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Show CHIEF PORESTER PiASSES EMPLOYES; Henry A. Graves Says the Men in the Forest Service Are Capable and the Service Itself is Firmly Established and Will Undergo No Radical Changes. before the beginning of the fiscal year. I am making a hurried trip to accomplish that purpose. "1 Jm highly pleased with conditions in eery direction, and eau say, with, pleasure, that the forest work Is moving mov-ing along nicely. There Is no friction anywhere among the employes of the government in the forest service, and I never met a more competent lot of men than I have found in the service on this tilp. ! "You can say, without equivocation, that the plan adopted for Ihe forest service of the United Slates by my predecessor, GliTord Pinchot, will not be deviated from. There will be no changes In p.llcy at all. except where changed conditions, in particular In-I In-I stances, may demand It. The policy j ha.5 b"en. and will be. to give the , big man and the Hi tie man a square deal, conservation of the forests, waiersheds, water power sites, grazing graz-ing and farm lands and the greater ini crests of the people will be the slogan slo-gan in the future as it has been in the p;ut. "There is no reason for a change, for the policy is well foun ied upon safe aid sano principles. I can se what you would like me to say, hut that is Ihe thing that I cannot talk about. Let them settle that matt?r down In Washington. I have nothing whatever to sav regarding the Pin-chot-Balllnger affair " Mr. Graves is a collese-bred gentleman, gen-tleman, but he Is a long way from being a tenderfoot li this cojntrv. He at'ends to business with dispatch and understands what he Is doing as he Is an authority on forest subjects. This afternoon and evening Henry S. Graves, the head of the forestry service department of the United States, will be the guest of the Weber We-ber Club of the city. He will be taken tak-en on an auto trip through Ogden canyon and In the evening a reception recep-tion will be tendered him at the club rooms. Mr. Graves will remain in Ogden tomorrow and will visit Salt Lake Sunday. On Monday he will go to Ephraim, San Pete county, where lie will attend a meeting of forester. He will be In Ogden again Tuesday, and Tuesday evening will depart rof Denver, an ) from there he will go lo Madison, Wis., to be present June 4ih at the establishment of a scien-, title laboratory in forestry. In the unl-1 vcrslty. Mr. Graves anticipates reaching the i national capital bv the middle of June. Th chief forester is accompanied accom-panied by J. B. Adams, chief of the opcraliou department of the national forests. In speaking of his trip to Ihe west. Mr. Graves says that it Is a hurri -d one, and has nothing to do with anything any-thing extent routine matters connected connect-ed with the service. He expects to aiain visit the west an-1 take more time in the tnrious forests, acquainting acquaint-ing himself with conditions in detail. He has visited the western ci untry a number of times in his Hie, in his re-seauh re-seauh for data regarding the national forests, but has never had the privilege priv-ilege of stopping at Ogdn. He stales that he Is well pleased with the reception given him at every point where he has had occasion to etop, and lhn he fully appreciates the co-operative spirit that Is manifested mani-fested by the western people toward the policies Inaugurated by the forest for-est service department. At Portland. San Francisco and Missnubi. the business bus-iness intere.-ts. through commercial club organizations, royally entertained entertain-ed him. and extended to him Ihe hand of fellowship and poo-i wm "Just new." he ald lo a Standard reporter, "I am acquainting myself with matters thit nr-ed my attention |