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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEW. UTAH Let's Face Facts Forest Fires Sabotage War Plans by Destroying Farmer Organizations Organize Pressures Lumber, Hastening Erosion, Diverting Manpower To Clip Price Laws BARROW LYONS Ey WNU Staff ' mit and the law before burning Correspond ferns, rows, grass, brush, fence fires WASHINGTON, D. C. trash, or before starting any in forests. One of the hardest fought RmjlMaLLON 3. For everybody to put out small battles in congress in re fires and to report all others quickly cent months has to the nearest ranger or fire warden. & Released by Western Newspaper Union. been the fight to A ? i Each year loyal American cits i Aspects. preserve price Geographical CURRENT PICTURE OF to mainWith an eye to the tremendous control izens, carelessness and through CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES Presiwar the of in value our timber tain averan start WASHINGTON. The average thoughtlessness, " the United dent's activities, production of some fires forest 190,000 age curbstone opinion around here Adthree States been into divided has policy. in the treUnited This States. seems to be that Mr. Roosevelt can leadbroad zones, each of which has been ministration beat Governor Dewey, but anyone mendous annual destruction of ers have felt that weighed and its relative importance who would wager more than a our timber resources has been on the map which also indicated unless virtually nickel before September would be going on shows the Forest Service adminisrelentlessly year in and far from a wise man. out. Now that these re- ments of that year) is slowed down trative regions. Before the broad p 2s 4 j emergency price No one who seeks truth pays much year nk Fi Vimir zones sources and iwn and woods mill time administrative so control act were crews needed are regions every critically attention to the polls any more, in were determined, war industrial acdefeated, the devview of their record of straying far and of such vital importance for fight fires. Barrow Lyons Forest fires are real and potential tivity and national defense considil of inflation oft until the eve of election, then the successful prosecution of the erations were studiously reviewed. to war plants and cantonthreats would get his hoof inside the door; hastily getting as right as possible. war, the number of forest fires Zone 1, with a relative importance and that from then on there would many of which are located Nor is the prospect that Mr. Roosemust be reduced drastically in ments, of 60, includes: in and near woodland or be no stopping him until he had forest, velt may campaign from the midst the interest of national 1. Three Pacific coast states plus security. areas. They are podown the house, of world peace dealings a conclusive In addition to its effect on our tential threats too, to the efficient western Montana and northwestern pulled This seemed an arbitrary and has expectation, politically. war production activity, forest fires operation of defensive air and sea Idaho. dictatorial viewpoint to leaders of The facts of the matter to date further complicate our manpower patrols, training pilots, etc. They 2. Most of the three Great Lakes All over the farm organizations. are that the Republicans are shortage problem by draining away threaten the nation's war program states. country their clients, the farmers of from critical war industries those by diverting manpower from war holding back their campaign, 3. All or parts of 26 states from America, have smarted from vari-- ', s building up their file cases, wasted necessary to ex- - industries, training camps and Missouri, Arkansas, east Texas and ous OPA rulings. They have been while the Democrats are having tinguish and fight the thousands of farms to the fighting of fires. Louisiana to Maine. determined to find some relief from inner difficulties getting their fires that rage yearly throughout the Zone II, with a relative imporcitizen should reEvery patriotic those which have irked them the deor even campaign started, country. The problem is one of per- -' gard helping prevent forest fires as tance of 30, includes: most. Farm leaders do not wish to sonal interest to every American. an essential wartime ciding its definite lines. 1. The Paarea of the lying east duty. Lieut. basic price controls, how- destroy For instance, the Republicans said Forest fires speed up erosion of Gen. John L. DeWitt, while head of cific coast portion of Zone I and west ;ver. not a revealing word when Demo- farm land by denuding watersheds. the Western defense command, list- of the Great Plains states. But as a result of the com- 2. The area lying between the cratic National Chairman Hannegan On millions of acres, forest fires i ed reasons why the forest fires enbined attacks of business and blamed Dewey for having held in duce Lakes states and the Atlantic coast and heavy sea-- ; danger our national security: farm interests, price control 1940 that Mr. Roosevelt could not sonal flooding, resulting in serious Gulf of Mexico portion of Zone I. from forest fires (1) Smoke-pall- s faces today one of its recurring Zone III, with a relative imporproperty damage, less water stored along coastal areas limit visibility produce 50,000 planes. crises. Scores of amendments for irrigation or power, and thus of air and sea tance Monof of 10, includes Smoke (2) parts patrols. to the emergency price control Jess food to fight for freedom. NO DENIAL OFFERED haze reduces visibility from aircraft tana and Minnesota, and all or parts act have been referred to the These fires also destroy wild life warning stations and fire lookouts. of the Great Plains states of North No denial was offered, but the recsenate committee on banking and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, ord will show that Dewey (Dallas, along with its food and cover. Un(3) Many defense plants and miliand currency, and debates betold numbers of othand birds Okladeer, Texas, May 27, 1940) charged the tary establishments are located in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and hind closed doors have been government then did not have a plan er wild life as well as fish (in or adjacent to forest areas and homa. charged with fire and brimstone. for such production, that the initial streams polluted by wood ashes) might be damaged or destroyed by These zones have been subdividare crippled and killed annually be- major conflagrations. (4) Forest ed into regions as follows, with the Among the amendments which Morgenthau conference with the in- cause of forest fires. fires serve as beacons for the eneparticular fire hazards briefly listed: stand the best chance of acceptance dustry had been a fiasco, that if Prevention. 50,000 planes were to be produced Region I: (Montana and Northern are those proposed by Sen. Kenneth my. Objectives of the 1944 forest fire the government would have to let The Government's Part. Idaho): Ninety per cent of all fires S. Wherry (R., Neb.), Republican There are 160 national forests with here are caused by lightning, with Whip. These amendments include Industry take the leadership in pro- prevention program are to help about 178,000,000 federally owned the greatest damage done to white elimination of the limitation duction, appropriate $7,000,000,000 as speed victory by: 1. Reducing a starter, raise 750,000 men for the greatly the more than acres in 42 states and two terri- pine timber. The resident problem on the time for filing formal proAll are under 10 regional is more important than the visitor tests against inequitable prices, autories. 210,000 forest fires occurring each air corps. In short he told exactly how the year, 90 per cent of which are thorization for organizations as well foresters (one in Alaska) and their problem. d and therefore, preventable. staffs. Natonal forests are protectRegion 2: (Colorado, Wyoming, as individual sellers to challenge in production could be reached and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas): the courts price regulations, a reindeed government policy later fol2. Releasing manpower of which ed from fire by a decentralized orlowed that line; so Dewey, far nearly one million s are tied ganization that is in close and con Thirty four per cent of all fires in quirement that civil enforcement from being in the position to which up yearly in fighting forest fires. stant touch with local conditions. this region are The visproceedings be brought in the disitor problem is more important than trict where the defendant resides or 3. Cutting down on actual and Hannegan assigned him, can claim problems and people. pocredit for having helped in the tential dangers and losses to such Normally, this organization in- the resident one, with carelessness maintains a place of business, opachievement. (Look it up, if you critical war materials as timber and cludes about 4,000 year-lonforest more of a factor than intentional fire portunity for the defendant in price doubt me.) violation proceedings to plead that feed for domestic stock and wild supervisors, forest rangers, forest setting. This, no doubt, has been put in the life. Region 3: (Arizona, New Mexico): the price at which he sold was no guards, etc., and another 4,000 short-terfile cabinet for use when the RepubOne Third of U. S. Is Forest. smokechasers, lookouts, etc. There is less of a fire problem here higher than parity price. licans open up. The forest empire of the United But the manpower situation has than in any other region. Farm Group Support Region 4: (Utah, Nevada, most States, exclusve of Alaska, is larger been so acute during the war that : of the Office In of Civilian this Defense estabASKED FOR STATEMENTS than the combined area of France, Idaho) Recently a newspaper release supregion Recently, likewise, a press syndi- Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, lished the "Forest Fire Fighters fires run from 17 to 57 per cent, porting the Wherry amendments was cate (not this one) and a broadcasting-m- Belgium, The Netherlands and the Service" to help the established for- varying with the locality. Careless issued by the farm group and est fire protection agencies. It is smokers, logging operators, camp- signed: "The National Grange, by ovie campaign asked advance British Isles. It constitutes statements from Republican Chair- the area of the continental United reported that more than 185,000 re- ers, land - clearing farmers and A. S. Goss, national master; Americruits have joined the FFFS to date. ranchers, are the causes. Serious can Farm Bureau federation,, bj man Spangler and Democratic States. There are 281,000,000 acres of erosion is often caused by fires in Edward O'Neal, president; Nationa! No region or zone is without its Chairman Hannegan outlining the issues of the campaign from their re- forests, although 60 per cent is east state and privately owned forest many localities. Grass fires are a Council of Farmer Cooperatives, b John H. Davis, executive secretary spective viewpoints, Spangler ac- of the Great Plains in an area con- land. Federal aid, through the For- great hazard. est Service, goes to 41 states to help and National Cooperative Milk Pro s s Region 5: (California): of our population. cepted and prepared his outlines, taining of all fires are but Hannegan, after first accepting, The other 40 per cent is west of the state foresters and private ownducers' federation, by Charles W then delaying, finally declined both Great Plains and includes most of ers give organized cooperative for- Part of this is due to the great influx Holman, secretary." our remaining virgin timber. It is est fire protection. Funds from state of war workers, but the majority of invitations. When a combination like that Both Hannegan and Senator Bark-le- y evident therefore, that forest fires and private sources are greater than fires are caused by residents rather gets behind a measure, somehave been offering outlines constitute a national problem which those from the federal government. than newcomers. thing generally gives way. This which are supposed to be official, can be solved only by nationwide However, there are over 146,000,000 Region 6: (Oregon, Washington): time resistance is unusually acres that need, but still lack, or- Most forest fires here are due to but which are at variance, and per- action. stubborn. The administration is careless smokers, but forest indusStatistical information on hand ganized forest fire protection. haps this accounts for the declinafighting with all its power every In their efforts to prevent forest tries and incendiaries cause the largtion of a statement now for future which was gathered over a move to weaken price controls fires, the federal government and est area burned and the greatest newspaper and radio use. shows that an averperiod, 1936-4particularly proposals which Hannegan did not mention the age of 210,970 forest fires rage each state governments have operated on damage. would permit prolonged legal e new deal in his New York outline, year throughout the nation and burn a regional and 7: Midbasis. (New England and Region proceedings, and thus make a but presented the theory of Mr. over an average of 31,233,000 acres. Their educational efforts on a local dle Atlantic states plus Maryland, law that is very difficult to adRoosevelt only as the indispensable This represents an area much larg- level have been carried through the West Virginia and Virginia): Again minister virtually impossible to man internationally. er than the land area of New York media of newspapers, radio stations, the local resident and the smoker administer. state. This wartime waste repre- motion picture theaters, civic organ- are mainly to blame also the farmBut it is on the legal front that sents three billion feet of timber izations, etc. And in additon, they er who burns to clear land. SOME BELATED MENTIONS the farm leaders make their princihave used killed or enough to build 215,000 exhibits, lectures, pamRegion 8: (The South, from North In later talks Hannegan beattack. Their joint statement Carolina south and west to and in- pal homes for war workers. phlets, admonition signs and postdeclares: latedly mentioned the new deal ers. Ninety per cent of all forest fires cluding Texas): The intentional (with which he is presumably "The legal subterfuges that OPA The Public's Part. are burner who has believed in burning The remaining 10 not well acquainted, being achas employed to prevent court tests Above all is else there need to cent are for is the per caused years by lightning. greatest problem. counted a conservative St. d Careless smokers and campers are impress upon the public that every He is the local resident, not the of some of its actions Louis politician without intense are destructive of the people's reindividual a has for the 30 stake visitor white in man patriotic rather responsible than cent per starting ideological views), but Bark-le- y of all our forest fires. Other forest this EMERGENCY-th- at spect for and confidence in governthe prob- the Negro. has been running on the . . The chief reason ment lem can be solved fires indi9: are INTENTIONALLY only that through Lakes Great (the set for Region states, new deal platform alstraight on food have been reavidual action. such ceilings price as IlliNorth Dakota, purposes Iowa, Missouri, most entirely, saying Mr. Rooseclearing sonably effective has been the fact Specifically, the need is: burning off weed patches, logging nois, Indiana, Ohio): Diverse condivelt is indispensable because of that American farmers have con1. For the public to be careful brush or in slash, exist tions and this with debris, region social gains domestically accomlarge tinued to although with produce at the highest levsmokes of these fires of matches, fires numbers many laware and tremendous started including plished. This is the same new el in history. fully, great numbers of them get out cigarettes, cigars and pipe ashes acreage burned. Ninety-sevedeal that Mr. Roosevelt anper "This production has been of hand because of carelessness and and campfires. cent of all fires are in nounced dead, in favor of "Dr. 2. For victory gardeners as well the following order of achieved in spite of serious handiignorance on the part of the burner importance; Win - the - War" some months or because of his willingness to "take as farmers, ranchers, stockmen and the smoker, the incendiary, the decaps imposed by OPA as a result of back. a chance. Forest fires in this eate- - forest industries to ask about a per- - bris burner. inequitable ceilings, tardily anThe CIO political action favors 40 PER CENT OF indefinite and unjust reguconstitute nounced, gory the Barkley technique even if it re- THE TOTAL. lations and widely differing and quires some resurrection from the often contradictory interpretations. In its wartime for 1942 dead, and is trying to enflame the the United States activities In many instances, price more used wood regulations old new deal reform interest, telling than and other actions of the OPA have steel. R. W. Patto According workers Mr. R. is indispensable to terson, disregarded the will of congress. undersecretary of war, their security (see their magazine The agency has refused in instance tons of wood were used as May 19 issue), wholly ignoring the 100 million tons of steel. after instance, to make price adagainst conservative coterie with which Mr. justments As a further required by law, even of imindication its is Roosevelt surrounded the jaunty these adjustments would though portance in our wartime activities, Jesse Jones, James we have made little difference in the have the statement of Rear Adm. Byrnes, Judges Fred Vinson, Mar- E. L. cost of living and would have main Cochrane the International vin Jones, Patterson, Forrestal, " X i V. if ii terially increased production." i that "Every .i Stimson, Hull and who not in fact Woodworker, Y REGION There is not enough space in this 3 all the men who are running the naval vessel, from the log battlecolumn to go into all of the intricaof North the Carolina ship to class war government. cies of this battle. The OPA has the small mine sweeper, depends on To make it even more embarmade so many blunders that it is rassing to these men or to the com- wood." hard Zone to find an unbiased audience It Relative is a of then problem national munists who are in the same camp Importance 60 before which to defend it, s with them, Earl Browder is sharing concern when the production of lumZone 2 Relative Importance 3l the fact that it has been fardespite ber (estimated in 1943 to be four more with the CIO's Hillman the leaderZone J Relative Importance 10 effective in controlling inflation than billion board feet below require- ship of the fourth term campaign. many who dislike it are willing to admit. HANNEGAN NEEDS TIME But there are mighty few Losses A convincing outline for a camin the organization who like people Campers Forest Industry Workers their Farmers paign satisfactory to all these and Ranchers: Before building a campfire jobs. Many of the leading business Build and maintain safe fire lines Never burn to clear crop land: gentlemen will have to run the the state laws. If a peraround mills, logging camps, etc. Without getting a permit from a men who accepted posts under the gamut of the imagination from the mitObserve is necessary, get it from a Keep efficient spark arresters on ranger or fire warden, if state laws new administrator, Chester Bowles most extreme radical to the most took thankless tasks at considerable locomotives, tractors, etc. extreme conservative, or continue to ranger or state fire warden. require it. financial sacrifice. Scrape away around the fire all with state be conducted on opposite planes, laws. Comply fully Without scraping a trail or plowThe Office of Price Administrawith conflicting campaigns at top Inflammable material in a circle at Keep fire patrols on the fire for safety. around ing tion killed off two administraand at bottom, opposite stories be- least five feet in diameter. Without fire during dangerous having plenty of help on tors. has Dig a hole in the center, build weather, and make frequent inspec- the job. The turnover on its legal staff ing circulated by the conflicting classes of men involved. A cha- your fire in it, and keep your fire tions for fire hazards. During unusually hot or dry or has been about 500 per cent. I have come to the conclusion that to acBe extremely careful to put out all windy weather. meleon could not do it. Two would small. Before leaving campfire, stir the matches and cigarettes before throwcept a job on its staff requires just be required. Mr. Hannegan cerWithout beating out all smouldertoals and soak them with water. about as much patriotism as voluning them away. tainly needs more time. after ing grass buring la finished. teering for fightinc in enemy territory. More Than 90 Per Cent Of Conflagrations Called Preventable THE By nf- -- behind-the-scen- Released by Western Newspaper s all-o- ut "hold-the-line- i j J 1943. j brush-covere- d i j man-hour- j in-- swift-runof- f, 60-d- ay man-cause- man-day- man-cause- d. g m d man-cause- d one-thir- v four-fifth- Three-fourth- man-cause- d. five-ye- ar 1, state-wid- five-roo- man-mad- e. high-hande- . plow-land- ", Ui JOBS AFTER THE WAR MUST COME FROM INDlS-rftTHERE IS A DEMAND thVt American industry be prenared tr provide jobs for everyone who wants a job when the war is over The idea as expressed by Washington bu reaucrats is that if industry cannot do that kind of a job it will an evidence of failure on the part of private enterprise and government must take over in the interest of those wanting jobs. Just how far government is going in making sueh a result impossible for industry is well illustrated by the report of United States Steel for es j In April of 1941 the government put a ceiling price on steel, and that price has not been changed. The government did not put a ceiling price on wages or materials. in 1941 wages in the steel plants averaged a fraction under an hour. In 1943 wages averaged a fraction under $1.16 an hour. Ma- terial prices were up in about the same proportion. In 1943 the sales of the steel com- -' pany amounted to $1,976,800,000 Of that $912,900,000 was paid for labor, just under 50 per cent. Another went for taxes. The $126,600,000 dividends paid to stockholders were the same as paid for a number of years, but the one item that tells; the real story was the $3,400,000 the steel company was permitted to lay aside for that rainy day when the war is over. That $3,400,000 the company was permitted to make and keep as a reserve would pay the operating costs of its plants for less than one day. That is the reserve with which to provide jobs for the 340,498 employees regardless of what the demand may be for steel. During the year in which he company was permitted to accumulate a reserve of $3,400,000 with which to provide rainy day jobs, it paid to the unions under the check-of- f sys- tem, as dues and assessments for its employees a total of $2,300,000. The union is not expected to provide any rainy day jobs. Industry keeps pace with the demand for more wages not by increased prices for its products, but on the by an increased "know-how- " part of American management. In the case of steel that "know-how- " supplied by management represents an increase in pounds of steel pror duced per from 29.72 in 1902 to 53.74 in 1943. For that " management, those with salaries of $10,000 a year or more, received less than 1 per cent of the total amount paid for labor. Under existing conditions, with practically no reserve permitted upon which to draw, out of what is industry to finance those war, rainy-da- y jobs? man-hou- "know-how- after-lhe- BURDEN ON ALL BECAUSE OF JUST ABOVE 64 MILLION people in the United States have jobs for which they are paid wages. Each 20 of 'those employed must dig down into their pockets to pay the salaries of a federal government civilian employee. Dividing the population into families of five each and it means that each eight families must pay the cost of supporting an extra family. Those extra for whom we must provide the food, clothing, shelter and spending money are largely employed by the more than 'JOB-HOLDER- S' bureaus created since 1933. They are the bureaucrats whose job is that of regulating and regimenting the American people. They represent the burden Senator Byrd and his committee are attempting to remove from the shoulders of the American taxpayers. But the number continues to increase despite those efforts. 200 n man-cause- d 120,-000,0- anti-CIO-e- rs V I XFrH"ft-r- , V 1 I I 1 1 I .1 my v Observing These Precautions Would Greatly Reduce Fire job-espe- cially behind-the-lin- es AUSTRALIAN WAR BILLS ARE LOWER THAN OURS SINCE WE GOT into the war our national debt has increased, up to December 31, 1943, by 117 billion dollars. During approximately the same period Australia reduced its national debt by 106 million dollars. While our per capita debt stands at $1,207, an increase of $119 in a year, Australia reduced her per capita from $767 to $737. Australia is also at war. Australian soldiers are fighting beside Americans in the Southwest Pacific. Evidently the Aussies have learned the secret of conducting a war more economically than ourselves. Possibly they could give Senator Byrd and his economy committee some valuable tips. THE AMERICAN NAVY in the Pacific has demonstrated that "island jumping" is not so slow a process as the Japs or ourselves had expected it to be. IN SO FAR AS I REMEMBER naa my American history we have ana three Presidents with a definite continuing foreign policy. Washington proposed that we keep out of an the squabbles of Europe, stay home and mind our own business only. Monroe warned all European nations to keep out of our hemwe asisphere. Wilson proposed that sist in regulating all the worlds affairs. |