Show PINCHOT ASSAILS MCABE I Because Later Latter Took Acton Action to Abolish Collegiate Training of Foresters at Expense CHARGES SECRET ATTACK r at Seems to lo be That ne lie DId Not Folo Policy New York Feb Pinchot deposed chIef fOI of the UnIted States but still loyal loal to his policies M as president of the national conservation committee defended ranger rangers o of the for tor c eat t Service In a speech before tho Na Art ris club In New York tonight lr r Pinchot bitted bitterly assailed the th re ao of Georg George p McCabe solicitor of the who as chief a clel after aner dismissal took of action foresters to lo at government tile tho collegiate expense training TillS This action Mr Pinchot described a as a a secret atack attack on the service prostituting of the law a method o used b by special interests tl against tile the people anti and a cruel anI and needless los loss PROUD OF FOREST SERVICE He said In part partI I am as prud or of the forest 3 Ice and Its men illen us as I ever cor was WaB and r I ventur venture to think that It has proved the value alue or of Is its Ideal by its and the enemies I it hn has mode malle Now let me Inc give gle you OU the best illus I have have sen seen In recent years al Iu or of tow how a public under pretext of oC obedience to tile the law nay may traffic with It and abuse It to tIle publIc inJury Upon my dismissal the solicitor or of the department of agriculture George p McCabe pending tile the arrival or of an another other from tile the field WI was made acting forester 01 three thre or four lays I It appears that ClInt lIe he le learned red then of the ranger schools at the four state tInt uni universities and Sent nl to tho disbursing of In the feld field to tono pay no connected with them These telegram telegrams were kept secret from om every or of tIle the In except tie the stenographer who wrote them WIth equal Crom al all the men In tile the forest service erice a leter letter was wa prepared and sent ent to the romp aSking fol for a speedy advance 10 tp cislon a as to the le legality ly ot of tile the ranger schol riis 1115 letter leUer was clearl clearly in intended intended tended Id and was 10 so framed as to secure a decision against th the schools school anI I It wa was successful In doing so This letter latter Is a because i it omits omit to state the central essential and Incontrovertible fal First that the rore forest t must ha have trained rangers Second that It an ant get t m train I lag str l lIt I the service V ltV It fellows that th tile training of oC tile the rangers b by tile the service II is and fOl the adminis and Improvement or of orthe the national forests BeIng necessary for or that purpose It fals ails well vell the terms o of the agricultural bi bill and andIs Is therefore lawful Consider now the situation un under er which tills this decision or o the comptroller was The solicitor of the ile 10 of oC agriculture Is the tho orl officer J charged with itil promoting the welfare I the department and al all 18 lie bureaus on tile the legal side Both as solicitor anti forester torel I he Wl was 1 In honor anti In ruh duty bound lo tt forward th the work ot of the forest serIce h by er every la lawful means 11 at t this ills his B By hi ills official position he was Is Its counsel and advocate Yet he made no attempt to io assist the gen genIce service Ice In this matter mater CHARGES HARGES SECRET ATTACK On tile the contrary he led the secret ecret at attack tk tack upon I it and us used d an anxious cae that no attempt t to tie de defend fend Il Its curse course should be made b bany by any other man Inan Tile he men of tile Cor service were that filst Informed that tile the legality o of their work was In queston question only after adverse judgment hn had been boen rendered without gIving them any hear hearIng Ing ilig whatsoever I am ala not concerned wih wIth tile the motive mote behind this Indefensible sacrifice of the public It Is a typical ton lion of n a certain way a to oby obey the law Of cule course 1 It Is not obedience to the thc law at al all but tile the prostitutIon or of the law lawI lawIt I It II is tIle the method s is effectively use used by bythe bythe the 9 special Interests against te the ppl people and there Is nothing to be said In Its favor tavor The whole proceeding Is not seen In Us its tre true light until we ralz Its of offet fet feet on near nearly or of the bos best young oung men Illen In the he Corst forest service who were or of ordered to those schools for In These rangers are arc por poor working to for from to 1300 0 a yea year and the they need their pay Yet they wi will los lose not only their pay for tor tile the time they tiley attended Ues schools but tile tho mone money aready already advanced out or of their own pockets for Cor traveling expenses I it Is cruel neole needless 10 loss 1 If the spirit of the tho font forest and especial especially ly ot of the mn rangers rs were le less admirable the harm done to the national forests by the decision so 50 obtained would b be At t best It will 11 be neall nealla a as W I it Is and that II is saying a grat great deal But the fine lot loyalty yng ot of thee these rangers to their tork Is shown tb by the tact fact that about wor half of them hae have stayed on at the ranger schools It at their own expense tile tho bette bettor to learn their public duties duties 1111 devotion In doing so 80 is 19 worthy of ofal al all pr praise but I do not oleo bellove the p pee pie pic of oC the United States cn can afford to lot that stand b by anything more than the prom ton tele these mon have already earned by the quality of their work I It would bo had enough I if tills this gratuitous check to the tho improvement of the tho public verc nothing mor more than a a rebuke to tile the higher offices or of orthe the who were vere responsible for forthe or orthe the ranger schools They O were doing I their duty t as they saw It But when the tho weight of lt ails 1 as It d does s upon the men who can let least afford allord to ear earI carry I it Wile who simply Imply obeyed orders 11 its rth ruth ruthless less disregard or of ordinary humanity b be cornea comes Its mot most striking characteristic I It would bo be hard to find a boter better or ora ora a mor more bIter bitter lu or of the use URe of tile the law a as It a cover tor or not doing what a a public officer hn has a a right to do de deanI anI anti what tile the interests demand that he should do I submit to the tw two pint points or of to your ur judgment and by your our decision |