responsible charge of boundaries 

 work. In 190s the Administrative 

 districts were organized and Leavitt 

 was made District Forester ' at 

 Ogden, Utah. And now he has been 



called back to Washington again, to 

 be second in command of the grea 

 Brunch of Operation, with control 

 over all the districts. 



C. L. HILL. 



"How it Feels to Be An Assistant Forester" 



I have been asked to write some- 

 thing for the "Michigan Forester" 

 about "How it feels to be an assist- 

 ant Forester." I can, of course, 

 judge only by my own experience, 

 and in so doing must confess that 

 it doesn't feel particularly different 

 from being anything 1 else in the For- 

 estry Service. The practice of For- 

 estry by the Federal Government is 

 perhaps the nearest partial approach 

 to Socialism of anything connected 

 with the General Government, and 

 it has always seemed to me that the 

 attitude of the men in the Service 

 toward the work has been more or 

 less unconsciously molded to cor- 

 respond, so that the spirit is liter- 

 ally one of service, of co-operation, 

 in which each one puts forth his 

 best efforts, regardless of rank, to 

 achieve the common end, as con- 

 trasted with the typical and tradi- 

 tional bureaucratic attitude which is 

 said to exist in some other portions 

 of the Government service, where 

 pride of rank counts so much more 

 than i ride of work or service. The 



Forest Service has always been the 

 subject of comment in Washington 

 as the Bureau in which the lights 

 were burning longest in the evening, 

 in which the men worked harder 

 than in most of the other bureaus, 

 and in which the general aim seemed 

 to be to get things done right rather 

 than to put in so many hours a day, 

 regardless of how far behind the 

 work might be. It has been this 

 mental attitude on the part of the 

 men in the Service, combined with 

 the natural attractions of the work 

 itself, divided as it is between office 

 and field, that has attracted and held 

 so many of the right sort of fellows 

 and made the Forest Service a 

 standard for other Government 

 bureaus to pattern after. Unques- 

 tionably no inconsiderable part of 

 the spirit of the Service men has 

 been due to the spirit, enthusiasm, 

 and unselfish devotion of him who 

 may justly be called the father of 

 the greater conservation movement 

 in America Gifford Pinchot. 



CLYDE LEAVITT. 



'What is the Matter with Products" 



I have been asked to tell briefly 

 "What is the matter with Products? 1 ' 

 -This is unfair, since it assumes that 

 something is the matter. With tin 

 occupying of a well equipped lab- 

 oratory at Madison, Wisconsin, by 

 one part of the organization and the 

 removal of the Co-ordinate Office 

 of Utilization to Chicago, Products 

 has taken a new grip on life, and 

 if it doesn't now emit healthful 

 noises once in a while there will be 

 reason to inquire, "What is the mat- 

 ter with Products?" 



Products has gotten away from 

 forestry to the extent that its work 

 is being carried on by engineers, 

 chemists, physicists, microscopists, 

 xylotomists and other "ists" rather 

 than by foresters. The last general 

 recruiting of the ranks from th'> 



forestry schools was in 1906, at 

 which time from among the nine 

 Forest Assistants entering the For- 

 est Service from Michigan, three 

 (Sackett, Snr'th and myself) were 

 assigned to Products. Since that 

 time only one Michigan forester 

 (Brower) joined the sect, and he, 

 evidently tiring of a diet of turpen- 

 tine and statistics, got out at the 

 first opportunity. Hill and Holmyd, 

 .of the older men, both did good ser- 

 vice, but have both left us, so that 

 the three representatives of 1906 ar ' 

 the only remaining representatives 

 of Michigan forestry in Products. 

 (Perhaps herein lies the solution to 

 the query.) We are all marripd and, 

 from appearances, wedded also to 

 our jobs. KKM I-KKR. 



