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Show Fire Prevention Week This is "Fire Prevention Week" and with it comes the reminder of the great need for fire prevention before the fire occurs. We should regard this week not as a seven-day seven-day matter, but as a fit starting point for a personal campaign, cam-paign, participated in by every citizen, that will run the 365 days of the year. Only if this is done can the Week produce real and permanently good results. Since the establishment of our local fire department and the purchasing of up-to-date equipment, we have all seen the fire engine go by many a time and breathed a sigh of relief when it went to the "other part of town". .but, we should remember, that even though it isn't our property that is suffering this time, we all have to help foot the bill. We pay our share in a number of ways. One of the ways is through higher insurance costs the rate in any community, over a period of time, is determined upon the amount of fire loss. If the fire affects a factory, men are thrown out of work, investments are lost or impaired, and the entire community com-munity feels the adverse effect of lost purchasing power and destroyed opportunity. Again, in the case of any fire of substantial size, taxable property is eliminated from the tax rolls, and the revenue lost to the community must be made up by higher taxes on all other property. Fire prevention is both a duty and an obligation which every citizen owes his neighbor and his community. It is in the interest of everyone it means actual cash savings to us all. |