

 be definitely charted, and all members of the Staff may know 

 both their own position and that of each of the other members. 

 This clear definition of responsibility and line of authority is a 

 fundamental essential for efficiency in executive work, and once 

 established it must be scrupulously respected by the directive 

 officers of the higher ranks. 



An Investigative Staff Needed 



To provide for successful operation a trained staff is essential. 

 No matter how efficient our design or organization, this work 

 cannot be carried out properly without trained and experienced 

 workers. Here we are confronted with the problem of building 

 up a personnel for which there is at present only limited mate- 

 rial. As in the provision made for the Advisory Board, I am 

 suggesting again a temporary expedient by which, through the 

 employment of collaborators, I aim to train up in the Branch an 



