Show TILL TIlE RESULT OF FIRE PIRE The total fire loss for the first nine months of ot 1931 according to Board of oC Fire Underwriters Under was as compared with during the same per per- perIod period per period iod last year One can be thankful for foi small favors and feel some sense of optimism in 10 the improvement But at the same time it is practically lly certain that at least 80 per cent of the loss was as totally l y was as was in m other words caused by by hu human neglect eg t carelessness or ence If the last three months of the year yem result in 10 waste on the same ame scale our total 1931 bill will be wellin well in excess cess of The person who is responsible for fOl a fire is just as much a men menace menace menace ace to the community as the per per- person person person son who causes accidents through reckless handling of an automobile But as yet the public has not taken this attitude It has had only a passive e interest in 10 fire waste waste- waste I regarding reg it much as a matter mattel of course It has lias not realized that fire is an individual problem which can be solved only by individual effort in cooperation with other individuals throughout the entire community Fire is a destroyer destroy destro er of ot lives prop property erty jobs It is a barrier in 10 the way of industrial activity and home ownership tI tl is a cause of unemployment of bankruptcy of intense misery Knowing this all of us should do our part in 10 seeing that it is rs outlawed forever |