AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 15 
The work of the seven forestry districts of the United States of America 
is correlated and controlled by the forester at Washington, who is the chief 
of the Forest Service, under the Secretary for Agriculture. 
He is assisted by an associate forester and five assistant foresters 
controlling the branches of operations, lands, silviculturd, grazing, and 
research. 
The branch of research has supervision over the investigative work of the’ 
service, including silvicultural studies, studies of State forest conditions, 
investigations of the lumber and woodusing industries and lumber prices, and 
the investigative work carried on at the Forest Product Laboratory and the 
forest. experiment stations. 
The forester exercises as such the delegated authority of the Secretary 
of Agriculture, “to issue such instructions to the officers and employees of 
the Forest Service, and to establish such procedure for the guidance of the 
users of the National Forests as may be necessary to carry the regulations 
into effect.” 
The forester enjoys much the same powers of management as those of a 
commission in Australia. The political head does not participate. 
Cuaprer VIII. 
PERSONNEL POLICY. 
Industry is normal—idleness abnormal. 
“Activity means growth and development—inactivity means decay and 
death.” 
In the “Physiology of Faith and Fear,” Dr. Sadler demonstrates the 
destructive effects upon the human body of fear, worry, uncertainty, discourage- 
ment, grief, and hate. Mental peace, courage, and happiness are constructive. 
Inharmony is the sand which shreds the bearings of the industrial machine. 
The atmosphere which invests an organisation is the peculiar aura of its 
management. It is a palpable influence acting for destruction or construction 
ag it is good or bad. 
Frightfulness and militarism are going out of fashion. The new discipline 
—the new spirit of management—appeals to higher motives than fear. 
It is an instinct in man to devote himself to a cause—even to that of 
forestry. 
Says Emerson: “Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm. 
The way of life is by abandonment.” 
“Any gang of ditch-diggers will pitch in and make the dirt fly, in order 
to outdistance another gang. Love of the game is strong in every normal 
human being.” (Dr. Blackford.) 
“Among the fundamental principles of the universe is the law of _growth, 
When there is no opportunity for advancement or promotion, a man may 
work under the spur_of necessity, but his work has in it nothing of that joyous 
abandon which arises from constructive thought and feeling and results in 
efficiency.” (Id.) 
