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in the end the result will probably be the same, but in the mean- 

 while it is rather hard on the trained man, and the school which 

 is trying to turn out trained men. 



What is the incentive to good work in the schools? How can 

 a school hold on to a man long enough to give him a thorough 

 training when he knows that a year's work in a lumber camp on 

 top of a little superficial work in school will give him a better 

 standing in the government service than the best technical train- 

 ing he could possibly get in the schools. Many of the best men 

 leave school in their sophomore and junior years to take a position 

 on a ranch or in a lumber camp because they feel that the man so 

 trained stands a better show than the man with the better technical 

 training. 



Can the schools be blamed for this? They are obliged to turn 

 out such men as the public demands. The public in this instance 

 is largely represented by the Government Forest Service, the 

 largest consumer of forest school products. The following is the 

 inevitable conclusion : When the Forest Service reserves its for- 

 ester's positions for thoroughly trained foresters and ceases to 

 dub every unclassified man they pick up with the title which 

 belongs properly to the trained forester alone, then, and only then, 

 will the schools be able to, or be justified in, turning out well 

 trained, well rounded men worthy of the title of "Forester." 



