Show EARLY TRAINING MIGHT HELP you would write an editorial about about these fires sa says Charles Charles Woodbury Woodbury Of the six or eight J there have been in your district nearly all have been started started start start- ed by human beings What would you suggest Why tell people they ought to be ashamed of them them- selves s. s Urge them to be more car careful ful Remind them of what their carelessness has cost each of us Were But how shall write perfectly willing we an editorial for the smoking motorist who is in Wendover or orRock orRock orn n Rock k Springs before his fire gets going and probably n never ver knows of it True But at least you can urge parents to crack crackdown crackdown crackdown down on their kids keep them under control teach th them m the danger and foUy of burning up the countryside Were with you Woody Now tell teU me when you I Iwer were were 10 years old did your YOUl folks know where you were and and wh what t you were doing every minute Can we blame the parents Some of the kids who have started fires come from very fine families They just didn't realize how explosive is dry June grass There here you are are theres there's theres yo your r point They must be be taught to realize it All AU right well we'll do our best to teach them But what more can be done than weekly stories and find pictures about the danger figures figures' quoting the damage Smokey the Bear and other th r angles You know what what maybe maybe your your Forest Service should start in the elementary grades with movies showing the hor horrors ors of wildfire lectures on the year old level Then the the- kids will grow up with the complete knowledge of the potential You might have something there And in the meant meantime meantime mean mean- t time please try an editorial wont won't you Of course And it might not be a bad idea to suggest to every parent of a child chUd who enjoys matches to take him himon on a long walk over ravaged fields blackened hills charred charred char char- i red canyons and ruined grassland It would be an experience ence he would not soon forget |