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Show Our Fire Lom ONCE more "Fire Prevention" week has been designated In the United States. 4t will begin October 3 and end October 9. During thjs week the people in all part of the country will be told how carelessness contributes to the national na-tional fire loss. The Idea, 'of course, Is to teach people to be careful, with the hope of reducing the number of preventable fires, thereby eliminating the economic waste which comes from fire losses. , We have been observing this week for a number num-ber of years. In spite of this fact, the national loss has. climbed steadily upward., If the lessons les-sons have been learned by any of our people we shudder to think of what the result might have been without these campaigns. Fire prevention should have the earnest consideration of every individual in the United States every day In the year. ' Our fire loss is a national disgrace. Many of our people seem to think their duty ends when they protect themselves In this matter. If they . are sufficiently covered with fire Insurance, they cease to be interested. They forget that their reimbursement re-imbursement does not replace the loss. What is destroyed by fire is gone forever and constitutes an economic loss to the nation. The -account Is not balanced when the insured transfers the loss from himself to the insurance company. |