The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-20
Taft Said to Desire the Chief Forester and Yale Man
 as a Member.
HIS RISE IN POPULARITY
Work Now Appreciated by the Public Organization of Bureau Being
 Made Permanent.

in that position under the next ad-
 minlstratlon. says a special Washing
 ton dispatch to the Boston Tran
 script Some activities at hls biz bu l reau have been construed by observ-
 CTS, inside and outside. as indicating
 SO much, If MT PInchot doesn't re-
 main In his present position under q | Taft administration, it will be because l he will become cabinet member, ! This Is the universal belief, at least,
 based on the fact that he Is only q | less intimate friend of Mir, Taft than
 of the president, and that the latter
 has long been credited with desire, ! If ever opportunity should present, to
 make MT Plnchot one of the cabinet | family Such promotion would ! mean that he would become secre-
 tary of agriculture,
 Mir. Plnchot is the real father of ] government forestry in this country.
 and on that subject he has been tire l lessly industrious and inexhaustibly ! enthusiastic, For long time he was
 misunderstood and widely regarded
 as crank. Tho fact that he is q
 wealthy man was oven occasion for
 suspicion that he was mere faddlst
 and could not possibly have an lntcl-
 ligent notion of what he was trying
 to do But as time passed and his
 work made progress, and people came
 to understand what he was doing for
 them, and the pressing necessity that
 1t he done, the situation shifted, and
 to-day it may be doubted If there Is
 any enterprise of the government
 which is more popular with the vast
 body of the people than the work of
 the forestry bureau. MT Pinchot has
 come Into his vlndicatlon. Represen-
 tatives and senators who at one time
 set about a crusade against him and
 his bureau have about given it up in
 despair. They heard go much from
 the country and found the friends of forestry work SO active and deter
 mined, that 1t became plain their fight was decidedly unpopular The president stood squarely back of Mir Pinchot. and between the presidents strength and the solid popular belief in the forestry work it was useless to hamstring the bureau of forestry and who made earnest appeal to the east, awoke at last to the fact that the cast and south instead of being willing to sympatahze with them. were them
 selves anxious to get in for some of the forestry work New England wanted reserve In the White noun tains, and the south was q unit for
 the great southern Appalachian re-
 serve project,
 Mir. Pinchot has his work or I ganized and established in such l shape that it Is considered safe I for the future. It will go ahead safely
 enough under it's own momentum and I the pressure of public demand for it II By way of making work more popular I in the country where it is carried on II the forest service Is now making plans Il to establish forest districts throughout | the west, each with general execu- | tive headquarters from which affairs !l for the tributary territory will bt II handled. The plan has dual object | | It will get the work and It's supervsicf III closer to the territory, and save muci II time and expense in handling business by mall It will make close supervision H more readily possible, and beyond this II 1t will bring the work close to the peo III pie who are concerned by it.
 II The prejudice against this work, il the mountain and far-western states
 is not yet nearly dead Those state
 are ambitious for immigration, growtl I and development. They do not vlev II with satisfaction the spectacle of tn government withdrawing one-thrd O III the area of great state from settle III ment, In order to turn 1t into reserves II This Is what Senator Heyburn declare had been done in his state of Idaho
 He was willing to admit that posterit Il might rise and call blessed those me II who had been so thoughtful as thus [ III conserve supply of timber: but, deal II Ing with his own state, and dealing i W the present, he found that the peopl M wanted those vast areas opened fc settlement and developments V the wanted homesteaders to come in: the wanted to see numbering plants estat lshed, to turn the forests Into movabl wealth. They wanted the privilege ( growing: and with such vast terr lIl tories hedged off for indefinite period HI growth was in large measure stunted a That Is the attitude of the obiector
 Thus far they have been ridden dow
 and everything indicates that in futu, w their protests will have less and le' b- weight. The new organization Is e' he pected to help further popularize u fly work, At each of the district ofiic, H. will be located a district chief and a E. sistant, with such scientific and off, It. force as may be necessary For tl IT, present 1t Is expected that a force lis about fifty people will be establisht H. at each district office; and most CT these will be moved directly from Il ng big Washington bureau cstablishmer iy Such work as planting, experiment. ld, ton in selection of trees, use of the r ls- serve areas where it Is possible, f' 1is grazing, etc, will be given careful q ed tention; each headquarters will ha' ng It's own complete accounting service. 1ls When these headquarters are e Ter tablshed the bureau will have be- sly at last placed in the ideal permane 'al form Mir. Pinchot has long desire nc The locations of the district offic CT, are not yet finally determined, Poi ci- land and Spokane both want tl ,k, North Pacific establishment, whit he will probably go to Portland Si If. Francisco or Sacramento will get t he one for California, but the decisl i'm is yet to be made; Albuquerque W be probably get the Southwestern otiit he Denver and Missoula Mont, stand is- be chosen in their sections wh