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Show IN THE DAYS NEWS Press dispatches of November 3 state that three girls were killed, three more reported dying and a dozen taken to hospitals seriously ser-iously injured after a fire in a celluloid foctory in New York City. The point is that every day one reads about these disasters resulting result-ing in enormous loss in life and damage to property. Why is it that when working with inflarnable materials such as celluloid a building cannot be so devided or partitioned and so constructed con-structed of fire proof materials as to reatrd the progress of a fire until employees - may escape in an orderly manner and fire departments depart-ments be given a reasonable opportunity to save both life and property? With 1 5,000 lives being snuffed out each year by fire and with $500,000,000 in property going up in smoke, it is high time thai the American people exercise their ingenuity and resources in developing de-veloping public sentiment that will help reduce this terrible annual loss. |