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Show TIRE PROTECTION BEEDSOUTLIBED National Association Official Offi-cial Urges Cooperation at Luncheon Speech. Outlining methods which can prevent the huge annual fire loss in tho Unitoil States, totalise $250,000,000, and urj-j urj-j iajj that every resident of Salt Lake cooperate in the fire prevention campaign cam-paign to be carried on here rwext month, Franklin H. VTentworth, secretary of the national fire protective association, spoke to more than 200 members of the - Commercial club yesterday noon. Fire Chlf William H. By-water explained methods in which the business men of Salt Lake could aid the fire department in combating fires within the city. "When wn stop to consider," Mr. Wentworth said, "that every man, woman wo-man and chiid in the United States is indirectly taxed $3 a year for property one up in smoke, while the per capita loss i:i Europe is only 3b cent s , it is high tinw that something should be done. The annual loss in Chirac is 56,000,000 as against a yearly loss in Berlin, a city of approximately tho same size, of but $300,000. Whyf "We have the best and most expensive fire . departments in tho entire world and tt use everv possible method of ex-tin ex-tin grjiehinj: t'ires, but the idoa of prevention pre-vention never enters our minis. "The version of the avenge American Amer-ican is that a building which is de-troyed de-troyed by fire, covered by insurance, is not a loss. But we do not stop to consider that insurance companies must 1 sret their funds from some source and ' that when a building in Chicago is de- stroked you busir.es men in Salt Lake must pay for this .iust as do ti:o busi- ness men in Chicago. I "We lt' out a'uinst the high cot of j living and yet "e are totally indiffer- i ent about the annua $250,000, 'jO fire losa. This loss merges with ttie cost of every article we buy, everything use and wear, and every American must aid in paying it. Europe is starving for our products, yet these products are burning up throughout the i'nited S'ates at an average rate of c'-V"j0 an hour. ' ' As a solution to the fire problen, Mr. Wentworth urged that everv resident resi-dent of the state take precautions in regard to th preven'.ion of fires and cooperate with the lire department in keepir.ir houses, siied-, stores ?.:-.d all buildings free from inflammable rubbish. He urged the business nu-n to mstail rr,eal .'indow frames and eliminate the Mr. V"cnr v.orrh explained the t r-'nrh system v. aich in. poses a line in on .t person who owes a building rhi-n burned providing be cannot show the fire was not preventable, and ta.x-s hu;i pesonaiiy for th-i expense incurred by the lire d e r r t rn e n t in e i ; i n c 1 1 b i n the blaze. He n.en'ioned in! America which a I read' have adop: - d 1 this plan and urL,r"i tht -(-.";--h r-?ula- , tion; be out into eliVrt in 1 th. Chil Bvwacr t" IJ of inror.v. nir-aCs thrust upon the f'.re depart:;. f-nr at re- ! rent blazes through the r'"h of a-. o-mobi.es o-mobi.es to the s-:-j:ie and the loin of traffic, i T? appealed to th" business busi-ness fi.en to aid in r-mcdvjnc this situation sit-uation by park in e thir tars out of t fire district nnd not on strewn t.rou;;h which the rppara :i :c-ist p;- s t-j and from the f ;r ."'n. Students were urd by Mr. Wnt--.Tortb, at an a b!y hf-ld yit-Tdav omirakj at tbe t.at hik'b ''.-hoolto aid the fire department in t!,e cTirtai!in' of fires. Chif !ywa,f,r alu talkea to ne fit':denty on the prevention of fire-and fire-and the work of the fire department. In Mr. V."en.wnrn '5 address he told of intanten in whieh lo-s of hie, de-p'ruotion de-p'ruotion of j r'.p'-r: y and b uman su f-f f-f erin have resulted from la':-: of knowl-f-ii'e of proper f i r-s precast, onn. ,-vi.ion the xaiipies 'i'-'ii was the trdeiv in The fafi'v of 7e::"ral .John .1. F'erhir, irp the" failure ro piao a st'-t m front of an opn f : r'-pla e r'1:) I ted in the dath of General Porhing 's wife Lnd tv-o of his children. Mr. V,nt worth urged the student to wath for d'-fetive wirine in the borne. J to invetiato the condition of th fur i naee in the winter time and to be over- I mindful of the bazardi in th ui of I jraoline. |