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Title: The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol
The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol

Author: Lewis E. Theiss

Release Date: July 7, 2004 [EBook #12839]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Forester, Charley and Lew Crossed to the Brook Where
the Battle with the Flames Had Begun]

The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol

or

<i>The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol</i>

By

Lewis E. Theiss

Illustrated by
Frank T. Merrill

W. A. Wilde Company
Chicago Boston

<i>Copyright, 1921,</i>
By W. A. Wilde Company
<i>All rights reserved</i>

The Young Wireless Operator--As A Fire Patrol.

This book is dedicated to

Gifford Pinchot

sometime forester for the United States of America, and now Commissioner
of Forestry for Pennsylvania, whose ceaseless and undiscouraged efforts to
save from spoliation the vast timber stands and other natural resources of
America have inspired this story

Foreword

Boys and dogs go well together. So do boys and trees. When a boy gets to
love the forest and can live in it, that is best of all. For the forest
makes real boys and real men.

Not only does the forest do that, but it keeps the Nation alive. No one
can eat a meal without the help of the forest, for it takes more than half
the wood cut every year in the United States to enable the farmer to grow
the food and the fibres to feed and clothe the Nation. No one can live in
a house without the help of the forest, for whether we speak of it as a
wooden house, a brick house, a stone house, or a concrete house, still
there is wood in it, and without wood it could not have been built.

We are apt to think of the city dwellers as people who are not dependent
on the forest. As a matter of fact, they are the most dependent of all,
for the cities would be deserted, the houses empty, and the streets dead,
except for t