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Show thing in its power to show the American people the criminal waste which they permit each year when they allow 1 5,000 persons and some $500,000,000 in property to be wiped out by fire, when about 90 per cent of such death and loss is preventable. The Underwriters Laboratories in Chicago has been testing every kind of building and household equipment as to its fire proof or fire resisting qualities and its advice on these matters is free to the public. Carelessness with fire is equally dangerous in a little town like 'Camden or in a great city like New York. Let this awful disaster be a warning to every household in the land to be careful with fire and let parents demand that public officials offi-cials see that school houses and public buildings are properly safeguarded safe-guarded so that another Camden catastrophe cannot occur. GRIEF COWED TOWN BURIES FIRE VICTIMS Camden, South Carolina, is grief stri ken over the- death of seventy-six children, parents and friends in a school house fire. It is uhcIcss to elaborate on the details of the fire which resulted from a rickity fastening causing an oil lamp It) fall to the floor during an entertainment tbeing given by the children. The suffering caused by such fires as this is beyond U'lder-Htanding U'lder-Htanding ai.d yet almost, weekly we rearl of sin h sc hool house tragedies where one or more children meet death. I he only difference between this fire and others is in the number num-ber killed, and this will bring it focibly to the attention of the whole nation. I he. National Hoard of l ire Underwriters hits been doing every- |
