USE OF A NATIONAL FOREST 

 Cattle Grazing in Shcpard Canyon, Gila (S) N. F. 



It is almost certain, judging the fu- 

 ture by the past, that the states cannot, 

 and individuals and corporations will 

 not, adopt a uniform plan for the con- 

 servation of our natural resources, a 

 plan that will work the greatest good to 

 tin- greatest number. The states can- 

 not be expected to do the essential part 

 of this work; it involves absolutely uni- 

 form national activity. 



To those of my readers who may 

 question the necessity for such an elab- 

 orate scheme as my plan involves, for 

 the conservation of our national re- 

 sources, I would say, there are many 

 people in this country of ours to whom 

 the question of States' rights is a 

 bugaboo; who fear that the centraliza- 

 tion of power in the hands of the Fed- 

 eral Government will tend to undermine 

 our system of government. Whilst, 

 personally, I have no fear that our gov- 

 ernment will ever decay or be disrupted 

 by any system of control we are likely 

 to adopt for its operation, yet, there are 



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untold thou>and> who affect to believe 

 that the placing of additional power in 

 the hands of our Federal Government 

 will tend to its destruction ; so, my 

 plan, whilst advocating a national 

 agency, does not involve an absolute 

 ^urrender by the states of their rights 

 to Federal control; it simply provides 

 a -cheme for national cooperation na- 

 tional partnership, if you will. 



A feature that should be borne in 

 mind in behalf of my plan is its abso- 

 lute non-partisan control; under this 

 plan, the entire matter is taken out of 

 and lifted above mere politics, and we 

 may expect a business administration 

 of our resources such as we positively 

 could not get in any other way. 



The country'^ need is great and 

 pre-sing; the reined}-, therefore, must 

 be adequate even if radical and ad- 

 vanced. To sum it all up, do the Ameri- 

 can people believe in actual union of the 

 states for the benefit of all, or is union 

 merely a platitude? 



