sacrificed to Fire; we will pay even higher for any 
of our present limited stock we allow to be thieved 
by burning. 
“Why does this wholesale destruction go on? 
Why does not someone stop it?” 
Who Is This “Some One?” 
The only Someone in Canada who can stop 
forest fires is you. Whether eleven or eighteen 
years of age, it is up to you, Boy Scout! 
Let us understand this thing once and for all. 
The people who lose most by the plague of burn¬ 
ing forests are not Lumbermen, but the thousands 
of fathers and brothers and families we bunch to¬ 
gether as ‘the masses of the people/ Most of the 
money that comes from the forests, as we have seen, 
goes to wages and supplies. But very few think of 
the forests in this light, and so when a million acres 
of pine and spruce go up in smoke, most people say: 
“Some lumberman will lose a lot of money.” Doubt¬ 
less the lumberman will, but for every dollar he puts 
up for a timber loss, it is safe to say the wage 
earners and tax payers put up twenty. 
Here is another answer to the ‘Why?' 
We have come to look upon a forest fire as very 
different to a city fire because the growing of trees 
cost us not one particle of money or effort. A kind 
Providence made them a free gift, did all the work 
and supplied all the materials. We trustees have 
been asked only to protect this ready-made bless¬ 
ing from fire and other destruction. 
The Sixty-dollar Woodshed. 
A sixty dollar woodshed does not spring ready¬ 
made from the ground. It takes our cash and 
muscle to erect. So when a fire fiend starts it 
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