OUTDOOR WORKERS

Need of More Distinctive Names for Some of Them

In spite of the question to the contrary, there is really everything in a name. Here are a few which have come down the ages-they so exactly describe the men and the work that every one of us has a definite picture in his mind when he hears the namre: farmer, hunter, fisherman, stockman, lumberman. But here are two that have not as yet become definite to everyone who hears them: ranger' forester.

What does the average man think of when he hears the name "forester?" Either of an officer who has charge of a forest of some sort or of a technically-trained adviser in forest work. what does this same useful character, "the -"r, ot the street," think of when someone speaks of a "ranger?" Is it anything more than this: an active outdtot-chap rushing ioouttd in the parks, forests, woodlands and wheiever peiple take their outings ; a sort 9f ouidoo.s c"retakei; a- person of whom you can ask help in emergencies ; a jack-of-all-trades.

If these statements are true, it is high time for the generai public, as well as the lexicographers, to revise a few terms. --A-'ifor".ter" is simply a man who lives for'but three things-the fullest .aie, fullett use, fullest development oJ-i'iot".t, whether private or national' Everything else is'iubotai"ated to these principles except for short periodr; "tta incidentally, he is not a gamewarden ot a graz'