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Show F T.1 L!-- -" g THE CITIZEN it FOREST MOSAICS tLtCT By Public Needs and Public Obligations ONE of the new things of the war, all of us know, was the use Forest Products laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin ,and tells us in a veyf ' clear, well written- paper, of sever pages, how the national forests can be mapped more rapidly and, for some purposes, much better by means of aerial photography. Here is more work for our young American aviators, and the idea suggests that before long every district in the forest system will own aircrafts for this work, as well as for fire prevention. As Mr. Thelen explains, an airplane equipped with a magazine comera flies over the area to be mapped, maintaining as uniform an altitude as possible, and exposures are taken at the proper intervals tu insure a sufficient overlapping of the resulting negatives. Under the best conditions prints are all made to the same scale, distortions as far as possible corrected, and then they are matched up, trimmed, and assembled into a fin- The initial appearance of a needed utility in a community is always cordially welcomed. It is recognized not only as filling a decided want, but also as an evidence of the growth and development and prosperity of the community. So long as appreciation of the utility finds expression in the publics willingness to grant to the enterprise revenues adequate to meet its honest requirements under efficient management, so long will the utility be able to serve the i H. Shinn. made of photographic reconnaisancel' made from aeroplanes. It is said that the British army had 17,000 such photographs taken and worked up into a relief map of the whole St. Quentin sector before an advance was ordered. Such relief maps are known in military parlance as mosaics. A new thing, you note, and one of vast interest at times, but the old name for a tossellated pavement made of small bits of stone suits it very well. Now comes Ralph Thelen, of the HE ability of a public utility to serve the public depends upon the attitude of the community toward the utility. i Charles - public satisfactorily. But there must be mutual understanding and mutual confidence. Neither a public nor a private enterprise can build permanent success upon revenues derived from a public that has no faith in nor respect for the institution. The utility's obligation is to serve; the publics obligation is to create such conditions as will make it possible for the utility to serve. ished mosaic. The main difficulty in the case of such photographic work over a mountainous country is that one does not get an accurate scale map the peaks are abnormally large (because Also, the nearer, to the camera.) forest map work already done by the government is of very careful and extensive sorts, such as for boundaries, land entries, timber, grazing, soils, minerals, enginering, etc. But aerial photographs might be of immense use in general administrative surveys, in mapping areas as yet imperfectly worked up, in supplementing many sorts of field work and perhaps as much as anywhere in assisting grazThey would ing reconnaisances. have a place, too, in laying out trails, i in following up timber sales, and bringing everything up to date oJ The Telephone Company is subject to the same economic laws and principles as those governing other industries. The permanency and adequacy of telephone service depend upon the same factors as are involved in the security and permanency of every other established industry. Mutual understanding of each others needs and mutual willingness to supply such needs will insure adequate and efficient service to the public and financial security to the Company. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company forest records At this time of the year, when every nerve is- strained to lessen the fire losses in our forests, all foresters are taking the large view and systematically planning everywhere in detail for better equipment, more rapid communications and, in brief, bigger In all this the human eleresults ment counts for most Years of hard work has made as fine a body of fire fighters as is in existence They go to - . AN ANGLO-IRIS- H TUNNEL. Not only is it thought that the long talked of tunnel between England and France will be constructed at no remote date, but there is also talk of a tunnel betwen England and Ireland. This would restore to a slight extent the geographical union that existed between the two countries in one geological age thousands and thousands of years ago. Great Britain and Ire land were then separated only by a great valley. It is proposed to carry the tunnel from some point on the coast of Lancashire to the nearest point in Antrim or Down on the Irish coast, a submamiles. One rine length of twenty-fou- r of the great benefits of the tunnel would be that it would shorten the perishable goods,' especially Ash, to English markets. Estimates of the cost of the proposed tunnel vary from transatlantic journey by at least hours. It would also help the Irish cattle trade and the shipping of the forty-e- ight $35,000,000 t', $80,000,000. WHY THEY ARE SILENT. Small Scout Dad, what are silent watches of the night? Indulgent Father "They are ones which their owners forgot wind, my son. Boys Life. the fires now, whenever that is possibl,' in autos; perhaps sooner than we guess, they will go by Meanwhile there will doubtless be much more aerial photographs taken in the National forests. air-craf- t. m to IT rt |