Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-01
Bows Asked To Assist
In Fire Fighting Dripe
Page Ywc'ss

washington Sept 299-Boys it is put right up to
you help stop fire loss of the country which costs
$3.50 900 900 every year, and the American Forestry
Association wants you to yourself and school
teacher with ~ its campaign to stop this drain on
the business Of the country In statement to-day
Charles Iahrop president of the american Forest
ry Association the boys of the country can put h
campaign over he wants action, for President WIZ
son proclaimed October . as Fire Prevention Day
with Fire Prevention Day coming on Satnrday'
the American Association calls upon the boys
of the urge their theachers to devote "A part OF
the Friday, October 3, exercises to fire prevention,
saws Mr. The forest fire loss every year Is $3o-
900 OO0 which you add the loss by other fires
You BOYS like the clang of the fire bell but
Won must not hear so often. Tell your dads how the
insurance would drop if the countrys annual fire
bill oe dt n t,t';rd tek i'll know what you are
talking about right away. If he orks in newspaper
office ask him how much the cost OF PRINT paper h"'
jumped since January l.
'In schools five minutes day is not too inuch
to nut against annual loss Of s2500O0OOo, to say
nothing fires that cost the United States $50
900 every year Every time there Is fire 1t is a
direct drain products such as print paper
prices Of which have now gone beyond al known ,ifHi"
Such wholesale destruction is great burden on psh
and wastehoe that saps continually at , hatona,
prospertv Standing timber being and destroyed
m fire disease and insects than four times as fast
timber is being grown Add to this the IRE % Dl
of the nation to say nothing Of the expense OF lighuns
these fires every cang of the fire bell Shoulu
arouse the nation to greater precauon and to the heeu
Of conserving greatest natural resource
Povs make a big dav October 8. the day before FIRE
Prevention Day join the association in its campaign
for saving the forsets ..,..
owned forest land protection Of which the Govern
men should cooperate At present half of TINS aciea
Ia wholly unprotected protection for the other nan
is entirely inadequate. If these lands are 10 p hep
productive be tremendous expansion IN our
present reprocction activities by the Federal ooVe
ment the States and private owners 80,
In the business world scores of industries nave peen
unable to secure supplies of TIMBER at any price
The output certain entire industries mas peeh reuuc'
ae much as so per Necessities have iafed WORST
than luxuries The ramfcaton of lumber shortage ana
high prices mitess and have aliec'e" 'e'o'''
practically populatlon
Hare is an example of what confronts the nalloh'
The Wholesale prices upper grades of SOFT WOOD uh
in New York were from $40 to $25 per looo prior
1S65 when mills in state supplied the maIht''
from s35 to s45 1865 to 1917 wheh most ol "
s,nnlv came from lake states and me South ana
are now entering a general level OF $l30 per l'ooo
with a large part Of the material coming ho" '
Pacific Coast - III, o,,o ~
ADEQUATE fire protection of our forests VIII SoiNF 80
per cent of the difficulties now confronting US IN
ten,nting TO keep forest lands productive Frehei
fire protection everywhere and at all times not o "
the manufactured products but lor .ne , 80, noa |
which came the millions dollars worth or those pfoo
ucts.'