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Show ilarm the resultant ever-increasing oss ratio, approaching GO percent ast year. Cooperation of every in-erest in-erest toward conservation with. ear. lest coordination, constitutes the )est possible, and indeed, the only neans for remedying a situation vhich is a discredit to an enlightened icople. . EVERYONE NOTICE In 1913, $203,763 worth of property was destroyed by fire. In 1923, the figure had amounted to $535,372,782 and the estimate for 1924 place's the probable total at a new high point $545,810,639. This is at the rate of ten million and a half dollars a' week which can be reperesnted by a row of ten-thousand dollar residences over I four miles in length set on fire and completely destroyed every seven daysy Because of their close contact with the fire loss problem, the insurance companies realize 'more clearly than does the general public, the magnitude magni-tude of the yearly waste of material wealth and human life. As underwriters, they view with |