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Show TEAOHJNG FIRE SAFETY! Some time ago the Boy Scouts of America requested the National Nation-al Board of Fire Underwriters to provide them with material on fire prevention with which to instruct their members. The result re-sult was a sixty-five-page book entitled "Firemanship," for Merit Mer-it Badge examinations. Over sixty thousand Boy Scouts use it in preparing for testa each year. It would be an excellent idea if a national program was started to acquaint children of all ages with the hazards of fire, and how to do away with them. Fire is one of the most serious of problems. prob-lems. It touches every life, every piece of property. It menaces men-aces us all. It inflates taxes, destroys jobs and investments and business opportunities. Many cases are on record where a single great fire has so devastated devastat-ed a community that many years were required to recover from it. The schools have, in recent years, almost universally included includ-ed accident prevention work in their curricula. They have instructed in-structed children in proper conduct con-duct on streets and highways, in the home, at play wherever carelessness or ignorance might cause an accident. The consequence conse-quence has been a great reduction reduc-tion in the number of deaths and injuries among children of school ' age. The same thing should he done in the case of fire. It would be simple, inexpensive and enormously enor-mously effective. In due course of time, it would create a people peo-ple who were congenitally awake to fire dangers and how to cope with them. |