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Show BURNING UP THE FUTURE FU-TURE The Natinnl ollard or Firo Under-v;i1tcrs Under-v;i1tcrs In Its monthly publication, 'Safeguarding America Against Fire' Issues a timely warning as to tho necessity of protecting .our national forests against tho ravages or fire. Government statistics are. used to show tliatjln five years tho forest-llie forest-llie Ioss.es In forty-flvo states aggregated aggre-gated $85,710, 741 anj GC.48S.307 ac-'res ac-'res of land weio butned over. Iiijaddlllon to several lives lost Iv these fires, hundicds of- settlem' homes wcic burned. Trees that ic-qulied ic-qulied a hundred years to grow weie destroyed In a few hours. Lightning seems to be tho only uncontrollable un-controllable causo of fires, and It Is responsible for 1-11 of all forest fires Eighty-nine per cent of the forest dead notion, however, is brought about by carelessness of llulMiluall and industiles. The time has como when llm individual, the statu anc the nation must cooperate to prevent tho annual destruction of onr forests. Oil owing timber Is a nutloiial nr-ct'sslty nr-ct'sslty to .perpetuate water "supplies, (li'een roieHta mean Nsh and game. Ilurned timber payB no taxes. Uuined slopes bllng Hoods. I The task ahead or every 'citizen Is to do his part in removing the blot or local public indifroienccs now cov-'eilng cov-'eilng over 1-3 or the forest area of tho country. |