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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Forest Fires Sabotage War Plans by Destroying IWD Lumber, Hastening Erosion, Diverting Manpower ron mit and the law before burning 90 grass, brush, fence rows, ferns, trash, or before starting any fires Aete Candid Camera Washington, D. C. . in forests. Shots of the Quints: ROOSEVELT-CHURCHILAGAIN 3. For everybody to put out small (Following Their Tenth Birthday) recent Churchills powerhouse fires and to report all others quickly In spite of the invasion of their to the nearest ranger or fire warden. speech before Commons didnt click with persons high up in the admin-- i realm by the five in Argentina, the Geographical Aspects. Each year loyal American Dionnes are still the only identical istration. Actually, it brought out With an eye to the tremendous the differences between him, Quints in the world. And they ARE citizens, through carelessness value of timber in our all-owar and growing and thoughtlessness, start an the President, also his spats identical; outside their own immeproduction activities, the United with Foreign Minister Anthony diate family there is practically no average of some 190,000 forest States has been divided into three one who can tell them apart. Right fires in the United States. This Eden, also the importance of overbroad zones, each of which has been to the day he died, Dr. Allan Roy political rela- hauling U. tremendous annual destrucweighed and its relative importance tions. (Administration permanent Dafoe, the physician who brought indicated on the map which also them into the world, couldnt pick tion of our timber resources peace ideas are much nearer those shows the Forest Service administhem. He could recognize Marie, has been going on relentlessly announced by Eden the day after billion board feet below requiretrative regions. Before the broad Churchill, when but the other four all looked alike year in and year out. Now he went out of his to him. They have always dressed that these resources are so ments of that year) is slowed down zones and administrative regions way to emphasize the cooperation every time woods and mill crews were determined, war industrial ac- of smaller countries with the Big in different colors to make identificritically needed for the suc- fight fires. tivity and national defense consid- Four.) doccation easier, but they knew the cessful prosecution of the war, Forest fires are real and potential erations were studiously reviewed. tor didnt recognize them otherwise, the number of forest fires Here are some of the differences threats to war plants and cantonZone 1, with a relative importance and they loved to switch dresses and must be which realistic advisers inside the reduced drastically ments, many of which are located of 60, includes: fool him. administration have been wanting in the interest of national se- in and near forest, woodland or 1. Three Pacific coast states plus to out with have straightened d areas. They are po- western Montana and northwestern Churchill for some time: curity. Even though they have been livIn addition to its effect on our tential threats too, to the efficient Idaho. 1. American boys will never fight ing normally with their family for war production activity, forest fires operation of defensive air and sea 2. Most of the three Great Lakes to the past two years, the Quints still protect India in the future, so it further etc. complicate our manpower patrols, training pilots, They states. act as a unit as against everyone foolish to let Churchill think that is 3. All or parts of 26 states from Britain and the else. They are normal, in that they shortage problem by draining away threaten the nations war program U.S.A., through alfrom critical war industries those by diverting manpower from war Missouri, Arkansas, east Texas and with Russia, can help guarliances quarrel, but these quarrels are very wasted s training camps and Louisiana to Maine. necessary to ex- industries, seldom among themselves. antee the Empire. The only protinguish and fight the thousands of farms to the fighting of fires. Zone II, with a relative importection to India must be a healthy fires that rage yearly throughout the reshould citizen Every patriotic tance of 30, includes: Marie has the biggest fan mail. India willing to protect herself. The problem is one of pergard helping prevent forest fires as 1. The area lying east of the PaShe is also the charmer when vis- -' country. When FDR talked to Churchill about, an essential wartime duty. Lieut. cific coast to every American. portion of Zone I and west India two years ago, the P. M. was itors come. Its unconscious with sonal interest Gen. L. John of while head DeWitt, of the Great Plains states. Forest fires speed up erosion of almost insulting. her, and this annoys Cecile, who the Western defense command, list2. The area lying between the 2. The United States will insist on thinks herself the personality kid. farm land by denuding watersheds. ed reasons why the forest fires enOn millions of acres, forest fires inLakes states and the Atlantic coast-Gu-lf giving Hongkong and other former She tries too hard. our national danger duce swift run-ofsecurity: and heavy seaof Mexico portion of Zone I. Chinese possessions back to China. (1) Smoke-pall- s from forest fires Emilie is the comedienne and a sonal flooding, resulting in serious When this was proposed by the PresZone along coastal areas limit visibility tance III, with a relative imporident at Cairo, Churchill flatly reof 10, includes parts of Mongreat mimic. The others look to her property damage, less water stored of air and sea patrols. (2) Smoke to give impersonations of visitors as for irrigation or power, and thus haze reduces visibility from aircraft tana and Minnesota, and all or parts fused. less food to fight for freedom. 3. An alliance of big powers as soon as, theyve left, and its unof the Great Plains states of North These fires also destroy wild life warning stations and fire lookouts. and South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, proposed by Churchill cannot keep canny to see how she picks up gesmili(3) Many defense plants and tures and peculiarities for her per- along with its food .and cover. Unpermanent peace in the world any establishments are located in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Oklamore than the congress of Vienna, formance. Cecile is very observant told numbers of deer, birds and oth- tary or adjacent to forest areas and homa. of vsitors which divided up Napoleons em clothes and criticizes er wild life as well as fish (in These subdividzones have been be damaged or destroyed by in 1815 among Russia, Austria, them with all the confidence in the streams polluted by wood ashes) might pire into ed as the with follows, regions major conflagrations. (4) Forest world. She is the one of the five are crippled and killed annually befire hazards briefly listed: England and Germany. particular fires serve as beacons for the enecause of forest fires. 4. President Roosevelt, so far as that tends to be a bit catty. Region I: (Montana and Northern my. he has thought things out, favors a Prevention. Idaho): Ninety per cent of all fires The Governments Part. peace Objectives of the 1944 forest fire machinery based on cooperaYvonne has most influence with are here caused with by lightning, There are 160 national forests with tion with small powers as well as the others, and if there is a differ- prevention program are to help about 178,000,000 the greatest damage done to white federally owned big. He doesnt go for Churchills ence of opinion, they do as she says. speed victory by: timber. The resident pine problem 42 acres in states and two terri1. Reducing greatly the more than Metternich idea of balancing the Annette is the competitive one, gets tories. All are under 10 regional is more important than the visitor world 210,000 forest fires occurring each among heavily armed big if the She beat her. others is upset foresters (one in Alaska) and their problem. powers. not a good loser. Marie, who has year, 90 per cent of which are man-caus- staffs. National forests 2: (Colorado, Wyoming, Region are protect5. The old British Empire for and therefore, preventable. always been the slowest and weaked from fire by a decentralized or- South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas): which Churchill 2. of which Releasing manpower fought 50 years ago makes est, up for these deficiencies Thirty four per cent of all fires in In the Indian northwest border wars, are tied ganization that is in close and con- this region are vis-itby being the daredevil of the bunch. nearly one million man-day- s The stant touch with local conditions, and in the Sudan and the Boer wars, up yearly in fighting forest fires. problem is more important than will never come problems and people. 3. Cutting down on actual and poback despite his the resident carelessness with one, inMany think the Sixth Quint is tential this Normally, organization memories. And the United youthful dangers and losses to such cludes of more a factor than intentional fire best looking of the group she is about 4,000 year-lon- g forest States can never assume the drag critical war materials as timber and Pauline eleven months older than setting. feed for domestic stock and wild supervisors, forest rangers, forest anchor of helping to protect that 3: New Mexico): (Arizona, Region but the same about size. they, just, guards, etc., and another 4,000 shortlife. kind of an empire in the future. is There of a less fire here is She in sharp contrast to their problem term smokechasers, lookouts, etc. One Third of U. S. Is Forest. Finally, every time the British dark beauty, for she is a blonde But the manpower situation has than in any other region. The been pulled into a war in forest empire of the United been so acute have 4: most with fair hair, fair skin and dark Region (Utah, Nevada, during the war that of Alaska, is larger the Office of the last half century, we have d Civilian Defense estab- of Idaho) : In this, region eyes. Of all the family she is clos- States, exclusive helped pull them out. Thereest to them and because she is such than the combined area of France, lished the Forest Fire Fighters fires run from 17 to 57 per cent, fore we should have a large vote an unusually lovely child, some- Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Service to help the established for- varying with the locality. Careless in the set-u- p which may make times takes the spotlight away from Belgium, The Netherlands and the est fire protection agencies. It is smokers, logging operators, campor prevent wars in the future. d land and them. They have all but adopted British Isles. It constitutes farmers remore ers, than that 185,000 clearing the area of the continental United reported Some of these general ideas her into the lodge. cruits have joined the FFFS to date. ranchers, are the causes. Serious were hinted to Churchill during States. There are 281,000,000 acres of erosion is often caused by fires in n No region or zone is without its the conferences state and privately owned forest many localities. Grass fires are a Of their brothers and sisters, only no 60 per cent is east with favorable reaction. forests, very although land. Federal aid, through the For- great hazard. the three oldest show any signs of of the Great Plains in an area con- est It may be that in the near future Region 5: (California): Three- Service, goes to 41 states to help regarding the Quints as different. s of our population. state foresters taining they will be taken up again. of fourths all fires are ownand private This is because they, Ernest, Rose The other 40 per cent is west of the ers Part of this is due to the great influx and Therese, were old enough to be give organized cooperative forFULL PAY FOR RETIRED affected by the early quarrels among Great Plains and includes most of est fire protection. Funds from state of war workers, but the majority of our remaining virgin timber. It is and OFFICERS sources are greater than fires are caused by residents rather the pressure groups that surrounded private evident therefore, that forest fires those from the federal Higher-rankin- g than newcomers. army and navy ofthe Quints until the last couple of government. t ficers have constitute a national problem which However, there are over 146,000,000 discovered a 6: recently Region (Oregon, Washington); years. Mr. and Mrs. Dionne do their can be solved only by nationwide acres that need, but still lack, orMost forest fires here are due t jneat way of retiring on full pay inlevel best to keep the five from be- action. careless smokers, but forest indus- stead of ordinary retirement pay, forest fire protection. ing treated as different. Statistical information on hand ganized which is only as much. In their efforts to prevent forest tries and incendiaries cause the largwhich was gathered over a five-yeest area burned and the greatest They go to the hosjjitjl a month or the federal and At the age of ten, not one of them fires, government 1936-4shows that an aver- state they 'are slated to retire governments have operated on damage. has a cavity in a tooth. Dentists period, y 4 loso before of 210,970 forest fires rage each a age age, and then are sometimes basis. Region 7: (New England and Midregional and state-wid- e say this is due to scientific diet plus year throughout the nation and burn able to rqjire with disability, which Their educational efforts on a local dle Atlantic states plus 'Mary lan the fact they have always brushed over an of 31,233,000 acres. average and West gives them full pay the rest of their level have been carried Agaqg Virginia Virginia): the A through their teeth. couple of' them may This represents an area much largV need orthodontic treatment Ce- er than the land area of New York media of newspapers, radio stations, the local resident and tha snooker lives. This system is based upon the motion picture theaters, civic organ- are mainly to blame also the farmcile in particular. She is very con- state. This wartime waste reprefact that congress recently changed izations, etc. And in addition, they er who bums to clear land. scious that her front teeth protiude sents three billion feet of timber the army-nav- y retirement set-u- p in 8: (The South, from North have used exhibits, lectures, pamRegion a bit, and it bothers her no end. killed or enough to build 215,000 order aid wounded men. It was admonition signs and post- Carolina south and west to and inphlets, homes for war workers. ers. provi'dS that a veteran might recluding Texas): TJJje intentional The Quints great ambition is to Ninety per cent of all forest fires The Publics Part. burner who has believed in burning tire on full pay if disabled. see New York. They have already man-madThe remaining 10 Above all else there is need to for years is the greatest problem. However, it was the intent of contraveled to Toronto and to Superior, are cent are caused by lightning. impress upon the public tht every He is the local resident, not the gress to aid young lieutenants and per Wis. New York is their next goal. officers who usually Travel bothers them not at all; they Careless smokers and campers are individual has a patriotic stake in visitor the white man rather than lowr-raifkin- g for starting 30 per cent this EMERGENCY that thfc probthe Negro. siiffer the highest casualties in warare great troupers. But Mr. and responsible of all our forest fires. Other forest lem can only be solved through inditime due to the fact that they have Region 9: (the Great Lakes states, Mrs. Dionne hate it. They get upset are fires set INTENTIONALLY for action. to be in the front lines. vidual North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Illiby excitement and the crowds and such purposes as clearing plow-lannois, Indiana, Ohio): Diverse cond Specifically, the need is: Apparently, congress did not realmeeting strangers, and come back burning ofl weed 1. For the public to be careful patches, logging tions exist in this region with large ize that, when a colonel or a general so to refuse take exhausted, they brush or debris, and although with matches, smokes including numbers of fires and tremendous reaches the retirement age of 64, the Quints away from home unless slash, fires are started lawacreage burned. Ninety-seve- n cigarettes, cigars and pipe ashes per it is not uncommon for him to have it is for some patriotic reason like a many of these numbers of them out d fully, great get Cent of all fires are and campfires. in arthritis, gall stones or some other Victory Bond rally. of hand because of carelessness and 2. For victory gardeners as well the following order of importance disability which can be discovered on the part of the burner as farmers, ranchers, stockmen and the smoker, the incendiary, the deDoctors for a time were a bit wor- ignorance at any army hospital a few months or because of his willingness to take forest industries to ask about a per bris burner. ried because the five were persisthe retires. This gives him before a chance. Forest fires in this catefull pay for life. ently overweight. Then they decid- gory constitute 40 PER CENT OF ed this was because their bony THE TOTAL. Another interesting angle to restructure is heavier than normal. tirement pay is that an officer getIn its wartime activities for 1942 This, the medics think, is the result the United States used more wood ting retired pay cannot take another r of the heavy doses of oil than steel. job from the government and get According to R. W. Patthey were given to combat the rick- terson, undersecretary of war, paid'for it, but he can take a job ets they had at birth they have takwith a company under a cost-plu- s tons of wood were used as en oil every day of their government contract. In this case, 100 tons million of steel. against ten years. the government pays him two salAs a further indicatioi t. ' its imaries, except that under the cost-plcontract a third party hands Besides giving the Quints religious portance in our wartime activities, we have the statement of R. Adm. over the money. teaching, Bishop Leo Nelligan, their E. L. Cochrane in the Int-.-- it lational Chaplain, is head Roman Catholic tha Every MAIL BAG Chaplain of the Canadian armed Woodworker, forces. His outstanding work has naval vessel, from the log battleMax Gardner of North O. of class North to Carolina the ship brought promotions until today he the Gardner denies my Mrs. Carolina small mine sweeper, depends on holds a unique rank in Canada he story that, when it comes to ham wood. is an Admiral of the Navy, a Genand hominy grits, you and Senator It is a problem then of national eral in the Army, and a Marshal of concern George always do the cooking. She when the production of lumthe Air Force. ought to know. ber (estimated in 1943 to be four Dan yl Zanuck, Hollywood ConThe Quints DO speak English and gratulations on bringing out one of with a delightful accent. They know tiie most important pictures of all over 400 words. Their conversationForest Industry Workers: when it Farmers and Ranchers: Campers: time, Woodrow Wilson, al English has been retarded purely Build and maintain safe fire lines Before building a campfire will reallyj help us to build a new Never burn to clear crop land: because their mother still doesn't Observe the state laws. If a per- around mills, logging camps, etc. Without getting a permit from a and permanent peace. Nothing could understand it, and so it is spoken mit is necessary, get it from a be more timely. Keep efficient spark arresters on ranger or fire warden, if state laws , but seldom in the home. locomotives, tractors, etc. ranger or state fire warden. require it. 2. Scrape away around the fire all Mrs. Laura Foss, Los Angeles A Comply fully with state laws. Without scraping a trail or plowNo', the Quintuplets havent lost inflammable material in a circle at Keep fire patrols on the fire job ing around for safety. summary of how we paid part of their looks or charm, as you often least five feet in diameter. the Alaskan purchase money to RusWithout having plenty of help on especially during dangerous fire hear tell. It just appears that way sia in return for hor placing the Dig a hole m the center, build weather, and make frequent inspec- the job. in photographs because they all de- your fire ill it, and keep your fire tions for fire hazards. Russian ,leet in American waters to During unusually hot or dry or Be extremely careful to put out all windy weather. shyness so small. offset the British during the Civil veloped a that when photos are taken, they Before leaving campfire, stir the matches and cigarettes before throw-inWithout beating out all smoulderwar, is on Page 292 of the World them away. coals and soaly them with water. 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