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Show I More Than 8.0C0.000 Motor 1 Vehicles Now in Use in United Slates Fire la the moc-t destructive element there is. It eats up more dollars in the Uniied States every year than am other enemy to mankind Yet fire has its place. The main thins to do Lb to keep it there. There arc many camping parties going out into the country ffilg year.: Ioujiiiuti ia in:- season when every man Jack lakes his family rnd his car. if he has one, and fares forth Into the wilds of nature for a day in camp. While there he forgets wcrk and all the other cares witb which Providence has endowed us and has the time of his life fishing, sleeping or biking xbout, each to his taste. Most people. If not all of them, take along a lunch and many a lunch baa as part and pi r V., rpl thereof some viand requiring (he, -"v"" heat of a fire tor its enjoyment So, I many camping p irtK'. butld-jfjrefi MANY KINDS. I Anyone can buiicl a firr-. Feme build ) R Are to boll coffee fully large enough ? lo roast an ox; others have learned the If trick of making as much fire as they need. Almost anyone cr.n bu!ld a big' P9I f're. but not ninny can bulhl one Just EM large enough But both classes some- Hj times build fires far larger than they m had ever dreamed were possible, and JM that when they had nor Intended to do' 9 "Did you put (he fire 0111?" asks' :7 friend wife S There may have been a few embers left, but you thlDk Ihey will die out W easily Thej ma) and they may not.' Such a thought has upon Beverul occa 1 slons been the direct cause of the B whiffing away m smoke of millions "l & THE SAFE WAY. kU The only safe way to do is to see, TM that each Individual ember is out or A covered with dirl. The wind plavs ft strange tricks with embers lhat seem mS to be dead Every nuiomobile man who camPS In th bould Bee I thai all co.nminlcatlon bctvreen his fire and the adjacent timber or fields has been cut off. Dig all around the fire and throw the dirt on top of the embers Then, if water is available, give the whole a good bath. Wet rmbers covered with a good coating of heavy, wet dirt or turf seldom cause ' fires Then ihere is the smoker. Most en smoke, but most men don't take care where th? throw iheir clgar-otte clgar-otte butid or knock out their pipes. Throw them into the road, being careful care-ful to put them out before doing so If walking, step cn them. Break matches in two or three parts. Drok en matches seldom cause flrer . Whole matches frequenily do, the theory being be-ing that while a match Is be'r.g broken brok-en It has plenty of time to be extinguished. extin-guished. Few people would throw lighted matches on the carpet at home, nor would they knock out Iheir pipes against the lace curtains. Make yourself your-self at home in ihe woods to that extent. |