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service which they have established. Considering the 

 manifold activities and lines of work open to a forester 

 the lure is strong ; yet it is a calling for only the elect. 



Mr. Pinchot advises men to keep out of it if they can, 

 believing that the misfit is unhappier in this than in 

 any other profession. The men who have answered the 

 call of the Red Gods in the past have been largely active, 

 full-blooded fellows whom no salary could keep in 

 an office. In the future forestry will doubtless offer 

 various opportunities to different types of men: to the 

 man fond of research, to the salesman, to the logging 

 engineer, and the forest administrator but no man 

 should enter the profession, however, thinking to find 

 an easy berth. It will always call forth the best there is 

 in Young America and one who is afraid of manual 

 labor, of putting in at least several years of apprentice- 

 ship in either laboratory, sawmill, or lumberyard, had 

 better keep out. 



To the man who is fond of administrative work and 

 who relishes the pleasure of working side by side with 

 men of high ideals who glory in their work, forestry 

 offers splendid opportunities. The feeling also that one 

 is working for future generations, for Americans yet un- 

 born, is very inspiring. This recalls a story told about 

 Johann von Schiller, Germany's great poet. While 

 visiting a forester in the Thuringen Wald he found in 

 his friend's study one day a map of his forest showing 

 the cuttings that would be made during the next two 

 hundred and twenty years. When Schiller realized 

 the extent and perfection of these plans he said, "You 

 foresters work quietly and entirely free from hopes 

 of reward while the fruits of your work ripen for a 

 late posterity. Hero and poet attain a vain glory. 



