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vancement as is the pure English Stock. In all of these countries 

 there are pensions on a fairly liberal scale. As is natural, the 

 salaries on the Continent are less than those in the United States, 

 while the salaries in India are considerably more; they vary 

 with the cost of living. Every important forest service has an 

 annual budget (except the United States), followed by formal 

 annual reports. The rangers are generally housed, and, except 

 in France proper, the executive and administrative staff is pro- 

 vided with houses. 



The forest schools in all these countries are maintained by 

 the state, and, in India, local ranger schools are being maintained 

 in order to give the local ranger a local training to fit him 

 directly for the field work which he must undertake. In France, 

 there is a ranger school at Barres and a staff school at Nancy. 

 The directors of practically all schools are also in charge of local 

 forests ; this enables them to keep their hand in and to be ad- 

 ministrators as well as professors. The school forests are 

 always used as demonstration grounds for the students and are 

 often model forests. 



The table which follows shows (with some exceptions) the 

 equivalent titles and salaries for the American, French, Austrian, 

 British Indian, and German (Prussian) forest services. A glance 

 at the titles used in other countries, it seems to me, indicates 

 that our own titles are unsatisfactory. Titles which seem pre- 

 ferable are: Chief Forester and Assistant Forester to correspond 

 with the title of Forester and Associate Forester of today. The 

 title, Chief Forester, seems better than that of Director, Director 

 General, Inspector General, or any such un-American name. 

 Since the Associate Forester is really a sort of advanced Assist- 

 ant Forester or branch Chief, there is no reason for having a 

 separate title beyond the fact that the statutory roll now car- 

 ries one. Assistant Forester and Inspector should remain as at 

 present. The term Administrator for Assistant Forester 

 has been suggested, and the term Executive Assistant 

 instead of Inspector, but they are unnecessary. In Wash- 

 ington, under the proposed new organization there should 

 certainly be one Chief Inspector, with an inspector as 

 assistant, and if the present district organization were replaced 

 by inspectors there should certainly be a district inspector in 

 charge, also assisted by inspectors. On the forest, the title should 



