SERVICE ORDERS. 



SERVICE ORDER 12. 



Use of Intoxicants. 



The excessive use of intoxicants by members of the Forest Service is a bar to their 

 efficiency, and will be dealt with as such. Even moderate drinking by inspectors on 

 field duty and by officers of the National Forests and of the Washington office in 

 attendance upon official gatherings and elsewhere can do the Service no good, and 

 in not a few cases has done harm. It is not competent for the Forest Service to 

 require total abstinence. It does, however, strongly discountenance drinking by men 

 upon official duty, and it will take the necessary action whenever the dignity of a 

 man's office or the effectiveness of his work is reduced thereby. There is no more 

 effective way in which officers of the Service can strengthen this order than by 

 their own example. 



GIFFORD PINCHOT, Forester. 



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