Show BUSINESS IN MN MEN MENi I II I i STARTLED TA Of BY I IfA fA T Ur UPON N l Man an With Family Taxed 30 a Year for Damage From Blazes Mostly Preventable Preventable Preventable Pre Pre- Club Is Told I j p HE liE city of Cincinnati Cincinnati- has hasI f II I shown how to lo meet an inI increasing increasing in- in I creasing fire loss and make mac it n a decreasing one and has saved nearly a million dollars dollars' annually in Insurance e rates It Is up to Salt Lake to pattern after atter Cincinnati to hold insurance rates where they are or to bring them down Such ac accomplishment accomplishment accomplishment ac- ac should be the desire of ot every citizen who should Join InI in inthe Ithe I the tho general observance of Fire Ire Prevention Prevention Pre Pre- week which is being prof promulgated promulgated pro pro- I f by the Salt Lake Commercial Commer Commer- cial club Such in brief was the message de delivered delivered delivered de- de I livered to business men today y at atthe atthe atthe the Commercial club by Franklin II H. Wentworth secretary of ot the National Fire Protection association Mr Wentworth delivered an address on the seriousness of the fire Ire menace His Ills talk followed similar speeches delivered dell at the East Side and the L. L D. D S. S High schools HUGE FIRE LOSS The United States government department de department department de- de of commerce and labor shows that the at ara average rage e annual per capita fire tire loss in six European countries countries countries coun coun- tries is 33 cents while the average per capita fire tIre loss In the tho United States is 3 and in Canada said Mr Wentworth Glasgow ow has hasan hasan hasan an annual fire tire loss of Boston Boston Doston Bos Dos ton my native city smaller than Glas Glasgow ow has an annual fire tire loss of Before the war the Berlin fire tire department cost while Chicago o which I Is practically the same I size averages I I What is there thre in us in ip 11 our popie people peo- peo pie In our character to explain this j i What Is the reason for tor this shameful contrast In the amount of or property destroyed by fire Is the explanation I in a sense psychological I 1 believe e it Is We have hae been born and bred In Ina Ina ina a country In which our national resources re resourcEs resourcE's resources re- re sources sourcE's have have seemed unlimited It Itis i is only within the past four or five Che years that the United States has hus' given Ilven an any thought whatever to the i i conservation of ot its natural resources nut But we are now entering upon a a. new era and a great eat deal of ot attention and thought is being given en to this probLem lem I SUFFER GRIEVOUSLY I We have suffered grievously and andare andare andare are still suffering grievously In the United States Slates from Impoverishment Impo by fire firo waste Some of ot us recognize recognise the causes of ot this impoverishment Impo and the methods by which It may b be checked As one of these students I offer m my counsel and advice The ideas for tire fire prevention are so simple said Mr Wentworth Wentworth such such kindergarten Ideas that ideas that one stands In amazement that It should require engineering en en- investigation to point out fire tire prevention structural facts fact It has been as os If a tir fire were considered nn an act of God th the starting of which It was Impious to Int Interfere Th Ill Ii awakening of ot the American n p people to a a. consciousness of oC their col- col col- col j I Continued on page 4 BUSINESS MEN Continued from page 1 1 responsibility for the fire waste has made the recent years jears of great significance he said He lie said saM that when it was all figured down the average man with a family pays 30 a year fire tire loss the average fire loss for the fhe United States running around E annually AMERICANS CARELESS He said that Americans are arc the most careless people with matches on the face of the earth e If we wake up in inthe inthe the middle of the night and reach out and cannot find a match we feel in in- in The match is particularly dangerous to the child because the child is an imitator It is the ev ever r present conflagration hazard which makes any approach at scientific underwriting impossible The conflagration hazard is not confined to any anyone one state It is present in every state land In every city and town We Ve have built largely of wood and sooner or later we must pay the penalty unless unless unless un un- less we we can find some way in which to protect our cities Mr Wentworth was introduced by Adrian Pembroke chairman of ot the fire prevention committee of ot the Commercial Commer Commer- cial club who presided at the meeting meeting- me ting He lie explained the program for Fire Prevention week which is to be ob observed observed observed ob- ob served October 9 to 16 He lie said that thata a short pamphlet is being mailed by bythe bythe bythe the club to citizens generally More than copies of this pamphlet carrying a few simple fire prevention rules will be bo sent out |