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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
The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire
Patrol
By
Lewis E. Theiss
Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill
W. A. Wilde Company Chicago Boston

Copyright, 1921, By W. A. Wilde Company All rights
reserved

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 the things which could not be grown
nor mined nor manufactured nor transported without the help of wood
from the forest.
Pennsylvania--Penn's Woods--is the greatest industrial commonwealth
in the world. Without its woods, it could never have been made so.
Unless its woods are restored, it cannot continue to be so, and unless
forest fires are stopped, there is no way to restore Penn's Woods.
I have read "The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol" with the
keenest interest, not only because it is about the forest, but because it is
a thrillingly interesting story of a real boy and the real things he did in
the woods. I like it from end to end, and that is why, when Mr. Theiss
asked me to write this foreword, I gladly consented.
No one loves the woods more than I, as boy and man, or loves to be in
them better. One of the things I want most is to see more and better
forests in our great State of Pennsylvania, and in the whole United

States. Without our forests we could not have become great, nor can we
continue to be so. For the men and boys who love the forest and
understand it are of the kind without whom great nations are
impossible.
Gifford Pinchot.

Contents

I. Vacation Plans II. What Came of Them III. Off to the Mountains IV.
In the Burned Forest V. A Lost Opportunity VI. Trout Fishing in the
Wilderness VII. The Forest Afire VIII. Making an Investigation IX.
Charley Becomes a Fire Patrol X. An Encounter with a Bear XI. The
Secret Camp in the Wilderness XII. On the Trail of the Timber Thieves
XIII. Spying Out the Land XIV. The Trail in the Forest XV. The
Telltale Thumb-Print XVI. Good News for the Fire Patrol XVII. An
Accident in the Wilderness XVIII. The First Clue to the Incendiary
XIX. The Forester's Problem XX. Charley Wins His First Promotion
XXI. A Trouble Maker XXII. Charley Finds Another Clue XXIII. A
Startling Discovery XXIV. Checkmated XXV. The Crisis XXVI. More
Thumb-Prints XXVII. Trapped XXVIII. Victory

The Young