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Show These Are Partners of Protection Mother has a gown to clean and uses gasoline for the purpose. Something happens. There is a sudden gush of (lame and the house is placed in deadly peril. Father throws down lighted matches carelessly, and a trash basket becomes a hoc-bed hoc-bed of danger, or a rug smoulders and, in the dead of night, I suddenly sets the lower floor on fire. Children play with' matches and cause billion-dollar fire bills each year. Why not, for a change, see what we can all do to lower this frightful record in America? Fire Chiefs say that people themselves arc the real solution. If they would just do a little "old fashioned thinking," the majority of these fires could be avoided. It is a happy idea. Every member of every family should go into partnership with the local Fire Department. What a difference it would make, indeed! What strange things cause fires. In one year, there were 136 conflagrations brought on by the careless use of electric irons. The records show that igniting fat, grease and lard, in kitchen work, causes so many fires in homes that the cost sounds like another National Debt. Never was a "partnership" more needed than the one suggested above. |