108 OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



wood crop, and in explaining to the city man that, 

 because at least one-half of all the wood consumed 

 is absolutely necessary to the production and de- 

 livery of the food which he eats, he too is vitally 

 affected. Sweden has great timber resources, yet 

 her fire losses are very small. There, every school 

 teacher takes his pupils into the forest near the 

 town and shows them how important the trees are, 

 such lessons being considered as essential to the 

 children's education as reading, writing and arith- 

 metic. 



A tobacco firm in Canada recently adopted the 

 novel plan of making each package of cigarettes 

 preach a sermon against carelessness. Neatly 

 tucked away in the contents is a small slip on which 

 these words are printed: "Please don't throw away 

 a lighted cigarette. See that it is dead out. Lighted 

 tobacco and matches are especially destructive in 

 the forests. Living forests mean liberal employ- 

 ment; dead forests employ nobody. Don't be re- 

 sponsible for a dead forest." On our own side of 

 the line the motion picture industry has recently en- 

 listed in behalf of forest fire prevention. Its man- 

 agers are now said to be planning a campaign 

 throughout the country showing the destructiveness 

 of forest fires, their effect upon the welfare of each 

 and every individual and what each person can do 



