is a great sight. Every man, woman, and child 
literally looks to a tree for meals and lodging and 
clothing. If the wooded country from which these 
mills float down their logs was swept severely by 
fire through some person leaving a camp fire glow¬ 
ing or dropping a match in the pine needles it would 
destroy so much of the tree supply that practically 
the entire community would be thrown out of work 
and the value of the big mills damaged possibly for 
all time. These towns derive all their employment 
from the forests and in that way are exceptional, of 
course. But thousands of other towns and cities 
are kept prosperous by saw mills, boat building 
shops, box factories, furniture makers and the many 
other industries that need the forest to keep them 
running. How many Canadian merchants, railway 
employees, clothing and boot makers, farmers, car¬ 
penters, masons, clerks, etc., owe part of their living 
to the serving of the Canadian Forest-Army is im¬ 
possible to guess at, but must be considerable. 
Who Gets the Forest Dollarf 
Get this fact clear! 
The Dollar that comes out of a felled tree is 
Everybody’s Dollar. It shares itself with all citi¬ 
zens from Atlantic to Pacific. No Dollar from any 
Canadian industry is broken into so many parts and 
so widely distributed. 
Two thirds of each hundred cents that comes 
from a log goes to pay wages and buy supplies. The 
other third goes to meet the government dues and 
interest on the lumberman’s investment. 
But who owns these wonderful forests that give 
so many men and families a living and stand be¬ 
hind the prosperity and happiness of the whole 
country? 
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