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Show FIRE LOSSES AND LABOR LOSSES. In many cases fires in slums and older parts of rapidly growing cities make room for more modern buildings and give employment to labor. In nine cases out of ten a fire loss means a labor loss. It means that people are thrown out of employment or rendered homeless and put to great expense by having to move to new qaurters. Hunting fire losses have been notably small this year, according accord-ing to incomplete returns sent in to state foresters. The threatened cancellation of hunting licenses in some states because of the fire menace was responsible for a degree of caution with fire that has never heretofore been known. Most real hunters are careful; but it would have taken only one careless dub with his match to start a $25,000,000 conflagration with the woods as dry as they were. Forestry is mostly pay for labor; every tree destroyed throws one or many men out of a job. |