anaheim-gazette 1925-02-12

STATE PAYS $5,000,000 FOREST FIRE TOLL, 1924 Golden State Receives Worst Singeing in Its History California's forest fire bill for 1924 was over $5,000,000, according to report made public today by the local district headquarters of the United States Forest Service. The losses sustained and cost of fire fighting were the highest of any season since systematic protection of the timber, lands and brush areas of the state was instituted, some 18 years ago. Figures compiled by the state forester and the federal forest service show that a total of 2657 fires occurred in California during 1924, as against an annual average of 2060 fires for the past four years. The acreage burned over by these conflagrations was 1,085,039 acres, of which 435,899 acres was timber land and 548,140 acres brush and chaparral areas principally valuable for watershed protection and recreation. The area burned within and adjacent to the national forests of the state was 551,114 acres, of which 175,437 acres were located in the three watershed-protection forests of Southern California. The actual area of government land burned over, eliminating private holdings, was 401,221 acres, or a little more than 2 per cent of the net national forest acreage of the state. Of the total of 2657 fires that were fought during the past year, 71 per cent were man-caused and 29 per cent were started by lightning. Smokers were responsible for 37 per cent of all fires due to human carelessness, and campers 17 per cent—a total of 54 per cent. Incendiaries are charged with 16 per cent of the man-caused fires; brush burners, 10 per cent; rail sound military principles and imperils national security. Secretary of War John W. Weeks states: "The proposed organization creates a trinity of command for our defense force with divided control in every possible theatre of operations, instead of that unity of command which is the foundation of success in warfare. It proposes an air service for the army which is not a permanent and integral part of the arms, thus violating the second great principle of military organization, that arms which are habitually to function together in battle must form permanent parts of the same organization." In laying plans for the development and encouragement of the air service as a part of the national defense, Secretary Weeks points out that it is essential to keep in mind its primary objective, which is to augment our defensive forces, and that an organization having in view the promotion of its rapid development and efficient operation in time of peace should be based primarily upon its functioning in war. Separating the air service from the army and navy control would be disastrous in case of war in the future. "In warfare unity of command is essential," says Secretary Weeks. "Lask of such unity in command has probably been the cause of more defeats and disasters in military history than any other one contributing cause. It nearly caused defeat in and undoubtedly prolonged the two greatest wars of our history, the Civil War and the World War. After such experience it is unthinkable that any nation could prepare its forces for national defense so as to insure divided responsibility and divided command in every possible theatre of operations." The War Department is making constant research on the development Of the total of 2657 fires that were fought during the past year, 71 per cent were man-caused and 29 per cent were started by lightning. Smokers were responsible for 37 per cent of all fires due to human carelessness, and campers 17 per cent—a total of 54 per cent. Incendiaries are charged with 16 per cent of the man-caused fires; brush burners, 10 per cent; railroads, 6 per cent; lumbering operations, 4 per cent, and miscellaneous causes, 10 per cent. The total fire damage to federal, state and private timber and grazing lands and improvements is estimated at $2,402,977, of which amount $1,312,897 was damage done to standing timber and $618,363 damage to young reproduction that forms the basis of future forests and needed lumber supply. No account is taken in this total of the destructive effects of these forest fires on valuable watersheds that supply domestic and irrigation water to cities, towns and ranches, or to the damage done to popular recreation areas and the fish and game that live in the forests. These are intangible losses which foresters state, would amount to many hundreds of thousands of dollars if figured on the basis of health and happiness of our citizens. The cost of fighting fires in California in 1924 amounted to $1,320,542, of which total the federal government spent $991,743; the state of California with co-operating counties $188,271 ($28,000 of which was federal funds allotted to the state for fire protection under the terms of the Weeks law), and co-operating agencies, chiefly lumbering operators, $199,528. Of the total forest service expenditure of nearly $1,000,000, $360,515 was spent fighting fires in the three water-shed-protection forests in the southern part of the state. This summary of the 1924 fire season in California does not include, according to officers of the forest service, the number of fires, cost of suppression and damage sustained by counties which have their own fire protective organization, such as Los Angeles and Fresno counties; nor do the totals include unreported but unknown losses and expenditures resulting from fires on private logging operations. The report further shows that timber land owners of California are participating to a large extent in the prothan any other one contributing cause. It nearly caused defeat in and undoubtedly prolonged the two greatest wars of our history, the Civil War and the World War. After such experience it is unthinkable that any nation could prepare its forces for national defense so as to insure divided responsibility and divided command in every possible theatre of operations." The War Department is making constant research on the development of aviation, which it regards as a combatant branch of the army of equal importance with the artillery, infantry and other combat arms. WHY DIVIDE LIABILITIES AND NOT ASSETS? A member of the French parliament made a passionate plea the other day for equality of war burdens as between France and the United States. The expenditure of blood by France should be welghed, he said, against the expenditure of money by the United States. This plea overlooks the consideration that the United States had no part whatever in the European conditions which produced the war and no natural interest in its original causes and objectives. We sold war supplies to the Allies, it is true; but this was to supply their urgent necessities, and except for these purchases they would have met defeat. It is not of record that the Allies insisted that we should market war materials and foodstuffs in Germany instead; indeed, they established a blockade to prevent our doing so. The United States is the one power which got into the war that might have stayed out of it. When we did go in it was to help the Allies. At the time they were fighting with their backs to the wall, and American intervention was welcomed. It was not proposed at that time that we should according to officers of the forest service, the number of fires, cost of suppression and damage sustained by counties which have their own fire protective organization, such as Los Angeles and Fresno counties; nor do the totals include unreported but unknown losses and expenditures resulting from fires on private logging operations. The report further shows that timber land owners of California are participating in a large extent in the protection from fire of their timber and operations. Approximately 4,429,531 acres, or 88 per cent of all private timber holdings in the state within or adjacent to the national forests are now given fire protection by the United States Forest Service under co-operative agreement—a total of 1660 timber land owners contributing $78,350 for the carrying out of this protection and suppression work. The California Forest Protective Association reports that in addition to the above total of co-operative expenditures, 63 timber-holding and lumbering companies in the state spent $109,590 for fire protection and $119,880 for fire fighting last year. The association estimates that the cost to the lumber industry of California for fire protection, exclusive of damage losses, amounted to $375,000 in 1924. "We must guard California's forests as we do our homes," said District Forester Paul G. Redington of the federal forest service. "These forests are the heritage of every citizen of the state, and good citizenship demands that we protect them from the ravages of fire." WEEKS OPPOSES CHANGE Declaring that the proposal to unite the army and navy air forces into a single independent air force violates and imperils library of War The proposed unity of commerce with dissible theatre of that unity the foundation proposes an which is not part of the second great alization, that by to function form permaorganization." the development of the air national depoints out up in mind its is to augges, and that in view the development in time of similarly upon Separating the army and disastrous in... command is mary Weeks. command has of more dedilitary history butting cause. in and untwo greatest Civil War terror such expose that any forces for to insure didivided comtheatre of buy a ticket to the performance by assuming our "share" of the cost of the war up to that time. But for American assistance in the sale of war materials and foodstuffs before the war and with men and money during the war it is evident that France, instead of collecting indemnities, would have been paying them; instead of exercising sway over additional territory, would have been compelled to endure the loss of territory. The French statesman who passionately urges the settling of the French debt to the United States with French blood poured out while the United States was a neutral, is not quite so passionate as to proceed to the point of demanding that the war assets, as well as the war liabilities, be divided. What would France take for Alsace-Lorraine? Surely a demand for a division of liabilities, even those accumulated before America entered the war, might well be accompanied by dividing the territory and indemnities and other advantages accruing from the war on the same basis proposed for the division of debts. Suppose a fight were to take place between two groups of men on the street. An outsider, just as one of the groups is about to be whipped, jumps into the fray and enables the men who are getting the worst of it to overcome the enemy. The victorious group then divides the property of the defeated crowd, the eleventh hour participant declining to participate in the division. Then it is proposed that the late comer chip in to pay for the doctor bills and torn clothing incurred before he got into the fight. That would be a queer exhibition of gratitude, yet it is seriously made in the French chamber of deputies, and there are sloppy sentimentalists in the United States who will think the French argument a good one. WEST COAST CALIFORNIA FRIDAY ONLY VAUDEVILLE "The Venetian Four" AND FOUR OTHER BIG ACTS SHIRLEY MASON In "The Great Diamond Mystery" COLORADO PICNIC W. 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