| Show Our Fire Loss Tel The average annual fire loss los for each man woman and child in France Franceis is in England 33 in Germany 2 in Australia in Italy Jn In Switzerland and in Holland lIo only lie In 1920 the fire firc loss 1081 in the United states run ran close dose to tu a a fire lire loss lOlls greater reater than any nation had suffered Buffered before in the history of the world T Today day therefore the share of Hof this loss borne by rach each inhabitant of the United d States Stales is annually Compare this with the loss of England Eng Eng- land nd of of or in France with and you ou have some idea o of the fast growing growing grow grow- ing American Fire loss In fn commenting on this great sum cum of money lost in fires during 1920 in America an article appearing in Safeguarding America Against Fire January number 1928 reads as follows fol fol- follows lows Perhaps if we say that every star that could be seen sen represented a loss of we we- might just be begin ln to understand what this vast amount of money meant About stars arc to the naked eye Or it might be pointed before before be be- fore it can can be spent t must be earned and nd that must be put putto putto putto to work tat cat if five ive per cent rent interest in order a sum of five hun hun- dred and sixty one millions Eleven billion dollars employed merely to learn earn the value that is destroyed in one year means that eleven billion dollars somewhere must be tied up to produce nothing but heartaches destruction de de- de i and loss The tremendous sum wm of in American fires in jn 1926 1920 I t I i L and i alone is is 11 to 10 0 ma maintain nta n unu u op operate r te the entire Navy Department for lor four years It is seven times more mOle than all the United States' States gold and s silver lver exported in 1926 1920 and three times more than the amount imported Twenty eight first line battle ships costing each could b be built with this amount and there wo would ld still be almost left over It could Quid build or buy and pay cash In lull full for modern one family suburban bun homes sheltering a people people a city of residences the size x ef If f Washington ton D D. C. C and larger than thun the three cities cities Albany Albany N. N Y Atlanta Atlan Atlan- ta Ga Ca and Salt Luke Lake City Utah combined All these things could be done if there were no fires and if the m money ney were ere available for constructive use rather than for the p purpose and necessity of merely replacing property destroyed by fire each year year Safe Safe Safeguarding guar guarding ing America to ot |
