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the past, and as I had personal 

 experience through the great 

 Hinkley fire of Minnesota, was 

 able to picture to them some of 

 the devastating scenes caused by 

 Forest fires. 



At the close of the lecture which oc- 

 cupied twenty-five minutes, I asked all 

 to stand who would pledge themselves 

 to enter now into battle against the 

 great enemy, and every one in the 

 room answered to the call. This, in 

 my opinion, is the only successful 

 method of combatting the forest fires 

 in our Canada. These boys and girls 

 will, in jvist a few more years assume 

 the responsibilities we are now assum- 

 ing, but if they are enlisted now, they 

 will be able to perform their services 

 to our country better than we have 

 ever done. The world conditions, and 

 the warning given by Sir Auckland 

 Geddes to the graduating class at the 

 George Washington University on 

 May 31 is worthy of consideration, 

 for the \ery high ideals of civilization 

 de])end upon the three essentials 

 which he mentioned to be kept in 

 view: "Duty, Service and Truth." 

 And so I believe that now is the time 

 to plant in the minds of the boys and 

 girls of Canada, these three great es- 

 sentials for the protection of civiliza- 

 tion. 1 am herewith handing you a 

 photograph of five of the boys who 

 fought fire for forty-eight hours here 

 at Perth a few days ago. These boys 

 deserve special mention, and I am go- 

 ing to see that the Country will know 

 of them ; they will soon be men, and 

 I feel sure that these five can be de- 

 pended upon to fight forest fires or 

 any other kind of a fire, or any kind 

 of a battle for the protection of civil- 

 ization and our country. 



Sincerely vours, 

 MANLY H. CRAIG. 



DYNAMITE IN BUSH FIRE 



Elk Lake, Ont., becoming panicky, 

 when their boat encountered a bush 

 fire at a portage, because there were 

 twenty cases of dynamite aboard, em- 

 ployes of the Thesaurus Gold Mines 

 abandoned their craft and the entire 

 provision supplies of the mine, mach- 

 inery and gasoline boat were destroy- 



MR. G. GERALD BLYTH, 

 Recently appointed Assistant Secretary of the Can- 

 adian Forestry Association. Mr. Blyth saw much 

 active service with the British naval forces durfng 

 nearly the whole of the war. Recently he has oc- 

 cupied the post of Supervisor of Timber and Fire 

 Protection in the Dominion Parks Branch, Ottawa. 



ed. Though the bush fire exploded the 

 dynamite, a ton in all, not a soul was 

 injured. 



The fire, which destroyed a large 

 area, started north of Matchewan Gold 

 Mines and traveled to the lake in three 

 hours. It frightened the Indians, who 

 assisted the Hudson Bay factor to 

 bury the fur in stock and the whole 

 lot fled down the river to Elk Lake. 

 It turned out that the post escaped 

 and the fire died nut when the wind 

 changed. 



BIG FARMS TO BE FIRE 



CLEARED 



(rrince Albert lieraUn 



C". McFaxden. inspector of forest re- 

 serves, last week visited the Porcu- 

 pine area, where preparatimis are well 

 advanced for the clearing by fire of 

 two large areas. Fire guards have 



