The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-16
REV. CARVER
P R AISE S
PINCHOT
HE LOOKS UPON THE MAN AS A
GREAT LEADER.
Relates How Clifford Plnchot Grew to
be the Head or the Forest
Service.

The services In the First Prcsby-
tcrian church Sunday evening were
opened with musical selections by
Mrs. C. H. Stevens. Misses Diddle and
Hamil and MI Saunders, The second
OF the sermons on THE Use and
Abuse OF Money" was given. The life
OF Clifford Pnchot. the man who kept
his money and gave himself In true
service" was recalled as illustrative
OF the theme. Rev. Carver said in
part:
At the last meeting OF the Academy
of Sciences in Paris M, Bailland OF
the Paris Observatory reported the re-
suits OF recent Investigations upon
the heat of the stars. The following
facts are of interest. The coldcSt
star is in the constellation of Perseus
and has a heat OF 1880 degrees cen,
tigrade; the hottest star Is in the
constellation Of Taurus and has heat
of $4,000 degrees. The pole star
has a heat of $500 degrees. and our
sun has heat OF only $500 degrees.
Now the sun seems to be the hottest
Of all to us because We arc so near
to 1t. We are recipients OF so much
of It's giving. Just SO with the lives
OF men and women. The ones who
give the world the most OF bcnefcient
eift. even though their gifts be small
compared with others of wealth. Will
be remembered as the greatest bene-
factors. The problem of the good or
evil resulting from the accumulating
of great money power by Individual
men Is a problem which is not pecul-
far TO money alone Any power that
is centralized NAV be used but another
phase OF the problem of the character
OF the man. And indeed this is not
a responsibility which is peculiar to
those OF great wealth, II is on the
contrary one which applies with equal
force TO all OF us in proportion to our
means. MANY a one Is even more
misery with the little capital which
he has acquired In like questionable
methods than is the millionaire with
his larger wealth.
Holmes has said the greatest bless
ing Is to be we'll born, and that the
traits OF the father direct the child.
This was true with Clifford Pinchot
Jamos w Pinchot. his father was
reared In Milford, Pa. small lumber
lUC IOWn Dl lDe D6ldWdI llfeIs All
the region was A wooded one. At the
age of 10 he went to New York and
engaged I'm business and was so pros
porous that in 1875 he retired very
wealthy His standing In New York
was such that he was chosen as
treasurer Of the Barthodi Statue OF
Liberty fund, and trustee of the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art. the National
Academy Of Design, the American
Museum Of Natural History. as well as
being member Of the Society OF AM
erican Foresters and vice president Of
the American Forestry Association.
His interest in forestry led him 10 eS-
tablish the Milford Forestry expert
mental station and TO become one of
The founders OF the Yale School OF
Forestry at Milford as well.
Clifford Pinchot was born at Lines
burg, Conn, August 11th. 1865. He
graduated at Yale I'm SO. and al once
departed for England to study fores-
try. He sought out Sir Dietrich Bran
dis, Englands great forester, and at
his advice went at once to the French
School OF Forestry at Nancy. France
The French over a century ago had
their attention called TO the need of
forestry by the encroaching of the sea
sand upon the land. This compelled
them to border the sea with wide
stretches of forest. In 1860 a law