Canadian Forestry Journal, September, 1918 



1877 



Canada to Profit by Forestry Corps' 

 Experience 



Sir Robert Borden, since his return 

 to Canada has been speaking before 

 important gatherings as to Canada's 

 responsibility and duty at this time. 

 In his address at the Central Canada 

 Exhibition in Ottawa on Sept. 9 

 he dealt particularly with conserva- 

 tion of time, money, and natural 

 resources. On the latter point he is 

 reported as speaking as follows: — 

 "The war, the Prime Minister said, 

 woiild teach many other lessons. 

 He had reason to believe that men 

 serving in the Forestry Corps in 

 Great Britain and France would 

 come back to Canada with new ideas 

 as to forest conservation, and espec- 

 ially as to reforestation. Much has 

 been said during recent years on this 

 subject, but practical oi3Ject lessons 

 are usually much more effective than 

 the written or spoken word. 



"There must be an avoidance of 

 waste in all departments of national 

 activity by Federal, Provincial and 

 Municipal Governments. That 



could only be accomplished by the 

 cultivation of a healthy public opin- 

 ion, and by the realization of the 

 same purpose by the people in their 

 own j)ersonal affairs. The burdens 

 of the country woidd be great, but, 

 compared with our resources if pro- 

 perly developed, they would not 

 eventually be serious. The countiy's 

 resources were enormous and they 

 must be conserved as far as possible 

 for the benefit of the whole people. 

 In order to conserve it was not 

 necessary nor desirable that resources 

 should lie idle; they must be develop- 

 ed in the interest of the people and 

 not exploited for individual profit. 



Wireless Telephone for Forest Patrol 



(By an Officer of (he Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co., 

 Montreal.) 



"If the transmission of telegraph 

 signals through space is wonderful, 

 how much more marvellous, seem.s 

 the carrying of human speech across 

 the world without aid of wires! And 

 yet the problems presented in 

 achieving this result were purely 

 mechanical ones. Wireless, or more 

 pro])erly rar//o-telephony, has been 

 the subject of experiments by the 

 Marconi Companies in England and 

 the United States for several years, 

 and like aviation and other sciences, 

 has made particularly rapid strides 

 during the present war. The big 

 U.S. naval wireless station at Arling- 

 ton, Virginia, has already been in 

 conversation with the Eiffel Tower, 

 France, and with a station at Hono- 

 lulu, and it should be noted that in 

 this and other long distance radio- 

 telephone experiments, the voice was 



heard remarkably clear without 

 the "buzzings" due to line trouble 

 frec}uently affecting the ordinary tele- 

 phone. It is obviously impossible to 

 divulge information which must be 

 necessarily kept secret in war-time 

 but it may be stated that wireless 

 telephone installations are being em- 

 ployed by certain of our Allies for 

 communication over a distance of 

 sixty miles between aero])lanes, the 

 same apparatus being adaptable to 

 wireless telegraph communication over 

 twice that range. The advantages 

 of such a dual system are well worthy 

 of consideration by those interested 

 in the question of forest fire control, 

 and should not be overlooked." 



The wireless telephone will be 

 manufactured in Canada after the 

 war, the Canadian Forestry Journal 

 is informed. 



