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Show MAKE EVERY WEEK FIRE PREVENTION WEEK Fire Prevention Week, which began as an annual national na-tional event during the Wilson administration, has boen productive of much good. It has lessoned the toll of lives that fire takes each year. It has saved millions of dollars worth of property from destruction. But, in spite of this splendid record, the results obtained have been far less imposing than they should have been. It is the common experience for the national fire loss to fall during the Week, and for a relatively brief period immediately following. Then it again rises to "normal" levels. In brief, while the lessons of the Week are fresh in their minds, citizens are careful when time has dimmed the enthusiasm the Week gave them, they again return to their old careless habits. There is but one solution for that unfortunate state of affairs a solution that, if it is to be the success it deserves to be, must be applied by every property-owner and citizen. Figuratively speaking, we must make every week Fire Prevention Pre-vention Week. We must remember what we learn, and apply it throughout the year. We must realize that the fire demon never sleeps and that it is of little use to eliminate hazards and take protective measures once each year, and then allow that good work to go undone for the balance of the twelvemonth. This year. Fire Prevention Week offered the motto, "Fire destroys. life, property, progress, prosperity." That minimizes the conseouences of fire, rather than exaggerating exaggera-ting them. Fire is the enemy of our homes, of our industries, indus-tries, of our communities, of the lives of our loved ones. Fire prevention is their friend and protector. Don't forget make each week Fire Prevention Week so far as you are concerned. |