736 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



cited. Hence for the purpose entimer- tical administration of a vast public 

 ated in the last paragraph -"construe- domain, must have a great organiza- 

 tion and maintenance of roads, trails, tion, must be a big administrative ma- 

 bridges, fire lines, telephone lines, cab- chine, with all its parts co-ordinated, 

 ins, fences and other permanent im- For this purpose and this work the 

 provements necessary for the proper organization of the Forest Service is 

 and economical administration, protec- none too large or costly. It is, on the 

 tion, and ' development of the natural other hand, an efficient and economi- 

 forests"- the Service was restricted to cally conducted bureau. There is be- 

 the specific appropriation of six him- ing built up year by year an operating 

 dred thousand dollars. system and a working force in the na- 

 Senator Carter knows these things, tional forests of which the nation may 

 he has heard the work of the Service well be proud. Its improvement can be 

 discussed, and its needs presented, hastened by more liberal appropria- 

 Has he ever assisted the service to se- tions. 



cure a more adequate appropriation for Why then, this demagogic attempt to 



the guarding and improvement of the show that the modest appropriations for 



forests, he need of which he urges in the Forest Service should all have been 



the article to which w r e refer? expended for guards and improvements 



The educational work of the Service in the national forests? The Senator 



costs but a few thousand dollars a knows something of business organ i 



year, is limited in scope .by legislation, zation. Does he think the government 



but has accomplished much in enlighten- bureaus can retain their efficiency with- 



ing the public on an economic question out it? 



not generally understood. Yet Senator Senator Carter cites the German for- 



Carter refers to this work almost con- est system as one we could have emu- 



temptuously and implies that it is a lated to better effect. Does he know 



useless extravagance and has absorbed anything of the highly developed Ger- 



very large sums. Has he any objec- man organization, of what machinery 



tion to having the people enlightened as is required to keep the model system 



to their national domain and its proper working smoothly, of the training of 



management? -Nothing would show the forest officers and guards, and of 



more conclusively the importance and what is required of them as compared 



necessity of this kind of work than the with our own? The German national 



state of mind on this subject of the forest system has been the growth of 



Senator from Montana. If he, charged over two centuries of experience, 



with legislative responsibility for the in- scientific investigation, and its practi- 



terests of government, understands so C al application. Our system is less 



little the purposes, accomplishments, re- than twenty years old. The present 



sources, and needs of this bureau how organization has had about five years 



much must the public generally need in which to shape its practice. Ger- 



information? many spends about two dollars an acre 



The Senator protests his regard for on its forests ; we spend a little less than 



the forestry work of the government two cents. 



and his support of it, yet he advocates Since Senator Carter has introduced 



putting all of the appropriation into this little comparison, which seems to 



guards and improvements for the na- us the most unfortunate that he could 



tional forests ; that is, he would support have ma d e , it seems to be fair to ask if 



the Service by cutting off its head, he win assist in prov iding the funds 



making it all legs and arms with no di- neces fo attain at the earliest per- 



recting mind and nerve centres He > and peffect j. 



knows perfectly well that a great bu- u ? 



reau like this, charged with varied and zatlon here. 



important scientific investigations and Will he assist us to establish national 



experiments, with the dissemination of forests in the White Mountains and 



accurate knowledge, and with the prac- Southern Appalachians, which Germany 



