Show r Ii 0 Li Building and Burning 1 I WITH a pronounced shortage of houses throughout the United States it if behooves S i the public to give more and more attention to a aS S reduction of the fire h hazard zard During the year 1918 approximately 00 houses houes were built S which was far from sufficient to meet the in increased increased j. j creased demand for dwellings S c. c Nevertheless the housing problem would not become ome sl so complicated if we could keep all of S. S i these homes but the fact of the matter is that S. S J we Y burned almost as many ho houses ses as we built During the same year the loss of residential occupancies occupancies p paid by the insurance companies amounted S. S to to or about homes 3 When we stop to consider that not all of S the homes destroyed by y fire are covered by in insurance insurance in- in urance it is apparent that very little hou housing ng ip was wa a added to existing facilities in 1918 Progress Frog Frog- ress r ss with the housing problem cannot be made madeS' madeS S' S i while le we burn burp houses as fast as we build them I ri We are a long ways behind in our building r program am Several years will be required to overcome over over- J c come me the short shortage ge now existing So long as the fire loss remains so high there will wilt be a heavy s dr drain in on resources and a serious leak teak in our building building program We must not only build houses 1 faster faster than we are re at pre present ent but we must take J t care of those we already have A proper observance t jance ance nse of the simple rules laid down for a reduction l tion in the fire loss of the nation is essential to su success s cess 1 |