Betty MacDonald and forests

Betty MacDonald fan club fans, Betty MacDonald fan club letter collection and Betty MacDonald's books prove that she was very interested in politics. Betty MacDonald mentioned so many important issuses. Take for example The Egg and I. If someone says it's only a very funny book about a chicken farmer and his wife the reader got no idea of the book. Betty MacDonald describes in The Egg and I how they destroy nature. Chapter 18 Timbah Coming back through the mountains, serene and cool in their dark green robes, I asked Cecil how long he thought our forests would last. He was very pessimistic. "Look," he said. "See those red flags?" I knew; they were planted every two or three miles. "Those flags mean 'Watch out for trucks' and trucks mean a skid road and every skid road means a logging outfit. The smaller the outfit the worse the waste. Improper logging is like a bum shot trying to shoot a certain man in a large crowd. He might get his man the first shot, but he's more likely to shoot two or three dozen innocent people trying to hit the man." I counted twenty-seven red flags on the way home. Some of them may have been old, some may have belonged to pole cutters, but even ten were too many. That's very amazing because Betty MacDonald wrote this in 1945. Betty MacDonald was very much ahead of her time. We are going to publish a Betty MacDonald article in Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter November. Have a nice weekend, Astrid