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come not only from Mondell and Heyburn and the other western anti- 

 conservationists, but from farther east — from Tawney and Steener- 

 son of Minnesota, Fitzgerald, Perkins, and Bennett of New York, 

 Clark and Stone of Missouri, Haugen of Iowa, Hamilton of Michigan, 

 and others. 



The extravagance of the Forest Service is alleged to have been 

 shown in various ways. Mondell claimed in 1911 that not over 15 per 

 cent of the annual appropriations for the Service in the previous six 

 years had been used directly in protection of the reserves, a consider- 

 able share of the rest going for an unnecessarily large clerical force, 

 traveling expenses, for unnecessary junkets, and for the prepara- 

 tion of newspaper and magazine articles for advertising the Forest 

 Service.^ Various men have complained of the payment of traveling 

 expenses of forestry officers, who "stand before the national geo- 

 graphic societies and other learned societies with impressive titles and 

 tell them how the world ought to be run.'" In 1908, an amendment to 

 the Agricultural Appropriation Bill provided that none of the money 

 appropriated should be used to pay traveling expenses of any forest 

 officer except on business directly connected with the Forest Service ; 

 but it was often charged even afterward that government funds were 

 used to pay the expenses of officials who were merely going about 

 lecturing to conventions and associations.* 



The "press bureau" of the Forest Service has often been criticised, 

 the charge being that the Service devotes considerable time to the 

 preparation of bulletins and articles, often of a self-laudatory nature, 

 to send out to the newspapers and magazines. Mondell pointed out in 

 1910 that the Forest Service had a mailing list of 750,000 names.' 

 In 1908, the appropriation bill was amended to prevent the use of 

 money for the preparation or publication of such articles, but it has 

 been charged that the Forest Service often evaded this.* 



JUSTICE OF THESE COMPLAINTS 

 The weight to be given to these complaints of extravagance in the 



2 Cong. Bee, Feb. 2, 1911, 1836. 



3 Speech of Senator Heyburn, Cong. Rec, Mar. 1, 1911, 3774. 

 * Stat. 35, 259. 



5 Cong. Rec, Feb. 1, 1910, 1359. 

 « Stat. 35, 259. 



