1896 



Canadian Forestry Journal, September, 191S 



embers with two or three pans of 

 water, or cover them with earth? 

 The real sportsman always does 

 these things. 



Settler! Do you pile your clearin.^ 

 slash away from standing limber? 

 Do you pile it in windrows? Do you 

 choose a burning time when the wind 

 is down and conditions are safe? Do 

 you rnake certain to obtain a written 

 permit from your fire ranger as the 

 law now requires? 



Railroad Engineer! Is the ashpan 

 of your locomotive dropping live 

 coals? Is the smokestack protected 

 as the law specifies? 



Smoker! Is your cigarette worth 

 a million dollars? Does your burn- 

 ing match look as gaod to you as the 

 jobs of two hundred working men? 

 Yet you and your cigarette, your 

 match, the heel of your pipe — small 

 as they may seem — are the timing- 

 gear to big disasters. It is up to you 

 to keep the strictest guard on them. 

 Put out your cigarette — Dead Out! 

 Put out your lighted tobacco, Dead 

 as V0( can makf it! 



WOODEN OVERCOATS NEXT 



The paper clothing that to some 

 extent has been used for German 

 soldiers has been spoken of somewhat 

 contemptuously and undoubtedly 

 much of it has been a ven>' poor 

 substitute for the usual textiles and 

 adopted only because of scarcity 

 of better material. Textile paper 

 spinning processes are, however, still 

 being improved and the announce- 

 ment comes from Sweden that a new 

 process of manufacture bids fair to 

 revolutionize the whole clothing in- 

 dustry-. 



Much stranger things have been 

 accomplished in the past than the 

 utilizatiom of wood cellulose to pro- 

 vide textiles which at will may be 

 made to reproduce the qualities of 

 silk, cotlon or wool. The difference 

 between these Lex.tiles is more in the 

 form of the fibre than in substance 

 or chemical construction. 



Canadians Beat All Comers in 

 Aerodrome Work 



In recent months the Canadian 

 Forestry Corps has greatly extended 

 its co-operation in behalf of the 

 Imperial, French and American forces. 

 Practical appreciation of this assist- 

 ance has been expressed in several 

 letters received from the higher com- 

 mand of the allied forces. In a letter 

 to Sir Edward Kemp, Canadian 

 overseas minister, the Right Hon. 

 Lord Weir, secretary of state for the 

 Royal Air Force, asks for further 

 assistance from the Canadian Forest- 

 ry Corps in the construction of 

 aerodromes in F'rance and England for 

 the R.A.F. He states, in his letter, 

 that the men of the Canadian Forest- 

 ry Corj)s are so well fitted and equip- 

 ped for this class of work that a great 

 economy in labor is elYected by their 

 employment. One company of 

 them, it has been estimated (approx- 



imately 170 strong, is equivalent 

 to at least 600 of the ordinary labor 

 obtainable in England. 



Sir John Hunter, administrator of 

 works and buildings for the Royal 

 Air Force, has written along similar 

 lines to the officer commanding the 

 Canadian Forestry Corps. Testimony 

 to the value of the work being done 

 has also been received from the 

 French army commanders, and also 

 from the Comite Interallie des Bois de 

 Guerre. 



$1,000,000 TO FIGHT FIRES 



Washington, D. C. — A loan of 

 81,000,000 has been made to the 

 Forest Service from the President's 

 special defense fund to combat fires 

 in the national forests of Northwest- 

 ern and Pacific Coast states. 



