Their care for our forests, waters, lands, and minerals is often the only thing that stands between the public good and the something-for-nothing men, who, like the daughters of the horse-leech, are forever crying, "Give, Give." The intelligence, initiative, and steadfastness that can withstand the unrelenting pressure of the special interests are worth having, and the Forest Service has given proof of all three.

But the counter-pressure from the people in their own interest is needed far more often than it is supplied.
The public welfare cannot be subserved merely by walking blindly in the old ruts.

Times change, and the public needs change with them.

The man who would serve the public to the level of its needs must look ahead, and one of his most difficult problems will be to make old tools answer new uses--uses some of which, at least, were never imagined when the tools were made.

That is one reason why constructive foresight is one of the great constant needs of every growing nation.
The Forest Service proposes to use the tools--obey the law--made by the representatives of the people.