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to do ix'ller than to supply tlieir 

 own requirements and those of the 

 Maritime provinces. If this is done, 

 little or no coal will be available for 

 Alonlrcal and it is assumed that no 



Nova Scotia coal will be available 

 for Ontario. Foresii^ht indicates that 

 in the woodpile lies one of the means 

 of preventing panic and disaster 

 next winter. 



Flying Patrol for Forest Protection 



By Major K. E. Kennedy, Royal Flying Coups 



In an Address before Quebec Forest 

 Protective Association, Montreal. 



(Concluded from February Issue.) 



A lew minutes ago I spoke of 

 dodgmg "Archie," and perhaps some 

 of you wondered just who my friend 

 Archie happens to be. Archie is an 

 anti-aircraft gun, usually well-con- 

 cealed, and he has a nasty disposition, 

 always trying to keep our fellow s from 

 having any fun. I don't know 

 exactly how he came to be called 

 "Archie," but the tradition is that 

 one of our fellows was up one day, 

 and he saw a Hash from down be'ow 

 and dodged just in time. What he 

 said was: "Not so, Archibald!" 

 Ever since then those particular guns 

 have been named "Archie." It is 

 considered quite the thing to go up 

 and dodge Archie— try to get him 

 fussed up. First of all you find out 

 where he lives, by watching for the 

 flash, and when you see it you know 

 your friend Archie is sending up one 

 of his little pills. After you see the 

 flash you count ten to twenty sec- 

 onds, just according to your eleva- 

 tion, and then when the pill is due to 

 arrive, you put your rudder hard 

 over and pop! ! goes Archie where he 

 thought you would be — ^but aren't! 

 It's great sport dodging Archie! Well, 

 you go on about your business, mak- 

 ing your observations or whatever 

 you have been sent up to do, and you 

 keep in mind just about the length 

 of time it takes for Archie to get busy 

 again. Then you watch for the flash 

 and repeat the previous performance, 

 and so on until he gets fed up on it 

 and decides to let you alone. Some- 

 times he doesn't play fair, though, 

 and calls in his relatives — all his 



sisters and cousins, his uncles and 

 his aunts — and the whole family 

 start in at you and fill the air with 

 things that could not be called pills — 

 furniture, "grand pianos," "billiard 

 tables," "arm-chairs," and any other 

 good heavy furniture you can think 

 of — and when that starts you usually 

 decide to pack up your troubles and 

 head for home. (Laughter). 



One of you gentlemen here today 

 mentioned somethmg about the use 

 of range-finders for locating some 

 special object at a distance. You 

 don't need them when you have an 

 aeroplane because all you have to do 

 is to hop into your machine and go 

 and see it. There simply is no end to 

 the possibilities! Think of the work 

 you could do by means of squared 

 maps such as we use at the front, — 

 ordinary maps of a certain scale, 

 marked into squares — 



THE PRESIDENT : But we have 

 no maps. 



Making Maps in the Air 



MAJOR KENNEDY: Make them 

 with aeroplanes, then. It's a very 

 simple matter. You could map 1,000 

 square miles in ten days, and then 

 when you have your maps, mark 

 them off in squares and number the 

 squares. Give a set of sheets to the 

 chap who is doing the flying, and 

 have a set back at the station. Then, 

 supposing the flyer locates a fire, all 

 he does is look at his map, get in 

 touch with the station (either by 

 wireless telephone or telegraph) and 

 say "Trouble on Square 1," or 



