Show noted painter present painting to aid fire prevention work james montgomery flagg the noted ra painter inter has created and presented to the united states govern ment an original painting as aa his personal contribution to the cause ot of forest fire prevention and the campaign of the forest service to halt vast economic losses that follow in the wake ot of forest tires fires advices advises from rom the forest service said today tile the painting Is to be formally accepted by president roosevelt today and after a brief exhibition tn in washington will begin a national tour it la Is expected to be shown in utah and idaho cities possibly early irl in july stated regional forester R it II rutledge in ogden the painting portrays uncle sam in the uniform of a forest ranger pointing toward a burning forest over the title your forests your fault your loss the familiar depicted in this painting awk resembles nir mr flaggs war ear cartoon toon 1 I want you which was called by the contemporary press the greatest war cartoon of all time some tour four million copies of tilts this war picture were distributed by tile the government and with nith a circulation of more than ten times that number reproduced it the original 1 I want you painting now hangs in the smithsonian Alus museum eurn in washington F A silcox chief of the forest service commenting upon the recent flagg creation said mr flagg f famous amous for his war rosters posters such as 1 I want you armless rell it to the Al marines artnes dont road read Ill history story make it if and 42 others which he gave to the government during the world war has now dedicated his latest war poster to tile the tight fight against forest tires fires and tile lie human carelessness that contributes to them tile the painting hits directly the essential br problem in tire fire control the human element the title tells the whole story in fit rapid tire fire style ama americas forests are literally your forests regardless of public or private ownership forests influence the dally daily lives of millions ot of people who are directly dependent for their livelihood on oil orest forest products millions of others also use the forests tor for hunting fishing camping and other forms ot of recreation green forests protect watersheds exert a powerful control on the source ot of floods flood the heend seend part ot of the title your fault means this 90 percent of all forest tires fires in the nation are man mail caused because they are caused by i man they are preventable due to the close interrelationship between the forests and our everyday life the phrase four your loss becomes equally true it can be reasonably said that when a forest burns everyone loses mr air flagg has made a valuable contribution in the tight fight against forest tires fires which annually burn over an area almost as large as tile the entire state of washington |