122 AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 
If the promise for any reason cannot be fulfilled, the person to whom 
it was made must be informed and the card redated. 
The substance of any letter received is never used as a preamble in the’ 
reply. Reference is made to the letter by quotation of the file numbers or 
initials. The form “ Your letter of March 30th has been received” is adopted. 
“Dear Sir” and “Very truly yours ” replace our own formal and cumber- 
some “ Sir” and “I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant.” 
All letters are double-spaced except quotations which are single-spaced. 
Ministerial letters are written in blue elite; others in standard black pica. 
Letter size paper is used; foolscap is conspicuous by its absence. It is 
regarded as cumbersome and wasteful 
Correspondence and final reports are written on white paper, while 
memos. and scratch copies, even though typed, must be on yellow. In all 
cases, every piece of writing must be dated, and signed or initialled. 
Mineographs are used very largely for duplication purposes. For district 
offices the Rotary No. 76, and for supervisor’s offices, the Edison No. 61 are 
employed. Calculating and other labour-saving machines are to be seen in 
every branch. 
The vade mecum of the forest service is the “ National Forest Manual,” 
a veritable encyclopedia of instruction for forest officers, which details the 
standardised procedure to be followed in every possible contingency. It is 
an expression of the scientific management policy—the recording of method. 
In order that it may be revised as desired, it is bound together on the loose 
leaf principle, and revision is made by the substitution of reprinted pages. 
Practically every one of the United States of America office processes 
developed in this chapter could be incorporated into our own systems with 
every promise of increased efficiency and expedition, and added economy. 
Cuapter XIII. 
FOREST SERVICE PUBLICITY AND PUBLICATIONS. 
The case for publicity in forestry matters is summed up in the findings 
of the Forestry Committee of the Fifth National Conservation Congress held 
at Washington, United States of America, in 1913. 
That committee reported— 
“Progress in forestry depends more on what the public will 
permit than upon foresters and timbergetters. Consequently public 
education is of primary importance. 
Education is a matter of publicity, and publicity is a trade in 
itself. It cannot be practised intuitively. 
Since no one else has the interest or the requisite forestry know- 
ledge, foresters and timber people must learn this trade. 
It is not forests, but the use of forests, that we seek to 
perpetuate. 
Therefore, to be sound and convincing, educational publicity 
must include the timber business. So long as the public believes 
forestry good, and timbergetting bad, there will be confusion and 
no real progress.” 
In a democracy, progress can be achieved only through a majority. A 
minority by itself can never succeed. Legislation is a response to public 
stimulation. 
