Show F FIRE REI prevention BIG PUBLIC dim DUTY thie this ie Is fire prevention week the anniversary of the great chicago eon col fla fires in the state states average one every Ini minute nute every sixty see ee ands on the average nearly a thousand dollars worth of property slowly and laboriously acquired ie Is fed to the flamos tho the lionie ani bill chattel chattels of our people and their business possession possessions in the tile last half century the tion of tho the united states has trebled but fire loss haa has increased more rapid ly ll since 1870 the ilia yearly fire y altage il im this country has eight fold jn in the year before the chicago fire we burned up at the rate of a minute last year the average was every sixty sec see ands the financial loss by tiro fire Is I 1 stagger ing lug in 1021 it amounted to it wa was even more than t to alii tic tie engineering project of the panama canal which was as dox a tor lor and nothing was obtained for this monty mont y fed to the flumes except pain an nil I 1 misery in very pase aase of our economic life the effect of this title is reflect ed ea it enter into the tot cost of every commodity we use it a hostage that ich ieh or poor we buffer suffer to the common enemy of fire 11 chis his country has been tol toll I 1 again and again that DO 00 per cent of the fire joss josa ie Is needless and clearly preventable some of the remedies are clean elead prem ses e and bud a clean bovyn own learning to rec ree and correct the more common lia export wholeheartedly the fire prevention activities of the fire de do artmont bart art ment every arry corner of the tana land thi this week eople are thinking fire prevention let t be ie for us something more than the clogan aa of a week |