Show 1 efforts should be made to prevent forest fires 0 this past season has witnessed the usual destructive forest fires ires yet with tho the first tall fall rains the subject ot of forest protection against fire Is dropped until the next year when additional millions of feet of timber homes and lives in the forests go 90 up in smoke with the number of people travel ing by automobile and camping la in our forests increasing by thousands each year the necessity of tire fire pre bention measures in our forests be comes as apparent as in our cities even more so tor for it is usually pos sible to put out a city fire but let a forest tire fire get started and it 3 good bye to the property homes or people in its path nature will replant our forests it given a chance but nature cannot overcome carelessness in the use of I 1 tire ire instead of waiting until next sum mer when our forests are burning let provisions be made now tor for properly patrolling pat roling them and doing everything possible to put out tires fires in our timber before they gain un controllable headway |