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Show Telephone Tire Ouard Not el and up to dite Is the method of hrlJIIng the fire montr whn h goes forth to detour a feast of forest. Hint is in use in th San Gabriel forest for-est refortp in California This is n chain of fifty telephone stations about Ihe trserte for the sp Inl rurpose of git Ins warning If - lire shoull break out In the woods In nldltlon a patrol of twenty fit rangeis nre on guard They carry portable port-able phones with which In a su Iden emergency they enn cut In on the nearest near-est wire and so sate tniuihle time which would otherwise be wasted in reaching the stntlnn This somewhat expenslte r-chme was put Into execution by the electric nn l Irrigation cmnpinles who control he ttnter nnd wool facilities nlnng the f.an mbrlel river. If someone would only Intent some equally efricac ous method of guarding against the either destructlte element, water In the form of rain especially, he would benefit the whelo human rnre nnd incidentally he-como he-como u multl-milllnmlre as well It one could only press a button and turn off the ttcatherl |