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Show FOREST FIRE IS UNIVERSAL ENEMY Good citizenship in the Northwest will everywhere note that winter precipitation was deficient; that spring is earlier than usual; Lhat there was no water left over from last year, and that this is n all probability the greatest fire hazard for many years. Heavy spring and summer rains may retard the evil; but absence of packed winter snows that last for weeks or months and protect forests, cannot be made up from rains. Organization into fire districts, with everybody making it his personal business to help; cooperation with fire restrictive orders that will stop the firest from starting, and determined, aggressive sympathy with the fire laws as the Northwest's best friend, will do much to make the country safe. The tourist crop is worth almost al-most as much as the lumber cut; one year's fire disaster might cu! that yield by many millions of dollars a year, for the next generation. genera-tion. A forest fire is no man's friend; it is the universay enemy. This is the year to outlaw it. |