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Show FIRE IS HELL When a famous General remarked that, "War is Hell," he summed up in three words the opinion of all mankind. The same description aptly applies to another an-other universal evil preventable fire. Like war, something some-thing must sooner or later be done to curb it. In the tragedy of the Cocoanut Grove night club at Boston last fall, 490 lives were abruptly snuffed out by fire. A few days earlier, American troops disembarked disem-barked from hundreds of ships on the hostile shores of Algeria and Morocco and quickly achieved the capitulation cap-itulation of those two territories comprising 14,300,000 population. It was officially reported that 360 of our soldiers" and sailors were killed in this vast landing operation. This give a small idea of the problems which this country faces in its effort to put a brake on our $300,000,000 annual fire loss. In proclaiming Fire Prevention Week a short time ago, the President of the United States said: "This nation's war program is menaced by an alarming increase in-crease in preventable fire losses. Since Pearl Harbor the destruction caused by fire in the United States has been comparable to the damage caused by all enemy bombing over England during the first two years of the war. The loss to this nation is just as real as if the destruction had been wrought by enemy bombers over America, or by saboteurs." |