Tin TlmUenlh Annual Connnti'm. 



seems to me to he jilisoliitcly fSMcnti;!! in 

 the work you are uniU'rtakinj:. 



In or','anizin;Lr a forest, lire (.ruiii i mn 

 must be the first aim of all, ami the ^'reiit 

 thing was to make the forest aecessible 

 with trails, telephone lines and otln-r 

 means of communication. The funda 

 mental princi|>le.s on which an ellicient for- 

 est force was to l»e built up were thus 

 four in number: (1) No politics; _' i 

 Trained men; {'.\) l*'nmi;,'h n.oney; (I) 1,1 

 eral control. 



In the orjjanizal Kill of such a inrre the 

 line of responsibility from man to man 

 must be iibsolutely clear, and each man 

 must know tlu' extent of his responsibil 

 ity. 



Younj,' men coulil successfully hear three 

 or four times as mucii responsibility as 

 one would expect of them. 



Then the man must l>e '^i\en his head.' 

 An organization wiiere a man simply work- 

 ed under orders, not even signing the let- 

 ters he wrote, might ruin the man for 

 high-class executive work. An organiza- 

 tion built <m democratic lines such as in- 

 dicated would get twice as much work 

 from men as the more rigid one, and could 

 do field work that could not be done at all 

 along other lines. 



Local interests must be given a chance 

 in handling their own forests, in some 

 such way as the (irazing Advisory Boards 

 assisted in the Western States. They 

 must understand, too, that the forests are 

 being handled in their interests. In this 

 way local sympathy is gained. 



Delay in dealing with matters of ad- 

 ministration must also be avoided. 



Antagonism lielween oflice ami field 

 force must be prevented. As much work 

 as jiossible must be taken from the ofli>e 

 and given to the field men. The V. S. 

 Forest Service exists, not for the oflice 

 end, but for the field end. In the U. S. 

 Forest Service men were frcfjuently given 

 a change from the one class of work to 

 the other. ' We have a definite order that 

 the recommemlation of the field man mu^t 

 not be turne<l down unless nflirmative rea 

 sons be given. You absolufelv 



must have the field man know f 

 man in the oflice is ready to st.-nid 

 him, oven to the extent of losing his job.' 



A forest service, to bo efli 

 combine research work with it 

 work. 'The reason the (U. S.) For 

 vice exists today in the fnco of n 

 tacks from its enemies is that it - 

 ed in buihling uj« a |>ubli 

 strong that tlie men who 

 stroy the service could not fight th: 

 ment.' Publicity was »bsidn»' 

 tial, and it should be a regular 

 daily duty of the service to let inc jui' 

 know what is going on. 



itiiiiiMii 



\f i f 1 1 1 



dry 



Hon. .Martin liurrdl. [>.. 

 ter of Agriiulture, vx\ 

 in hearing Mr. I'inrhi.i - 

 ferred tu the immenHf |> 

 his own pro\ ii 

 forest fires, ,11 

 tion of thi< gf' 

 tion of the fori ; 

 sake of the water | 

 belt, for irrigation. 



Mr. U. Ii. Campbell renKir!.. 1 

 l<»yalty of the staff of th 



Forest .'s.r, ;. i ... . ►. 



ence th:i | 



a ser\ ice. 11, ( 



the trained mei f 



Forestry of thr ■» 



turning out) I" 



look. A much 1 



the one now gi\<!. i 



Canada i less than ' 

 urgently heeded. 



.Mr. F. .Stewart a^,.. . ...w. .Mr rinrhot 



that young men employed in forcntry 

 should ha\e enough re^punnibility to ke«p 



them interested. 



Mr. K. A. .Sterling. Formter for tb« 



i'ennsylvania Knilroad, then gi ' .• 



jiaper on ' Th«» .VttiJuile of the y 



toward I I Ryno|Mii> of which 



is as fo; 



Although doubt lt*fi» uvrr ontimatcd. th* 



number of !'■ •• 



lives is lar f 



the railways toward i 



bilities of re<lu<'ing tin .. „-r 



are important. While for manr yrmn nil- 



Mr E. A. 5tcrilns 



