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Show HELP SAVE A LIFE The circus fire tragedy at Hartford, Conn., is unusual un-usual in only one respect it caused the death of an unusual number of people in one fire. And yet death was no more definite for each of those victims than it , is for the individual who perishes in a farmhouse, or for one or two or three children who meet death in home fires almost every day. Because some 150 people meet death from a single fire in Hartford, the tragedy gave page headlines across the nation. But when 10,000 people burn up annually an-nually by ones and twos, you never see the fact blazoned blaz-oned to the world in large type. Circus or night club tragedies, and most other fires could be prevented if each individual appointed himself a committee of one to see that every time he lit a match, smoked a cigarette or had anything to do with any appliance that caused heat, it was out or properly safeguarded, when he left it. Our 10,000-a-year fire death toll could be largely eliminated if we would all learn a lesson from the Hartford disaster and be individually careful. |