Bisbee daily review., 1909-07-10
FOREST SCHOOLS HELP SERVICE
Forty-seven Graduates Tech nically Trained in Wood
 craft Get Appointments
FOREST ASSISTANTS ACT
 IN ADVISORY CAPACITY

ALBCQUERQUE July 9-lSpeciail Of the forty-ceven young graduates of nine American forest schools who have just received appointments as forest assistants in the administrative districts of the forest service, five have been assigned to positions in this district and have arrived at the Albuquerque ofiice The names oi these new appointees and the schools from which they are graduated in for estry are as follows: Harrington Moore, Aldo Leopold. J. c. Kircher and Henry L. Johnson, of Yale. and F. R. Starr of Harvard. These men have secured their appointments as a result of passing the regular civil service examination. which is the only avenue of employment as for ester under the government.
 Forest assistants are men who have completed training for the pro fession of forestry, as the graduates of law or medicine have completed theirs. and are ready to enter upon practical work Until they have gain ed experience. however, their posi- tions are necessarily subordinate They are at the foot of the ladder and must prove their fitness to mount higher The government pays them s10o0 a year at the start.
 On the national forests the forest assistant often acts as technical ad wiser 10 the supervisors in charge who are western men experienced in all practical matters, but usually without school training in the science of forestry. Or they may be assign ed to the study of some particular problem which needs to be investigat ed in the interest of good forest man agement. As forestry means knowing how to get the most out of any given piece of forest land 1t calls for stud ies and experiment, both scientific and practical. much like those which have to be made in the interests of good farm management, and the for est assistant is prepared to do valu able work along this line.
 There is a growing Interest in the profession of forestry now, and many young men are asking how to gel into it, and what 1t promises. Clifford Pinchot, United States forester. in an address 10 the graduating class in forestry at Harvard university this year, said:
 
 need more men trained in the knowl' edge Of forestry, and it offers oppor' tunity 10 make a mans life loom large and to count for much among the many phases of human endeavor. To be a good forester a man should combine something of the naturalist with a good deal of the business man To know how to use the forest he must be able to study it. He must have. therefore. the power of obser. vatiun. a fondness for nature. and the ability to penetrate her secrets. He must be resourceful. able to stand by himself. willing to undergo the privations of rough life. and cap, able of commanding the respect of rough men. who quickly recognize virility and genuineness of character. but will not tolerate pretense or the assumption of superiority. A forester should be sound in mind and body, and should make the fullest college preparation for the service. This ser vice means a free. vigorous life in the open air. and a clear. straight. fine wholesome manly condition of life"