Since the creation of the Forest Service the expenditure of nearly $15,000,000 has passed successfully the scrutiny of the Treasury of the United States.

Most significant of all, not once has the Forest Service been defeated as to any vital legal principle underlying its work in any Court or administrative tribunal of last resort.

Thus those who make the law and those who interpret it seem to agree that the work has been legal.
But it is not enough to say that the Forest Service has kept within the law.

Other qualifications go to make efficiency in a Government bureau.
A bureau may keep within the law and yet fail to get results.
When action is needed for the public good there are two opposite points of view regarding the duty of an administrative officer in enforcing the law.

One point of view asks, "Is there any express and specific law authorizing or directing such action ?" and, having thus sought and found none, nothing is done.