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Show B DISASTER AFTERTHOUGHTS BBB The fearful disaster at Halifax, N. S., has in any BBB - suggestions for our people' wherever located. With BBBk conditions as they are now, It Is a timo to forcseo all BBBF kinds of mishaps and disasters, from moro or less HBBJ - icrtous rires to explosions with terrible loss of life, BBBJ A network of spies and plots extends Its ramlfl- BBBJ cations all through the United States. They are HBBJ working at lonely pralrlo stations whero food Is BBBJ stored, as well as on tho wator fronts of tho ports BBbJ ' "wliero munitions aro going out. When anything liko BBBJ ' Ibo Halifax calamity occurs, It is ono's first thought BBBJ ' to attribute It to tho plot system. Of course it s HBBJ difficult to believe that tho plottors could have mado HBBJ ' two vessols collldo In a harbor. Yet theso fellow3 BBBJ work with such desperation and Ingenuity that It Is BBBJ nt safo to assign any limit to tholr operations, BBBB They aro looking everywhere for a chanco to de- BBBV stroy munitions, food, and other war supplies, rail- H bTbI t- BBB. iBBBBk road bridges and terminals, mines, etc. It Is a time for keeping close watch over overy bit of property connected with tho war. A great deal of wdrk will havo to bo done guarding. such property, and as much of It should bo volunteer work as possible. Police forces should glvo first attention to protection of property having war value, even If they have to neglect neg-lect some of their other functions. Another afterthoughts relates to the necessity of care In handling explosives. Most peoplo who have It to do become careless. They forget all about tho hazard of it nnd some day there Is a fatality. Every railroad train, ship, and truck carrying explosives ex-plosives should be handled with the maximum of care. It Is not likely that all these disasters are caused by spies. Some of them aro due to carelessness. careless-ness. It Is a time for rigid supervision of all such work and for a great deal of Safety First talk. |