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Show Universal Impulse to Respond to Fire Alarm The multiplication of unenforceable unenforce-able laws reached - its climax In Brookfield, Mo., where the city council coun-cil passed an ordinance prohibiting citizens from running to fires, says the St. ''aul Dispatch. No impulse Is more firmly entrenched in the human hu-man makeup than that which drives men, women and children to break Into a run at the sound, sight or report re-port of fire. Let yon sky display even a slightly unnatural glow, and cracker box perorations end In the middle of a sentence, houses are abandoned, decorum ignored and the entire population resembles a football foot-ball team In a desperate effort to make the last 10 yards. There is nothing like a fire to speed up the human ambutorial department. de-partment. Combustion is as irresistible irresis-tible as the latest jazz tune. Cats and dogs and all that crawls upon the earth are subject to its giddy spell. |