Show WHAT WHAl GOES UP IN SMOKE SI Every year in the United States fire consumes property valued at over half a billion dollars It is an impossibility for forr imagination to appreciate adequately the magnitude of such a waste A recent news item adopts the excellent method of driving driving driving ing home the thc lesson by practical example With five hundred million dollars a four hundred mile paved paved paved ed road could be built at a cost of 2500 per mile and a house containing 2000 worth of furniture erected every feet on both sides Each house could have an fund of 2000 I Further it would build a garage for each house and place a automobile in each garage And after all this was done lone there would still be several millions left over that could be distributed distributed distributed dis dis- among the occupants for spending money The inestimable value of practical fire prevention is well brought out by this example It is a public and personal duty not to be avoided Anything we may do to help abolish fire waste will pay us large dividends in both comfort and cash So long as the people permit politics to enter government they may expect government to dabble a little into politics I. I |