| Show INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE DISASTER the community which provides itself with cheap or inadequate fire equipment from a mistaken m idea ot of economy la is courting disaster it used to be a common practice for small email towns to buy a secondhand second han hand d truck but pumps and other paraphernalia on it and thus create a fire engine this type of 0 engine looks good in its red paint until ia a tire starts then rhen it probably tails fails to work at all or work inefficiently first class standard fire fighting equipment la IS as necessary to a town supply the money as a good water it costs Is often returned over and over again to the community by eating ashing a single tire fire when would otherwise have gotten beyond control an appreciable share of oe our halt dollar annual tire loss Is undoubtedly flue due to a lack ot of dependable apparatus when it is needed such apparatus Is in a state ot of evolution each year sees beef further progress made and at present in properly protected towns and cities it is a rare fire that can hold out long before the torrents of water hurled aganet jl it even small email towns should obtain the test best apparatus as vital in su aurance rance against the ever present chance or 0 0 ire |