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Canadian Forestry Journal, June, i()i6. 



the workmen affected. Figure out 

 what wood means to you as fuel, 

 lumber, furniture, railway ties, 

 boats, boxes, flooring, paper — I can- 

 not begin to count the jobs that a 

 tree performs in an average town. 



Real Patriotism. 



You agree with me that Canada 

 must keep the smoke in every pos- 

 sible factory chimney during the 

 next five years. To do that we have 

 got to keep smoke out of the timber 

 lands. 



A fine lot of business managers ! 

 Pointing with pride to 5,000 wood- 

 using factories, and shrugging our 

 shoulders when , the Fire-Thief 

 threatens to blot out their sole stock 

 of raw materials . 



I am no alarmist, but every lum- 

 berman, evplorer, forest engineer I 

 have met assures me that this car- 

 nival of forest fires cannot continue. 

 They say, and I believe, that fires 

 have been cutting down our reserve 

 stock at a rate that brings. us today 

 fact to face with a crisis. Think you 

 we can burn this candle of precious 

 resources at both ends — use up mil- 

 lions of trees yearly for lumber and 

 pulp and other manufacturers, and 

 toss even more millions to the 

 flames? Which end had we better 

 retain, the end of Use-and-Profit, or 

 the end of Fire-and-Waste? We 

 cannot keep both. One must go. 



Those statistics about the wood- 

 using industries make out a case for 

 a Strong Concern, don't they? But 

 the strength, by friend, is likewise 

 fhp weakness. The foundation of 

 living forests is helpless against fire. 

 They cannot protect themselves. It 

 is up to you and me. 



AMi5t wouVl vou think if we grad- 

 ually killed oft" the cattle th^t bring 

 Canada $37,000,000 worth of butter 

 and cheese everv vear? 



Forest fires threaten ^-^ t-ill wood 

 industries that p-ive us tod-iv more 

 than five times the value of all our 

 butter and cheese. 



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