. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. The Two Masks of Destruction. When an army of marauding Germans laid hands on Belgium, placed the nation ill formal slavery, and ruined or sequestered the national domain, 100,000 Canadian citizens i)ut on the King's uniform and pledged themselves to evict the trespasser. Belgium and France have lost, through the violence of gun fire and other practises of war, enormous quantities of beautiful and almost priceless forest. A hundred years will scarcely restore these wrecked woodlands to the condition of August 3rd, 1914. &
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. The Two Masks of Destruction. When an army of marauding Germans laid hands on Belgium, placed the nation ill formal slavery, and ruined or sequestered the national domain, 100,000 Canadian citizens i)ut on the King's uniform and pledged themselves to evict the trespasser. Belgium and France have lost, through the violence of gun fire and other practises of war, enormous quantities of beautiful and almost priceless forest. A hundred years will scarcely restore these wrecked woodlands to the condition of August 3rd, 1914. "War is just one brand of Destruction. It appals because it takes toll of the price- less human. It amazes because it lacks the accidental factor of most other destruction. If foreign guns smashed down ten million dollars worth of Canadian forests in a brief twelvemonths' campaign, can anyone picture the burst of patriotic resentment arising through town and countryside? Governments would concentrate every resource to oust the invader; no otlier task would be known in the land until the rescue of the forests had been accomjilished. Canadian forests are falling every month of every year beneath the onslaught of Fire. Guns or Fire—it makes no difference except that cannon are surpassed by Fire in thoroughness. Fire is an invader, a national and individual foe. He will ruin our splendid annual forest crop of 172 million dollars if his power is not stayed. He will dry uj) the rivers and waterfalls, develop damaging floods, impoverish the farm lands, and leave the whole nation poorer. Fire is as much a national trespasser as a line of hostile regiments. He deserves to be handled with the same steadfastness, the same vigilance, the same ingenuity. Forestry experts have calculated that lumbermen have cut since Confederation over a billion and a quarter dollars worth of Canadian trees. While five or six hillioa dollars icorth liave been sacrificed to fire. Is this the sort of nat
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