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Show FOREST FIRE MENACE EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS Congress is asked additional appropriations for fighting forest fires in the west during 1926. The light precipitation of winter indicates a dry and fire-harried summer. The nation faces a real menace that must be met with, whatever expenditure it calls for; or else the whole idea of federal conservation falls to the ground. But fderal and state appropriations will not release any private pri-vate citizen from the obligation to do his personal best to eliminate fires. Maximum penalties will undoubtedly be imposed for every detected violation; but personal cooperation with intent of the law i will be far more effective in preventing forest fires, than the most ! drastic punishment. It is everybody's business to stamp out the j fire peril in this year. , |