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it; but to the men who try, each in his own place, 

 practically to forward this great work. That is the 

 type of man who is going to do the work, and it is 

 because I believe that we have enlisted the active, 

 practical sympathy of just that kind of man in this 

 work that I believe the future of this policy to be bright 

 and the permanence of our timber supplies more nearly 

 assured than at any previous time in our history. To 

 the men represented in this Congress this great result 

 is primarily due. 



In closing I wish to thank you who are here, not 

 merely for what you are doing in this particular move- 

 ment, but for the fact that you are illustrating what 

 I hope I may call the typically American method of 

 meeting questions of great and vital importance to the 

 nation — the method of seeing whether the individuals 

 particularly concerned cannot by getting together and 

 cooperating with the Government do infinitely more 

 for themselves than it would be possible for any gov- 

 ernment under the sun to do for them. I believe in 

 the future of this movement, because I think you have 

 the right combination of qualities — the quality of 

 individual initiative, the quality of individual resource- 

 fulness, combined with the quality that enables you 

 to come together for mutual help, and having so come 

 to work with the Government ; and I pledge you in the 

 fullest measure the support of the Government in what 

 you are doing. 



