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Show THE CITIZEN 4 The development of modern building materials makes ate sible for even the most modest home to be built fire-safnab p year,. Washington stance, fireproof gypsum wall board may be used in place of irm ' ' Gut victorious this yean ly inflammable pulp, paper or fiber wall boards.' A fjjj mineral may be used as a sheatbin It sheathing of LA FOLLETTE i stucco backing to protect the wood studding of the frame, tf: tinder-lik- e lath be substituted for proof wood gypsum lath may fight against Notwithstanding the Republican standpatters These are only examples of the protection offered the Robert M. La Follette, Jr., a progressive Republican, the people of builder by the modem materials manufacturer. Gypsum is on Wisconsin flocked to the poles and practically gave the young senator of the several minerals that may be used to encaj a unanimous vote. The fight made against him was so feeble that the wooden parts of a building. Portland cement coi his opponents were stampeded early in the election and La Follette protect, asbestos, slate, terra cotta, lime and other mineral composition was elected by the biggest majority ever given a candidate in Wis- e is the make it possible to build economically. consin, quite a tribute to the young senator, who, it This is the lesson of National Fire Prevention Week. Tl youngest man ever elected to the Seriate of the United States. tional Conference on Home Building, which met recently in Ch Several Washington politicians have tried in every way to bring went on record as according preference to method about the downfall of the La Follettes, but the harder they worked in materials in the construction of American homes and dwell their efforts to bring discredit the more popular the La Follettes beWhat the experts advise, the public can adopt. The Build came. only means a reduction in our $535,372,782 annual fire i stal As the saying goes, the young senator appears to be a chip off the old block and his record at Washington will be eagerly means fundamental and economical insurance to the life and Eft out watched by the entire country. It is seldom that a young senator se- erty of every home builder. ion cures the newspaper notoriety already gained by La Follette, and with OUR REWARD there is no reason to doubt that if he pleases his people at home, he rrea will become a permanent fixture in the Senate, just as was his father M. Poincaire in a current magazine article fixes the blan hit before him. Some believe that the treatment accorded the elder La Follette the World War on to Germany. What most Americans are at Washington in demoting him from many important committees dering about now is not who started the war but who got the iih ,of which it took years to gain, was one of the reasons why the people of it. Austria laid the fire when she demanded the murderers ind of Wisconsin flocked to the side of the son. People do not believe or like persecution and the election was one place where the people Austrian prince from a neighboring country. Russia stepped u !th said that if Austria forced her demands the Bear would could show their resentment. his army into the fray; Germany advised Russia to keep out inti La Follette says he is a Republican with progressive ideas. would wipe Russia off the map; France notified Germany nal attacked Russia, France would march her troops to Berlin; En but FIRE PREVENTION WEEK said if Germany hit back at France she would have to sail in wi int Seldom does the editorial page scoop the news columns. This navy. On this side of the water stood Uncle Sam with two dt( of is an exception. A tremendous disaster occurred today. Property bags on his back one was filled with grub and the other he An valued at $1,466,744.44 was wiped out and 41 persons lost their unlimited supply of gold. It looks very much that some one s lives by fire. The destruction proceeded continuously through 24 the war to crush the biggest commercial nation of Europe and it th s,I hours; every hour $61,115.60 every minute $1,018.59 every sec- the money from Uncle Sam. Each nation lays the blame of on the other. Its a whole lot like the Bible story of Adam an pn ond $16.97, was wiped out! This is another way of staling what the National Board of Fire and the apple. At any rate, we now find our Uncle Sam wit ble the Underwriters, the highest authority on the subject, tells us namely, empty bags on his back and huge war debts to pay. To belongs the spoils, did not work out satisfactorily in our case. that our national annual fire loss is $535,372,782. lie; won, but my, what a price we paid for the name of victory. What this means may be comprehended from a few comparipeople of the many nations whom we saved now call us Shylo sons. Our annual production of gold and silver is $103,119,741 set less than As a people, we produced of our annual fire-losWOULD BE MURDERER a wealth of $1,900,287,000 in our 1922 corn crop: but we wasted more than 28 per cent of that amount bv fire. Our 1922 cotton crop Is is impossible to believe that a graduate of an asricultura amounted to $1,192,461,000; our fire loss was 44 per cent of that sum. In 1923 we paid our government internal revenues, excluding lege would deliberately shoot down people on the public highwa income and inheritance taxes, totaling $309,015,050. We wasted by running over and killing a chicken, but that is just what Han fire that same year more than half again as much as Uncle Sam colTyler of Eden Valley, Wyoming, did. He shot to kill ind as suit Mrs. J. E. Husbands, who was riding in the car with hei no lected in these revenues. B. What is the cause of this loss? Fire department chiefs, insur- band, former deputy sheriff of this city, was struck in the sho bullet and missed death by a hairs b ance and other experts tell us that 75 per cent of our fires are partly and neck with a 30-3- 0 If or wholly preventable, the results of one form or another of care- It is too bad that Mr. Husbands did not carry any fu armswjl ire in order that he might have ended the battle right here lessness. Carelessness certainly is to be denounced. But it is a delusion to think that the time ever will come when it will not be nec- When a chicken is worth more than human life in his part out or essary to forestall the results of carelessness. country, it is either time for all decent people to nu've Just what does this mean? In this State, according to the Under- the would be murderers to the tallest trees that can br found. For the past three or four years the criminal iasshavc writers, matches smoking is responsible for the largest fire now losses. Now if, in every instance of carelessness on the part of us- running things about to suit themselves, and we ers of matches, the place where the fire occurred had been built of longer the decent people are going to stand for it. There aIJ G incombustible materials, the consequences of the carelessness would who have no respect for law or order and they kill uwn tnj have been less disastrous. pretext. Now this situation has got to be reversed and For the fundamental cause of combustion is combustibility. these would be tough guys come to realize that i.iey are? And the way to forestall the results of carelessness is to build themselves in wrong, the healthier it will be for them . Oown We must either admit that we build to burn, or accept the chalWehave had too manv reformers among us. it D a would be philanthropist induced thd anthonth ' to lenge of the new slogan, Build Fire-SafIt is possible for the average home-buildto accept this chal oners on a big farm on the honor system and h' waS if these two players are unable to make the lineup. The Citizen picked and we again pick this team to come to win last - lenge. e, ; -- non-metall- - : ic ; . non-metall- ic fire-saf- : is-said- ; fire-resista- nt Fire-no- t . is ( i 01 Vis to one-fift- h s. lllli : wc-ide- fire-saf- r e. 1 e. er |