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Show I FIGHT IS ON FOR FOREST SERVICE. It i assuring lo know that the: 'farm bloc" in congress li rn the Bide of Secretary Wallace in Insisting thai the forest service shall remain in the agricultural department and not be transferred to tho interior department i presided over by Secretary Fall, that i stormy petrel of the present admin istration. The fight tt as started by Secretary Fall demanding lhat the forest service be placed under his superv ision. Then, in a most ungenerous -way the New-Mexican New-Mexican reflected on the management i as directed by Secretary Wallace of the. agricultural department. Mark Sullivan, in making public his observations as to this phase of the cabinet row. says: I "The control of the government forests for-ests once furnished one of the most spectacular political rows in tho pre-ent pre-ent generation. That wa? when Glf-ford Glf-ford Pincbot, then head of the forest service, resigned from the admlnistra tlon of President Taft because he dis agreed with some important parts of the policy then being followed about government lands in Alaska and else where. Since that time Mr Pinchot has been head of the national conser-ratlon conser-ratlon association "The friends of t hp- forest service seem determined to fight to keep the forests within the department of agn culture. They don't concede lhat the forests logically belonc with the rest of the public lands .They make out a fairly convincing argument that because be-cause forestry has 10 do with the growing of trees and because of the relation hetween forests and rainfall and for other reasons forests logically belong with agriculture "Further than that, fhey say the forests for-ests always have been in the department depart-ment of agriculture and have been managed with a policy looking 10 the interests of the people of the whole country. They fear that if they should let the forests go elsewhere something some-thing unpleasant might happen '.o them " Why Secretary Fall should be so eager to gel control of the forest .serv ice is puzzling unkBS II be to further I those Interests which, In the days of Bollinger, attempted to turn the fores lands to private purposes ' President Taft, owing to his failure to rebuke Ballinger, gained the en mlty of Theodore Roosevelt and lost via presidency. President Harding, in I -order to avoid the mistakes of Taft, m should proceed without delay lo squelch Secretary Fall nr |