Show suffers for indiscreet remark chief ot the bureau of forestry not long ago appeared before a committee of congress and after expatiating on the necessity of preserving the forests he remarked to some of the clerks in his department that he did not consider the service of any woman worth more than 50 a month mr pinchot has heard quite numerously from the fair sex sance his observations and among his corre spon dents was the invincible hetty green mr pinchot has not divulged she said but her letter conveyed impression that any man who made such a statement was not worth fifty cents a year to the government or the nation he has received numerous scathing epistles from other noted women |