Show I I HENRY HENRYS s GRAVES GRAVESt THE NEW FORESTER We Wc arc are yet et in the midst of forestry development and adminis administration j I I in this country No one at this time can au the services that Mr 1 Pinchot as its former head of ot the forest forts s lies has rendered erl his country The groat work that I ha t he ho has done hrs hns lin practically all nil boon heen n accomplished since 1808 R When he ln 11 entered the hue forest service he lie found it ita a small division of he department of agri agriculture agriculture culture with an annual expenditure of or Iud and without a foot fool of forest land to protect and administer tH When Whon he left the service in January of the tho present year it hud had grown under his able ahle admin administration to be he one of the most important bureaus in the government and one ono nearest to the hearts of the tho American people The service hns has grown until now nov no it has huus under its care the man mall management of more than acres of forest land from which a gross annual income of about is obtained n d More lore than 1500 trained foresters forest rangers rangers antI and assistants are arc engaged in protecting improving and developing this vast area aroa of or national forests When the news of or Mr retirement became known tho the public was ns much hue concerned as to the tile future of the forest service A mistake in the appointment of his successor would work irreparable injury President Taft TrilL has shown good judgment j tnt in appointing Henry Honry Solon Sohon Graves director of 01 oI the he Yale Yah Forest school to this po Pa position position By the appointment of a n trained forester and a loader lender in forestry education to the position of forester we arc are assured that thia the forest service is in good bunds The great work in iii national for forestry forI estry so ably ahl conducted d by Mr 1 Pinchot will continue Not only is this appointment approved by br the people hut it meets with the hearty heart approval of the thc entire forest service Mr 11 Graves will win go to Washington having the confidence of the entire service of winch which he heis heis heis is the head By B temperament training and amI experience e he is well fitted for the position His high sense of justice julice and right his h s sym sympathy s m pathy with conservation the which he lie has shown in n work working working ing in with and handling men men his intimate knowledge of forestry his high professional standards his ideals regarding the management of the national forests his close elo c connection i with the forest service during the past post decade and personal acquaintance with many man of its members rs make him lini the best fitted man in America for the position Physically Mr rr Graves is isa a small man hut but he is a n bundle of energy a man who does docs things and docs does them in iii the right way ny lie Ire is in the prime of life married and and has a keen sense of the responsibility of American citizenship He Ire is conservative a 11 rapid but careful worker and of pleasing personality The position position position tion which he hc is called upon to fill is a very difficult one but he lie will meet the difficulties of his office with a spirit of fairness and ane solve them in a manner which will serve the best interests of the American people He lie is is a man mrm of sound judgment and will not hesitate to act promptly on all matters that fall faIl within his jurisdiction lie He is ac accustomed accustomed to work with others and not alone and will seek the best advice attainable when matters of policy and of large import are arc at stake Mr Graves was born horn at Marietta Ohio May Mil 3 1871 His lather father Prof W Y B 13 Graves was for many man years professor of natural sciences in ill iii Phillips academy Andover Mass lie He was educated at Yale graduating in iii 1892 After deciding to enter forestry which he lie did under tho tim advice of Mr rr Pinchot he lw studied forestry at Harvard arid and later lutter at Munich Germany German His ilis first practical forestry work was with Mr Pinchot in when the latter maintained nn an office in New York The outcome of a portion po ion of o this work was a volume on the white pine of which Mr lr Graves as joint j int author with Mr r Pinchot During a portion of 1897 Mr lIr Graves was employed by the thc United States geological survey to examine and report upon the forest growth of the Black Hills forest reserve The fhe result of this work was published by the geological survey The next ne t year ear when Mr Pinchot Pin hot became chief of oj the tho then division of forestry Mr Graves became assistant ass dant chief of the division He served hi In fl this capacity until 1900 when hen hien the Yale Forest school was established under the endowment given gien to Yale by br the Pinchot family for this th s purpose As director of the Yale Tale Forest school Mr 1 Graves Grayes has been large largely ly hy responsible for the high position p which it holds in forest foreRt educe education tion Although a graduate school in tho short space of ten years yeaTS it has grown from an enrollment of hut but seven students to that of more than eighty eight A large number of tho the technically trained for foresters foresters foresters esters in the tho forest service s received their thir training at Yule Yale so RO that Mr Graves Grayes goes into a service largely p made up of men having haying the lie same ideals regarding the management of the nations forests that he lie entertains During his connection with the forest service and since Mr 1 Graves Giaves has mis contributed d largely to the literature of forestry He lie is is the tIle author of the I y Handbook and aud of ot o I Practical For Forestry Forestry Forestry estry in in the Adirondacks two important bulletins published by the thu forest service He in is joint author with R B T Fisher of the Wood Woodlot lot another bulletin published by the flue forest service His mo most t im important flU portent work as un an au author is a Manual of Forest for forthe forthe j the he use of students and foresters which wl eh is if thc the only comprehensive work of the kind published in America mariea A He H is is at present at work on two important t volumes on American Although devoting his hi best hest energies to the building up of oC the flue Forest school Mr rr Graves is keenly alive alie to the progress of forestry rore tr trill I iu ill in this tins country countr and and abroad In 1005 he was commissioned by the for forest forest forest est service service to examine aud and report upon the thc forest forc conditions in in the thit Philippine J Islands lie spent a ut portion of last summer in a n personal stud of ot national forests foret in Washington Oregon Idaho and antI Montana A broad interest in national nat and state slate forestry is shown in his ht relation to forest associations and to forestry journals journ ls He lie is a director d rec rector tor for of the American cnn Forestry association and the president of the Connecticut cut Forestry Foresti association As a frequent contributor to for forestry forestt estry estt journal he lie lias huis hl added addled much to the current literature of fores fares forestry try tr lie He is is one of the editors of the Forestry Quarterly the foremost American Amer journal on this subject Although an nn Eastern man by birth and education the new for forester foreste forester ester este has lias many of the characteristics of a Westerner lie He knows the tho theom thoy y Vest cst from om personal investigation and travel and and is in iii close touch with M estern lumbermen and foresters The Tho national forests are all allin allin in in th Vest est and the point t of view of the people of that region must C bo be fully lully full appreciated in in order that the Forester may serve seive the coun country try tr in in the highest degree and maintain the efficiency of the bureau of which hichi he is is if the official heed head Mr Graves because of his personal characteristics and experience will have the full confidence of tIll the lie West went The ine fortunate appointment of A F Potter to the position of ot associate forester and chief adviser of the forester forestel will w still fur further tIter ther strengthen Mr h Graves in in ii his relation with the West Vest Mr Potter Pot ter is is a Californian by br birth hirth and has spent t the greater reater part of his life jie in th the Vest lie He has hns long lonK been beo identified with the forest fore t sen serY service ice ce and a is s thoroughly familiar with Western conditions ons U is 16 is but little doubt that in ill the near future tremendous pres 3 sure will vm sill be brought upon the tho chief e forester foresti and aud his associates in incheck U to check the tho progress ss of national forestry m in favor of special Ve c have confidence that under the new forestry private interests in I will not ot be ted to infringe upon the rights of the peo pIe III the Inn national IOnTa fr forests forest st without a protest which will echo from frore il coast n mt to tn r W V r in the Independent |