PINCHOT: "THE MAN WITH AN IDEA"
Pinchot: "The Man With an Idea" GIFFORD PINCHOT is essentially the Man with an Idea," said Walter Wellman in the Chicago Record-Herald. "What his idea is—his cause—everyone knows. It is protection...
...When he graduated from Yale about twenty years ago, where he won high honors on the athletic field as well as in the class room, young Pinchot was a millionaire, with a world of pleasure before him to be had for the asking...
...Vanderbilt, and including about 100,000 acres of forest land...
...Pinchot has since developed now numbers about 3,000 persons, 250 of whom are professional foresters...
...Vanderbilt, and Pinchot was called into service on the Biltmore estate in North Carolina, owned by Mr...
...There were no schools of forestry in this country then, so Pinchot betook himself to Nancy, France, where he spent a year in study...
...That part of the national estate which is administered by this department has a money value more than twice that of the total equipment of the Army and Navy...
...He made extensive tours of inspection in this country and Canada, and in 1892 hung out his shingle, so to speak, in New York, soliciting forestry practice as counsel for private owners of timber lands...
...The Forest Service, which Mr...
...He afterward became a special agent of the Government, and when a little later, the Division of Forestry was established in a very modest way, consisting of ten persons, mostly clerks, Gifford Pinchot was made its chief...
...Rich enough to enjoy a life of ease, he spends double his salary that he may labor for the government and the people and the people's future...
...The Academy placed Pinchot on the commission that made the report...
...It is protection of our great natural resources...
...He had imbibed from his father a love of forest culture and he determined to make a specialty along this line...
...Then he hunted up the British inspector general of Indian forests, Sir Dietrich Brandis, who has figured in one of Kipling's sketches—'In the Rukh.' At Sir Dietrich's invitation he joined a class from the English Forest School that was about to make a tour of Germany and Switzerland, under Sir Dietrich's guidance...
...Then it was that he returned to America to start a new profession here...
...For this he has fought like a hero...
...If he is not a fine type of the public servant, one would not know where to find such a type...
...The steps by which this man has risen, on a ladder of his own making, to the head of a great government Bureau and the leadership of a popular movement are tersely and interestingly described in Current Literature...
...He entered the public service in 1896, when Hoke Smith, then Secretary of the Interior, called on the National Academy of Sciences to report on a national policy for the forest lands of the United States...
...One of his magazine articles attracted the attention of Mr...
...He threw in his lot, however, with the toilers and builders...
Vol. 2 • January 1910 • No. 2
