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Show IS YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE TAGGED? Again comes the annual warning from the forest service concerning the cutting of Christmas trees. The personally conveyed information came to the newspaper office for publication this week, a little late perhaps, but at any rate, those in charge of this particular phase of the service, did their duty. We are publishing the warning and thejnforma-tion thejnforma-tion concerning the securing of tags for the trees this week as requested, after seeing truck loads of trees going by for the past two weeks. Many have already decorated this ever popular motif of the holiday holi-day season without looking perhaps for the little tags. At any rate, if you are planning on hiking to the mountains to cut a tree, remember you are breaking the law. And another thing, if you are planning on cutting a truck load, you must have them tagged. The tags are cheap enough, $1 per 100. They may be secured se-cured from the sheriff's office upon payment of the fee or from the State Board of Forrestry and Fire Control. The tags have little green trees on them with considerable printed matter and they most certainly cost more than $1 per hundred to have them printed, but perhaps they will answer the purpose, which is of course to control the cutting of trees from mountains moun-tains on which they act for erosion control. The purchase of a tree from the hundreds of vendors will eliminate waste of time arid effort by individuals who planned to cut their own. Literal forests for-ests of this holiday emblem stand in front of business concerns. And too often a small, forest remains after Christmas eve. - As long as there is Christmas and children in America, however, there will be Christmas trees. The custom will , never die. The Christmas tree to American children is as traditional 'as Santa Claus. .. 1 |