A generation in the life of a nation is no longer than a season in the life of a man.

With a fair chance we can and will reclothe these denuded mountains with forests, and we ask for that chance.
Still another attack, nearly successful two years ago, was an attempt to prevent the Forest Service from telling the people, through the press, what it is accomplishing for them, and how much this Nation needs the forests.

If the Forest Service can not tell what it is doing the time will come when there will be nothing to tell.

It is just as necessary for the people to know what is being done to help them as to know what is being done to hurt them.

Publicity is the essential and indispensable condition of clean and effective public service.
Since the Forest Service called public attention to the rapid absorption of the water-power sites and the threatening growth of a great water-power monopoly, the attacks upon it have increased with marked rapidity.