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...next few weeks 6,000 huskies, sent out by lumber companies and forestry services, will take to the woods, armed for total war. The enemy: white pine blister rust, an incurable fungus infection that is spreading like a blitzkrieg...
Blister rust got its beachhead in the U.S. in 1898, in a shipment of infected white pine striplings from Europe. By the time it was discovered (1906), it had rotted many a noble white pine in the Northeast, and was well started on the path that in 1922 brought it into the great forests of the Northwest...
...When one pine-marked trench was opened, Red Cross girls descended, pawed over 250 corpses so decomposed that they were no longer horrible. They called to men with notebooks: "One handkerchief marked with a K, one pair of glasses." Then, enthusiastically, "Here is his passport, his name is Piotr Kowalski." In another trench was all that was mortal of Mieczyslaw Niedzialkowski, a Warsaw Socialist editor who had loved strong argument and strong drink and who, in 1939, had organized the workers' brigades that helped defend his city. Last week the workmen built him a little coffin and laid...
...foresters moved on, pointing to more and still more little pine trees. One forester guessed that 12,000 Polish bodies lay in Palmiry Forest, still unidentified...
Obviously he wants a bigger and stronger miners' union, because that is the platform on which he parades. But he has very little association with mining these days, except when he stands in his pine-paneled office under his chandelier: a cogwheel hanging from mining augers, decorated with mining shovels and a sledge, supporting a ring of miners' lamps. The country's welfare is the miners', and for the country's welfare he has shown little regard...