Washington County News | 1927-07-14 | Page 4 | Fire a Serious Disease

HUE A SFItlOl'S DISEASE The fact that the United States annually an-nually builds with more than half a billion dollars' worth of property a funeral fun-eral pyre on which arc sacrificed 12.-000 12.-000 of iLs citicns. should force us to recognize re-cognize that prevention of such terrible terri-ble waste of life and property Is one of the major problems of the country. After unlocking vast stores of wealth by our methods of efficiency in industry indus-try and business, It is worse than mock-cry mock-cry to permit carelessness to turn in and destroy not only a substantial part of this wealth, but also thousands of priceless lives along with it. Irving T. Bush, of New York, declares declar-es that the country should put fires In the class of preventable diseases: ns, for Instance, yellow rever. Medical research re-search and skill finally located the cause of that, plague and stamped it out. Skilled fire prevention engineers could take the place of the medical scientists who blocked yellow fever Certainly anything that takes the lives of 12,000 persons and more than half a billion dollars' worth of prox-rty a year in one country, must he treated as a serious disease.