THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY. MAY.

2, 1924

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We move freight, express and supplies by wagon, drays or pack - horsea.

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A. Wisconsin. “oceurred w hat:

Man Can. Prevent Eighty-six Per Cent.. of F Fires Which Burn Forest!

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which 1, 500 lives were 8 sacrificed and flames devoured ‘everything on one million two hundred and eighty thousand acres, . That conflagration sprang from a fire so small at dne time that a child. could have extinguished it; then, it might have required the atten- tion of an able bodied man; then, ten might have handled it, and| then it reached a ‘point where nothing but a change in weather or a decided break in,topography

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Theodore Roosevelt is “e ovedited with the remark that. “‘Ninety per cent of wisdom consists of being wise in time.”’

In the past we Canadians, with the exception of a few whom the majority thought. rather crazy than otherwise, have sat apathe- tically by and witnessed the de- struction annually by forest fires, of our second largest natural asset, our timber. The repeated hammering in of their ideas by

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the small minority, has, however, |could stay its course. - Last fall,

at length roused the people at a section of the University town large, to a realization of the|of Berkley, California, was wiped enormity of our loss by fire. |out by a bush fire. Who, a few | Consequently, the present week fhours before . the - fire occurred has by Royal Proctamation been would have believed that -nos- declared ‘'Save the Forest” week. |sible? Yet the atmospheric con- Throughout the length and ditions were such that it was breadth:of Canada forest protec-|impossible to save. the town, tion is being preached in the|There is one lesson to be derived pulpit and in the press and forms |from this, namely that in a the subject of addresses bv ‘offi- | forested country no fire, however

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cers of all our forest protection|small, that is not guarded and

organization. absolutely under.control, can~be

Will we be wisein time? There|neglected. Given the right con- is yet time to save the great| ditions it may ‘burn out the coun- heritage of ‘our timber for our|try side.

children, but, we are rapidly aD- It is the duty then of ‘every proaching a point when this will citizen, first, to exereise the ut- be no longer possible unless some | most care with fire himself, method is devised of checking|secondly, on discovering a fire the annual destruction. ' |to extinguish it if possible, but When we know that only four-|at last, to report it to the nearest teen per cent of our fires are|forest officer. Quick action on |. caused by lightning and there-jany fire is the one sure. method fore non-preventable, this. does of extinguishing ity.

not seem impossible to. achieve |. -'In addition to the paid’ atatf as eighty-six per cent are caused] of the Forest ‘Service,"we Have by man who has. the remedy in|in British Columbia a large. body his own hands. | of volunteer firewardens, patrio- Wherein does this remedy lie?|tie citizens who are preaching Not with the state, not with the|the gospel of. forest. protection legislature, not with the munici-| without remuneration and have pality, but with the individual. banded together to help to stay You and:I, Bill Smith and Jack|the destructive work of the “‘red Jones, are the persons who canjenemy.”’ By their assistance we stop the fires. Who but a lunatic, | are yearly getting quicker action seeing a fire start in one of our|on our fires. “Are you leas patri- cities would not rush to the/jotic than they? nearest fire alarm or himself at-| In Norway and Sweden there tempt to extinguish it? Yet|are practically: no forest fires, daily throughout the summer|There, when a fire does occur, otherwise good-sane citizens will|the mau power is conscripted to consistently leave their camp fight it. | We'as a people. always fires burning, throw away cigar, held conscription in scorn, -until or cigarette in the woods, orjan exceptional. state of circum: étart a running fire in a slashing. stances forced it upon us during which they know they are power-| the Great War. We still dislike: less to checksonce it has. gained | the idea as being repugnant to a certain head. Aré ‘these fires|-our. ancient traditions, The.al- dissimilar from those in our cities | ternative: is voluntary : service, and are they’ fraught with no|not aa fire-fighters onthe line, danger? In, 1916 in Northern |Ontario one forest: fire cost the lives ‘of. 993, people. and 800, 000 acres were, swept - bare in three dave. In 1871, in’ the state of

care ourselves, inculeating the ‘game ‘principle in others and loyally supporting all ‘organized.

known ‘as ‘the. Peshtigo’ Aire; ina very treacherous. fos: » , ene!

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one, ‘ti is hoped it will be deléan one. . mud- slinging. In this: new, coun-

try. there. are: go ‘many ‘really’ im- |:

~ Opening ithe § ‘Season With the. Conservative convent tion ain Terrace on Thursday, May 8, sand: the Liberal. convention mn. | Hazelton : on: May 15, just! a. week

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with mattock and shovel, but as - fire-preventers handling. it with |

s| efforts to combat’a very: real: and

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