Show Forest Service Will r Retain its Strength Coming as a severe blow to the thousands of ardent and influential in I t supporters of the magnificent work which he has been be en doing loing I the dismissal of Gifford Pinchot from his position as chief forester of the United States is not without some degree of cons consolation and I those who are arc familiar with ith the workings of this important depart department department I ment meat of the government goven ment service se realize that while Mr removal is in itself a n national and a nd more particularly a n western i calamity his efforts have been so successful that at the service is now established on a Do foundation so firm that nothing will entirely detroy the good that it will win yet et do doI I Ogden has cause for peculiar regret over the Ule action of the or 01 organization orI I powers at Washington for far to Gifford freedom i from political restraint and to his unquestioned and honest judgment this city owes a R great debt It was Gifford Pinchot and his Ida excellent organization that took a broadminded I survey of o the western situation investigated every possibility p i t and finaly fuu y placed the headquarters of the Fourth district in this thiR city cit If H this were the sole Role debt that Ogden owes to Pinchot the man roan we Wc would have hava no DO cause caURe for complaint because it is quite certain that the changes chan R es will not affect the t local ocal headquarters any more moro I than they would naturally be hurt as M a port part of the tho whole service As S an nn important port part of the great western empire which owes Pinchot more millions million of dollars than it could ever repay we cannot but fool deepest gratitude to the former chief and join with hosts hoats of others in hoping that the thc battle hattle is not yet ended and that I in the long run Gifford Pinchot will emerge from the fray fra as he hehM heban ban haa dono done on many occasions victorious AB As S a matter of fact fa at the dismissal itself carries with it i no sting of disgrace for the American people realize r that politics alone is isto isI isto I to blame for the chief foresters dismissal and that upon a basis oft of t i merit ho he would have been retained I i The big grain of or comfort in the whole matter is that Gifford J Pinchot and his able lieutenants have erected a structure that is destined to withstand even oven the assaults of political management or mismanagement The effectiveness of the forest service will willI I never be bo entirely destroyed until every everyone one of the lieutenants and andaS assistants aS with whom nom Mr lr Pinchot succeeded in iu surrounding him himself himself self are aro removed and if such sueh a calamity should befall there would he be no forest service We can oan however thank God for the civil j service and Gifford Pinchot Both were constructed with u view r to absolute and the former fonner forester at lel Jt has I played fair in every dealing that he lie ever had with the west |