MOCTAY 



Chairman* 



10*33 ~ Call to order and opening address. 



GPSITIITG JlDDRJSS, . 

 At the District Forester's meeting in Salt Lelre 

 there was some discussion of the question - "Do Super- 

 visors 1 Meetings 'pay?* They pay just as fire protec- 

 tion pays ~ in the damage that would-be done if we 

 didn't have them. Suppose oach one of you stayed in 

 his headquarters and on his Forest for three years 

 straight, without meeting and talking with other Super- 

 visors or with District Office men. Isn't it a foregone 

 conclusion that your viewpoint would narrow, that your 

 sense of the relative importance of your own troubles, 

 financial, administrative and personnel, would hecome 

 warped? T7ouldn't you look at every ottder or now policy 

 solely from the point of view of its effect on your Forest? 

 In time we would have nineteen little Kingdoms pulling 

 nineteen different ways each jealous of eighteen others 

 and resentful of any outside interference with its affairs. 

 mien this happened we would cease to have a Forest Service, 



But we have a Forest Service - one hig machine 

 steadily wording toward one set of clearly defined objects 

 with one set of policies. It's strictly worth while to 

 put in a day or tiro once a year realizing that. Before I 



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