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Show FIRE DAMAGE LIABILITY Millions of people will enjoy the shade, comfort, fishing ana liunting of our forests during the next six months. Automobile: find good roads are making accessible to outing parties timbered areas which have heretofore been impossible to reach. The psople who enjoy these advantages should be held strictly accountable for any damage which they do by the careless starting of fires. There is absolutely no excuse for any party leaving a burning tire or for anv man throwing a match, cigar or cigarette stub into th dry grass or underbrush. The U. S. Forest Service shows that in 1 92 2 77 per cent of 'Oregon fires and 91 per cent of Washington fires were man-made. The government is trying to educate the people to the criminal waste of burning up uncut timber. Lumber organizations are cooperating co-operating with National Hoard of Fire Underwriters in bringing before be-fore the public the terrible destruction of property caused by preventable pre-ventable tires. If you smash a man's automobile or kill his horse through carelessness care-lessness you have to pay, if you burn his house or property through carelessness why should you escape payment? |