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Show States for every man, woman and child is $2.10 compared with 49c in France, 33c in England, 28c in Germany, 25c in Italy and Austria, 15c in Svitzerland and 11c in Holland is sufficient evidence that he teaching of fire prevention should start with the child cind be-;ome be-;ome a recognized course of study in this nation. TEACH CHILDREN FIRE PREVENTION Almost every day we read in the news reports of children burned to death in dwelling house fires. Not only one child but three, four and five burned at a time in a single house. It seemr almost impossible that such accidents can occur, but the sad fact remains that they do, and in most cases they would have been preventable pre-ventable through just ordinary carefulness. The National Board of Fire Underwriters in conjunction with the National Board of Education has prepared a booklet entitled "Safeguarding the Home Against Fire." This is a fire prevention manual for the school children of America. Eight hundred and thirty thousand copies of this textbook have thus far been printed and distribtued. In picture and text it places before the growing child the dangers that surround on every side as a result of careleess-ness careleess-ness with fire. This book should be in the hands of every school child in America, and should form the basis of a regular schoo' course from the third to the eighth grades at least in public schools. The mere fact that the annual per capita fire loss in the United |