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service which they have established. Considering the 
manifold activities and lines of work open to a forester 
the lure is strong; yet it is a calling for only the elect. 
Mr. Pinchot advises men to keep out of it if they can, 
believing that the misfit is unhappier in this than in 
any other profession. The men who have answered the 
call of the Red Gods in the past have been largely active, 
full-blooded fellows whom no salary could keep in 
an office. In the future forestry will doubtless offer 
various opportunities to different types of men: to the 
man fond of research, to the salesman, to the logging 
engineer, and the forest administrator but no man 
should enter the profession, however, thinking to find 
an easy berth. It will always call forth the best there is 
in Young America and one who is afraid of manual 
labor, of putting in at least several years of apprentice- 
ship in either laboratory, sawmill, or lumberyard, had 
better keep out. 
To the man who is fond of administrative work and 
who relishes the pleasure of working side by side with 
men of high ideals who glory in their work, forestry 
offers splendid opportunities. The feeling also that one 
is working for future generations, for Americans yet un- 
born, 18 very inspiring. This recalls a story told about 
Johann von Schiller, Germany’s great poet. While 
visiting a forester in the Thuringen Wald he found in 
his friend’s study one day a map of his forest showing 
the cuttings that would be made during the next two 
hundred and twenty years. When Schiller realized 
the extent and perfection of these plans he said, “You 
foresters work quietly and entirely free from hopes 
of reward while the fruits of your work ripen for a 
late posterity. Hero and poet attain a vain glory. 
