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Show TWO FACTS ; Here are two simple facts, with tragic tra-gic Implications: Once every minute, day' and night, the fire engines dash to burning structures struc-tures somewhere in the United States. Fire losses in this country "re 11 times as greut as in Europe. There is no justification for our appalling ap-palling fire waste, but there is no dearth of reasons. Budding construction, construc-tion, both In design and niateriuls, is superior in Europe with many rigid protective codes. And most important reason of all we Americans ore apparently ap-parently the most careless and wasteful waste-ful ieople on earth when it comes to fire. A little knowledge, intelligently used will prevent most fires. The dangers of unattended wiring, carelessly disposed dis-posed of wuste, cigarettes and matches "flipped" about, are hardly understood In the average American home. " And localise of this carelessness and ignorance ig-norance every American citizen must make his annual contribution, directly or Indirectly, to the fire-waste bill. |